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Summary: An exciting combo of powered paragliding and go kart riding! Learn how to lay out a powered paraglider in this free extreme sports video.
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Chad Bastian Chad Bastian has been flying paragliders since 1993. He has owned one of the top US paragliding flight schools, Fly Above All, since 1998. He has since ope... read more
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Questions & AnswersCHAD BASTIAN: Hi. This is Chad Bastian. Welcome to Expert Village. We're here to talk about the trike buggy and PPG triking with paragliders. So, in this clip, we're going to lay out the glider and prepare it for attaching to the trike buggy. We're going to take the wing out of the stuffed sack. We want to orient the wing into whatever wind no matter how small, we want to make sure the wing is pointed right into the wind. In this case, it happens to be pointing right into the sun, so it's pretty easy to tell that. Keep the lines out here. We don't want to get any of these lines through or we've caused ourselves knots. So, lay that out. Find the center of the wing, put it directly downwind of the buggy, working along the leading edge. We're going to lay the leading edge of the glider in a nice arc from one side and the same thing on the other side. The reason we do that is if we pull the tip, we could easily cause a cravat in the glider; we don't want to do that, so we start along this leading edge, laying the glider out without any lines over. You can see a very clean leading edge here. At that point, we want to come back and just clear each of the risers. Primarily, we're going to clear the A lines going to the front of the wing here and make sure they're clean. If you have a little bit of a breeze, you can actually use the wind to help you lay out the glider by gently inflating it, and setting it down. It's a perfect layout right there and we're ready to attach the trike.
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