HANG GLIDING Scary take off with pine edge cut

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Location: Lijak ramp (Slovenia)
Date: 27 gen 2007

A day with light wind, my friend decide to take off from the ramp and dive the glider to reach a good speed.............but he dives too much. Anyway, no problems for the glider and the pilot.

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• hang
• gliding
• glider
• ramp
• slovenia
• icaro2000
• lupo
• deltaplano

[grcvv]

ali molto efficenti richiedono una bella partenza veloce ... e alberi un po piu lontani forse ... cmq meno male è andata cosi.

ciao

[dcfocs]

ti posso assicurare che in 20 anni quei 3 alberi non sono mai stai un problema, riguardo al pericolo di centrarli...come ho già descritto in inglese, il mio amico ha picchiato il delta per far la rasata alle cime, cosa che spesso si diverte a fare. Ciò che lo ha tradito è stato un rotorino generato dai tre pini, che lo ha scaricato più di quanto si aspettasse. Normalmente quei pini danno fastidio proprio per il sottovento che generano, infatti penso che quest'anno li tagliamo. Ciao ;)

[Reechforthesky]

Being a paraglider pilot I think those ramps are scary!!!! That one looks particularly steep and short!!

[dcfocs]

absolutly not.

that one has a perfect angle(40°), and is not short(9m).

in 15 years I've heard about less than five accidents on this ramp....

...instead, on "perfect" paraglider take offs, I've seen thousands of accidents ;)

what is important is to do the right thing at the right time ;)

as I said, here the problem is not the ramp, but the decision of the pilot to dive too much and to fly so close to the tree edge after the take off

a little rotor behind the trees made him falling under them

[Reechforthesky]

Nothing 'wrong' with the ramp, just scary...........

[dcfocs]

;) yes, I know....for paraglider pilots the idea to take off from places like that is scary...and also for some hang glider pilots...

..but is also a good thing...makes you concentrate a lot on what are you doing, and distraction errors are really difficult to make. ;)

p.s.:on last saturday 2 paraglider pilots took off from that ramp!!! THAT WAS REALLY SCARY !!!! ;DDD

bye

[bluethermal]

perfect TO

[HDaviator]

good thing he knows what he is doing.

[mikethenascarfan]

ultamite nut shot!

[ThomosAirBrush]

Riiiischioooo

[flyguy4fun]

i think i,ll clean MY SHORTS!

[Buddha2707]

Nice ramp! Very cool videoing.

[pindordan]

WOW ! The coolest HG take off i ever seen ! Bravo!

[dustziggy]

the pilot had more than enough speed to climb long before the tree. Rotor...not likely...he didnt move until the last possible moment, he's in control...more like just want to show off

[neil9327]

I think that flier thought he was a ski-jumper lol