Please read this article from ILT about the dangers of flying too close to (hang/para-)gliding activities and what you can do to help prevent this from happening.

Background

The Dutch CAA (ILT) has published an article about the risks of flying near airfields with (hang/para-)gliding activities. In recent months alone, ILT received over twenty reports concerning unauthorised flight paths through paragliding zones and across winch-launch sites—incidents carrying significant collision risks with parachutists, gliders, and retrieval cables. Since aircraft operating at those airfields are significantly more difficult to see, this can easily lead to incidents.

Please read the full article via this link:

Key points

The key things you can do as a pilot are:

Check during flight preparation where other flight activities are taking place. Use the paper VFR chart and NOTAMs when the digital tools are unclear

Keep your distance from winch-launch sites and parachute drop zones

Ensure two-way radio contact with local traffic

Report and discuss (potentially) dangerous situations

Avoid flying into active military CTRs (Control Zones). If you want to cross a military area, check before flight or during flight via Dutch Mill whether the area is active

Required actions

Concrete action item one

Concrete action item two

Further reading

Link to checklist or related document

Link to regulation or external reference

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