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[gilessmokey]

paraglider did well to recover so fast, saved your bacon.

[wmcs11]

That's the reason I fly a paper airplane indoors! Stupit---you can die doing anything, come to think about it...you will eventually die regardless!

[neil9327]

That's the reason I fly hang gliders

[Zarrell]

Wow scary.

[fdzwes]

Foot Launched at Sunset. That's it.

[Bamoman]

nice to see it recover so fast, what wing was he flying?

[mandrewsvideos]

A sky atis? not sure now.

[telichris]

Sky paraglider, awsome. It recovered on me in 30 feet from a complete front tuk. If I had 20 more feet I would have flown out of it. I believe I had much break on the landing and a hit a bit of gust. Speed is your friend when close to the ground. We straighted the axel and a pilot did his first flight about 30 minutes later on the same rig.

[mandrewsvideos]

Go fly with someone that tells you it is 100% safe then :) Stuff like this can sometimes happen and since we had caught it on film we thought it best to share it with the PPG community.

[unluckyday94]

You show me that vid. and ask me to come fly with you? yeah right!

[LiteTouchFilms]

was he flying with trimmer out or speed bar?

[BatteryIncluded]

Altitude saves lives. Low's slow kills.

[mrcaptainsir]

Flying middle of the day inland.................enough said do not do this or you will eventually pay the price. I would be curious to know what the temperature was between high and low that day.

[ultralightflyer2002]

I can't honestly believe that a little mechanic turbulence that would barely even rock an ultralight would bring one of these gliders down like that,,widows loveeeee toys like that

[mandrewsvideos]

Where do you usually fly? Anywhere near the Niagara region? Drop by some time maybe..

[WalkerjetMaster]

o.k. Wind looks to be gusty to maybe 10 knots or so.

I would practice keeping the vehicles down wind anyway.

[paraplanru]

i guess, main reason is rotor flow from that buildings behind

[mandrewsvideos]

no, it was thermic air, low wind speed and wrong direction to be rotor from the hangars in the distance

[WalkerjetMaster]

Actually it was mechanical turbulence from the vehicle and trailer parked at fields end. Keep

them leeward of field!

[mandrewsvideos]

This is not the case. The collapse occurred nowhere near the trailer. Wind strength was low. If the wind had been strong enough to cause mechanical turbulence we would have been unable to launch a trike in the first place. Nice idea, but the conditions on the day do not support it. When the wind comes from the East we often do not fly due to the turbulence off the trees, but that was not the case on this day. Basically, don't fly low in the middle of the day. Chris knew this, but flew anyway.

[PPGdave]

Looked like he was easily 100 yards from those hangers. Sure, rotor goes a long way, but not so much to do a frontal collapse at that distance, unless the wind was really kicking. Assuming the takeoff was into the wind, and it didn't change direction during flight, no way it was rotor off those buildings. Not knowing any more about the flight than what I've read here, I'd have to pin that one as thermal related.

[mandrewsvideos]

The wind was blowing towards those buildings you see in the short clip on YouTube. I think 'WalkerjetMaster' is referring to the vehicle and trailer that you can see on the longer version of the video on my website, which are upwind of the collapse.

[digurgel]

r u kidding me? com fly with us?? after that? Jus kidding dude! you r very professional, and "you have balls!" because if it was with me, pfff, probably shit my pants!