PDMC. Without question.
https://vimeo.com/129857880Notice at the very beginning, how he comes into the frame upside down with his deadly soaring parachute underneath him. That's not an aircraft.
Was that little yellow, uninflated thing his reserve parachute? That's what a reserve parachute looks like inside the Paragliding Dead Man's Curve.
He might as well have been carrying this in his reserve container.
The u$hPa Insurance Chairman said:
Sure looks to me like he stalled it. That's what a stall looks like, and he recovers into a parachutal stall with ears pulled. It's hard to tell from the angle where we see the incident start, but it sure looks to me like he's flying slowly in turbulent air, fairly deep in the brakes. That's what you don't do, if you want to avoid this.
He appears to hit a thermal surge and the wing rocks back. What he *should* have done was to go to minimum brake and apply a bit of speed bar to "pull in" for speed. Instead, it appears that the wing starts to recover and as it gets overhead he over-brakes it trying to stop a forward surge, and stalls it. The wing drops back, the pilot swings underneath and the wing recovers. Why it recovered into a parachutal stall with the ears pulled in I'm not sure, but he could have exited the stall by letting up on the brakes and giving the speed bar a quick jab to get it flying again.
Don't fly near stall in turbulent air and thermals while near the ground.
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We have one thousand sixteen dead helpless falling humans on paragliders for a reason. It doesn't look like he's figured it out, yet.
"That's what a stall looks like." Ha, ha!
My hang glider always went up in thermals.
I never "stalled" it like that. Stalling is something a skilled hang glider pilot has to do on purpose.
And I never flew a hang glider that didn't have a gentle, easily-recoverable stall.
Nothing like that crap-shoot willie-make-it? death ride those lemmings accept as recreational flying.
Paragliders aren't really "stalling" when they encounter turbulence.
The canopy is losing its airfoil shape.
It then becomes a non-aerodynamic object and falls out of the sky.
That is not a stall.
That is a result of a stupid decision to fly something very dangerous.
Don't make up aerodynamic explanations for it.
People who actually understand aerodynamics will laugh at you.
I stepped away from freeflight for 15 years. When I came back, I saw that paragliders had re-written the language. It was ugly. It didn't make sense. They'd turned everything around to attempt to put lipstick on their miserable bags. When I finally understood, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end. It was suicidal mania.
Any hang glider pilot should run, not walk, away from the u$hPa.
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