How to crash a Hang Glider

[Steve Davy]

A bit. But we're mainly looking for deadly crap that's endorsed, compelled, required, forced on the pretense of making flying safer.

How's this then?

http://vimeo.com/126617152

[Tad Eareckson]

Yeah, that works. Been on my to-do list for a while.

"Let's teach hundreds of thousands of pilots to shift their hands off of the control bar during every approach they make through the courses of their careers and see what happens."

"Crashed into the trees off the side of the runway and totaled your glider? You're not doing it right. More practice is what you need."

[Steve Davy]

Every time I watch that video I think "You asked for it and you got it".

[Tad Eareckson]

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tree landing oh no

Dave Brose - 2015/05/01 18:15 UTC

http://vimeo.com/126617152

Crash:
- 040°43'19.33" N
- 123°02'51.98" W

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[Tad Eareckson]

The whole FOCUS of u$hPa - and undoubtedly world - hang gliding training from Day One, Flight One on is to prepare the students to nail spot no steppers in the narrow dry riverbeds with large rocks strewn all over the place they'll all find themselves needing to utilize for one or more emergency landings in the courses of their careers. And the result of this training is...

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...that they're totally incapable of safely stopping within the confines of wide open pancake flat flood plains half the size of Nebraska.

Name another flavor of aviation in which a pilot set up like this one could possibly entirely miss the field. Goddam seventy pound glider with a thirty foot wingspan that flies at under thirty and stalls at under twenty. And shit like this happens all the fuckin' time. Think carrier pilot John Simon and Ridgely Airpark.

[Steve Davy]

Mute the audio on Dave's video and then play this one in its place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

Any wonder that USHPA can no longer secure an insurance policy other than begging for donations?

[Steve Davy]

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PS - Fuck you, Jack Asshole for your continuing total ineptitude.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?p=395256&highlight=#395256
Injured pilot needs help

Joe Stearn - 2017/01/12 17:34:18 UTC

Basically I picked a spot near the edge of a large field (rather than using the extent of the field), misjudged the start of my downwind for the spot I was aiming at (I was too low) but didn't accept that fact and make necessary corrections (i.e. land ahead of my chosen spot). Consequently I found myself making a near 180 degree turn low to the ground and didn't have enough height to complete it. That's what happened.

Pick a spot (preferably an old Frisbee *) near the edge of a large field rather than using the extent of the field.

* http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=30929
Doh! My worst landing ever, caught on tape.

[<BS>]

In the video you posted, I'll bet Brian used the method Dave referred to.

I'll take that bet.

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?p=348564#348564
Although terms were never mentioned, pay up you fucking welcher.

[NMERider]

.....http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?p=348564#348564....

....Being restricted can be subjective. Here's an acknowledgement of technique and the value of practicing landing short in what one feels is a large field.

Understatement of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-qejMoyEA

Unfortunately all this rain in CA has probably flooded all the dry riverbeds I love so dearly and washed away all my Frisbee® targets along with the nice soft sand.