- Thu May 01, 2008 10:18 am
#66693
I am planning to hang gliding for the first time and was hoping for a guesstimate of the risk of death or serious injury. I searched online but couldn't find reliable data. Most of the sources I saw said the fatality rate was about 1 per 1000 to 1500 active participants per year. But obviously the risk of doing it once is less than the risk of doing it actively throughout the year. So I'd like to know the risk of death/injury per flight or per hour of flight time. (I understand that there are typically 5-10 deaths per year, so if anyone knows the total number of flights per year, I could figure it out from that.)
I'm planning to do a tandem flight with an experienced instructor at a reputable place (probably Blue Sky in Virginia). I'm guessing the flight will be about 20 minutes. Can anyone guesstimate the likelihood of death or serious injury on this one tandem flight? (One widely quoted source I saw said 1 death per 2308 flights, but I'm hoping they actually meant per 2308 participants, not per 2308 flights.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm planning to do a tandem flight with an experienced instructor at a reputable place (probably Blue Sky in Virginia). I'm guessing the flight will be about 20 minutes. Can anyone guesstimate the likelihood of death or serious injury on this one tandem flight? (One widely quoted source I saw said 1 death per 2308 flights, but I'm hoping they actually meant per 2308 participants, not per 2308 flights.)
Thanks in advance for your help.