Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet

"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message
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Peter Harvey wrote:
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...4_02_07/?actio
n=view&current=IMG_1059.jpg

Is the extended URL from Ozreport.com
With a max paraspeed of about 50kph, I'd say dumbass
is a pretty fair description for these nutters!

At first I thought I had dirt specks on my monitor, then I realized it was
paragliders! Yikes. Maybe "dumbass" isn't wrong. That is one scary looking
cloud.

As I know many other sailplane pilots do throughout the world, we fly in
monsoon season here in Arizona and there is no fricking way that I would
ever consider heading anywhere near that cell. It doesn't even have a shelf
that looks possible. As someone else has asked.....does the paraglider
community know much about weather and the potential energy that
thunderstorms have??? That cloud has lightening, hail and microburst
written all over it. Maybe it was the lemming effect......a couple head
that way and the rest follow. As the one pilot said on the OZ report.....it
ain't worth it.....no matter how many points it would possibly yield.

Casey Lenox
KC
Phoenix