Yes, that's true. In most competitions, pilots with CCC gliders have less impressive starts.

You even saw some pilots start much lower and thus having less problems

During a competition, you have the pressure of the start time. It often involves some stress.

@@annejanroeleveld Not worth spending the rest of your life being spoon fed though is it.

Yes i think it makes more sense too

Cobra works well in smooth laminar wind - can be nasty in swirly, gusty mountain conditions.

@@cabanford yes might be true and those high AR Wings does not make it easy for taking off

I wonder also. I was there and did a cobra. Why so few people use it ? It is a mystery for me.

​@@alexandrebancel7902 Most of them never practice cobra launch technique

A liot of the take off in this video - if not all of them - come from the first day taht wasn't taskable.

The problem with most competitors is that they are not actually that experienced. They might fly a lot of hours but not a lot of years and they just jump onto those CCC gliders while never really doing proper ground handling time. It's an ego overload unfortunately. That's why you get so many mid air collisions and terriffic take offs.

Eenmaal in de lucht ging het prima, alleen kwam je niet zoveel vooruit. Ja, echt popcorn time. Soms ook wel tenenkrommend :)

C'est une compétition

J'y étais, le bruit n'aide pas mais tout les pilotes sont plutôt aguéris. Certains n'ont pas décolé, mais ceux qui l'ont fait, dont moi, ne sont pas forcement des stupides. Bien à vous.

@@alexandrebancel7902 Aucun doute sur le fait que les pilotes soient bons, mais il y a des conditions dans lesquelles, il faut savoir dire non avant un grave accident. Et, ce dans tout sport c'est valable. Ici cela me parait le cas.

Ah le parapente et ses moralisateurs… perso je n’y vais pas car je n’ai pas le niveau et un déco en forte pente comme le mont lachat ce n’est pas simple mais à 25km/h de vent ça vole… chacun son niveau

Y cómo estuvo ese task? Volaron bien?? Sería interesante saber si hubo muchos pilotos en gol o solo salieron a sufrir y buscar aterrizajes seguros con ese huracán... En todo caso, yo sería de los primeros estúpidos en estar volando😅 ...esos paisajes ❤

Do fly with CCC too?

Or start from a little bit down the slope ?

+/- 25kmh

@@annejanroeleveld Thanks. So nothing crazy then.

25kmh is windy in the mountains

@@matthiasstockl7823 start training ist sogar kostenlos!

Weinig cobra starts inderdaad. Het kan op zich wel maar veel piloten lopen niet mee omhoog / waren niet door de knieën gegaan voor de start. Bij zo'n stevige wind start ik zelf altijd iets lager op de helling. Dan heb je de ruimte om omhoog te lopen en de energie eruit te halen.

it's not taking place in belgium, normal thing with these competitions. Just organised by the Belgium sport federation and flying in France

@@TheGrundigg 👍🏼

Le Grand Bornand is in the French Alps - which is famously not flat lol.

@@handle535 you don't say ;)

This was in 3D

Nope, most of them never did any ground handling, went from high B to CCC and just hope for the best on launch because they are good in the air x)

This is normal. The 2023 German Open was held in Greifenburg, Austria and the 2024 German Open will be in North Macedonia, the 2024 British Winter Open was in Colombia and the 2024 British Championships will be in St Andre, France.

No "real" mountains in Belgium, half of the country is flat as a pancake, and the other half has got some smol "summits", the highest is Signal de Botrange (694 meters high), barely a hill in France.

No?

bro...