Landing safely on a paraglider (in valley wind)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- When flying your paraglider in the mountains you'll often encounter a valley wind when you come down to land in the afternoon. What's the best landing approach when it gets strong? Where are the danger areas and lift zones? Join Flybubble Paragliding on this guided tutorial on landing safely on a paraglider in valley wind of 25-30km/h.
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This video is nice and gives good advice. Having recently landed in scary 35-50 km/h valley wind near Lientz in Austria, some bits of advice from my side:
1. Valley winds can get real strong regardless of forecast weak meteo winds. You don't believe how strong they could get until you find out how strong they can get.
2. If you are a flat land pilot and want to fly in the Alps, get a good local guide or get in touch with local pilots. They can save you from danger. Their local knowledge about flying conditions is invaluable. No local cross country pilots at take off is a red flag.
3. If you fly backwards on speed, you are very likely to be dragged regardless of how skillful you are with pulling your Cs or brakes. Choose a nice grassy field that ends with trees or bushes. You don't want to be dragged a kilometer to a highway or other life ending venue.
4. Land in the beginning of the nice grassy field in p. 3. Give yourself leeway to be blown back.
i got the same situation but on a beach... it's goo to keep calm and evaluate the situation a good height margin...
czcams.com/video/sagMNFDv18k/video.html
Thanks to Flybubble & Greg (and team) for producing such technically rich content, which walks us through the thinking pattern of a pilot, while showing us what the pilot sees (through the PoV camera)
The archives on the channel are really great learning blocks, and instill such an awesome approach / safety-first-thinking-process!
Especially the "stop and draw on screen explanations" are top class!
Really appreciate it all!
I would love to meet & visit Flybubble sometime soon.
For now, I express sincere gratitude across the screens with the power of internet :)
Exactly Bro . 💯 fact
As a 2 hour pilot, the amount of things ahead to learn seem staggering, but so enticing! Can't wait for weather to turn so I can have another go!
Thanks Greg! You're a legend!
Thanks for this and all your educational vids. Appreciate the wind description
Greg, a fellow SArican here, Zululand. Ou unjani? Thank you for the many enjoyable videos. I'm a flybubble customer too. (Not much of one) your squiggles are very effective on the pictures. Please keep up the good work. It's inspirational. Thank you
I fly in flatlands and always wondered how wind and thermals behaved in valleys like this. Very interesting series
Yaaay! No drama valley landing. V.cool
Awesome. A perfect lesson in patience and harmony with the elements, I could watch this for hours, how you see things that are invisible amazes me and your explanation during flight helps me see them too.
Learned much with this one, thanks!
Another great instructional video, keep up the good work Greg!
A few additional remarks.
During the last Chabre Open we were advised (by Jocky Sanderson) to land on the mountain (slopes) if the wind in the valley was getting to strong... as the windspeed on the mountain would probably be less than the windspeed in the valley (due to venture effect in the valley which locally increases windspeed).
The groundspeed check (at 2:14) is good but also make sure to check the direction you are going... you could be reading 10km/h groundspeed but overseeing that you are flying backwards (with 10km/h) which might me getting worse when you get lower. If you check the groundspeed and are flying forwards the groundspeed should decrease when braking, if groundspeed increases when braking you know you are flying backwards! I’m sure you did this but didn’t explicitly mention it in the video.
So nice! Thank you. I fly mountains.
Nice as always. This drawing to the video is more clear than the words.
Man that place is like a dream is it covered in snow in the winter? I really like your "squiggles" do more I learn lots, thanks brother.
I did not know wind and thermals behaved in valleys like this. Thanks a lot.
What a landing!
Thanks! Good as always)
Would you mind going a little into detail as to why you hold so much break loosing altitude just before landing ?
Did you hold the break the whole time or did you let go close to ground before pulling them all the way when landing?
THANKS if you answer :)
Love the videos!
Once again great Video! What are you doing, that your Gopro7 footage looks so nice on CZcams? My 1080p material has lots of compression artefacts. Looks like crap. Never had those issues with other cameras
More please... Looking forward to a video on how to choose the landing field from up high in the sky, with no dedicated landing fields, kind of vol-biv situation.
Lot of factors for choosing a landing spot, in priority order
1) other people safety: don't land on busy road, or where there are people.
2) your safety: no power lines too close, land in a big open space, with nothing upwind disturbing the wind.
3) avoid inconvenience to landowner: don't land on a field where there is livestock or horses. Don't land on fields where you will damage crops.
4) your convenience: don't land too far from "civilisation"( some places you can fly over in mountains can be days of hiking away from nearest road)
land close to roads where you can hitch hike back easily.
If you are flying close to a city, football field is a good landing spot.
And always have a plan B, just in case you notice a hazard when you get closer to the plan A landing site.
The procedure is remarkably reminiscent of harrier jump jets coming in to land on carriers.
Thank You
another great content...
I got a doubt:
how it works when you have a landing field like this one with planes operating... as a paraglider is it allowed and legal to fly over/land this kind of place?
As far as I can see the landing was okay even with a strong wind blowing...
Thanks again for the content.
Cheers from Brazil
Ugh - these videos are so good it's disgusting! Next most educational thing to actually flying. Sometimes more so!