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@Charlie Gunnar Instablaster ;)

Sure does look like it lol.

Great: beautiful scenery, recovering the wing and actually steering the steerable Bad: acro in pod. Acro in rough air. Not going into spiral before pulling inside brake to start SAT and spinning it. acro over ground with one reserve. Glad it all worked out. Those quick release biners make me uneasy. Just pull the brakes all the way and you can kill the wing and pull it in. I feel like quick release biners, breakaway speed system, all that is too cumbersome unless you do a lot of acro and plan on throwing the reserve a lot

Yup... thanks🙏

Joel Fuchs 🖐 high five to you too

I’ve done it a few times, never tried a SAT in my pod but wing overs and spirals, just basic shit, but the common issue is too much yaw in your oscillating motion when in a high speed spin, but as Sky High said, glad you were ok and safe to fly another day 👍🏻

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Joel Fuchs just watched your video again Joel, and dar out man, a lesser pilot would not have gotten away so lucky as you did. It takes time and experience not to panic, remain calm, wait until the right time to throw your reserve (I’ve seen so many people over the years panic and throw their reserve straight into their malfunctioned wing, but to attempt to steer using the still untangled lines shows your experience and ability to remain calm and allow yourself to remember your training (lower air time pilots), attempt to (if at a good altitude) correct the mal, then throw your reserve when all else fails. Well done mate, and not sure if you still hold it but congrats on your record about a year or so ago, that was epic man! Over 300km XC? Whaaat? Epic mate Much respect from Aus 👊🏼

Altitude is your friend for sure...

Ah, how often do things "hit the fan"? I'm 46 and I am thinking of starting this hoby. Never done anything remotely and don't even know where to start but one thing I do know for sure. I won't go anywhere without some proper basic training! Glad you were unscaved.

Chris Hover - that throw worked on beamer, it’s not always a given. Surprised it wasn’t a stand up landing. Thinking a square steerable diamond cross a better option above beamer.

@@aic7208 how does one of those steer🤔

cooper thompson it has brakes, and the corner of the square reserve is facing in front. So pulling brakes brings the back half of square down to create lift/drag.

Think i'd prefer the beamer to the main wing

@@aic7208 I've been looking into those charly Square steerable reserves, they look good but looks too easy to get twisted up, beamer to me looks much better.

Llolol

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@@lifestory6803 could you shut the fuck up

Yeah its nice too be able too steer away from power lines,water,trees,roads,and buildings huh.

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Yeah. That feeling when you are under your traditional reserve above cliffs/town/what ever and you cannot do more than pray, watch and quess where you'll landing. You are totally just a passenger in that situation.

@@jussivalter paragliding round reserves are not steerable? they were when skydiving reserves were round, not a lot of performance but quite steerable to avoid an obstacle

@@yarpos no they are not. Mine reserve is most basic round (PDA) type. There is lots of other types of pg reserve, most of them are non-steerable. You cannot even reach the twines of the chute. However there is steerable reserves with gliding ability, but those are expensive and you have to still cutoff/control your main wing if you wanna steer. There are even systems that automatically cutoff your main wing and that wing pulls your reserve by one deploying. All these have their pros and cons. But most common ones are those unsteerable reserves.

The weather was not the problem

Yeah,he spun it before it got face down.

Yeah try to keep it that way😬😄 Flew a couple of times in verbier, nice place...😎👌🏼

David Crooks they really do. I have a Beamer 2, and I’ve used it for play, just a stunt to do BASE jump and it’s slow sink rate is crazy compared to an actual skydiving canopy or reserve, they are worth every cent in my opinion.

David Crooks me too. The Beamer 3 will be in my harness in about a month of so, but my 2 has served me well! Used it on a siv course, also did a few BASE jumps on it after releasing from my canopy and they are deployed so rapidly! As a skydiver and BASE jumper, it was actually really cool! The sink rate is unbelievably slow, for my weight like 3, 3.5 metres per second is what I got from my gps and vario information. Great investment, and I keep my Apco mayday on my chest mount if doing acro, it has longer lines so easier and safer to throw if I fuck out on my first reserve launch which has never happened het thankfully

Dane Carter hi bud. Do you fly (paraglide)? If not, just curios what you learnt from it? If so, same question...

@@patrickswayze2596 Yes starting, 10 Hrs PG & 2 Hrs PPG. What I learnt; 1. Never exceed my capabilities. 2. How quickly after initial twist, the wing wrt the risers kept winding up. Wondering how his chest strap might play apart if it was tight bringing the risers closer, reducing twist stability. 3. How the reserve behaved with the main wing. 4. Finally, whether lifting a foot up and jamming between risers like we did as kids on rope swings would have untwisted the risers... All in all - interesting to see how people react in situations like that...Cheers

Dane Carter all really good points, but do you remember the theory in the classroom in regards to pitch, yaw and roll? Pitch - forward and backwards swing. Roll - side to side swing. Yaw - oscillation when you twist. The one thing we can take from this, thee most important thing we can take from this is that pod harnesses create more yaw rotation then your open harness due to the fact that when you’re seated your legs are dangling, so your centre of gravity is much more stable. When in a pod harness having your legs stretched out, your chances of yaw motion is much higher because your legs are acting like a swing, and that extra weight that has been added to your lateral axis is now affecting your angle of attack, there for stunts like helis which are one of your easier manoeuvres to learn (over time! So don’t get too ahead of yourself) is being countered by the non reaction of the wing! So he’s twisting is a yaw motion and as you saw, he twisted up before he even had a chance to attempt to counter it! Lesson learnt? Never do acro moves in a pod harness! You can get acro harnesses, but you can use any seated harness for these manoeuvres, but an acro harnesses is deigned to position your body for maximum use of energy and body positioning to enter such manoeuvres... The moment he tried to start his helis you can see there is no reaction from his wing! As he mentioned it was die to light conditions!,, that doesn’t mean anything! I will tag you in another comment I made on here in regards to this! You can heli on pretty much any wing, no matter it’s rating, my 3YO daughter loves them and I usually lay a few down for her before we come into land! I’ve been skydiving for over 20 years and PG for about ten, and a CFi for close to two years now, so I get to fly pretty much every day, but I never took any shortcuts, followed all the rules and lessons I was taught, and I still don’t take any unnecessary risks, especially I’m doing tandems, but helicos are always a favourite, plus Brie extra weight of being two up helps to really get them going! As you grow as a pilot, once you gain some altitude, practice some mild wing overs, but remember always ‘active flying’! As you pull hard down on your right toggle be ready to bring that left down as the right comes up, like a lever! Find nice even motions and don’t go too big or get too fast or you’ll enter SAY and that’s another ball game altogether brother... Once you’re faxing backwards you run the risk of actually coming out of it backwards and flying the wrong direction and causing a collapse and dim simming yourself!... Any other questions just tag me and I’ll happily answer anything you need dude, I just want to see new students fly safe and smart, active flying my friend, active flying...

@@patrickswayze2596 Yes - what is your point?

Dane Carter If you cant find the point in the first two sentences you shouldn’t be flying! Good luck sport! I made it crystal clear how he found himself in this position and you can’t find it? You best go back and do a refresher course mate

@Chris Landry Yes. I'm old.

@Chris Landry Delta II wing, in the US the Paradactyl aka the Maladactyl. They had a short window in the first half of the 1980s so if you werent around then or around where they were poular you may have missed it. There was also the Thunderbow which was roughly triangular but more like a high performance round canopy if that makes any sense. They all got swamped by the arrival of square canopies.

HVYMETL you have too! If you panic and aren’t thinking clearly or scrambling you are wasting valuable time and altitude where you could be calmly assessing the situation and deal with it calmly and make sure you follow all your procedures and training and experience to get you back down to earth safely. He landed perfectly and he had time and height on his side, and panicking only causes you to miss crucial information of what’s going on around you!..

Spanda Kenji of course reserve was necessary didn’t you see the twisted lines? What are you talking about?

Most are not steerable

markboyle Yeah potentiallly dying isnt that frightening afterall

It's an acro figure

@@booketoiles1600 Thank you.

Safety Acro Team (Technique). Named after the team that popularized it and most likely invented it.

@@AllFouRoux Thanks very much. I asked that question about one year ago. I really appreciate it. 👍

Can’t really in a pod harness dude. Read his description, he explains where and why he was doing what he was doing...

Nick Jones he’s right. You don’t attempt acro in a pod, and the pilot describes his experience in the description, but a pod harness causes lots of oscillation and YAW movements as mention by Patrick in other comments, and he (the pilot) says he usually uses an ACRO harness.

@@patrickswayze2596 Agreed don't do acro in a pod but you should still get your legs under no problem.

Nick Jones still would have been too late, once enough YAW takes over you can either ride it out or counter it, however this poor bugger was already stalled which wouldn’t have made a difference. I get why he’s in a pod, looks fresh where he’s doing his siv course, had the time, altitude and confidence, why not, but that was his downfall, and if you read his comment under the video he completely lays out he effed up, mistakes happen, but fro my experience and as a cfi I see many mistakes in this video, and I’m glad he made it a slight tutorial and warning to others rather then showing off or just posting it for the sake of it Blues skies brother

Kristen Borchin not necessarily. I’ve been skydiving since I was 17, 20 years now, and I’ve only ever deployed my reserve twice and never thought this is it. Paragliding for over ten years now, I’m a CFI at a reputable school, and unfortunately trying to do acro in a pod harness places your body in a completely different position then if you were in a acro or standard harness. What do you fly?

Also should point out that this is a high performance wing which sacrifices stability and forgiveness for performance. There are many wings out there that would have reinflated easily... Not to mention the other issues mentioned in these comments about how the situation could have been approached better. As a fellow fixed wing pilot, Don't knock it til you try it or have a thorough understanding.

There are no birds with inflatable wings , be the bird, fixed wings for me., may the inflation force be with you and your friends

Kristen Borchin hahaha

Kristen Borchin Josh is right though, his wing doesn’t help for any forgiveness, however, doing acro in a pod harness was calling out disaster from the beginning

The beamer has good dominance and downplaining shouldn't be a big issue I think... and yes always gloves

It's a pod harness, so not the right choice to do manouvers. I did sit up and tucked my legs to be in a compact seating position but even then you are more twist prone then with a sitting harness because the carabiners are closer together. I have done fullstalls and sats with it since then but no helis....

I have a kolibri and I wouldn't do these manouvers on it. Since it's not got a seatboard the carabiners are too close together and it would be easy to twist. It's true you can set it quite upright but it's nothing like as wide or stable as a seat or acro harness. It's also a lightweight harness and I wouldn't like to put it in too deep a spiral or the entry to a SAT. Plus it only has one reserve. I think it's a bad idea.

As skydivers, our wing loading is vastly different from a paraglider. Smaller wing aspect ratios of a parachute yield greater pressure in the cells minimizing the risk of collapse. However, as you’ll eventually find out, parachute canopies can still collapse in turbulent winds caused by tall trees, terrain, or buildings on your DZ. As mentioned, a paraglider’s aspect ratio is much higher enabling the pilot to gain lift to sustain flight. Less pressure is built up in their cells making them more vulnerable to poor wind conditions.

@@Ducky27645 Hey thanks for letting me know. I understand now. Thanks

Yes there are cutaway sytems but not many people use them...

@@joel.fuchs_ is there any reason for that? Just want to say that I am not even a beginner just looking for as much information as I can, also thanks for answering :)