Paramotoring is possibly the
safest form of personal flight ever devised but it's still aviation.
Humans in flight involve significant and not always obvious risk. We are
fortunate, though, in how much safety is at our disposal. For example,
PPG is safer than riding a motorcycle and the pilot has more control
over his fate than the rider. So its up to you, it's up to us,
individually, to make decisions that will further our injury-free
enjoyment.
The USPPA provides
tools to help educate pilots and instructors,
it's up to pilots to use them. For example, instructors who don't use
the syllabus or students who don't ask for its use are shortchanging the
training process.
Besides staying healthy and flying into
old age, Improving safety brightens our sport's reputation. That
reputation will more likely get us accepted at desirable public
sites, a welcome benefit.
Prop Safety
Sept 5, 2009
Body contact with spinning prop continues
to cause injuries. There's some help, though, for pilots willing to add
a "safety ring" to their cage. It's an aluminum ring that mounts just
forward of the radial arms with the same radius as the prop. You can see
an example of it,
along with other prop-related safety ideas at
www.footflyer.com.
