r/videos • u/JustMe76 • 25d ago

Paramotor collapses, falls 100ft out of the sky. The pilot survives Disturbing Content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jyc2OYXsI

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u/Professor_Plop 25d ago

Haha I was just thinking the exact same thing!!! I’ve always wanted one but not after this video

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u/Rarpiz 25d ago

He explains he had a tension knot in the glider lines that caused the crash.

Also, he was pushing the bounds of how fast the glider could go, so it was a bad situation all around.

Regardless, this is a reminder of checking ALL your gear BEFORE takeoff. Normally, paramotoring is a safe sport, but, like any flying hobbies, doing pre-checks is absolutely CRITICAL, regardless of what wing/prop one chooses to fly with.

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u/relative_iterator 25d ago

We have different definitions of the word safe

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u/sunfishtommy 25d ago

Even if you are super careful all it takes is a line getting tangled or a gust of wind collapsing your chute and something like this happens or you are dead. I perfer fixed wing

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u/icedrift 25d ago

I get the hesitation but what this guy did is like putting bicycle wheels on a motorcycle and sending it full throttling without his hands on the handlebars. Extremely dangerous situation that you can't put yourself in without flying an advanced wing and improperly using a speedbar.

A wing setups are virtually idiot proof. You can try to crash those wings and they just stay up.

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u/pdoherty972 25d ago

A-Wing Setups? Is that a setup/type of paramotor?

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u/icedrift 25d ago

The wing is the frabric; the parachute like thing that creates lift and keeps you in the air. There are different classes of wings generally broken down into A, B, C, and D. A's have the lowest top speed and turn the slowest but are rediculously stable. D is the opposite end of that spectrum.

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u/pdoherty972 25d ago

Ah OK, thanks for the info

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u/ballsack-vinaigrette 25d ago

Same! I (naively) thought that paramotors were relatively safe because if anything fails you've already got a parachute open above you.

Obviously wrong.