Soaring is an incredibly safe and soothing way of paragliding. If you are soaring on the coast you are assured that you are always flying in a nice steady sea breeze. The chance of collapsing is then zero. Flying with the emergency chute is therefore nonsense. There are many places in the world where you could soar beautifully. But it is often difficult to find a suitable place to start from. Most ideal starting spots are often completely inaccessible. How nice then to start from an easy and safe place with a soar aid motor, for example the SP140 from Openppg. But there is a much bigger problem at most soar spots. Very often there are no safe landing spots along the coast. I am not talking about the Netherlands with its beautiful sandy beaches, but coastal areas where many rocky slopes merge into the sea. If the wind drops there, there are no safe landing spots at the bottom of the rocky soar slope. Either you end up in the sea or you hit the rocks. How nice then is it to engage your soar aid motor when suddenly the wind dies down? See here a soar video of me using the SP140 from the American Openppg. In the beginning of the video I have the SP140 soar aid motor turned off and I am just soaring in the elevator belt of the soar slope and further on in the video you can see that I turn on my electric soar aid motor briefly to regain altitude. For me this is the most ultimate methode to enjoy flying.
See: https://youtu.be/hbdXYzpJkoE?si=ZPu_9dJHhWYV-qhC
Best regards,
Erwin (the netherlands)