Hi Divyanshu,
Thanks for your explanation. I'll await the video. I hope you will be
able
to cater to a graphically challanged audience.
Pranav
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Subject: Re: [AI] Visually-challenged paraglider flies solo By Amruta
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@ pranav: We will be putting together a detailed video of the entire
training/ flying process. Altimeters are not needed since most pilots
do not go above 200FT. All pilots use assisted navigation from ground
control and launch crew via radio.
Air space is also used by commercial aircrafts, hence there is a
restriction in this area. varometers give a audible signal which is
easy to understand, but this instrumednt too is not needed if one
learns to fly using their understanding of the wind direction and
conditions.
The entire training is and was exactly what all student pilots go
through, with no exception.
On 5/4/14, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote:
Divyanshu Ganatra takes off on his solo flight.-- Photo: Special
Arrangement
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/visuallychallenged-paraglid
er-flies-solo/article5974364.ece
I did it because of my love for the sport, says Divyanshu Ganatra
On Wednesday afternoon, at Kamshet near Pune, a 36-year-old undertook
his first solo paragliding flight. As soon as he landed, his trainers
ran out and huddled around him. Amid cheers, one said, "We did it. You
made history."
Divyanshu Ganatra had just become the only visually-challenged Indian
paraglider to have flown solo. "It was a spiritual high," Mr. Ganatra
told The Hindu before adding modestly: "I did it like everyone else
does."
A clinical psychologist who lost his sight due to glaucoma at the age
of 19, Mr. Ganatra runs a counselling and corporate training
organisation called 'Yellow Brick Road'.
The flight was made possible by Templepilots, a paragliding club run
by Avi Malik and his wife Anita Deshpande.
According to Mr. Malik, there are no official records of
visually-challenged people having undertaken solo flights. A Master
Instructor at the Association of Paragliding Pilots and Instructors,
he stated that no other Indian had attempted this before. "There are
probably one or two worldwide who have attempted this successfully,"
he said. A hearing-impaired Belgian performed the same feat under his
guidance last year.
For Mr. Ganatra, however, it wasn't about the achievement or about
proving a point to anyone. "I did it because of my love for the
sport," he said. For Mr. Malik and his wife, taking up his request was
an "instinctive decision." "The heart said yes first, the mind worked
on it later," Mr. Malik said.
What was most important was working together and having faith in each
other. "I trusted them with my life. That is the only way I could have
done this," Mr. Ganatra said. Ms. Deshpande agreed. "It was about
trust, and not about [never] flying anymore."
The experience helped Mr. Malik stretch his own boundaries as a
teacher as he sought to find new ways and means to guide Mr. Ganatra.
"One way was using simulation, and working on other senses: touching,
feeling and listening," he said. To explain the concepts of
aerodynamics, Mr. Malik asked Mr. Ganatra to use his hands to
understand how the glider works.
In a 'tandem' flight with an instructor, he learnt what the experience
could be like. An initial idea of using bells was discarded as Mr.
Malik thought that audio signals broadcast through a radio would do
the job. A quick and instinctive learner, Mr. Ganatra was ready for
his flight after three days of on-ground training.
"The experience was an overwhelming mix of joy, fear and excitement.
When you are in the sky, you taste freedom," he said.
" The experience was an overwhelming mix of joy, fear and excitement.
When you are in the sky, you taste freedom"
--
Avinash Shahi
M.Phil Research Scholar
Centre for The Study of Law and Governance
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi India
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