Im 62 yrs old and started hang gliding in 1978, and I'm still flying today. (44 yrs and counting). Joe Greglo and Rich Grigsby taught me to fly at Dockweiler Beach CA.

Great video! I’m an old hang glider pilot and I just love stuff that flies. I came to your stuff via Tucker’s videos and I enjoy your creativity. I knew Erica when when she was learning to fly. It’s cool that you just connected! Have a great day!

Good to see , I'm a hangglider pilot , microlight pilot and recent paraglider pilot , I just love flying 👌✌

Ex 70's hang glider.. Pioneered pine flats and Cerro Gordo in owens valley. Retired in 78. Took back up in 2012 flying U2 in florida. Nothing like the pioneer days. Flew with wills brothers also.

As a freeflight paraglider and paramotor pilot, I have had many flights alongside hanggliders. Mutual respect is key. Nice to see the hanggliders getting some more exposure. !

Long term HG pilot and recent PG pilot. Both are amazing. I thought I was done with HG and then took a flight in my topless on a good day and I must say HG delivers a far greater sense of flying like a bird. Hard to describe to people who only stick to one wing type.

Yes what a great video! thanks for sharing hang gliding on your channel Judson. Great to see Erika and Adam sharing the sport

I´m a glider pilot and because of that I`m also following the paraglider and hang glider scene!

I sometimes glide my uncle Kurts hang glider off our side hill that he used back in the 90s. It still flies great!

So cool! I would love to become bi-wingual at some point in the future. Definitely advantages and disadvantages to each aircraft and would be nice to have a HG for those windier days.

Cool! For us older folks who are not near ridges, i.e. Florida, having a motor on a trike frame means you can fly off a short grass field and toot around. Weight Shift Control (WSC) trikes are fun.

I think of us all as one big community. No matter what you fly! We all have flying in common!

So here's the deal.... Hang glider = Flying Dorito .... Paraglider = Flying Jellyfish

Very cool video! I fealt that everything said in the interview was relevant. Particularly about when HG’s come in to land. It’s much more difficult than landing a PG, and HG’s come in with higher speed, and are much more committed. PG’s should respect that and try their best to get the hell out of the way. That’s the number one conflict I see. The less distractions the better. It’s totally not as easy to land a HG. If the winds, turbulence, and thermic activity is increased, then it might be more difficult to land a PG than an HG. Also, yes, although rare, an HG can collapse. My late friend David Henly, (Chip) was #5 for HG hours and one day in Mexico on Oxygen, the thermals took him inadvertently to 22,000 feet!! It collapsed his HG, and he had to throw reserve, and it wound up twisting as he came down hard but he was O.K.. for the record, he died from brain cancer in 2015, not crashing. I had like 60 flights with him on motorized tandem. Miss the hell out of him. All the old school HG pilots in Crestline knew him.

Love it, thanks for making this! Great intro to hang gliding for PG pilots and many more.

Adam was one of the instructors when I learned to fly at LMFP in Georgia . Great guy .

Ha Adam! What's up bro! I'll be at Lookout tomorrow, hopefully. Thanks for spreading the word about wings that don't collapse. Cheers :) Jason

Loved the video! I've gotten so much air and weather knowledge from old hangies.... it's awesome to see a new generation coming through. Thank all three of you for this.

I fly and teach both hang gliding and paragliding. And they are both awesome! ;)

Oh man! I just interviewed her the other week! Her and her mom are awesome!

Where can a surgeon a lawyer a cop and a construction worker hang together and find common ground? At a hang glider flight park.

Very informative and entertaining. I don't think that I have seen a comparison before. Thanks, Judson!

Excellent interview! Really enjoyed this.

Always awesome to see a woman diver driver. Back in the day (mid 70s) there were very few.

Great video guys! Very insightful! I think my next form of aviation will be helicopter saving up for a mosquito :)

Great work you folk's, keen to see more thankyou.

Just a quick glimps into someone else’s subculture of their particular sport is so cool! I fly the PPC, & have many friends who prefer the PPG.

I'd really like to see you fly a hang glider. One thing that I expected to be discussed is how tricky the speed difference can be when sharing a small ridge lift site. Paragliders seem to be stationary sometimes to hang glider pilots. It's like flying a slalom course sometimes. As you all said - mutual understanding and respect is a must.

i never thought about learning to hang glide, but you have opened the door to it. I was really surprised that the cost wasn't as high as PPG, but then again, i like having a motor assist.

I'm so glad I followed you. THANK YOU for this. I'm still on the ground, but hoping to go down one of these paths soon.

I really liked this video man! this was bomb content! Keep it up!

Great subject and video!

Yeah Judson! Crestline Kooks in the house! Living here in Crestline, I am primarily a Paraglider pilot, but I have padded racks on my truck to shuttle hang gliders. Rebar Dan, on of the best HG pilots in the world gives me free HG lessons. I felt completely out of my element the first day, until several bunny launches, and then by the end of the day, I finally had it down. It’s always been like this “skiers vs. snowboarders” vibe unless you get to know all the HG pilots like I do! No need for that. Learn both PG and HG. They are both amazing, and both are the only true freeflight. Would love to learn paramotor! I’ve been flying single engine airplanes since childhood, but for me, that’s like driving a car compared to freeflight!

Awesome video! I love the comparison between the 2. We all get to share the air and experience flight. Would be cool to see you pursue it further so us ppg pilots can get your take on both.

Thank you for giving us a glimpse into another world!

My paragliding instructor and HG instructor friend tried to get me into hang gliding but I am going to stick with paracrack fixes, "just say no!". Of course I now understand a lot more about hang gliding as sat through a lesson in the course. ;) Judson, you do look like a natural under that wing!

I'm a PG pilot and always wanted to test HG, but didn't have the time (flying PG already takes time). It was interesting to learn that the HGs last so long, that I didn't know. But it makes sense, they are not made of thin fabric like the PGs.

Going upside down in a hang glider is like getting gift-wrapped in a speedwing, only you don't die.

Bravo, thx.

Love it!

Just think, not long ago you were worried about finding content to film. You've made some great content since then. Loved this insight into hang gliding.

I want to see you fly a hang glider off the hill 👍 It looks so cool!

The video came out great, it was awesome meeting you and watching the interview go down 😅

Judson you did good! This video was very interesting and I’m not even a pilot. I’d love to give flying a go per my bucket list and This video showed me certain advantages to hand gliding vs paragliding or paramotoring. Great job! Are you still back visiting Florida?

Great interview I really enjoyed it as I hope to become biwingual one day and fly paramotors also . I suggest taking some lessons I think you will love it .

I have been asking Tucker to try hang gliding in the comment section for years now haha. A lot of the disadvantages with paragliding (collapses etc) can be eliminated by flying a hang glider. Better performance, better glide, faster, stronger, and safer. But can't fit in the boot of your car. Oh and you can attach a foot launch powered harness 👍

Great to see you have a go, next time Judson actually flys a hang glider, that would be cool, probably would take you 1 or 2 days or to get your first gentle top to bottom flight. Do it!

Is this something that you would consider doing in the future? I seen your ‘Moustache’ video, & you seemed to love the speed aspect of flying, so I think you’d be awesome at HG.

That looks like a fun time!

So fun lol. Ive wanted to make one of these comparisons too.

Loved that video :)

One of my skydiver friends is a very young lady who just started hang glider training at Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga.

Finally an honest HG vs PG video!

Very informative and cool. I was torn between HG and PG as they are both amazing sports. I have just started PG training due to the logistics of storage/transport of gear in the future but have always loved the thoughts of HG too. From my studies so far there is way more similarities than differences. If you look at the aerodynamics they are very similar in the L/D polar plot profiles. Handling might be different but they are both aircraft and physics applies to them equally. I absolutely have respect for anyone who flies and there shouldn’t be an Us vs Them attitude. Sharing knowledge and cross pollinating can only be good for the free flying community (and you get to meet very cool people!!). I would like to hear more about what HG pilots need and issues they have so that I can learn to accommodate them as best as possible as I progress. I’m sure the converse would be true too.

I remember i was in yosemite one year. A hang glider pilot was coming in for a landing in the meadow. A gust of wind got him and took him i to a tree. Crashed over 100 ft up with only a broken pinky. Search and rescue showed up and ziplined him down out of the tree in the hanglider. He waz already harnessed in so just send the whole thing down at once. Haha

Awesome job JG! Great Interview dialog, opened my eyes to our flying cousins. Gotta ask, are you going to continue with it?...Get in a Solo Flight or two?

Come to AZ, Sonora wings, you can fly a hang gliders, aerotow.

Love the video mate! I've been flying 20+ years paragliding, and a couple of years paramotor, but never tried hangliding. Years ago was going to have a go on a beach but it was cancelled through the weather. 😒 Interesting.

Erika is most professional hang gliding piloting have ever seen

Yeah mon!! 😎

I just realized why it is called the "mustache". The new wing...

Hi Judson, can you kind of see why I fly my little Peabee, its paramotoring, but with a hang-glider ( ignore the wheels ..lol) Loving the content as always.

very cool video.. i came from microlight trikes to paragliders.. I love them both but microlights are way more expensive to learn, fly and maintain and also have a lot more red tape for licencing and medicals etc.., mutual respect should be a given.. cheers

My dad dit this a long long time ago, but from a hang glider to a paraglider. 1st thing he missed was the A-Frame 🙂

Cool stuff, self thought, hang gliding back 1988 self thought paragliding 2001 , still flying and never broken anything..... probably should drive down to Utah and maybe just move there or something.

From India 🇮🇳

The reason a CCC wing is only about $1000 more than an EN-A wing is because they are massively subsidised. A 100+ cell wing takes massively more time to sew than a 40 cell wing.

Learning to glide using aerotow, you will be controlling a glider during flight on your first day. Cheers to all!

It's been a while since I've just done something for myself. I think I'll try that this week.

cool video 🤙🤙🤙

Great video. You should train to them how to fly paraglider, They should teach you how to fly hand glider that would be awesome videos????

Spars are very good things.

Wow

My bro Gavin whipped ALL the Hanglider pilots in a competition here at Crestline on an Ozone Zeno! They were PISSED! Not supposed to be able to do that!

That was awesome. Now you should hook up with some Foot launch POWERED Hang Glider pilots and compare them to paramotors. Just search for FLPHG on KZfaq. Thanks for posting, great job!

As a paraglider pilot I can say that in my live I try try a hanglider. Its a big nono for me. Scary as shit.

Nice Buc-ee's scarf

have done both, cant beat the mobility of a paraglider.

Nice helmet 😊

Shit, several times I’ve whipped all the Hangliders on my Ozone Mojo6 A glider! I’ll never forget the day I outflew Jonathan Dietch (30 year HG pilot) and I heard about all the obscene language that came from his mouth being pissed off that a rookie on an A glider smoked his ass! We’re still friends….

Re: setup time. Sailplanes also take about 15-20 minutes to setup. It just takes an hour when I do it...

Nice video. Where was that?

The only thing I disagree with is that an experienced PG pilot knows how to manage their lines 99% of the time, and it usually only takes less than 5 minutes to do a preflight, and then we are flying! HG can take 1/2 an hour up to an hour for both set up and tear down. Experienced HG’s can do it in 15 or 20 minutes. And with a stuff sack, it’s 1 or 2 minutes after landing. Also a Mitch MacAleer trick: Spray your lines with silicone, and your life will be SO MUCH easier from then on. You will have less line problems with a 2 liner or a 3/2 liner just because you have less lines as well.

Judson be slalom cone.

DUDE!!! How the F do you not have like a million subs? All you folks mooching off Judson's material without subbing, get off your behind and sub to his channel. This dude is going places with his work.

I think it is possible to recruit more people to hang gliding by holding an intro course for pg pilots.

I have heard HG landings are a lot more challenging than PG landings, and that most of the HG injuries (broken wrist/arms) happen then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the higher landing speeds and improper flare timing that leads to most injuries.

Great interview! But I do have to disagree on the comment about setting up a HG vs. a PG: 15 min is only possible on a beginners hang-glider. Any Intermediate or high-performance will need half an hour for setting it up properly.

Hi am in Uganda east Africa I like this but have no equipment

I missed the part where you tried hang gliding.

Here's to hoping that you might continue your hang gliding adventure ! Because, you know: once you get to the edge of the map - there be 🐉😉 Judson, you might enjoy this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f6d3da-p0sXdin0.html

Too bad you didn’t get some short training flights.

Have you flown off the hill with a HG yet? Their only downfall is the lack of roll control compared to a PG.

First comment wassup!!!!

...and then there's CAGE flying , where you don't need brake lines, you hang from a single point like in a hang glider, and control the wing by direct Roll/Pitch control : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rql5bM5zy6iWqpc.html

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Great video otherwise

Eventually one wing will do all.

Had to turn off my subwoofers, Lots of deep low frequency banging of the table with that mic! just sayin!

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