[Rick Masters]

Thanks. What I imagined to be a power pack bump behind the jumper didn't seem right.

[Bill Cummings]

Thanks. What I imagined to be a power pack bump behind the jumper didn't seem right.

As fast as it vanished from sight my guess is the chute didn't make it under a power line.

[Rick Masters]

https://www.facebook.com/cloudhuntersclub/videos/550944948429629/

[Rick Masters]

Paragliding
http://g1.globo.com/sp/vale-do-paraiba-regiao/noticia/2016/10/piloto-se-fere-em-acidente-entre-dois-paragliders-em-voo-assista-video.amp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sHueZGcm78

Ballooning
http://www.today.com/video/pilot-of-deadly-hot-air-balloon-crash-had-at-least-6-prescriptions-drugs-in-his-system-officials-say-829804099700

[Frank Colver]

The Santa Barbara area is racking up quite a history of prominent citizens killed by paragliders. Marge Variano, global paragliding fatality #1,529

Oh My God! Marge was my instructor when I took the class at Eagle PGS in 2012. I didn't know she had been killed.

When I asked her why paraglider pilots also wore a parachute when they were already flying a parachute she said that sometimes the paraglider could get caught up in the shroud lines in turbulence and the auxiliary chute is used to bring the pilot down safely. Sadly, for her, that didn't work that way.

She was very nice, and very patient with my difficulties in ground handling, I liked her.

Since I was enrolled in their two day school I wasn't allowed to do any more than inflation / ground practice that 1st day and I decided, by the next morning, that I didn't want to ever fly a paraglider and I left for home. I had decided that I always wanted a rigid airframe to hold the wing shape and more speed and roll control. During that day of PG training on the hill in Santa Barbara I started missing hang gliding very much and even wished I had my old Eipper Rogollo there to fly.

Frank Colver

[Rick Masters]

She used to teach hang gliding...

Yeah, an awful lot of people knew her or were trained by her.
They send me private emails expressing shock.
There is something very dark about paragliding.
I wish people would figure it out - like you and I have, Frank.
All this shock when experts get killed paragliding is getting old.

If you fly paragliders, it doesn't matter how good you are.
You are gambling your life that in the next encounter with perfectly normal air turbulence your paraglider won't try to kill you.
Hang gliders are different.
Hang gliders want to keep you alive.
It's worth the extra effort to fly one.

That said, it looks like she forgot, like Ron Farao, also off La Cumbre, to fasten her leg straps.
"Copter 3 flew the coordinates and found the paraglider's chute but could not see the pilot."
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=22&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjL7IuWl_XQAhVCh1QKHfCSCCMQFgh4MBU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsantamariatimes.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fbody-of-fatally-injured-paraglider-recovered-id-d%2Farticle_58bbd6d2-f586-5080-b80b-70759df7b836.html&usg=AFQjCNE5s8h0f5RtT8pLW9zXPL6OncLNSQ&sig2=HbnytMWoh1Ssoz3Cdnr7Vw

What happens when a hang glider pilot forgets to step into his leg straps or launches unhooked? At least you have a chance...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1822#p11695

[eagle]

HUMAN FLYING DRONE
As drones have become more affordable and capable, people have come with all sorts of crazy drone-related contraptions. Whether it’s someone attaching a machine gun to a drone or someone roasting a turkey with a flamethrower affixed to a drone, it seems that we can’t even go a month without seeing someone try and put their own unique stamp on drone ownership.

Christmas in 2016: Santa goes snowboarding behind a giant drone
See video: https://youtu.be/At3xcj-pTjg

~ Something Very cool about this ~

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[Rick Masters]

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/01/05/1919978667324032567/1024x576_MP4_1919978667324032567.mp4

[Rick Masters]

Paragliding #1537

Ben Cowen, son of the former Governor-General of the state Victoria, Australia.

[JoeF]

Regarding: Ben Cowen
Benjamin Cowen

One of many articles on Ben Cohen

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