I'm about to buy my first glider and get some lessons. What is the wrong with the BHPA teaching? Can you please recommend me a technical PG book to read up on before starting lessons? One which in your opinion does not contain junk science theories. I'm looking for a good in depth text on wing performance and aerodynamics before I start lessons, I hold a pilots licence and am not too impressed with some of the crap on the internet :-)
Wrong.. ask your self this, why does 'normal' methods of training result in an accident rate weel over 20x that of what I teach? Answer "Instruction Error"! I do NOT recomend ANY PG book, we use the AFE PPL books in training, in addition to Bernoulli & Newton. There are a number of articles I wrote (slightly 'dumbed down') at ParagliderMagazine 'dot' info If you send me a YouTube PM or phone me I can cover this in more depth.
OOOPS..... well spotted it of course should say 2006! Thats what I get for putting the clip together after a day at work then an evening paragliding in Fife, which by the way was Day 99 of my 2007 (SEVEN) flying season! This year has been a record year for our club with members having flown on over 100 days so far!
I'm about to buy my first glider and get some lessons. What is the wrong with the BHPA teaching? Can you please recommend me a technical PG book to read up on before starting lessons? One which in your opinion does not contain junk science theories. I'm looking for a good in depth text on wing performance and aerodynamics before I start lessons, I hold a pilots licence and am not too impressed with some of the crap on the internet :-)
toranamunter 4 years ago
Wrong.. ask your self this, why does 'normal' methods of training result in an accident rate weel over 20x that of what I teach? Answer "Instruction Error"! I do NOT recomend ANY PG book, we use the AFE PPL books in training, in addition to Bernoulli & Newton. There are a number of articles I wrote (slightly 'dumbed down') at ParagliderMagazine 'dot' info If you send me a YouTube PM or phone me I can cover this in more depth.
murrayhay 4 years ago
OOOPS..... well spotted it of course should say 2006! Thats what I get for putting the clip together after a day at work then an evening paragliding in Fife, which by the way was Day 99 of my 2007 (SEVEN) flying season! This year has been a record year for our club with members having flown on over 100 days so far!
murrayhay 4 years ago