seems noisy

>>207621
it's literally just lawnmower engine

>>207619
start skydiving first or paragliding

>>207619
You can easily end up in a wheelchair.
I had a lot of close calls with those flying bed sheets and gave up paragliding .... for hang gliding. Almost no close calls, rigid wind is a rigid wing. Wing weight is substantial, when compared to paragliding. Also takes more strength to fly so better for health and muscle gain.

>>207619
Do you condemn hummus?

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>>207619

>>209060
You need to learn how to fly a wing first.

>>209064
Should have used a back up chute.

>>208907
>You can easily end up in a wheelchair

As you can by doing anything else while making dumb decisions. If you fly in smooth air with a safe glider and don't push the limits you are pretty safe.

>>207619
Buy a motorcycle instead. It'll be safer, faster, and more fun.

>>213797
Interesting you say this, I have been flyinh pg since 1999 and can still say that $5 gas in my bike is comparable to flying. Bike is more dangerous tho, not even joking.

uh..extreme sports?

>>207619
Just make sure you find a good heavyweight boxing match to drop into

>>209064

is he ok

>>222131
yes actually
>>221664
seems bretty extreme to me

>>221664
Going 50-90 kmh scraping your ass 20cm over the terrain would be considered extreme by some people.

how dangerous is wingsuit flying?

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a. which is less likely to kill me?
b. which is more useful in zombie apocalypse?

>>225735
a: hanggliding probably
b: paragliding by far

Hanggliders take forever to set up and require a vehicle to move around.

A paraglider can go in a backpack and have you up and flying in a minute or less if you pack it effectively.

>>225747
which ome is more fun?
I like gliding like a retard all day

>>225710
out of a plane? not bad

Off a cliff? Incredibly dangerous. About 10-40 people a year die doing that. Check out the BFL list on blinc

>>230887
the cliff one seems extreme but yea that's the one I had in mind when posting. never knew there was an airplane version. ah well

>>209064
Can someone explain what happened here? Did he collide with a pylon or something?

iv done both, got into paragliding to get good skills for paramotoring, with paramotoring i got annoyed with the amount messing you have with gear, your engine needs servicing all the time, i bought my one new and the throttle stuck on one of my take offs about 4 weeks in, so killed the engine landed and from that day it just seemed endless money pit with seals goin, bolts coming loose... this was new after all a touch of lock tight costs nothing. As for the paragliding thats epic, when you catch your first thermal you will be hooked, flying with birds never gets old and the view with out the ridiculous noise is always sweet

In the video he was flying at full speed trim out, altitude is your friend when flying, if something goes wrong low you won't have time for any input apart from shitting yourself., so looks like his right side had a small tuck, but at full bar the wing wouldn't recover, you can get some really good en-a wings and low en-b wings (they will recover themselves if you just go hands up and power off) but this guy was fill throttle.

>>235271
>>235287
Yeah playing with your phone that low is just stupid, IF he had his hands on the controls he MAY have saved it.

get an eskate

>>235271
A pylon of what?

Took 2-week ppg class in August in Connecticut. Just got back from flying at Salton Sea, California. I have about 35 flights. Paramotoring is awesome. Model year Vitorazzi Moster 185 engine is reliable, and it's not a lawnmower engine. It was based off a European moped engine. You can cut the engine at altitude if you want silent gliding.

>>244460
Electricity pylon/transmission line
>>254663
Nice, I'm really tempted to give it a go.
>You can cut the engine at altitude if you want silent gliding.
Do you have to fuck with a pull cord mid air or does it have electric start?

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I'm an avid follower of based legend Chucky Wright on YouTube. He's regularly posting videos performing wild rides with his paramotor. Shockingly, his videos don't get tons of attention, which saddens me. The guy is truly living the dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Z8YT6w7Rc

>>215575
You are just poor at judging risk and think your abilities are infallible and overrate the risk of other people injuring you in a activity versus you injuring yourself.