Jamie Shelden explains why dune gooning – that’s playing around in the air on a sand dune – is so good for your technique and should be essential for all pilots. Plus it’s brilliant fun!
The friends that took me to Rainbow the first time suggested that I get several landings in straight away so that I would get comfortable with the whole idea of top landing.
Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I’ve now spent close to 20 days doing little more than launching, cruising around for five seconds or five minutes and then setting up an approach and landing again.
While I consider myself a fairly confident and skilled launcher, landings have always scared the crap out of me. It didn’t take more than two or three landings before I started to totally love it!
Never have I thought that landing a hang glider was fun – I mean, really, truly laughing my ass off fun
Jamie’s article is in Cross Country 160 (June 2015).
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