Chair in the Air - sports aviation without legs

I’ve been thinking about new ways to explore the skies after becoming a paraplegic last year. I’ve been paragliding everywhere and getting into gliding but what about hang gliding? @0:00 my life flying @1:51 the wreckyou helicopter @2:52 gliding from the wheelchair @5:33 hang gliding, self launch, storage @9:36 slower speeds are better? ground handling @10:13 plan ideas Footage taken from various places, many of my videos since my accident, YouTube videos from archaeopteryx and Icaro, and my old paragliding videos from the Canadian Rockies in 2018 (inset from first few years in Oz at the Playground), to the Kingaroy Soaring club in 2020, the Carpathians and France in 2022, to my French gliding club in 2021, the Red Bull X-Alps in 2015, flying past mum’s place to the Hollyford in the last NZ season before the pandemic, gliding in the French Alps this year and Chris Streat late last year, and some shots from Matthew Scutter (skysight creator) in the Australian outback.
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