God save. It brought out the memories; I was sucked by Cb while paragliding, back in 97.in Croatia. Reached 6500m, ascending at the rate of 20m/s with a collapsed glider (horseshoe, maintained by my legs inserted in A-lines, pulling it down...since I lost the strength in my arms to do that). I clearly remember the blackness, thunders, flashes...hail, and vertigo. The wind was tossing me around with the relative speed to the ground in excess of 120km/h...in different directions. At 6000 I was covered in ice. It lasted for 40min. By the grace of God, after "chewing me up", the cloud "spit me" out 28km from the starting point, into the side of mountain Učka. Eventually, I was able to land...moving backward due to strong headwind...and successfully collapsed the glider in time, not to be dragged around. I consider that day to be my second birthday. No serious injuries...just some bruises and frost bites. You reminded me of all that. Blue skies! Btw; change the music!!
@lavbarbudito55245 жыл бұрын
Well in the end I was scared for nothing
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
The white room is not a fun place to be.
@SkidzFPV2 жыл бұрын
I feel that here's the right place to share one thing that I learned from Manfred Ruhmer (Icaro 2000): for exiting a spiral, pull the bar and do an outwards turn. The pulling is important. Great job scaping that big cloud! 👏
@DayB89 Жыл бұрын
For the Hang Pilots out there. My instructor long ago have think about this problem , studied. For the ones that have been in this critical situation prevention is the best option...but when shit happens ( almost always pilot fault) the procedure is 2/3 turns to one side , then revert for the other side with 2/3 turns more. The centrifugal+the change in direction will spiral the glider down in the (al) most lifting air you can find. Cheers fly safe. Ps- I have been in this situation twice...once was a CB in a competition ( stupid old flying days) climbing 600 meters( 2000 feet) inside the cloud with no visibility artificial horizon..nothing.
@NoTengoIlusiones5 жыл бұрын
My heart rate went up just watching this! Glad you made it out OK. Most times the ending for VFR into IMC is much less happy!
@Max50ww6 жыл бұрын
Continued VFR into IMC is a problem in a conventional aeroplane with an instrument panel. Seriously bad news under a hang-glider with none.
@parrotraiser65416 жыл бұрын
Nice save! Keeping a calm and cool head in the clouds saved you.
@BruceBusby6 жыл бұрын
Thank Bruce
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
Personally, I feel the music added an appropriate ambiance to the video.
@vonnieglen5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Steven, that's what I wanted. There are still many people who have a musical culture in the USA.
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
There is the story of "El loco". He disconnected from the glider, was falling until he could see tthe earth and pulled the chute (not build for that). Survived. Those at Lago de Maggiore have been not so lucky.
@stefanmargraf787815 күн бұрын
That music was the real horror.
@arcadia56076 жыл бұрын
Duran Duranie Do you not know how to use your volume control?
@arguingwithstupidpeople20473 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@Driftseen3 жыл бұрын
@@arguingwithstupidpeople2047 hey, Arguing with Yourself,..........nevermind, carry on.
@SporadicPickaxePurchases2 жыл бұрын
@@arguingwithstupidpeople2047couldn't agree more with the stupid ass music
@ouiroc2 ай бұрын
It’s called jazz
@doddsalfa2 ай бұрын
I paralleled a cloud once as a student pilot, fairly innocent puffy cumulus. I flew safely off to the side in visual conditions and tried to climb up high enough to fly over it in a single-engine Cessna. The top was only around 4,000' feet when I started. The higher I climbed, the faster the cloud climbed above me - I was witnessing the birth of a towering cumulus which would soon become a CB. I gave up at around 8,000' and went home, keeping an eye on the cloud. It eventually grew into the flight levels and turned into a cumulonimbus as it blew east of the area not long after I landed. The updrafts inside of it would easily have exceeded the ability of a piston single or piston twin to keep from ascending without exceeding Vne, can't imagine facing a similar situation in a hang glider.
@fr8fr6dr696 жыл бұрын
had the same problem in an ultra light a few weeks ago, a challenger 2. had some minor puffy cumulus around so I headed out on a cross country for home. 10 min after take off I was on heading and watching a grey cell develop behind me. soon I had a bit of a ceiling above me. suddenly I was climbing about 500ft a min and couldn't stop. I was just starting to think dammit im going IFR and don't have the instruments. I got hit with a micro burst like a freight train that pushed me into a descent that I knew id never out climb. I used power and dove away from it. lost about 1000ft in what seemed like 5 seconds, suddenly I had the ground approaching and was still being pushed toward it. it let go and I recovered with about 150 AGL. I scooted back to the field, landed on the second try and only after I was out of the plane did I get scared... 20 or so minutes later we had a towering cumulus... still having talks with myself regarding what happened...
@planboutfitters30995 жыл бұрын
Several thousand feet per minute updraft will shred many planes.
@UncleKennysPlace5 жыл бұрын
Well Thank God you're alive! God Bless you! 😇👍
@HawkeyeAssassins-zh4nz5 жыл бұрын
@Trius Oh hell no.. Everything in moderation. You can get flipped upside down in a heartbeat and tumble like a leaf when thrown over the front of your speed bar. You CANNOT get back over it and are stuck in a death dive from there on. All you can hope to do is throw your reserve parachute at that point and hope for the best.
@garrykennedy54843 жыл бұрын
You were at the edge of the cloud and yet you continued under it.
@TheTormhel5 жыл бұрын
You do the diving spiral BEFORE you get sucked, while you can still see the ground.
@SummitspeedflyКүн бұрын
That profound bit of wisdom should be tattooed on your hand. Do everything while you can still see as soon as you lose your eyesight you're done in any kind of flight like this. Some people just use a small lightweight ball compass pick a heading. I saw one person comment that they had a friend that went paragliding and every time he went he got sucked up in the clouds and flew around for a long time and then he went home. There's not a lot to run into in a cloud.
@markmcgoveran6811Күн бұрын
Lucky to not have folded the wings.
@tappan485 жыл бұрын
Well that's what you get for flying into clouds.
@HughBond-kx7ly5 ай бұрын
Every time I think how I'd like to do that I see a video like this, and remember something I experienced, then I change my mind. Years ago I saw some hang gliders outside Denver CO, right along I-70 there's a little hill/mountain, I THINK they called it Green Mtn, but don't hold me to that, so I went up to watch them. Got talking to a couple, said I'd love to do that but couldn't really afford it. They said I should have been the the day before, a guy gave away his glider for free. Of course I asked why... They said the guy was rather new, and he had a glider with a 3:1 ratio, and he wanted more, so he bought a 5:1 wing, thinking 2 feet wouldn't make that much difference. He was SO wrong! He got caught in updraft under a cloud, and they said he had the nose pointed straight down but he was still sucked up. THREE HOURS LATER he landed, put the glider on its nose, un-harnessed himself, and said "Anyone who want that %$#&*@ can have it, I quit!" and left.
@longbowshooter52916 күн бұрын
C'est comme en moto , un gars voit quelqu'un rouler tranquillement sur la route les cheveux à l'air . Il dit moi aussi je veux .Il passe son permis s'achète une moto et lors de sa première sortie une voiture lui coupe la route et l'envoi à l'hôpital . Il a dit "quiconque veut cette merde peut l'avoir , j'arrête ! Cela fait + de 40 ans que je pratique ce sport , un jour j'arrêterais ...... le plus tard possible
@manometre5 күн бұрын
That was one heck of a ride, glad you made out of that situation unscathed.
@pixamite15 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Cloud flying can be like a dream or like a nightmare...
@someguydino67703 ай бұрын
You got balls, brother. Flying IMC in a hang glider! The music was perfect.
@ananda_miaoyin5 жыл бұрын
You have good taste 🤗👍
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Glad you got down safely’. I am a WS Trike pilot, my wing is a tandem Dreamwing 220.. I have often thought of HG the wing without the motor..
@daviezee2 жыл бұрын
Merci , je suis également pilote de Trike
@manometre2 жыл бұрын
kzhead.info/sun/lNtrhchtbV-cbGw/bejne.html
@manometre2 жыл бұрын
@@manometre 🤙🏼
@daviezee2 жыл бұрын
Any idea, why you kept spiraling up,realizing that a big cloud was waiting above you? How do you read your vario? Are you guessing? Buddy, I hope you do not get hurt one day!
@TomFly4 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard the words Dive, Dive, Dive? If you get sucked up further in the air, it's high time you dived the Glider. Geez...
@mickcarson85046 жыл бұрын
Always, always know the wind direction at altitude, and mark it in your brain, marking it on your compas in degrees. Adjust for conditions. If you are getting sucked up, pull in with vg on about half, and always fly in a straight line, as level as possible, in the OPPOSITE direction the cloud is going, and you will eventually fly into the blue. Big big mistake spiraling down as you almost exceeded the vne, and broke your glider. You almost had to throw your chute, hoping to God you remembered to do a fresh re pack..... Been there, done this, and survived also. Cudos...
@flashted6 жыл бұрын
Finally a first useful comment .Thank you
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
manometre Here is a more mild flight than yours, close to suck up. But, it was the only cloud in the sky. Very strong lift though, 1800 ft per min spikes, 900 ft per min sink....about 4000 ft. I had the bar stuffed at the end as I ran away from the cloud, and I was still climbing!!! Enjoy!
manometre But, I have whited out like you did, and just as bad. It felt like an eternity before I busted out into the blue...
@flashted6 жыл бұрын
Best advice, fly in a straight line. Up in the Welsh black mountains flying in England 1980, cloudy. A wave of hail heading towards me, the ground too far away. When it hit i could just about see my hands lasted about 10 minutes, but eventually burst out and the sun came out. Was strangely calm but thought i was dead..Radical manoeuvres i reckon i might have been.
@bigusdikus10005 жыл бұрын
"SHIT! I am being sucked by a big black!" - Dude... LOL! I don't know whether to be scared or jealous! LOL!
@TheDAVE8583 жыл бұрын
Almost got towed into a cloud once at 5k, 3 ring twisted up the wrist line and couldn't pull release pin. Tow driver saw the problem, stopped, tow line slackened enough to flip it by hand. Washed my shorts...all good !
@sparkyy00076 жыл бұрын
Washed my shorts...all good ! 😀😂😅😅😅😅🤣
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
just for clarification . . . . .is the hang glider pilot there attempting to descend but hes getting pushed up ? , what is the never - - exceed speed of a hang glider ? , ,,
@dangraham97415 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the cloud base country club, be werry werry careful
@bake16219 күн бұрын
A diving spiral in the goo has potential to overspeed the glider and exceed G loads resulting in an in-flight break up & possibly even a failure of the parachute. This may be controversial, but a stall spin maneuver might be a better choice. This is what pilots used to do before there was complex attitude indicators in airplanes. The bar position in a spin remains constant, taking the guesswork out of trying to figure out your attitude whilst flying in the goo. The direction of flight (rotation & decent) also remain constant provided the cloud you are in is not so big that the sucking action exceeds the decent rate. In that case your kind of fucked no matter what you do... I will say this, spins are an incredibly dangerous maneuver that when coupled with moderate turbulence can result in a tumble. Here is the rub, I would rather tumble in a fairly low speed & low G maneuver such as a spin vs a high speed high G diving spiral.
@TheDAVE8583 жыл бұрын
What a video! Is it very dangerous to fly a HG at 3.5km? The view is almost space-like, I'd love to see it for myself. If something happened (spin/stall) and you threw a chute, would it have carried you safely from the ground or would the height introduced complications (too huge a speed for the chute to deal with, for instance)? I'm a newb, only thinking about getting into HGing. Did you have trouble breathing up there/were you cold? 2:23 moment is funny, can see a sailplane flying by waay below. Is that mass of water at 1:52 a sea or a lake? Wonder how a sea would look like from that height. PS I personally liked the music, it creates an atmosphere. Never understood those people who only want 'wind&vario', I find that beeping hella annoying. Oh, and what HG are you flying? Is it rigid-wing or flex-wing?
@stormsrider94244 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@manometre4 жыл бұрын
thx for sharing. music was nicely done. glad u got out. and gyess what, you have a great video of the whole thing...what a fun souvenier!
@miteco15 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this nice comment. Finally a friend who understood the music ......
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Well you know, there are a lot of hurt people out there who transfer their pain to others in many ways. KZhead allows them to hide their faces but not their pain. Its sad because I've done the same. I even told one flyer on KZhead that because he took so many risks he deserved to have an accident. I regretted it when he bravely called me out. And apologized. Your music reflects the beauty and freedom of flying, the curiosity and adventure and accomplishment of touching new boundries. Then the shock and panic of knowing you may have pushed too far and the terrifying aftermath followed by relief, joy, elation and a higher appreciation for being a skymaster...leaving you with a story and lesson worthy of showing and telling to all. Its not easy to synchronize the music with the visual, but you did so elegantly!!
@miteco15 жыл бұрын
Merci Miteco 1
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
I’m a paraglider pilot and have never hang glided so please excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject but couldn’t you have just put it into a straight dive as you where getting sucked into the cloud to avoid having to spiral? I definitely want to learn to hang glide at some point.
@SkidzFPV2 жыл бұрын
L'ascendance était trop puissante pour que j'en sorte en tirant .....
@manometre2 жыл бұрын
Visor up, visor down, glasses up, glasses down every 10 seconds. That’s all I could think about watching this.
@tdog66126 жыл бұрын
It's obvious, you do not know the third dimension
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
Lots of blue.
@dhillmjex16 жыл бұрын
What caused the spiral and why that difficult to correct?
@joewoodchuck38245 жыл бұрын
high speed so centrifugation and correct slowly to avoid breakage of the machine
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
it seems to me if there was no thunder heads then go out through the top and enjoy the circular rainbow as you go up ...
@chrisskeates88165 жыл бұрын
I did not have the balls
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Get a different “helmet”with better visor that was stressful by itself.
@ChrisJewell73333 жыл бұрын
Flying IMC without certification… or instruments.
@pyalot4 күн бұрын
1:00 this is where I would pull out the air brakes and cross the controls to lose altitude
@OnerousEthic10 ай бұрын
Bet he fixed that visor! 🤔
@ILLBEDRONED11 күн бұрын
So hold on a minute. You guys potentially risk your lives doing this hang gliding stuff for fun, and you’re expected to AVOID clouds?
@serchizm18 күн бұрын
Great flying!
@skywatch18055 жыл бұрын
Spins are not even required for a pilots license because it is so dangerous and scary. Very happy you made it out of this death spiral. Hope it never happens again but is this SOP for getting out of a cloud thermal? I assumed thermals were a good thing. No..?
@fredflinstone27916 жыл бұрын
Except when he does not want to let go
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
I thought id like hang gliding, maybe not
@ACHTUNG-MINEN13 күн бұрын
Does it always take so long to recover from a spin in a hang glider?
@extremeultralightaviation6 жыл бұрын
I don't know.
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
I'd never turn right after this 🙈🙈
@DrzewieckiDesign4 күн бұрын
I like the music!
@noname-gi6vd5 жыл бұрын
I saw the man's face in the landscape, its incredible!
@ealexander16474 жыл бұрын
Oui , très peu de gens le voient ... c'est la musique qui les accapare
@manometre4 жыл бұрын
Vaya... me he "acojonado" solo de ver cómo salías de la nube...dentro de ella no se apreciaba muy bien que estabas girando tan deprisa..... me alegro de que no ocurriera nada. Ser atrapado dentro de nubes es un mal negocio para vuelos sin la instrumentación adecuada... Por cierto, me ha parecido que "luchabas" constantemente con la visera del casco (que era tintada) y las gafas de sol....Cuídate. Un saludo.
@trikevolador1620 Жыл бұрын
MERCI
@manometre Жыл бұрын
Lesson learned! Just as well you didn't come spiraling down out of the cloud onto the glider that was making use of the thermals there.
@Paul25uk6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, lesson retained
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
Why, oh why the music?
@papillon612219 күн бұрын
@@tetedelard2777 You thought of that all on your own? Well done!
@papillon612218 күн бұрын
2:52 dat face
@mr.frozeman71155 жыл бұрын
Tu reviens de loin Manolo !!!
@videographiques8 жыл бұрын
It is a great video, I would recommend it for the viewer. Thanks!
@Mr.lamusa Жыл бұрын
And that's why I allways stay away from cloud base... well, almost allways ;).
@flajflaj6 жыл бұрын
Paragliding Podlasie You must not do many XC flying or Comp hang gliding.
@fredflinstone27916 жыл бұрын
Heureux que tous c'est bien terminé ! "Peut être pas pour ton slip"
@dometlaeti8 жыл бұрын
Well done! But that music is annoying.
@Mjollnir12346 жыл бұрын
Good recovery.
@emielthysse66186 жыл бұрын
Full VG at a right time and go away...
@PetrPolach8 жыл бұрын
Same thing happens to skydivers under canopy when you get to close to a cumulonimbus. BIG altitude!
@storm1sandy7645 жыл бұрын
-15m/s, tu as mis la pression, manometre ! Je crois que je n'ai jamais dépassé -12m/s et ce pas très longtemps. Il y a des moments où je me sentais écrasé dans son harnais. Tu as dépassé le FL115, c'est cramé pour la CFD ! Le ciel te tienne en joie !
@f-d_menneteau_1955 Жыл бұрын
Please stop putting music with videos. It's much better with natural sounds.
@saltpepperketchup70825 жыл бұрын
Wow, that like to dislike ratio is brutal. Im betting most people clicked on this video because with the title what it is, they thought they were gonna see loss of life or whatever......so they're disliking because the guy made it through. Thats very discouraging. 😒🤔
@SporadicPickaxePurchases2 жыл бұрын
God Bless all you guys that have the courage to do this, heck I though marine corp basic training was scary! Lol.
@HawkeyeAssassins-zh4nz5 жыл бұрын
Thank Roland
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Who Goes This High Without A Lighter?????
@StONed-mb1iv3 жыл бұрын
I dont understand the titles/graphic at 0.40 , sir what you get up to when the lights go out is none of our concern :-O
@marshalllucky5 жыл бұрын
In the language of French hang gliding pilots "being sucked by a big black" means "being sucked by a big black cloud"
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
That background "music" really necessary?
@MKx52885 жыл бұрын
Yes considering the comments 😄😛🤪
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
1:11 ... 5m/s (ca. 18 km/h) in a stright line ... 1:48 ... -15 m/s ( -54 km/h) ...
@mikesobirey95295 жыл бұрын
data recorded on my Brauniger IQ
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Was that awful singing playing in your headset during the flight? No wonder things went pear-shaped.
@TagmakersCoUk5 жыл бұрын
You just know he pissed himself!
@bend19515 жыл бұрын
that was exciting!!
@jerrydelyea58205 жыл бұрын
Adding 'Music' adds no value to an aviation video.
@melbrooksonbusiness43966 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's my choice
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
adding a useless comment on someone else's video doesn't add any value either, genius
@seanc80545 жыл бұрын
Mais oque aconteceu eli subiu muito alto e o q Conteceu no final
@MariaAlves-qu5fr5 жыл бұрын
I dunno what happened, but the music choice was "horror" and way too loud.
@cplcabs5 жыл бұрын
O.M.G. he flew into a cloud. Gotta be a fuckin frog.
@joelombardi52354 жыл бұрын
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh mon dieu ça coupe le souffle?????????????????????
@Matlas9298 жыл бұрын
Well done because ..everytime I am in the cloud , I have 0 orientation. I could not spirale
@nickname90196 жыл бұрын
the spiral is committed by itself, I only accompanied it
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
What does "one liter of oil from one olive" mean ?
@WootTootZoot6 жыл бұрын
it means that I pressed my buttocks so much that with an olive I would have produced a liter of oil (French expression) 😀😀😀
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
ahahahahaahahah Maverick learns to fly
@ericn696 жыл бұрын
Is it really "horror" if you're subjecting yourself to it?
@erikkane70235 жыл бұрын
good job!!
@timmay3017 жыл бұрын
merci
@manometre7 жыл бұрын
Just keep on turning untill you come out ABOVE the clouds....you will never beat a fight against nature....go with it!!
@ecoturismovalle15706 жыл бұрын
Easy to say but how high ...?
@manometre6 жыл бұрын
manometre as long as you don't go above the O2 limit +/- 5000 m above sea level (depending on the atmospheric pressure of the day)
@ecoturismovalle15706 жыл бұрын
Some of those clouds go up to 30,000 feet plus, and you'll die of lack of air pressure, and hypothermia
@aerialexplorer7726 жыл бұрын
That is correct!!
@ecoturismovalle15706 жыл бұрын
I spent some time living in the Tornado Alley states. Watched an innocent towering cumulus south of me turn into an 80,000' giant. An F-15 flying somewhere around FL 500 confirmed the estimates on the tops of the storm. The National Weather Service said at the time that it was the tallest storm they had observed in several decades, it was a beast. I was on the ground at the time, just after dark, so the lightning would backlight the storm, allowing you to watch it grow and develop. It was building so quickly that each time the lightning would flash you could see that it had grown taller - the top of it was slowly twisting as it grew. It eventually started dropping tornadoes. On a very convective day, you have no idea what type of monster any given cloud will grow into.
@fr8fr6dr696 жыл бұрын
I hate hobbies where the goal is to stay alive.
@solomonbc93375 жыл бұрын
What is life worth if we do not risk it!
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
You got out safe Manometre but as seen in the comments this is scary and you could brake your glider.
@Deltaplane_XCountry Жыл бұрын
Not bad..... but please go away a bit earlier next time :-)
@uweknochel93637 жыл бұрын
Merci , je ne recommencerais plus .....
@manometre7 жыл бұрын
What do we learn,?............ to buy a better helmet visor
@zabamaz18436 жыл бұрын
or to thighten the screws
@rheinlandkanal14515 жыл бұрын
Wow! Ca doit couper la chique... et @2.24 trafic, on se sent tout petit !
@juju573808 жыл бұрын
Few moments in cloud? No panic, no wreck in glider? and you start spireling when surface vision already came back. And if you look those cloud shadows in earth surface, you should be quit confident, their is no real dangereus cloud suck in these circumtances. Slow down, fly easy and be ready for real chalenges.
@olavisaarinen87216 жыл бұрын
Tu me mets une bouteille d'huile de coté !!!
@frematlau8 жыл бұрын
frematlau non c'est une production rare
@manometre8 жыл бұрын
I think this is what kobe and Gigi saw...
@bonushuntersentertainment3 жыл бұрын
What would happen if he continues climbing in that cloud ? He would reach 10k meters ?
@Simon-xi8tb5 жыл бұрын
I think I would have gone to a disaster
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
I don't understand hang glinding and paragliding much, but am I correct to asume that it can be impossible to get down once you get sucked up ?
@Simon-xi8tb5 жыл бұрын
Impossible no, you have to make the right decisions very quickly
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
Music spoils it.
@Holliethedog5 жыл бұрын
The only horror in this video was the music))
@mikolanimator Жыл бұрын
A fool's comment
@manometre Жыл бұрын
@@manometre Didn’t really plan to get on anyone’s nerve with it, but here I am))
@mikolanimator Жыл бұрын
Looks like Jimmy Saville
@jetpilot7865 жыл бұрын
Scary
@buffplums5 жыл бұрын
Why put yourself in that situation?
@bizzjoe5 жыл бұрын
Why bananas are curved ?
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
They just evolved that way
@bizzjoe5 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 the banana guy killed me 😂😂😂🤣🤣😍👍
@Driftseen3 жыл бұрын
had anyone seen that man?😭 then donate me your eyes
@ManasSrivastava-yh2ke5 жыл бұрын
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@felixlangat4116 жыл бұрын
I will never participate in this activity. I'm glad you made it out ok. And sorry, but I dig the music. fais attention!
@christopherd63995 жыл бұрын
This video is not representative of the activity ....
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
manometre Maybe, but it can happen. Along with a host of other mishaps. I'll just watch the videos. :-)
@christopherd63995 жыл бұрын
This sport is not dangerous if we respect the rules of flight.
@manometre5 жыл бұрын
i got to maybe 2 minutes and had to quit.... everybody with a glider and youtube account thinks soaring and music are complementary... bs
@clydebennish21065 ай бұрын
Leave the gosh darn visor fly your wing!
@wingnutzster5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Keep both hands on the control bar especially in cloudsuck turbulence. If you loose the control bar you'll never get it back again. Stay out of clouds my friend.
@georgehunter28134 жыл бұрын
Oy Gevalt! Hamtai
@GlideLA8 жыл бұрын
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@manometre8 жыл бұрын
Cue nim blues great vid but as the other guy said dump the music
God save. It brought out the memories; I was sucked by Cb while paragliding, back in 97.in Croatia. Reached 6500m, ascending at the rate of 20m/s with a collapsed glider (horseshoe, maintained by my legs inserted in A-lines, pulling it down...since I lost the strength in my arms to do that). I clearly remember the blackness, thunders, flashes...hail, and vertigo. The wind was tossing me around with the relative speed to the ground in excess of 120km/h...in different directions. At 6000 I was covered in ice. It lasted for 40min. By the grace of God, after "chewing me up", the cloud "spit me" out 28km from the starting point, into the side of mountain Učka. Eventually, I was able to land...moving backward due to strong headwind...and successfully collapsed the glider in time, not to be dragged around. I consider that day to be my second birthday. No serious injuries...just some bruises and frost bites. You reminded me of all that. Blue skies! Btw; change the music!!
Well in the end I was scared for nothing
The white room is not a fun place to be.
I feel that here's the right place to share one thing that I learned from Manfred Ruhmer (Icaro 2000): for exiting a spiral, pull the bar and do an outwards turn. The pulling is important. Great job scaping that big cloud! 👏
For the Hang Pilots out there. My instructor long ago have think about this problem , studied. For the ones that have been in this critical situation prevention is the best option...but when shit happens ( almost always pilot fault) the procedure is 2/3 turns to one side , then revert for the other side with 2/3 turns more. The centrifugal+the change in direction will spiral the glider down in the (al) most lifting air you can find. Cheers fly safe. Ps- I have been in this situation twice...once was a CB in a competition ( stupid old flying days) climbing 600 meters( 2000 feet) inside the cloud with no visibility artificial horizon..nothing.
My heart rate went up just watching this! Glad you made it out OK. Most times the ending for VFR into IMC is much less happy!
Continued VFR into IMC is a problem in a conventional aeroplane with an instrument panel. Seriously bad news under a hang-glider with none.
Nice save! Keeping a calm and cool head in the clouds saved you.
Thank Bruce
Personally, I feel the music added an appropriate ambiance to the video.
Thank you Steven, that's what I wanted. There are still many people who have a musical culture in the USA.
There is the story of "El loco". He disconnected from the glider, was falling until he could see tthe earth and pulled the chute (not build for that). Survived. Those at Lago de Maggiore have been not so lucky.
That music was the real horror.
Duran Duranie Do you not know how to use your volume control?
🤣🤣🤣
@@arguingwithstupidpeople2047 hey, Arguing with Yourself,..........nevermind, carry on.
@@arguingwithstupidpeople2047couldn't agree more with the stupid ass music
It’s called jazz
I paralleled a cloud once as a student pilot, fairly innocent puffy cumulus. I flew safely off to the side in visual conditions and tried to climb up high enough to fly over it in a single-engine Cessna. The top was only around 4,000' feet when I started. The higher I climbed, the faster the cloud climbed above me - I was witnessing the birth of a towering cumulus which would soon become a CB. I gave up at around 8,000' and went home, keeping an eye on the cloud. It eventually grew into the flight levels and turned into a cumulonimbus as it blew east of the area not long after I landed. The updrafts inside of it would easily have exceeded the ability of a piston single or piston twin to keep from ascending without exceeding Vne, can't imagine facing a similar situation in a hang glider.
had the same problem in an ultra light a few weeks ago, a challenger 2. had some minor puffy cumulus around so I headed out on a cross country for home. 10 min after take off I was on heading and watching a grey cell develop behind me. soon I had a bit of a ceiling above me. suddenly I was climbing about 500ft a min and couldn't stop. I was just starting to think dammit im going IFR and don't have the instruments. I got hit with a micro burst like a freight train that pushed me into a descent that I knew id never out climb. I used power and dove away from it. lost about 1000ft in what seemed like 5 seconds, suddenly I had the ground approaching and was still being pushed toward it. it let go and I recovered with about 150 AGL. I scooted back to the field, landed on the second try and only after I was out of the plane did I get scared... 20 or so minutes later we had a towering cumulus... still having talks with myself regarding what happened...
Several thousand feet per minute updraft will shred many planes.
Well Thank God you're alive! God Bless you! 😇👍
@Trius Oh hell no.. Everything in moderation. You can get flipped upside down in a heartbeat and tumble like a leaf when thrown over the front of your speed bar. You CANNOT get back over it and are stuck in a death dive from there on. All you can hope to do is throw your reserve parachute at that point and hope for the best.
You were at the edge of the cloud and yet you continued under it.
You do the diving spiral BEFORE you get sucked, while you can still see the ground.
That profound bit of wisdom should be tattooed on your hand. Do everything while you can still see as soon as you lose your eyesight you're done in any kind of flight like this. Some people just use a small lightweight ball compass pick a heading. I saw one person comment that they had a friend that went paragliding and every time he went he got sucked up in the clouds and flew around for a long time and then he went home. There's not a lot to run into in a cloud.
Lucky to not have folded the wings.
Well that's what you get for flying into clouds.
Every time I think how I'd like to do that I see a video like this, and remember something I experienced, then I change my mind. Years ago I saw some hang gliders outside Denver CO, right along I-70 there's a little hill/mountain, I THINK they called it Green Mtn, but don't hold me to that, so I went up to watch them. Got talking to a couple, said I'd love to do that but couldn't really afford it. They said I should have been the the day before, a guy gave away his glider for free. Of course I asked why... They said the guy was rather new, and he had a glider with a 3:1 ratio, and he wanted more, so he bought a 5:1 wing, thinking 2 feet wouldn't make that much difference. He was SO wrong! He got caught in updraft under a cloud, and they said he had the nose pointed straight down but he was still sucked up. THREE HOURS LATER he landed, put the glider on its nose, un-harnessed himself, and said "Anyone who want that %$#&*@ can have it, I quit!" and left.
C'est comme en moto , un gars voit quelqu'un rouler tranquillement sur la route les cheveux à l'air . Il dit moi aussi je veux .Il passe son permis s'achète une moto et lors de sa première sortie une voiture lui coupe la route et l'envoi à l'hôpital . Il a dit "quiconque veut cette merde peut l'avoir , j'arrête ! Cela fait + de 40 ans que je pratique ce sport , un jour j'arrêterais ...... le plus tard possible
That was one heck of a ride, glad you made out of that situation unscathed.
Thank you
Cloud flying can be like a dream or like a nightmare...
You got balls, brother. Flying IMC in a hang glider! The music was perfect.
You have good taste 🤗👍
Glad you got down safely’. I am a WS Trike pilot, my wing is a tandem Dreamwing 220.. I have often thought of HG the wing without the motor..
Merci , je suis également pilote de Trike
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@@manometre 🤙🏼
Any idea, why you kept spiraling up,realizing that a big cloud was waiting above you? How do you read your vario? Are you guessing? Buddy, I hope you do not get hurt one day!
Have you ever heard the words Dive, Dive, Dive? If you get sucked up further in the air, it's high time you dived the Glider. Geez...
Always, always know the wind direction at altitude, and mark it in your brain, marking it on your compas in degrees. Adjust for conditions. If you are getting sucked up, pull in with vg on about half, and always fly in a straight line, as level as possible, in the OPPOSITE direction the cloud is going, and you will eventually fly into the blue. Big big mistake spiraling down as you almost exceeded the vne, and broke your glider. You almost had to throw your chute, hoping to God you remembered to do a fresh re pack..... Been there, done this, and survived also. Cudos...
Finally a first useful comment .Thank you
manometre Here is a more mild flight than yours, close to suck up. But, it was the only cloud in the sky. Very strong lift though, 1800 ft per min spikes, 900 ft per min sink....about 4000 ft. I had the bar stuffed at the end as I ran away from the cloud, and I was still climbing!!! Enjoy!
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manometre But, I have whited out like you did, and just as bad. It felt like an eternity before I busted out into the blue...
Best advice, fly in a straight line. Up in the Welsh black mountains flying in England 1980, cloudy. A wave of hail heading towards me, the ground too far away. When it hit i could just about see my hands lasted about 10 minutes, but eventually burst out and the sun came out. Was strangely calm but thought i was dead..Radical manoeuvres i reckon i might have been.
"SHIT! I am being sucked by a big black!" - Dude... LOL! I don't know whether to be scared or jealous! LOL!
Almost got towed into a cloud once at 5k, 3 ring twisted up the wrist line and couldn't pull release pin. Tow driver saw the problem, stopped, tow line slackened enough to flip it by hand. Washed my shorts...all good !
Washed my shorts...all good ! 😀😂😅😅😅😅🤣
just for clarification . . . . .is the hang glider pilot there attempting to descend but hes getting pushed up ? , what is the never - - exceed speed of a hang glider ? , ,,
Welcome to the cloud base country club, be werry werry careful
A diving spiral in the goo has potential to overspeed the glider and exceed G loads resulting in an in-flight break up & possibly even a failure of the parachute. This may be controversial, but a stall spin maneuver might be a better choice. This is what pilots used to do before there was complex attitude indicators in airplanes. The bar position in a spin remains constant, taking the guesswork out of trying to figure out your attitude whilst flying in the goo. The direction of flight (rotation & decent) also remain constant provided the cloud you are in is not so big that the sucking action exceeds the decent rate. In that case your kind of fucked no matter what you do... I will say this, spins are an incredibly dangerous maneuver that when coupled with moderate turbulence can result in a tumble. Here is the rub, I would rather tumble in a fairly low speed & low G maneuver such as a spin vs a high speed high G diving spiral.
What a video! Is it very dangerous to fly a HG at 3.5km? The view is almost space-like, I'd love to see it for myself. If something happened (spin/stall) and you threw a chute, would it have carried you safely from the ground or would the height introduced complications (too huge a speed for the chute to deal with, for instance)? I'm a newb, only thinking about getting into HGing. Did you have trouble breathing up there/were you cold? 2:23 moment is funny, can see a sailplane flying by waay below. Is that mass of water at 1:52 a sea or a lake? Wonder how a sea would look like from that height. PS I personally liked the music, it creates an atmosphere. Never understood those people who only want 'wind&vario', I find that beeping hella annoying. Oh, and what HG are you flying? Is it rigid-wing or flex-wing?
Thanks
thx for sharing. music was nicely done. glad u got out. and gyess what, you have a great video of the whole thing...what a fun souvenier!
Thank you for this nice comment. Finally a friend who understood the music ......
Well you know, there are a lot of hurt people out there who transfer their pain to others in many ways. KZhead allows them to hide their faces but not their pain. Its sad because I've done the same. I even told one flyer on KZhead that because he took so many risks he deserved to have an accident. I regretted it when he bravely called me out. And apologized. Your music reflects the beauty and freedom of flying, the curiosity and adventure and accomplishment of touching new boundries. Then the shock and panic of knowing you may have pushed too far and the terrifying aftermath followed by relief, joy, elation and a higher appreciation for being a skymaster...leaving you with a story and lesson worthy of showing and telling to all. Its not easy to synchronize the music with the visual, but you did so elegantly!!
Merci Miteco 1
I’m a paraglider pilot and have never hang glided so please excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject but couldn’t you have just put it into a straight dive as you where getting sucked into the cloud to avoid having to spiral? I definitely want to learn to hang glide at some point.
L'ascendance était trop puissante pour que j'en sorte en tirant .....
Visor up, visor down, glasses up, glasses down every 10 seconds. That’s all I could think about watching this.
It's obvious, you do not know the third dimension
Lots of blue.
What caused the spiral and why that difficult to correct?
high speed so centrifugation and correct slowly to avoid breakage of the machine
it seems to me if there was no thunder heads then go out through the top and enjoy the circular rainbow as you go up ...
I did not have the balls
Get a different “helmet”with better visor that was stressful by itself.
Flying IMC without certification… or instruments.
1:00 this is where I would pull out the air brakes and cross the controls to lose altitude
Bet he fixed that visor! 🤔
So hold on a minute. You guys potentially risk your lives doing this hang gliding stuff for fun, and you’re expected to AVOID clouds?
Great flying!
Spins are not even required for a pilots license because it is so dangerous and scary. Very happy you made it out of this death spiral. Hope it never happens again but is this SOP for getting out of a cloud thermal? I assumed thermals were a good thing. No..?
Except when he does not want to let go
I thought id like hang gliding, maybe not
Does it always take so long to recover from a spin in a hang glider?
I don't know.
I'd never turn right after this 🙈🙈
I like the music!
I saw the man's face in the landscape, its incredible!
Oui , très peu de gens le voient ... c'est la musique qui les accapare
Vaya... me he "acojonado" solo de ver cómo salías de la nube...dentro de ella no se apreciaba muy bien que estabas girando tan deprisa..... me alegro de que no ocurriera nada. Ser atrapado dentro de nubes es un mal negocio para vuelos sin la instrumentación adecuada... Por cierto, me ha parecido que "luchabas" constantemente con la visera del casco (que era tintada) y las gafas de sol....Cuídate. Un saludo.
MERCI
Lesson learned! Just as well you didn't come spiraling down out of the cloud onto the glider that was making use of the thermals there.
Thank you, lesson retained
Why, oh why the music?
@@tetedelard2777 You thought of that all on your own? Well done!
2:52 dat face
Tu reviens de loin Manolo !!!
It is a great video, I would recommend it for the viewer. Thanks!
And that's why I allways stay away from cloud base... well, almost allways ;).
Paragliding Podlasie You must not do many XC flying or Comp hang gliding.
Heureux que tous c'est bien terminé ! "Peut être pas pour ton slip"
Well done! But that music is annoying.
Good recovery.
Full VG at a right time and go away...
Same thing happens to skydivers under canopy when you get to close to a cumulonimbus. BIG altitude!
-15m/s, tu as mis la pression, manometre ! Je crois que je n'ai jamais dépassé -12m/s et ce pas très longtemps. Il y a des moments où je me sentais écrasé dans son harnais. Tu as dépassé le FL115, c'est cramé pour la CFD ! Le ciel te tienne en joie !
Please stop putting music with videos. It's much better with natural sounds.
Wow, that like to dislike ratio is brutal. Im betting most people clicked on this video because with the title what it is, they thought they were gonna see loss of life or whatever......so they're disliking because the guy made it through. Thats very discouraging. 😒🤔
God Bless all you guys that have the courage to do this, heck I though marine corp basic training was scary! Lol.
Thank Roland
Who Goes This High Without A Lighter?????
I dont understand the titles/graphic at 0.40 , sir what you get up to when the lights go out is none of our concern :-O
In the language of French hang gliding pilots "being sucked by a big black" means "being sucked by a big black cloud"
That background "music" really necessary?
Yes considering the comments 😄😛🤪
1:11 ... 5m/s (ca. 18 km/h) in a stright line ... 1:48 ... -15 m/s ( -54 km/h) ...
data recorded on my Brauniger IQ
Was that awful singing playing in your headset during the flight? No wonder things went pear-shaped.
You just know he pissed himself!
that was exciting!!
Adding 'Music' adds no value to an aviation video.
Maybe it's my choice
adding a useless comment on someone else's video doesn't add any value either, genius
Mais oque aconteceu eli subiu muito alto e o q Conteceu no final
I dunno what happened, but the music choice was "horror" and way too loud.
O.M.G. he flew into a cloud. Gotta be a fuckin frog.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh mon dieu ça coupe le souffle?????????????????????
Well done because ..everytime I am in the cloud , I have 0 orientation. I could not spirale
the spiral is committed by itself, I only accompanied it
What does "one liter of oil from one olive" mean ?
it means that I pressed my buttocks so much that with an olive I would have produced a liter of oil (French expression) 😀😀😀
ahahahahaahahah Maverick learns to fly
Is it really "horror" if you're subjecting yourself to it?
good job!!
merci
Just keep on turning untill you come out ABOVE the clouds....you will never beat a fight against nature....go with it!!
Easy to say but how high ...?
manometre as long as you don't go above the O2 limit +/- 5000 m above sea level (depending on the atmospheric pressure of the day)
Some of those clouds go up to 30,000 feet plus, and you'll die of lack of air pressure, and hypothermia
That is correct!!
I spent some time living in the Tornado Alley states. Watched an innocent towering cumulus south of me turn into an 80,000' giant. An F-15 flying somewhere around FL 500 confirmed the estimates on the tops of the storm. The National Weather Service said at the time that it was the tallest storm they had observed in several decades, it was a beast. I was on the ground at the time, just after dark, so the lightning would backlight the storm, allowing you to watch it grow and develop. It was building so quickly that each time the lightning would flash you could see that it had grown taller - the top of it was slowly twisting as it grew. It eventually started dropping tornadoes. On a very convective day, you have no idea what type of monster any given cloud will grow into.
I hate hobbies where the goal is to stay alive.
What is life worth if we do not risk it!
You got out safe Manometre but as seen in the comments this is scary and you could brake your glider.
Not bad..... but please go away a bit earlier next time :-)
Merci , je ne recommencerais plus .....
What do we learn,?............ to buy a better helmet visor
or to thighten the screws
Wow! Ca doit couper la chique... et @2.24 trafic, on se sent tout petit !
Few moments in cloud? No panic, no wreck in glider? and you start spireling when surface vision already came back. And if you look those cloud shadows in earth surface, you should be quit confident, their is no real dangereus cloud suck in these circumtances. Slow down, fly easy and be ready for real chalenges.
Tu me mets une bouteille d'huile de coté !!!
frematlau non c'est une production rare
I think this is what kobe and Gigi saw...
What would happen if he continues climbing in that cloud ? He would reach 10k meters ?
I think I would have gone to a disaster
I don't understand hang glinding and paragliding much, but am I correct to asume that it can be impossible to get down once you get sucked up ?
Impossible no, you have to make the right decisions very quickly
Music spoils it.
The only horror in this video was the music))
A fool's comment
@@manometre Didn’t really plan to get on anyone’s nerve with it, but here I am))
Looks like Jimmy Saville
Scary
Why put yourself in that situation?
Why bananas are curved ?
They just evolved that way
🤣🤣🤣 the banana guy killed me 😂😂😂🤣🤣😍👍
had anyone seen that man?😭 then donate me your eyes
Kenspace.
I will never participate in this activity. I'm glad you made it out ok. And sorry, but I dig the music. fais attention!
This video is not representative of the activity ....
manometre Maybe, but it can happen. Along with a host of other mishaps. I'll just watch the videos. :-)
This sport is not dangerous if we respect the rules of flight.
i got to maybe 2 minutes and had to quit.... everybody with a glider and youtube account thinks soaring and music are complementary... bs
Leave the gosh darn visor fly your wing!
Absolutely. Keep both hands on the control bar especially in cloudsuck turbulence. If you loose the control bar you'll never get it back again. Stay out of clouds my friend.
Oy Gevalt! Hamtai
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Cue nim blues great vid but as the other guy said dump the music