Most Common Launch Mistake in 2021

[@Yourbosskid]

I spent a lot of time kiting up and around dunes in high winds and it has served me well indeed.

[@smaddin7899]

Great vid! Well done :)

[@gerrydonohoe3888]

in the second example if you look to the right, the guy in the purple/blue wing is making an excellent correction during his launch to keep himself under the wing.

[@MattMcknife]

Well spotted

[@AriintheAir]

Love that! Hilarious! Great eye

[@nonobebert7646]

In the 2nd example what makes him screw the take off is the change of hands holding the brakes when turning toward the slope. Subsequently he lacks time to apply pressure on his brakes which prevents him from slowing down his glider resulting in an overshoot.

[@PhilippeLarcher]

still even better to adjust energy as Ari's suggesting

[@josephking7021]

Ari, I’ve been watching the best para pilots world wide for the past year. You do a fantastic job of making procedures easy to follow. I’m afraid to say I’m not a para pilot but want to do it badly. Age is issue but I’m trying to learn the basic “concepts.” So I’m not a total virgin. You really do a good job of driving home the moves, and explaining the where's, why's and what fors. Good work.

[@Bah4jc126]

SO GOOD! Learned a ton...can't wait to practice!

[@FullBar_Adventures]

What you are explaining is fixing a bad situation, but it’s not the mistake. The mistake they all make is turning around before having 100% control over the glider.

[@AndreyGreenYtube]

One of the best and the most useful videos about the launch. Nice done!

[@naxofruta]

Such a great video! Thanks Ari!

[@Logan4661]

It seems like such an easy and obvious solution, I wonder why no one has ever thought of it before?

[@madsloper]

Most excellent dude! Yeah, it's funny when I went to Sand City, CA. and the locals were like it's too strong at 12 mph to launch up high on the dune. They suggested I go launch from the beach, I said, heck with that. I've done high wind kiting at my P2 school, simply "depower" the wing by running to it when the wing is about 15 degrees off the ground. They all went to the beach to launch and didn't have anything else to say to me. lol Happy Flying!

[@wolcek]

Ari, you make it sound so simple...

[@TierOneLandscapes]

Great Points, but I noticed that the second pilot did not check (break) the glider at all. All correct points, plus a little break check, would be the fix.

[@hgect]

Great analysis. Please make a similar video for landings :)

[@TheSavacc]

Good stuff as usual !!!!. My goal is to be a kiting extraordinaire and forget the flying part for awhile...

[@AriintheAir]

You can do it! Move those feet!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

What my first teacher always told me: be a good pendulum weight to your glider! You need to be where a pendulum weight would be :)

[@daretocoaching]

Thanks for this video ~ lovely and clear explanation 👍🏼😀

[@Loader7272]

Ty mate. Safest operation. peace.

[@bradleybeck9978]

Thanks for the video Ari, great tips!

[@bodobotond74]

Old video, but I still want to point out , that in many cases where the pilots got a collapse at launch , was because they were letting go of the breaks, resulting in a temporary lack of glider control.

[@asldfjkalsdfjasdf]

Could that step under the glider also be accomplished by moving the hip thereby doing an on the ground weight shift?

[@MrKbtor2]

I like it how you explained what is happening...ie by moving to low side you are slacking lines so wing can rise. Epiphany

[@francoisappere268]

Great insights!

[@jakubvranacz]

Thanks for the tip. At 2:10, you say that it's from a channel Airdiction. I didn't find such channel, can you please link it?

[@luketheduke1982]

Airddicted

[@bertiekennedy6906]

Why do you take off with a handful of brake applied? Is it not better to be hands up with elbows forward and brake line slack taken up, leaning into chest strap to achieve maximum takeoff speed?

[@visitkhanpur9103]

Very informative

[@visitkhanpur9103]

Great explain

[@svensubunitnillson1568]

Thanks to Airaddicted for the Køssen takeoff clips

[@lucianosantucci108]

Excellent- thank you 😊🙏

[@paragliderandskydiver4408]

Excellent commentary. Thank you for taking the time.

[@shimansQi]

Hi Ari! What is your opinion on having two gliders --> one for GH, one for flying. When you only ground handle the fisrt one, than you cant handle properly the second one on launch. Right..? Thanks for great content, I like seeing such enthusiastic people like you :) Letu zdar!

[@AriintheAir]

Hi there! I like to ground handle the glider I actually fly! Just like I prefer to do SIV on the glider I actually fly. I don't 'save' my gliders, I use them till they're old, then I get a new one!

[@JohnnyFaber]

This is great stuff!

[@AriintheAir]

Thanks Johnny! Glad you like it!

[@markmcgoveran6811]

I love your videos I wish I was rich enough to patronize you or something send you some money. I would share this astute observation. What we are discussing is the transition from flight to ground to flight to ground to flight. This whole complicated mess is boiled out into one thing. Pendulum. When the wind picks us up off the ground we will instantly try to tip with the light lifting Force at the top and the downward Force at the bottom. If you have the wing filled up and it lifts you up off the ground when you are not centered under the wing it's okay. You will swing down under the wing. If you were too close to the ground and you are too far forward you can swing in hard and land on your back. Picture yourself instantly 15 ft above the ground with your wing in the same relationship you have with it on the ground. If you were 15 ft in the air when that Wing is laying there deflated and flat you would fall fast and hit the ground and the wing would be a little bit slower to hit the ground. If that Wing is on the ground and you get the wall built and a little bit of tension and then all of a sudden instantly you were 15 ft in the air you'd swing down on that wing and swing hard into the ground. Anytime you were on the ground ground handling a wing and you are not directly under the wing, it can inflate and swing you into the ground on a pendulum.

[@astoneadventures]

Thanks

[@patrickaubichon]

comment comment comment, hope you get more money from these comments haha :D Thank you for the nice video Ari

[@AriintheAir]

I hope so too! But you could be much more certain at www.patreon.com/ariintheair ;)

[@SAYMOUN13]

Junior Senior - Move your feet!

[@kyleoglee]

First!

[@AriintheAir]

My man! Rainy saturday here!

[@Loader7272]

Wondered about you since the last big blow. : )

[@aaronclarkt]

sorry bro less of you, more of gliders