Paraglider Control: Stall, Spin, Collapse!

Flybubble Paragliding offers a simple analysis of the most common extreme situations, how to control them and flight exercises to grow your paraglider control skills.
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[@Aurora..Borealis]

Must have seen this video over 6x. It well put together, educational, instructive and uncomplicated. Greg you're such a valuable part of the world wide paraglider community and we thank you again for you time and effort!

[@SimonHergott]

Those moves at the end were pretty slick!

[@BaSiC47]

The quality of your videos became much better over the time. Thanks for the content!

[@GerrysDiy]

Great information. Really well edited and put together video. In the harness of a paraglider on a bright Summers day is an amazing place to be. Well done! Thanks

[@forrestallison1879]

Extremely helpful video. One helpful thing might be to see the manuevers in real time at least once instead of just slomo, to help understand timing

[@toadiri]

Great videos, one suggestion tough, you could also leave the normal speed take along with the slow motion one, so we can have a better sense of the reaction time and how the event really looks. Thanks and nice job again. Keep it up .

[@billcallahan9303]

Best intro I've ever seen! Thanks! UPPM France. Great music too! Will check it out.

[@laniik]

amazing video, the quality on these is getting really top notch!

[@よっちゃんねるCh]

Excellent

[@cristianflorin981]

..I must make SIV in the summer....very good video. ...thanks for example......I learn very much from FLYBUBBLE.!😎

[@petercloete2298]

These videos have been super helpful Greg. I am about to start paragliding in the Garden Route and have been looking for videos like these that demonstrate the 'other' side of paragliding and what possibly could happen.Thanks!!

[@greghamerton4422]

You're welcome Peter. Beware of youtube videos about paragliding incidents (and especially criticisms/comments) - there is so much misinformed nonsense spouted about what went wrong, what pilots should have done. That's why a good instructor is worth his weight in gold - he'll establish a good foundation of knowledge for you. Sure, it can be dangerous, but there are simple steps to take and rules to follow, and just like riding a motorbike or riding a horse. Pester your instructor to take you inland as well (Garden route pilots like to hang out by the sea ;-)

[@parasportz]

Excellent, well explained content. Thank you, Greg

[@sarjudave]

I have just started to know and learn paragliding. I been watching lots of videos for beginner. I have noticed that way of explaining as technical expertise Greg have that very very few have one of them is Toby Colombe’ from passion paragliding. Great I formations Greg 🙏🏽

[@Les__Mack]

Hey thanks! Great video.

[@rujakinfo8841]

Very helpful video. Thank you very much

[@shijir7180]

This video is very informative and good refresher. Thank you!

[@colincraggs]

awesome videos. thanks guys

[@rayharkins14]

Great video. I learned a lot. Thank you

[@FlyingDonkey1980]

luv that wing...and I appreciate colours

[@ripmanridin7092]

Awesome..........well done!...............subbed!!

[@OttawaParagliding]

Fantastic videos we (cubans fans ) love your channel

[@crimsonraen]

Thanks so much for the video! :)

[@HubertPenn]

nice one!

[@paris3331]

Life saving!

[@577buttfan]

Im a motor pilot but find this info very useful.thanks!!!!

[@rfs2942]

how can i hit the thumbs up 2 times? Thank u very much for sharing!

[@greghamerton4422]

It's a pleasure to help my friends in the sky!

[@Adv.md.82]

wow thanks

[@NachoWilde]

Hey Greg. One question? What can you do if you have a collapse at landing? I ve seen a lot of accidents with this situation. Also if you catch a devil at landing could be fatal right?

[@QuoVadistis]

Love your videos. If only you were not so far south!

[@adriansmithurst]

Is it mandatory to have a bhpa license

[@apextruckingutah]

I am noticing you grab your risers when things get gnarley. I was told I'm doing the same thing at first when I had a 90% Asymmetric collapse close to the side of the mountain. I did let go and take care of business and not hit the wall. What do you think? Is this ok?

[@ht1581985]

applying break can help dampen out the dive? please anyone explain in more detail.

[@StefsEngineering]

last week I had my first large a-symmetrical (almost 50%) sure raised my heart rate and gave a nice dose of adrenaline!

[@E620SE]

50% (without bar?) :D

[@LukeSchneider]

@@E620SE If so, would change the wing 😁

[@E620SE]

@@LukeSchneider bei 50% spüre ich selbst am C Schirm nicht viel

[@camotobe]

I have a question about the spin from the example. Can I prevent it by more weight transfer in the seat and less break pulling? Or there is no difference and it mainly depends on the speed? And the second question is: I have an EN-A glider and it is not so fast. Is it more dangerous when I will try to center the thermals? Thanks.

[@greghamerton4422]

good question Camo. Yes you can improve your spin resistance by more weight transfer (which helps to achieve the turn by rolling instead of by braking) and less brake pull (which helps to reduce the angle of attack). This will also make it a turn at a slightly higher speed. The EN A wing has a huge resistance to stall, so it is safe to turn it tightly - it can fly slower than an EN C for example, and due to the small wingspan it turns very well.

[@user-nh5zd3ic8r]

This is absolutely terrifying

[@bewell4743]

Sometimes I wish I could "like" some videos more than once. I'm just saying....

[@factdesignbr]

So... it basically only collapses if you over "brake" it right?

[@DrAElemayo]

That's what a stall is. Collapses can happen for other reasons also.

[@iqdrop8741]

THOR got Got with this Bull

[@jimjamssaunders7619]

crackin videos as always , trouble hearing you above music on this one

[@paxnowar]

Please do not touch brakes after a frontal collapse, you may stall your wing. Just hands up and lei it fly

[@liczysiekasa]

awaiting PID controller

[@nskmda]

3:11 - r u really almost parallel 2 the ground?!

[@jetskiwillywilly7970]

As a newbie...kinda annoying to see the "simulated" collapses and go oh look so safe. When real you watch a real life collapse they all do a backflip 180 and go into a flat spin, drop 200-500 feet.

[@isaacjonathan8367]

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[@PetrPolach]

I appreciate the effort you put into the videos, but I have to write a feedback about few points I dont like. Please dont take them too personally :) I still love your videos - but while teaching others, I think teacher should execute those manuevers flawlesly or at least point the mistakes out. 1/ Hands up means hands up, yet you still use 20cm of breaks in many situations. (I know that you are automatically breaking the dive, but you know what you are doing, but your virtual viewers probably dont!). 2/ You are constantly in touch with risers, grabing them at some point, its very bad practise and bad example. 3/ After frontal, when its selfrecovering, hands UP unless the wing is infront of you 45°. Otherwise you will sooner or later create a cascade by stalling your wing. $/ 200m is way too low for general public to start experiment with training those figures alone, without instructor on radio. Things can go wrong very quickly. (like putting some lines into carabine during frontal or asymetric).

[@stevereed7249]

This video literally made me nauseous,such a shame asit is important stuff for any new pilot,ruined by the gimicky multi screen format