Thermal Hunting: Finding thermal sources and trigger points

[@RoofAndAMeal4UsAll]

I'm a paraglider pilot wanna-be & think that this is the best illustration of the true nature of thermals that I have ever seen.

[@flajflaj]

Due to corona-limitations to our sport I order you to upload more, and more, and more! To me it's like a medicine :D.

[@tobiasfeil1993]

Greg, you're an ABSOLUTE LEGEND. You're not just a great teacher who manages to put the mysteries of successful paragliding into simple terms, but how you enjoy flying is also absolutely contagious. Can't wait to finish my license in a month; till then, your videos greatly help making time pass. Greetings from Germany 👌

[@flybubbleparagliding]

Glad to help!

[@nicolaesasu]

This video made me miss flying even more! I regret all the times I was too lazy to go out, hike up to the top and fly! Thanks Greg for another awesome video! Hope the training for X-Pyr did not stop due to these troubling events.

[@guilhermeb7615]

I absolutely love this videos.. the first one was really nice too.. I keep growing my flight skills with your help.. many thanks!

[@dennisshen4388]

Thanks!

[@julianlauterfeld6273]

Thank you so much, sometimes I just watch your Videos to smooth my soul :D Everyone stay safe

[@irockluculent961]

Thank you. I learned so much from these few minutes, given the constant clear explanation of what you are doing and why.

[@nigelwaller6171]

excellent........really informative and good to see your decision making process

[@maiorfly]

Great Greg! Amazing landscape

[@kyleoglee]

Vlogging and thermalling is much more difficult than you make it seem Greg. Bravo sir!

[@TasteBudJunkie]

Very interesting video. Great explanations. 🤜🏻🤛🏼

[@LernGuru]

More dreaming in lockdown. Excellent Greg'splanation. I love Your videos, Greg. Always something to learn, always inspiration.

[@MrCoolcool666]

Thanks Bubble guys! I need as much thermaling help as i can get!

[@AddictionHappiness]

Can’t wait to start hunting again!! 🤩 Lovely as always 👌🙌

[@shaneross7428]

Your videos are so amazing you're such a blessing thank you.

[@transilvaniak8485]

Thanks mate! This is exactly the type of video I was looking for! To learn and understand the thermals the dynamics of wind and air as I am getting into speed flying/riding and to learn how to avoid certain areas and what to expect in others. Thank you so much and please keep them coming! (I am getting to courses as well, more of them since there are more levels...) Well done mate!

[@scottjulius2834]

Great video well-presented thank you so much

[@adamedgar5765]

I love this kind of video where you are illustrating exactly what triggers you are looking for. More please...much more! just what the corona virus social distancing specialist prescribed!

[@Oomzilla]

I'm off out to fly now. Thanks for the refresher, I wish I could be less panicked about sink! Need to work on working the thermals more and chilling out more. 👍

[@xcflyingxcflying6398]

Nice video

[@adaltianno]

Great video & demo. Would love to see data on the screen in correlation with the beeps (alt and maybe Google map positions)

[@ANNAI89]

thanks for your sharing. I appreciate it.

[@rowill2968]

great coaching. Thanks

[@crimsonraen]

Hey, thanks for the video! This was definitely helpful. :)

[@martymcfly3352]

Thanks Greg, very detailed instruction and editing!

[@fredericjaquet3729]

Thank you Greg !

[@rickford8333]

Thanks Greg.

[@nikwayman4337]

thank you so much for your videos. great

[@ericgubler494]

I enjoyed it very much especially when I just bought a new Cure2 that should help a lot thanks

[@oviniciusmansur]

Very nice! Thank you!

[@Bob_just_Bob]

I was doing this a little bit the other day but got too nervous that I might not make it to the landing field if I couldn’t get the lift. Good that I abandoned the search when I did

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Hi Greg wish i could get out there... hope you are doing well. Being an outdoors person as well i know how hard this is for everyone...

[@severinbechtold1873]

Awesome, some more excellent flying tips 😁

[@ChipperWilliams]

Loved it

[@olliesatcamber]

More like this. 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@huepix]

Flying for nearly 4 years. Mostly coastal Had some great thermal flights but still a novice. Finding one is still a bit hit and miss. I think I'm turning to fast at times. I've learned I need to be patient and really work every good one I find.

[@SemiFlyingPharmacist]

Great video, as usual! :) Thanks for all the effort! :)

[@LittleNoiseBoy]

Thanks Greg: we will cherish our civil liberties as well as the special freedoms of our flying all the more in the wake of all of this...

[@goodwill7643]

Hello Flybubble, Would you make video about wather condition. How you decide when you can and when you should not to fly? At least which weather condition is safe according to you. Thank you

[@SerbanOprescu]

Beep, beep beep on flying bubbles! Nice! More seriously, every parcel of land has its own aerodynamic characteristics. A good study before flying - maybe even an hour of staring at the landscape and seeing how the wind is moving - would do wonders for a long and safe flight.

[@Andyg2g]

May I ask what vario you are using in this video? I quite like that the beeps are less offensive than other varios I have heard.

[@PhilippeLarcher]

I need hours of this haha

[@nicolausefferoth4305]

I like!

[@MrAndilethwala]

how do you tell the direction of the wind at height. Especially a distance from the launching site, with no windsock in site?

[@bravooz852]

Hey I wonder where thermal could be located in small areas near beaches cause me and my brother can't find any on our area!

[@spirisoull]

i am just in the beginning and I have a question. how the places make thermal?!

[@ladduro]

How did you attached the vario to the risers?

[@erikatakeuchi5074]

Love your videos! I added a few subtitles in Japanese to your videos including this one, so please check them.

[@jakubvranacz]

Wow, you turn really fast. Average turn in 15 seconds including finding the core. 2:52 start of turn 3:07 (15 s) 3:20 (13 s) 3:32 (12 s) 3:43 (11 s) 3:54 (11 s) 4:11 (17 s) 4:26 (15 s) 4:38 (12 s) 4:56 (18 s) 6:15 start of turn 6:32 (17 s) 6:46 (14 s) 7:03 (17 s) 7:23 (20 s) 7:42 (19 s) 7:54 (12 s) 8:10 (16 s)

[@ThibaultROHMER]

16s for a turn is recommended (4s for 1/4)

[@bernardbernardin5187]

I've bombed out at 12 or 13 o' clock in Piketberg, Porterville and Bain's Kloof Pass. Is South Africa always so hard? Northern Alps seems a lot easier to me.

[@niconico3907]

It depends on which mountain face you take off. If you launch on west face before mid day, it will be hard. If you launch on south east face before mid day, you will fly much better. It also depend on how much time difference there is between true solar mid day and official mid day. Depend on weather, humidity, night temperature, season...

[@wenigdabei]

great work! +1like +

[@toddeisenhauer7477]

What is beeping?? Altimeter? I enjoy your videos. Something I would really like to do

[@CarlMarvin]

The beeping is a variometer. It is reading the lift rate via a pressure sensor, as our bodies can only sense acceleration, not a constant velocity. Once we're in constant lift, we can only use our vision to sense that we are still going up, hence having a variometer to let us know that we're still going up.

[@ozturk_4000]

Thanks for the Turkish translation

[@krekn7785]

Where was this filmed?

[@markwallace9441]

👍

[@gestionambiental5746]

parce girabas muchas decendentes ,falta persivir un poco mas la deriva de la termica y centrarse mas en su nucleo

[@toddmphoto]

Can someone explain the beeping to me? Thank you!!

[@toddmphoto]

Thanks for the great response!👍

[@whaaaattthe]

Do you not think that changing directions while trying to center a thermal is a bad idea? I was always taught that changing directions is a no-no. That philosophy seemed to hold true when you changed directions, you lost the thermal and spent a lot of time trying to regain it. I am not criticizing just trying to understand, as I come from sailplanes, and I am trying to learn the paraglider ways.

[@devilsadvocate1338]

Your like the wind master or something

[@nonobebert7646]

I don't understand the notion of thermal triggers.

[@nonobebert7646]

@@flybubbleparagliding Thanks for your reply. I'll read it and let you know.

[@CanalEdusteppenwolf]

Greg, I can do better!!!!! :) :) :) Just joking!