The Paragliding is a sport whose name comes from the words “parachuting” of “slope”. Parapente ParapenteEl is considered like free flight, differentiated from the variety where a motor like denominated propellent is used paramotor.
One is to be able to take off, to fly and to land with a flexible wing by your own means. The takeoff is made on foot, normally from the edge of a slope faced the wind.
The pilot feels in a harness, united to the candle by means of two lugs. The USA a helmet and has an emergency parachute, and generally varioaltímetro, GPS and radio equipment. Also it is possible to make it with mechanical winches that an operator controls giving him greater or smaller tension to a rope that enlists in the harness of the pilot. This type of flights is typical of plains where the permanence of the flight occurs according to the ability of the crew member to find zones thermal or the dynamic effect that takes place in some formation with respect to the wind. |