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Hi Andy, There's a growing bunch of pilots that fly from York, Selby, Thornton-Le-Dale & wherever the weather takes us. We are a friendly bunch & Marko, the founder of Yorkshire Paramotors is an instructor who I did my training with & highly recommend. I will send a pm with my telephone number, please feel free to give me a call & you'd be more than welcome to come down to the field next time we're flying. Cheers, Craig.

99% of non smokers die. (Mark E Smith - The Fall)

Gents, Would you mind letting me know how much the prop is. I have a Bailey 175 v2 & have been thinking about investing in a spare to prevent any lost flying time should the inevitable happen! Cheers, Craig.

Hi Rob, Yes - things are going really well thanks! Started my training on the 23rd February with Mark Jenkinson of Yorkshire Paramotors who I can very highly recommend. Have had a great time since, have made some good friends & most importantly have now completed flight no 2! Just need to nail my take offs & landings, hopefully weather permitting, next weekend & I'm done! I've got all the gear now as well so the spending spree has thankfully stopped.

Who or what is this Stickygrape?

Just re-read mr free flys post & then watched the vids!!! What a terrible hypocritical Cnut!!

Hi mate, Just sent you a pm with my phone number, give me a bell, I'm in Barnsley so can't be too far from you? Still a newbie but am starting training next weekend!!!

Beautiful vid 8086, looks cold though! Music excellent too, what is it?

Just wanted to bring this back to the top of the pile as I've seen a few newbies asking for advice recently. I'm just about to start my training after 12 months of research & talking to people but the books listed below have been invaluable: Powered Paragliding Bible - Jeff Goin. Pilots Weather - Brian Cosgrove. BHPA Handbook - Mark Dale. Even if you never take to the skies they're still a good read!

Using the guesstimate at the higher end of the scale - 800 active pilots in the UK then that makes you guys (and me very soon!) a really unique bunch of people - just 0.00128205 of the population!!!!

Posting back to the top, been to a fly in today & had a great day, is this still happening? Might even be flying by then!

Hi Simon, based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, willing to help out wherever I can as ground crew, might be able to rope my brother in as well. Not yet flying but getting ever closer!!!!! Training blog to follow........

Get me!! 6.7% smarter than average.

The Jimmy Saville of paramotoring!! & I thought you were just being helpful Sticky!!!!!!