High Point, 260 Meter
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25.06.2007
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10 Votes
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| HighDesertGlider |
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| paragliding parapente paragleiten winds utah hanggliding |
Paragliding in High Winds at Point of the Mountain
This is an awesome clip filmed and edited completely by a fellow PG pilot while at Point of the Mountain, Utah, in 2005...awesome job Hollywood! I love this clip.
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08.05.2007
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2 Votes
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| btsmemo |
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| parapente cts ffvl paragliding acrobatic icare tumbling rodriguez raul acceleration measurement BTS MEMO |
MEMO tracking high G acrobatics manoeuvres = paragliding +7G
To +7 G ! The balance tracking system 'BTS MEMO' is a compact autonomous unit that combines a three-axis inertial measurement unit with a data recorder. This system records the acceleration the unit is subjected to over time. Combining this with onboard or outboard video, using specially created software, we could see exactly what the pilot was doing at any given point on the manoeuvres.
The onboard video of Raul RODRIGUEZ belongs to MIGOO TV www.migoo.com. It has been gracefully provided to contribute to the work made by the safety commission of the kite, hang-gliding and paragliding french federation (FFVL).
Les images en caméra embarquée de Raul RODRIGUEZ appartiennent à MIGOO TV www.migoo.com. Elles ont été gracieusement fournies pour contribuer aux travaux faits par la commission sécurité de la fédération française de vol libre (CTS / FFVL) : http://federation.ffvl.fr/ffvl_cts/document/585
Info. : ppl@bts-industrie.dyndns.org
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27.05.2007
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18 Votes
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13858 Hits
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| btsmemo |
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| parapente cts ffvl paragliding acrobatic icare tumbling rodriguez raul acceleration measurement BTS MEMO |
MEMO tracking high G acrobatics manoeuvres = The real game !
To +7 G ! The balance tracking system 'BTS MEMO' is a compact autonomous unit that combines a three-axis inertial measurement unit with a data recorder. This system records the acceleration the unit is subjected to over time. Combining this with onboard or outboard video, using specially created software, we could see exactly what the pilot was doing at any given point on the manoeuvres.
The onboard video of Raul RODRIGUEZ belongs to MIGOO TV www.migoo.com. It has been gracefully provided to contribute to the work made by the safety commission of the kite, hang-gliding and paragliding french federation (FFVL).
Les images en caméra embarquée de Raul RODRIGUEZ appartiennent à MIGOO TV www.migoo.com. Elles ont été gracieusement fournies pour contribuer aux travaux faits par la commission sécurité de la fédération française de vol libre (CTS / FFVL) : http://federation.ffvl.fr/ffvl_cts/
Info. : ppl@bts-industrie.dyndns.org
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20.12.2007
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2 Votes
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| murrayhay |
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| PG Precision Paragliding Training BHPC Scotland ESP Angus not BHPA UK |
JR's first flights at Craigowl (mid launch point)
Jonathan on his Nova, Sunday 16th Dec 2007, fantastic high pressure winter training/flying with East Scotland Paragliding club further practice with 'double bounce' light breeze launches. Precision Paragliding providing an alternative to the BHPA since the late 90's for BHPA & ex-BHPA pilots wishing to RE-train or new pilot entering the sport who do NOT wish to risk the standards/accident rates produced by 'normal' PG theory, practices & procedures!
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01.06.2007
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2 Votes
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| btsmemo |
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| deltaplane cts ffvl paragliding acrobatic tumbling raul acceleration loop hang gliding measurement BTS MEMO |
MEMO tracking high G acrobatics manoeuvres= Hang gliding +6G
The balance tracking system 'BTS MEMO' is a compact autonomous unit that combines a three-axis inertial measurement unit with a data recorder. This system records the acceleration the unit is subjected to over time. Combining this with onboard or outboard video, using specially created software, we could see exactly what the sportsman was doing at any given point of the action.
Info. : ppl@bts-industrie.dyndns.org
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27.05.2007
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| btsmemo |
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| parapente cts ffvl paragliding acrobatic tumbling acceleration measurement BTS MEMO skiing carving ski |
MEMO tracking high G revealing sports = Skiing \free carving
The balance tracking system 'BTS MEMO' is a compact autonomous unit that combines a three-axis inertial measurement unit with a data recorder. This system records the acceleration the unit is subjected to over time. Combining this with onboard or outboard video, using specially created software, we could see exactly what the sportsman was doing at any given point of the action.
Info. : ppl@bts-industrie.dyndns.org
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24.09.2007
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5 Votes
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| weflyuniv |
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| paragliding hang gliding hanggliding santa barbara pioneer instruction Ken de Russy derussy the mesa TV reporter news |
TV News Piece Ken de Russy Teaches Paragliding 1992
I operated my hang gliding and later hang gliding and paragliding business in Santa Barbara California for just a hair over 24 years. Early on I recognized that the cost of advertising and promotion was beyond my budget so I developed a keen sense of how to get free publicity. As Santa Barbara was just far enough from LA to be just beyond the range of LA based broadcast channels, a local station, KEYT, was the primary broadcast media for local news. KCOY in Santa Maria and KSBY in San Luis Obispo both maintained bureaus in Santa Barbara and also served the Santa Barbara TV audience. Because they served comparatively small markets they were very receptive to stories that would have been more easily overlooked in a major market like LA. I eventually came to discover manipulating the local channels to send out camera crews was fairly easy. I courted all the media and had quite good success obtaining publicity that I could never have afforded to buy.
In this piece the reporter was one that had previously done a three segment series on hang gliding centered on me and my school. He already knew the backstory and and knew how productive it was to work with me. He had flown in the hang gliding series and his coverage had been in contention for a national award so it was easy to get him out to cover paragliding.
Although this news story was shot early on in my paragliding teaching experience, it reflects the results that I found I could reliably produce with someone on their first day of paragliding instruction. For nearly all the years I taught paragliding, the first day worked like this. I met the students at 10:00AM and briefed them on the waiver and its meaning, the flight plan and the spoken instructions they would hear on the radio and what each command required them to do. By 11:00 I placed the canopy on the ground at the launch position and in perfect shape to be pulled up. I then placed the harness on them and placed the front risers and brake handles in their hands. With some additional spoken instruction they would make their very first attempt to handle the canopy in any way. With only rare exceptions, they pulled the canopy overhead and continued into a launch run and into a properly executed and successful launch with no physical intervention from me. The flight from the top of the Mesa produced a one minute flight at the minimum as the landing field was a full 200 feet below launch. The edge of the landing plateau (beyond which were power lines and high speed traffic) was barely within gliding distance so a standard approach was required to avoid flying off the property. Normally a first day student could easily make five to seven such flights on the first day. The conditions often provided extended flights that, in one case, made a ten minute soaring "First" flight possible. Keep in mind that this occurred on the FIRST flight which came about following the VERY FIRST TIME THE STUDENT ATTEMPTED TO INFLATE THE WING!
This reporter, like all reporters, had a finite time to devote to the taping of the story, and as he had only one camera operated by one cameraman, he made one flight "filmed" from the bottom and a second one shot from the top. These were the only flights he had time for and he had no prior experience or opportunity to handle the wing as described above. The two flights were edited together to produce the effect of two cameras taping the same flight.
I describe this in some detail to emphasize why I was so addicted to teaching paragliding. There was never any point during the many years I taught people to hang glide that I could produce even the smallest fraction of results that I achieved nearly every day while giving paragliding lessons. Overwhelming joy and a sense of exceptional accomplishment on the part of the students was routinely expressed to me by nearly every student. Only rarely did that occur on the first day with any of my hang gliding students. There was several years during which I tried to teach both but by far and away most prospective students that had the opportunity to see students of both classes in the process of learning, would choose paragliding over hang gliding. Initially in that period I tried to push some toward hang gliding but it was apparent that many resented not being directed to paragliding. It had become progressively more difficult to sign up and keep hang gliding students even before paragliding arrived on the scene. Once there was regular paragliding activity on the hill it was painful to see to the far better results of the paragliding students while the hang gliding students struggled for the smallest achievements. I felt that I had betrayed the trust my customers placed in me. They expected me to facilitate their dream of flight and counted on me as a professional to give them the best recommendation.
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18.01.2007
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3 Votes
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| MJHeyward |
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| PPG Powered Paraglider Paramotor paragliding kite buggy paramotoring |
Squirrelly flight due to low attachment points...
Here is a video clip that clearly demonstrates what happens when your attachment points are lower than the thrust point. As you will see in the video, the high thrust line causes a very stressful, squirrelly, and unbalanced flight. My attachment points for my paraglider were lower then the center thrust line from the paramotor. This video clip is a great example of what not to do.
Anyone flying a trike needs to make sure their paraglider attachment point is approximately two inches higher then the center thrust line of their paramotor (prop). Everyone should learn the importance of all their attachment points. It definitely makes a difference. As a result, it lead to several very uncomfortable first flights. I guess I learned the hard way. ...
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14.07.2008
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| mbelozer30 |
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| Paragliding |
Mike's Paragliding Crash
On his first tandem paragliding adventure, the take-off was flawed due to high winds. They crashed into the side of the Poo Poo Point launch site.
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24.10.2007
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| ooPatZitaoo |
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| Parapente Gourdon Paragliding |
Gourdon - Parapente (10/2007)
Paragliding in Gourdon
13/20/2007
ASCENDANCE
Ecole professionnelle de parapente
Rosita went high up and back to starting point, Patrick went down to another landing site :)
Premier relief situé à 20 kms à vol d'oiseau de la mer, le crête de Gourdon qui culmine à 1250 m, est orientée sud-est. Alimentée en permanence par la brise de mer, le thermodynamique permet de rester en l'air très facilement plus d'une heure. En fonction des saisons, les gains d'altitude varient de 300 à 500 m en moyenne en été à plus de 2000 m au dessus du décollage en hiver.
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20.02.2008
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| gchcorp |
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| MAYA NASRI ETTAFA2NA GIORGIO CHAMONIX MONT BLANC ALPES |
GIORGIO @ CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC 2008 ¤ ETTAFA2NA MAYA NASRI
Chamonix is a popular winter sports resort in France. The 1924 Winter Olympics were held here. As the highest European mountain west of Russia, Mont Blanc holds a special allure for mountain climbers, and Jon Krakauer, in an essay in his collection Eiger Dreams, described the town as "the death-sport capital of the world" because Chamonix serves as an ideal playground for almost all types of outdoor activity, especially in their more extreme variants, such as ice climbing, rock climbing, extreme skiing, paragliding, rafting, canyoning.
Chamonix is famous for its spectacular cable car up to the Aiguille du Midi (3842m). Constructed in 1955 it was then the highest cable car in the world. Together with a cable car system going up to the Point Helbronner (3462m) from Entréves in the Aosta Valley (Italy) it is possible to cross the entire Mont Blanc Massif by cable car.
In the summer months Chamonix is a mecca for alpine mountaineers, drawn to the area by challenges like the north face of the Dru, the Frendo Spur on the Aiguille du Midi, traversing the Alps on the legendary GR 5 footpath or more accessible challenges like summitting Mont Blanc (by a number of possible routes).
Apart from high-mountain summer sports, Chamonix is also a destination for the hardcore mountain biker. As well as the obvious lift-assisted areas for Freeriders there are hundreds of kilometres of challenging hidden singletrack trails - often only found with the help of guides.
Chamonix is also a haven for advanced skiing and snowboarding. The Vallée Blanche glacier runs down from below Mont Blanc du Tacul and the Aiguille du Midi to the valley. This spectacular route can be skied or snowboarded, though care should be exercised due to crevasses. Aside from that, the valley has about six separate ski areas, including Le Brévent (a short but steep walk from the town centre), La Flégère (at Les Praz), Les Planards (ski area for beginners and early intermediates), Les Grands Montets (at Argentière) and Domaine de Balme (at Le Tours). Many of these provide challenging terrain, especially off-piste, with runs down to Switzerland.
There is also a ski resort at Les Houches.
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