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On the 29th of July 2008, Six Paramotor Pilots start an epic flight for there chosen charities, ‘The Forces Children’s Trust’ & ‘The Regional Air Ambulances’. They are flying from
 Lands End to John O’Groats. They will cross 20 counties, over 700 miles and expect this flight to take 8 days of intense flying with most nights spent in tents at paramotorclub.org affiliate clubs along the route. They will have to navigate around major airways such as Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, and East Midlands (not to mention the military Fighter Jet dog fighting in Scotland!)
The team have to land every 3 hours for petrol food and water. The weather will play a huge part in this flight and very difficult decisions will be getting made every few moments as we fly through the UK’s changing weather systems. “In all this is a massive mission, but one I know we can get done.”
The event will be filmed by pilot camera and filmed from the ground. It will include interviews with pilots, sponsors, and all involved. A DVD will be produced with this footage and made for sale on the website soon after the flight to raise more money for the charities.
They aim to create as much media interest as possible in order to raise much needed exposure for the chosen charities, and hope to attract corporate sponsorship as a result of this.
As they fly along the trip paramotor club.org members from all over the UK will join them, “we expect that we could have 30 pilots in the air at any one time and up to 100 involved in all! I think we will have company for much of the trip ”
They will have Online live tracking of the team and the pilots will fill in a short daily online diary for web viewers, with pictures from the day’s events. |
