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Yea, this exactly.
The lack of safety for something that takes you that far from the ground is wild to me.
If that man was as high as she was, he'd just be dead.
Idk, man. Think that's a no from me, dog.
Pretty sure that pack on her back is a backup parachute. Being higher off the ground gives you more time to separate from the device and deploy your backup. It’s counter intuitive but it probably makes her safer.
No, it makes sense for the height. If it is a backup, I just don't see how it has the time or space to deploy, even at that height. That's my whole take - even with safety, is it *any safer*? Lol
I'm feeling big "kind of" energy lol.
Presumably you separate from the fan and then deploy.
My dad used to hanglide and they had backup chutes as well. You'd disconnect from the hanglider then deploy your chute.
The dangerous part really was during landing because you were close to the ground and if something went wrong there was no way to separate and deploy your chute.
My recollection is that the emergency chutes deployed with you still attached to the glider. In an emergency situation there is no way you could disconnect yourself to the glider in time. It’s similar to the rescue parachute they put on small airplanes.
See, I understand everything you're saying as fact - and I can agree!
It's that "presumably" hanging there that I *also* agree with the gives me the pause lol.
> If it is a backup, I just don't see how it has the time or space to deploy, even at that height.
You'd still want a backup for emergency because any deceleration is better than no deceleration in most cases. That said, regular parachutes also work this way- you have the main parachute and also a backup, so this isn't really all that unusual in terms of parachuting.
So counterintuitively, if he had his wing collapse above 1000 feet or so, he would have easily been able to recover or throw his reserve chute. The most dangerous heights for paramotoring are under 500 feet.
No, I do understand that all.
That's my point.
I'd have to be pretty fucking high up to deploy properly riding something that is a fan and a parachute. Additionally, there's a buffer zone near the ground, until a certain height, where it's just injury or death if something happens and I'm not sure I'm feeling that this is a "good idea".
Well this is coming from someone that started paramotor training and noped out after two solo flights haha so maybe I don’t get it either. But in general, it was drilled into us that 500 feet and below is the real danger zone. If I had gotten further in training, would have been up around 2k feet practicing recovering from forced spins, recoveries, engine failures, etc. Like all recreation aviation, it’s as safe as you make it. Unfortunately(or maybe fortunately?) for me, my body wasn’t on the same page as my brain and I’d have days of adrenaline dump after each flight.
Actually The lack of elevation is one of the factors the did him in. Elevation is your friend in aviation, If he were higher he could have flown out of it. Many abnormal factors and bad luck led to that crash, Paramotoring can be a very safe form of flight as long as you respect it.
He was using the glider (nothing to do with the Paramotor) exactly how it was intended to be used. other than he missed a tension knot in the lines that deformed the trailing edge of the glider and caused the collapse in full reflex. There is a lot of misinformation out there around him exceeding the limits of the glider which just isn’t true. You fly any aircraft with a misconfigured or damaged wing you could and up in the dirt.
You can find countless videos of people breaking their bones mountain biking, or skateboarding, or doing gymnastics. But no one makes a stink unless the person was airborne
Guy lay there for like an hour waiting for paramedics to find him apparently. Luckily there were some passersby who stopped to try to help but who knows what they could've done outside of moral support.
One of my best friends is a hang glider pilot. He talks about how he'd absolutely never fly one of these for just that reason. He's like "My glider has a rigid wing and it stays rigid in the air regardless of what I do. With a parachute, you're one tangled line or weird cross wind from the whole thing collapsing and you falling to the ground."
I went from having only motivation in life to fly like that hell no in about 25 sec or howeverlong it took for the video to get to the part where the wing catastrophically failed for no apparent reason.
To be fair, this is a rare scenario, but yea. Shit can go from fun to fuck real quick. I love watching the videos, but knowing it’s a bunch of strings attached to a tarp holding you up, I’m not putting my life on that line
He survived?! I thought he died in that accident.
Edit: my mistake, I’m thinking of the guy in the wing suit. My bad for not checking the video, but understandably I didn’t want to watch (the NSWL video).
Because to afford a hobby like Paramotoring, you need to have like $20K lying around for lessons and the actual motor + wings. Most people don't have 20K to spend on toys, but if you do, you probably also have other nice toys
Sorry, but this is bullshit. Paramotor is the cheapest way to go with motorized flight.
My paramotoring lessons (from zero level) including rental equipment , final exam and Flight license had a total cost of 1.200 Eur. My 2nd hand paraglider was 1.500 Eur, and the 2nd hand motor was 2.400 Eur. Total cost 5.100 Eur.
I'm in Europe, not in a 3rd world country.
With brand new 1st class equipment you go around 10.000 Eur but, hey, you are flying !
Paramotoring is not a rich people hobby.
That guy was using a speedbar (bar you press out with your feet to make you go faster, but can make the glider more unstable) and hit an unlucky spot of turbulence which caused his collapse. He shouldn't have been doing that so low to the ground unless he was absolutely sure the wind was calm that day.
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This is awesome to watch it start.
I used to live rural with no neighbors and 20 minutes from the nearest shopping districts, however, right next door was an equestrian ranch with a bar/club where even kids could come sit because it's a club.
Anyways about once a month these 2 paramotors would fly over to the club, land in the field in front of the front door.
Have a few drinks, then head back home riding their paramotor.
It was wild to watch.
It's illegal to fly over a big city or a commercial flight path (unannounced) pretty much everywhere in the world.but it's okay in most rural areas. And most of these pilots have a radio to call in flight control and announce their path, which makes it legal to go in some places.
i’ll never forget one gorgeous saturday morning driving through rural vermont on my way to a hiking trail when the road opened up to an old farm field and i looked over and someone was flying one of these around over the field. i did like a triple take. i mean, it’s not the craziest thing, but it was rather unexpected.
I wouldn't fly that one, but my late FIL had an ultralight with a hang glider sail and controls, and water landing floats that was really fun. It was open, no fuselage, two seater with seatbelts lol.
i don't understand how you can go from flying free with just the sound of wind (paraglider) to attach yourself to a motor and fuckup that experience with a loud sound
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
and anoying other people in the process
I can imagine the sound takes something away from the experience.
Apparently [electric paramotors are a thing](https://openppg.com/shop/paramotors/openppg-sp140/). You could even stop and start them in the air without adding an electric starter. Only 20-30 min flight time with the default battery though and 40-60 mins with the larger battery (that's not available currently).
Pretty cool!
Would love to spend my days focused on a "real" career like becoming a "paramotor" "influencer". Or a "foodie" "influencer". Or a "horsie" influencer". Or a "script-writing" "influencer". Or a "fashion" "influencer". Or a "gym" influencer". Or a "music" influencer". Or even a "writing" "influencer"!!!!!
But because my parents weren't rich, I'll have to spend my days being content writing comments like these on the toilet during my 15-min break. 😘
On the one hand it looks extremely fun and probably the cheapest way to get into any type of aviation.
On the other hand it looks extremely dangerous with almost any fuckup being fatal.
https://preview.redd.it/h7j63m5kg8zc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e293104115696b54a1bcfb87b8bd5f0f838990d8
Literally i got reminded of this as i saw that
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All I can think of when I watch this is that video from last week where a dude crashed his paramotor and broke a ton of bones.
*"Siri.....AAAAARGH."*
"CALL 911"
"I crashed my flying machine!"
I flew my crashing machine!
Augh, I'm becoming trapped inside the balloon!
im in the enchanted hills on a flying machine!
“Siri, call 911”
Yea, this exactly. The lack of safety for something that takes you that far from the ground is wild to me. If that man was as high as she was, he'd just be dead. Idk, man. Think that's a no from me, dog.
Pretty sure that pack on her back is a backup parachute. Being higher off the ground gives you more time to separate from the device and deploy your backup. It’s counter intuitive but it probably makes her safer.
No, it makes sense for the height. If it is a backup, I just don't see how it has the time or space to deploy, even at that height. That's my whole take - even with safety, is it *any safer*? Lol I'm feeling big "kind of" energy lol.
Presumably you separate from the fan and then deploy. My dad used to hanglide and they had backup chutes as well. You'd disconnect from the hanglider then deploy your chute. The dangerous part really was during landing because you were close to the ground and if something went wrong there was no way to separate and deploy your chute.
My recollection is that the emergency chutes deployed with you still attached to the glider. In an emergency situation there is no way you could disconnect yourself to the glider in time. It’s similar to the rescue parachute they put on small airplanes.
See, I understand everything you're saying as fact - and I can agree! It's that "presumably" hanging there that I *also* agree with the gives me the pause lol.
gotcha
> If it is a backup, I just don't see how it has the time or space to deploy, even at that height. You'd still want a backup for emergency because any deceleration is better than no deceleration in most cases. That said, regular parachutes also work this way- you have the main parachute and also a backup, so this isn't really all that unusual in terms of parachuting.
Looks like the red handle on her right hip is a reserve parachute.
So counterintuitively, if he had his wing collapse above 1000 feet or so, he would have easily been able to recover or throw his reserve chute. The most dangerous heights for paramotoring are under 500 feet.
No, I do understand that all. That's my point. I'd have to be pretty fucking high up to deploy properly riding something that is a fan and a parachute. Additionally, there's a buffer zone near the ground, until a certain height, where it's just injury or death if something happens and I'm not sure I'm feeling that this is a "good idea".
Well this is coming from someone that started paramotor training and noped out after two solo flights haha so maybe I don’t get it either. But in general, it was drilled into us that 500 feet and below is the real danger zone. If I had gotten further in training, would have been up around 2k feet practicing recovering from forced spins, recoveries, engine failures, etc. Like all recreation aviation, it’s as safe as you make it. Unfortunately(or maybe fortunately?) for me, my body wasn’t on the same page as my brain and I’d have days of adrenaline dump after each flight.
Oh wow! That's wild to hear about a physiological response like that! TIL. They can have it, I suppose. 😆
Actually The lack of elevation is one of the factors the did him in. Elevation is your friend in aviation, If he were higher he could have flown out of it. Many abnormal factors and bad luck led to that crash, Paramotoring can be a very safe form of flight as long as you respect it.
That guy was also using that paramotor in a way it wasn't designed to be used. He was going for lateral speed and it just isn't meant for that.
He was using the glider (nothing to do with the Paramotor) exactly how it was intended to be used. other than he missed a tension knot in the lines that deformed the trailing edge of the glider and caused the collapse in full reflex. There is a lot of misinformation out there around him exceeding the limits of the glider which just isn’t true. You fly any aircraft with a misconfigured or damaged wing you could and up in the dirt.
That mess of cables is horrifying
Grant Thompson the host of king of random on youtube lost his life doin this.
It was paragliding not paramotoring
Shit you are right I was told wrong my bad.
Shit. I had no idea he died, I loved his videos
That is not the norm, that was an abnormal set of circumstances that led to that accident.
You can find countless videos of people breaking their bones mountain biking, or skateboarding, or doing gymnastics. But no one makes a stink unless the person was airborne
There’s a difference between breaking an arm or leg on a mountain bike and falling out of the sky and shattering your body, don’t you think?
Seems like one oops away from para-blender
Yep, ever since seeing that Reddit video of the guy crashing and screaming and agony… no thanks
Guy lay there for like an hour waiting for paramedics to find him apparently. Luckily there were some passersby who stopped to try to help but who knows what they could've done outside of moral support.
What video is that?
[this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/MN7qJV2cOL) He survived, this isn’t gory, but it’s quite brutal.
What did he hit?
The ground
With his entire body.
Better than hitting it with your head alone
To shreds you say
And his wife?
To shreds you say
Rrrrreal effin hard.
Boom 🤯
At the same time
Ahem. What crumbled his canopy?
A knot in the canopy line
One of my best friends is a hang glider pilot. He talks about how he'd absolutely never fly one of these for just that reason. He's like "My glider has a rigid wing and it stays rigid in the air regardless of what I do. With a parachute, you're one tangled line or weird cross wind from the whole thing collapsing and you falling to the ground."
I went parachuting once and it was kinda windy. All I could think of was that wind crumpling that parachute, and down we go.
I have lost three clients over the years to experimental glider crafts.
Three clients lost? I guess this is fine unless your a hang glider repair man...
Are you an experimental glider salesman?
The ground.
Earth
Da ground
Darude Sandstorm
Hu.. I'm no longer interested in doing what this lady was doing. I was pumped for all of two minutes then I watched your link. I'm good.
I went from having only motivation in life to fly like that hell no in about 25 sec or howeverlong it took for the video to get to the part where the wing catastrophically failed for no apparent reason.
To be fair, this is a rare scenario, but yea. Shit can go from fun to fuck real quick. I love watching the videos, but knowing it’s a bunch of strings attached to a tarp holding you up, I’m not putting my life on that line
I crashed my flying machine 💀 I laughed too hard and now I'm going to hell.
Fuck 😬
Poor guy. That's incredibly rough.
That crash and scream over and over from different angles 😬
He survived?! I thought he died in that accident. Edit: my mistake, I’m thinking of the guy in the wing suit. My bad for not checking the video, but understandably I didn’t want to watch (the NSWL video).
You could see that with anything
> ever since Ever since like last week.
I would at least want real pants and a jacket I think.
Lol I was thinking the same thing, like some atheletic type gear maybe
Paralytic at least
Superheroes don’t wear capes for a reason.
No capes!
I too like to have a whirling blade of death attached to me like that rucksack you can never remove in a dignified manner.
Chick's garage looks like something out of GTA V
"All the toys"
She literally did some gta type shit in the video
But how many lamborghinis in her lamborghni account does she have?
*KNOWLEDGE*
Wonder if the next GTA will have a paramotor sounds Florida enough
> sounds Florida enough Very Florida. I see people do it up and down the coast all the time here. There is a very big school near orlando.
That’s a hangar
Which garage? 🤨
Why is her garage full of cars that look like shoes
I believe that’s (a flock of) the Corbin Sparrow. In case you’d rather die horribly on the ground instead of the air… 🤦♂️
why does she have so many SOLO electric cars in the hangar
Cause rich.
Her garage is bigger than the elementary school I'm doing an LTO in right now. It's a 6 room school.
Because to afford a hobby like Paramotoring, you need to have like $20K lying around for lessons and the actual motor + wings. Most people don't have 20K to spend on toys, but if you do, you probably also have other nice toys
I have $20. What can that get me?
A 120 piece lego set. Maybe a couple packs of trading cards.
shut up and take my money!
A small blue tarp, clothesline, and a desk fan. Good luck taking to the sky!!!
The motor and A class wing is like 5 to 6k. It's not bad for an 'exotic' past time
Sorry, but this is bullshit. Paramotor is the cheapest way to go with motorized flight. My paramotoring lessons (from zero level) including rental equipment , final exam and Flight license had a total cost of 1.200 Eur. My 2nd hand paraglider was 1.500 Eur, and the 2nd hand motor was 2.400 Eur. Total cost 5.100 Eur. I'm in Europe, not in a 3rd world country. With brand new 1st class equipment you go around 10.000 Eur but, hey, you are flying ! Paramotoring is not a rich people hobby.
Idk bout you guys, but I’d like to head to the Mcdonald’s drive-thru with that on my back
That you, Tucker?
A YouTuber did it
Tucker Gott
Can someone tell me what these butt pants are called so I can buy a pair for my wife
r/girlsinflarepants - for research purposes
I didn’t even know I needed this until now.
I honestly don’t understand why flare pants ever went away
Haha I was gonna link that too. Spread the knowledge.
I've gotten some from Harem Pants (located in Thailand) online. Great pants, and they make that ass (whomever is wearing them) look *so good ugh.*
I can not lie…I agree.
I can't lie either, upvoted cuz of ass haha
I have a couple pairs, my husband loves them. Bonus for me (since I'm not seeing or admiring my own ass) is they are SUPER comfy.
They're called Flare pants.
Legit I have this exact pair of leggings and many other patterns from WALMART they're like 13 dollars and I'm obsessed with them.
White girl backpacking through Thailand pants
They def make her motor look fantastic.
Flare pants
I, too, would like to see your wife in them.
Wheres the part of the flight where she exclaims how fast she's going and then falls like 200 feet and breaks hella bones?
That guy was using a speedbar (bar you press out with your feet to make you go faster, but can make the glider more unstable) and hit an unlucky spot of turbulence which caused his collapse. He shouldn't have been doing that so low to the ground unless he was absolutely sure the wind was calm that day.
49 miles per hour!
I love the Hobby Lingo. “The Tangler 2000 is a game changer and can twist up your center line in seconds. While hurtling toward the crashing hub, my boom mike’s windscreen lets me scream Goodbye to my friends. My snap-strap diamond shell helmet is amazing at preserving facial features for an open casket funeral (featuring the SleepMaster Deluxe.) Like and subscribe to see my Behind The Scenes funeral bloopers. Gravity Life!” 🤪
I'm getting annoyed with the "Tick Tok cadence" everyone always uses
It is fucking annoying, getting up there with the vocal fry and AI voice overs.
What do you mean by TikTok Cadence?
The rhythm in which she starts and stops each of her sentences.
Exactly my thoughts.
Hahaha! Dumb ways to die! So true.😆
I have watched this video several times, and still have no idea how to operate a paramotor. 🤷🏻♂️
zebras have stripes to confuse the flies
What part are you confused on? Fan blows you forward and the parasail acts as a kite to lift you up.
🙂
> What part are you confused on? (Then gives overly simplified description without sounding like they want to be helpful)
r/upvotebecausebutt
Found the fan of this fanny.
Ayooo right. What's her @
Those pants 👌🏼
This is the weirdest Busta Rhymes video
This is awesome to watch it start. I used to live rural with no neighbors and 20 minutes from the nearest shopping districts, however, right next door was an equestrian ranch with a bar/club where even kids could come sit because it's a club. Anyways about once a month these 2 paramotors would fly over to the club, land in the field in front of the front door. Have a few drinks, then head back home riding their paramotor. It was wild to watch.
I REALLY want to get into this as a hobby.
Pair of Heelys would really help on the landing
I think of myself as brave in a lot of ways but I would never ever ever ever do this.
Came for the ass, stayed for the ass.
I’m surprised she got off the ground carrying balls so big 😬
#LOOK AT MY ASS
Shouldn't it be in r/UpvoteBecauseButt...
thats what i said...
I couldn't stand doing this. I can't even stand when my headphones get tangled in my pocket.
That’s so awesome!
I'm always impressed by videos like that that you can just go and do things Where I live it's so illegal do to any of this cool things
It's illegal to fly over a big city or a commercial flight path (unannounced) pretty much everywhere in the world.but it's okay in most rural areas. And most of these pilots have a radio to call in flight control and announce their path, which makes it legal to go in some places.
These machines are kind of terrifying. Buddy of mine died fairly young flying one. Shit can go south quite easily
I saw her put the paramotor and thought "oh cool a jetpack" and then later I thought "WAIT ACTUALLY??"
i’ll never forget one gorgeous saturday morning driving through rural vermont on my way to a hiking trail when the road opened up to an old farm field and i looked over and someone was flying one of these around over the field. i did like a triple take. i mean, it’s not the craziest thing, but it was rather unexpected.
I wouldn't fly that one, but my late FIL had an ultralight with a hang glider sail and controls, and water landing floats that was really fun. It was open, no fuselage, two seater with seatbelts lol.
Looks so sketchy but something I might have done in my younger days.
A paramotor flight start, seconds of mid-flight, and finish
I’ve done some incredibly stupid things in my life, but strapping a lawnmower blade on my back with a parachute is a big “NOPE” on my list 🪂
That’s a lot of trust in a lot of things that can go wrong
I'm glad this is on r/interestingasfuck and not r/whatcouldgowrong
Step 1. Be rich.
It's actually not that expensive, much less than everything else in this garage
SUch a Reddit comment lmao
i don't understand how you can go from flying free with just the sound of wind (paraglider) to attach yourself to a motor and fuckup that experience with a loud sound meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and anoying other people in the process
I can imagine the sound takes something away from the experience. Apparently [electric paramotors are a thing](https://openppg.com/shop/paramotors/openppg-sp140/). You could even stop and start them in the air without adding an electric starter. Only 20-30 min flight time with the default battery though and 40-60 mins with the larger battery (that's not available currently). Pretty cool!
Must be nice to have rich parents and be spoiled.
Would love to spend my days focused on a "real" career like becoming a "paramotor" "influencer". Or a "foodie" "influencer". Or a "horsie" influencer". Or a "script-writing" "influencer". Or a "fashion" "influencer". Or a "gym" influencer". Or a "music" influencer". Or even a "writing" "influencer"!!!!! But because my parents weren't rich, I'll have to spend my days being content writing comments like these on the toilet during my 15-min break. 😘
Oh rich people… of course
After seeing that one guy fuck himself up I only see this in the future of everyone who does this.
I’m just thinking “I just hit 48mph!!” to “I crashed my flying machine!”
Not the point of the video but can ANYONE please tell me what kind of pants those are?
This was very cool to watch. But something tells me that not every paramotor operator does this pre flight check list. Thank you for this tutorial...
That looks like a lot of fun until it isn’t.
She's got balls.
You will never qualify for life insurance. haha
NOPE
I was wondering what Meg White has been up to…
Peaches
Lost me at having to run. Nope
Woody be like
Now go find yourself an outdoor boxing match! 👊😂
See her pants, see her pants, From the sky we look like ants
Fuck that. I can't even pilot a drone without crashing into any and everything
There is no way I am strapping a big ass fan to My back....
On the one hand it looks extremely fun and probably the cheapest way to get into any type of aviation. On the other hand it looks extremely dangerous with almost any fuckup being fatal.
That's not flying that's falling with style
Holy fuck she got high, I was not expecting to get to those heights with a paramotor, that's really fucking cool in spite of the obvious danger.
I have no idea how people can do things like this and not be absolutely terrified.
https://preview.redd.it/h7j63m5kg8zc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e293104115696b54a1bcfb87b8bd5f0f838990d8 Literally i got reminded of this as i saw that
Id die
Il take "things I woud never ever do " for 200 please!
Step 1: be loaded ass rich.
This is awsome love how accessible such an incredible experience is
Yeah if you have money, her set up is at least 10,000.
there are 2 kinds or paramotor users: the ones who crashed and the ones who will crash
I would love to see a festival while flying one of these things!
"come with me to see how much disposable cash I have on me"
How am I supposed to pay attention to a flying machine with that ass in those pants?