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Airways Airsports at Darley Moor do trike training ab initio. I'm sure they could advise on cross over requirements. Basically a paramotor with wheels becomes a microlight and everything needs to comply with microlight legal requirements.

Thanks everyone. Lots of ideas to try out. Charles

Now that Autumn is here and we're wearing gloves when flying, my wife finds that she loses grip on the throttle lever of our Bailey Quattro. . Any suggestions for modifying the throttle unit to solve the problem.? She has small hands and short fingers anyway so its a problem in Summer as well but less so. Charles

Yes thats right. Free flight, being unregulated, does not contribute to either the 45 hrs needed for a PPL(A) licence, the 32 hrs needed for a NPPL(SSEA/SLMG) licence, the 25hrs needed for the NPPL(microlight) licence or the 11 hrs needed for an NPPL(PPC) licence. Paramotor trikes are classed as Powered Parachutes for the purposes of licencing and as aeroplanes for the purposes of registration. That's what comes of adding wheels to a paramotor!!

Well the 4 hrs flying time is a CAA requirement and they are NOT known for their generosity when setting standards. It should be noted that this is only the first level qualification and comes with restrictions. The full unrestricted licence requires 11 hrs flying time, 5 of which are to be spent on Navigation and 2 cross-country flights of not less than 25 nm each. Its more of a Provisional licence, but as the trikes are single seat only it is effectively a licence to fly solo but still under supervision until the full requirements are met. That way all the issues you come across in the first few hrs of solo flying can be addressed and corrected.

Training was conducted to NPPL (PPC) syllabus. see LASORS section C6 for requirements. A trike is officially a sub 115kg SSDR microlight aeroplane and, as such, has to conform to CAA requirements. Our trike is registered as G-CFZU and the training was completely sufficient to enable us to fly safely. Your incredulity only serves to demonstrate your ignorance of the regulations.

That was definitely NOT our experience. We were down to do an EP course then onto the trike but we enjoyed the free flight so much we asked to do a CP and fortunately had a wonderful spell of fine weather end of May/ beginning of June so completed both in 7 days. We camped at Ashbourne by the airstrip at Airways, free of charge, and then did our 4 hrs, YES only 4hrs, instruction to get a restricted licence. We went back in July but were rained off so finished all our exams. We had to persuade and cajole them to sell us equipment and never felt that we were being ripped off. Completely satisfied with the training Charles

Chris Dawes at Airways Airsports in Ashbourne, Derby trained both my wife and I on a Bailey Quattro. Excellent instructors and facilities. We went from complete newbies to flying confidently in 4 hrs after doing a Winch PC course which gave us complete confidence in handling and flying a wing. Charles