On Mar 21, 11:26*am, bildan wrote:
On Mar 21, 6:45*am, "
wrote:

Anything that dangerous must be fun *On the other hand sailplanes
have a terrible safety record, training and experience doesn't seem to
help either.

I would rephrase...

Pilots who think training and experience doesn't matter tend to have
terrible safety records.

Just to make the counter argument, that the original article is
making.
"There are risks that training do not seem to be able to mitigate."

If your wing spar has an X % of breaking on every flight, no amount of
pilot training will reduce that percentage. You can not mitigate that
risk with pilot training, you must re-design the spar. The same is
with paragliders, there are inherent risks of collapse in the design.