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    AERIAL RECREATION

    ACTIVITIES
    BY: REMY GUTIEREZ
    INSTRUCTOR I
    AERIAL RECREATION ADVENTURE

    Haras (2012) unpacks the term aerial adventure environment by defining each
    word. Aerial refers to the fact that the experience occurs above the ground,
    whether by only a few inches or at great height, and therefore requires specialized
    skills and equipment. The experience also involves adventure (individual or in a
    group) and is chosen because it poses a challenge and entails at least a perception
    of uncertainty. Finally, the word environment refers to both the physical structures
    and the delivery method of the experience. Using this broad idea of AAEs, we can
    now explore what this type of experience encompasses.
    Examples of AERIAL
    ACTIVITIES
    Parasailing

    also known as parascending, paraskiing or parakiting,


    is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed
    behind a vehicle while attached to a specially designed
    canopy wing that resembles a parachute, known as a
    parasail wing. The manned kite's moving anchor may be
    a car, truck, or boat.
    Skydiving

    Skydiving, use of a parachute—for either recreational or


    competitive purposes—to slow a diver’s descent to the ground
    after jumping from an airplane or other high place.
    The sport traces its beginnings to the descents made from a hot-
    air balloon by the French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin in
    1797, but modern skydiving is usually performed from a
    propeller-driven airplane.
    SKYDIVING AERODYNAMICS

    Typical jump altitudes in modern times for experienced skydivers range from 7,500 to 15,000 feet (2,300 to
    4,600 metres) above ground level, yielding a freefall time of between 40 and 85 seconds.
    Paragliding

    Paragliding, sport of flying parachutes with design


    modifications that enhance their gliding
    capabilities. Unlike hang gliders, their close
    relations, paragliders have no rigid framework; the
    parachute canopy acts as a wing and is constructed
    of fabric cells with openings at the front that allow
    them to be inflated by movement through the air—
    the “ram-air” effect.
     The pilot is suspended in a seated harness and controls the wing via lines attached to the trailing edge of the
    paraglider. These lines may be operated individually to turn the paraglider or simultaneously to influence
    pitch and speed. Takeoff and landing are on foot and usually occur on a hill or mountain. To launch, the pilot
    first inflates the wing by pulling it up like a kite and then runs down the hillside until flying speed has been
    reached. Usually a speed of about 12 miles per hour (19 km per hour) is enough to launch the craft.
    Paragliders may also be launched from flatland by towing, either with a winch or behind a vehicle.
     The sport can be traced to the activities of French parachute inventor Pierre Lemoigne, who tow-launched
    his advanced round-parachute canopies in the 1950s. The ram-air-inflated cell structure originated in the
    early 1960s with the kite and parachute designs of the Canadian-born American inventor Domina Jalbert.
    These designs evolved into steerable rectangular parachutes with relatively high forward speed. It was soon
    found that they had sufficient glide performance to allow them to be launched from steep slopes as well as
    by the aircraft deployment usual for parachutists.

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