This seems directly out of a Terry Gilliam film . The guy flying with the two really big birds is Scott Mason , who uses them to detect thermal current to fly his paraglider through the skies of Nepal . It ’s called parahawking .
That is an Egyptian vulture , a Neophron percnopterus . Mason has been rescue them since he was 11 , and now he keep doing that and prepare them as his fly front instruments . This is how it works : He carries one at take off . Once he is airborne , he frees the raptor , who starts looking for warm , ascending air currents .
Mason — who usually flies with another individual , charging $ 147 per flight — steer the paraglider following the piranha for a while , relish the paths hound by the bird . Every now and then , he will apply a whistling to call the vulture , who come back to him from behind the paraglider , land on his subdivision like an F18 would land on an aircraft carrier .
Mason has other birds too . In fact , he rescue , nurtures , and then frees them into the wilderness as soon as they are in adept shape .
Yes , I so want to do this too . severely . [ SFGate ]
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