Safety

Safety & Transparency: Why This Website Exists

This website exists to make tandem paramotor safety easier to understand and harder to ignore. In many tourist destinations, customers choose based on photos, price, or sales messages — but the real risk is hidden in pilot qualification, weather decisions, equipment condition, and operational discipline.

The goal is simple: help travelers make safer decisions, and push the industry toward clearer minimum standards.

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1) The Problem This Site Solves

Paramotor flights can be safe when operated correctly — but tourism markets often create incentives that increase risk: high volume, time pressure, weak enforcement, and customers who cannot evaluate safety claims.

•Information asymmetry: customers can’t verify pilot skill, maintenance, or real weather policy.
•Marketing & price pressure: cheaper operators may cut corners that are invisible until an incident happens.
•Under-reporting: incidents may not be documented publicly, so patterns repeat.

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2) What You Get From This Site

This website is structured to help you check risk fast:

•Accident Reports: real-world scenarios that show how failures happen (weather, skill, maintenance, incentives).
•Safety page: a practical checklist for what to ask, what to avoid, and what good practice looks like.
•Decision support: clear “red flags” that help you say “no” before you pay or fly.

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3) How to Use the Accident Reports

Use reports as pattern recognition, not entertainment:

•Look for root causes: Was it weather timing? pilot qualification? equipment history? rushed operations?
•Map it to your booking: If an operator can’t answer safety questions clearly, treat it as a warning.
•Use incidents to ask better questions: “Do you fly in midday thermals?” “Do you retire wings by hours?”

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4) Red Flags To Watch For

These are common signals of higher risk operations:

•“We fly all day.” Midday thermals/gusts increase instability and landing risk.
•No clear pilot qualification proof. Vague answers about tandem certification or experience.
•Unclear maintenance history. No logbook, no replacement schedule, “fixed after it broke.”
•Pressure tactics. “Now or never,” “non-refundable,” or rushing pre-flight checks.
•Unsafe add-ons. Acrobatics with passengers, overloaded weight, or risky landing zones.

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5) What Safer Operations Usually Do

Safer operations tend to have visible, repeatable discipline:

Area What “Safer” Usually Looks Like What “Riskier” Often Looks Like
Weather policy Limited flight windows (morning/evening); no-pressure cancellations “Fly all day”; ignore thermals/gust fronts
Pilot standards Verified tandem experience; consistent briefing; calm operations Unverified pilots; rushed or inconsistent checks
Equipment Retirement by hours; regular inspections; visible maintenance records Unknown wing history; “patched & reused”; no records
Customer rights Clear refund/reschedule policy when unsafe Non-refundable pressure; vague compensation policy

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6) Scope & Disclaimer

This website provides educational safety information and incident-style reporting. It does not replace professional training, official aviation authority guidance, or medical/legal advice.

•Conditions change; always rely on real-time weather and on-site risk assessment.
•Accident reports are intended to highlight safety patterns and decision points.
•If an operation cannot explain safety decisions clearly, treat that as a risk signal.

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Bottom Line

This site exists to reduce preventable harm by making safety expectations explicit. Flying should be memorable for the right reasons — not because basic standards were ignored.