[Rick Masters]

The purpose of this video blog is for hang glider pilots to illustrate paragliding accidents within the Paraglider Dead Man's Curve (PDMC) and to show soaring parachutists how to avoid them, which as we all know is an extremely easy thing to do. Because hang glider pilots know that all paragliding accidents within the PDMC are entirely unnecessary and because we have developed a system that is 100-percent effective in avoiding them, we are providing this blog as a service and obligation to the paragliding community in an effort to reduce the horrific accident rate in paragliding which has claimed over 1400 lives worldwide since 1986.

Please end each video or commentary by suggesting the proven method, perfected over a period of more than 100 years, of experiencing the joy of flight while completely free of worries of injury or death within the PDMC. Perhaps your paragliding friends will thank you. Realistically, though, they will probably blame you for trying to break them apart.

Oh, well...

In the immortal words of PDMC daredevil Peter Chrzanowski:

"Paragliding is a dangerous sport, we all know it.
I think that is what holds us together because we all know the dangers."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/missing-pemberton-paraglider-found-dead-1.2703234

[Rick Masters]

Hi Adam. How's it going?

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/break-paraglider-wishes-latest-Cheltenham-victim/story-21947917-detail/story.html#2
    We just want you to know that if you had been flying a hang glider, the right side of your canopy wouldn't have collapsed and sent you into the side of the hill. Flying paragliders low, as you were doing, is very dangerous. This is best done in a hang glider as they are less susceptible to turbulence and carry a greater measure of kinetic energy to punch on through bad air.
    But should you fly a paraglider again - which we don't recommend - remember to stay above the PDMC all the time. That way, the next time your canopy collapses, you'll have time to deploy your emergency reserve.

[dhmartens]

In my uninformed opinion on paraglider safety:
Paraglider pilots should be required to fly with gps vario that warns pilot when in PDMC proximity.
The paraglider pilot must be in an upright vertical position with legs extended downward to absorb shock.
The RRG will revoke their insurance if they stay horizontal, unless they have a 5' diameter 10' long inflatable
harness wack pad to avoid injury.

[Rick Masters]

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