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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KpMtE59uLY probably won't be flying again till June or so depending on how long it take to get knee back to fitness after ACL in about 4 weeks. Was a decent flight - but wish I'd taken a Kwells motion sickness tablet before flight. I usually do if I think it'll be bumpy - but really though it would be like a babys bum that day - but last hour was rough and spent it with a face like i was chewing a wasp trying to keep from puking up as got chucked about. on plus side, never felt anything but safe under reportair.

but 11 vs 45 can only be interpreted if we know how may PPG vs PGers there are. Anecdotally I do agree PGing is more dangerous (i.e. more chance of injury), but if we are looking just at fatalities and Strange Days figures are correct, it's the number of fliers thats important. For example if there are 4x as many PGers than PPGers, then the fatality rate is equal per year (ignoring flight frequency). Also you need to bear in mind that BHPAs reports seem to cover most of europe for PG whereas there's only one PPG fatality registered in there for europe - really would need the EHPU figures ? BHPA seem to cover europe IF the fatality was a BHPA member only ? There's a fair few variables there and it's possible to easily come out with the answer you want. But if we keep it simple and go with BHPA figures, without number of PGers vs PPGers we can't make sense of the 11 vs 45. And of course, in PPG there's a lot of pilots that are not members of BHPA - and either members of alternatives or have no affiliations. I think it'd be useful to know this sort of stuff, but just not sure the data is readily available to actually make sense of it. If you look at say, motorcycle fatalities - I'd imagine it's based on % motorcycles vs cars on roads, and fatalities per vehicle, and UK figures would be UK only. So - a like for like would be % PPG pilots flying in UK vs % PG pilots flying in UK (thought I think even that would be skewed since UK PGers regularly flight abroad whereas UK PPG pilots do not) but it would at least be a UK based fair compare ? Looking at https://www.bhpa.co.uk/documents/safety/formal_investigations/ I make that 24 PG vs 11 PPG in UK since 2002. So - I don't know numbers, but if there are more than 2.2x the number of PG fliers in UK, PPG has more fatalities in UK per 100 people per year.

active is the key - and frankly I've no idea. But I'd punt for something like 500 or so active ppg pilots in the UK or thereabouts (active = fly every month say). PG wise many will fly abroad, etc too - but it's probably order of magnitude higher ? 2-5000 ? fatality rate wise though we seem to average out to about 1 a year or so. Whereas PG can go years without one (though they arguably have more non fatal accidents). stu

yup. I agree completely. I suppose same goes for most other sports. most of the risk is from the extremists. there's always the unexpected outliers of course - but it's a fair statement I think to say most of the deaths in UK have been around the stuff you've mentioned (worldwide I'd include drowning). Maybe it's just me, but even though I bumble around the sky like a Sunday driver, I kinda like the hard ass reputation of doing one of the most dangerous sports on earth.. so don't analyze it too deeply

aye, insta360 one x.

er.. happy new year. might not be the most pleasant thing to think about, but good article here or mortality rates vs base of commercial flying. they also have a sort of ' same as if yer age X' thing. paramotoring not there - only paragliding, but based on finger in the air death rate in UK I'd put us at somewhere around just over double paragliding over the past 10 years or so. or to put it another way - we are all like 110 year old in terms of probability of death within the next 1000 hours* so a bit above sky diving would be my guess.. so only about 5th most dangerous sport- so it's nice to know there's a career path.. though I reckon I might be too old to make it to Formula 1.** maybe makes u think - or at least internally justify when you do stupid sh1t :-0 https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-love/ * per hour though.. so unless you do 1000 hours a year of flying I reckon you are safe. **possibly skip the mountain climbing mince altogether tbh and go straight to BASE

aye its looking good. I'm gonna have to get my FOURTH ACL knee reconstruction mid february (heavy landing at Ben Nevis in the rain back last summer) - so will be my last chance for a flight for 4-6 months I reckon before I'm fully 'bionic' again.. so might have to brave the fecking cold to be honest...maybe take a day off to get a few flights in. some of my nicest flights have been in winter (well in snow tbh.. so sign of that in suffolk), but it is a PITA wrapping up, keeping lipos down yer pants to keep em warm to start up.. more lipos for the heated gloves, yada yada.. still - one has to give it a punt. stu

ha. well yes, that was the Christmas present

had it for years - just first excuse to use it - and my green man invisible suit

Got a new flying suit for Christmas... Happy New year. stu

I was in Estepona in, oh 1983 with family. That was last time I was in Ronda. If was nice to go back after all these years and see it - from ground and air (video to come) as I remember going there aged 12 and seeing the bridge and bullring (and if I'm honest the only other thing I remember is playing mach iii in the arcade for the first time with 2ps* and thinking it was awesome) *after first trip to spain my sister and I were probably one of 1000s who realised that 2ps were exactly the same size as 25 peseta coins... every year after that we went on holiday to spain armed with at least 100 2ps for the arcades !

Hmm.. always get confused with cloud types... er.. is this flyable or not ? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/dec/10/scientific-phenomena-photographs-of-the-year-in-pictures-royal-society-publishing#img-10

nice shot. I'd have done that too if I'm honest as nill wind, but John (my guide) was pretty adamant about 600m/1000ft rules. Which is fair enough - it's their business they have to look after. But walking around Ronda, there were trikes 200 feet above the bridge. Still lovely flight - pain in the ar$e taking off with a top80 and a 22m wing in nill wind, but once yer up - it was smooth as a baby's bum. stu

After some shenanigans on day 4, the sun came out on day 5 for some great flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1vR1NMVHI more in a few days

I just pulled it in to 3 - same as take off?

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out of blue, and against forecasts all week, today was flyable... so got 3 flights in on new wing. wow. just wow. amazingly easy launches, popping me into air quicker than reaction. in flight the breaks are so sensitive vs reaction, and on fast trim the TST lines still let you actually TURN - on the reaction you'd pull it right to its stop and then ever so slowly turn that way - here its about same agility as breaks on slow. and the breaks - pull in toward you just for the tip and a flat turn, etc...wow. then there's the fact I've never been able to do wingovers. figured it was just my lack of skill - it seemed like fighting the wing all the time.. on this its a Piece of p1ss! -so so easy. And then... what I was dreading - would landings be super fast... er..no.. the opposite - it bleeds off speed like the reaction doesn't. and still leaves you with a great flare.. just great. and the other worry - would a tiny 22 give me far less lift, far less climb speed... so I went on to full fast trim, and full speedbar and timed a minute at full power - still climbing... and at 400 ft/min ! very very chuffed. should arguable done this a while back, but glad I did it now. stu

read the manual. I don't mean that flippantly - most have good info in there - it's worth reading. what is the motor/manufacturer ? check all screw/bolts are tightened to spec - you'll need to do it regularly - you're as well starting now - prop, swing arms, engine mounts, etc. ideally have a way of hanging yerself in the motor (e.g. from garage roof) to get yourself on the right balance point however that works for your motor - if you can't do that - and Im assuming its a low of medium handpoint, make sure you've followed the manual of what the settings are for your weight (and DO weight yerself to be sure). spend some time getting used to it - engine off, putting on back, taking off, running, turning round, stopping, bending down, pretending to fall and handling it with arms, etc - takes a lot of the unknowns out it when later it's making a racket, and the finger killer is spinning behind you. check the cage netting - many motors are a bit rubbish... does it really stop your hand getting dragged in ? what about the throttle cable ? can that get dragged in ? look especially at the bottom bit - many cage nettings are rubbish here (my air conception among them) - and benefit from some extra velcro straps, etc just to stop chance of hand getting dragged in if you fall and put hand down ,etc nearly all accidents happen on take off, so mostly it's about all that stuff. atb stu

yeh that's gonna take some getting used to - with 22 being even faster landing... I've never been great at timing my flares, and having dodgy knees (each knee having had 2 ACL ops) - anything at all hard, I chose arse rather than buggering knees up..

yeh it does. unfortunately I'm working through it.. and now the clocks have changed it's pretty much dark now from end of work day so all I've got is the weekends stu

thanks for advice here guys. I got myself a 2nd hand Report Air (or Deathmaster 2000 as I prefer to call it) Report Air 22 yesterday. Chilly's old wing for those who know 'im. Very nice custom colours of grey with a hint of green and red on the appropriate wing tips. Now hoping for an opportunity to fly it before 23/11th when I've signed up with Fly Spain for a week paramotoring in Southern Spain... otherwise I'll be flying the wing for first time there, which is less than ideal and increases the looking a numpty risk considerably...

easiest way is just search on garmin connect on phone for stufly. install, and it will sync to watch. job done. no need to use garmin express on laptop

there are only 2 Fenix 3 versions I think ? original and HR (with heartbeat sensor). both will work fine. mine is the original - but HR came out pretty soon afterwards so there's maybe more fenix 3 HRs on the second hand market that fenix 3s. Amazon actually had new stock they were still selling for 200 squid until a few weeks ago, but seems like sold out now. If you go the the garmin app store link in the video description I've put all the models that are currently compatible there. I'll update that if I add any more, but for now the two version are named with the supported devices: StuFly - Paramotoring App: D2, Fenix 3 3/HR Stufly - Paramotoring App: D2 Descent, 935, 5, 5+, 5s+, 5x, 5x+, 6s, 6s pro