Glad you enjoy the efforts 👍

Cheers john. Your bail out had me worried. Glad you landed ok 👍

Cheers. If you ever visit you must come and enjoy the island

Tom where do you usually fly in Vancouver? Woodside? Don’t think there is any good ridge soaring here unless you go to the island or down the coast?

Glad you enjoy the vid and having done the flight you can appreciate the "pucker factor". 👍

You should come back to "real" flying some time 😉 no need to watch your fuel consumption 😉 Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for your support.

How long ago was way back? I have a 1994 wing you can have a go on 😉🤣

@@Ripstop_pilot A quick look at my BHPA logbook, started paramotoring in 1997, Samba 29 and Scoble motor, went on to a Trekking wing, Prelude XL, Fusion XL, Airheart, Apco Medium, Fusion with a FreshBreeze motor, Silex wing, last flight November 2001, just under a hundred hours of sheer pleasure and the occasional fright. Loved it.

25hr a year???? Lots of time and money for low hrs. My up vision 1994 is immaculate condition. Think it has 0 hrs on it. Lol. Gotta fly it some more. Probably at meon shore.

Glad you enjoyed the light entertainment 👍

Think it was 36km out n return. Great fun.

The bay crossing needed 100% commitment. The wind was variable all day and a low approach waiting to connect to lift left any bomb out options to be fast down wind or last minute cliff top down wind up hill landing. I think a lot of people miss the reasoning someone may find it scary. But rough seas and no bottom landing options if you leave it too late or find the lift isnt working or catching rotor off a Sharpe edge cliff can be catastrophic. Plus....I cant swim well.

@@Ripstop_pilot thank you for your quick reply. Here a link to part where it seem to get scarier and scarier. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orp6psuQ2tXbhoU.html I thought you could top land nearly everywhere. And even in the bay where you see a beach. I do not want to be arrogant. I know in the air it all looks and feels much different. And when I see some of my videos I wonder why I was shitting my pants ; )) I am just curious .... is it very turbulent landing on top of this cliffs because they are so steep and therefore you have to deal with severe rotors not even knowing where they are located?

@@dirkbruenner the bigger the cliff, the sharper the edge, right over the edge there is no wind but rotor blowing off cliff as youd land on it. Along that clif there were parts working better than others which was strange. The scariest bit was the low commited approach to the cliff after the gap crossing. The lower cliff would produce less lift in the first place so it could go wrong if the wind dropped at all.

@@dirkbruenner Humans fear the unknown, and he said it was his first time so he's capturing his conquering of his unknown, testing his knowledge and putting theory to practice. I think that's pretty brave. We see his mate loosing his nerve and making a questionable decision flying into rotor which is clearly more risky then making it across and flying on, or turning back building height and trying again. It's a good watch and shows the mental pressures as he points out the risks and his plans, and will be a good milestone to look back on :)

@@Ripstop_pilot nevertheless you still have the beach in the bay. To me it looks challenging but not scaring. The other pilot also landed easily on the lawn in this bay area.

Cheers buddy. Glad you enjoyed it. Sub n watch out for more

Done!@@Ripstop_pilot

Cheers for the heads up.

Haha...not quite. A few locals were ahead of me.....it was that xing that was in question. Connecting straight at a castle was spectacular view but no time to enjoy it 😂

Does it work on tablets?

@@Ripstop_pilot no, it is for pc..

Damn it. I do all my editing on a tablet as that's where all my media links to.

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Cheets Carl. It was fun

Cheers 🤟

The alps are on my list of places to fly. But I'm certain those ridges will not work the way this coastal one does.

@@Ripstop_pilot Different.. we get dynamic lift as well. Way more turbulent but still nice. If lucky it's a mix of dynamic and thermic and then you soar up huge faces in no time. Really feels like sitting in an elevator :D Good flying!

We get some sites like that in the uk......just not the same scale. Most thermic flying is off relatively small hills.

@@Ripstop_pilot if you're ever in Switzerland we can go for some XC. Cheers

I'll take you up on that offer!sounds amazing

I have not. I really want to but no one local has one to try. They look amazing.

In uncharted territory I'd say it was necessary. Not just for lift but to understand the sinking air that could force a bad landing.

Haha...na I was just almost the last one down.

It's all flying to me. Just live being in the air. Having coastal sites opens up flying all year round and there can still be challenges along the way. Thermic cc flying definitely has its rewards over coastal flying.

@@Ripstop_pilot yea, the only problem for my location is the closest ridge soaring sites are about 2.5-3 hours drive away, and driving that far for it to not work is very frustrating, I’ve made the drive and had it not flyable at all or maybe just a 2 minute sled ride. But it is fun and relaxing when it does work, they are great places for the people that live close and can just run out there for the occasional hour that it works.

Get a van make a weekend of it with family and friends. Great times

@@Ripstop_pilot yea, I did go down and stay with a friend for a few days, was really fun, got lots of much needed ground handling practice and quite a bit of flying

As per the intro. Isle of wight. 👍

Cheers dude

Thing is, if I wore a life jacket, am I not preparing for failure a little too much? We should always be prepared and the risky options to land downwind up hill for me were precaution enough.

Well none of it's hard. Unless your flapping your arms to gain speed

@@Ripstop_pilot I don't know what about life jacket when sailing or doing an SIV? Is it preparing for failure TOO MUCH?

Life jacket or not, landing a paraglider in rolling surf with all those lines wrapping around you, is a bad option.

By gravity, magic and hope 😉

@@Ripstop_pilot Aww man! I still don’t know. 😕

@@YTjndallas gliders go forward by going down powered by gravity. Same as sailplanes and gliding birds.

He is flying in something called ridge-lift. He is basically surfing the cliffs, same as a surfer is always falling down the wave, but the wave energy keeps them up in the sweet spot. We call the sweet spot a "lift band." Also, why waves break on shore due to the rise in terrain under the ocean, the same applies here with wind. Wind comes in and slams into the cliffs and it can only go up. He is riding that.

Loads were out surfing. Sadly no glass off.

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Well this is the uk, it's now thunder storms and rain.

Cheers 🤙 fun flight, fun to make and share the adventure.

It was a sweet flight 👍