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Was originally “Why Can’t We Get a Handle on This Safety Thing?” It Happened to a Skilled, Conservative Pilot by Mike Meier, used with permission. This article first appeared in USHPA’s magazine and is presented here with permission. Mike Meier is a California Wills Wing (hang glider maker) designer, test pilot and originator of USHPA’s Safe Pilot award.

The article below ( Here is the Original) presents an interesting angle on safety and such risk. We’ve talked about experienced pilots and margins and so forth but sometimes, even withOUT pushing the margins, there’s unavoidable risk. For most pilots, though, it will only be a matter of time before they accept some weather condition that’s not the perfectly smooth, benign forecast, slice of stillness they hope for.

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Motors grant us the luxury of choosing benign conditions which is why paramotoring seems to be safer than free flying. We can minimize risk, of course, quite a bit, mostly by choices of when and where we fly.īy virtue of operating in the invisible, sometimes turbulent ocean of air, there’s an element of chance. A paramotor pilot can be surprised by unexpectedly nasty air. A careful biker can have a wheel fall off due to manufacturing defects.

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A safe driver can be blindsided by a red-light running truck. For a statistical look, go here.Īre they? Although the article below is about hang gliding it’s just as applicable to us.Įvery activity has risk and a small amount is beyond our control-it’s just plain luck. When an onlooker says “aren’t those things dangerous?” We should really think about our response. At a time when trends and gimmicks regularly come and go the Mayday has been saving pilots since 1984.See also Statistics: is our sport truly dangerous? | Is Equipment Safer? Anatoly Cohn recalls that the system has saved hundreds of pilots around the world. But over the years the reliability of the system has been well proven. The Mayday is a pulled down apex reserve parachute, which possesses the one thing that wasn’t tested – reliability. The only systems with a better sink rate were 31.7m2, 34.1m2 and 43.4m2, all at least 10m2 larger than the Mayday’s 22.1m2 and in the case of the Trekking F22 at 43.3m2 nearly twice as big. The Mayday 16 was the second smallest parachute on test and yet it consistently performed at the top even in sink rate and stability. Many vital properties of an emergency parachute were assessed, such as opening speed at high and low velocity, sink rate and stability during descent. Over 20 modern reserve systems were tested.

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A series of tests, made from a fixed balloon in November 1997, attended amoungst others by Swiss Federation expert Alain Zoller. The Mayday has been compared for a long time with some other rescue systems, but according to the findings of the Italian Free Flight Federation (FIVL), it still comes out on top. Finally the bridle has a line sheath attached, to protect the lines where they link to it. The attachment loop is covered with a Teflon sheath, to protect it from dangerous friction which may occur during deployment.

The Bridle is made from 6000 pound Nylon Webbing (UV Resistant).

The line attachments have V-Tab reinforcements, sewn in place with a computerized machine, ensuring consistantly high quality and strength. The skirt and apex skirt is reinforced with 1’mil spec nylon tape, neatly wrapped and stiched with a precision four-needle machine. The canopy cloth is F111 “zero porosity” ripstop nylon. The Mayday boasts superior construction and materials. In 1998 the Mayday Bi was released in a Pulled down Apex version, and soon after the Mayday 20 hit the market. All four of the of Mayday parachutes are “Flat Circular Pulled Down Apex” in design. Over the years the basic design and construction techniques have remained the same – there is not much to improve on a winning design and best seller as Mayday, even though it is continuously perfected and polished, insuring that it is updated on even the smallest details.

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