D-bag from Dragonfly Ultralight, Aspen 2 Freestyle
by erlendmc 16 years ago
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D-bag from Dragonfly Ultralight with Gradient Aspen 2 Freestyle 20m2 paraglider. 57km/h exit speed. Good hight and awesome cumulus clouds below:D This is a teaser...
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by pogozoli
16 years ago
Another tip. Please clean the camera lens before filming ;).
Best regards, Zoli
Thank you for adding a video section to Justacro.com!
Good points. I was waiting for someone to comment this.
Yes the wind speed is a problem. I was hanging 10 deg of from the flying direction of the ultralight. The glider was facing forward the whole time during the drop, but as soon as I pulled the pin you can see my body rotating to the left due to the wind catching my feet. ( Yes my left foot comes out a bit more than it needs too and is probably not helping..) The glider was opening very fast in myopinion, but it is clear that the d-bag really needs to be packed 100% at these speeds. Wing tips were touching each other behind leading edge probably due to the forward speed holding them back. I used 3 different packing styles when I packed it and many many hours before I was happy. Next time, I will make sure that d-bag is hookedparallel the plains fuselage . This can easily be done with the dragonfly plain.The speed of this dragonfly plain was significant slower than the Trike that were flying with us. I would not be up for a drop from the trike due to its speed.
Just a tip for those who are planning to D-bag from ultralite - never jump with the leading edge facing back-, or side wind!!! The high air-speed can cause big troubles - if you are not facing the wind - because the glider might just stay together in a ball, while you start accelerating into the freefall like hell, then the glider opens so radical the it can easily rip (Gábor ripped his glider once while exitting from an ultralite sideways, he fell like 60-70m until the glider opened), not to say anything about high risk of cravattes, riser twists ect...
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Another tip. Please clean the camera lens before filming ;).
Best regards, Zoli
Thanks Pal,
Thank you for adding a video section to Justacro.com!
Good points. I was waiting for someone to comment this.
Yes the wind speed is a problem. I was hanging 10 deg of from the flying direction of the ultralight. The glider was facing forward the whole time during the drop, but as soon as I pulled the pin you can see my body rotating to the left due to the wind catching my feet. ( Yes my left foot comes out a bit more than it needs too and is probably not helping..) The glider was opening very fast in myopinion, but it is clear that the d-bag really needs to be packed 100% at these speeds. Wing tips were touching each other behind leading edge probably due to the forward speed holding them back. I used 3 different packing styles when I packed it and many many hours before I was happy. Next time, I will make sure that d-bag is hookedparallel the plains fuselage . This can easily be done with the dragonfly plain.The speed of this dragonfly plain was significant slower than the Trike that were flying with us. I would not be up for a drop from the trike due to its speed.
Erlend
Nice job man!
Just a tip for those who are planning to D-bag from ultralite - never jump with the leading edge facing back-, or side wind!!! The high air-speed can cause big troubles - if you are not facing the wind - because the glider might just stay together in a ball, while you start accelerating into the freefall like hell, then the glider opens so radical the it can easily rip (Gábor ripped his glider once while exitting from an ultralite sideways, he fell like 60-70m until the glider opened), not to say anything about high risk of cravattes, riser twists ect...
Thx for the video Erlend!
Hope the video works...