How to crash a Hang Glider

[Tad Eareckson]

http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident2.jpg
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident3.jpg


Launch with main and backup releases which leave you with no way of releasing from the towline.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28872
LMFP Training- First flight from the big hill

Andy Long - 2013/04/22 22:04:00 UTC

There's so much to concentrate on at the end of the flight, ie, flare timing, that we tend to completely forget about our lower body during those last few seconds.

It takes practice but you want to be thinking about two things when landing. 1) The flare and 2) running if need be. One thing that works to remind you to run is as you are floating along about five seconds before your flare is start to slowly "bicycle" your legs... like you are running in slow motion in the air.

If your flare timing is just right, you won't need to run but a step or two. But if your flare timing is late, like in the video, you'll be able to run out your landing and not fall on your belly.

If you feel like your "age" is a hindrance to being able to run, here's a question. You got in the air right? So, how did you do that? By running!

And I'll guarantee you this. Your landing run, even if you flare way late, will be quite a bit shorter in duration than your launch run. My point is, not everyone can run like an antelope. But almost anyone can run hard for a short, three second burst.

If you commit to giving a 130% effort for just a few seconds, you'll be amazed at the landings you'll be able to save.

Commit to giving a 130% effort for just a few seconds.

[Steve Davy]

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11591
Where to put the weaklink - the HGFA rules

Rohan Holtkamp - 2008/04/21

Once again history has shown us that this thread-through system can hook up and the hang glider remains being towed by the keel only, with the bridle well out of reach of even a hook knife. I know of just one pilot to survive this type of hook-up, took him some twelve months to walk again though.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC4tdHAzh_M


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Release out of sequence.

[Steve Davy]

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27086
Steve Pearson on landings

Steve Pearson - 2012/03/28 23:26:05 UTC

I can't control the glider in strong air with my hands at shoulder or ear height and I'd rather land on my belly with my hands on the basetube than get turned downwind.

Set up to land in strong air with hands at shoulder or ear height.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?p=333704#333704
most painless way to learn

Robert Moore - 2013/09/17 23:21:41 UTC

Leave preconceptions about how a HG should land at home before you take your HG lessons.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.kitestrings.org/post153.html#p153

http://www.flyatos.com/bill_landing.jpg

[Steve Davy]

http://vimeo.com/22146182

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[Steve Davy]

Does this count as a new and/or creative way to crash a hang glider?

http://www.flytandem.com/accident/index.htm

3-11-16 3:30PM. Local advanced HG pilot with about 40 years experience reminisces the old days where one hopped into a glider on the sand dune without a harness. At the PG 55' hill (SW corner of the LZ) that is a 2:1 slope he does a successful flight like that and it works like he remembers. So a second flight is done, but this time a foot slips off the base tube and he manages to get launched (due to the steepness of the hill) and hanging from the glider by his hands he tries to climb up but a couple of swings of the legs doesn't get a foot back onto the base tube. The glider turns and dives and the pilot falls about 10' onto the slope and dislocates a shoulder. Another pilot drives the injured pilot to the ER. No 911 called. Full recovery expected in a few months.

[Tad Eareckson]

A bit. But we're mainly looking for deadly crap that's endorsed, compelled, required, forced on the pretense of making flying safer.

Feel sorry for this guy. Goes outside the box to do something creative and fun, fucks it up and pays a major price.

I used to do that all the time - minus the fuckup - as an instructor on the dunes bringing trainers back to the shop after classes. Sure beat wriggling into an uncomfortable training harness and doing it "right".

EVERYBODY should be REQUIRED to monkey bar early in Two training - preferably while harnessed and hooked in I guess. There'd be a few people alive who aren't if they'd considered the monkey bar option.

Kunio was able to climb up into the control frame - miraculously - and should've come out smelling like a rose. He didn't get scratched as a direct consequence of the unhooked launch. He got killed 'cause he was afraid to kick his feet out / drop his butt back / hang back from the control frame instead of supporting all his weight on it. Put the glider into an oscillating dive which was steeper than the slope and ejected a few feet too low for his parachute to do him any good. Poor guy used up two lives on that one - all he had.

He could've even hooked in and continued with the original flight plan. That's been done. There was a film from, I think, a tail camera on probably a Torrey unhooked launch in the early Eighties. I think the guy turned off the camera after hooking in and before proning out.

You can also use monkey barring to deal with noncritical but painful shit like misrouted suspension lines.

Flared dead stop landings are brain dead easy. Kick out all the way, stop, hop back.
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2022/05/12 05:00:00 UTC

Kunio WASN'T able to climb up into the control frame.