stuartasutherland

Hi, realistically, I think £3500 would be difficult.

Back of a fag packet here but,

Training £1000

Motor £1500 for a cheapo

Wing £1500 second hand

Helmet £100

Not essential but advised

Reserve £400 second hand

GPS / altimeter £100 second hand

Air map of your area £20

Once you have your training and kit, please don't under estimate the potential of needing a new prop or two, or some welding of your frame. Props are £150 - £250 generic wood or carbon.

I think nearer £5000 realistically. Remember, you are young and have all your life to enjoy this. A local pilot to mee is still enjoying his flying and he just turned 70!

O poo.....

You will hate me for saying this but I still know that Carbon is NOT the correct material to be using for a tubed frame on a Paramotor for all the same reasons as I mentioned the last time.

Vince, you seem quite quick to big this unit up..... Are you selling them yet?

Please dont take this as a personal bash, but you seem to be selling rather a lot of different kit.... Its hard to know when your telling the truth or trying to sell stuff.

As a wise man once said, Jack of all.... Master of none.

SW

Personally, I think I would trust someone selling a range of manufacturers paramotors than someone who was just selling one. He can (should) discuss all the benefits of all the machines to the potential customer instead of doing what one well know eejit in the US does.

But to be honest, who has ever gone to the retailer and said "which machine do you think is best for me"? I believe everyone uses their own research and places like this (very useful) forum to make up their own minds.

Lots of carbon fibre!

Wouldn't want to slip and break that prop anyway. The forward/back weight shift looks like a bit of an after thought on the swing arms.

I thought changing the pitch of the prop would also affect the temperature of the moster engine.

Nice to see some new technology though.

I was trying to teach a mate of mine thus technique and it certainly helped.

Do you practice the powered launch technique, I get up 90% of the time (1st time) in nil wind now.

https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/docum ... =TECH00038

http://www.footflyer.com/fix/motor/carb ... walbro.htm

http://sd2cx1.webring.org/l/rd?ring=2fl ... ion%2Ehtml

http://larssletten.net/My%20stuff/walbr ... t-eng.html

Some of the websites I used to help me service my carb. Hopefully you find something useful.

I've flown with Gordon. Nice bloke!

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Have you serviced the carb? You need to find the model number and order the service kit, usually under 10 quid. I did mine, was a bit worried about it but a good learning day! Search the web for a how to guide for your carb. It might just need the filter replaced ( which it tiny).

Stu

Get this tat out of my house, please!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300823768759? ... 26_rdc%3D1

Brilliant, took the edge off being forced to watch X Factor!

I saw the original footage which he posted up before this edit. The FlatTop was pretty much destroyed.

The chaps in the video were just praising Sir Dell's amazing safety machine. He was very lucky not to break a leg.

To be fair, he had ball to try that. I wouldn't!

Hi, I have no idea about consumption as yet as I've not even flown an hour on it yet. Ive had 2 flights and the first was 10 minutes - came down to check everything was okay. Then a 45 minute flight.

Just trying to run it in really.

Not fussed about fuel economy really, as long as I get 2 hours I'm happy.

I went for the Walbro carb as carb icing is an issue in Scotland and i d rather have a closed system for no leaks when in the car.

Can anyone with a Polini Thor 200 share any insight into whether they have been able to find the correct carb jet settings.

Unit ships with 52 low and 144 high. I have reduces to 38 and 142 respectively. Needle in the middle, as shipped. Airscrew 1 turn

Even with this reduction, it's running so rich on idle that it stops.

Will achieve 7400rpm up to around 5000ft, but very quickly dies off due to rich mixture. At 7000ft I could only achieve 6300rpm and hugely reduced power. Spark plug checked and very dark, although semi idle all the way down from 7000ft would or could cause this.

Will try 140 jet, but nervous about moving so far from manufacturers recs.

Interested to know other Polini Thor users settings.

Cheers

Dan

Morning, hope this helps.

I have looked online but I cannot find out what each dip switch does. Does any one have a manual or know what the 12 dips switches do?

The reason I ask is that I bought a really cheap chinese 2m radio years ago and it has been problematic recently.

I have managed to find my old, but little used Icom IC-T22A radio and I have just ordered a new battery for it as the old one is knackered.

I am only hearing noise comming out of one ear and just wanted to check what settings I had set on the headset.

Thanks

Hi, the garmin is a 62st I think.

I love it, long battery life great display and I upload all my flights to garmin connect so I can log them.

The discrepancies are not really a worry to me at the heights I fly at.

Aircraft usually adjust the altimeter as the fly about getting the local QNH/QFE settings from local airports.

Suunto Elementum Terra black.

But I use a garmin GPS with barometric altimeter and vsi as main indicator as is shows ground speed and other useful stuff.

Might just try and go a while before taking anything apart. According to the exploded diagram of the Thor 200, there appears to be about a zillion parts.

Or you could always take it apart Stu, and see what explodes across the garage floor......

Some moist fields there Stu!!

Yup, it's been a shocking year for weather. I work with farmers and they are really struggling this year. I tried a few of my usual fields, 2 were flooded and 1 was up a steep hill with was iced up. So I had to try the stubble field. It was dry and the stubble didn't affect me - good old powered launch!

While you are waiting for yours - you can have a look at mine

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With a conventional pull start you just spin the engine. With this arrangement you spin the engine for the full pull.

With the flash starter you pull the cord which winds up a spring. At the end of the pull the spring energy is released which spins the engine quickly for a short period, allowing it to start. If you wanted a shorter pull you would have to sacrifice the easy pull for a stiffer pull as you have to put the same amount of energy in over a shorted pull.

Not sure if the above is correct, but its my best guess, makes sense, and is how I would do it!

I hope to get my Zenith Polini Thor 200 soon so I can try thte flash starter for my self. They seem to be having engine delivery issues though.

I've been waiting 7 weeks now.

I have one and it is impressive although could probably do with the rope being shorter (or the engine starting starting faster). I find it is fine when in the back but starting on the ground and holding the frame, it needs a fast pull instead of a long slow one.

So what is the tech behind it? Can't find anything on tinternet about how it works.

Ta

Stuart

I agreed with Dell I'm afraid. But seeing as I love you, I'll give you £50 for your Nucleon. Just thinking of your safety!

I'll recycle it into windsocks, honest.

(Oh, and the K2 never does 36 mph as my mate on his K2 full trim can keep up with me on 0 trim on my Synthesis)

I got a reply, lol

Dear outkast666,

My K2 does 36mph at fast trim, my Nucleon does 31mph. My K2 handles like a dream but the Nucleon is a total pig that often stalls before you get a fast turn. The K2 has an incredible glide ratio where the Nucleon has one of the worst of any paraglider on the market which is why zero paraglider pilots fly them. The K2 is a dream to launch as it weighs only 7 lbs but the Nucleon weighs 19 lbs and is extremely difficult to launch in zero wind at high altitude. I'll be happy to give you $1000 in cash if you can launch one up here in zero wind with a Black Hawk. The K2 is one of the safest gliders on the market but the Nucleon is such a nightmare the guy who tried some basic safety tests on it died doing so. He is dead. ZERO people have ever died on the K2.

If you are flying a Nucleon it says right off that you have never had a day of proper instruction in your life and got completely scammed by some lying moron like the guy jeff goin who does foot flier. Man I'm really sorry you got scammed. You can either be offended and pretend you didn't or you can look at the facts and get rid of your Nucleon before you die. I still love you either way but I sure wish you could actually try paramotoring sometime. If you think the Nucleon is a real wing you have never experienced this sport as it should be experienced.

- superdell

Reply in your email program or through My Messages

anyone want to buy my Nuc, as apparently I am going to die

maybe I should send it to Geoff goin and see if he would like to know someone is slandering him.

GoPro Hero3 - tres expensive though so I need to pass on this one.

Looks like a bargain to me!

Welcome along. You are right about the training costing about £1000.

Maintenance / running costs are very variable depending on whether you fall on your arse or not. Seriously though, I broke 2 props in my first year, both dodgy take off attempts which I look back at now and wonder why I even tried that. Now I know better, make better decisions at take off sites and have learned through experience how to launch better.

I use about 5 litres an hour plus 100ml of oil so cost per hour is probably about £8.

There can be big maintenance costs or none depending on which motor you buy. You should try to catch up with some local flyers and ask all your questions to those guys. Also,reading through this forum helped me a lot.

All the best

Stu

It will be down to the wing!!! buy a speedster Nucleon or GTR or GTX and you wil get a much better climb rate. Get rid of the sluggy synth

Morgy, I know! But I've just bought a Zenith so it might take me a while to build up the courage to ask the wife! The Synth is fine really, nobody I've flown with is faster, launch is easy.

It is very docile though and I would like a bit more fun (I think?). I'm also at the bottom of the weight range so I would like a smaller wing.

470fpm on my new Zenith Thor 200 and Synth 34

That's strange, stickygrape's getting nearly twice the climb rate with the same engine

What d'you weigh Stuart?

100kg, perhaps 105 with reserve and helmet.

Engine still new so I might get a bit more later but not much!