Today's dose of social consciousness: Some of these people are real, and some aren't - can you tell which?
And it be done through abysmal reporting about this supposed extreme weather event. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/na...-off-cliff-by-dust-devil-20190103-p50pi9.html It's ******** and I haven't even bothered to read the article. The headline implies an extreme weather event on launch caused the paraglider to land 180km away. I'll bet the parasail was caught by a thermal on launch which threw threw the pilot around a bit and who then completed the assigned competition task. Extreme is the two paragliders caught up in a thunderstorm a few years ago near Parkes I think. Both drawn up into the storm, one killed by lightening and the other spent quite a while unconscious in the death zone (10,000m) but actually was lucky enough to survive with minor frostbite. Now that's extreme.
There is extreme reporting only by the word "tornado" in the second paragraph IMO. The video shows an actual column of dust, so it's more than a thermal. The word "extreme" has only been used in the classification of the article as "extreme weather", not as an extreme event. The parasail was caught by the dust devil- it looks quite scary- but he did, as you say, then complete his flight.
Tornado, FFS ! more like a little willy willy Ewa Wisnierska Paraglider survived in storm at 32,000 ft increadibly lucky to survive edit: Willy Willy From Yindjibarndi (an Aboriginal language of western Australia) or Wemba-wemba (an Aboriginal language of SE Australia).
Yeah, I was taught when I was involved in gliding to use a dust devil to mark the thermal. Quite odd to be sweating under the perspex at ground then be freezing at cloud base.
I agree. My point is that it was only the word "tornado" which was out of place. That doesn't make the whole article fake news. The ABC version is a little better Paraglider walks away unscathed after surprise dust devil chews him up and spits him out
