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Subject: Re: [OM] more Power Parachute pics
From: "Andrew Dacey" <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:48:39 -0300
Hi Chris,

The place I jump uses a 1-way radio for your first few jumps (I think they
get you up to 10-15 jumps before they start you doing solo landings) and
talk you through the flight. Mostly just a little advice while you're up at
higher altitudes and instructing you to change direction if you start really
veering off course. Then they tell you when to turn into the wind and get
ready for landing aproach, and the final landing. Definitely makes the
landing a lot easier.

Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Andrew Dacey" <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] more Power Parachute pics


> Hmmm Frugal!
>
> I teach youngsters (well university students) to land a little
> glider-like aircraft (Grob 115E) and it's bad enough when you can try
> to coach them through the final stages of an approach and landing,
> but I could not imagine telling them what to do then sending them off
> by themselves to do it....
>
> I don't know what your paraglider gizmos are like, but teaching
> landing is the most difficult thing I have come across; even teaching
> pilots to shoot at a piece of aluminium being towed behind an F86
> from the back seat of a little F16D was easier ... and much, much
> more fun!
>
> Even more fun was formating on the aluminium target (the "dart"),
> which tended to whip around in the F86's slipstream, to check their
> scores before the next shooter had a go.
>
> Chris
>
> At 14:14 -0300 7/8/02, Andrew Dacey wrote:
> >More like a case of stalling it in a certain range above the ground. If
> >you're really close to the ground, you'll just touch down slowly. If
you're
> >too high to land softly and too low to recover, then you're in a bit of
> >trouble. Still, I've seen people stall the canopy too high and still be
> >relatively unscathed (then again, they were trying to stall at the right
> >height and just went a bit too early). I'd say landing without stalling
the
> >canopy is probably worse (unless the winds are high enough to slow you
> >down).
> >
> >Andrew "frugal" Dacey
> >frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --
> <|_:-)_|>
>
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> .
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> mailto:imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
> ... a nascent photo library.
>
>


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