How Safe is Paragliding?
Statistically speaking, there are less paragliding deaths per year than Horseback riding. An insurance report shows paragliding fatalities/participant to be less than motorcycle riding! Simply put, all adventure sports carry risks. The most important aspects of learning to fly safely are pilot attitude, competent instruction, and safe equipment. Modern paragliders are computer designed to provide optimum safety and stability, but no matter how safe the equipment, launching into a thunderstorm is a very bad idea. Since the air is invisible, pilots must use their skills of observation and imagination to predict the air and its flow. All students will carry a reserve parachute, which has decreased our injury statistics drastically.
