Video

Steve Davy · Post by **Steve Davy** » 2011/10/23 05:50:08 UTC

Failure to hook in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls2QiDtSO7c
Rescue 911-Episode 415 "Hanging Hang Glider (Part 1)"
BeatleMoe - 2008/05/14
dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX_6UZ2UWEE
Rescue 911-Episode 415 "Hanging Hang Glider (Part 2)"
BeatleMoe - 2008/05/14
dead
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Stills up at:
http://www.kitestrings.org/post7860.html#p7860

Zack C · Post by **Zack C** » 2011/10/28 00:57:20 UTC

A recent weak link break at Lookout, resulting in a broken downtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKIAvqd7GI

Zack
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Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2011/10/28 18:36:21 UTC

Kitie porn. Can't get enough of this stuff. Keep it coming.

(Must get high speed connection.)

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/09/02 23:09:12 UTC

Yeah, damn those pesky safety devices!

Remember kids, always blame the equipment.

Steve Davy · Post by **Steve Davy** » 2011/10/29 05:02:08 UTC

FTHI Again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL00UefQqZA

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Steve Davy · Post by **Steve Davy** » 2011/10/29 07:44:52 UTC

FTHI 1:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4JFe7rUCnc

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Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2011/10/29 19:51:36 UTC

Damn. I had that one mentally logged as taken down and unavailable. Thanks zillions for pulling it up.

There's a discussion with the perpetrator at:

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=18876
Hang glider Crash

GuitarPilot - 2010/09/04 08:50:51 UTC
Bay Point, California

You may have saved a life by sharing this.

Yeah. The community is now aware of a hitherto unknown danger of hang gliding - the unhooked launch. What a shocker! This was a real wakeup call.

And from the discussion on the YouTube site...

lltowing2007

L&L practice at D-beach Hook in & Un hooking over and over again sometimes you lose track for what ever reason. $h!T happens...

Nah. A case of launching unhooked is NEVER just a matter of shit happening. And that's NEVER the reason somebody gets hurt or killed hang gliding.

ehrlich3

Hang check before each launch, double check for harness tension before each launch.

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1153
Hooking In

Steve Kinsley - 2005/10/02 02:45:48 UTC

When Bob Gillisse got hurt I suggested that our local institution of the hang check is more the problem than the solution. I still believe that. It subverts the pilot's responsibility to perform a hook-in check.

A goddam hang check has NOTHING to do with establishing that you're hooked in and tensioning the harness isn't a SECONDARY check - it's THE check. EVERY TIME.

Learning good habits will keep you in one piece ...

No. They'll help on this one. But to the best guarantee is to make it muscle memory.

lltowing2007

You're right enrlich3, you should always hang check before each launch.

Can you show me that somewhere in the SOPs?

Guess I got distracted.

Yeah. That's why the rating requirement says:

With each flight, demonstrates a method of establishing that the pilot is hooked in JUST PRIOR TO LAUNCH.

I did a lot of flights that day without a hang check - just a hook-in check. And I got bit.

And what idiots did YOU have as instructors?

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25550
Failure to hook in.

Christian Williams - 2011/10/25 03:59:58

I believe that all hooked-in checks prior to the last one before takeoff are a waste of time, not to say dangerous, because they build a sense of security which should not be built more than one instant before commitment to flight.