neil9327

Thanks for the answers - looks like it is a challenge, but not impossible.. BTW love the smilies Can you really do vertical loops like that?

I am wondering whether to learn to fly a microlight or powered paraglider (PPG). One of the benefits of PPG might be that you can take off and land at a greater number of places than you could with a microlight? But nowhere can I find a definitive list of the types of places from which you can fly. Is there one? If you take off I understand you need to get permission from the landowner to be legal. But I can imagine that if you approached a farmer most of them would not want you flying from one of their fields because it is an insurance risk for them, as well as the noise potentially annoying them and other locals. Is there a good way to approach farmers to get them to agree to let you fly? What is the going rate to pay them? I guess the other approach is to fly anyway without asking permission. I would imagine that once you have experience you can probably get airbourne in a matter of minutes, meaning the likelyhood of getting caught or annoying the landowner is quite small? And what about if I am out for the day somewhere sunny, and I get the urge to go flying. Can you in practice pull over in a road layby and take off from there. Or is that likely to get you a ticket from any passing police officer? Are you allowed to take off from most common land, National trust property, or national forest (like the New Forest, Hants.) What other locations and methods of acquiring use of those locations are there, that you can fly from? Thanks