German Paragliding Open Ager 2022 (strong winds & hot ships)

[@JohnnyFaber]

nice big ears launch at 3:24!

[@ParaKiteGliding]

When the leading edge hits rocky ground...😬 A perfect motivational film for practicing ground handling in an easier place and knowing the limits with your glider. 😅

[@sandrainthesky1011]

I was surprised there weren't more cobra launches. The one I did notice went off without a hitch! Watching these C & D wings writhe around was pretty epic though!

[@roaeschbacher]

Thanks a lot for this great shots!!! Still lots to learn about strong wind starts 😎✌🏻

[@huepix]

I'm amazed no one seems to be using rear riser control? In higher winds, hold the As in one hand and the rear risers in the other. As the wing comes up, yank the rear riser hard, which breaks up the rear of the wing, depowering it. It also allows better control if the pilot remaims under the center of the wing

[@195638]

I am also surprised that no pilot uses this method. it is called Mitsos from the name of an Australian. I often use it on our windy runways.

[@christopherdunlap88]

That was EXACTLY my thought. I see almost zero wing control from many of those pilots.

[@harryhawk7700]

My thoughts exactly , I fly a 2 liner and always use the rear risers in strong winds to control the wing , if I tried to control it on the brakes it would behaves like an angry crocodile on a piece of string just like the wings in the clip , 2 liners are generally not easy to launch in stronger winds .

[@sandrainthesky1011]

I did notice a couple but yes, in that wind I would want riser control without a doubt. In fact I probably wouldn't let go until in the air haha!

[@SkidzFPV]

Once I taught myself the mitsos technique I never went back. It’s a curiosity to me that most paragliding schools don’t teach this as the primary launch technique. But this clip looks to be from a high level comp, like a PWC maybe? With all those pilots flying En-D or ccc wings I’m shocked at how terrible their ground control is, yes it looks like a windy launch, but i pilot at that level should have no problem getting the glider over their head under control. I honestly don’t know what I just watched.

[@Porsche_Past]

Looks like more passengers than pilots...

[@janlencardosa4859]

The wind is very strong but the guys make a battle of insanity there

[@csleclerc57]

Now I see why kiting the wing laying on your back can be helpful. Wow

[@dominiceller1821]

Wow, on the whole a display of ineptitude. Near miss after near miss. Better to be lucky than good huh ;)

[@niallharvey]

To be fair I only made a montage of the good bits 😜

[@pfrillele]

Many of them should learn how to start in strong wind before they start to fly competition.

[@BenBowler]

😂 good vid. Makes me anxious just watching

Nice edit, thanks for sharing it. Thanks you

[@mike_tango]

If this was a license test, all of them would have failed. But hey, it's a competition so you can launch in sketchy af conditions, get judo'd out and kick people in the face!

[@thomasriedel2828]

Great comment. Its a crazy shitshow.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

It's hard to see from here but it looks like they could have launched down the hill 50 or 100 ft and had way less trouble. It looks like they're right in the vortex

[@thomasriedel2828]

exactly what I thought...but maybe it wasn't allowed there...in Germany we have rules for everything

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@thomasriedel2828 love to you friend I have to learn how to fly myself I've taken lessons I bought a wing epsilon 9 and a harness and the lessons all at once. I don't live where there's very good flying. I never thought about how Germany loves rules so much and they might tell you you have to launch from someplace farther up the hill and then that's what you do. I'm trying to figure out different ways that I can block a road long enough to launch on some of the hills around here. I'm just sitting here laughing thinking about how different it is here

[@thomasriedel2828]

@@markmcgoveran6811 where do you live? Yes germany and especially the alps are beautiful, but if some spezial bird eats some special mouse, that lives in that special gras downhill, then you are not allowed to start from there 😀

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@thomasriedel2828 I love you man for caring about me at all. I live in Nebraska north of Omaha and our state has a lot of rivers in these Rivers have ridges that you can probably fly and The ridges aren't very tall. There are some places with some long hills and I have a friend who will let me fly there once I get my insurance ticket. I'm going to fly up in the air every time with a box of cornstarch for cloud seeding and try to get up under clouds and throw it out or get up over 300 ft and throw it out. Then I'm going to tell everybody my friend Jeff that's really rich is Rich because I cloud seed and make all the rain fall on his farm and it just squeezes those clouds dry makes it look like a desert down wind whenever I fly. I'm going to have flashing lights and a horn. I figure after a year or two of this people will invite me to fly from their land and make it rain on their Farm if I can. I'm already well-known person around here for riding motorcycles 100 mi an hour on gravel. When I fly I will have two plans one plan is to fly up in the air and come back and land near my car and drive it home. In every case every plan is I'm going to try to fly from where I launch back to my house. I want to drink coffee and tell big stories about flying through the air and almost dying every time until everybody in town is looking for me hanging from every tree coming out of every cloud landing on every road. That way if it gets dark and I haven't called on the telephone and found my way home they'll be somebody calling the fire department or the sheriff and tell him exactly where they saw me 20 minutes ago. I bought an epsilon 9 and I'm flying heavy on the wing like a gangster and I'm going to fly a trim speed everywhere.if your flight heavy on the biggest epsilon 9 they got you're a gangster and all from a small town you have to act tough when you're landing and launching close to the ground and everybody can see you. The rest of the time it's okay to fly along and cry because you don't know how to do active flying and the company said if you put your hands up it would be okay. I bought the wing in the lessons and everything from the school and I'm still doing the ground handling and it's coming very slow to me at the ground handling. I bought another Wing at a garage sale with a little bitty boardless seat harness. it's a speedway and it's small and I think in light wind it won't be able to pick me up and dump me like that big giant circus tent of an epsilon nine I have to learn with.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@thomasriedel2828 your reply is a real Spirit lifter. No matter where I show up the launch I'm going to tell everybody I just landed there and I ran into that haystack because I had to cover my eyes I was so afraid I was praying that God would save me here's $20 to pay for the haystack that I ran into. No matter whatever kind of wild stunt I'm pulling as far as taking off and flying from somewhere I'll always be able to talk myself out the trouble, much much more easily here than I would in Germany. If the first thing I did was claimed I was landing there and tried to pay damages the policeman is pretty likely to let me go and if they do take me in it'd be real hard to get the judge to be too mad at me.

[@JaysWorldTravels]

This has got to be one of the scariest videos to watch takeoffs.

[@FlyingDarkLord]

Great video! 👍🏼 Some edgy flying there though! 😳

[@ThomasDoubting5]

That's extremely polite way of putting , there's one took an with an a collapsed wing lol

[@jeremydorminy4510]

What a great video! But those wings look super scary for a beginner!😆 🤣

[@nachnamevorname5917]

I have heard of this place - must be Kössen, right? 😁

[@mikecoupe7095]

Ager spain

[@no0ffseason]

Half of the Kössen locals were there, so basically you're right 😁

[@mikecoupe7095]

@@no0ffseason 😂😂

[@pandrache5509]

hahaha@@no0ffseason

[@hansenpansen2314]

Great Video

[@no0ffseason]

Best scene for sure: Someone taking out Oscar, who then proceeds to close the window via his radio 😁

[@FlyHighAndDry]

You would never get away with inflating on the brakes anywhere in Rockies, where launches aren't all wide-open spaces, where you can get flung around uncontrollably; no trees, no boulders, no consequence; and a gaggle of personnel are there to try to catch you and shove you off the hill, lol! Absolute chaos! No excuse in 2022; time to discover those rear risers!

[@paraworth]

Nice Job Niall

[@ozone7]

I'm amazed to see the number of skilled pilots who think the most important thing is to get their legs into the pod just after getting airborne in windy and turbulent conditions, and still being deadly close to the ground...

[@sandy1989ize]

6:10 cobra launch at its best . ❤️❤️😍🥰

[@sandrainthesky1011]

That was my comment, why not more of that? I still consider myself a beginner and can roll cobras from tip to tip all day long. hmm

[@sandy1989ize]

@@sandrainthesky1011 keep up the hard work and happy landings

[@edivansoares25]

opa! parece as decolagem na temporada Quixadá br

[@adventureleopards]

I subscribed your channel. Love from Karakoram, Pakistan.

[@skeetzoid]

wow, PGs can launch in hang glider wind conditions??! It looks scary insane

[@TheGrundigg]

World championships usually fly in really strong conditions.

[@jadelfpv3839]

Todo un espectáculo si señor 👍👍👍👍👍

[@davidrocks9611]

cool video! what s the soundtrack called?

[@niallharvey]

Something I sling together for the video cheers!😝

[@davidrocks9611]

@@niallharvey track id? Please 😁

[@niallharvey]

@@davidrocks9611 it does not exist yet I make it myself for video 😜

[@davidrocks9611]

@@niallharvey love it man! You are talented. Keep it up!

[@icepeakengineer1702]

Looks like some of the harnesses were influenced by legacy V2 rockets design ;)

[@istrasoft]

why only 3 guys are doing a cobra launch with this wind speed ?

[@galapatours4279]

exactly what i was thinking

[@JonasPruessing]

I count 6 pilots doing cobra, but they didnt do better than the others. Condition were just to strong, thats why those task got canceled even before it started

[@JauLingChou]

I think I saw only one successfully pull of cobra, while it seemed for the others their first time doing it. Very face palm imo

[@sandrainthesky1011]

Yes there was only one real cobra, the others were tractor pulls IMHO

[@paraglidingmadeira]

Beim Accuracy comp. 500 Penalty Punkte.... bei der Landung. Werbung für den Sport kann man am Startplatz vergessen, heftig chaotisch

[@fingers1971]

Classic conditions at Àger take off. I see a lot of pilots that should improve their ground handling skills...

[@tryfly_]

Amazing ✌🏻

[@marciomoura994]

Top demais, lindo lugar👏🏾

[@FLadevie]

Puffins circus ! Seeing the astronomic salaries of all those guy, it worth the risk. Signed : Kylian Mbappé

[@cloudsculptor1]

No Cobra 🐍 launches ?

[@АлексейМ34]

Всем компетиторам надо пройти курс наземки основы старта 😂🤪🥳

[@marcioalvares6483]

Que tal puxar da parte de baixo da rampa,esperar uma caladinha na rajada e principalmente correr pra debaixo da vela. Vamos treinar um pouco.

[@AdrenalineWings]

what camera are you using here? to created the blur effect

[@niallharvey]

Hi, All done on the iPhone 13 Pro Max in cinematic mode. Mostly done on the fly, maybe 10% post production where I naffed it up 😜

[@AdrenalineWings]

@@niallharvey very cool Didnt know the iphone 13 did the blue effect when zoomed in

[@edelsim3801]

@@niallharvey top 5 paragliding vids ever. stunning! What is the name of the song? it´s amazing!

[@johannesreinhard9202]

Auch so kann man den Sport in Verruf bringen. Der Wettkampfleitung sollte die Lizens entzogen werden!

[@BG322]

That was truly amazing! I PPG, so seeing that many pilots in the air at once is crazy cool and scary. Thanks for the video!

[@matiasguerraph]

falta practicar mas el despegue ! o volar con menos intensidad

[@RapperRoms]

Amanzing

[@adventureleopards]

Many sort of Pro guys are also struggling with high wind.

[@Jdias76]

Muito duro! 💪💪 👋👋

[@benigj]

Nice video 👍 thanks

[@stefanmargraf7878]

Those things are not meant to be flown from ground...

[@Birdman953]

Taking off in an obvious rotor is ridiculous!

[@sza1985]

Can't believe, top pilots with such lousy take offs. Why no one using A & C technique?

[@pawelbedynski2308]

ehm ... these are two liners buddy ...

[@sza1985]

@@pawelbedynski2308 yes. That's the name of technique. Off course I mean rear risers instead of C. But the point is why no one is using this technique, is strange..

[@sandrainthesky1011]

@@pawelbedynski2308 ha ha ha that was funny!!

[@Birdman953]

I’m sorry, as an “old” hang glider pilot, the para gliders seem way too difficult to launch in basically perfect ridge soaring conditions. The problem is the rotor forming over the back of the hill. When inflating the canopy near the top of the ridge, it is at a height where the rotor forms hence the canopy collapses and entanglements.

[@thomasthiede]

Da kann man ja nicht hinschauen bei diesen Chaoten

[@ramses159]

Is it realy that hard, to launch these type of gliders?

[@no0ffseason]

In strong winds yes, they lever you out very quickly.

[@mike_tango]

They were launching in way too shitty conditions because mah precious competition points

[@manuelsantinmoreno1456]

The Guy at 1:26 make a realy sexy Start ;)

[@michaelasbach4662]

Der bei 1:27 hat es drauf

[@alleswirdgut238]

Bitte stell das Lied zur Verfügung🙏

[@BruceBusby]

Quite a few ozone gliders compared to gin.

[@berndkorthaus5082]

As a soaring pilot, I feel uncomfortable to see how those wings sometimes can implode anytime during a flight due to turbulence or thermals. A usual plane would not get a permit to be produced and to start with that life threatening behaviour.

[@SkidzFPV]

Most of those wings are “ccc” gliders which stands for “competition cross country” there is a rating system of how safe a particular wing is, it goes from En-A, En-B, En-C, and En-D, with A’s being the safest and D’s being least safe (but with more performance) and these ratings are done by load testing, shock load testing, and flight testing, the flight testing involves a pilot collapsing the glider and seeing how it recovers in different configurations, and stalling the glider to see how it recovers, spiraling, spinning it, and a multitude of tests are performed and how it recovers on it’s own without pilot input is how they get the A through B ratings. Now, back to these (most of these gliders anyway) are what I first told you about “ccc” gliders, they are the highest performance gliders made, and are made specifically for the highest level of racing by the highest level of pilots, now they only have load testing and shock load testing, they have no flight testing to see how collapse resistant they are, or if they recover, at the ccc level it is completely up to the pilot to be able to keep the glider open and flying, when they are open and flying they will glide faster and with a better L/D than any other class of glider but they demand a very experienced and talented pilot. By watching this video I would say that even though this was a high wind and rowdy launch site that probably half of those pilots shouldn’t be flying that high class glider. Some people should take a step down if they don’t have the skills or if they aren’t as current as they once where. I’m a fairly new pilot with 2.5 years experience and 80+ hours of which 65 are in strong thermic mid day conditions, I just recovered my first En-B glider (it’s on the higher end of En-B gliders) but still, I’ve flown a high en-A for 2 and 1/2 years and am just now stepping up, wish me luck Lol, but it’s still only a en-B, the second safest class of glider there is, but it does have more performance, a little more speed, a little better glide ratio, a little more dynamic handling. Hopefully I’m ready for it, I will start out flying it in light conditions before going into mid day strong conditions.

[@NunoFlyer]

For some "pilots" time to read more about ground handling and improve your fingers.

[@sirwilliamkarl5591]

If you can't launch it, don't fly it.

[@michimussato]

80% of the people shown in this video don't deserve the term "Pilot"

[@mikes6216]

Every time the wind speed doubles, the energy quadruples. Those were some wild conditions with rotor/gusts also. Not everyone can be as good as you in extreme conditions@@michimussato

[@michimussato]

@@mikes6216 sarcasm put aside, imagine licensed car drivers with comparable skill sets driving in the city - i would not want to be a pedestrian walking those streets. this is more the ego flying than pilots - @sirwilliamkarl5591 has a point there.

[@Roby-Bees]

Ozone tem

[@FlyHighAndDry]

Get plucked and pray!

[@danny-li6io]

This amount of people and air traffic represents everything paragliding is NOT about.

[@paralotnik2299]

🤐

[@ThomasDoubting5]

And there me thinking germans were logical lol

[@omgwtfbbq4792]

why do all these people look like they have no idea what they are doing? rofl

[@fly_achensee]

Many of these pilots don't belong to these gliders...Step back learn control step up...

[@leovieilledent]

i agree, but a fact is that so many people never launch in strong wind when they dont have to, beacause where they usualy fly is calm conditions, where i live we always fly with 20/25 kmh so we're use to it, people from the alps never go out on a day stronger than 15 km/h

[@fly_achensee]

@@leovieilledent Yeah you're right, but if you compete you have to train yourself into it. Otherwise it's funny wannabes craziness like this day.

[@riverrose3089]

Not many pilots have a complete game, might be rubbish on the ground but gangster in a climb

[@clubsnapperuk]

looked like a shit show to me

[@thomasnappo6309]

You have Absolutely NO control in this sport..

[@gmcenroe]

I guess anyone is allowed to paraglide in Germany, lol.

[@seppscholz5177]

Der Normaldenkende in Deutschland würde (wenn er die Lizenz hat) bei solchen Bedingungen nicht starten. Und wenn doch, weil er der absolute "Crack" ist und weis wie es geht, dann sehen die Starts nicht so scheiße aus. Mal ehrlich, die hatten mit Ihren Hochleistern alle mehr Glück als Verstand und Können!!! Ich für meine Person lass den Schirm bei solchen Bedingungen eingepackt. Das ist keine Werbung für diesen schönen Sport.

[@gmcenroe]

@@seppscholz5177 einverstanden

[@tartaria936]

Lot of gh noobs

[@paulus514]

[@dawid5721]

Ich nich deine freunde 🤢

[@Florian24]

Amateurs