As the title asks? I have been aviation obsessed as long as I can remember, I have earned my wings and experience flying, but in airplanes I correlate speed and altitude with saftey, it doesn’t jive well with what my childhood daydreams of flying was though. Then I envisioned flying low and slow, sub 500 ft, better yet 20ft skimming the ground like a bird. I see there has been tremendous growth in powered paragliders over the last few decades, and I’m really intrigued by them, they seem to be the “scratch for the itch”, but are they “relatively” safe? I can’t help but think of a canopy collapse at 50ft being unrecoverable, honesty requested, can a powered paraglider (flown in reasonable conditions) be safely flow at say 20-50ft altitude to check fence lines and crop conditions without it ending in going west?
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