Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Paragliding in a Thermal at Elings Park, Santa Barbara - FlyAboveAll.com

I went to the Training Hill today in Santa Barbara and got a real nice thermal up and over launch. About an 8 minute flight, and I caught most of it on my GoPro Hero camera. If you want to see what flying a paraglider can be like without a motor, You'll enjoy this. Nice gentle thermal - up, up and away! It's really fun to track the lift using a small variometer and the visual of a bird here and there getting a bug as it gets sucked up off the ground. The video ran out of memory just before I came back in for a nice top landing (and a round of applause). Really, a very special little flight!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEuVbV0sZm4&hl=en

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