Harsh weather for Hangliders

Hang gliding at Kagel in Sylmar.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Crash
• Landing
• Crashing
• Hang
• gliding
• Kagel
• Sylmar

[HangMan51]

couple of pilots there not paying enough attention to the wind direction eh? light and scariable conditions? [LOL whitemonkeywings]

[pimpedarse]

Yep, exactly... The mountain that they were flying at almost never changes conditions... so no one was prepared for a change in wind direction.

[kalbic]

I have to add to the comment above. These guys really suck at landing. Time to go play on the newbie hill again.

[jwm239]

"...if you think you've 'aced' the sport because you can soar and thermal for hours,

go back to the training hill and practice ten takeoffs and landings."

(Quote from an instructor and author of hang gliding book)

[jasonrussellsmith]

looks like a normal day, just a few bad pilots... no real big gust or crosswinds...  come on... this is a training day...

[madhatter42o]

What makes you guys think your ready for the gliders you fly? Obviously they all had the same instructor.whats up with the glider at..2:44..thats not a beginner glider. ...So I hope the last pilot avoided the powerlines? or is that why the footage stops?

[armandin2048]

They put upa fucking great winsdsock, even light a flare and still the cunts come in own wind - DOH!!!!!!!!

[Rahhhhhnman]

Novice day in the landing paddock

[viagro1980]

i totaly agree with u mate! its just awfull looking at those guys landing!!

[tommytipitcup]

Into wind is always a good start I think.

[donandcheryl]

the reason he flared is because he was rapidly running out of runway. If he kept going the way he was he would have landed in a rocky riverbed. And by "rocky" I mean boulders, not pebbles. It was a sucky landing, but not flaring there would have been worse.

[donandcheryl]

I've flown there a bunch, and the problem is that 99% of the time the wind is either zero or in the opposite direction.  With hang gliders, just like larger aircraft, you should land into the wind whenever possible, but many of the pilots are used to always landing in the same direction here and they couldn't deal with the change very well. The people going from left to right are landing with the wind, which means they're coming in too fast. Right to left is correct for this situation.