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16.10.2018
Student in the trees


https://www.facebook.com/groups/hangglidingaccidents/permalink/2180978962118007/


https://youtu.be/rKzjnraEyt0



Here is an interesting little incident from Saturday morning. The
student in the video is doing his first ever aerotow. Prior to his launch, the
trike pilot made a quick check flight up to 200 meters and landed. Then the
instructor (yours truly) made an aerotow with the student's wing up to 200
meters and landed.


Everything felt good and the student was briefed that the weather was fine, no
turbulence present and that he should ideally try to land near the take-off end
of the runway so that we could continue with the next aerotow.


The student went up to around 400 meters or a bit higher and released upon which
he realized that he was in strong headwind and having no forward ground speed.
After dropping down to 200 meters he came out of the strong layer of headwind
and started covering ground. He decided against landing on a field by a
farmhouse as he thought he should be able to fly over the trees that separated
the farmhouse from the airfield. He didn't have enough height and ended up
flaring on the trees and hanging 4 meters over the ground.


The trike pilot saw him and landed nearby. We fetched a ladder to get him down
and then cut off some trees to get the wing down. There was no injury or damage,
I flew the wing after a thorough check and then the student made two more
successful aerotows. There were no clouds indicating wind (just a very high
layer of still clouds) and we had only ever checked the normal weather forecast
which provides an estimation of wind at 10 m over ground level.


https://www.youtube.com/user/SkanesDrakFlygKlubb/videos


http://www6.idrottonline.se/IdrottOnlineKlubb/Malmo/SkanesDFK-Flygsport/



https://OzReport.com/1539708165
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