Comment on "Hang glider Launched Without Buckling into Harness - a hang gliding film by Greg Porter"
Had this happen once to me on a tandem flight. I had a hang check but no one caught I had missed my leg loops. I was flying a WW flylight cocoon harness and being young and st...Comment on "Installing a BRS (recovery parachute)- Preference / use by Country"
Hey Bill, good insights. Yes the vast majority of HG 'chutes are hand deployed (except some Tandem rigs like at Wallaby ranch that have full BRS types, and a few old rock...Comment on "EAA pushes for ultralight training reforms- Instructors plunge from 3,200 in '02 to FIFTY !!!???? More WTF"
...easy to do. As you know, John R. down in OZ now has a very light trike frame (no engine) for aerotowing with his ATOS wing. But a big tandem trainer wing on light trike f...Comment on "EAA pushes for ultralight training reforms- Instructors plunge from 3,200 in '02 to FIFTY !!!???? More WTF"
...simple. How hard would it be to make a trike without an engine and hook it to a big "floater" wing? All the equipment is there. We have tandem hang glider wings. We have th...Comment on "Tandem HG Pilot who's Passenger Fell to her Death (not hooked in) pleads Guilty."
...ssed Godinez-Avila's family. "I'm very sorry for what happened and your loss," he said, his voice trembling. "I did tandem hang-gliding to make people p...Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...s for different methods of launching and landing such as cliff launch, slope launch, flat slope launch, airtow launch, winch launch, truck launch, tandem, etc.etc. etc. It is to the p...Comment on "Tandem HG Pilot who's Passenger Fell to her Death (not hooked in) pleads Guilty."
...governing associations Hang gliding is unsafe. You got a problem with that? The family of a 28-year-old Mexican woman killed while tandem hang-gliding is suing the ins...