Know Your Paraglider Wing

I just love your stuff You are by far the best instructor out there. Hands down. So calm and relaxed it transfers to the people who watch your vids Tks bud

I like your good advice as you keep it clear and simple, when we're flying we need to be clear-headed and decisive.

Great video 👍🏽

0:50 This is actually a highly individual thing. That grip (the "toilet handle") is the only one that for some reason allows me to feel the wing. Most others (the through-the-handle or "dragon grip") feel like I've lost connection with the wing. And the finger-on-the-line is the worst for me, I feel like I'm blind when I fly like that.

I am a begginer and im going through all your videos thanks for sharing so much

Thanks again................. for putting this stuff out!

Great tips, thanks for sharing

Love your channel. I watch your videos over and over so I can take these things to heart because I'm just learning to fly. When the brief time at the school is over and I've flown my flights and I shake everybody's hand and tell him goodbye, I'm coming home alone. There are no designated public launch sites here. I'm going to be flying alone off of private property in the middle of farm country with no one around. I heard if you put the brakes in the speed bar on at the same time you're very likely to get a twist. It was my general understanding of aircraft that the faster you were flying the less effect turbulence had on you you're in your out. The brochure from the advance company says if you just put your hands up and leave the brakes alone the wing will fly in turbulence better than you can fly it yourself. I have an epsilon 9 Wing. Would it be more stable in a turbulence if I was totally off the speed bar and totally off the brakes, or if I had full speed bar and no brakes?

This is great I'm still at ground-handling stages and I'm waiting for my first flight and what am I going to do the minute I get turned loose from the Tow? If you are a very lucky student you will float around in the air for a little while trying to figure out how flying works and then you will make a landing that isn't too brutal to come back from and try to fly again.

6:14 And that's another thing I have a problem with: it seems the vario beeps always a second after I feel the lift. So I turned the sound off, it seems to work much better that way. Maybe my vario is just too old or something but I mostly use it for two things: as a sink detector (unlike lift, sink is almost never noticeable by feel) and for checking ground speed when gauging the wind direction or to avoid blowback, etc. My vario is Flytec 6015.

I love you man but I hope I never ever have to soar close to the edge of a stone. I think in terms of wingspan. If any of my glider is within three wingspans of another surface it is an emergency. Just because it flies slowly and precisely doesn't mean a human being can see well enough to fly it. Proximity flying with eyesight of a human being is not a good plan.