Safety at Paragliding : case: Cumulus Clouds Nepal Paragliding
Thapa Magar, Milan (2020)
Thapa Magar, Milan
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202004074598
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202004074598
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The Bachelor Thesis has been completed for the Cumulus Clouds Nepal Paragliding. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a correct safety practices in paragliding that can be practiced by commissioned company and their pilots to improve and strengthen its safety policy.
The thesis focus on suggesting the correct safety procedure for case company by conducting a research among pilots and participants passenger with regards to safety procedure practiced at present and their awareness level to potential risk in paragliding. Additionally, the thesis studied safety procedure that have been practiced by pilots of other company for statistical comparison of data between case company and other company. Finally, the recommendation has been made based on findings that have been mentioned by various source and experts. Since the research has been conducted to seek the answer, it is a research driven development project.
For research, quantitative research method has been applied and questionnaire survey as a tool of data collection was used. Questionnaire survey has been developed using Likert type scale response in order to make respondent understandable and easy to answer. 2 sets of questionnaires related to flight safety was prepared each for the pilot and the passenger participants.
In summary, the result among the pilots of the case company led to the conclusion that aver-age remarks of safety procedure practiced was “Always practiced” and level of awareness to potential risk in paragliding was “Extremely aware”. On the contrary, the study found that the awareness level of participants passenger to the potential risk is not in adequate level. Accordingly, Cumulus Clouds Nepal and their pilots should focus more on emergency preparedness, incident reporting and put more effort to increase the awareness level of the passenger participants to potential risk by providing understandable safety briefing and publishing safety related information targeting passenger participants through its social media.
The thesis focus on suggesting the correct safety procedure for case company by conducting a research among pilots and participants passenger with regards to safety procedure practiced at present and their awareness level to potential risk in paragliding. Additionally, the thesis studied safety procedure that have been practiced by pilots of other company for statistical comparison of data between case company and other company. Finally, the recommendation has been made based on findings that have been mentioned by various source and experts. Since the research has been conducted to seek the answer, it is a research driven development project.
For research, quantitative research method has been applied and questionnaire survey as a tool of data collection was used. Questionnaire survey has been developed using Likert type scale response in order to make respondent understandable and easy to answer. 2 sets of questionnaires related to flight safety was prepared each for the pilot and the passenger participants.
In summary, the result among the pilots of the case company led to the conclusion that aver-age remarks of safety procedure practiced was “Always practiced” and level of awareness to potential risk in paragliding was “Extremely aware”. On the contrary, the study found that the awareness level of participants passenger to the potential risk is not in adequate level. Accordingly, Cumulus Clouds Nepal and their pilots should focus more on emergency preparedness, incident reporting and put more effort to increase the awareness level of the passenger participants to potential risk by providing understandable safety briefing and publishing safety related information targeting passenger participants through its social media.