tj

I use the mirror which came with my back pack baby carrier. They include it so you can look at your baby on your back which is never something that I felt compelled to do. It came on a long bit of cord with a mini clip on the end - ideal. Not a very helpful comment as the back pack cost almost 100 quids - but I thought I'd chuck that out there anyway!

Try eBay for an old back pack? Just a thought...

Sorry guys, that first post looks well dodge. Wrote it on the desire!

Tj.

Hi guys,

I have an HTC desire and was wondering which are the best paramotoring apps there are.

(No iPhone owners, getting iPhone isn't the answer!)

Cheers,

Tj.

That sounds like one level headed pilot!

Tj.

I think Whitters' reply is best. Letting him have a copy of your photo as a good will gesture may help as well. If he's an arse, shop him, as an arse with a gun who hides behind trees is a dangerous arse.

Tj.

I know I'm going to get slated for this post but here goes anyway!

Have just upgraded on mobile to HTC desire. Am lovin' all the apps from android market (apgar score anyone!?). Do you know if i can get all the flying apps that the iPhone supports?

Any help appreciated!

Tj.

7 mentor weeks.

Finals week.

FREEDOM!

Hi,

I'm able to login OK. Despite being able to 'view new posts'over the weekend - it now seems I'm not able to use the 'search' feature. Is this due to the forum change or am I being a spanner?

Cheers,

Tj

Hi Les,

If you have your own kit, then thats great! if not.. we have school kit here that can be used on a break it pay for it basis.

SW

Hi,

As this is an 'instructor under instruction' gig, if it was a student instructor who caused the breakage and the instructing instructor couldn't stop the ensuing error, where would student pilots be held?

Tj

'Not trying to be awkward - just curious '

Not forgetting the recent telling off for driving down the runway at Membury of course!

SW

Reminds me of a taleI heard about a Chinook pilot at Odiham.

A 'track' day was being held on the airfield and one pilot had just taken reciept of a new (second/third/fourth? hand) sports car. Unfortunately he didn't steer round the 'track' and went straight off the end of the runway over the adjacent road and into a field.

The RAF Police weren't interested as it was an official event so he was allowed on the airfield anyway and the civvieold bill weren't interested as the farmer didn't want to make a complaint and the 'pilot' (both of aircraft and automobiles) hadn't actually been on the public highway.

That's the story m'Lud!

Tj

Hi Guys,

Is this worth doing;

'Check' shout "CLEAR PROP".

Check safety distance.

'Start' shout "CLEAR PROP".

Start engine.

Just wondered!

Tj

THAT'S BLOODY FINALS WEEK! CAN'T YOU WAIT A WEEK FOR ME?

Sorry, I came over all funny then! That's a real shame. I'd have been well up for that but I'll be sat in exam rooms doing physical assessment and clinical reasoning exams. When's the next one!? I'm not sure I could wait that long. Oh well. back to the study.

Oh, good luck to the trainees - instructors and pilots!

Tj

I was in A & E all this week, never saw a trike!

Gutted.

Tj

Hi Guys,

Would love to be at this one, even as cook. Unfortunately working both days of weekend So am looking forward to the next one or the one after that!

See you all soon.

Tj

I'm hoping my Missus will be so hacked off about me going on about paramotoring that she'll buy my kit to shut me up.

Does anyone provide pigs with paramotor lessons?!

Tj

Welcome to the forum Weemo!

There's a few pilots down in Devon although I'm not sure about a school/instructor.

I'm sure someone will pick this up though. Alternatively have a word with Simon W. He's a man in the know!

All the best,

Tj

Sorry Bro...Can't help you there. The guy who mounted his camera in the wing also mounted it looking forward under the wing. Have very quickly tried googling 'australian paramotor video wing mount' but can't find it

Good luck!

Tj

I love those ploughed fields. Just appeals to my aesthetic side!

Quality vid!

I reckon there's some pretty good editing in some of the vids you see on here with some judicious snipping! I reckon in time you'll know which shots you'll want and just focuson them. Use your gopro everytime you fly, then analyze the results and you'll soon be the Bailey of the air! (That's David Bailey, not 4 stroke Bailey!)

I've seen vids where peoplehave mounted the camera on poles, legs and one even mounted it under the wing looking down at the pilot's head!

Happy flying...

Tj

Blimey! Get in mate!

Hi Guys,

As promised here is the link for the SARWorld article I wrote about using paramotorsfor low level SAR. They also have a link to their forum if you want to see the comments!

http://www.sarworld.org/forum/viewtopic ... p=528#p528

It doesn't look like it would be all that useful to them, however it's always worth checking. It could have been the one thing that was holding them back from really effective searching.

Looks like your web space is safe Simon

Cheers for the offers of help I had though.

Stay safe,

Tj

Tj, you can download the overlay here:

http://www.lloydbailey.net/

Very useful it is too.

Cheers mate!

Tj

That looks like abrilliant couple of flights!

I might be being a bit dull, but how do you get the airspace 3d overlay on google maps?

Cheers,

Tj

The cameraman says it all!

http://blixtube.com/4RTLm5IzpkY/Paramotor-DBag.html

Tj

Hi Guys,

Cheers Simon for the offer of an area on the forum, I'll let you know

And thanks Gordon for the offer. There are LowLand SAR units who perform searches for the local police/councils etc if needed and I can see a regional Paramotor unit being an extra asset they could use. I'm looking at PULSAR being similar in nature to them, although the call out area being regional (eg I'm based in Gloucestershire, my 'region' could cover Devon & Cornwall, Avon, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, South East Wales).

For fuller details watch the SARWorld http://www.sarworld.org/forum/ site, my article will be posted some time next week. I'll post a link when it is.

I also tried contacting Skywatch - no joy. I think volunteering should be £neutral to the volunteer, unless they decide to donate other resources than their valuable time.

I'll keep you all posted.

TTFN

Tj

Hi all,

This is an idea that has been kicking around my head for a good few months now.

Background.

I have a long past of volunteering which is just about coming to an end with the organisation I currently work with. To be fair, I've grown out of what they do. In addition I want to do other things that I'm more in control of, rather than have demands made of my time.

I'm hoping to take paramotoring lessons after I have completed some current studies. However I've always preferred to have a purpose to stuff I do, otherwise I tend to get bored (new toy syndrome!).

So, I want to do something with my paramotoring. My dad has a long history of supporting the RNLI, I have been involved in voluntary work for ages and I think we can contribute something along these lines. http://www.skywatchcivilairpatrol.org.uk/

I have contacted them to see if paramotor pilots could contribute to their work although I have had no reply. So I thought 'why not do something yourself'. I wouldn't want to replicate what these guys are doing (although some duplication might happen) rather I though more informal assistance like...

aerial pictures for charities (open days, new assets) for their newsletters,

Aerial recces for historical/archeological societies,

Route finding/lost people rounding up for charity sponsored walks,

A limited Search and Rescue, Record or Recovery service (I am a paramedic, we can land in small areas - no casualty recovery though!).

Assisting in whatever way possible in times of need generally.

I envisage most of this being an informal arrangement with small groups of pilots taking on individual tasks as and when they can, with the understanding that there is no contract or reward expected and that a tasking would be accepted more as a favour than as an expected event. There may be a need to ask for a small donation for running costs (insurance etc). There would need to be some written guidance as to how we were going to conduct ourselves with flight safety being the predominant theme.

Simon - your comment during the snow about the use of a sea king to deliver a prescription was one of the factors that has got me tapping on the keyboard today. Do you think this is do-able? I think the forum would be an excellent way of distributing taskings - would you let us do this? Could we set up as a national sub club of the PMC?

Paramotor Pilots - would you be up for this? We would need to look at issues such as insurance, communicating and marketing PULSAR. This activity could give your flying a whole new lease of life.

Any other ideas/thoughts from anyone?

lets see how feasible this might be.

Tj