[wingspan33]

Somewhere in here the government should require a "Surgeon General" type warning be attached to every paraglider.

In big 1 foot tall lettering on the bottom surface -

THIS WING CAN COLLAPSE AND SERIOUSLY INJURE OR KILL THE OCCUPANT! .

[Rick Masters]

A new parachuting sport for the RRG!    

Evel Knievel-inspired daredevil plans to cross Palo Duro Canyon in Texas by strapping himself to a rocket 'like Wile E. Coyote'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508640/Mad-Mike-Hughes-Evel-Knievel-inspired-daredevil-plans-cross-Palo-Duro-Canyon-Texas-strapping-rocket-like-Wile-E-Coyote.html




I think there's room for MGF in there!

[DaveSchy]

Nope, his ego won't fit!

[SamKellner]

Nope, his ego won't fit!

[Rick Masters]

Can you spot the "pilot error?"

[Rick Masters]

Bad luck.


Bad decision. Note that reserve pilot chute doesn't even have time to open.

[Rick Masters]

April 14, 2016
Rogerio Bicalho Sobrinho de Souza is the one thousand, four hundred and 55th paragliding fatality that I know of.
http://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/gerais/2016/04/13/interna_gerais,752573/policial-militar-morre-em-queda-de-parapente-em-salinas.shtml

My opinion of paragliding can be found here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120326143004/http://www.cometclones.com/mythology2011.htm

- About to crash? Let an air frame take the blow instead of your body. -

[Bob Kuczewski]

I think there's room for MGF in there!

Nope, his ego won't fit!

[Rick Masters]

April 17, 2016

Jordan Niedrich, 24, stands before Bald Mountain where he crashed his paraglider on April 17.
Paragliding death #1,456 (at least) and the 20th global paragliding fatality so far this year (that I am aware of).

My personal observation:
1,456 people killed on paragliders is too many.
Something is wrong.
I know what it is.
Others know what it is.
More people need to speak out.

- Form a national hang gliding association with the courage to speak the truth -

[Rick Masters]

"Lookit me! I'm a paraglider pilot!"

This is embarrassing - even to a hang glider pilot.
It looks like he's planning to commit suicide.
Will somebody please tell this bozo about landing INTO the wind?
He may not survive trying to figure it out by himself.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3545583/Heartstopping-head-cam-footage-Norway-captures-paraglider-crashing-jagged-rocks-terrifying-landing.html