Thermal Hunting: Finding thermal sources and trigger points
Vložit
- čas přidán 2. 04. 2020
- Time is running out and we must find lift, or land within minutes! Get a front row seat as we search for that elusive thermal source. Is it in the mountains or flatlands? Where will a thermal form? Where does it go?
This tutorial follows on from the early morning flight explained in • Paragliding On The Roc...
In this episode: danger areas, searching strategies, coring techniques, alternating lift sources, wind drift, trigger lines, bracketing a thermal, establishing a pattern
#xcsecrets #thermaling #paraglidingtips
You might also like
A rough guide to scratching • Paragliding XC Flying:...
Keep UP • KEEP UP: How to get hi...
Thermal Drift article flybubble.com/blog/thermal-drift
Thermal Drift video • XC Secrets: Thermal Drift
How to fly Cross Country (on a paraglider) • How To Fly Cross Count...
Flybubble aims to benefit the freeflying community and help freeflight pilots fly better, safer and more enjoyably.
Like what we do? The best way to thank and support us is to buy gear from us and recommend us to others. Review our service on Trustpilot and our products on Flybubble Shop. You can also subscribe to Flybubble Patreon. Thank you!
Buy gear from Flybubble
flybubble.com/shop
Subscribe to Flybubble
Patreon / flybubble
CZcams / flybubbleparagliding
Newsletter flybubble.com/blog/newsletter
Follow Flybubble
Facebook / flybubble.paragliding
Instagram / flybubble
Twitter / flybubbleteam
Pinterest www.pinterest.co.uk/flybubble... - Sport
Due to corona-limitations to our sport I order you to upload more, and more, and more! To me it's like a medicine :D.
I'm a paraglider pilot wanna-be & think that this is the best illustration of the true nature of thermals that I have ever seen.
Greg, you're an ABSOLUTE LEGEND. You're not just a great teacher who manages to put the mysteries of successful paragliding into simple terms, but how you enjoy flying is also absolutely contagious. Can't wait to finish my license in a month; till then, your videos greatly help making time pass. Greetings from Germany 👌
Glad to help!
This video made me miss flying even more! I regret all the times I was too lazy to go out, hike up to the top and fly! Thanks Greg for another awesome video! Hope the training for X-Pyr did not stop due to these troubling events.
I absolutely love this videos.. the first one was really nice too.. I keep growing my flight skills with your help.. many thanks!
Can’t wait to start hunting again!! 🤩 Lovely as always 👌🙌
excellent........really informative and good to see your decision making process
Thank you. I learned so much from these few minutes, given the constant clear explanation of what you are doing and why.
Thanks Bubble guys! I need as much thermaling help as i can get!
Thanks Greg, very detailed instruction and editing!
Great video well-presented thank you so much
Vlogging and thermalling is much more difficult than you make it seem Greg. Bravo sir!
Thank you so much, sometimes I just watch your Videos to smooth my soul :D
Everyone stay safe
More dreaming in lockdown. Excellent Greg'splanation. I love Your videos, Greg. Always something to learn, always inspiration.
Great Greg! Amazing landscape
Awesome, some more excellent flying tips 😁
Your videos are so amazing you're such a blessing thank you.
Great video, as usual! :) Thanks for all the effort! :)
Very interesting video. Great explanations. 🤜🏻🤛🏼
thanks for your sharing. I appreciate it.
Hey, thanks for the video! This was definitely helpful. :)
Very nice! Thank you!
I'm off out to fly now. Thanks for the refresher, I wish I could be less panicked about sink! Need to work on working the thermals more and chilling out more. 👍
I love this kind of video where you are illustrating exactly what triggers you are looking for. More please...much more! just what the corona virus social distancing specialist prescribed!
Thank you Greg !
great coaching. Thanks
thank you so much for your videos. great
Thanks mate! This is exactly the type of video I was looking for! To learn and understand the thermals the dynamics of wind and air as I am getting into speed flying/riding and to learn how to avoid certain areas and what to expect in others. Thank you so much and please keep them coming! (I am getting to courses as well, more of them since there are more levels...) Well done mate!
More like this. 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thanks Greg.
Loved it
Great video & demo. Would love to see data on the screen in correlation with the beeps (alt and maybe Google map positions)
Nice video
Thanks!
I enjoyed it very much especially when I just bought a new Cure2 that should help a lot thanks
I like!
Hi Greg wish i could get out there... hope you are doing well. Being an outdoors person as well i know how hard this is for everyone...
Thanks Greg: we will cherish our civil liberties as well as the special freedoms of our flying all the more in the wake of all of this...
I was doing this a little bit the other day but got too nervous that I might not make it to the landing field if I couldn’t get the lift. Good that I abandoned the search when I did
I need hours of this haha
Flying for nearly 4 years. Mostly coastal
Had some great thermal flights but still a novice.
Finding one is still a bit hit and miss.
I think I'm turning to fast at times.
I've learned I need to be patient and really work every good one I find.
Beep, beep beep on flying bubbles! Nice! More seriously, every parcel of land has its own aerodynamic characteristics. A good study before flying - maybe even an hour of staring at the landscape and seeing how the wind is moving - would do wonders for a long and safe flight.
great work! +1like +
Hello Flybubble, Would you make video about wather condition. How you decide when you can and when you should not to fly? At least which weather condition is safe according to you. Thank you
Love your videos! I added a few subtitles in Japanese to your videos including this one, so please check them.
👍
how do you tell the direction of the wind at height. Especially a distance from the launching site, with no windsock in site?
Hey I wonder where thermal could be located in small areas near beaches cause me and my brother can't find any on our area!
Thanks for the Turkish translation
i am just in the beginning and I have a question. how the places make thermal?!
How did you attached the vario to the risers?
May I ask what vario you are using in this video? I quite like that the beeps are less offensive than other varios I have heard.
Is there a app or instrument you can get?
Where was this filmed?
What is beeping?? Altimeter? I enjoy your videos. Something I would really like to do
The beeping is a variometer. It is reading the lift rate via a pressure sensor, as our bodies can only sense acceleration, not a constant velocity. Once we're in constant lift, we can only use our vision to sense that we are still going up, hence having a variometer to let us know that we're still going up.
I've bombed out at 12 or 13 o' clock in Piketberg, Porterville and Bain's Kloof Pass. Is South Africa always so hard? Northern Alps seems a lot easier to me.
It depends on which mountain face you take off. If you launch on west face before mid day, it will be hard. If you launch on south east face before mid day, you will fly much better. It also depend on how much time difference there is between true solar mid day and official mid day.
Depend on weather, humidity, night temperature, season...
Your like the wind master or something
Wow, you turn really fast. Average turn in 15 seconds including finding the core.
2:52 start of turn
3:07 (15 s)
3:20 (13 s)
3:32 (12 s)
3:43 (11 s)
3:54 (11 s)
4:11 (17 s)
4:26 (15 s)
4:38 (12 s)
4:56 (18 s)
6:15 start of turn
6:32 (17 s)
6:46 (14 s)
7:03 (17 s)
7:23 (20 s)
7:42 (19 s)
7:54 (12 s)
8:10 (16 s)
16s for a turn is recommended (4s for 1/4)
parce girabas muchas decendentes ,falta persivir un poco mas la deriva de la termica y centrarse mas en su nucleo
Do you not think that changing directions while trying to center a thermal is a bad idea? I was always taught that changing directions is a no-no. That philosophy seemed to hold true when you changed directions, you lost the thermal and spent a lot of time trying to regain it. I am not criticizing just trying to understand, as I come from sailplanes, and I am trying to learn the paraglider ways.
Can someone explain the beeping to me?
Thank you!!
Thanks for the great response!👍
I don't understand the notion of thermal triggers.
@@flybubbleparagliding Thanks for your reply. I'll read it and let you know.
Greg, I can do better!!!!! :) :) :) Just joking!
I would love to see you catching a thermal over a solar array...so I can win an argument with a friend about whether they are thermal generators!