5 Most Dangerous Things about Paramotoring. Is it More Dangerous Than Riding a Motorcycle?

[@michroz]

I would like to add one more serious danger. 7. Danger from the engine. The fact that you have a pretty powerful engine very close to your body and the big rotating propeller is very close to you. Also the fact that often you are your own mechanic as well, doing check, maintenance and repairs on your gear. Quite some number of pilots accidentally injure themselves from operating the engine on the ground. Minor stuff also obviously include: the noise if you ignore the proper earwear, the flammable gasoline you have to handle more intimately than e.g. filling a car tank, the hot exhaust, the fumes, etc.

[@michroz]

Thank you Miroslav for the excellent topic! I would add my humble opinion to the engine failure part. First: you have to look for the emergency landing zone and consider your best option _at all times of the flight_ (not only _after_ your engine dies). This means you need to check and remember the wind direction at all times and frequently pretend you are on emergency landing right now. Second: your engine dies for a reason, so restarting the engine almost never works (never in my carreer), so only try to restart if you are really high enough and you have lots of landing space and you have completely prepared to land (trimmers out, main brakes in hands, safely gliding upwind straight to your ELZ). There are very limited number of reasons you can restart: accidentally hitting the kill button or poor engine idling. In terms of danger - engine failure is only as dangerous as far you ignore it can happen. Paraglider pilots have "engine out landings" all the time!

[@SCOUTaviation]

I totally agree with you. I missed these points. The purpose of this video was to describe the risks and consequences, not to provide complete guide and advice how to fly safe. That is the role of the instructor and no youtube video can substitute that. So now thinking about it my mistake was not that I forgot to mention what you correctly noted in your comment, but rather starting the topic in the first place. I should restrict my video to talking about the risks only (flying over water, over forest, glaciers, rocks, cities, power lines and all the stuff that could kill one) and leave the rest to the instructors. Dear wannabe pilots, I am happy if you like these videos. I would be very unhappy if you believed that these could save you training costs. Please do not make me unhappy.

[@haukeplambeck]

Good valid points to add. Miroslav has to keep it short so he couldn't go too much into detail. Building knowledge and experience is key to lifelong fun in the air. And this process never ends. We always learn new things in the air also because weather is a complex topic.

[@rule1dontgosplat]

had three decent takeoffs then i messed up on the fourth, broke my prop and cracked a hoop spar. it sucked but it only really bruised my ego.

[@TweakRacer]

4 Kinda Dangerous Things about Paramotoring (You're Welcome) 0:25 Takeoff & Landing 1:30 Turbulence 3:00 Engine Failure 5:20 Ego

[@Pilousiukas]

Lithuania is smaller than Slovakia, but already we have had at least 2 fatal incidents with paramotors. Very ironically, but both pilots were killed not in the air or on the ground... They just drowned in the water, this is the reason Miroslav is so afraid.

[@MarkLoves2Fly]

As always, great video, Miroslav! As a Free-Flight Pilot, I would say the risks are similar both with and without the motor. Free-Flight pilots need to understand the conditions to stay aloft, and those conditions may be dangerous for motor pilots. Our wings are similar and also very different. Trimmers are not common for Free-Flight Paraglider wings but are available for Tandem flights. Free-Flight wings fly slower due to the loading and design differences and are designed to fly in the lift of a thermal. Fly to the strengths of your sport and mitigate the risks by flying in appropriate conditions.

[@nico_albrecht]

Good advices.

[@SimonLiegeoisOfficiel]

Thanks a lot for your videos ! I tough you were from USA, but you are from slovekia ? SCOUT are made in Europe ? I'm from Belgium, i think about purchase a scout for my next paramotor, this is easyer if you are from Europe.

[@SCOUTaviation]

Thank you for your trust

[@macflyguy5166]

Very good video. Unfortunately, air traffic/obstacles collision happen.

[@mhbjeep]

Great video Miro. I would just add Ground Starting as one of the dangers. You have solved for that with Safe Start on the Scout Paramotor, but still very dangerous without a starting block, a strap (for clutched), or on your back. Excellent video series as usual. Keep it up! We thank you.

[@flyin_kevin]

Great and honest overview! Like your calmness and openess! Keep that going!

[@RichieParamotorBrummie]

Thanks mate great video for us beginners and experienced pilots too

[@barkin-brit486]

I have flown PG's for 30 years. I had one crash. My ego caused it. I was way too cocky, way to confident and way too lazy to stop it before it even happened. My instructor 30 years ago warned me about becoming complacent... The most dangerous thing about PG and PPG is the choices we pilots make.

[@fokser]

Nice, really good one! 👍

[@benjaminfrankliniii9857]

I am so excited to learn

[@FlavioGiorgini]

Super Friend!

[@ripmanridin7092]

Good stuff!

[@MadMickeyMouse]

Great videos, nice presentation and easily explained. I would like to point out a danger that myself I present to students. You said you think PPG is safer than PG because the PG will often go in turbulent areas that a PPG don't. I would say the GREATEST danger is that when you fly a PG you are allways aware of the wind-direction and conditions. With a PPG you can so very easily force yourself into a lee-side or worse if you don't constantly monitor your ground-speed and look for other signs of wind-directions. Keep up the good work 😁👌

[@SCOUTaviation]

Exactly. This why one needs an instructor and good training. Videos on this series are meant too provide quick and simple answers to very basic questions of wannabe pilots. By no means are they the full story nor a source of learning.

[@Malaysiarider]

I have never flown it before. Do you offer any tutorials? I am interested in buying this.

[@verticallines212]

gotta LOVE Miro! his style, always calm, cool & collective! His knowledge, priceless, What I know about flying, Miro has already forgotten! I always wanted a scout paramotor, this dream is not that far away, My dream is to purchase a Scout and put it together for the first time in the capital of Iceland, fill it wit oil and launch aug. 2024 Love him and his entire crew! Much Warm Wishes, Respectfully,

[@theghostblink]

I would like to train, but i don't know where is the best company/place to learn from in Scotland or uk

[@lancedooley7558]

Can you do a video of different wings and weight ratings. Theirs literally no video's on this. Im currently 240ish pounds and want to do this but I heard the max weight is 225lbs.

[@SCOUTaviation]

Yes! It will be a be part of another series. This one is about the very basics to answer questions of wannabe pilots. Yet I would like to do a very detailed series about wings.

[@lancedooley7558]

@@SCOUTaviation thank you so much. You and Tucker Gott got me into this and I can't wait be doing this.

[@jeanfrancoischabaud8269]

Very nicely made video Miro. And you are right to all. Ego is probably Number one pilot Killer. I can fly far but I’m chicken at everything else. Lol. Acro/ foot dragging/ playing around trees/ water foot dragging. None of that is for me. I could but I cannot hurt myself.

[@KentTexas]

I know a pilot that weighs 320 pounds. And....he foot launches

[@adamsilver7268]

My wife told me the only danger I face in paramotoring is losing her to this guy.

[@SCOUTaviation]

Haha. I start to like her!

[@chrismineburg1163]

exactly.

[@haukeplambeck]

If you go flying always remember to take your brain with you and use it! Too often sketches happen for no other reason than brainless risky actions. It's inconvenient to pack and walk down a mountain when a safe start isn't possible. But then you always get the chance to do a good start next time.

[@sherylcrowe3255]

❤ from 🇺🇸 Want to visit??

[@MrTufoz]

Slovenské titulky ništ?😁

[@christopherblaisdel]

Your responses with respect to paramotoring do not appear to be consistent with statistical fact. It is most certainly NOT safer to drive an automobile than a paramotor. I can only imagine you must be simply looking at number of fatalities per year without adjusting for the VAST difference in prevalence of the number of hours of driving that happens every year compared to paragliding. I feel like you are disingenuously leading people in to danger without them understanding the risks by saying this. You talk about driving a motorcycle. But based on the number of driving fatalities and the number of hours driven per year (including motorcycles). To correspond to one fatality, one would need to drive approximately 51,652.89 million hours. I have not been able to find figures for the number of hours flown every year paramotoring (perhaps you can help me), but I expect we will find paramotoring to be orders of magnitude less safe than driving an automobile. The scariest part of this is that unlike an automobile or an airplane, WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THIS RISK IS that you are talking about managing. People should know that before deciding whether or not to engage in this sport.

[@SCOUTaviation]

I don’t think I have mentioned automobiles.