Beginner Hang Gliding Owen’s Valley

John Edwin Griffin
John Edwin Griffin
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Publicado 2024-06-07
My 16th mountain flight! This one was special because it was in a totally new (flying) location for me! What made it even more special was the fact that I have hiked and driven this area a lot before so seeing it from the sky was amazing! Since lift conditions can get pretty aggressive later in the day in the Owen's valley (great for long flights) as a beginner my goal was to land before the lift really turned on. I launched around 0900 while the sun was not heating up the ground and generating too much lift. I was really happy with this flight and finally getting to zip up my harness! This was also my first mountain flight with my new (to me) glider! A Wills Wing Falcon 4 170 which I flew two flights at the training hill with about a week before this flight.


Stats:
Launch Site: Walt's Point, (Road To Horseshow Meadow) CA
Landing Site: Tracy's, (Off 395 Near Lone Pine) CA
Flight Number Total (Mountain): 16
Flight Number Total (Including Training Hill): 85
Flight Time This Flight: 19 minutes
Cumulative Flight Time: 334 minutes
Cumulative Flight Time: 5.56 hours
Cumulative Uplift: Comment if you would like to see this stat!
Glider: Wills Wing Falcon 4 170
Harness: Woody Valley Libero Size 5L


Chapters:
0:00 - 0:30 Launch
1:00 - 5:00 Cruising Out and Clearing The Ridge
6:55 - 7:25 Half A Mile Up!
10:50 - 11:30 Talking About Glider
11:30 - 12:50 Above Highway 395
15:00 - 17:00 High Above The LZ
17:00 - 18:27 Final Approach and Landing
18:30 Closing Comments and Hang Check
Todos los comentarios (18)
  • @chih-weichuang6272
    16th mountain flight and you're already flying at a H4 site, friggin amazing. Keep it up dude!
  • @TheDAVE858
    Fuck yeah! Awesome! & thank u for showing me the bailout! Everyone’s videos are like 100 miles, but what happens if u sink out? Now I know.😅
  • @SkidzFPV
    That awesome. You know, about 3 days ago a very experienced paraglider pilot pulled off a triangle over 300km launched from Walt’s, flew up to the whites and white mountain peak and flew back down to lone pine. 10 hours in the air, getting to over 17k’ absolutely incredible stuff.
  • @MundoBrandao
    What a nice place!!! Cool happineas shouts!! ahah.. Probably your smoothest flight, smooth air. Nice cooments about what goes through your mind, also about equipment ajustments e body positioning. 🤙
  • @Johan-ex5yj
    What a Magic flight at a Magic site! 🤩 That flare was wayyyy better than the previous one. Well done Mate! 👍
  • @TheCameronEvans
    18:27 That feeling after an epic flight! haha love it. Nice work and great videos mate
  • @FlyBabyFlyPPG
    thank you for sharing your adventures and understanding the thermal I'm reading fifty ways to fly better from Bruce goldsmith and understanding the sky and it's so great how long we take to understand how movements go in our flight, now i understand that really we need patient and time and fly, fly, fly baby fly. keep storing your memories here where i can see it hahaaaa.
  • @williamw1332
    You’re gonna love that glider… I know I do 😁🦅 What a nice place to fly at! Next time, if you know you have the altitude, do some 360 clearing turns and show off the area please👍
  • @ctquicksilver
    Your landings will be better if you get your hands higher up on the downtubes where you have some authority. If you ever land with a slight tailwind, you’ll thank me😜👍
  • @user-ny2bx8ez1c
    Just curious why you didn't land at Diaz lake just south of Lone Pine? Nice big area just next & south of the lake and an easy glide. Usually good thermals are at Walts Point, where you launched, and would be a few 1000 over in just a few minutes. A single point hang harness is way more aerodynamic than all those strands/cords. I always liked my CG 1000 harness. I'm not sure if they're still made, but each one is custom made for your body.
  • @paddledogs
    looks amazing. how you putting the stats on the video and what vario you using?
  • @jheissjr
    How far is the drive from LZ to launch at Owens? Do you live near Owens?
  • @markosabljak7134
    So much altitude on thermal conditions. You will stay up for a long time. Just wait. Where is your vario? Did not see any mounted on frame.