Hang gliding rescue parachute opening

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

I'm impressed that parachute was able to deploy without getting entangled in the hang glider.

[@АндрейЗорин-е7г]

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[@gisall8205]

LUCK

[@ykdickybill]

Medals and applause to the rescue boat who reacted perfectly.

[@eelesey]

pilot did extremely well to deploy his reserve given his extreme rate of turn and the g-forces he had to withstand. The parachute bridle is lengthened to enable it to clear the aerial wreckage and behaved precisely as designed. The reserves are not cut-away on a hanglider.

[@Moontanthefirst]

Not sure about the reserves being cut away in any application. Wouldn’t that kinda defeat the object? 🤔

[@schizy]

He was coming down fast. That water landing was a blessing.

[@flybeep1661]

Yeah exactly what I was thinking.

[@DL-kc8fc]

These parachutes are always advanced quickly, up to 5 m * s-1. That is why it is good to have a parachuting course with training on a simulator for a special way of impact, when the body goes into an arc ...). Definitely the pilot should do any work, if possible different. That the parachute was not wound into the kite is only luck, not the art of the pilot, and the acrobatics were not in accordance with what the kite can withstand, so it was a big irresponsibility. Apparently he was a very young pilot and all that remains is to wish him a long life, because such pilots have a very short lifespan.

[@bastogne315]

I came down on a reserve once, landed going forward at 20 mph on my face in the mud. Lol

[@PhilippeLarcher]

planning more than blessing

[@doranjaffas7351]

Thou shalt not over stress that structure. Glad the pilot made it.

[@feastonmyload]

In this case it was the high g-loading on the base-bar (thing you hold on to)induced by radical aerobatic maneuvers (high speed entry into turns). Additionally the carbon base tube was apparently weakened by previous damage. This is one of the rare hang gliding accidents attributable to equipment failure. 99.9% are pilot error. A little bit of both in this one.

[@morrisl7]

doing aerobatics with a previously damaged peice of equipment, genius shit only a toxoplasmosis infected frenchie would do.

[@marcoscifuentes876]

Rescue was 100% ready! Nice job team!

[@dalent]

Wow, such beautiful medieval castle !

[@VTSifuSteve]

Castle Chillon on Lac Leman/Lake Geneva. I went there back in '83. Not to hang glide ...just as a tourist!

[@tkeforever4809]

I used to fly in the 70s in SoCal before parachutes were invented for hang gliders. One word for us… CRAZY!!

[@KandiKlover]

That boat did a good job of keeping track of where he was coming down, got to him right after splash.

[@timurg3377]

European IQ

[@brucedownunda7054]

@@timurg3377 Common sense where I'm from.

[@marka7831]

he was very lucky, during the war in Vietnam 30% of the crews that parachuted into the water drowned, and these men had training and equipment.

[@vicariouswitness]

@@marka7831 Bless their Souls

[@devillian2]

Or he almost ran him over,. depends :) According to what they teach you when you simulate these manoevers to get a licencese, the engine should be off already when your tight next to the person. I think they had to give quite some reverse thrust, but whatever ..

[@Mynameisbraulio]

That was just way too perfect; -parachute perfect -rescue boat on piont. He could have played the lottery that day and maybe hit the jackpot

[@paperclip7003]

It would have been perfect if the glider wouldn`t have folded like cardboard and instead worked properly throughout the show. So nah, I wouldn`t call people lucky just because they had luck after being unlucky in the first place.

[@FB0102]

@@paperclip7003 pull 50 g's on any glider and it'll fold like that

[@12vibaba]

just good preparation and a bit of luck

[@kennethsmith2758]

How did he deploy the chute? Seemed to come out of the aircraft

[@kavehvejdani8796]

@@kennethsmith2758 It's packed in the harness in front of your chest. Easy to pull out and throw, and is part of our training.

[@alexandervanwyk7669]

that's what test pilots do. Excellent footage, thanks for posting, from another X-hgp

[@Rmack137]

That's a ride he will never forget. Makes the gnarliest amusement park ride look like a baby stroller ride through the park.

[@marka7831]

this also happened at a small air show in the USA, he also used the parachute, the following year people were disappointed that he did not do his BIG FINISH!

[@scottfree2929]

*This was a real CLIFF HANGER! Boy had some altitude. Happy to see a safe landing.*

[@gordongonegolfing7129]

Soft wet landing and boats on scene makes a good ending, watching the high stress manoeuvres I was waiting for the fold. Great flying though.

[@tomthompson7400]

he was very lucky with that deployment , could easily have got a very different result

[@sammyl2071]

The most amazing thing is that two boats were there to rescue him !

[@sergeig685]

Boats on standby are pretty much a standard feature at acro events.

[@DrRachelRApe]

How is that the most amazing thing? Wtf?

[@Paramotor-nl]

Crazy pilot, I usually fold my wing after i'm landed.

[@marioperic8005]

😂😅

[@Ebone93]

Ballsy time-saving maneuver, I'd say.

[@spking4149]

He’s just different

[@HonraeLouvor]

He is organized landing with your wing folded

[@BariFPV]

LoL at folding wings after flight! Brilliant 👍

[@ameliarichardson9959]

What a well trained pilot! He was lucky that day!

[@donpage4275]

This cat just used up several of his nine lives. He better keep an accurate count.

[@jfirebaugh]

When something like that goes wrong, you have the rest of your life to figure it out!

[@tonyfriesen7775]

Great understanding of the situation in this comment

[@neatstuff8200]

Thank God for this outcome! I don't care what you say these flying machines have a limited life time and should not be stressed like a factory built aircraft built for aerodynamics

[@flybeep1661]

You speak from knowledge and experience or are you just babbling from ignorance without really knowing shit? Btw, a hang glider is not a flying "machine". Doofus.

[@VTSifuSteve]

These ARE factory built and tested aircraft. However, this happened at an international aerobatics competition. Top pilots pushing their skills and their equipment to (and past) the limit. That's why the announcer was there ...and the rescue boat.

[@mikebreen2890]

Lucky man. That deployment was far from guaranteed.

[@pipercolt1963]

Mike Breen especially with a spinning rig. it's lucky that the lines did not wrap around the wing before it stopped spinning.

[@freezatron]

to be fair there is a good chance he might have survived that over water if the parachute had failed as that spin was performing an auto rotation and was slowing his descent speed, rather like a sycamore seed, still though scary as fuck !!

[@bobg140]

he would have been unconscious by that time the way he was getting whooped around. probably would have drowned. just a very lucky guy.

[@georgehunter2813]

Lucky. That's the most violent energetic aftermath of a frame break seen. Could have wrapped up the reserve parachute in a hurry. Lucky pilot. He got out safe from the worst scariest situation. Lucky.

[@bipolatelly9806]

Mike Breen Sexist.... It was a transsexual....

[@JuanVanSteyvoort]

Congratulations to the organizator, to have planned a rescue boat, "in case of..." They saved his life !... :-) From Brussels, with Love !...

[@joeglennaz]

Truly! He could’ve easily drowned, especially if he had passed out. Those kind of G forces with him swinging around like that could’ve easily causing the pass out.

[@joeglennaz]

By the way, hello from Phoenix Arizona. USA.

[@feastonmyload]

no. This happened because of high g loading on the wing. Only occurs with radical maneuvers like loops.

[@sammyl2071]

A big thanks to the boat which calculated WHERE the parachute is going to land. Bravooo

[@jonathanpope81]

Flight of the phoenix ! Great job that flyer ! Thanks and God bless !!

[@cyrus2728]

once the chute opened he looked like an angel falling to earth

[@radium05]

"Oohh la la." The reactions couldn't be more French.

[@Doublejey]

and the speaker say "don't worry, It could be easy to pull his parachute"

[@PhilippeLarcher]

@@Doublejey I think the commenter is an SIV instructor (David Eyraud)

[@dolphinsc1]

To much stress on the frame. We've seen the same thing happen with real aircraft. The person that designed the parachute earns a big thank you.

[@JessHull]

that was a real aircraft.

[@c1h2r3i4s56987]

took a supercomputer to figure that huh?

[@michaelbailey8729]

It looks like the wing tensioning wires went.

[@garrystubbs4891]

*Too

[@ameliadiaz8040]

Nice snowy white rescue parachute!

[@dr.argentina]

friend those twists must have been very strong, amazing

[@catman4644]

kudos to the cameraman for staying with the whole thing instead of like some morons who lower their cameras to get an eyeful at the most critical moment and cause themselves to miss the shot of a lifetime!

[@petedavis7970]

With the exception of high-performance gliders built for it, hang gliders aren't designed to be inverted (upside down). Most of the wires that support the frame are set up in such a way to support a weight hanging underneath, not supporting a wing that's inverted.

[@pimplequeen2]

Lol, you stick to the rules my good man, leave the edge to those with an affinity for it :)

[@petedavis7970]

@@pimplequeen2 Knock yourself out tough guy. Put a hang glider through a move it's not meant for and prove Darwin wrong.

[@pimplequeen2]

@@petedavis7970 I do, often, nothing to do with being tough, its adventure and physics... You have done 100mph on a road not designed for it, what makes you so special?

[@petedavis7970]

@@pimplequeen2 Yeah, I'm sure you're a physics whiz. You're coming off all geniusy.

[@petedavis7970]

@@pimplequeen2 Look, you clearly don't know anything about hang gliding. I'm not saying not to do acrobatics. I'm saying that you need a high performance glider designed for it. You clearly either lack the reading comprehension to understand what I'm saying, or you disagree and think people should do acrobatics in regular gliders, which is advocating STUPIDITY.

[@Phoenixspin]

I'm happy everything worked out for him.

[@doranjaffas7351]

Disoriented, finally being able to deploy the chute after overstressing the hang glider. Crazy and fortunate.

[@petethewrist]

All the hang gliding and gliding I have done, I have only ever had one worry, that has always been about the structure of the craft and what it can take But thest days if you look at the old gliders I fly. I have no worry they are well strong..but then, I do not stress mine like this guy did,, dose???, Horrid to watch that, even though he had a cute, I never wear one myself as most of my flying is low down. Thanks for showing. Cheers, Pete

[@pawelwis7215]

More lucky than skills. Deploy at this spin was a miracle!

[@flygtur7784]

Really... waht do you know?

[@Rocksolid88]

@arpnlaei not only the G's, but the fact that the spinning wings didnt hit the chute while it opened. wow.

[@benedictearlson9044]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but he would have required great strength to pull his arms in against that spin and then to locate the parachute. You can see his arms flail back out at speed as soon as the chute is away.

[@MacInTheBox]

Doubt it. You have to be spinning extremely quickly to have that kind of resistance.

[@cariafraweb]

the video was shot in Montreux, Switzerland (at the end you can see the Chillon Castle)

[@aurel802mx]

Villeneuve actually, during a show

[@Paranoid061]

I really don't know because he was slowed by the glider but without the parachute the water don't give more safety,isn't it? I really don't know, Im just learning and I don't wanna try to probe anything :p. I think that the glidder was very clever waiting the moment to launch the parachute. PD: English is not my language, sorry for any mistake.

[@acrazedmaniac]

did the side wire(s) break?? or, cross bar? and why? nice footage! and rescue, very lucky to get his chute away and free.

[@petedavis7970]

It probably broke because he was inverted. Hang gliders are designed to support a weight hanging below them, not supporting the weight of the wing inverted. It requires additional support wiring on the top which, unless it's a high-performance glider intended to for loops and wingovers, probably isn't there.

[@TheGrundigg]

@@petedavis7970 This is literally acro glider international competition. Those are the high performance gliders.

[@stronzer59]

Well organized event. Rescue team deployed as he/she? was coming down 10/10

[@v.e.7236]

I've never witnessed a collapse like that before. They generally use Grade 8 fasteners, so that was some serious force on that particular bolt(s). You know the pilot had a nice adrenaline headache, after that.

[@keitharoo1962]

I can't believe he was able to come down with a parachute instead of a tangled, useless mess.

[@larrywest538]

LUCK...!!!

[@petedavis7970]

@@larrywest538 Kind of. Rescue chutes for hang gliders are designed with that risk in mind. Many are ballistically deployed so that you can fire the reserve away from the spinning glider, for that very reason.

[@Nashy76]

ive seen paragliders doing chute testing over water. the harness is heavy dont think id like to try it without the saftey boat. what gave way on the glider was it not to spec for aerobatics or had a fault.

[@skysurferuk]

Well sorted, must've taken SOME throw! Top pilot.

[@abz98]

Skysurfer hello

[@ОстапБендер-й7р]

Happy birthday to you ! Happy birthday to you ........

[@Yumbutteredsausage]

No clapping for his nice stunts, but full clapping for a parachute 😂

[@bradfiegehen7092]

Biggest butterfly I have ever seen. Thank God this person is ok. God bless.

[@VTSifuSteve]

More like a maple seed spinning all the way down...

[@1copperfly]

Holy G forces Batman ! That person just used up eight lives.

[@mikemarcott4888]

Great rescue and great team support!

[@did3d523]

the commentator is incredibly calm as if it was usual

[@helipilot727]

Surprised the glider didn't get caught up in the chute... looked very very close! wow

[@beginscratch]

no one speaking english and you hear someone say Jesus Christ I guess some things are universal

[@Pesquisando0b1011]

Beautiful rescue from the boats too!

[@mitchgruen2797]

What prevented the parachute from tangling with the glider as it was spinning around? Was he just really lucky?

[@jespersails]

impeccable presence of mind ...

[@mottopanukeiku7406]

Wow, the g-forces from that spin as he was deploying! Yikes.

[@Aluminata]

Stainless steel cables and aircraft bolts are, finally, only anchored in aluminium. Still, I doubt a modern glider would fail like this?

[@jeyapaulsamathanam7057]

Overdoing the aerobatics caused this crash. He was lucky the parachute didn't become entangled with the spinning hang glider.

[@chrisrundle3959]

No, overdoing the aerobatics caused the glider to fold up like a butterfly. Gravity caused the crash (splash, actually).

[@JonMcG]

If we ever need someone to point out the absolute obvious , you're our guy !!!

[@JRS-iq9pz]

I didn't know hang gliders had parachutes. But it is a good idea.

[@MsVasia123]

Чудесное спасение, правильный парашют.

[@ruf154]

интересно, какова площадь буржуйского парашюта

[@mikemarcott4888]

Salute bro I'm glad you got that bad boy out there!

[@johnhanson5943]

Lucky his chute didn’t get wrapped up. He was spinning like a top. Aerobatics in a hang glider?

[@flyHighAdventure]

Yes, indeed. Acrobatics with hang gliders is often practiced. However, it is better to do this with a specially designed glider.

[@mikemarcott4888]

I wonder if that was one of Betty's Pfeiffer Parachute

[@russelllowry1061]

Not an aerobatic category hang glider, if there is such a thing.

[@alekseistrelkov3085]

Thank God he survived!

[@НиколайОрлов-ч7ц]

Lucky this time. What will be next is not difficult to guess.

[@marcosandre1724]

A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION !!!

[@jeroenjansen2709]

Even without the chute he would have stood a chance. His folded wing went on autorotate, which slowed his vertical speed down considerably. That chute looked a bitvsmall though.

[@flugfahrrader]

This video capture offers an excellent tutorial on just what can happen. As a beginner to the sport, I am grateful to have seen this and what can happen when pushing the kite to the limit. The Schloss only adds to the value. danke fur sharing.

[@emanuelerangan5647]

Can't believe it! But, I was wondering, why he didn't drop the hang gliding before releasing the parachute?

[@jacobsmith4284]

Seemed to me like he was strapped in and in a death spiral. Not much else he could do in so little time.

[@sergeig685]

You can't just "drop" it. The harness is attached to the frame with a carabiner

[@and1111000]

Just a pity that a lot of pilots don't use a parachute.

[@JustinMosher]

I think I saw Wile-E-Coyote do this on looney toones... except he ended up a puff of dust on the canyon floor. Not smart.

[@twiglet2214]

" I bet that felt really SCARY ? "....." Nah,it was nothing - just a drop in the ocean for me to be honest ! ".....

[@acrazedmaniac]

ya!!!i second that! thats why mine has a 7 meter line of 5/8" dynema blend with a swivel on it. used to get crap from others back in the late 80,s cause i had a light weight swivel, 8,000lb test. then willswing started putting this really heavy swivel on theirs ..till i went way out of my way to point it out to em, that it could get ahead of the line or tangle with the lines with the type 18 webb...which most have (hot wire cutting) this lucky guy most likely has a short bridal for opening time

[@pimplequeen2]

It looks long to me, it only failed to clear the wing because it wrapped around the glider.

[@crazymxrider]

Did he have a malfunction on his reserve in this video? The cutaway is supposed to separate you from the glider itself? or no?

[@johnshufflebottom7907]

No parachute designed to bring pilot and kite down together the pilot could be tangled in wires or sail and injured worse if it was dropped while he was held up

[@Plateaudweller]

Hangglider parachutes are designed smaller allowing for the aerodynamic drag of a broken glider. This allows us to fit the chute in a small space in the harness in the dip of the back...just above the pilots hips...thus allowing for a much more streamlined harness.

[@mike61219]

How the hell did he manage to break the Glider????

[@Getoverhere666]

Oh la la! Magnifique! Bonjour! (I don't speak French, sorry, but I really liked the video).

[@rxonmymind8362]

I'm surprised there isn't some sort of emergency quick release that would separate you from the glider. It would have to be tiny explosive co2 carts or something of that nature

[@rheon78]

good demonstration of pilot control..

[@ian9toes]

Do any of the acro guys use rocket (compressed air) deployed parachutes? I saw these advertised years ago.

[@fuzzywzhe]

> why did this happen in the first place The pilot was doing loop de loop flips and the glider collapsed under the strain. The entire glider is held together by wires and is made from aluminum. Looks like a wire snapped or possibly one of the tubes buckled. It's difficult to tell from the video. Hang gliding is NOT a dangerous sport, but can be if you do unorthodox things like this. I have never desired to do acrobatics.

[@741741]

at other hang glider reserve deployments i see the chute is on a long bridle, i mean far away from pilot. by paraglider it isn't far away. whats de different?

[@jwboll]

"tranquilizer"... more like Paralyzer! Wow! nice soft water landing. Parachutes are the best!!!

[@abz98]

jwboll hello

[@Rowganlife]

talk about on point with the boats!

[@Nashy76]

landing in water scary how did you survive

[@ljsavmech]

surpriced his shut did not get tangled with all the filps he was doing during the deploying. and then not to have drowned. he need to know he is BLESSED

[@Parawingdelta2]

I've had several 'cutaways' from a malfunctioned main parachute and thankful, I could totally separate myself from the swirling mess above my head. What's the chances of that deployment not ending up as part of the spinning rig.

[@zippythinginvention]

Glider reserves shutes are NOT designed for a deployment in free fall.

[@Parawingdelta2]

@@zippythinginvention The possibility of entanglement is the reason why skydivers release (cutaway) a partially malfunctioned (ie not fully open and spinning) main parachute before deploying a reserve, even when they're descending at a much slower speed than if still in freefall. Without any specific knowledge of this particular sport I would think there's similar possibilities. ps. No requirement for the uppercase 'NOT'; I can still pick out the word in a sentence without the emphasis.

[@DEO777]

After the parachute deploys, is the man in the position with his head down and feet above him?

[@tomview1]

No - Harness will keep you in the prone (level) or "hang" (launch/landing) feet down head up.

[@toddsin8611]

Phew, it appears he would’ve been in GLOC quite soon if he didn’t get the chute out right when he did. Scary stuff, glad he’s ok

[@peterdavis2233]

Looks like the crash happened just off the shore from the Chateau de Chillon.

[@yannickdubois3589]

Château de Chillon sur le Léman???

[@plane3613]

Cite de vol de Villeneuve🙂👍

[@Hovermaster]

Would love to know what he was flying??

[@crooked-halo]

Was that deployment automatic? It seems like an extremely difficult situation to have pulled manually.

[@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

Manual. I'm not aware of any automatic deployment systems in use among HG or PG pilots. He was lucky to be able to pull his reserve, and that the reserve didn't get caught up in the spinning wings before inflation.

[@johnshufflebottom7907]

You usually pull it out of the bag and throw it towards an open space, an automatic one would just fire it out in the direction it was fitted no good if it’s pointing at a collapsed wing

[@joselares9031]

YEAH...¡¡¡ Another LUCKY MAN...