Mathieu and Emilia flying over Hundred Islands National Park, Alaminos
French and Polish Powered Paragliding/ Paramoitoring (PPG) champions Mathieu Rouanet and Emilia Plak visited the Philippines in February this year and flew over some of well-known and loved sites of the the Philippines — Pinatubo, Taal, Hundred Islands and others — offering views unseen from the paragliders’ vantage, until now.
This video, traces the 70km, 2.5hr flight from San Fernando to San Narciso in Pampanga, features fly-overs of the ash-buried town of Bacolor and its salt fields, Pinatubo crater, and lahar desert. The flight is quite committed owing to no available roads along its path for a quick extraction in case of an emergency landing.
Their tour manager, Buko Raymundo, president of the Philippine Paragliding and Hang-gliding Association (PPHGA or SkysportsPH), umbrella organization for Filipino -gliding athletes, advocates the use of paramotors for exploration particularly for aerial recon and photography. Buko reports a relative growth surge in the small, but close-knit community of sky-sportsmen in the country.
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