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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
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read all about it and see some pics of the clouds those dumbasses flew under at www.ozreport.com
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
Mart,
I looked, but couldn't find any pictures of the storm, can you provide an extended url link? Also, I think the term "dumbasses" is far too harsh. We are all capable of mistakes, even the best of us. Perhaps you didn't mean to sound so harsh? all the best, bumper "mart" wrote in message ... read all about it and see some pics of the clouds those dumbasses flew under at www.ozreport.com Mart -- mart |
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...4_02_07/?actio
n=view¤t=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! Cheers Pete H At 18:54 21 February 2007, Bumper wrote: Mart, I looked, but couldn't find any pictures of the storm, can you provide an extended url link? Also, I think the term 'dumbasses' is far too harsh. We are all capable of mistakes, even the best of us. Perhaps you didn't mean to sound so harsh? all the best, bumper 'mart' wrote in message ... read all about it and see some pics of the clouds those dumbasses flew under at www.ozreport.com Mart -- mart |
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
Peter Harvey wrote:
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...4_02_07/?actio n=view¤t=IMG_1059.jpg That's Miller Time. Shawn |
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
Here a link to the related discussion on the paraglider forum:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10608 Interestingly enough the day of the incident was apparently an open task where you can go wherever you like, the pilot with the longest flight wins. Looking at the photo posted above I must say that I wouldn't want to be where some of them went in a glider that makes 250 km/h or more if needed. Yet they choose to go that way (instead of other directions that had awesome CUs all over the place - photos posted elsewhere on the OZReport) in something that is limited to 50 km/h or so and can easily collapse in turbulence that we would probably consider no big deal... I wonder what they teach these guys about CuNims and risk assesment, seeing a dozen or so supposedly world class paraglider pilots in a place like that with the inherent limitations they have when they could have gone any other way makes you wonder... Enough said, Markus |
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
Looking at the photo posted above I must say that I
wouldn't want to be where some of them went in a glider that makes 250 km/h or more if needed. Yet they choose to go that way (instead of other directions that had awesome CUs all over the place - photos posted elsewhere on the OZReport)... Here the photos I was refering to showing the "hard" choices they had to make: http://www.ozreport.com/11.034.9 Going West instead towards the thunderstorms up North would have looked like this: http://www.ozreport.com/11.034.9 Not sure what was wrong with checking out those CUs. Markus |
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Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
Ups, wrong link, West looked like this:
http://flygirl.co.za/gallery/albums/...pen2007_15.JPG Markus |
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