🚀 go-pugleaf

  
  Hello regular sci.aeronautics readers and casual lurkers, 
 
  Since I failed to find a group matching 'hang-', 'para-' or just plain
  'gliding' I suspect some people on this group might help me out.
  Although science probably comes in somewhere, the simple Joy of Flight
  syndrome, the thrill of absolute control, the fulfillment of a youth's
  dream and all such thoughts that come to mind before crashing at
  unnecessary high speeds on a summer's day must be the very base
  that is shared by the majority of this group's posters - or so I hope.
 
  Therefore I dare to ask the following surprisingly dull questions:
  
  * WHO is heavily into hang- or paragliding?
  * And feels like supplying me with ANY data at all w.r.t. that mistake, 
    especially: - Great places (in Europe) to go for that
                - Prices of equipment in general
                - Usual deathrates in this line of business (It won't stop
                  me from going to try it - just to freshen my sense of
                  responsibility) (Do reports with comments exist on it?)
                - ... and furthermore: anyhting that spring to mind
                  and you feel like sharing with a complete stranger.
   
  I understood paragliding is a low cost, easy to learn and pretty safe
  way to initiate a hobby in this field ...
  
  Responses wrt ANY of the questions above please to
  at073@cleveland.freenet.edu
  or simply to this group.  
  
  Thanks in advance!
 
  With kind regards, 
  as well as only a minor experience in gliding, 
  cheers!
  Rowdy Blokland. (The Netherlands)