Steve

I can't comment personally on either of those 'instructors' - although I found some of the statements on their websites misleading, and spotted a few safety issues on the videos etc. - although I'm sure they would enable you to "get in the air and get down again with out killing myself or any one else"

Had a look and there are some odd things. I especially thought posting videos of ground handling and ground running the paramotor whilst not wearing a helmet were a bit misguided.

It says 3 days until you take your first solo flight but that shouldn't be the end of training by any means, going solo still means you have your instructor on the end of a radio for a long while yet. You should not put a time limit on your training as everyone is different and as for the weather .... It's generally about £900-1000 to get to full Pilot with BHPA. Parajet have an offer on at the moment with a paramotor, wing and training package.

Wouldn't fancy running with a spinning prop in front of my face. Like you say, what could go wrong?

I looked into it a while ago but found some references to by-lays about using the downs, I could just imagine some official with a clip board standing there whilst coming in to land.

Had the same here for ages, it's working today ironically.

Also, if you can use solid state storage for each project instead of an HD that makes a mountain of difference to performance. Then just copy it all onto a standard HD for archiving when you've finished.

Couldn't agree more, fabulous video.

Standard design etiquette for years has been for external links to open in a new window and most sites do that. With the advent of tabs it's probably easier to set a local preference.

I've always fancied launching from Clifton Downs by the Sea Wall and flying above the gorge and out towards Pill. Can't imagine that would go down too well.

Maybe just more of an example of good customer service than anything else. I've had to use Apple products for 20 years for work and although never a cheap option there's always been exceptional support.

They seem to have run out of refurbished 1st gen nanos last week so are now shipping 6th gen iPod nanos as replacements.

If I was to put my daughter up on her first flight I'd give her a helmet and a pair of gloves. I definitely wouldn't then send her out over water.

Maybe it's me but I've never been able to find any published torque figures for my Parajet. On my visit last week Dan kindly wrote as few down so here they are for anyone who might need them:

Cylinder head nuts: 30Nm

Prop bolts: 20Nm

Bolt on the eccentric belt tension adjuster: 25Nm

Anything else: 15Nm

Mine will have to thaw out before it points down.

... and ta for the free mug.

I have just got a pair of them... There Great I can't say i lost any feeling from the lines etc but there nice and warm. But to be fair it's not that cold yet and i have not really had them on for long before i had to turn them off.

Time will tell how well they work in the winter.

Did you have to turn them off because they were ... too warm ?

I've got to get a pair of something before the weather improves (for flying) and am torn between the Blazewear and Gin Alpine, the agony of choice (plus never having seen either in the flesh).

Ive got the Blazewear ones.....(my opinion) ...........I reckon they are great of course you loose a lot of the feel for the lines and throttle on take off but once you are up and away they are brilliant I went for the throw away battery type because i didnt know how good they would be....so the warm time is around 2hrs which is good enough for me....even without the heat turned on they are quite a warm glove....So Ive awarded them 5 stars

Cheers Gary. Do you loose more feel than with a regular winter glove like the Gin?

Sorry not tried heated gloves yet, but I want to.

Here is another option as tested by Police Bikers.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/Ri ... GLOVES.pdf

Regards.

Mike

Thanks Mike.

A big thank you to Dan at Parajet who stopped what he was doing during a busy day for them yesterday to have a look at a couple of queries on my motor. One was a peace of mind check for me to know that my own adjustments were correct and the other was to check that my drive belt tension adjuster was okay (so it was stripped and reassembled to be sure). There was no feeling of time-pressure. I know it's cheesy sounding but I love owning a Parajet for this very reason, knowing a phone call or a visit is always going to get immediate attention for anything big or small.

Isn't this just an option for Parajet to sell the chassis and fittings for a Bailey engine and then you can fit it yourself or pay them to fit it for you?

Last winter I had a few times where I couldn't undo my harness after landing as my hands were so agonisingly frozen and I promised myself I would avoid that this year. I have held off buying a new pair of gloves until now and was going for the Gin Alpine WInter Gloves as recommended by Simon and Pete a while ago. However, one thing which has always been in the back of my mind is heated gloves - I had a pair years ago and they were rubbish but I have read a few good things about Blazewear gloves, specifically these: http://shop.flybubble.co.uk/blazewear-p ... rts-gloves

They don't have an unweildy battery compartment which makes them better than earlier models. They also seem to have a good burn time, especially with the Lithium-polymer battery pack option. I've spoken with the manufacturer and they are imported from China but to their own design/spec.

Has anyone used these for flying and if so were they any good? The safe bet is probably the Gin gloves but just wanted some opinions beforehand. Cheers.

Retrofitting Netting to Volution 1.

I've been searching for this but there's not much useful info that I can find. I have asked several Parajet staff over the months but they don't support it although Deano was very helpful on my last visit (but I still don't have a good solution).

I could buy some netting and cable tie it on but this would be a bodge. I would prefer to drill the cage and thread it but would void the warranty and would be concerned about affecting the strength of the cage. There is a link to photographs of a very nice job here:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4852&p=32023&hilit=netting+parajet#p32023 (plus I'd love to know where the prop came from).

If anyone has ever fixed netting to the upper cage on a Volution 1 I'd be grateful for any feedback.

I have no idea how anyone could buy a paramotor from ebay and then teach themselves to fly. I couldn't, I needed a good teacher.

Several people have commented on how fast my Revo2 seemed to come in to land when thee hasn't been much wind, in fact the first time my son saw it he was convinced it was going to be a crash. Stopped on a sixpence though.