THERMAL FLYING for beginners

In this video you'll learn how to improve your thermaling turn, why you shouldn't be keeping constant brake pressure when active flying, and how to be comfortable with collapses.

At the end I've got a method for helping you with disorientation. So if the idea of summer thermals makes your tummy churn ... stick around for the solution!

Thermal flying skills:
0:00 Thermal flying intro
0:34 Better thermal turns
3:21 Active flying control
5:43 My paraglider collapsed!
7:29 Finding the steady point

Music from Audiio: Atlas Gray (Monsters Dancing instrumental)

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[yirujiwang]

Really admire the instructor can fly while talking!! What a great demonstration of multitasking! It makes the flying seem so easy!

[RDPeakAdventure]

Greg...this is an awesome video....simply excellent - thank you very much

[jonas_vermeylen]

Thanks, now i finally know why my turns are so bad in a thermal!

[RoofAndAMealUsAll]

Greg goes so deep into it in this one! Awesome

[sameh.knani]

Love it ! What is the model of the camera you use when you fly please ? Thank you 🙏

[guilhermeb]

Tips to where to look during a spiral? Wing tip?

[PhilippeLarcher]

does the collapse advice apply to sketchy takeoff? (close to the ground)

[geu]

Well that helped me quite a bit. As I'm learning this stuff constantly worried about a total collapse. That certainly gives me reassurance. What I'm misunderstanding is debunking the braking feathering I'm reading on Superfly paragliding School they say they're debunking the carry your speed into your landing. And I think you explained it one versus the other but I don't think I really understood it. So my teacher the other day on the tandem did exactly what you said we slowed down tons right as we reach the edge of our landing field then we speed it up again really fast when we were just a foot from the ground and then he flared and I landed perfectly on my feet. But then I'm watching the superfly video on feathering the brakes and I'm watching them land without doing that technique by just keeping the glider inflated in the feathering process but they slowed way down and never speeded up right before landing. So again which is it?

[philjoyce]

What is making that piping sound in your voice recording?

[airgaborpara]

Thats why Sheesh Kebab is my favourite, helps when I really worry about hunger. Freakin bursted out of laughing on the train when I heard this magic world. :D

[mamatuja]

If you get high 1st then the thermals will not be intimidating.😂😂😂

[CoIoneIPanic]

Don't get too used to this advice. The mustache is going to change all of the defaults.