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Ian Johnston wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:11:04 UTC, "Robert Ehrlich" wrote: : ---------- : Dans l'article : , "Ian : Johnston" a ,crit : : : ... : On the other hand, if I want to fly a paraglider in : the UK I have to : : a) take a training course over a few weekends : : b) climb up a convenient hll : : c) jump off. : ...` : : You forgot: : : a1) buy a paraglider; That is very true. But then, I left out "Buy a glider" as well...in some cases flying a club glider will be fine, but that tends to make the wait longer and the flight shorter ... Where I am flying, there is also a para-gliding club operating on a slope on the border of the airfield when sailplanes are not flying. Most flights in club sailplanes are much longer than paraglider flights. : c1) have somebody who takes me back from my landing place to : the place where I started and left my car, or make the way : with my feet. If I land out. Same goes for a glider. As far as I can see here, any hang-glider flight that doesn't remain over the slope ends by a landout. During the last flying seasons my number of field landings in a sailplane varied from 1 to 3 per season, for 4000 to 8000 cross-country flight. Anyway this was to object to the argument that hang or para gliding don't rely on the assistance of somebody else. If I fly a sailplane in a club, the assistance for an outlanding is easy to find, any pilot in the club would do it as I am willing to do it for him if the inverse happen. If I go alone on the next hill to jump with a paraglider, I have to make specific provision for that. : a) may be also much longer than the drive to the next glider : field if you are in very flat land and the next convenient hill : is far away. Or much closer. My gliding club is 100 miles away, and there are good hills - should I ever choose to risk life and limb in one of those dratted things - within a few miles of me. Ian |
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