Parasailing & Paragliding

Paragliding Annecy in August, Col de Forclaz Launch

Flight Date: 5 pm, 22 August 2017
Launch: Col de Forclaz, Annecy
Landing: Doussard, also where the shuttle leaves from.
Shuttle: 7 euro 1 trip or 60 euro for 10 and about 30 minutes to launch. Frequency seems to change and can be anything from every half hour to every hour and a half.

Exact location and details on paraglidingmaps.com

I have been paragliding on and off in Annecy for about a month. The weather hasn't been great this year but every now and then it really switches on in the afternoon (especially after 4pm it seems) and a great flight is easily had.

This particular flight is 1 of 3 in 3 days where it was just lifty all over the place. I tried to fly out to the first peak with an eye to fly to the second and then possibly across the lake, but it got really turbulent the closer I got.

I reached the first peak and started to climb in some horrible air, but when I saw the guy in front of me start to rock all over the place and then have a collapse which really rolled him (02:20) I decided to fly back to the launch ridge and buzz around there a bit more.

I can see why people love flying at Annecy when it is working. Beautiful paragliding with amazing scenery.

Paragliding Crash Accident at Annecy France - Raw Video

I start with saying I love paragliding and it is life to me. I can't wait to recover just so I fly again.
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Here is my review for the accident:
After having many great flights and building confidence and feeling with both my wings and the air, I took a risky decision over estimating my skills at landing. I knew I'm taking a risk but I don't know why I did it anyway. It was a big mistake that you can easily hear in my voice questioning if I want to go with this bad idea. The main issue is I focused too much on crossing the lake again and didn't think enough about if I miss my landing zone. I thought that at this point I can land anywhere after many good landings at landing zones. I had much more sink than I expected which forced me to land and it didn't go well. I hit a house downwind while doing my last loop (I Shouldn't do 360 but things happened very fast) and hit the wall at 60 km/hour.
I broke my right leg and did a lot of damage to my ankle (The biggest issue). Hurt my right shoulder from falling on it and left leg from the impact.
Good people took care of helping me until the ambulance arrived and did the surgery same day, stayed in hospital 5 days, and now recovering for the next 6 weeks then will learn how to walk and build strength again.

Lesson to learn: When something questionable and unknown it is fun to do but in this sport it is better to not do. My next flights I'll be more conservative and now I know how ugly is to crash so if I had a second chance I would of choose some trees or through my parachute. Flying is the most fun so enjoy it and don't let my mistake affect your flying negatively. It is safe sport if done safely.

*Please feel free to write honest comments below so we all learn from my mistake. Clearly I made a mistake! My next goal after recovering and gaining confidence again is to train on spot landing.