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Summary: An exciting combo of powered paragliding and go kart riding! Learn how to do kiting in a paraglider trike with power 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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Kiting in an Ultralight Trike

JCHAD BASTIAN: Hi, this is Chad Bastian, welcome to Expert Village. We're here to talk about the trike buggy and PPG triking with paragliders. Alright, in this clip, we're going to talk about kiting the wing with our glider. And we're talking about kiting in virtually no wind. The best condition to practice kiting and just taxing with the glider is zero wind. If you have a large field that you could taxi in any direction, we can do taxi practice. And that is, bring the wing up, and then to turn right, we want to bring the glider slightly over to the right, and then we want to follow it with the trike. The moment we roll back under the glider, we have to even out. If we turn the trike right first, the glider is going to move to our left and we're out of balance. So, we have to literally bring the wing over first, and then keep the amount of tension you need to with the throttle to keep the wing flying, and then bringing the trike to follow the wing. As long as you want to make a right turn, we have to keep the glider slightly to the right following it. The moment we're under it, we're back in balance, and we have to roll back to level. So, you can do big figure eights, practicing this taxi around and around, but make the glider go first, then follow it. When you want to bring it back to level, ease the turn up, and as soon as the glider is straight over head, bring the trike right back under the kite again. This is excellent practice so that we gain that control of the glider, settling it down in a taxi run, and then allows us to make a really smooth lift off into flight.

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