- Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:50 am
#403208
Seriously though. I spent a few weeks in the Sequatchie Valley, mostly kicking rocks, watching paragliders soar. I think in a typical day there are twice as many hours in which a paraglider can soar vs. a hang glider. Why on earth would a soaring paraglider pilot switch to a sledder-wing? Why would a new student choose to study hang gliding when he can get twice the airtime in a paraglider?
I put the projectile vomit guy here, because I'm really impressed with the range he gets.
Bug fart thermals and mysterious micro-lift lines are real, they're just useless to me on my U2. You know what I'm going to say; we all know it. I want a hang glider with min sink of 100 fpm or less. You can't roll one that big with pure weight shift, so some kind of wing warping will be required. Someone will say that's not a hang glider, but when I'm boating around and that critic is on the ground, I won't care. While I'm fantasizing, make it no more work to set up than a Sport 2, and under $7 Grand new. Preserve the hang gliding experience, while getting just as much air as a paraglider. Then we'll be equipped to actually compete for pilots. By the intercession of St. Francis Rogollo, someone please make it happen!
I put the projectile vomit guy here, because I'm really impressed with the range he gets.
Bug fart thermals and mysterious micro-lift lines are real, they're just useless to me on my U2. You know what I'm going to say; we all know it. I want a hang glider with min sink of 100 fpm or less. You can't roll one that big with pure weight shift, so some kind of wing warping will be required. Someone will say that's not a hang glider, but when I'm boating around and that critic is on the ground, I won't care. While I'm fantasizing, make it no more work to set up than a Sport 2, and under $7 Grand new. Preserve the hang gliding experience, while getting just as much air as a paraglider. Then we'll be equipped to actually compete for pilots. By the intercession of St. Francis Rogollo, someone please make it happen!