I'll never forget the first time I popped a drogue. Whoa that ground comes up fast! When you try one for the first time make sure that you are fast on final or base over a big LZ, and if you make any turns get plenty of speed first.
I particularly liked the part where the drogue is bouncing along the ground, pretending to be a sea anchor, hoping to bond with some of that shrubbery....
Thanks for posting this. I happened to ride up to launch at Kagel recently with this pilot. I wish I'd taken video of him telling the story. He was so funny when he told the story. Maybe I can get him on camera to comment on that brush with disaster.
He deployed the chute himself. The chute makes landing a high performance glider easier by decreasing the glide ratio. It was the pilot's first time using the chute. He was unfamiliar with it and made a miscalculation.
Ya I crapped myself sitting here in my lazy boy LoL can't imagine the pilots reaction
BroNizzle 3 months ago
Drogue chutes - more trouble than they're worth!
mooncoinphoto 2 years ago
that was ugly, bet nobody watching took up hang gliding
jerbear54 3 years ago
it`s a drog you dummies,it `s because the wing is so quick he needs the extra drag to land ,looks a resonable effort ,looking by the terrain
roseytinted 2 years ago
Another good reason not to get a chute... Snag city. He had heaps of room to land anyway?
CHGCvids 3 years ago
I'll never forget the first time I popped a drogue. Whoa that ground comes up fast! When you try one for the first time make sure that you are fast on final or base over a big LZ, and if you make any turns get plenty of speed first.
jhoiby 3 years ago
He should have deployed his drogue chute after turning on his base leg approach...not on downwind - especially in that salad bowl landing area.
I used one of them dam drogues on my Formula 144 for several months. Got rid of it. Was just one more thing to screw up.
pfiberoptik 3 years ago
I particularly liked the part where the drogue is bouncing along the ground, pretending to be a sea anchor, hoping to bond with some of that shrubbery....
skyfreak909 3 years ago 3
Thanks for posting this. I happened to ride up to launch at Kagel recently with this pilot. I wish I'd taken video of him telling the story. He was so funny when he told the story. Maybe I can get him on camera to comment on that brush with disaster.
NMERider 3 years ago
keeericky... note to self... don't toss a drogue while at min sink... over the falls weeeeee
knumb 3 years ago
He deployed the chute himself. The chute makes landing a high performance glider easier by decreasing the glide ratio. It was the pilot's first time using the chute. He was unfamiliar with it and made a miscalculation.
yamarydr 3 years ago
god damm that was close, why did that little chute pop out ,nearly killed his ass
marka1236 3 years ago