This document serves to encourge best practice in speedflying:
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It doesn’t tell you how to fly, but to be better prepared when you do 🪂
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These best practices come from countless hours of discussion during hikes, on summits, and in pubs after successful flying days.
Unfortunatly, and more importantly, they come from learnings on bad days...
Let's work together to minimise those bad days, call out poor practice and most importantly — look out for one another.
The following sections are broken into simplified categories we all need to be s**t-hot at when it comes to a day of flying.
There’s plenty of crossover between the categories (sections).
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This is a living document.
It will be continually updated as pilots and mountain rescue professionals review over time
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A critical concept to understand first is layering. Not just clothing, but redundancy in your methods, equipment, procedures, and techniques. Layering means having multiple contingencies.
The simplest example: carrying radio as a backup when you have no phone signal.
By eliminating as many potential problems at the start of each flying day, you'll be much better prepared when things go wrong.
Much of the beauty in this sport lies in its simplicity, these best practices seek to find ~middle~ ground, between too much <> not enough.
The ‘right’ amount of preparation and equipment is of course very subjective. If you feel like you’re not doing enough, you probably aren’t. So, take some extra steps!
Take some time and ask yourself whether you’ve done everything you can to make it easier and less stressful for others.