When paired with the SOLOS LITE harness, the total weight is under 7kg for an easy and comfortable lightweight XC kit. With highly capable XC performance and very low weight and pack volume, it carries as well as it glides. This is the ideal travel & adventure wing in the intermediate range. Modern construction techniques and a clever blend of materials have saved 350 grams of weight compared to its predecessor. This all new design delivers significantly better speed and glide throughout the entire speed range, with True Performance in active air. The new Geo 6 is the largest performance increase, and weight decrease, in the history of the series. While you may find yourself traveling to explore lots of far-flung sites, paragliding is one of the most cost-effective sports on the planet - far more so than its awesomeness would suggest.Lighter, higher performance, and more fun than ever! There are no required additional costs to continue in the sport: no flights to skydiving altitude, no fuel, no storage costs for the equipment (as it fits in a closet).
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Once you’ve got the gear and the training, paragliding is essentially free.
Geo 5 paraglider license#
Prices for a complete set of gear range from $3,000-$6,000, and training for a basic license (USHPA’s P2, which qualifies a student to fly on their own, without a tandem pilot) costs around $1,000. Paragliding is prohibitively expensive.Ī paraglider is the cheapest, simplest aircraft in the world. But seriously - do you want to fly, or fight your equipment for every foot of lift?ĥ. (All this is entirely aside from the annoyance and expense of patch-jobs and relining.) We know that there are some old-school specimens floating around the internet (and, in some cases, boating geriatrically around the sky). After that, old paragliders become difficult to launch, less responsive and more liable to sink out. Paragliders will last anywhere from 3-6 flying seasons, depending on how often you fly. It’s made of nylon (which, by the way, makes it oh-so-much-easier to hike with than a Cessna), and it’s going to come to the end of its flyable-glider life at some point. (It’s awesome, though, and you should try it.)Ī paraglider isn’t a big aluminum airplane that you can polish up and send out, year after year after year. If both boxes are checked, the likelihood of a paragliding-related injury is much reduced. Like many, many other sports, the golden rules of paragliding are to get quality paragliding instruction from someone who knows what they’re doing (like, y’know, us) and to always fly within your limits. We know other pilots who bought their equipment on Ebay and immediately attempted to fly off a mountaintop into a thunderstorm (or tie themselves to a pickup truck and have a friend mash the gas pedal). Lots of pilots we know have been flying for a quarter of a century and have never had more than a twisted ankle. Danger, schmanger.Īctually, the sport of paragliding is as dangerous as you want to make it. We blend danger into our morning smoothies.
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For these reasons, savvy pilots launch their paragliders in a conservative range of conditions - often, winds that feel surprisingly calm to non-pilots.ĭanger? Pah. It can also push unwary gliders into a danger zone on the wrong side of the hill/mountain/ridge. Though non-pilots often assume that gliders need loads of wind to inflate and fly, the truth is rather opposite: too much wind can complicate (or eliminate the possibility of) launching. Sure, we utilize wind to stay aloft longer than the short “sled runs” we take from the top to the bottom of the hill in no-wind conditions. Strictly speaking, you don’t need wind to fly a paraglider. You need wind to fly a paraglider - lots and lots of wind. That’s parasailing (and you would not believe how often we have to explain that).Ģ. Paragliding does not occur behind a boat in Jamaica. Today, we at Cloud 9 were inspired to set a few things straight.ġ. When you spend as much time in the sport of paragliding as we do, you hear a lot of nonsense.