Landing Approach for Powered Paraglider

Part of the Video Series How to Fly a Powered Paraglider

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Get ready to land! Learn how to make a landing approach in a powered paraglider in this free video clip on extreme sports and stunts.

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Landing Approach for Powered Paraglider
Welcome to Expert Village. My name is Hugh Murphy with Surf the Sky Paragliding. In this clip, we'll be talking about landing approach. A very important aspect of your landing approach is to make sure that you're aware of the wind speed and direction. When I have my pilots start out to learn this, is to actually, once they're launched, to come around and make as many as ten flybys perfectly into the wind direction. And, the way we do that is as they're coming around, they'll come in behind the wind sock as they're looking down on the ground, line themselves up straight down the middle of the wind sock. We use a hard deck of twenty feet so they're safely up above. Once they hit twenty feet, that's called their landing. And then, they hold that direction straight down the wind sock and, and notice how the ground starts slowing down because they're slowing down a little bit, but they're only coming down to twenty feet. Then, they'll power up and come around so that the landing approach just seems very natural. It's always into the wind, nice and slow, and nice and safe.

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Expert: Hugh Murphy has been a Powered Paragliding champion, but has since traded his competition days to be a full time instructor. His school, Surf The Sky Paragliding, has been featured in many newspapers Read More