Hang-glider pilot throws out parachute

After a flex-wing hang-glider and a paraglider slightly collide (!) the hangie pilot throws out his parachute. I caught him coming down onto the back of the hillside at the Malverns. UK. Everyone was OK.

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Sports

Tags:

• hang glider
• parachute
• reserve
• collision
• accident

[acrazedmaniac]

his glider looked ok too...so what happened? panic? or ????

[captbimbo]

Well, when I talked to him afterward he said he was a low airtime pilot. His left wingtip hit the paraglider pilot's hand/risers and he thought that his flexwing was going to spin out so he threw the reserve. With more airtime experience I am sure he would have not done it. He actually almost floated over the back of the hill in windy rotor conditions but the rotor curling back brought him down on the hill and saved him.

[210482fmj]

i bet that wasn't a soft landing

[Freeflyer91]

Better to have to repack a parachute, than hit the ground MUCH faster than you want ....

[MisterSunson]

Thanks Allah Almighty for that my friend!

[nolifemerc]

yes he must have done that cause all we see is a glider with a parachute falling to the ground

[shockwave3895]

the lady at the end "i tol you you were too close, i mean realld who does that, runs an air vehicle into another air vehicle? i just cant.. you make my head numb" XD

[HavazikFerric]

@6004billabong It's not paragliding, it's hang gliding.

And that's a reserve parachute so you don't fall to your death if you get in an accident.

[6004billabong]

thats the wrong shape of a parachute for a paraglider right? Aren't paraglider chutes more rectangular

[nolifemerc]

small chute

[StreetHypnosisOz]

lol...i get it