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Launch with main and backup releases which leave you with no way of releasing from the towline.
Commit to giving a 130% effort for just a few seconds.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.
1:43Rohan 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.
Set up to land in strong air with hands at shoulder or ear height.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.
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.
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.