Stall
The most important knowledge to have when flying any type of aircraft and also the most basic foundation for a safe flight.It is so basic that many pilots don´t even understand it or don´t know how to practice it. In Paragliding the stall has many uses like for landing in tight spaces, top landing or for recovering from a cravat (tangled lines, line over).
Ok, it is very important, so how to do a stall?
Don´t get anxious, actually it is very easy!
By definition a stall is when your wing stopped flying,
so the airflow dislocated from the foil.
How to practice a stall safely? Many will recommend you to go on a safety course over water and with an instructor telling you the whole time what to do. Requires you to travel far, pay hotel or camping, pay instructor, pay for this and pay that, which can get very expensive very quickly. Not everybody has that much money to spend. Also many of those "safety courses" don´t tell you to practice in a progressive order, so that you understand step by step the maneuver and adapt to the new situation. Instead they "push you off the cliff" right into doing some "fool"-stall, because that´s the way they learned back in the day.
1.Right equipment (new and checked),
Right condition( weather, training box),
Pilot in good shape (mental and physical)
2.brake apart the movement to understand the whole picture:
Stall tutorial
By definition a stall is when your wing stopped flying,
so the airflow dislocated from the foil.
How to practice a stall safely? Many will recommend you to go on a safety course over water and with an instructor telling you the whole time what to do. Requires you to travel far, pay hotel or camping, pay instructor, pay for this and pay that, which can get very expensive very quickly. Not everybody has that much money to spend. Also many of those "safety courses" don´t tell you to practice in a progressive order, so that you understand step by step the maneuver and adapt to the new situation. Instead they "push you off the cliff" right into doing some "fool"-stall, because that´s the way they learned back in the day.
I´ll show you a way to practice at your own flying site as long as long as it offers enough altitude (min. 300 m):
Right condition( weather, training box),
Pilot in good shape (mental and physical)
2.brake apart the movement to understand the whole picture:
1) Pitch Pendulum (getting comfortable with the surge)
2)Minimal Velocity
3)Stall point
4)Backfly, Tailslide
5)Parachutal, Deepstall
4)Backfly, Tailslide
5)Parachutal, Deepstall
3.Practice, practice practice!
I prepared this video to guide you on your evolution and to help you visualize and practice in the right order so that the risks are minimized!
I prepared this video to guide you on your evolution and to help you visualize and practice in the right order so that the risks are minimized!
dynamic stall
Stall
Super Stall
