Super impressive control and skill. Crazy mad to just hang out over those trees for minutes. Props to Pascal.
Ride, glide, the mountainside with pride.
skimtwashington - 15-2-2015 at 04:57 PM
Love it! Control is right.
What goes up...stays up...for as long as he wants- or for quite a while, anyway.
Would love to float over the terrain.
This is kite jumping to the 'Nth level'... and that level is Gliding.
:wee:Cheddarhead - 15-2-2015 at 07:28 PM
We have to get Feyd to do this with his ChronosRedSky - 16-2-2015 at 03:15 AM
The only thing that beats paragliding or skiing is paragliding AND skiing. That must feel amazing, certainly looks it. Great looking kite too. pongnut - 16-2-2015 at 09:10 AM
Is it modded to allow him to soar facing forward?Demoknight - 16-2-2015 at 09:48 AM
If you look in the video when he looks up at the kite once. The kite is flying forward with the lines crossed. He just spun the bar around once he
got in the air and kept his skis behind him to keep his body facing in the right direction.pongnut - 17-2-2015 at 08:21 AM
:puzzled:
So, he's using his skis like a wind sock to keep his body facing into the wind?ssayre - 17-2-2015 at 09:13 AM
Here's another gliding video where he glides front first and he just faces forward and has the bar turned opposite where the Red side of bar is on the
right side instead of left.pongnut - 17-2-2015 at 10:02 AM
Good eye ssayre. Still not quite sure how he is able to keep facing forward, when the half twist in his break lines are trying to spin his body back
to the "normal" orientation, with back facing the wind...IkonKiteboardingUSA - 25-2-2015 at 06:42 AM
Flying isn't hard but you need a spot that provides good launch and landing areas
Morningsides in Charlestown NH is one of the best spots with the least amount of hiking
As there are great spots on the presidential ridges of the white mountains , it is not terrain to be experimenting in
The Chrono is def great for flying, but you certainly need to be, arguably, a pilot first, understand the forward and reverse launch and be able to
Land clean
IkonKiteboardingUSA - 25-2-2015 at 06:45 AM
By the way, there are NO mods to fly forward it is the same characteristics of paragliding
The trick is knowing how and when to spin the body around the bar, or the bar around the body and to control your ground speed pre flight …as that
speed impacts the height and stability you have when in the air
Otherwise? Pull left go left, pull right go right, everything is subtle...... as a harsh "pull" on the steering lines will kite loop you making the
forward glide a reverse glide ssayre - 27-2-2015 at 06:26 AM
Here's another one that shows what he's doing with the bar clearly. When he is flying backwards, the bar is in normal position. Flying forward, the
bar is flipped around. Pascal's video looked like he was flying forward with the bar in the normal position :puzzled:
