james paragliding channel on Ovi Share

Crash side landing

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:03:53 GMT

An emergency side landing on Kettle Sings. Not something I'm proud of, but 'any landing you walk away from is a good landing!!'. Don't try this at home kids! Incidentally, in this footage my camera was attached to the flight deck on my lap, I was actually looking where I was going ;-)

Sion takeoff at Rybury

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:19:40 GMT

Sion does a textbook takeoff to find... its not working. Conditions did improve later to allow a couple of people to escape the hill.

Ken soaring at Rybury

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:37:17 GMT

Ken soaring at Rybury on his Sigma 6

Jason does a SAT at Oludeniz

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:34:43 GMT

Jason doing a SAT manoevre on his Sky Antea at Oludeniz. Camera: Gavin. (It looks like an Ares from a distance.. )

Dodgy landing at Oludeniz

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:38:32 GMT

Gav coming in and avoiding some foot traffic on landing at Oludeniz beach!! Video resized to the largest that Ovi would accept for this clip :-( ( press the rectangular button next to the play button above if this movie appears small)

Kiting at Mercury

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:32:57 GMT

Jason & Chris and Matt doing some kiting at Mercury after the wind had dropped off

Approaching Sermoneta

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:47:24 GMT

Pic from Chris Jones of Vincenzo Di Francesco (aka 'Vidimart' on the PG forum) climbing over Sermoneta. Beautiful thermal source!

Flying at Bell Hill

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:55:19 GMT

Flying at Bell Hill, Dorset, UK - about to land.. The day was a BPCUP competition day as well, a fair few pilots making it to the coast at Swanage... amongst others, from the Condors, John Hughes & John Pinchin, as well as Dave Massie from Southern and Shamus from Wessex. Richard Barber's funky new pod didn't help him find that low save ;-)

Flying in Orographic cloud at Beer head

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:54:50 GMT

Flying in orographic cloud is beautiful on a sunny day - fortunately this is pretty light so easy to fly through. Landed with a wet wing after this was shot. Was going to go fly along the bay to Sidmouth... but the wind changed to prevent this. Handheld camera - so a bit shakier than normal! ( press the rectangular button next to the play button above if this movie appears small)

Tom Arnold at Westbury

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:35:27 GMT

Beautiful stills of film by Martin of Tom in action at Westbury. Downsized for the web!

Tom Arnold at Westbury

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:35:27 GMT

Tom in action at Westbury shot by Martin on video and then captured by me.... downsized for the web!

Mr Ramsay flies Woolacombe

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:16:37 GMT

Gav attempts a launch whilst Andy takes off. Conditions strongish and off to the southwest, so a bit turbulent on launch.

Soaring at Combe Gibbet

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:45:13 GMT

Soaring at Combe, air to air photo from Sion. ...on the Airwave Wave, my first glider. Bought on eBay cheap!

Flying Lachens

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Flying at Lachens, France. Red/White glider is Martin's Airwave Logic .... a bit close as this a wideangle lens!!! Video capture from helmet cam.

Flying over a sailplane at Lachens

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Flying in Lachens, over the maritime alps in France. Soaring above a sailplane getting close to cloudbase. Helmet cam capture.

Chris paragliding at Tan

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:31:38 GMT

Chris Jones getting intimate with the cloudbase at takeoff at Tan. Cloudbase rose later leaving the hill to the two of us for some pleasant soaring, and then it finally rained....

Going for a spin on my Skywalk Chili

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:58:13 GMT

Spin and asymetric tuck on SIV course with Fabien Blanco / Flyeo in Annecy. The spin was due to me applying too much left brake and zero weightshift on going into the turn. The wing folded on recovery as the spin was stopped and at that point the left wing (from my view) had zero airspeed and stalled.