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@SCOUTaviation thank you for your Answer

Glad you like them!

This is the most supportive and motivating comment we have received. Sure you are exaggerating here. I just wanted to fix my flat land paragliding problem and you label it as changing the course of history:-) But certainly your words are rewarding. Thank you.

The laboratoire d'envol site, has made diy paraglider construction accessable to the world. Pal Takats if I am correct was the kid back in 1991, who was either from checkoslavakia(@the time), or Slovenia and was perhaps the son of an eastern European factory worker mother, and understood fabric construction better than the developers of (old-school) paragliders. The nowadays still groundbreakers of designs (luc armant,thierry barboux,pierre bouilloux, richard gallon). And as sad as it is that those last two names are only still with us in spirit, that's the beauty of our favorite feral sport.They live on within us.The developments of air'G, for strictly acro-parapentists, was a passion of one of guy, an everyday guy that even invited me to learn paraglider construction from him and rent his attic in the south of France. Me being 19 at the time, and having tried a few "on radio" test (ACPULFS @ the time) " guided siv flights" felt the path ahead was too many decades away from where they have gotten us to today. The passing of Pierre and Richard, saddened us all deeply, as they were the first rock-stars of the sport. But knowing how many dozens if not hundreds of hours we spent sharing the same thermals, across the sites of annecy to gourdon and all stops in between, comforts me to this day. That they were watching out for me, always with beta on sites safety and "zones-d@ngereux" every where we flew together. That religiously motivated feeling we get doing what man for thousands of years had only dresmt of, makes me feel they are our still our "guardians", if you will.That extra voice inside we'll listen to and let drown out our ego or super-id one , in favor of the smart decision on any given sketchy situations on any given day. So as pal takats took the sport and its construction methods foward with his behind the scenes knowledge. And scout paragliding advances the application of hybrid-paragliding, the future is where will be soon landing. Thanks to so many countless individuals. So with the adventures opening up to us, we all have plenty to anticipate. Even a 52 going on 25year-old such as myself. Imagine if nuclear-diamond-batteries become available in the next advancement. The ability to travel the globe with little more than a hike & fly backpack, will be a reality. One that could never have happened if we weren't all dreaming of it. And in groundbreakers, trail blazers such as yourselves, is only happening on behalf of the few individuals efforts.But will become a benefit to so many of us within the next decade. So I am not flattering nor being a sycophant in honestly appreciating, the ever-humble riskier risk-takers. Thanks for your commitment and bravery, you're good men( and women of course)(@%^(!/))look out of any window, on any evening, any day! Peace ,love, hang-ten California! Vancouver, BC.

Most of us have "in" through apps that run on tablets or smart phones. S/A is increased, but only minimally adds to safe separation. Given the top speed of a PPG rig, the better plan is to fly in areas where most fixed wing aircraft, i.e. the general aviation "masses", either won't or can't. "Out" requires an "N" number and registration of the gear. Which sounds like it might be "safer" and easy enough, but the weight, complexity and inherent altitude inaccuracies that get broadcast given currently available battery powered systems, make it impractical for mass adoption. Especially so at a price point nearing, or in many cases exceeding the cost of the gear itself. I know of about 5 or 6 dudes running out now. One has spearheaded the pathway to registration on behalf of the community. He worked through the process with his local FSDO and trialed several manufacture's products along the way. The others either engage in frequent high altitude long distance flying as exhibitors or content creators, while a few more persistently fly right on the edge of complex and busy airspace and can more easily justify the burdens of cost and registration.

There is very little general aviation in Iceland, and we're generally flying in places/conditions that they don't. I have ADS-B in on my setup, and I didn't even connect it while in Iceland.

Most aircraft don't have ADS-B in or out here in Iceland. We rely on radio communication and visual separation.

@@SethSutherland He's probably just stirring the pot, like so many general aviation pilots seem to feel the need to do. It feeds their egos. Like I tell my co-owners at my private airport, "I operated a high performance aircraft out of this field for 20 years and never so much as had my nose wheel deviate from the centerline of a taxiway. Meanwhile the rest of you crashed into the embankment at the approach end of the runway, landed gear up, ground looped into the segmented circle taking out the wind sock, ran out of gas on several occasions around the county, damaged aircraft and ground equipment with prop strikes, had a hand propped aircraft runaway, killed themselves in MVFR and low IFR weather, had two airplanes take off from opposite ends of the same runway at the same time, totaled a brand new RV-6 on her maiden flight, had mechanical and ongoing maintenance damages, that included aircraft falling off jacks and holing wings, two near asphyxiations heating hangars and one parked plane's brakes bled down while enduring A&P A/I annual maintenance that rolled down a hill and set the woods on fire." All that time I never said a peep! Yet the day I bought a PPG rig, an organized contingent of them felt compelled to tell me that paramotoring from the airport is un-safe.

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Every scout equipped with the SafeStart device as standard. Yes I should not have taken that for granted and mention that in the video.

Sure. You can have 130 with the enduro cage right now.