Paragliding - How to Center a Thermal.

[@tamilkeerthi]

The way you shared the sattelite map along with your flying clip is very useful. Looking for more such videos

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you like it, I will work more on these, when I find time for it. It'll be a busy year for me, I hope I can get couple of this type of content out.

[@asobi78]

Thanks for all the pain with recording editing and flying:), please let us know how to make 3D view from .igc tracklog file

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you find it useful. There are quite a few ways to do the 3D from IGC file, sports track live is one of them

[@flyseb5690]

You rational explain the stuff I think I feel in thermals but could never explain with words. Well done and thx for sharing 👍

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you liked it!

[@medin.n]

Hi Karlis, love your video. How do you record your flighjt statistics? which app do you use? Which app do you use to represent that in 3D on the left side?

[@MarkvanEs]

Excellently detailed and well narrated video’s! You deserve many more subscribers, one of the best paragliding vid series’ I have seen, and I see a lot, as addiction has set in ;)! Thank you so much for all the work, and your passion! I’ve tried editing a bit and get a feeling of how much work it is. Well done, I look forward to more of your explanations and decision making. It really helps making all of us better (and safer). Stay well and have fun!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Wow, thank you! I'm glad you like the content. Sharing with your flying buddies will help to spread the word! :) I'm working on a new set of videos, and will be inviting pilots to go for some Cross Country flying to chase their personal best, with in-depth tutorials.

[@MarkvanEs]

@@FlyingKarlis Great! We will be staying a few weeks near Gap this summer (not all for flying, but I can take some days). This may be near you so I will take care to look at all the data and vids and will contact you for possibilities.

[@FlyingKarlis]

@@MarkvanEs Drop me an e-mail ([e-mail]) with dates and we can see what we can arrange. I am only an hour away from Gap.

[@MarkvanEs]

@@FlyingKarlis Will do so! It's quite valuable to have experts who can actually explain and teach really well what they do.

[@paulw1119]

Awesome explanations. Thank you 🤩

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you found it useful.

[@niklas7355]

Thanks breh

[@Oomzilla]

Awesome dude... Great commentator you are!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you enjoyed this video. I do my best to pass as much knowleage as possible through these videos.

[@WBtimhawk]

Awesome ! That was a looot of details packed into a small amount of time. Super usefull !

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad it was helpful! I will try to make next videos a touch longer :) I was hoping that this one wasn't to fast, as the previous one was even faster than this one! Do you fly around France?

[@WBtimhawk]

@@FlyingKarlis Looks like you could teach an entire semester of that! I've flown a fair amount in the Pyrénées where the aerology seems much simpler than in the Alps. But I'm going to spend several weeks around Annecy this summer. Which is why I found your explanations (in this video and a couple others) about the influence of the different winds so usefull. Looking forward to your next videos 👍

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad they are useful! Annecy is quite a stunning place to fly with it's own valley system specifics, also a very interesting place. If you get bad weather up there, often we get great conditions down South, just couple of hour drive away or so. I am working on my next video, this one will be about flying together and using each other for mapping the thermal and figuring out the size of it and find the core faster. Recently I did one on one coaching, we got incredible conditions for February, my student agreed to share the flight with my KZbin audience, working on it now. :)

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

The Man knows how to fly!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Thank you 😊

[@Hemersonr]

thanks for sharing!!!1

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you liked it! ☺

[@ТодоровПламен]

Super helpful, please can you speak slowly

[@FlyingKarlis]

I will try my best

[@chamanne1547]

You can slow the playing speed of the video in the options, it will slow speech flow as well 😉😊

[@chamanne1547]

Thank you so much for this really skillfully documented insight explanation, it's really efficient to share your thoughts and analysis like that ! I went through this exact same thermal and kind of feel the same, it was a delicate one to top up and effectively all pilot actions strengths changed on the way up as the thermal itself kind of changed strength and shape. It's great to have an experienced pilot's insight knowledge, we really fly with you on these kind of videos, remembering many experiences and the way we thought and reacted in the air while experiencing them. Excellent improving process you offer us here 🙏🙌🪂🌟

[@leinummazwei]

Super good explanation! Thanks! I found the interaction of the different wind systems very interesting!

[@FlyingKarlis]

To me understanding the winds and valley systems is the key of figuring out thermal trigger location and their drift through altitude. I'm glad you found this video interesting!

[@AnthonyMassie]

Great stuff as always - super valuable information here.

[@FlyingKarlis]

Thank you, Anthony!

[@ronandaudon4801]

Amazing your best vidéo so far keep it going!!!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Thank you very much, it did take the most effort I have ever done on any single video. 😊

[@FlyWithSergio]

Lovely! Thanks! You are invited to Spain if you wish!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Sounds great! Where are you located in Spain?

[@FlyWithSergio]

@@FlyingKarlis Tarragona, 1:30 h from Àger. 1h from Barcelona.

[@FlyingKarlis]

That is not that far at all. Next time I head that way, I will give you a call. :)

[@gonzatuerca]

Muy buena explicacion, excelente video . Gracias

[@FlyingKarlis]

Happy to hear it was helpful!

[@alexsakon]

This is great stuff. I love it.

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@TrinstanPrep]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@FlyingKarlis]

Glad it was helpful!

[@przewrotab]

Good stuff, thanks

[@FlyingKarlis]

You're welcome. Glad you like it.

[@Woodthreep]

Hello Karlis and thanks a lot for sharing this video! According to your experience, can you explain the importance of the outside break while you are thermaling? Do you use it to keep the tension and slow down the wing while flying upwind?

[@FlyingKarlis]

Hello Yo, outside break is as important as inside, I use it as necessary to control the wing. I don't have a rule of thumb for the outside break, in general I try to use as little break input as possible to keep the wing flying as efficient as possible. Flying upwind I try not to have breaks at all, sometimes I will even add speed bar to cut through a bubble better. I do use it to pressurize the wing if needed or to slow it down if needed. There are different philosophies on thermaling. Some say you should use a lot of break in weak lift to slow the wing down, others say to use as little as possible to be as efficient as possible through the bubbles. I use a combination of both, which ever works best at any given moment. How I decide to switch between the two is really just based on feeling of the air I am in. Also people say turn reversals isn't a good idea, but I use them all the time, so dose birds. It's a tricky thing to master or to teach, in my experience you got to do the right thing at the right moment. And really the only way to know if you are doing the right thing or not, is to fly in a gaggle and compare to others near by. And then the others has to be at your level or higher. :) Hope this answer helps. 😅

[@Woodthreep]

@@FlyingKarlis wow thanks a lot! May I ask how you manage the drift when the wind is blowing harder than the thermal? i.e. you let it fly more time upwind by releasing the internal brake? Of course, as you said, there are not always rules of thumb.. but any tip is more than welcome! Thanks again

[@FlyingKarlis]

​@@Woodthreep This depends, sometimes I go full hands up and take C riser controls, sometimes I will even add speed bar. Other times just a touch release of the inside break to stay upwind just for a moment before turning. The idea I use for this is as follows, if you are going to fall out of a thermal it is better to do so upwind, instead of downwind. It is a lot easier to get back into thermal from upwind position than from down wind. You will loos a lot less height getting back into thermal from upwind. Plus thermal tends to be the strongest upwind, as the stronger lift can resist airflow better than the weaker one.

[@Woodthreep]

@@FlyingKarlis great! Thanks again for taking time to reply to my comments! Cheers!

[@petermorris9284]

Yo, In addition to Karlis's reply, the outside brake is super important when thermalling, for example it is used to straighten up when trying to centre the core, so if you are thermalling clockwise but you know there is better lift in front of you, you can keep leaning and steering right, but apply more outside brake to straighten up for a moment, then take off the input and you are still smoothly in the clockwise turn but will have shifted your circle, possibly into better lift. Also if you are making a strong weightshift and brake input on the inside, the outside brake will stop you from entering into a more nose-down, inefficient turn or potential spin. Coordinated inside and outside brakes are the key to positioning and tightening up and loosening the turns, quite often you will use more movements with your outside brake than inside.

[@youtischia]

Very nice video. You show how sensitivity to slight movement of the wing can allow the pilot to take advantage of smallish thermals. Good.

[@FlyingKarlis]

Thank you! I'm happy you found value.