Thanks, I was just trying to fly on the safe side and ready to face turbulence. I can imagine that in a collapse situation, the sense of direction will be completely messed up.

@@ParaKiteGlidingI mentioned that I’ve spent many hours in clouds and don’t enjoy it but I didn’t say why I don’t enjoy it. I’m of a minority of people who are prone to vertigo. Which means that EVERY TIME I’ve been in cloud in helicopters, and even those times when it was only simulated for training purposes, I’ve had vertigo or as we call it, The Leans. It’s a situation where after a short time (for me it can be seconds) in the All White Or at night in cloud The all Black, with no visual reference outside the cockpit your body starts to play tricks on you and your sense of direction including the up and down directions can get completely messed up to the point where your instruments are telling you that you are perhaps in a steep left climbing turn but your body and your brain are telling you that you are instead in a right descending turn and your training is telling you that you have to believe your instruments and force yourself to go against all your natural instincts and turn even farther to the right and pull up. This can be extremely difficult and many pilots die from not believing in their instruments. So then put me in a paraglider in cloud with ultra basic navigational equipment, no artificial horizon, and give me vertigo??? Na ah. At least you know that if you do have a collapse you’ll know which direction is down pretty damn quickly! 😂

@@Bob_just_Bob Interesting story. The great thing about paraglider is that it flies straight by itself. 👌 The main thing you need to pay attention to is the use of the brakes.

i play a helicopter pilot here on youtube so i guess you and i are coworkers.

IMC is not ideal when you have no instruments. Spatial disorientation happens quick when you lose the horizon.

if it is a strong cloud, there is a real danger that you could gain 8km in 15 minutes, and suffocate or freeze to death. Besides that, it is illegal to fly in clouds.

I am asking myself the same thing , the cloud is nice no vertical development ,lift looks very nice , correct response should be big ears and full bar

@@christopherscragg7018Why does that matter when you’re under a canopy? Seems kind of difficult to end up in an upset attitude when all you have to do is sit there

In this cloud the air was quite laminar, so it was an easy case. But don't look for more cloud suction videos, often the pilot tries to do advanced maneuvers and ends up stalling the wing etc. 🙃

Fooling yourself can be fun 😅

Not really. Too many g-forces and I've heard that in a spiral you can end up in the middle of the lift at the same time. A brake chute would be a good way to reduce g-forces, but my harness doesn't have a designated place for it. If the wing could make decent ears, then ears + spiral by leaning could be a very good option. I learned that move in the SIV course and I've needed it once in a real situation: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNGXiMmrs83RZ40.html

Indeed, the scariest case is if a cloud covers the mountain and you lose your sense of direction.

@@ParaKiteGliding you have a very valid point there. Where he was all he had to do was fly he can't hit anything in the cloud. They also say the altitude of the cloud deck is important. If you were in the desert Southwest in America and you get sucked up into a cloud the cloud might be at 10,000 ft. If you get sucked up into the cloud it can be growing faster than you can fly out the side.

@@markmcgoveran6811 The cloud can also be wet and if the temperature drops below freezing, the wing and everything will freeze. A thundercloud might be the scariest of all and not a mountain in the clouds as I thought before. 😅

@@ParaKiteGliding you are absolutely correct. Early in your video they showed clouds that weren't real tall and those would be less likely to have ice in them than a real tall cloud. That's one of the difficulties they never mentioned in the owner's manual. If you get sucked up into a cloud and your wing gets wet and freezes will it thaw out before you hit the ground in time to make a flare landing?

@@markmcgoveran6811 I have seen one video where ice breaks apart in little pieces. 😅 But then again, even minor rime can cause deep stall problems.

That's why you should typically stay away from clouds.

That’s why I comment this flight close to the underside of the cloud was totally illegal to begin with let alone inadvertent flight IN the cloud

This “pilot” is an idiot and a danger to both himself and others.

@@cvlindsay3833 _"this flight close to the underside of the cloud was totally illegal to begin with"_ - it is not illegal to fly close to clouds outside of airspace. It IS illegal to fly inside clouds, for planes just as much as for paragliders. That is, if a "plane comes flying thru the clouds," it's the plane that is doing something illegal.

@@renedekker9806 Not if they're flying IFR

According to which regulation?

Illegal IFR. WTF is that. This is in Finland. U mean inadvertent IMC.

yeah nah hes right of course. paragliders are bound by vfr. pretty sure you are on violaton of that if you cant see shit anymore:D

Około 2200m

@@ParaKiteGliding wow to nie tak wysoko chyba przez ten krajobraz małe rzeczki i jeziora wyglądało że te podstawy to gdzieś z trzy koła

​@@damianogryf Szeroki obiektyw sprawia również, że wydaje się wyższy

It is an option, but comes with risks, such as getting into stronger lift, loosing consious due to g-forces, collapsing the glider 🙃

Hat sucker is an funny term 😄

In general, you are right, but look at how this wing behaves: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsyTacdevK2chaM.html

@@ParaKiteGliding I don't get it. Why don't you use the outer As?

@@luftigunterwegs3283 I do try it, but the ears won't stay in place on this wing. Much less if I also press the speed bar or if there is any turbulence at all.

On most modern sport paragliders, big ears reduce the airspeed. What is often recommended this days is full bar and holding the closest direction towards open sky.

@@ParaKiteGliding They never do, you need to keep holding the outer A's. Steer using weight shift and push some speed if you want or need.

You have big dreams, take it easy at first. 😅 Maybe 600 feet. What country do you live in?

@@ParaKiteGliding I live right in the center of the United States in a place called Burt county Nebraska. When I leave the school I will be alone here. I want to get as many people here to fly as possible. My mom died we sold her house left me a little bit of money and I bought a bunch of lessons an epsilon 9, and the rest of the gear. Early next spring I will go get pulled and do my ground handling and make my flights have my license and go away from all my friends to fly by myself. I'm writing a list of rules. The first rule is always put your harness all the way on or take your harness all the way off. You were only groundhandling that's what the plan for the day was and planning a day like that workout many times in a row. If you have that Wing out of the bag attached to you in any way shape or form it shall be attached to you completely or it should be unattached from you completely. I would be very happy to wind up 600 ft above ground level and having to choose if I should go higher or not.

Ears don't really stay put with this wing