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Have a look on Alex Varv`s website http://www.aerocorsair.com/id27.htm Plenty of info for the Tilotson & Black Devil motor

I use Memorymap CAA charts, so I just print out using a laser printer what I want, on to A4/A5, double sided with os or road map. If laminated with holes in corners you can use a cheap caribiner like the ones on keyrings to clip where suits.

For what it is worth. I don`t think that you can tell the condition of a wing by looking at a few photos. I cant see inside the cells to check for any rips or burst seems? or what the lines are like! Have a full check service by Loft or Aerofix, if you buy it.

Ive got the Gin container as per picture. As Mentioned in an earlier post about reserves. Whilst flying check the positioning of your reserve container & handle! I was shocked when I reached and realised how far it was to reach around the low hang point arm & riser. With a bit of a replacing where the straps attach to the harness, it is much easier now. Paul

Hi Craig, yes we did meet in the air around Banbury, after which I headed off back to Chippy. To help you put a name to my face. I am a member of Solden Hill, I helped you find your helmet cam in the snow when Sam lost it early part of the year. Look on your facebook Friends, (Paul Wallington). Do you know now? p.s. was the video from the helmet cam ok? Paul

Craig, The Bloxham sites are not Solden hill club sites, they are Antony & Tony Washy`s own use sites. Like the fields that I use around Chippy, I think they are happy to fly with other pilots from them, on an invitation only basis! But as with all sites, they are hard to get in the first place! & keep everyone happy, establishing No Fly Zones. Just like Solden Hill, we are told where not to fly, aren’t we! One of the fields I use at Chippy was lost because an unknown pilot flew from it & kept buzzing the land owners neighbours & when the land owner approached him when he landed he said “he thought that it would be all right to fly from there, because he had seen me fly from there!! p.s. Did I here there was a Solden Hill members meeting soon? Would you pm me details if so? Paul

Hi Joe, Have you got an up to date Chart for your area? On the 1/4mil it is sheet 8 edition 13. North is not the problem, you have got up to Flight level 55 just to the north of your field, as a rough guide this runs through the roundabout on the Southam rd, Banbury by the old Hella & Alcan factories at a 73 degee M. Just a bit further north this reduces to FL45 running through The old Chipping warden airfield, Now called Appletree industrial Estate, still at a 73 degree Magnetic. The bits to watch out for Hinton in the Hedges (2.5m South), Turweston (4 Miles South East) & Croughton HIRTA (5miles Soth. & of course any Notams! This weekend there are a couple of airshows about 6 mile East of you around Whittlebury & Stoke Bruern, but it does not look flyable! A few of us fly from a field about 5 miles NW of yours!

I saw this on the British gliding website at http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/airspace/introduction.htm but can`t find any more info. I don’t know, but if the BGA has concern then it could effect us! 99% of my flying is within 20km of Kidlington!

My Airfer PXP, 99cm prop, stainless cage, Black Devil electric start engine, with 9 litres fuel & Independence Evo reserve in a Gin front mounted, weighs in at 41 kgs. I on the other hand weigh in at 108kg kitted ready to fly! AUW of 156kg inc. wing. Combination close to the top end weight of my wing a Power Play Sting 160. But still managed 15 out of 16 forward launches this year. What AUW are any other big blokes & what wing do you fly?

This might give you some ideas. http://www.aerocorsair.com/id154.htm This is from Alex Varv`s site. He has got a few ideas on the invention page. I have always thought about inflight carb adjustment! as when I was Kart racing, it was common practice to adjust low & high continually throughout a race, to get absolute peek performance. I also remember several seized engines [/url]

Gaz, when my local fields were not available, I was doing 48 mile round trips to fly with Tony & Paul at nights & weekends. And I still do just for a bit of social as well! If you don`t get flying, I will tell Tony! Think of the good flights, like when you flew to Sturdy`s pub with them. The day of my first attempt flight at Bloxham, I kept looking at you circling the field thinking how lucky you were up there. Think hard about giving up. Do you fancy a weekend up Banbury or Chippy, with me, Tony & gang. We have got a few things planned soon, 1) XC flight to Alconbury. 2) fly above the clouds. and a few other things! I will get Tony to ring you tomorrow & talk you out of it

This is what I use http://www.northern-paragliding.com/helmets/instruments/radios-headsets-accessories/headsets-and-accessories/1-4-wave-flexi-antenna.html?flypage=shop.flypage The reasons I use this antenna are it works for what I expect of it & because in a basic form it is just a piece of flexible wire, it does not try to break the BNC socket out of my radio when I stuff it a flying suit pocket. Paul

I fly with a front mounted reserve. every pre flight I reach for the handle twice with both hands, in the belief of the sub concious muscle memory thing that I will grab the handle first time in a real situation. But on my last flight I realised that I had never taken any notice of the positioning of the front mount on my lap, so I tried to reach it with both hands in turn, I was very surprised how far away the handle seemed, when you are seated nice & have to reach around the risers & hang arms! I have now slightly adjusted its mounting and how I allow it to sit in flight! Yours might be fine, but next flight just remember to actually reach for the handle & check, you might be surprised! Paul

posting for a mate, so please contact him direct. Please don`t pm me. Clemente paramotor, Simonine engine. electric start, inflight charging. Forty five hours use, would suit 14 stone plus or tandem.starts first time every time. Pap build quality but with 74kg of thrust. Excellent condition comes complete with prop covers. Genuine reason for sale-----getting to old for it !!!! Price £2800 Contact: Anthony Washington 01295 262383 Mob: 07866043190

This picture just reminds me of the freedom that we enjoy so much. It was taken Aug 2008 my 2nd. flight What am I doing wrong with the link?