The Most Fun You Can Have Manoeuvring
Ok, I officially admit that I think I’ve caught the acro bug. After full stalling my wing 4 times and attempting SATS this weekend, I’m having difficulty picturing a life without doing these things regularly – they’re awesome!
The manoeuvres course with Chris Santacroce this year was fantastic as expected. I got in 11 flights over 4 days, and learned SO much everytime I got in the air. Accelerated asymmetric collapses, asymmetric spirals, b-line stalls, full frontals, full stalls, wingovers, SAT entries, and a couple almost-but-not-quite-there SATS made the weekend something else…
It’s funny, I completely psyched myself out of the idea of doing a full-stall after talking to some pilots during my travels; horror stories of being terrified while being thrashed around backwards, giftwrapping, and low reserve tosses made me cringe. But after replaying it in my head countless times, reading about it before I did it, and talking to pilots who have done it many times before, inspired me to try the full stall this weekend. It’s one of those moments when you’re as ready as you’ll ever be, so you suck it up and just go for it. I’m so glad I did! It wasn’t half as bad as I expected it to be, and actually thought it was kind of fun! Must be all that prepping I did…
My SATs are nothing to brag about because one rotation in a SAT doesn’t mean it’s dialled in yet, but man, learning how to do them was fun! Chris started me off with some SAT entries, and after exiting those decently enough, got me to do the real thing. I don’t quite have the body position and maybe mentally I don’t fully understand it yet, so the few times I attempted it usually resulted in one rotation in the SAT and then exiting for various reasons. This morning I spun my glider twice which was pretty wild, but kind of sickly enjoyable. You know when you land and you have that shit-happy grin on your face after flying? I was wearing one of those when I landed after spinning my wing, pulling the opposite brake, and then pumping out a wingtip with an amount of force I’ve never applied before – wicked fun!
Anyway, the course is over, and back to reality I suppose. One way or another I’m going to have to devise a plan to try some more maneouvers within the next few months because that stuff was way too cool. Meanwhile though, I have to start prepping for my (at an absolute minimum) 3.5 months away from home – I can’t believe I’m leaving again! On one hand I’m really excited, but on the other it’s getting hard knowing that when you come home you’re not there for long. The transient lifestyle certainly has its appeal, but home is where the heart lives…
But, off to bed to dream about asymmetric spirals, spins, and proper SATs! Paragliding Rocks!
The manoeuvres course with Chris Santacroce this year was fantastic as expected. I got in 11 flights over 4 days, and learned SO much everytime I got in the air. Accelerated asymmetric collapses, asymmetric spirals, b-line stalls, full frontals, full stalls, wingovers, SAT entries, and a couple almost-but-not-quite-there SATS made the weekend something else…
It’s funny, I completely psyched myself out of the idea of doing a full-stall after talking to some pilots during my travels; horror stories of being terrified while being thrashed around backwards, giftwrapping, and low reserve tosses made me cringe. But after replaying it in my head countless times, reading about it before I did it, and talking to pilots who have done it many times before, inspired me to try the full stall this weekend. It’s one of those moments when you’re as ready as you’ll ever be, so you suck it up and just go for it. I’m so glad I did! It wasn’t half as bad as I expected it to be, and actually thought it was kind of fun! Must be all that prepping I did…
My SATs are nothing to brag about because one rotation in a SAT doesn’t mean it’s dialled in yet, but man, learning how to do them was fun! Chris started me off with some SAT entries, and after exiting those decently enough, got me to do the real thing. I don’t quite have the body position and maybe mentally I don’t fully understand it yet, so the few times I attempted it usually resulted in one rotation in the SAT and then exiting for various reasons. This morning I spun my glider twice which was pretty wild, but kind of sickly enjoyable. You know when you land and you have that shit-happy grin on your face after flying? I was wearing one of those when I landed after spinning my wing, pulling the opposite brake, and then pumping out a wingtip with an amount of force I’ve never applied before – wicked fun!
Anyway, the course is over, and back to reality I suppose. One way or another I’m going to have to devise a plan to try some more maneouvers within the next few months because that stuff was way too cool. Meanwhile though, I have to start prepping for my (at an absolute minimum) 3.5 months away from home – I can’t believe I’m leaving again! On one hand I’m really excited, but on the other it’s getting hard knowing that when you come home you’re not there for long. The transient lifestyle certainly has its appeal, but home is where the heart lives…
But, off to bed to dream about asymmetric spirals, spins, and proper SATs! Paragliding Rocks!
posted by Veronica at 11:56 PM
2 Comments:
hi Veronica great to read about your flying adventures if your ever in Golden and need a ride give me a call.
lyle
Hello,
Again
So Today I actually put some pretty sick hydralics in my paraglider,im sure all the birds will be jealous haha! Yesterday I actually did a 780 degree turn on my center wing. The G force was 70 G's so it was pretty excellareating. I am just wondering if we are still on for that trip to the Yukon? I got us a hotel to stay in, its actually all inclusive. Whale Blubber is plentyful, and the Inuchuke are quite nice. But the only problem around the Yukon is the northwest-southwesternly winds.
Im sure we can concer Mt.jhkldk
Our goal is to beat "Trail Oakurs"
famous Yukon flying adventures
Ps,So how many pounds of trial mix are we going to need?
just give me a call.
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