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FAQs

How many miles can you paraglide? ›

You will be using the paraglider's handheld throttle and brake toggles to make the paraglider gain altitude or go faster. A powered paraglider can reach up to 18,000 feet. This the legal limit set by the FAA. You can also reach as far as 80 miles through the air.

Is there a weight limit? There is no weight limit for paragliding tandems, as long as we have enough wind. To date, we have taken passengers as heavy as 350 lbs. Hang gliding tandems work a little differently, so typically passengers are restricted to 175 lbs (80 kgs, 12 stone) or less.

How long does a paraglider last? General wear and tear (especially the latter) and deterioration from exposure to ultra-violet usually limit the useful lifetime of a canopy to somewhere in the region of 200 to 300 hours of airtime. This obviously depends strongly on use.

There is a legal limit and a physical limit. In accordance with FAA Part 103, paramotor pilots can go up to but not higher than 18,000 feet MSL. Physically, you will start breathing less oxygen around 10,000 ft, increasing the chance of a blackout and risk of incident.

The “500ft Rule” allows pilots to fly below 500ft as long as they are no closer than 500ft to any person, vessel, vehicle, building or structure.

It's a myth that paragliders can't fly when there is no wind; they can, quite happily.

Their results showed that the fastest wing shape has a razor-thin trailing edge, which helps to generate strong vortices or swirling flows during flapping. The wing leaves a trail of these eddies as it pushes off the fluid to propel forward.

The tapered wing is the planform found most frequently on gliders. Assuming equal wing area, the tapered wing produces less drag than the rectangular wing, because there is less area at the tip of the tapered wing.

The speed range of paragliders is typically 22–55 kilometres per hour (14–34 mph), from stall speed to maximum speed.

The fastest glider is probably the Space Shuttle. Five minutes before landing, and well into the Earth's atmosphere, its already slowed down to around 800mph and from there to touch down is being flown in the same way as we fly and land gliders!