On Nov 20, 2019, at 8:31 PM, 'Mark Sanzone' via Cascade Paragliding Club <cp...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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On Nov 21, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Michael Cook <groov...@gmail.com> wrote:
Damn Mark, that sounds exciting. I was watching you for a long time wondering about whether you might find some rotor up there. Glad you're OK - that's ugly stuff. It makes me think about radios and person to person comm. I stuck around until everyone got on the ground and watched you land but I did not have my radio on while waiting around. Maybe we should do that. If you had needed help no one up top would have known.Food for thought.
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I was playing with hard spirals a few years ago, once at Pine and
once at Woodrat. Coming down from over 9000' or so after some XC
flights. Looking at the vario some weeks later, I noticed the
decent rates in excess of 4500'/min.
If you get uncontrollably wound up, your decent rate approaches
(can exceed) 50 mph straight down. Things can happen very fast.
On both of my 'hard spirals', I grayed out and couldn't see
anything which inspired a fast exit to the spirals. (I now know my
left eye goes gray first, immediately followed by the right. Weird
feeling...) If I had been out of control, I probably had (maybe)
another two seconds before I was unable to respond further. Only
two seconds to get the reserve out in that situation. :-(
This will be even worse with small wings. I freaked out Stu and
Maren when they couldn't find me up at 3000' on a 15 meter glider
after a long arduous tow up. 3-4 circles of decent, and I was
setting up to land. (Oh, there he is...)
Brad
See
you up there!
Brad and Maren
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