I watched the first one before I read his comment / description of what was going on and thought that everything I was seeing was deliberate. My reaction was... Impressive but it looks to me like you're cutting your margins a bit thin there, buddy. Was pleased to find out that we were on the same page.
I loved the left-hand downwind from 0:28 on - hugging the treeline at just over treetop with tons of speed. That's EXACTLY how I'd do Woodstock - 38°52'48.90" N 078°27'18.36" W - 'cept I was also going downhill. If I were still a bit high at final path point I'd overshoot on base, snap a left 180, return to final point, slip a right 90, level and straighten out near surface, skim uphill...
I'd hafta carry breakdown farther than everybody else but I was quite happy doing that too. And I never flew into the fence that used to surround a garden at the top left corner and broke an arm. (I think that one was a career ender.)
And whenever I landed in wide open situations I pretended I wasn't and approached in a similar fashion.
Second one's a real treasure - 'specially with the ground based view and really being able to see how much altitude is being regained while going onto downwind.
These are what students should be getting taught to work towards starting on Day Two after they've gotten the up/down thing figured out reasonably well. But...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=30722
What happened to JD?
Tom Lyon - 2014/02/04 07:55:19 UTC
In learning to fly the sailplanes, I had it drilled into me that below two hundred feet, my options did not include anything more than maybe a very slight turn to avoid hitting an obstacle. Like thirty degrees from my heading maybe. A slight bank.
NOBODY teaches or how to work towards this. Get upright at two hundred feet so you'll be ready to flare and your head will be in the safest possible position at all times. Approaches like we see here are safe and fun. What's taught is ineffective, dangerous, scary - absolutely lethal in demanding situations. Joe Julik, 2014/09/29 Whitewater, comes back to mind. But instructors are never held the least bit accountable for anything.
We need guys like you and Andrea running landing instruction and clinics. Instead we get...
05-03223
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16-031309
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...douchebags like Matt Taber, Joe Greblo, Mitch Shipley, Jim Rooney.
Our side of the pond... Virtually nonexistent. And that's the reason.
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Head to:
http://www.kitestrings.org/post12140.html#p12140
for a very extensive treatment of the second video in Jan's post.
