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Silly question perhaps, but have you already gained any quals in free flight - paragliding club pilot, say? Many people have gone into paramotoring from cold but quite a few came in from a paragliding background - personally I found paragliding skills such as ground handling invaluable and eminently transferable! Also it was useful having already been introduced to the theory, airlaw, general airmanship etc on the hills beforehand when it came to convert - several things making somewhat lower additional demands on the old concentration at a fairly intense point and so freeing up more of the grey cellsto deal with the new element of power! If not - you really should, if there is no specific paragliding set up for the crabs, there is certainly the Joint Services (ripstra@msn.com). Besides, the wings they already have are almost certainly usable under power too (I converted using an unmodified free flight Bolero) which reduces the scavenge list for you if you can schmooze some off them even under loan. Apart from anything else, you may find that the paragliding chaps and chapesses in the Joint Services association are keen to cross over (at least intermittently) to the dark side, and the more bods the stronger the funding for adventurous training grant bid.

A friend of mine suggests that the simplest method of returning to those halcyon days for future children might be to give every taxpayer the right to shoot one 'no win, no fee' lawyer per year without recrimination. And the people who still sometimes eat worms are known as 'bootnecks'.......

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2008-2-9-Il76-in-Australia.wmv a shining example for those of us who occasionally need a longer than usual run to unstick....

A young lady walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre. So the barman gave her one. (Oh, alright, with contrived aviation reference: An air stewardess walked into a bar...etc)

Er, actually no. This 'scam warning' is a hoax based on exaggerating furiously a short lived scam from several years ago. In particular there is no such beastie as a £15 instant connection charge . Check it out here

I'm probably missing something but I think that reporting potential problems discovered during primary preflights are not in fact mandatory as the main body of preflights are outside the defined period, vis: Once strapped in and ready to go, final preflights could/would indeed fall within that definition of course. I guess it boils down to the common sense filter - reporting stuff that has a potential to be a generic problem either for all motors, wings or pilots, or by particular subset class of a particular model etc.

Q: Which 1970s porn movie was the music taken from? A: All of 'em!

I was fortunate enough to do my hill-power conversion with Paul Haxby and was very satisfied indeed. Very professional and effective. The age 50 certainly isn't a problem - he has trained people (including me) a whole load more mature than that (decades more!). A good bloke, too. Paul's operation AXB also run splendid flying holidays in North Wales (Lleyn peninsula/Snowdonia) which I can thoroughly recommend for expanding the repertoire, hours and confidence (been on two so far and doing the grovelling groundwork with the memsahib for a third soon as I can)! If you go on one, just don't mention Jim Davidson. Please. He is based very near indeed to Doncaster so seems the obvious solution to me given your own location, Kevin. Dick "Mind of a ninja, body of a manatee"

assuming of course that if not spent on CERN the money would be spent instead on a more worthy cause such as temporarily fighting famine etc. in the horn of Africa (or at least further enriching the corrupt scumbags in charge in that part of the world). If not funding the CERN project I suspect the money would simply have been absorbed into other expenditure in the contributing economies and usefully expended there on employing more gay and lesbian outreach workers, equal opportunity co-ordinators, EEC budget corruption denial officials, dustbin police, stuff like that. Cynical, moi? (Incidentally I reckon this whole CERN thing is a fairly good illustration of the posit that any science sufficiently advanced beyond your own in-depth understanding is indistinguishable from magic!)

All been done before, of course. Two 'corn-fed' modern young Leeds women waddle-sprinting from opposite ends of a function room towards the last remaining doughnut on the table in the middle meet with a very similar force...

one minor consideration of course is that when fed from the motor electrics, the strobe she no work if'n it all go quiet astern whereas with a separate battery pack (or starter motor battery pack) a strobe will continue.

... and with a single bound, there it was, gone....

I note that the seller's location is Glasgow in Lancashire. Judging from the picture it must have been taken in Lancashire as being slightly further south there would be a teensy weensy greater chance of the subtropic vegetation in the picture growing there than Glasgow. Does appear to accept paypal though rather than the giveaway money transfers...? Tempted to email an enquiry as to whether the bimble rotor bushing is still sound.

thanks for that Yarich хорошая забава!

admittedly PMRs generally form part of the "sayagain" net, but at least they're cheap - and OK for chatting to the wingman (as long as he is Airprox-close) or asking the fieldfolk to get the kettle on...

I suspect that for quite a few people the budget (cheapskate) alternative (PMR on 7/17) is what is usually taken along.

it was in the March 2015 edition I think...

just a couple of minor questions: a. Have you actually received the goods yet? b. Does the seller have many positive feedbacks? c. Have any subsequent messages suggested cancelling Paypal and using Western Union instead? I dont know why but something about the quoted message makes me immediately think of our friends from Nigeria, who usually try to sell paramotors on ebay and send similarly bizarre messages...... (see elsewhere on the forum!) It may of course be genuine and if so a reminder of why teachers so deserve their 12 weeks a year holidays....

Presumably the lack of a helmet was to avoid distorting the Darwinian principle..

Air Navigation Order definition of 'Self Propelled Hang Glider' which is also explicitly referred to include foot launched Paramotors states: Self-propelled hang-glider' means an aircraft comprising an aerofoil wing and a mechanical propulsion device which: (i) is foot launched; (ii) has a stall speed or minimum steady flight speed in the landing configuration not exceeding 35 knots calibrated airspeed; (iii) carries a maximum of two persons; (iv) has a maximum fuel capacity of 10 litres; and (v) has a maximum unladen weight, including full fuel, of 60 kg for single place aircraft and 70 kg for two place aircraft. The definition (iv) term 'capacity' is important - it is not technically enough to limit what you pour in to the tank to the defined 10 litre limit, it is a capacity constraint - and this can be achieved from a larger original tank by either deforming its physical shape down until it meets the specs, or inserting a displacement device such as a bladder inside the original volume space, rather like slinging a brick into the lavatory cistern to reduce the capacity usable in a flush!

Simple ones have a certain charm, at least to simpletons such as I. My MLR SP24 gives me reasonably accurate ground speed and compass plus useful ability to enter assorted datum points including start point, and provide an easy to follow 'this way/distance to the datum' display. I echo the other sentiments though, remains vital to learn to navigate the old way so at least you can continue safely if all the gizmos stop working (and that goes for airsports just as much as for boots-in-mud pedestrianism!) and in any event can be broadly confident of your position as regards closest point of danger, safety exit courses etc. That said, the gizmo quoted seems an encouragingly low price for its type, certainly if it does the basics re SOG and datum targetting. In any case, purchase of one should always be lower down the priority list than up to date airmaps!

Problem would be that the brightly lit area would be all you would see, night vision in the surrounding darkness would be zip - if for any reason you were prevented from landing in the illuminated area (bit of sink, engine problem, cross wind gust, misjudgement) you would be in a much worse position re safety. OK, let's be really boring - the biggest no no to considering it is that breaking the rules on things like this is simply playing into the hands of those who would dearly love to regulate us out of the sky all round the clock! [/pontification]

A good starting point might be to ensure either that your GPS shows a position north of the arctic circle and your calendar shows third week in June, or a GPS position south of the antarctic circle with a date in third week of December..... It's scary enough (while still legal) in the later half of twilight as regards wires, trees etc and the impact, oops, I mean effects of degraded depth perception as the efficiency of the retinal cones drops away in the reduced light levels and the rods have to cope on their own.

At very high altitude the low air density ie greater intermolecular spacing will provide considerably less drag hence he will achieve a considerably faster descent than in the relatively much more dense air at 20000' , a higher proportion of the in vacuum notional '1g' freefall acceleration of c32'/sec/sec. At more 'draggy' heights with the slower terminal velocities achievable (within the range adjustment depending on attitude - head down spear in through to student stabilised!) this proportion will inevitably be lower. The difference between the vacuum '1g' freefall and what is actually achieved is experienced as the apparent weight of internal organs, the initial step out at 25 miles will feel a lot closer to real freefall than the equivalent at more recreational altitudes where although rather different from normal ground level sensations it is far from being zero weight in the 'down' direction! To try different densities slowing descent and feel the different proportions of internal organ relative weight, do a few thousand foot freefall, then try the same thing in water by taking a good deep breath and grabbing an anvil!

....and putting them together in a particular way to achieve a particular end, whether code fragments built into a program to affect the actions of an industrial robot, words built into a story or poem to affect the mood or emotions of the audience, or the same old bunch of pigments, canvas and turps into a work of art. Everything is a rearrangement of existing things, words are after all only assemblies of letters at least in our type of alphabet, and the difference in taste (but not price of course) between a fine wine and a bottle of three quid paint stripper is actually down to variations and rearrangements of the balance between what is actually a fairly limited set of active molecules, themselves assembled from an even more limited range of elements (blah blah quarks etc reductio ad absurdum). Open source is a great model, and is indeed viable when earning from service provision. This however only tends to work properly when the open source development is general, and the more generic the better, and hence with a potentially huge user base. A more narrow 'vertical market' development for a limited number of potential target customers sees the development costs huge by comparison with the post-implementation service and support potential. Suppose it depends on whether you consider that the person who does the work involved in creating that assembly deserves to be rewarded for the effort! In the current morality I suppose the answer to that is generally "no". Why pay when you can visit a car boot sale....