Originally Posted by
Flintstone
A bungee launched glider is designed to do that.
This guy had nowhere to go if it had gone wrong on the roll. A soft patch would have slowed him with the potential to hit that farking great rock and I don't care how well he knows his aircraft he'd NOT have been able to start the engine in time.
Bloody stupid.
I agree, if he'd have got it all wrong, and survived, I suppose he would expect emergency services to rescue him, at great cost. I put him in the same category as base jumpers and the like. They think of nothing else than an adrenalin rush. That's not what flying is all about.