Yes and no. Definitely acro is way more deadly than casual flying but I’ve seen and heard about weird accidents happening to people without doing anything crazy. A friend of mine wanted to do a tandem flight. She took off with very experienced pilot on a very calm day and some totally random downdraft suddenly pulled them down and they landed hard in the middle of the mountain. By some miracle both were fine. A lot that happened in my area were foreign tourist not familiar with the terrain and not having enough experience trying to fly on normal days and simply making stupid mistakes.
Those wildly experienced paraglider pilots are usually getting killed doing advanced acro or flying in sketchy conditions though.
Yes and no. Definitely acro is way more deadly than casual flying but I’ve seen and heard about weird accidents happening to people without doing anything crazy. A friend of mine wanted to do a tandem flight. She took off with very experienced pilot on a very calm day and some totally random downdraft suddenly pulled them down and they landed hard in the middle of the mountain. By some miracle both were fine. A lot that happened in my area were foreign tourist not familiar with the terrain and not having enough experience trying to fly on normal days and simply making stupid mistakes.
I guess I’m more on the ppg side of things. I can see why flying unpowered down the side of mountains would get you into those situations.