I can see France!

[@siskygod44]

Brilliant flight, and that low save over the farm! Amazing 😃👍

[@TimPentreath]

Cheers Si, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t. This time it worked, phew!!!

[@sebastianlee119]

Awesome flight, congratulations! Thanks for sharing with such a good edit, I loved it! :)

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Seb, glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻👍🏻

[@frosty2331]

You came over my house in worthing and again tim brilliant flying and what a low safe you had it's what life is all about well done mate

[@TimPentreath]

Cheers Frosty, it was such a memorable flight!

[@edelsim3801]

Amazing flight, wow! In the 90’s Robbie Whittall and Bruce Goldsmith had to go to Namibia to do this kind of XC. Stunning.

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, it’s definitely one of my most memorable flights 👍🏻

[@kelvinvanbaalen6495]

They had gliders with 5:1 glide ratio though haha

[@sveinbjrneseth35]

Fantastic flight by the coast!!! Tnx for sharing!!

[@TimPentreath]

Thank you Svein, glad you enjoyed it!

[@carlosvomkulm6382]

It likes how a man win e ultra iron man by this real emotions from happy hormones. :-D big flight, i love the flathland flights from you. I will come 2023 :-D

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks for your kind words Carlos 👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidsnowden135]

Just Stunning.. !!!!

[@TimPentreath]

Cheers Snowy 👍🏻👍🏻

[@scenicsteve]

Fantastic flight Tim and really enjoyed the commentary. You flew over my home in Seaford and where I fly on the South Downs. Amazing views!!

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! As you say, the views were incredible!

[@renesanceo5853]

Un resultat bien mérité. ✌️👍

[@TimPentreath]

Merci René!

[@m1kalD]

Another riveting video.... thank you

[@TimPentreath]

Glad you enjoyed it Michael 👍🏻

[@LaurenMartins]

I was flying my falcons on this very day exactly where you found that weak climb at the 200km mark! It's amazing that I didn't see you! What a coincidence. I also saw France on my paragliding flight from devil's dyke to Margate in 2013, nobody believed me 🤣🤣

[@TimPentreath]

That would have been at 1710 so maybe you had left by then? Shame you didn't spot me...

[@samtolton]

Such a sweet flight, I enjoyed every minute of that. You flew over quite a few of my regular flying sites and I spotted my house in Shoreham 😁

[@TimPentreath]

Haha, that's great, glad you enjoyed it... Shoreham seems like a cool place, both from the air (!) and when we explored it a few years ago...

[@arinascimentorosa505]

Que voaço !!! Congratulations !!!

[@TimPentreath]

Thank you Ari, it was one of my most memorable flights ever!

[@elliotbradshaw4739]

Amazing

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Eliot, it was such a special flight! Look out for an article on advance.swiss about it this week!

[@advanceparagliders]

Such a spectacular experience!

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks guys! (Alex?)

[@advanceparagliders]

@@TimPentreath Exactly :)

[@FlyRusty]

I can see clearly now that France comes into view.

[@TimPentreath]

very good!

[@steveshovlar994]

Spectacular in the extreme Tim. Loved watching every minute of it. 👏👍

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Steve, glad you enjoyed it!

[@chestyoz9725]

So awesome, watched every second

[@TimPentreath]

Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed it!

[@stephanebertrand-pellisson5206]

Well done mate ! 👍🏻

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Stephane!!

[@Kungfu_of_Evolution]

I love this video !!! Thank you

[@TimPentreath]

Thankyou Hervé

[@andreasfalkenburg7586]

Congrats Tim, what a brillant and scenic flight 👍😍👍 @ Audio in HD is perfect now... 👏

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Andreas 👍🏻😂

[@lifeintheair22]

que vuelazoooo ,Bravoooo

[@TimPentreath]

Gracias 👍🏻👍🏻

[@chopiess]

great flight man

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks, that and the flight down to Portland Bill (“Mission Impossible”) were my highlights of the year

[@sublimety]

Congrats, Epic flight ! and video. Was worth waiting :)

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

[@diccoo32]

What a brilliant flight and video! Many congratulations!

[@TimPentreath]

Thankyou!!

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

Yep still early. I'm gonna wait until tomorrow. Let this thing process. Just finished a 200+km out and return flight yesterday :)

[@TimPentreath]

Congrats!

[@TimPentreath]

It’s ready!

[@horaciorivara1240]

Congrats from Argentina!

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Horacio 👍🏻👍🏻

[@nanotech2691]

Awesome flight man.

[@TimPentreath]

Cheers 👍🏻👍🏻

[@tonysherrington3137]

brilliant flight Tim superb views

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks Tony!

[@ralphvanthoff]

Epic Tim, great effort! Thoroughly disappointed no ice cream after landing though ;-)

[@TimPentreath]

I know, I really let the side down there, but I didn’t fancy a beach landing, and I can’t swim yet because of the wound on my leg which is still healing…

[@jakubvranacz]

46:55 “I can actually see France!”

[@NevilleStyke]

2009', Shoreham, actually. I got to 5000' over Dover harbour, when flying a hangie down the coast and could see France, looking in reach. I took a picture with an Instamatic film camera (no digital cameras, in those days) but the definition was too poor to see it in the picture.

[@blaz667]

Awsome video as always.

[@TimPentreath]

Thanks!!

[@blaz667]

@@TimPentreath One question. What GoPro settings do you use?

[@TimPentreath]

1080x60, Lens=Wide, HyperSmooth=High, EV Comp=-0.5, Color=GoPro, everything else default

[@blaz667]

@@TimPentreath Great, thank you. 👍

[@sza1985]

Awesome Incredible 👌 flight and video. It had everything in it. One question, why do you tap right carabiner from time to time? Felt some kind of a gesture for some device, or was it something else

[@TimPentreath]

Hi Zuhaib, thanks for your comment and question, and well spotted. The XCTracer Maxx will switch screens if you double-tap (or single tap if that’s how you’ve set it) either the the unit itself, or the risers. Pretty handy really 😂 Glad you enjoyed the vid!!

[@Vais-]

👍💪

[@TimPentreath]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@peterparaglides]

May I ask what magic you use on your helmet mounted footage in order to get it so smooth? I have a terrible problem where I whip my head around to look at things and the footage comes out quick and jerky.

[@TimPentreath]

Sure, it’s a GoPro 8 on Wide with Hypersmooth = High

[@peterparaglides]

@@TimPentreath Thanks!

[@christianpetit3163]

Le Bonjour de la France, Cela a l'air tellement simple ! Il y a 32 ans que je vole et malgré tout tu me fais toujours rêver. As tu déjà volé sur Millau ? Si tu as l'occasion, viens, on y fait de super vols de plaine. 👍

[@TimPentreath]

Salut Christian, merci pour vos bons mots ! Je suis sûr que ça a l'air plus facile sur la vidéo que ça ne l'est en réalité... Non, je n'ai pas volé à Millau, mais ça a l'air charmant - un jour j'espère !

[@MikeJTPG]

What GoPro are you using Tim? Is it with the media-mod, and are you using an external battery as backup?

[@TimPentreath]

It’s the 8 with a “windslayer” foam cover. No media-mod. And yes I do use an external battery. Every now and then it freezes and I have to remove the internal battery briefly to reset it…

[@MikeJTPG]

@@TimPentreath cheers. I tried the media mod on the 10 for the external mic, but it’s unreliable as hell with the external battery plugged in. Running it without for now.

[@MikeJTPG]

Loved the vid. 😀

[@emiliegraille508]

You could've say hi to my parents for me while you could see France 🤣

[@TimPentreath]

😂 hope things are good with you Emilie 👍🏻

did you upload on SportsTrackLive your flight so we could study it on 3D (Ayvri is going to close)? Brillant Climbing outstanding view!

[@TimPentreath]

I’ll try and give it a go today 👍🏻

[@TimPentreath]

Hi Cedric, here's the animation - www.sportstracklive.com/en/scene/3b7d36c8-6de4-4bcb-bc9d-b9fe0a583ce5/

@@TimPentreath Thanks for sharing it

[@nanotech2691]

So how do you go about planning a flight like that? Did Advance sponsor it?

[@TimPentreath]

Nope, just lob off and hope for the best 😂 In all seriousness, I had actually planned the flight and had originally set a goal at Eastbourne but changed it after a couple of other pilots said they were setting a goal of Devil's Dyke, which is a flying site north of Brighton. But I'd looked at the boundary level winds hour by hour through the day and figured out that that's where I could potentially get to given the forecast and lack of sea breeze pushing inland, and amazingly that's what happened! I'm a member of the Advance Ambassadors Team - see www.advance.swiss/en/brand/ambassadoren

[@nanotech2691]

@@TimPentreath oh OK, that's interesting. Thanks for sharing 😁 yeah I would like to do some cross country flights but without a driver I'm not too sure about doing that.

[@TimPentreath]

@@nanotech2691 Yeah, we’re lucky here with a good network of railway stations which makes getting home a lot easier

[@nanotech2691]

@@TimPentreath so I am new to the channel and don't know much about your flights. How often do you go out to fly?

[@TimPentreath]

@@nanotech2691 Generally once a week during the summer, or maybe twice a week if it's good, but sometimes only once a month... but I have been flying for 32 years so don't feel the urge to go out on every flyable day...

[@andreasfalkenburg7586]

...no audio ???

[@TimPentreath]

It's still running checks so only 360p available right now, but that has audio on my laptop... Suggest you try again in 30 mins

[@TimPentreath]

HD versions now ready!