I bought a second hand Nova Phantom and found out what paragliding really was.
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2022
- I have been flying a low EN A wing for about 3 years now and wanted to upgrade to a better wing. I found a second hand Nova Phantom online and decided that it I would buy it.
I found that it handled very well on the ground and came up in almost nil wind. Once up, it hung in the air and stayed up without pulling on the raisers.
This video is one I took of me flying at High and Over. I found a thermal low down and climbed out to 400m which is the highest I've been in England.
I found the Phantom was amazing in thermals and had very low sink as I flew into the valley. I am used to a glider sinking a lot quicker than this and I was very pleased to see how much of my height was preserved even on speed bar.
The thermals were a little rough and I felt sick while thermalling up. I was told at the end of the video that I would get used to the brakes and how to use them to even out the climb. If anyone wants to explain this in the comments please do.
Otherwise.... enjoy listening to me scream!
Loved that video. The happiness in your voice was superb
It was pretty cool!
Love your visceral reactions to new feelings! Learning/practicing active piloting techniques will help smooth out your canopy movement in thermals (turbulence). Getting more comfortable with altitude and bumps comes with time. It is counter-intuitive but "more altitude = more safety"... the ground is the dangerous part.🤗 The learning journey never stops and flying just gets better and better. Have fun out there and fly safe!
Love this, thanks!
Nice 👍👍
It's still a really nice glider... I've been flying it for a year and a bit now and it still climbs very well
Thanks 3 million for this video friend I bought this Wing I'm learning how to fly it it's a high-end be and I'm learning how to fly yet I don't get to start with the a so I get the thrill of victory and maybe a little agony of defeat. So I really love you and your new experience and how you're describing it but most of all people told me I might not be able to fly here but that looks like my river and my trees in my county about 15 miles from here. I'm 64 years old my mom and dad are dead. Not A lot of Hope and optimism available in my life. Hey there's about three bushels of in this video right now now thanks a lot.
No problem...
We all learn to fly safely together!
400m is just the first step. I wish you cloud base in next one!
Cloud base has eluded me this year, but I have gotten high enough to go cross country. I'm still working on my methods to get high and the theories involved... It's an interesting journey
Great videos, more relateable than the sky gods! Let's face it the people who Don't get scared hanging under a wobbly bit of fabric 1000 feet above the ground for the first time are probably the "odd" ones!
I tried he phantom once at a testival. Not only can this wing fly better than the pilot, it is also telling the pilot about that fact all the time 😊 Before you realize you are in a thermal the wing already initiated the adequate curve.
And it makes me happy
When you hit 400m, hilarious. Brilliant video
I genuinely shit myself!! I'm better now 😂😂
This is so wholesome.
Phantom … best wing i have ever flown!
And I have been flying for 30 years now!
Super safe, amazing glide, sweet handling. Still no phantom 2 - cause they couldn’t improve it till now ! F…. awesome wing!
I can only compare it to an a wing!!
I must say it's doing a great job so far!
I don't think there will be a phantom2. I talked to some guys at nova a few years ago and they said that they don't break even with that wing. They don't stock them but wait for several orders until they produce a batch. Basically it's a multicell version of the Ion4. And the niche is just too small: An expensive low-B with maxed-out performance.. People change to the Mentor instead. Haven't been flying a nova glider the last few years but they say that the ion has become quite an agile wing.
@@intarsienschrankzwetschgen4224 they made a lot of prototypes.
Hard to improve on phantom 1.
I respect nova for not putting out a new wing if it hasn’t better performance than the old one.
I know the guys as I live next to the headquarters.
Phantom 2 should come
out next year - at least that was the plan when I talked to them at St. Hilaire.
Oh this is interesting!
Maybe with all this performance I should try an xc!
I am a beginning pilot just learning ground handling and I watch a lot of video and do a lot of math.(). What you were talking about is the active flying process. You pull down on the brakes a little tiny bit until you start to get the slack out of the lines. Then you will feel kind of a jerky pull as the edge of the wing senses all the different motions in the air under the wing.(). I have seen it referred to as stiffening up the trailing edge of the wing. If you ride the brakes it means you were too much in the brakes and the wing is dragging and storing too much air energy underneath. To much slack in the brake lines leaves you "flapping". You are sort of hitting everything in the air "raw" no cushion of compressible air under the wing trapped for a little bit of comfort. If you are flying at 50% brakes hanging under The canopy, and you put one hand up it can go into a spiral that is very difficult to get out of. That large amount of break combined with the slow speed cause the wing on the inside of the turn to stall, If you put up one hand. It's almost like that air contained is a thruster when released.
So the Phantom will likely be less pitch stable than your previous EN-A but you can do some exercises to practice cancelling both unwanted pitch and roll. As you are themaling you'll want to cancel both to keep the wing in sync with your own movement. You can regulate the pitch mostly with the outside brake, just applying more as the wing hunts in front of you, less as it comes back overhead or behind. You can cancel roll by regulating both. If you fly out the front of the thermal and the wing dives, you might need to catch the dive with both brakes. Are you an XC magazine subscriber? There's a good video on their website / youtube channel with Malin from Flyeo describing how to practice cancelling pitch and roll just while flying straight at first and then with some practice it will be easier to adapt that to thermalling. It's hard to describe just with words.
I love this... That you so much for the comment.
I'm familiar with active flying... But only marginally. I can regulate wing movement when i make it do funny things in purpose like wing overs.
I will certainly think about regulating flight while thermalling.
Thanks again... Stellar comment!
HAHAHA loved this video, I related to his fear soooo much, lobed it bro make many more vids.....
Nice wing great video bro…
Nice :)
Thanks bro
Will share my experience with you. Never be scared of going high if there is no restriction with airspace. Height is your friend. My personal best is at Just over 3700 meters ASL, its very cold up there. After i got my license i immediately went on to a mid B wing and dont regret it, and now have been flying C wings for XC fights. I enjoyed this video as i could see that it put a smile on your face as this sport is meant to DO. Wish you many safe and wonderful flights.
I love you man and I'd never be scared of going any higher and my whole goal is to fly up under a cloud throw out a bag of corn starch and fly away before it starts raining from the condensation nuclei. There's nothing wrong with catching a lot altitude but don't fly into a cloud. The other thing I have heard about the desert Southwest is the ceiling is so high if you get sucked up in a cloud it's growing faster than you can fly out the side. I live in America and the ceiling here is 18,000 feet legally and I just don't think it's going to get enforced on me unless I got hit by an airplane and they're going to take pieces of me to court.
How much did you get it for? I have been trying to get my hands on a cheap paraglider but cant find one. There are no paragliding stores in my country.
I got this one second have got 1250 pounds.. British
@@jacquecilliers oh okay. Thanks
can you give more details about this place . please
The site is called high and over and it's located in the south downs in England. It's a small and very technical hill which takes an easterly wind with some north and south variation.
@@jacquecilliers high and over,Seaford BN254AJ ?
Yes. It's a hill just outside the town of alfriston
one of my early flights on a phantom took me to 10,040ft over Brevent, Chamonix. I was not prepared for that wearing a T shirt and fleece. ie not wind proof ! if was cold cold. Valley temp was 17c and then the warm air hit the snow line and up we went. 1400ft at one stage FFS. I even had gliders circling me with a glide ratio of 60 - 1 and there I was in the middle at 10-1 glide. been on the phantom for 8 years now. done a SIV with it also. czcams.com/video/vCkvJFJg8ek/video.html
I love this post!!!
I want to do an SIV very soon!!
I was flying devil's Dyke today and was top of the stack for a while... Not a huge achievement, but really nice especially in winter
welcome to "real" paragliding!
Yeah ok... it's not "real" just yet.... but a LOT better than the A wing I was flying before this. I guess a nice Gin Explorer, pod harness, full flight deck and access to the alps on a daily basis would be more real!!
Why did you come down? I mean you said you were genuinely crapping your pants. Is that why?
Yes colonel panic...I was panicking:/
I'm still getting used to getting high on a paraglider. I know height means safety, but when its turbulent at height, it gets scary... For me.
I'm about to publish another instance of fear at height... Hope you catch that one
@@jacquecilliers good stuff. You tube is filled up with paragliders ignoring the danger and pretending they have no fear. Maybe you can do the opposite and give a real life perspective: what the hell am I doing 1000 feet in the air drifting around on a glorified garbage bag? This is insane. And a reserve chute isn't going to help if your "wing" collapses below 500 feet. The human body isn't at all designed for falling from above 10 feet.
That's almost exactly what I was saying to myself in the next video!!
@@jacquecilliers Have you done an SIV? This will completely change your relationship with the wing.
I really want to do one!!!
Currently I'm looking for work and have less money than I'd like🤣😭
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Big jump from an A to a Phantom.......
Nice groundhadling, and I see you are trying to fly actively.
I expect the guy on the Nova thermalling, that you flew straight at was shitting himself too!!
Don't fly straight at people!!
Approach the thermal like you would a roundabout in your car - at an angle so you can join them, rather than forcing that poor guy out and around you.
H and O is rough, and the Phantom is easy to fly well - min sink/max glide are both hands up.
Enjoy your new toy, and don't fly straight at people.
We had a chat afterwards and he pointed out that I had flown at him...
I have made adjustments to my flying technique, but I am still learning.
Thanks Kevin.
If you fly the South downs and see a red Phantom, come up and say hi... there is only one other I know of.
I've just done my first two weeks club pilot course and I wasn't allowed fly with others around me. Seeing that other glider give way to his left rather than his right would have scared me more than gaining loads of height I think. Having said that and watching the video many times, the other glider had time to keep turning to his right but what do I know - next to nothing right now. At the moment I'm trying to decide what my first glider is going to be - an A or A+ ?
I think we all make concessions in the air and it is up to all of us to avoid collisions, which happened on the day.
I may not have been flying by the book, but he was able to make adjustments and I have learned from this experience.
As for gliders, have you asked a coach for advice? Someone who knows your flying ability?
Never admit that you left a trouser biscuit in your pants when you were paragliding and never admit that you were about ready to get sick. Always carry some toothpaste with you to get that taste out of your mouth. Bring spare underwear
Best. Comment. Ever
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@@jacquecilliers I'm still flying an EN-A wing . Swing Mito RS.
@@SkywalkerPaul
Are you loving it and still learning?
@@jacquecilliers I got my license 3 years ago but I'm still flying my first wing. It's a great machine ❤️
Perfect!!
I loved my a wing!!