![]() ![]() You may have had a long lay off waiting for flyable conditions at the weekend. The biggest hazard, as always, is the human factor. If in doubt, ask your Matt, your new red ribbon guruji.īeware of the gust fronts associated with approaching rain showers and land in good time. You don't need to seek anyone's permission, though of course you will be expected to justify your actions to the growing angry mob of pilots waiting to launch. The inconvenience of stopping your flight for a few moments hugely outweighs the inconvenience of being forced to bottom land a hang glider, with the attendant hour or so of de-rigging and rigging.ĪNY pilot can call for a red ribbon half hour. It is common courtesy for paragliders to slope land if there are hang gliders airborne and struggling to maintain height. If it is too crowded for you and you are in the air, immediately make your way to a safe landing. If by launching you will make it too crowded for the pilots already airborne, don't launch. If it is too crowded for you, don't launch. There have already been three broken limbs this spring, all to experienced but rusty pilots failing to do just this. When slope landing, or actually any landing, if the ground speed seems high it is! Either turn out and fly to the bottom or make a 180 degree turn and land in the opposite direction. By the way, hang gliders can cost the best part of £20,000 nowadays. With a paraglider it is never too late to be able to turn into wind, just too late to choose to do so. This will slow your progress across the ground significantly and may save you having to explain yourself to an irate pilot who's laid out wing you just trashed. When top landing, get your glider pointing into wind, even if you have already landed. If you are closely following another ridge soaring glider, aim to be directly behind or better still towards the ridge, regardless of aircraft type. Please don't sit just behind and outside a ridge soaring glider as this effectively prevents them from turning back, almost as if you were overtaking them on the outside. Also try to predict what other pilots may want to do.Īvoid flying line abreast and thereby creating a wall of cloth (a curtain?) which oncoming traffic struggle to avoid. I'm not saying give hand signals, though that is not a bad idea, just make it obvious where you are planning to go and try not to make erratic course changes when other are in close. It would usually take only a few minutes before they were high enough to permit usual service to resume.įly predictably and telegraph your next move as clearly as possible. We would often land unbidden to allow a waiting group of hang glider pilots free use of the sky. When it was seen to be getting too busy, pilots would either thermal away or gracefully bow out after a few minutes ridge soaring to allow others the chance to do so. The thermalling pilot would however not impact upon the soaring patterns of the ridge soaring pilots as he would know that he was more skilled and was better placed to avoid them. Pilots thermalling were conventionally given right of way and ridge soaring pilots would turn back before interrupting the thermalling pilot's 360. Pilots on the ground were aware that they are the lowest form of aviation and justly gave way to all those above them, even if they were actually below them. Once upon a time in the Southern Club there was gentlemanly behaviour in the sky and it was Good: No other part of your anatomy is designed for this and therefore anything else is an unnatural act. When did YOU last pack your reserve? I recommend a 3 month cycle – it makes a huge difference! If you fly a two-liner I strongly suggest that you fit two reserves, repack them frequently and practice the twin handle swimming stroke every time you fly. Meager head fairings are the sole preserve of those with meager heads. WILL ALL MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NEED TO CONFIRM CLUB MEMBERSHIP, AND THUS PILOT QUALIFICATION AND INSURANCE, RESIDES WITH EACH AND EVERY MEMBER NOT SOME IMAGINARY SITE POLICE - TO SIMPLIFY THIS, ALL MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR THEIR SHGC HELMET STICKER.ĭo not spend £200 on an EN1077 class B helmet as that is far too much for a chamber pot and that is the only real use for such an artefact. I'm sure there's an echo in here? here? here?
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