Low Wind, High Wind: The MOST DIFFICULT vs. MOST UNFORGIVING Conditions to Launch & Fly a Paramotor

Some common problems that face new students learning to inflate a paraglider in zero wind. Are you having issues? This may help.
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[@wallacefunderburk1059]

You the Man! I don't care what Dell says!

[@lifeofbassman7228]

Most of my take offs have been in 0 wind in a top80 weighing 185lbs. Sometimes They have had a small uphill. What this man preaches is true. We nicknamed it the whoop whoop. We just give three quick bumps on the power and then once the wings up gun it. My best was in 3 miles an hour of wind and I think I use about 100 feet from the back of my wing to where my legs left the ground. I see some lighter guys with moster 185s and nitro 200s get up in a few steps. Also what he said about the a lines is true. In fact he actually quoted my instructor verbatim.

[@PPGATL]

Great video Kyle! I've been flying for a while now and learned from a good trainer, but the arm position was a mistake I started making not long after my fist few successful post-training flights. I even posted a few videos of me kiting showing what I was doing wrong but no one in my local group could tell. Finally showed it to my instructor and he immediately asked why I'm giving the touchdown signal. "Arms behind the plane of the body!" I will be referring people to this video on future such situations. The hardest thing in in this sport is not nil-wind launches, that's only the second hardest. The hardest thing is the ground. I know because I have performed extensive testing. (But yeah, nil-wind launches are the most difficult thing.) :-)

[@paramotorpilot1749]

I've just started watching you kyle and I think your videos are brilliant. More Please. Thank you.

[@richnessofexperience]

Kyle O - this first part of this video saved my ass as I could not connect the dots about the importance of the hand position during a nil wind or low wind launch. I was botching my nil wind launches far too often. Thanks to you and this instructional video, I get it now! Happy flying! Stuart McGehee in the Pacific Northwest.

[@wayneppg898]

Good morning Kyle this video is exactly what I ran into at my local airport two nights ago zero wind condition and I could not launch I attempted it three times I will definitely focus on exactly the process that you are demonstrating hands back with the risers behind my ears and being ready to lean back and commit to the launch. I realize I was probably doing more like what your student was doing hands were too far forward

[@escalibore6368]

Great flying tips Kylo. Your videos are so helpful!

[@SmittySmithsonite]

Love watching you fly in that gnarly stuff! You're always right on point with the right moves - something all pilots should aspire to. 👍👍 After a long hiatus between training and flying at home due to various reasons in summer of '21, I caught myself burying the brakes like that on my trike my first launch attempt at home. I was wondering why the wing was lagging behind me, then right before it stopped flying I briefly noticed where my hands were - I was completely unaware! I made sure to concentrate on that the next attempt, and I launched successfully.

[@frankmount226]

I didn’t realize how good you were till now. Awesome

[@kyleoglee]

Thnx Styx!

[@brenthollady]

Thanks for posting another great video Kyle O!

[@craigbeavers8764]

Thanks for sharing Kyle!

[@warrenkral6562]

Another great video Kyle! Keep em coming!

[@ScubaVapes]

Good stuff as always Kyle!!

[@donlemen4250]

Really great information thank you.

[@shanesplanetshane3795]

Thanks for the vid Kyle. I need practice heavier winds eventually, but I'll wait untl I've a few more spare parts laying around....

[@lt.dansparamotoradventures2592]

Great content!

[@WillFly]

Enjoyed the video Kyle!

[@stanleydenning]

Good content. 😊

[@andrewflyz]

All I have ever done is forward launches. I've never done a reverse launch. I don't know how Kyle 😁

[@shanesplanetshane3795]

I'm in same boat. I ONCE tried a reverse in mild wind and almost had it. I simply buried one brake on the spin by mistake. I needed to spin and run as it wasnt overly breezy. Easy enough to correct, but havent tried since. Ended up forward launching for that flight. Im a fair weather Mtn flyer anyhow...

[@salqubeq5203]

Great content. Useful. And exactly what new students want to see. Lots of take off & landing in different situations. Next time a number on the wind speed would add more value. Thanks

[@kyleoglee]

Wind was zero. Check out the flags hanging

[@salqubeq5203]

@@kyleoglee Thanks. what about the strong wind conditions? were they above 15mph?

[@kyleoglee]

@@salqubeq5203 At moments yes, the strong winds were highly varied, and gusting. 10-20 mph.

[@macflyguy5166]

Awesome Kyle looks like an A wing. We're the trimmers out or in when you had the cravat?

[@kyleoglee]

Not sure, but it wouldn't matter.

[@vmlinuxz]

Those socks are sexy lol. It's so crazy that you guys in the land of humid can fly around the OD. On the high plains I just go have a drink booze when I see that. Virga gust fronts are so scary in dry conditions.

[@2011mendo]

Getting ready to get on this lifestyle. I however am old, new hips and knees, and, let's say plump!. So I'm going to the trike from the get go. Does this same info work with trikes too?

[@kyleoglee]

Techniques vary from feet to wheels a bit.

[@2011mendo]

@@kyleoglee so, should I keep watching!! am I going to get information that might put me in trouble in the future?

[@kyleoglee]

@@2011mendo drop me an email at [e-mail] and we can chat about it!

[@EvilKen01]

Hey Kyle I have a question. When a thermal or rotor dumps you and you lose altitude fast does flaring help stop your decent or do you just gotta ride it out

[@ohiyesa2328]

Thats why I run my motor to the ground when its thermaling. The motor seems to do more than flaring

[@EvilKen01]

@@ohiyesa2328 thank you, I think I’m gonna do the same when in windy conditions or thermals. It gives you another source of input

[@kyleoglee]

This is a loaded question due to the variable of altitude. With that said, the pilot impulse is the same. Upon entering a thermal, hands go higher to maintain glider overhead. What will come next is exiting the thermal. The glider will pitch forward. Be ready, and apply a braking impulse to prevent an excess surge upon exit. If you're near the dirt, it's crucial that the impulse stops the glider from passing you. Too much surge too low will mean swinging into the ground. It's why flying low in thermal conditions is dangerous. At safe altitude I let the glider go some bit further without an increase in risk.

[@EvilKen01]

@@kyleoglee thank you for your response! You are one of the pilots I respect the most because of your honesty. Hopefully someday in the future I will get to meet you. Again thank you very much!

[@newcastlevideoconversions6200]

Is it super easy to have a wing collapse and get a line straight into the prop? Does that happen frequently?

[@kyleoglee]

No to both.

[@n2daair23]

Nice socks😂

[@raventbk]

I'm too fat to run like that. Trike ftw.

[@collinssherertz7101]

Like a helicopter

[@TONYPARAMOTOR]

hmm. this is how I see it. you're an instructor. there's a wing behind you. then you say someone laid out the wing? why didn't you check the wing over the first preflight checks? then you would have noticed the cravat.? so let's imagine a student did the very same. because they watched how you the instructor does it? so the student launches .sees a cravat. but because they watched you. they carry on ...... but do the students still learning to know how to get a cravat out?? I am not impressed.

[@kyleoglee]

Maybe come to the school sometime before passing such judgment. This was a year ago. Can't testify to much of anything besides what's in the video. Maybe was me, maybe them, wasn't my glider so I was not seasoned on how it likes to be laid out. This was my first contact with it, and BTW the cravat wasn't there upon layout. It only showed up after line tensioning. It does seem very strange that you'd nit pick such a benign thing anyway. Have I rubbed you wrong somehow Tony?

[@Logan4661]

What he showed was that for a good pilot such a minor issue isn't a problem, and when they become experienced pilots, they should be able to handle their aircraft without freaking out. He also demonstrated to the wing's owner that he can be confident that he would be able to control it if a tip collapses. What your methodology would teach is that if a day one beginner couldn't pull it off, then no one should, and that any little issue is reason enough to over react, which is completely counter to the idea that practice can make one a better pilot.

[@Robbo1966]

Terrible content as always, cheers Kyle O, Great stuff really

[@verve6000]

Some great insights, many thanks for sharing KyleO 🪂