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Last 24 hrs of the auction for this Paramania Fusion 29.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... ID=EBAY-GB I am selling my Paramania Fusion 29 paragliding wing. This excellent reflex wing is designed for paramotoring or free flight. I have found this a brilliant wing to fly - stable, safe and fun. I have used it for both powered and free flight and I will be very sorry to see it go. I am now selling it as I only fly from the hill, so I have bought a dedicated free flight wing. This is the large size and as the attached photo from the manual shows, the weight range with motor is 80-160 kg and for free flight the recommended weight range is 80-105 kg. This paraglider was thoroughly serviced by Aerofix last week. They also did some minor repairs to deal with normal wear and tear. As the attached report shows, the wing is in 'good' to 'very good' condition throughout, with the brake lines graded as 'fair'. The wings has flown 81 logged hours, all by me: 49 hrs powered and 32 hrs free flight. The risers were replaced by Paramania in 2012 to the new cleat system, which holds the trimmer more securely. The wing is sold in its original rucksack, which includes in-built compression / stuff sack for quick and easy packing. I normally kept the wing loosely drawn together in a rosette in the suff sack, rather than folded. All photos are of the actual wing being sold. Follow this link to a video of me flying the actual wing that is for sale (look: Parajet Cyclone 160 paramotor, with Paramania Fusion on GoPro HD. Low flying Oxfordshire (or search YouTube for user pb6095) Please ensure that if you bid for this item and intend to fly it then you are appropriately trained. Please ensure that you also read the manual, which provides information on how the wing handles in different situations. Full details of the wing can be found in the manual: http://www.flyparamania.com/downloads/FUSION_manual.pdf Or on the manufacturers website: http://www.flyparamania.com/index.php?o ... mid=100006

With a rather sorry heart I am going to sell all of my paramotor kit. I have loved the sport and I got up to around 75 hours of powered flight but due to a variety of reasons I am going to give it up for now. My career has got very busy and I keep having to move house; with another expensive hobby that keeps me busy in the winter, and paragliding / free flying occupying my scarce free time in the summer, I am just not getting the opportunities to use my amazing paramotoring kit. It may be that in a few years' time I settle down in one place and take it up again, but for now the most sensible option for now is to sell the kit. I have bought a new dedicated paragliding wing, though my Paramania worked well without power (see photos). I will sell the kit through Simon, and I will try to get it down to him in the coming weeks, once I have sent the wing off to aerofix for its annual inspection. I have a Parajet Volution Macro (with Volution 2 frame upgrade) and a large Paramania Fusion wing. All in good nick - more details to come in a post when I get round to coming down Yorkshire to drop it off with Simon. In the meantime, I am selling my Microavionics PM-100 headset along with a free helmet. Details are on the eBay auction here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161541527379? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Right Simon, so you are telling me you have a licence to fly a Eurostar? Like this one? How does that work? Can I have a go at flying it?

Shame - I could have made it if it had been next weekend. Looks like weather could be good.

Another vote for the Garmin 60Csx. I use the same screen shot shown in the post below and also the information page with additional fields showing glide ratio and glide ratio to target. This helps give you an idea of whether you are going to make your target. If you set the barometric altimeter before take off it will give you accurate altitude reading. If paramotoring I generally just use this but sometimes I add my wrist-mounted Ascent vario, as per hill flying.

You definitely need outers or you won't feel the benefit of the heated gloves. There is a height chance of damaging them without outer gloves as well, as the material is very thin (I guess deliberately).

Free flying my Paramania Fusion 29 in Spain. Cheeky landing field half way down the valley in the second shot. No options if you go past it.

These gloves are amazing and worth every penny. I have used them for a range if activities, including at high altitude and extreme cold. The battery pack is not too inconvenient and when you read the science about it the heat delivered to the inside of the wrist is almost more important than the heat to the finger tips, as it warms the blood going into the hands. I wear them under a pair of mountaineering gloves and have found them to be excellent.

I hope everyone enjoyed the bank holiday and got some flying done. Here's a photo from my first flight since moving up north. Taken over Richmond, North Yorkshire. Got a flight without motor on Model Ridge this weekend too. Best of both worlds.

Registered the CP Hill and Power and got my rating through the post this week. I celebrated with a flight off Long Mynd today (without engine...). Test pretty straight forward. I will be revising over the summer for the pilot exam. Great to have the flexibility to fly off the hill and the flat (and be insured again, as it had run out and I didn't want to pay both).

Cheers or the pointers. I have borrowed a copy of the handbook. Should all be fine, I did two thirds of the test for the CP hill last week...

I have been paramotoring for 4 years and I recently took up paragliding and got the BHPA Club Pilot (Hill) rating. I have arranged with a local instructor to sit the Power 'environment' test and once he is content with my experience I can then get paramotoring put on my BHPA Club Pilot rating. This will be useful as I will then be able to cancel my PPG insurance as it will be covered under my BHPA membership. I imagine that it is pretty straight forward, like the Hill CP environment test, but I would be grateful if anyone could point me to any useful documents or presentations specific to BHPA and paramotoring. I did the BMAA PPG exam years ago, which will have covered most of it, but I was wondering if there was any BHPA-specific things I need to know (like mnemonics for pre-flight checks / engine checks etc.). I saw the syllabus (below), so I know the general topics to be covered. From the training record it is as follows: Theory syllabus - Club Pilot (Novice) stage The pilot under training must complete the Club Pilot (Novice) lheory syllabus set out in 'Training Wings'(also in the'BHPA Pilot Handbook') and in addition lhe following subjects. Air law The pilot under traininq will understand: . The process for notilying an active site using the CANP. . The process lor reporling accidents. Principles oI flight and aircraft general The palot under training will understand: . Engine basics. . Forces on a powered aircraft in level flight, turning flight. . Propellors. . The ettects of pressure, humidity and temperalure on take-off performance. Airmanship and Navigation The piiot under training will understand: . The need lo keep a logbook. . That power governs climb - and pitch (control position) governs air speed. . The importance of climbing from take-off with sufficient airspeed and the DANGER ol climbing too steeply with power and NOT enough airspeed. (Emphasise that the piiot has to keep a safe, low angle climbing attilude by keeping the conlrols up.) . The relationship between airspeed, wind-speed and the resultanl groundspeed and be able to work given examples. . Drift and the relationship between course and heading. . Torque effecls. . The dangers of prop wash - in the air and on the ground. . Selection of a safe flying field including climb-out clearance, g.ound conditions, turbulence generators, obskuctions and overshoot areas- . Safe areas for onlookers. . Noise nuisance and congested areas. . Techniques for avoiding and recovering lrom tucks, stalls and spins and sudden power loss. . Emergency and safety procedures. (To include discussion of techniques ior dealing wilh a fire in the air Low turn recovery techniques. Oul ol wind landing techniques. Water and tree landing procedures. Use of emergency parachute systems. Uses and limitations of alternative control techniques such as weight-shitt and rear riser steering in lhe eveni of a control line failure . Paraglider cerlilication and BHPA requirements. . The importance of keeping a safe landing field always within reach.

I free flew my Fusion 29 today for the first time (having done about 70hrs on it under power). It was very stable under quite turbulent conditions and I managed to ridge soar quite happily along with other paraglider pilots. I was comfortably towards the top of the pack, looking down on Hay Bluff. It seemed to perform every bit as well as the three different types of DHV 1/2 wings I have flown over the past few weeks. Glad that I don't have to buy new kit to enjoy my new hobby of flying without an engine!

Didn't finish work early enough to get there and back today. I'm going to do a local flight instead - if the mist isn't too thick up at my take off site - clouds looking a bit low at the moment.

Anyone flying out of Powick tomorrow afternoon? I am thinking of an XC from south of Leominster and with a nort westerly it seems as good a destination as any. Is there a petrol station near the field?

So I used it today and there were no issues. Quick test of the engine and away, and I cut out 1500 ft above the ground for the landing over an hour later. A couple of locals walking their dogs were interested and said that they didn't have a problem. Perfect. I will use sparingly!

Thanks. It is a lot more rural than the piece of common (actually military) land which we were using near the wind turbines down your way, Simon. I will give it a go and see how I get on. It looks ideal - a wide open hill with a gentle and even slope, flyable in all wind directions and with vehicle access. What could possibly go wrong?! I may call the council, as you did Pete, if I plan to use it regularly.

There is a piece of common ground near me that would make an ideal flying site. If there are no animals grazing on it, is there anything to stop me legally using it to take off? I'm going to anyway, until anyone complains - which is unlikely as its very rural - but keen to know where I stand. Thanks

I have been up there, but didn't get to the top by flying - it was a two day walk! It is amazing to see how still the air is on the summit of a 4800m mountain - those days must be very rare. This has reignited my ambition to learn to paraglide. I was bouncing in and out of thermals today but just couldn't get the hang of climbing. One day...

Another flight over Hay Bluff and the Black Mountains. Not such a good camera this time - an iPhone in a plastic bag. Today was my first flight in many months and it was worth waiting for. I had to wait a bit longer than expected because it took me 5 attempts to get off the ground (lack of practice, uneven ground and a very light wind which seemed to randomly come from all four points of the compass). Lovely still air once up though, and great views over to the Brecon Beacons.

It looks like a massive over reaction - quite a fun little stunt that didn't harm anyone.

There are times where I have to be contactable, it's either that or no flying... Handy for music as well through the iPhone.

Great shot of the Malverns. Talking of the free-flying crew, here's a shot of them I took last year. I couldn't hear them muttering (though to be fair my engine is quite loud so they would have to be really shouting).

I tend to have the trims set to neutral on the Fusion. I tried launching with the trimmers on takeoff setting in nil wind the other day and found that the wing was hanging behind me and took ages to come up. I am not offering this as advice, it is just a habit I got into and it seems to work for me. My personal view is that it is better to get the wing up quickly and accept that you will have to run faster to get airborne, than to struggle to get the wing overhead (and potentially have to abort). Maybe it is just because my technique is dodgy!