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January 9th 14, 04:22 PM
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Paraglider winching aka kiteing
Here is something completely new to me: Paragliders set up temporary winch sites in interesting places.
A terrific video of a near miss between a power plane and winch line taken from the paraglider perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKsk8mPnPQ More information about the incident on a UK General Aviation forum http://ukga.com/forum/viewthread?sho...essage 145894 Video of a paraglider payout winch equipment and typical launch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH4frJwlrVU 
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