iParaglide Paragliding Reserve Parachute Seminar ($147) August 27, 2011

Our Paragliding Reserve Parachute seminar will prepare pilots for our upcoming SIV course.

Having a reserve parachute installed in your paragliding harness is only half the battle. Understanding the "throw or no-throw" scenario is a complex set of decisions and requires a well-understood decision tree.

The paragliding reserve parachute throw sequence itself requires a precise methodology that can be executed in extreme situations as an autonomous, systematic response.

Having the skills to inspect, maintain and repack your paragliding reserve is essential to being a pilot, especially when traveling in a third world countries.

Course components include: 

• Classroom theory including multi-media displays of paragliding reserve deployments gone well and deployment scenarios gone bad
• Paragliding Reserve Parachute design brief
• Pre-flight checks
• Why to throw, flight attitudes and altitudes that warrant reserve deployment   
• When to deploy
• How to deploy your paraglider reserve parachute: mantra
• Low altitude deploy reserve ride considerations
• High altitude deploy reserve ride considerations
• Dangerous landing sites
• Parachute Landing Fall (PLF) 
• Tree Extraction for paraglider pilots 
• Multiple reserve deployments from a paragliding simulator
• Multiple paragliding reserve repacks in a small group size
• Tree extraction kit for paragliders practicum

Our paragliding reserve parachute seminar is conducted in  small group size so we can throw and repack sufficient times in an un-rushed environment.  The principle is that you will be able to repack on your own in the future provided you stay current and repack every 6 months. 

We look forward to helping pilots thoroughly understand how paragliding reserve parachutes are designed to function; when and how to deploy their reserves; what to do during a reserve ride; and how to repack. Contact us to book here.