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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on September 26, 2018, 11:46:21 PM

Title: Anyone paraglide/hang glide??
Post by: theking on September 26, 2018, 11:46:21 PM
I was at Fort Funston and talked to a couple of gliders and it does interest me a bit...so perhaps I might try it in the future  ??? ...

Arrived:

(https://i.imgur.com/Duvk9SP.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/QN6424N.jpg?1)


Prepping their glides for flight:

(https://i.imgur.com/mjUuaKj.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/rFQFznV.jpg?1)


Run way:

(https://i.imgur.com/Sem34C2.jpg?1)


Drop zone:

(https://i.imgur.com/Js2up3L.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/oRqQkPu.jpg?1)


Happened to be a wedding there that day so I took a snap shot of it.. ;D:

(https://i.imgur.com/E8PjEaW.jpg?1)


Stock photo but same area so it could be something like this... O0:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Funston_overlook_2.jpg/1200px-Funston_overlook_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone paraglide/hang glide??
Post by: Mr_Mechanic on September 27, 2018, 06:39:03 AM
When it comes to height that high........I'm too scare to try it.  Looks pretty neat though.
Title: Re: Anyone paraglide/hang glide??
Post by: theking on September 27, 2018, 11:29:33 PM
When it comes to height that high........I'm too scare to try it.  Looks pretty neat though.

Yeah, fear of height is real and one of the common mental fears. I remembered when my wife and I went to the Skywalk in Arizona when it first opened, there were people there trying to conquer their fear of height. They were literally crawling on the glass floor as their friends encouraged them to keep going until they reach the other side  ;D:

(https://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Skywalk-over-the-Grand-Canyon.jpg)

(https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tucson.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/db/5dbd0cf7-52e3-5c6c-9894-d58c9521813c/5038660a8b15f.image.jpg)