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Old 20th Apr 2005, 17:12
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Fuji Abound
 
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Powered paraponts

Having watched one of these today (and purely out of interest not because I want to report them!) I was interested in their current classification. I seem to remember reading a slightly bizarre story of a vicar a few years back who got in trouble with the CAA. I think this was because a powered parapont was considered to be an aircraft and as such presumably subject to the same rules of the air as the rest of us. It also left me wondering whether the "craft" should have a registration number on the sail if this is so and whether the regulations about where they might land are in some way different.
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