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These are people who are poorly trained and or fly on days with improper weather conditions. Paramotoring is very very safe if you’re properly trained and fly on perfect conditions.
Wow! That dude who got pile driven into the ground was a bloody big hit! I’m finding this to be a common link for PPG pilots, they do a pass, back off the throttle then power up and they face the earth!, why? Why is this a common error so many are making? Even one of my mates had it happen to him and it took him over a year to recover from a broken back, but as both a PG and PPG pilot and CFI instructor I question why am I noticing this common mistake??
4:02 That one actually wasn't really the pilot's fault. It was a freak wind occurrence apparently, where the wind at 300 feet was dramatically different than at 200. (He's actually a professional airline pilot if I remember right) He got hurt pretty badly though. Tucker and a couple other guys interviewed him after the accident. Pretty much everyone's worst fear. The wind just knocking you straight out of the sky
@@yamkaw346 sometimes windshear is unpredictable and not in METARS and could happen. Never in calm weather though, I've hit windshear in the airacraft and it wasn't in weather prognosis or warnings. Was windy day though.
@@komrad1983 You’re absolutely right, metars are never 100%. Could also have just been some turbulent winds coming off a hill/ mountain that is up wind, who knows.
He lives in our neighbourhood - Prior to the accident he was a bright young professional but now sadly he's just the guy with the vacant stare and the woolly hat who delivers for the florist.
I would try it if connected to a rope keeping me at a safe height flying from one end of a field to another. Extreme sport minus the extreme.....perfect 👍
Ok I know this is an old comment but there’s some misconceptions in such a short comment and I don’t want anyone to get the wrong ideas. 1. Towing is waaay more dangerous than free flight if it’s done incorrectly. You can “lock out” where you’re too far to one side and the rope pulls you towards the ground instead of keeping you in the air 2. Low heights are actually more dangerous. When you’re way up high if you suffer a wing collapse or lose some altitude for whatever reason you have time to recover or deploy your reserve chute. If you’re low down you’re hitting the ground.
these crashes may look frightening and discouraging but on the other hand the caution paramotor fliers to realize the mistakes that cause these failures and to learn the basics of paramotoring with the help of an experienced flier. look for a training group for a start.
@@TheBold1994 It's called "Wind Shear", where the wind at a certain altitude is dramatically different than the wind at a different altitude. It seems like a freak incident, but wind shear is often reported by nearby airports so there's ways to know about it in advance
They need to invent some moon boots with high impact absorption just for this exact sport. Like shoes that will spring and absorb the majority of pressure .
@@Ryan-fosholol. Go ahead. See how that works out. You'd be better off using air bags that explosively inflate prior to impact. But if it was easy (or possible) that kind of thing would already exist. The springs idea is pretty dumb, though.
do any of these people learn about how the wind works as far as flying goes before doing this, or do they just jump in and hope they dont crash? they dont seem to understand how the wind works.
People with common sense who want to enjoy the sport safely? Yes. Every single one of these nitwits (except the pilot who got caught by the gnarly sheer)? No. Clearly not the slightest. Not one single minute of one single lesson.
I guess to answer the question, in proper training, pilots are taught about all of these things. It's why the sport is actually pretty safe (relatively, of course), because most people choose to get training, and so know how the wind affects our wing and flight dynamics, and can read the weather at a basic enough level to mitigate most of these risks. Put simply, we would not fly in these conditions with training, and would not make the mistakes in these videos you see on RU-vid of accidents.
That's the common theme in most of these videos. While I love the freedom we get as paramotor pilots, I do feel like some requirement of training may not be the worst idea to visit. It's a slippery slope though and before you know it we're regulated into the ground too. Idunno...
@@FlightX101exactly. All of these except maybe one come down to 2 things: lack of understanding of wing dynamics, and poor understanding of weather conditions (or choosing to send it anyway). Get training, People...
Statistically, about as safe as riding a motorcycle or a jet ski or any other fast but fun with some inherent danger activity. GET TRAINING DO NOT WATCH RU-vid AND GO TRY TO FLY A PARAMOTOR!!!!!! Having said that, with training and common sense, they're safe and fun as all hell.
To add, a lot of these clips are people who very clearly do not know what they're doing, or making bad decisions regarding conditions, save for the guy who got caught with the crazy sheer. To be fair, he probably didn't check first as these things are usually reported by airports he could have checked for that (maybe not, but most likely would have known about it if he did).
A parachute never flies. These are wings (or gliders situationally). They're designed to generate lift, not slow descent (though they do that at a specific glide ratio, hence, gliders).
I would never attempt to fly an aircraft w/out rigid wings; these are nothing more than kites; and if you can recall as a kid, often went out of control and landed in trees...but they were only 15 cents back then.
Kites aren't designed to handle 5+ G's, with lines made of things like Kevlar and Dyneema... So no, they're not "kites." I do get your point, but calling a paragliding wing a kite is sorta daft. To each his own. I've flown for years, and never had any issue, but I'm very selective about when I fly and how I fly.
I’m scared for the first Asian girl. I really hope that she knows what she doing. She should stop. I can watch these guys get hurt all day. But it’s sad when a female does
I don't even into paramotoring and I'm just like to watch videos of paramotoring. Even I know not to pull down the brakes when launching. Do these people even get a proper training?
@@RoyMcAvoyyou do pull some brake just as you're taking off to gain more authority on the launch. Planes do this as well, applying a bit of flap (sorry I don't fly airplanes just paramotors sorry for my terminology) as they take off to "pop" up off the ground, but just a bit of brake, not a yoke on the toggles lol
Well, lemme know when you can put the plane in your car, drive to just about anywhere there's clear space and youre not trespassing, fly around like an actual fuggen bird, and land and put the airplane back in your car and drive home. Go on. I'll wait... There's a reason people do it, and a lot of paramotor pilots are also GA pilots. People wanna fly man, and paramotoring is quite literally as free and as close to having wings and being able to fly as it gets.
Rule number one: Always takeoff into the wind. Rule number two: Never turn downwind at a very low altitude. Rule number three: Always land into the wind and NEVER fly parallel to the wind. Rule number four: If the wind is over 5 mph that day then STAY HOME AND do some grass cutting, build a doghouse, clean the fishbowl, or watch a Donald Trump campaign speech!
WHY STAY HOME IF WINDS ARE OVER 5 MPH?? OH, YOU MUST BE PART OF THAT USPPA CLOWN BUNCH OF LYING SISSY LA-LA BOYS EVER!! PARAGLIDER WINGS?/YOU FLY ONE! FLY AND ARE BUILD TO FLY IN ...THERMALS!! SO, IF YOU ARE PART OF THOSE NON-FLYING ASSWIPE YOU CANT FLY AT MID-DAY??? PLEASE WHERE PARAGLIDERS TO THEIR BEST!! IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE FULL CONTROL OF YOUR WING AND WHEN TAUGHT HOW TO FLY A WING? YOU WERE SHORT CHANGED BY WHOEVER TRAINED YOU? THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO FLY THE WING FULLY THEMSELVES?? CAN THEY FLY THERMALS?? OR JUST WARN YOU ABOUT THEM, AND USE THERMALS AS THE EXCUSE NOT TO FLY AT MID-DAY??? BUT IN YOUR CASE UNTRAINED ONE, BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY? STAY HOME AND KNIT YOURSELEVE A SWEATER.
Actually You got that all wrong. Its Rule 1: Always ground start your motor and put it into full throttle. Rule 2: On takeoffs always run leaning forward. Rule 3: Always launch and land in a tailwind. Rule 4: Only use black-hawk branded gear. Rule 5: When launching never wait for lift, always sit as soon as you feel you're flying. Rule 6: Always fly under towering green clouds. Rule 7: Never pay for instructors and their ripoff lessons, save money on youtube.
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