http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxe17Vubu04
this looks a close shave and the way it continues to get collapses looks pretty hot wing
not a winf i would like to be on
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The wing is a Gin Nomad DHV 2/3, many of you will recognize it as I fly one. Before everybody scares themselves watching this and think paragliders regularly fly like this let me reassure you they don't. Firstly the pilot has choose to take off in Lee Side (Rotor). Secondly he is a very inactive pilot doing nothing to prevent the collapses or actively piloting to correct them. If you watch his body you will see he is very up right almost sitting out the front of the harness and is weight shifting very little. At the point the wing thinks about collapsing he should be applying weight shift and brake to the lower pressured side but unfortunately does not. Another classic example of a pilot flying a wing beyond there abilities in bad conditions, a perfect recipe for disaster.
It must be said after watching countless ,paragliding "horror' movies on the web every bad one i see is due in some way to the pilots actions and not just down to chance and 'bad luck'. I would say every one would of been preventable if the pilot had been more experience had dealt with the incident properly and not panicked and over or under reacted. Good training will set you up properly in the sport with relevant knowledge of how to avoid its dangers, and then when your up to it, as most of the NHPC are an SIV course is invaluable.
It must be said after watching countless ,paragliding "horror' movies on the web every bad one i see is due in some way to the pilots actions and not just down to chance and 'bad luck'. I would say every one would of been preventable if the pilot had been more experience had dealt with the incident properly and not panicked and over or under reacted. Good training will set you up properly in the sport with relevant knowledge of how to avoid its dangers, and then when your up to it, as most of the NHPC are an SIV course is invaluable.