I looked into a chute plane a long time ago. I believe you have to be a licensed pilot to fly it with a passenger. Or to just fly a two seater you had to be a licensed pilot. It was one or the other. I was thinking about getting one for landlocked tracts of land. But if I couldn't fly my boy in with me it kind of defeated the purpose at the time.
I want to say it was Randy that busted his legs scouting for deer in Arizona a few years back using a chute plane.
Wow!
I know 2 guys who do/did the chute plane thing. One did a 200 ft drop and broke a bunch of bones, the other is a fanatic and does it all the time but only on "perfect" days. The fanatic said that there is no registration or restriction down here, just a growing number of no fly zones - like near airports, etc.