Hang Gliding Accident

[nolifemerc]

lol get some altitude before u settle in .

[EpicFilmsGERMANY]

keep pressing 2 :)

[dtdan65]

Buy some wheels for the base bar.

[timmay301]

i pushed out during take off once. i got away with it. my instructor told me NEVER to do that again.

[fabio4756]

No wind No fly

[subsupercruiser]

why is the dust blowing away, bad wind conditions?

[milanoalfredo]

stolllll



[Kounglou]

should've kept nose more down so he would't get lifted of the ground in the 2nd sec and thus could gain more speed to prevent the stall,

[armandin2048]

Yep, one two, stuff the bar out. It was the best way to fuck up a launch 30 years ago and it looks like it stiff works really well, even on an Atos.

[timmay301]

@armandin2048 on an Atos even more so: higher stall speed

[timmay301]

sorry to see you get injured. thank you for posting so that we may learn. Those ATOS gliders are expensive im wondering if the pilot had trouble keeping his run up seems like this glider has a higher stall speed than the pilot could run. pulling on the bar would have saved airspeed but risk hitting the ground with the control bar..he could have flared - and just keep the nose up no matter what, arms stretched, and take the fall that way

[chiefishere]

Wtf is he doing? Startlanding? Abort starting? Why is he pushing and get prone when he is supposed to pull and run in upright position?

[snowman3514]

poor atos

[MrSchpankme]

STALLED - get a different harness for those LONG runs.

[sn1054a]

your instructor was right!!! But I would say: the glider is better the start is much faster! SOULD HAVE RUN!!!

[easygtr]

When i saw this video i heard the screaming of my instructor "pull pull pull"

Ur suposed to pull and run till u get the right speed and than ull get airborne without any pushing at all.

Its not like it was the end of the runway in this case.

Sorry but u got to get back to that little training cliff.

[deltaplanos]

i'm sorry but you need to go back at school

[damunchiman]

my 5 cents: notice how he pushed out almost as soon as he began running. This must have been the key contributing factor. Rigid winds need more airspeed to begin with so he should have pulled in more and ran until airborne. He almost made it though. Glad he was okay.

[roseytinted]

both ailerons up ,,stalled it,should have kept running, instead lifts his feet up.

[zerothehero83]

I think he broke his freakin' neck!

[winterka100]

Maybe if he had wheels on the base bar he would have just bounced and not ploughed the nose in. Even so, it was a common learner's mistake (stalling). 95% of such bingles don't usually injure the pilot so badly.

[jwboll]

@shess0501 high angle of attack, like you say... stalled. makes a big negative pressure.

if you ever watch a large bird while landing, all of their feathers on top of their wings do the same thing. the negative pressure on top of the wings lifts the feathers, which in turn changes the shape of the wing, giving them better low speed lift.

(not that this guy benefited from it)

[1982FMJ]

very nasty way to land. He could of easily broken his back or neck. you have to ask is it worth it for one of those things. Powered flight it alot safer than hang gliding

[airmanbooker]

@1982FMJ No matter the machine you fly, you must have the adequate skills to fly it... powered or not. An airfoil meeting relative wind is what causes a flying machine to fly, not the motor.

This pilot was underqualified to fly this glider. An ATOS glider is an advanced fixed wing glider. The pilot made an beginner's mistake and went into a stall. A similar mistake in an airplane would have spelled instant death. In this situation, a hang glider is actually safer than powered aircraft.

[1982FMJ]

if you can find me a glider that will ride with the jet stream over the north atlantic then i might consider doing this

[airmanbooker]

@1982FMJ You can consider whatever you wish. I'm simply explaining that any vehicle is going to be as safe as its operator. The majority of hang glider pilots fly with no problems because they use good judgement. Any machine that is operated with reckless decisions is going to become dangerous.

[airmanbooker]

@1982FMJ As for flying into jet streams go, only ATP pilots in passenger jets are immediately concerned with such an altitude. These are the only pilots that absolutely HAVE to take their aircraft beyond the tropopause and into the stratosphere.

[schlusselmensch]

@airmanbooker Actually, a similar mistake in an airplane at that altitude would have resulted in a landing.

[airmanbooker]

@schlusselmensch A similar mistake in an airplane would result in a takeoff stall, in which there is no sufficient altitude to recover. I would not call that a landing. Landings are supposed to happen by choice.

[viagro1980]

@1982FMJ not so sure my friend!

[OldHPAT145]

you'd best learn proper launch technique on a Falcon or similar before you bust up that ATOS or worse, gotsta have airspeed or they don't fly

[FCbisleybob]

needs a more comited run and dont push out to get away from hill coz you stall. build up speed on the run then keep the speed on.

light wind shallow slope is hard mover forward where it is steeper

[FutzAndTinker]

Looks like a case of 'more money than skills'. Don't be so quick to get in the harness before you're off the mountain. He clearly stalled....back to the training hill for basic skills for this pilot!

[pgpete]

Run Forrest Run !!!!!

[lti12]

looks like he was too heavy for this glider

[maurotopless]

stall !!!

[belgianhorst]

maybe you should hold you hands on the front side of the downtubes while launching. So do not switch your hands to the back of the downtubes while running. It will help to keep your nose down. Only change your hands when you are in the air (directly change to speedbar)

[hamboot]

Wow, glad there where no rocks down there.

[gilliguts]

Looks like a stall to me. Pilot pushing out before glider ready...Earlier text is right... interesting spioleron action

[xlentertainment]

Should've eat some beans bro.

I see you wanted to fly the glider, and not let theGlider fly you, HG wasn't ready to needed some more frijoles on run, jog crash or is it walk, jog and run you ass off?

[livelifealwaystoo]

Ouch

[jwm239]

...did the pilot shift weight forward,

putting weight on the basetube and

pulling nose down...?

[tontar]

Interesting that both spoilerons rise as the glider is stalling. Can't help the airflow at all that way. It reminds me of how bird feathers fluff up on the top of their wings as they stall for landings. I'm wondering if the stalled airflow is actually blowing the spoilers up from behind. Tufts on a wing will indicate reversed airflow when it stalls, if this wing is getting reversed, stalled airflow, that might be the reason the spoilerons raise up increasingly as the wing stalls in.

[CombatPara]

Maybe the are used as "Rückstromklappen" (sorry, don't now the English word for them- maybe there isn't one!?) - however, they are still not used in GA and CA so maybe you're right and the rising of the spoilers is just a failure. regards Felix

[lltowing2007]

@tontar Thats the same thing I was thinking.

[tomale]

Gotta keep that nose down and run it out.

[FutzAndTinker]

Good thing it was 'just' your elbow that broke and not that $20,000 glider!

[acrazedmaniac]

just?

looks like a density altitude thing...or a serious learning lesson....gota run run at that altitude..

[timmay301]

@acrazedmaniac you mean altitude above sea level or what, because his altitude was about 0 feet.

[fortsnoho]

he was ok, just a broken elbow

[Cyrano9041975]

@fortsnoho , sorry to know he broke his elbow.

I broke my rigth humerus while training takeoffs ans landings on a training hill about a year ago. It took me time to recover.

[TheVladomo]

@Cyrano9041975

are you still flying ?

[Cyrano9041975]

@TheVladomo, I'll get back to training in June. But I will do it very slowly this time and I'll be extremely cautious. its gonna be a year on May 23rd. Its something I want to do and need to do.