A Day In The Life Of A Cross Country Pilot

All tools down, and plans out the window ... it's flyable and we have to chase the sun! Join Greg and friends as we take to the skies on our paragliders, on one of the best cross country days this year. This is UK flying at its best!
Video © Greg Hamerton
Edited by Courtney Dawe
Music from Audio: Ghosthood - Mantra, Nico Savaro - X and Os, Chill Winston - Be Like That, Travis - Hustle Bustle, Brilliant Sky - Travel Light
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[@OVelhoLivreiroAtelie]

Great journey! Cheers from Brazil!

[@EduardoMartinez-ys6fb]

I can watch your videos for ever. I'm doing a 2 week beginner's paragliding course in March. You are just inspirational, Greg.

[@olivierabadie603]

Bravo Greg !

[@johnnylobos7515]

Hey Greg, that was just fantastic! Thank you for sharing! I got my pilot license about 3 month ago. When I was doing the course, my instructor told me about you and your videos so, let me tell you that they were very helpful. Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

[@flyinbryanfpv]

What a mix/contrast between nature and urban life

[@MikeyAsbury]

"Vagabonds of the sky". Love that!

[@TheSavacc]

Thanks for taking us on your adventure...especially the return home which seemed like a fun challenge. Hopefully the camera flash didn't cause too much damage..cheers.

[@shogun9x1]

Fantastic video Greg. Shows beauty of all the aspects of cross country flying.

[@mattbaker1683]

Absolutely amazing, I just looked up that site, and as it happens I was working down in Stroud last year, watching the gliders on my lunch break at the Aldi in town... I have just booked up my first flight course for April, can't wait!

[@DougEDeGeorge]

Awesome Greg one of my favorite videos yet!

[@wild2flyparagliding160]

🤣 Now I know why I love triangles and out and returns! Great video Greg. You sure made me laugh at the end. 😂👍

[@niconico3907]

He can't do that with no mountain where he is.

[@benjienys3543]

Thanks so match for those videos :) you have to know that y've a lot of freinds from all over the world... Specially a new one, a vagabon of the air 😁, from Tunisia ;) who apreciate alla what you do

[@sufah]

Vielen Dank, dass du uns an deinen Abenteuern teilhaben lässt. Freue mich immer über neue Videos von dir! Viele Grüße 🖖🏻 André

[@dannybaines4529]

Quite simpley THANK YOU 🎶🎶

[@nathanbraunswick4289]

Awesome adventure, thanks for sharing.

[@SkywalkerPaul]

Great vid! ✌️

[@Volksplane1]

Fantastic COMPLETE story. Enjoyed that. We'll keep an eye out for you chaps. GA pilot

[@nurikayserilioglu]

Wow! What a long day!😅 Thanks for sharing your experience. We have to inspire each other otherwise we're destined to be drowned in the mindset of the "ordinary crowd" called the society... 🤘

[@climb315]

Beautiful .

[@JJOKOCHA4]

Awesome, shine on...

[@slowly9]

I'm such a lucky bloke to have the chance to fly in Hungary... :P We have muchmuch better options to: have a good XC day, get to the takeoff via public transport, get home by public transport. :) come to Hungary in summer time for great flat land XC filghts with easy travel options! :) great-great video, sums up the point of XC flying beautifully! cheers!

[@leslielugosi]

Yes Zsolt, I agree but you need to have a bit of luck too. Also need to walk a lot some times. Sometimes you still can not get home that day (rely on public transport only). :) Some of my friends here in Hungary do enjoy that part of the adventure very much! :)) On the other hand public transport is cheep here. The 500km of transport would cost somewhere around GBP20! :)

[@deannaylor25]

Great video Greg, inspiring as always

[@cptspenny7545]

I'm green (with envy). What a pleasure to have public transport available..

[@theeyeinthecloud]

Nice. Here in France you're supposed to leave 300m from cloud base when you are above 900m.

[@jjlovesjam]

This is awesome!

[@MikeyAsbury]

I do appreciate your attitude and demeanor and truly wish I could train with you. You seem to be a genuinely wonderful person. With all the craziness in the world, you are a breath of fresh air.(no pun intended)

[@wild2flyparagliding160]

🤣

[@360turns2]

I bet it's worth every penny spent. Great video.

[@verschalter]

You have a new fan.... great to see how you show like we have inspirations from being in the sky.... thermal flying and xcountry is so emotional. cheers mate

[@livefreedontdie2815]

Now THAT is devotion!

[@Zbinden81]

Allways enjoy these Videos a lot and learned so many here for my Cross Country Adventures. Thanks so much for ur effort and keep on Giong! Happy Flights and Happy Landings! Greetings from Swiss

[@marcomaas9915]

Great story, always enjoy your movies 😃

[@ahhcoolies]

A full day indeed. thank you for doing the whole adventure and recording it. best of luck with the XPyr.

[@QMAXIMUS]

Love your channel Greg! Thanks for all the videos!!!

[@qinzheng4106]

Hi Greg, your flight ratio is 143/831=17%, and looks like a triangle route could be more comfortable 🎉, thanks for taking us together with you😊

[@Graham_lee]

Nice video really enjoyed it, not long now and Il be leaving the hill, cant wait to log my first xc

[@josuesepulveda55]

I would love to make time in the future to make paragliding my next hobby. I did tandem gliding and it was amazing

[@cristianomayer3216]

man! thank you for that! its aaaaaaall soooooo truuuuuuuue and beauuuuuuutifuuuuuul!!!

[@CenteKris]

Love it ❤️ just started with my flying adventure (5h in the air) and I hope to fly XC someday 👊😎

[@richharding7927]

I'm the red and white Zeno 2 with the open harness at about 3:35. Did 100-something to around Petersfield :)

[@PARAPENTEFLORIPA]

Good, i like fly. Cross country is best.

[@TheDro]

looks like the adventure was a memorable one :)

[@glidewithme1860]

Great video, Greg!

[@FlyWithGreg]

Thanks Christian! UK flying is not regular, but when it delivers, it's fantastic.

[@tifly10]

Very nice Greg... is that, fly without time to return.

[@danielpeters6906]

Hats off to you greg, you know how to make an enjoyable paragliding video!

[@Hemersonr]

oh my... what a nice gaggle... congrats for this amazing day

[@ashleyblakebrough9800]

If there ever was an ambassador for Paragliding, I'm thinking it might be you, love the videos !

[@verticallines212]

gotta love raw thermal power!

[@AFlyingGlenn]

What an adventure!

[@azvoolivre]

Hi! Thanks and congrats! You landed and killed the glider with the Bs!! Why?Windy but I've never seen this technique!

[@andreasfalkenburg7586]

...wow what an effort to go XC flying !!! So I appreciate even more to live only one hour drive from the Bavarian & Austrian Alpes... hehe... :-)

[@julianhorlle]

Hi Greg, very nice images, congrats!! What your felling about strike 2? I've one for H&F, never flown more than 1 hour, it's comfortable for a big flight like this?

[@Lazlowi]

Hey Greg, awesome video as always! I would like to ask about the diagram at the start, what is that and how do you decode it? I always have trouble decoding the weather forecast, recognizing these 5 star days you mention, do you have some really good resources what parameters I should look out for to see these top days? Thank you!

[@fwkb2]

Love it!

[@ParapenteFloripa-k5e]

Nice fly.

[@waheedshah8087]

Big fan sir

[@T-gashi]

A perfect day

[@HDax]

Very nice video Greg :) love it! How do you mount your selfie stick for these great third person views? It seems that you dont mount it to your harness / back since you hold it in your hand during start. Also the shadow of the stick seems to go to your shoulder. Tell us the magic :) !

[@FlyWithGreg]

A wizard's staff follows its master. (Or perhaps I have a little self-adhesive velcro loop on base of said staff, so it can be pinned in place and rested on my shoulder)

[@tomekbumat]

Coming home after longer XC is usually a pain, especially when you have to start your work with clients early and pretend to be fresh and focused -;)

[@TimPentreath]

Nice vid Greg, but expensive day out - £1.25/km flown by my calculations 😂

[@horaciorivara1240]

Wonderfull Greg, an excelent racont of a Cross day

[@stephenplace3575]

Crikey greg that was an expensive flight, awesome though 👏 😎 👍

[@hectorvaldesr]

Hi Greg, nice video! Where exactly do you put the selfie stick to record that way? In your harness?

[@raoulduke1914]

70 quid train ticket! :(( But yeah worth it! great vid, we are so lucky to be able to do this

[@garnoli]

The real adventure begins after landing ....

[@YankeeinSC1]

Just curious... how inclined the average UK driver is to picking up a hitch hikers? In the states I could see getting a ride fairly quickly if you had your gear with you, but a regular bloke, just standing on the side of the road, not so much. Is your wife (or husband) understanding of your cross country adventures?

[@johanheyns2266]

Noticed you flying with new gear. Harness? Helmet ? Any reason why ?

[@FlyWithGreg]

Helmet only because it was freezing a base and the visor looks cool! And reduces face exposure. Harness was Strike2, for reviewing before deciding on Weightless for the XPYR race. Strike2 is more accessible for most pilots

[@johanheyns2266]

@@FlyWithGreg Alright then thx for the feedback sir. You must come and join us in some South African comps when the weather turns. There's a lot of pilots that can lern from you first hand.

[@bernhardmuller4601]

All fun and games... but why take the car in the first place?

[@andreasfalkenburg7586]

...very, very good point :-)

[@Hemersonr]

how could we recognize this special day???

[@CoIoneIPanic]

Here you would have actually had your car stolen. And the police would have said, file a report, we are too busy. But the silver lining is a vast space to fly with huge mountains.

[@Milo_Olo]

Nah, Renault never gets stolen

[@donjohnson2639]

See the airplane at 3:08 ✈️

[@george44987]

I didn’t know Louis Theroux was into paragliding

[@alexxbcg]

Great video! Out of interest, why didn’t you go up by train and then fly back to the south east and do the final part back to your house by public transport? Seems a lot of the day was spent retrieving the car!

[@SteveShovlar]

Because if you do that Sods Law will stop the day coming on and you won’t leave the hill! Nothing is guaranteed in paragliding.

[@niconico3907]

And he was driving by himself. He should have found a friend to have 2 cars, park one car near the expected landing spot, and drove to the launch.

[@christophostrowski3382]

Goooo----Fly4it