Mountain flying

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Mountain flying is paragliding with a wing parachute after starting off on foot or skiing from the mountain. It is an air sport that was practiced mainly in the 1970s and early 1980s and was mainly understood as a form of parachuting . Because of the very low glide performance of the parachutes of approx. 1: 3, take-offs mostly took place in very steep terrain. The flight was mostly limited to a quick descent into the valley. Today paragliding takes place almost exclusively with the paraglider than paragliding .

In part, the term mountain flying is also used today, one for the "normal operation" of a paraglider without engine from the operation of the screen as part of the motor screen delineate or the Startup Type "Mountain Home" over the alternative winch launch emphasized.

Due to the screen types used and the mountain / hillside nearby could also modern Speedflying understood as a revival of mountain flying in extreme form in some way.