Fort Funston, March 13th 2007

Flying "The Fort" on a beautiful winters day in light conditions. This is the first video I've taken with my Oregon Scientific ATC2K helmet cam, mounted on the sprog of my Sport-2. Reasonable for a very low cost camera.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Hang
• Glide
• Fort
• Funston
• Into
• the
• Mystic

[lti12]

can sport 2 be used as a beginner glider? Im talking about it being the first glider you learn to fly on.

[Brenor]

No, I don't think any Hang Gliding instructor would recommend a Sport-2 as your very first glider. A Falcon is a much better glider to begin with. An intermediate glider will slow down your learning a lot, things happen so fast you can't work out what you're doing wrong. A Falcon, on the other hand will give you time to see the effects of your piloting and improve. Think of a new skier trying the blue slopes first time out - they may get down the mountain eventually, but it won't be any fun.

[3dscott]

hey guys, ive never gone hang gliding. But i want to join a club, a fourm anything. Whatever information i can get my hands on so i cant start doing this. I really want to try this! please, any help would be great!

[Brenor]

Your profile says you live in the USA, so go to the US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association web page at ushga(dot)org and hit the "Where to Learn" button on the left side of the home page. You can also check-out ozreport(dot)com for the biggest hang gliding online forum. Have fun.

[peteandurnot]

Hang Gliding is something I would love to try out sometime. I live in Ireland and there were a few clubs that specialised in it for a while but they seem to have gone. Shame :-(

[Brenor]

I believe there are still active hang gliding pilots in Ireland. Checkout the forum at ozreport dot com and search for "Ireland". You should be able to email or send a private message to some of the pilots posting from Ireland and get into the scene that way.

[terrabay]

I love the end of this video...thank you God for allowing me to do this...

[bigzipper]

Looks like he was praying at the end there.

[nintendoDShow2s]

this was on my b-day lol

[Steve90266]

Great HG video. Thanks for posting. FYI, you've got a UFO at 1:31 into this clip! Ha!

[DPS72]

This is great !! Scheduled my classes at SF State, so I could fly "The Fort" as often as I could. Felt the rush, smell and taste of the ocean while watching this video. Thanks !!!

[FuckTheZeppellin]

hey, my friend has the same helmet!)

[7errain]

That or trying to look like an angel, wings behind him.

[tomale]

Brenor,

I think you may be able to use The Mystic again since YouTube may allow viewers the option to purchase the song on iTunes or Amazon after viewing. Check it out. Like both songs you use for soundtracks, BTW.

[Tarasbunba]

angel life

[quest576]

Wonderful Video and great music :-)

Tempting me away from sailplanes is this HG.