MachemWir

[quote name="custom-vince Absolutely' date=' in my experience all the motors I have flown had suffered some form of Torque steer, obviously some more than others. The standard high hang point model (I think thats the one tested) is just like any other high hang point machine add enough power and you will get some torque effect. I recommend the S arms (swan necks) these produce zero torque turn with my 85kg and 75kg thrust. The only other machine I flew that was close to this is the Zenith which also flew strait and also happens to have Swan necks. The Titanium swan necks are offset through the arm, this system also works better than off sets setup in the frame. Noise has also been addressed and I understand much work was done with Eric Dufors help. The motor tested was one of the first versions. The harness I have on my machine is the lightweight version and it lacks padding in favour of weight saving, it has padding but not like you would find on a 3.5kg harness. As for back support that is just an adjustment strap, maybe that was missing on the early test machine. There is also a new harness available which I haven't seen yet, a very new addition. I would say every criticism has been taken on board and rectified. Since the test there is now an even lighter unit. 19kg Ultra that is 65kg thrust. Its all tough titanium and minimalistic design, you are welcome to come over and have a look.[/quote] that sounds ok but at £4800 are a tad expensive, have you stopped selling the kobra range? they have the moster also but there is no sign of them on your website although Kobra still have you listed as a dealer. Tim I did look at the PAP but on your website there is no price list! I have also looked at the PXP which also offers the moster and is under £4000, does anyone have any comments on those?

As you say, but having taken off It seems to me that there were a couple of things that he could have tried:- first, perhaps his initial direction should have been upwind, this would have resulted in an easy downwind home leg. second, having realised the lack of forward progress he applied more power and climbed making things worse. He eventually gave up on this, cut power and descended at which point he noted that this gave a slight improvement. Had he continued to a much lower level I believe that he would have found conditions to be much more favourable and could have had a fun time doing nap of the earth back to the car third, realising that battling aloft into the teeth of the wind was a no go perhaps taking a leaf out of a sailors book and tacking back and forth along the mean route of travel could have resulted in a less stressfull journey. I realise that I do not have much (well, none) experience in these matters so I fully expect to be shot down in flames for my simplistic approach!

[youtubevideo] [/youtubevideo]I saw this and thought it raised some interesting points about what happens if you get caught out after take off. Comments?

I am also looking to get my first motor and was looking at the air conception moster, but today I read a review of it in paramotor mag, on the whole it was very positive with only three negatives:- 1) significent torque effect when applying power 2) the noise, output was measured at 107 Db 3) the harness, they said it felt a bit cheap and could have done with a bit more back protection and I wondered if anything had been done to tweak the setup in regard to those things?