As a paraglider: Paramotoring is definitely as dangerous as any other form of free flight, more dangerous the way it is done on a lot of youtube videos. Paramo

As a paraglider: Paramotoring is definitely as dangerous as any other form of free flight, more dangerous the way it is done on a lot of youtube videos. Paramotors frequently fly in less turbulent conditions, but they seem to love flying low (for youtube anyway). This means there is no chance of recovery in the event of a collapsed wing, and there is no chance of throwing a reserve. I would say that base jumping is even more dangerous than it all by virtue of the fact that most paragliders "last chance, everything else has completely failed, emergency option" is basically what base jumpers are doing on purpose. That said. All these sports are very dangerous. People die doing all of them. Edit: just went and watched the Anthony Vella incident. I'm not a paramotor pilot, but the end result there was very predictable as a paraglider pilot. He was trying to see how fast he could go, and doing it at a low altitude (close to the one thing that can hurt you. The ground). He had intentionally lowered his angle of attack for maximum speed using the speedbar/trim, it sounds like he then slightly eased on the throttle, which would have swung him back relative to the wing, lowering the angle of attack further. If your angle of attack is too low, your wing WILL collapse. His wing collapses. His wing had almost completely recovered, but it happened to recover in a nose down attitude, where it flew him directly into the ground. If he had been at a safe altitude would have been completely fine, minus a sprained sphincter.