FlyBoy1960

it's not a dumb comment because I didn't know the person. I had no idea of his age or even where he is located and flying from. I just noticed when I was reading it a 2nd time during lunch that he was not on the witness list and thought he would be a real obvious person to bring into the inquest. When you read the coroner's negative comments about him it made me wonder very briefly if he had passed from natural causes or self-inflicted (I have been listening to, too many crime podcasts). I could think of myself in his shoes wanting to do whatever was necessary to avoid this sort of scrutiny and stress.

Interesting ? Accident or self-inflicted ? I would be worried in his position

I am just wondering after reading it again over lunch why the flight instructor was not called to give evidence. He is mentioned thousands of times but was never interviewed ? What's going on there ?

10 years later. Is this strip still going ? Google maps show it all under cultivation ?

They have FAI records approaching crazy kms ! They are slow BUT can certainly travel some distances given the right conditions. Hence my comments about a cross country endorsement 612 km The distance record for paragliding was broken by Sébastien Kayrouz on 19 June 2021. He flew 612 km in a straight-line flight in Texas. The flight was made at a speed of 60 km/h and at an altitude of between 1000 and 2000 metres

Thats down south, the NT is only 8 hours.

I don't know if there is such a thing but maybe there is a cross-country endorsement for paragliders. If this chap had his cross-country endorsement then that would have been accepted by the RA-Aus because they have a recognition approval from other sports aviation associations. Just like if you migrated from the old HGFA, you could come into RA-Aus, and they would accept your cross-country, your pilot certificate and other ratings automatically. Perhaps they just automatically accepted the pilots cross-country endorsement ratings from his previous experience regardless of whether you thought it was appropriate or otherwise.

So where is this report ? all i have seen is the ABC 'review' seems the report is not available publically yet.

Doesnt mean they interpret the info correctly.

So all this discussion is on an ABC news article ?

There are links to the ABC story but is there a link to the coroners report itself ? Thats what i would like to read ?

Nobody has mentioned the dog (off-leash) with evil intent in his eyes.

The sea is mostly frozen over at the moment. Little chance of survival unfortunately.

Thats a reportable incident. CASA will send you the 68 page report to submit to them within 72 hours, failure to do so will become a matter of strict liability.

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