PPG Scary Launch

This is me launching for my 27th flight. After the tail wind launch my confidence was very high... maybe too high. I don't usually steer my glider much during a launch run -- instead I follow it and stay under it. This time I followed it straight at a parked plane... lucky I missed it. I learned a valuable lesson about being lazy and refusing to re-set my wing after a wind direction change. This wouldn't have been a big deal at my home field which is very open... It's important to stay aware of obstructions especially at a new LZ. NOTE: this looked more dramatic in person -- the camera has a .5x magnification wide angle lens which makes everything look 2x as far away as it was!

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• PPG
• powered
• paragliding
• bad
• launch
• scary

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