The pilot was a very experienced paraglider pilot. My brother (a paraglider pilot), who lives in Bright, knew the pilot well, and along with everyone else in the paragliding community is very saddened by what has happened. I also know of other paraglider pilots (also very experienced) who forgot to do up the leg straps, but fortunately managed to land without incident apart from giving themselves a large fright and reality check about the importance of pre-launch checks.
This underscores how complacency with checks can be fatal. Sadly it seems that high hour pilots let complacency creep in. One only has to look at the annals of gliding to see that very experienced people are killing themselves. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
