Done before
If you look at the sand bar he landed on, you can see he has done it before there are tracks
Uncle Jay said it, right there!
-So-much for "skilled,sitationally-aware pilots "
IFMU also raises the obvious:-
If his stunt had gone awry he would have hurt nobody but himself.
repeat performance for the purpose of making this very entertaining video.
Obviously a very experienced user of this machine and it's pretty self-evident that he's very carefully assessed any risk before attempting what at first appears to be a hairy stunt.......given the steepness of the slope, he'd have great difficulty NOT taking -off (unless the wheels ripped-off
. Have a look on you tube and there's a rigid-wing "hang-glider that takes off in the wind, from a virtually flat plateau. suppose that's reckless, dangerous etc. as well?