We're doing slopelandings again, using the B3s. Such a good technique, so smooth.
for getting down instead of Big Ears
all right! so if I'm trying to do a slope landing and I'm going this way
it's slightly downwind, so this is a little bit too fast. I don't like my
ground speed here. I could probably run it off but I might twist my ankle coming
in this fast, so it's much better to do your slope landing approach facing into
wind. so going the other way I've got much less ground speed, if I come around this way.
set up a nice line. get your legs down early so that's one less thing to think
about. keep your hands very steady and just pick
a soaring line that puts you slowly onto the slope like
that. slowing it down as you get near the ground and just transition to running.
keep control of your glider. you can slow it down there, try and keep the wing on
the hillside, don't let it pull you off the hill that way. keep the brakes on nicely but
mainly keep the braking on the hillside just to start with to get the wing over.
and keep you pulled up the slope rather than down the slope
so the wing will fall up, like that
okay so coming in for a slope learning my legs are down, I pick a line, I've got
moderate brakes on. don't swerve around obstacles like that, keep yourself
fairly straight and now I'm flaring. run up the hill, keep the glider on the uphill side
coming in for another slope landing approach...
a bit too fast there, I'm going to swoop through.
slowing it down. onto the slope.
keeping the wing on the uphill side
okay if you come in steeper like that you can swoop it up once you start getting your
timing right
so
a bit lumpy there
that's better air. so getting your legs down early getting a nice line that takes you
onto the hill.
touchdown.