Can anybody recommend somewhere to find insurance cover ?
The intention is we will both be havinga sinlge tandem flight on holiday in austria in July. All the common web providers exclude it, and googling the subject finds me specialist providers who assume you are going on a paragliding holiday, and charge accordingly !
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you need the services of a broker.
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>> you need the services of a broker.
>> and a broker-leg fixer.
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>> a broker-leg fixer.
I must say that occurred to me too. Borasport and his missus must be very gung-ho.
I am a wimp about many things, but most of all about heights. It must be wonderful to fly like an albatross as people do in hang gliders and the like, but it must be horrid to be crashing in one.
Saw a clip of Vladimir Putin in a powered hang glider last night, allegedly leading a small flock of cranes to their wintering/summering grounds. Couldn't help wondering how he got them to follow him. A net of reeking crane titbits perhaps? Unless cranes are the dolphins of the sky and enjoy cavorting with specially-equipped humans.
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It does happen but I am not aware of the background. There was a programme about a man who wanted to get geese from Canada to USA but there were restrictions, vet's paperwork etc to take them by road so he led them across with his microlight. tinyurl.com/qjghtvm
for example
Last edited by: Meldrew on Tue 28 May 13 at 17:35
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>>I am a wimp about many things, but most of all about heights. It must be wonderful to fly like an albatross as people do in hang gliders and the like, but it must be horrid to be crashing in one.
I was there in the early days of hang gliding, until I caught a side gust when coming in to land. A thump on the coccyx don't half hurt!
I tried parachuting later. Standing on a small platform on a landing wheel of a Cessna, hanging onto a wing strut at 2000 feet, with the stall alarm blaring, waiting for the instruction to let go. A broken ankle takes a long time to heal when you get older!
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It's tempting bt but I wouldn't dare. Paragliders - they had them in Australia hovering over the beach - aren't quite the same as hang gliders, slower. But I bet you can still hit yourself in the mug with a hillside quite easily. I can't help preferring powered ones. They've got engines, and apart from that - well, not entirely - they must be safer.
Someone I knew very slightly and didn't like killed himself hang gliding. Others were apparently upset but bullying self-conscious nutters aren't my type.
It would be quite handy to have a low-consuming aerial jeep that you couldn't kill yourself in. But they haven't come up with one yet.
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A little light googling led me to the AXA website:
secure.axainsurance.com/
A quote for 14 days cover for 50 year old (no idea how old you are!) including paragliding, (you get the chance to add from a list of sports and activities) is £17.54 to £27.83 depending on the level of cover you want.
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@CGN - axa looks worth further investigation
About to go out for a works beers & curry night, so I'll check it out tomorrow
cheers
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'ere indoors had a medical problem whereby she couldn't get cover through the normal route, but found a mob called Stay Sure to be most helpful and reasonable. Call them though and do not use the web tick box carp. 40% ish cheaper by talking.
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Googling for Holiday Insurance+medical conditions will find you companies that specialise. Easy to get The Lad's heamaturia, which the mass market insurers exclude, covered.
Last time I was only off crutches from my bike tumble a week before we left for France, again no trouble getting cover so long as I was able to sit normally and was not on strong painkillers. Apparently that means morphine, 30/500 Co-Codamol were OK.
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Post Office insurance is also good for those of us with medical conditions.
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Holiday insurance - paragliding - Zero
