Skills 2 Ride - Balance: 2. Scoot Stride and Glide
Learn listening skills, planning, observation. Go out in the rain and glide through puddles without getting your feet wet. Learn how to scoot and glide on your balance bike.
Teach your child to ride with this fun game for balance bikes. Learning to ride is easier when you spend time on these balance and coordination activities.
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Home made powered hang glider
Perfect 3 point landing flying home built trike flown by my son .
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skating teaching articles - skateboarding gliding skills
Skateboarding is the most popular sport of the moment and it's time to witness the charm of skateboarding. Send a few skateboarding tips and hope to help you.
Derby Active Learn to Swim - Push & Glide with log roll
Derby Active Learn to Swim Swim Teachers have created a few swim technique videos for you to watch, ready for when you're next in the pool.
This video shows the technique of how to do a push & glide with log roll.
How to learn flying gliders at the age of 10
This is a flight of a LAK-16 with airbreakes taken off, so this glider actually is airborne:-) This level of proficiency children achieve after several days of training.
Glider LAK-16. Single seater glider training method. Lithuanians used it for teaching children gliding for the last 30 years or more. For first flights, fixed airbreakes are attached to the wings of LAK-16, so the glider only rolls on the ground and may eventually jump 5 to even 50 meters at max 1 meter hight, depending on the winch speed and abilities of the young pilot. Children can learn to raise the tail, rotate the glider to start and safely land. After longer training children learn to make turns and can land parallel to start line after S-manoeuvre. Winch rope is pulled on the ground in a loop through pulleys. The glider is pulled by detachable line. Here, tows are 250-300 meters long both ways.
During whole period of teaching this way, there were only few, but only minor accidents. In Lithuania it is recognised, that it is not more dangerous, than bicycling.
Generally in order to enrol, a child should be able to perform full stick and ruder movements. Practically, children of 9 to 13 years are flying, but there were cases, when tall 8 years old were "flying".
When children start their training under EASA and local CAA rules at the age of minimum 14, they fly safer, because their skills were trained and imprinted earlier. This is important to note, that this activity is not performed under local CAA, but Ministry of Education is taking care for that.
There are approx. 10 places in Lithuania, where children can learn to fly the whole year round. Is it not fascinating?
When you hear "I flew!!!" and you see a BIG SMILE, you know, that children have an extraordinary fun!
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Hang Gliding from Lookout Mountain in Golden Colorado
HangGlideColorado.com taking good friend Dianne up for her 4th flight!
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Gliding Footwork Memphis Jookin THATMANETRILL
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"Flying" Snake's Secret Revealed
A study has revealed exactly how gliding snakes [genus Chrysopelea] contort their bodies to cover a great deal of ground after leaping into the air.
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Bird Showing Off During Aerotow (Hang Gliding)
While I was on tow at The Florida Ridge Air Park, during a bit of bumpy air, one of our local feathered "pilots" did a fly-by . . . Show Off! (Best if viewed in HD)
The Paragliding Show Pir Chinasi Hill StationKashmir Hawk Gliding Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir
The Paragliding Show Pir Chinasi Hill StationKashmir Hawk Gliding Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir
Aircraft Midair Collision Alert
Many gliders have an Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) called a FLARM (FLight AlaRM). This consists of the FLARM device itself (computer, GPS, Tx Rx antennas) and a display. Such systems run for $2500-$3000, but are well worth it as gliders are often flying near each other as well as other aircraft. These units are constantly sending out ping signals with aircraft location, direction, and speed. They also receive the same signals from other FLARMs and process this vector data in order to determine if there is the potential for a collision.
The display will show information on where the other aircraft is, so on an alarm, the pilot can look at it and determine where the other aircraft is and make visual contact and take any evasive action, if necessary.
On Aerotow, the glider is only 200' behind the towplane. As well, gliders near the airfield are often going towards the same clouds or sources of lift to climb in and get away on task. Such busy skies have been a big source of aviation accidents, and so many glider pilots are more than willing to shell out money to equip their aircraft with such systems.
Here is a case where another glider was approaching some gliders circling under a cloud. While they were turning one direction, I was turning the other. I saw them coming and could tell they were banking to get away and line up better to join the thermal, but for a few seconds, we were pretty much pointing at each other. I never saw the warning, though I heard the alarm sound and knew from what I saw, that's what it was warning about. I also had to be concerned for the other gliders I could see in the thermal I was sharing. As it was, I also needed to re-orient myself to adjust for another glider in a thermal, but held off a bit until I saw I was clear.
What do you think? Are these worth the expense? Should something like this be mandatory for all aircraft and not just gliders? Leave a comment and share your experience.
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THIS is what Hang Gliding looks like!
When The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and actor/comedian Martin Short had a little difficulty solving their Pictionary clue of Hang Gliding, Kitty Hawk Kites thought it would be helpful to show them what Hang Gliding REALLY looked like!
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Plane Gliding Down Air Show Miramar
One of the Jelly Belly planes pretending to have no power and gliding down from a high point.
Amazing display at my local gliding club (wait until the end) - Red Arrows formation flyby.
After a great flight in my glider, I landed to clear the airspace for something truly spectacular. Wait until the end, you won’t be disappointed.
This doesn't happen everyday !!
Having the Red Arrows perform a formation flypast with smoke on over our airfield to celebrate our 65th Anniversary was awesome.