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Thanks Gordon & Francis Off to Homebase tomorrow and will then carefully attach my reserve as recommended. I have been keen to get the reserve attached for a while now but accepted that for the first few flights the potential problems associated with a reserve can outweigh the benefits. As soon as I have my replacement brake line, brake handle and repaired prop I will be back in the air without that nagging feeling when encountering bumpy air that the reserve is safely tucked away at home!!! Best regards, Ian.

Hello All I'm thinking of getting hold of some of this tape to help me route my reserve bridles around from a front mounted position to the maillons on my shoulder straps. I'm sure there must be loads of other paramotoring applications. http://www.directa.co.uk/site/scripts/product_browse.php?product_id=3154#alternative_specs Available on ebay for £4.35 buy it now, plus postage of £1.15. Has anyone used this before? Any thoughts? Best regards, Ian.

Yeah, great to meet you Simon. Along with Francis, Colin, Pete and the others. Also great to meet Gilo and thank him personally for his help getting my motor working properly, and to meet Pascal Campbell-Jones of Paramania. The E-pac looked great. Incredible that it will be available soon, and even more incredible that Gilo flew it with your sign written wing!! Everyone that I talked to was amazingly friendly and generous with their time. I too will spend longer there next year - 6 hour round trip for a few hours there but was well worth it. A sky full of paramotors visible miles from the site, and a very well attended event when I got there - brilliant! Will definately get by backside over to Lambourn over the summer, so look forward to meeting some of you then. Best regards, Ian.

OK, so here it is. Francis was right - again! The 50mm (pigeon) netting left a hole which is too big and allowed my left brake handle to make contact with my prop while I was climbing into the seat after take-off. This neatly pinged the magnetic stay off of the handle, took the end off of one tip and dinged the other 2. On the bright side the prop didn't eat the brake line and wing, so didn't fly me into the ground! I actually flew for about half an hour without any serious vibration and only noticed the damaged prop after landing. Smaller 20mm (starling) netting to be ordered tomorrow, and a repair on the prop is required. Regards, Ian.

I will be driving up early on the Saturday morning from Kent to spend the day. When is everyone else going to be there? It would be great to put faces to names/usernames! Best regards, Ian.

Sorry Bathboy - Just re-read the posts and hadn't noticed that you'd already suggested gaffer tape!

Hi All. Glad this was of some interest. Francis is right about the tape. I noticed after my last flight that the thin tape had split and left a cable tie exposed on the cage rim, so have bought some black gaffer tape to apply over the top instead. Will keep you posted with the results. I check the tape along with the security of the netting as part of my pre-flight checks. I don't want any of this ending up in the prop, and I'm finding forward launches with the Revolution in light/nil wind are tricky enough without the lines snagging on a cable tie! The offer of Francis' surplus smaller square netting is a very generous one. Once this is used up the "sparrow" netting from the website in my first post has the same size (20mm) holes. Best Regards, Ian.

Hello All I hope this is of some help to you as it took a bit of research to pull it together. My instructor was insistent that I apply safety netting to the cage of my Parajet Volution before starting training to protect my hands and more likely my lines in the event of a failed launch. The cage is very strong but the gaps would allow these and other foreign bodies to make contact with a spinning prop if you were unlucky. I established that there wasn't an off the shelf product available from Parajet and so went in search of some appropriate netting. The best I could find is used in bird control and there are various sizes of mesh to choose from (ranging from sparrow through starling and pigeon to seagull!). The 50mm x 50mm (pigeon) black netting (High Tenacity Knotless black polypropylene with a 1mm twine thickness) seemed the best compromise between protection and drag (hope I don't have a sparrow/starling strike!). The minimum order was for 5m x 5m at a cost of £11.75 plus VAT (plus £4.90 second class royal mail). This is from The Pest Shop (see url below) http://cart.pestsale.co.uk/index.php?p=catalog&parent=2&pg=1 I wanted to be still be able to disassemble the cage so that it would fit in my car, so I removed the 3 cage panels from the machine and proceeded to work on them one by one. I offerred the netting up to the panel and then cut off more than enough to cover it so that I didn't have the whole net to contend with. Using longer cable ties for the outer diameter and smaller ones for the inner bars of the cage I then attached the netting to each panel, making sure that the netting remained taut. Pic of top section Pic of bottom section showing gap between sections to allow disassembly Close-up pic To allow the lines to slide up the cage during a forward launch without getting snagged on the cable ties, I then stretched wide black tape (used to cover model aircraft - Zaggi tape) similar to packing tape over the cable ties on the lower sections of cage. This is effective, if detracting slightly from the aesthetics. Pic of tape To date this has worked really well and provided its first "save" the other day when it stopped the leg of my flying suit being sucked into the prop when I was stupidly carrying them to the take-off point while warming the motor on my back! It obviously adds another element to the preflight checks, ensuring that it hasn't come loose but I feel that this is worthwhile. Hope this is of some use? Best regards, Ian.

Hello All I have been avidly reading the forum for quite some time, from my first investigations into the sport last year up until now having recently got my first few flights under my belt. I now feel that I should introduce myself as I would like to publicly say thanks for some excellent customer service which I recently received from Parajet. I bought my shiny red Parajet Volution as an ex demo machine from my instructor earlier in this year along with a Paramania Revolution 28 wing. For various reasons the engine and carb had recently been replaced by Parajet and only had an hour or so on it. I then did a BHPA Elementary Pilot course at the insistence of my instructor before embarking on my paramotor training. The commitment of buying the gear and seeing it sitting there waiting for me, along with the deep desire to get back into flying was a great motivator to get through the trudging up hills and hours of ground handling practice! On my first paramotor flight the motor failed during climb-out, but was easily re-started. My instructor and I put it down to inadvertently hitting the kill switch, which seemed reasonable amongst the buzz and exhilaration, along with the radio quitting (I forgot to set keyguard and it changed channel in my pocket!). The second flight saw the motor quit on climb out again and so I called Gilo from Parajet on his mobile who talked me through enriching the low and high jets on the carb. This seemed to work as on the next trip I climbed out to about 1000ft without a glitch. It then cut out after 40 minutes of cruising and then wouldn't give full power, but I was able to nurse it for the 25 minutes required to get it back to my field! I spoke with Gilo again on his mobile and discovered that he was abroad on business. We then conversed over the next couple of days by text message trying to sort it, culminating in contacting Markus at the Parajet factory yesterday. A new carb arrived in the post today and will hopefully cure my problem! Fantastic, prompt service, way beyond the call of duty and confirming all of the good things that I have heard about Parajet on this forum and from my instructor who is also a huge fan. So in conclusion to my ramblings, I would like to say a big hello to everyone here and a massive thank you to Gilo and Markus at Parajet for all of their help. Best regards, Ian.