Malcs

Yes that is optimistic, my mate down here sent his wing for a 7-10 day repair nearly 4 weeks ago, he not a happy bunny!

No Strings Adult Fun of course, everybody knows that don't they?

It does look close but I can assure you Norm I had the camera on 6 x zoom from about 1200ft and open fields are just outside the top of the picture!

Had an awesome first time launch to complete my 6th flight today, man I'm starting to know why I went in for this sport now, it just gets better each time and you learn a little bit more too, did a few low passes and some tighter turns tonight but my biggest lesson was that you shouldn't ought to land so fast that you fall straight on to the cage and with the engine still running, thankfully prop had stopped spinning though! Took a load more photos tonight of lots of friends houses, my old school etc! http://www.flickr.com/photos/paramotorm ... 901582056/ Have a great weekend all!

Will there be any chance of some N/S A/F with that too?

Looks like a load of questions that Farmer Dave can help you with as he is down your direction, if he doesn't pop up just send him a personal message through one of his posts. There will be conflicting opinions on common land and beaches, I know a few lads down here that use both but they are always careful and considerate and to date they've not had a problem!

Well my missus informs me she wants to go on a road trip up that coast in 2009 so, perhaps I can be an information collector on that trip even though I haven't a clue what information to collect!

Oh, and congrats on your first paramotor flight although it sounds like you have much more enjoyable ones to come, true that you never forget your first but it gets better and better each time I find!

All good advice up there but to add, I found my main problem was having the shoulder straps too tight, now I can get a fist between the strap and my shoulder before launching and I'm in half in my seat as soon as airborne, then at 300+ feet and into wind i hang the left brake, keep a tiny bit of throttle on and with my left hand I push down into the left corner of the seat, kick my legs and I'm in. I found that you can also have the leg straps too tight so that they won't move when you try to get in. I think we all seem to have different techniques and we are all different shapes, try all of the above until you get it right, best way is to do a hang test with the straps at diferent degrees of tightness and see what's easiest!

Spooky. My Mrs used to live and work in Cape Tribulation and constantly tells me how its the best place in the world, she's desperate to go back and take me with her, she has friends all up that coastline that she still keeps in regular touch with, I'm sure she could count on a few favours and she'd make a brilliant co-ordinator and cook! Count us in!

What a pisser, perfect flying day all day tomorrow but with the downpour we had today the fields are too sodding wet to launch from! Thats it, I'm moving to bloody Spain!

Great idea, then we could tell the newbies the legality of having 10ltr tanks!

Now I'm peed off for an entirely different reason! I paid much more for my insurance with Onrisk that what's quoted above! Phil your points make perfect sense and I bow to that, you'll never convince me however that all this was brought up for the greater good of the sport and everyone in it. Nobody will ever know whether the insurance company would have used this loophole in the event of a claim before this was brought to the public so we could all argue on for months about it. Let's leave it at that, I will be calling up the insurance company though to see where I stand with them, chance of having any sort of incident with this bloody weather would be a fine thing though!

Total garbage, total waste. I can just about understand the desire and curiosity of discovering what goes on on other planets but what the hell is the point of this and how can it possibly matter or make any difference to our future, and with a 1 in 25 million chance that it could all go wrong and obliterate the planet, I reckon thats too much of a risk! Hell we could lift the budget for the Olympics to 15bn instead, that would be really worthwhile, no?

Same here, home hub keeps letting me down and talktalk keep screwing up my bills, don't use the home phone ever so they can go and whistle, my dongle even works pretty well where there is no 3G. I like using my Dongle!

I have a pair of Midland G7 as recommended by Micro Avionics when I bought their paramotor headset. Whilst I'm on the ground I can communicate with someone else without problems (altough a bit crackly) ,the moment I or they take to the sky all I get is a garbled noise! When I was on my training course we used basic headsets with cheap Cobra radios and communication was perfect. Anybody with the same set up as me got any tips, I'm sure I saw these in someone's signature but can't think who!

Some nice vids taken by my instructor in Northern Spain. The guy being filmed in the cloud and fort videos is a former world champion skydiver from Germany. http://web.mac.com/doach/iWeb/Site/SkyRats1%203.html

Yes, the old ones are um the old ones! The version I heard ended with "You've never gone and built a f***in golf course"

Yes and I'm the queen of England. Of course there will be tax charges on it, no question of it! Blimey, the rumours are true then, Malcs is an old queen Rumour, its no rumour!

I've done a lot of this in the last couple of months not realy through choice, just through bottling it but its certainly made the whole xperience easier for me, I can fail 4 or 5 launches now before getting tired and I can wander around with the motor on my back for a good half hour before it gets uncomfortable which I couldn't do a few weeks back, this takes a lot of pressure off the whole thing as I'm not thinking about the weight or pain before attempting a launch. Also, if I go to the field and there is nobody around then I won't fly on my own but I will usually strap in, power up and launch across the field just gently squeezing the throttle to keep the speed in the wing, really really good practice for getting used to 'feeling' where the wing is. I do the same if the conditions are ok for GH but not flight! As far as the wing you use for ground handling,I only have my flying wing so thats all I can use but in training I had a horrible old poros wing that was a pig, BUT, once I'd learned to kite that one I then moved onto a new Apco Thrust and it was piss easy. Personally I think too many newbies go straight for an intermediate wing without enough experience, I have no desire to fly a Revolution just yet as they seem way too fast on take off and landing for me, my wing feels safe and trusty even if it is much slower and for now thats all I care about, maybe I'll get another faster wing after a year. Shame that you can't rent your first beginner wing until you've had a few flights on it and then take it back to a dealer and do a deal to take the rental cost off the price of a new upgrade, I'm sure a win supplier would be really popular with that option!

Yes and I'm the queen of England. Of course there will be tax charges on it, no question of it!

Lovely bit of reading that and of course so many similar things to what we've all been through! The one generic thing that everyone seems to be familiar with is that beaming grin, mine gets bigger with each flight and every time that I learn succesfuly to do something new, I was in the sky on Saturday for the first time in ages after lots of mental issues, I'm still grinning about it now! Look forward to reading about your 2nd go! Stay safe! Malc

Just read on the Papteam home page that David Bretones, the guy who started the 2nd Pap factory in Barcelona has died, although it doesn't state that it was definitely whilst flying it kind of indicates it! http://papteam.com/eng/

It does indeed, from my quad biking days, so who are you, come on reveal yourself! I should add to this post that yesterday's flight was actually my 5th time in the air, its just that something went a little bit wrong in one way or another on the previous 4 so it spooked me for ages, a ton of ground handling and attempted launches taught me a lot! Yes, I'm still buzzing, was up at 6 this morning ready to go again but the ground was too wet and didn't wanna get my kit all shitted up, maybe tonight!

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