Steve

Hi Brian,

Welcome to the world of paramotors and dodgy geezers. 

Take a look on the community map for other pilots: https://www.paramotorclub.org/communitymap/

If you need gear advice (don't know if there's training available) maybe contact Cameron Paramotors in Stirling: https://www.facebook.com/p/Cameron-Paramotors-North-100063707629388/

Cheers. 

So glad to hear it was a great weekend, I was working throughout and only turned green with envy when seeing pics on Facebook. Well done to those who made it there. Long live the PMC fly-ins.   

1 hour ago, jim.cox said:

Kia ora katoa, Ko Jim ahou!

Hello from Christchurch New Zealand

My name is Jim

Found this salubrious establishment while browsing the internerds in search of Simonini parts

Any one home?

Hi Jim, Welcome to PMC. It's fairly quiet here these days, but there's a wealth of stuff from busier times if you start searching. Cheers. 

I've always put the Mr Funnel into the paramotor tank and filtered the oil/petrol mix that comes out of the jerry can. Never had any issues. 

11 hours ago, scooter79 said:

I am new to this sport and self training. I've flow already with a hard landing. As being self taught I would love to have some pointers and advise. I need someone who Flys to answer a few questions 

Why not ask an instructor whilst you're being shown everything that new pilots need to know?

4 hours ago, alan_k said:

Congrats on deciding to move to France, we lived there for 10 years and the flying was epic.

However the regs and situation is a little different as you have to be registered.

I'll send my number by PM, give me a ring and I'll fill you in.

Definitely take Alan up on his generous offer.  

I've been using it for the past half dozen flights, running it simultaneously with FlySkyHy. I really like it, it's solid and I really like the simplicity of the interface. Haven't flown with other pilots that were using it yet. 

There was a slight discrepency of data compared to FlySkyHy, which is odd as they were both using the same hardware at the same time. But the differences were only very slight and not an issue. 

Exporting the data in a choice of formats was really easy, love that a lot! 

It's classed as a beginner wing but you should be talking about this with your instructor - You'll learn to fly on a school wing and you and your instructor can make decisions about which wing to buy after you've actually learned to fly.

If you haven't had any instruction yet then you should probably avoid spending any money at this point. 

6 hours ago, alan_k said:

Clive @ 5:38, lol.

Yep!  

I tried to get lots of faces, hopefully you'll find yourself if you have ten minutes to spare to watch it. 

35 minutes ago, flyingcarabina said:

Hi

I would like to know how much for postage or if I can collect ( I live in Hastings).

 

Regards

Vince

Sorry, this is a very old listing and the wing has been sold. 

Excellent vid Stu, loved the monastery just inside the lip of the volcano. You've reminded me I need to get back to Spain!  

Hi Adrian,

Welcome to it all. Have you got anywhere sorted for your training yet?

If not you have a choice of places such as Steve Griffiths up Aberystwyth way but a bit nearer you have places like Steve Milsom who usually operates just south of the Brecon Beacons around the Fochriw area. 

The standard line for new guys is 'don't buy anything yet'. It's the best advice you'll get in the early days as you don't know what you want or need yet and you don't want to be wasting money at this stage (there'll be plenty of time for that later!). 

You should take a look at your set up if you are turning without power. Are your offsets correctly set? Are you using torque correction on your wing? Is your harness causing you to be weight shifting slightly? Is anything bent? Was your wing trimmed properly? 

Dew will always guarantee a wet wing and a wet wing will always be harder to launch so don't be too downhearted.

You could try pegging out a large tarpaulin to lay your wing onto or blow some of the water off the grass with your paramotor (wearing it!). 

12 hours ago, cas_whitmore said:

Steve Thomas, you and your mates are a credit to this country, 

bloody well done mate , 

Wow, Cas, wasn't expecting that here. Thanks mate.  

24 minutes ago, alan_k said:

Get proper training.

Don't buy any kit until you are at least part way through your training and you know this sport is for you. You should have an idea of what sort of flying you want to do by then, this can influence your future purchases.

Don't rush things. If you have any doubt about a flight, don't fly.

All of this!   

3 hours ago, Blackburn Mark said:

There are plenty of reasons for missing out on usable audio, maybe the camera guy was using an old D5 mk1  
 

But everything was very in focus.  

51 minutes ago, Blackburn Mark said:

People who work differently to you
I always found audio a pain in the ass and expensive.

It's daft to not record audio in the first place as you've still got to go out and get the audio afterwards (like the OP has to). 

On a more positive note, I have paramotor audio Owen is welcome to if he still needs it, mostly from video shot at fly-ins and recorded on decent mics.  

6 hours ago, Owen Shirley said:

However, most cameras don't come with built in microphones, and those that do are usually of very poor quality.  So nearly all of the sound that you hear on a film or TV program is added during the editing process.  

I've worked as a camera operator for years and that's news to me! Who'd shoot paramotors without sorting out audio at the same time? 

I had a similar issue, check that the primer bulb isn't drawing in a tiny bit of air. The engine copes and runs normally until it goes wide open for a while.

I had that problem even on a brand new primer bulb - some types of retaining clips cause the pipe to slightly distort on the connection to the bulb.   

I agree with Hann, Flyskyhy does this particularly well. 

Wow, bargain price for someone!   

Less vibration on the Moster and a more solid build. 

Does that mark move about when you wobble the Maverick? It looks like the fuel line to me.