hehe - i tried parakiting / paragliding with my peter lynn scorpion 16 sqm but failed. reason: bad conditions (not enough headwind) and wrong terrain
(the slope of my baby-hill is simply not steep enough. i barely can glide there with my paraglider..)
but the above video prooves that it is possible to use a big PL arc for speedflying.
highly interesting ! i wish the guy in the video will try it with much shorter lines so to get closer to paraglider style flying with less pendulum
motions. maybe he can even soar a ridge ?
(but a word of warning of someone here is tempted to try this out: this stuff is really dangerous - avoid any kind of turbulence..)
I'd like to see his set up. The harness looks like the old Thin Red Line alpine paragliding harness. I wonder shat lines he used and how he balanced
the control lines vs the flying lines. I have the perfect hill in the winter to try this, and yes I am a P3 para pilot.
the video says 20m kite but it looks mostly like a venom to me but neither a venom nor scorpion were available in 20m. Just a fact messed up? I was
surprised to see him flying with a para glider control setup. The 18m Phantom might not have enough projected area for this. I imagine lower aspect
high projected area would be the ticket here.
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I think that's pretty cool but it makes me think bad thoughts ! :evil:
It reminds me a LOT of a video I saw just starting out of a ? Mandibule? in similar conditions with similar results. Doesn't this have a LOT to do
with choice locations? The mandibule was similar kite to an arc on loop handles . I'll try and search it .
Why wouldn't it be as simple as handles on an arc in those conditions? :duh:
I was doing a bit of that last night :o got off the water at dark, to discover just how over-powered I was on the 21 walk backwards, sheet in and hop ... :wee:
Don't think I like the idea of going backwards though ...
kami: get yourself a cheap, used paragliding harness for < 100 dollar from ebay and try forward flying with your speed3 21 - running into headwind,
pulling brakes a bit, making smaller hops.. very interested to see a vid !
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