Risk management in XC flights | Low save over a power line

[@ohakuneyachtclub8753]

what a fantastic teacher. !! i got to watch all of your videos now 😄

[@osmera_pg]

Another excelent video, good filming, cut, commentary, and what is even better there is not only knowledge, but we can see it in good example. Thank you.

[@timothee.gigout-magiorani]

Very insightful case study !

[@SkidzFPV]

Great video and explanation. Really like the combination of tactical risk and safety risk.

[@lighthunt]

Excellent talk. Also "Fly wings that allow you to focus on decision making not on piloting" should be carved to stones on every takeoff. I see too many newbie pilots lacking skills flying C and D wings and this sentence is a a good point to tell them as it says "you will do better flights and with more joy on a B" without telling them they are too dangerous to themselves or others which they usually don't care.

[@dymanoid]

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what you say, such pilots just won't listen. I've never seen people stepping down because of an advice, only because of a horrifying experience they've once had or (applies to truly experienced pilots) when they deliberately wanted to cool down.

[@tobiaspircher2669]

My Plan B routine is a phrase like "I'm going to land there now (Plan B), but first I will make a last attempt on this hill here (Plan A)". This forces me to an ongoing search for landings.

[@Hemersonr]

great content thanks for sharing your decision making process, plan B always!!!!

[@Hemersonr]

power lines are always great thermals sources...

[@svensubunitnillson1568]

leeside thermal close to powerline, collapses increases the risk significantly as you could end up in the lines or very close to them. supergood tips here and awesome video!

[@zapaugul7410]

Great video! Very insightful and constructive comments. I always have a plan B, and will surely have your risk management system in mind for the upcoming season. Thx.

[@JoarABTheflyingraven]

Thanks. I often risk asses to hard. Putting me on the ground when I could fly longer 😅

[@dymanoid]

I believe it's the right way to go. 🙌 Better safe than sorry! I mean, it's a pity to land in the middle of the day, but it's definitely better than hanging on a tree or crashing into a cliff because of underestimated risk. Isn't it?

[@alex-in-the-sky]

Great stuff! now I just need a tactical & safety risk widget on my xctack or more clearly in my mind haha ! super well explained

[@TimPentreath]

Great video and advice

[@dymanoid]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@StanBarankiewicz]

Sweet flight! Love Colombia XC. Made it from La Union to Piedechinche this time. Epic!

[@dymanoid]

Cool! I just checked - we even were thermaling together on Feb the 6th around 4 PM near Zarzal 😀 Already missing the Colombian vibe!

[@przewrotab]

Thank you, the video is very educational.

[@dymanoid]

You are welcome! Glad you find it useful.

[@tobelli]

Thank you very much indeed for these insights you are sharing.

[@dymanoid]

Thanks for watching, glad you found those insights helpful!

[@Munstermarty]

Great video

[@mikeparavelli]

Awesome video and great content. Power lines are indeed dangerous, but I must say they help me find good thermals as well haha 🙂Thanks for sharing!

[@dymanoid]

I am also very curious about why the best thermals are often so close to power lines 😅

[@AlbertoRestifo]

Excellet video! Thanks for sharing!

[@dymanoid]

Thank you for watching!

[@cedricpaulin2354]

Very interesting vidéo 👍👍👍

[@dymanoid]

Thanks for watching!

[@markmcgoveran6811]

I bought an epsilon 9 and the lessons to learn how to fly it. I truly indeed love your presentation style. Would you agree that high and fast, represents flying at trim speed, and avoiding proximity flying? I'm also looking at minimum risk maneuvers I think the less break you use the better off you are and if you can get a habit of leaning for your turns and not using the brakes more power to you if you have to break a little to steer tighter in an emergency it won't be too difficult to do if you have a habit of leaning and getting all your steering done.

[@dymanoid]

Glad you liked my video! Flying high and fast, as I understand it, is flying high above the terrain (with a lot of margin) without thermaling, just straight ahead. Not at trim speed, but on half speed bar. As for brakes, if you can minimize brake input while flying straight, that's great. However, if circumstances require, you need to be able to use your full brake travel to prevent collapses, which means sometimes even pulling the brakes hard under your butt. You can check out my other recent video on flying in turbulence to get an idea of what this might look like.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@dymanoid I love you for your thought out lengthy reply. I have a picture in my heart. The engineer designed the epsilon 9 is sitting in his desk. He's crying because another person committed pilot error. It says right in the book."if you put your hands up in turbulent conditions, the epsilon 9 will fly better than you can fly it yourself. However we recommend active flying." I don't have the skills to pay the bills. All I can do is sit there with my hands up and wait for it to try to shoot, and don't let it shoot. My best chance is to put up my hands, weight shift for all my turns. Fly at trim speed. As far as I can get with all my mathematical calculations, if you had a weight hanging instead of a person, the most stable thing would be flying at trim speed. I have absolute faith in the advance company engineer. All I have to do is keep my hands up and keep leaning back and forth and try to fly toward the good place. I need to focus on my roll axis control, and accept my fate on my pitch axis for the most part. My first landing I'm going to come in at trim speed. At 100 ft I'm going to unbuckle my chest strap and lean forward to keep my feet under me no matter what. I also want to block as much air as I can. I will lean forward and stand up. I will buy hard on my mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I will come in the last hundred feet with the wing perfectly level. When I get one foot above the ground I'm going to jam on my brakes as hard as I can and lean forward as far as I. No matter what I'm going to keep those brakes buried after I slam them on. I have a huge wide open landing zone at the school. I'm trying to turn the landing from a transition like a normal person does into a transient. If you do a low breaking action then do a swooping action, you come in at a nice flat angle. If you miss, you hit the ground while you were still diving. I saw a swoop landing a guy flew 2 ft off the ground. He flew completely across a ball diamond. Then he hit a pickup truck going 25 mph. I want to fly in a trim speed and get as close to the ground as possible maybe even touch and then slam on the brakes. I'm only smart enough at this point to keep control of the roll axis and slam on the brakes, less than 3 ft above the ground. Any thoughts on any of this? I'm always open to suggestions if it's something I could possibly do.

[@dymanoid]

@markmcgoveran6811 Maybe I misunderstood some parts of your response, but I read two very dangerous things there. Please discuss everything you wrote - every sentence - with an experienced paragliding instructor. Flying in turbulence with your "hands fully up and accepting your fate" is a direct path to an accident, no matter what glider you are flying (Advance, Ozone, EN-A, EN-D - it really does not matter!) Opening your chest strap 100 feet above the ground is suicide! Most modern harnesses use a get-up system, so opening the chest strap will cause you to fall out of the harness immediately. So I hope I really misunderstood your message, but my sincere advice to you is: a) talk to your paragliding instructor and show them everything you wrote to me, and b) consider paramotoring instead of freeflying - you fly in calm conditions with no turbulence and basically full hands up all the time, which is exactly what you want.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@dymanoid okay I don't remember the brand name on my harness all of the other buckles on my harness are black and the one on the chest strap is gray. I unbuckled it and I was not able to get out of my harness intentionally on the ground with no Wing hooked to it. I have to have my feet under me when I get close to the ground and I flare so if I swing wildly I don't swing back and hit on my back and get in a wheelchair.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@bubstacrini8851 pilot error is the number one cause of death in paragliding. Thank you for that is stupid of advice I'll hang on every word and I'm going to be a lot safer when I fly. One thing I've noticed about this sport is it's the most unfriendly bunch of rich people I ever met.

[@ripmanridin7092]

Just got back from Colombia...............

[@JohnDoeKyrgyz]

I'm totally going to borrow your concept of tactical risk and safety risk. A great tool to help break down decisions that we make in flight.

[@dymanoid]

This is actually not my concept, I borrowed the idea from Chrigel Maurer. I really like his approach. As crazy as his decisions might sometimes appear, he seems to make them after thorough risk evaluation. This aligns with my personal flying style very well!

[@Florian24]

Just wing it bro