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    Great music

    in Paramotoring Videos & Aerial photography

    Posted

    Im pretty sure it's not up to the poster & is an automatic YouTube thing. Vaguely remember looking into it before when some of my videos were working on the phone & some were disabled. I couldn't get them enabled. If someone has ever actually managed to remove this block from a video I'd love to hear exactly how. Will watch your video later on the computer ;)

    Fields

    in Newbies ( want to fly a paramotor? )

    Posted

    I don't fly from fields when any livestock are there. Not worth the risk of a cow eating my wing or doing something that would end up upsetting my insurance company.

    My nearest field is however rotated for cattle & I know exactly what your talking about. I just make sure to wipe off any stains with a damp cloth (Water only) as soon as possible after flying, because apparently the toxins in the poop can eat the wing. Apart from that I just get dirty boots during my takeoff run now & again.

    Fuel Degradation

    in Paramotors.

    Posted

    ...If we use the fuel as intended and spend more time flying than pondering on the qualities of the slowly degrading fuel there will be no issues.

    The question still remains, is it to early to eat last nights remaining curry. It has been in the fridge all night, but I failed to put a cover over it.

    :lol:

    Ok, so after more investigation and in the interest of not misleading anyone I'll swallow my pride and let you all know that this has turned out to be operator error. More accurately I've discovered that a few weeks ago I obviously made an arse of my throttle mechanism by tightening my throttle cable too much and damaging the throttle control piece! :oops:

    My rpm are now back up to 9810.....at least until said throttle control piece slips due to said damage and everything goes awry.

    I've emailed tim odlin in papparamotorsuk and will hopefully have her up and running again soon!

    If your interested in wasting 45 seconds of your life feel free to view the video. Does it look like I just need to replace the rivet?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqPVBymQuE

    No more flying for me for a few weeks...serves me right...

    Fuel Degradation

    in Paramotors.

    Posted

    Didn't know about the porosity of plastic to fuel vapour. That's very interesting.

    Haven't tuned the motor, will do that after I've played around with seeing what difference the fuel alone makes.

    Does anyone know if the manuals max 10250 rpm is realistic or what max RPM I should be expecting from a ROS125 with 120cm prop?

    Thanks.

    Fuel Degradation

    in Paramotors.

    Posted

    I suppose it depends on how much excess power your motor has.

    This was just my observation so far. I need to fill the tank fresh and check the rpm daily on the same fuel for some slightly more scientific results. Was kinda hoping someone had already done it! :)

    Fuel Degradation

    in Paramotors.

    Posted

    To make a long story short...

    My PAP was lying up for approx. 2 months until the end of October. I knew the fuel in it would have gone stale but ran a little test out of curiosity (Yes I should have drained it...I didn't expect to be grounded for so long). The old fuel in it after 2mths was getting approx. 8400rpm (+/- 60rpm) according to my tinytach. Drained and refilled with regular 95 octane it was then getting approx. 9600rpm.

    That's a 12% decrease in volatility in approximately 2 months.

    So, after refilling 2 1/2 weeks ago the weather has been crap and its been sitting up again, this time for 2 1/2 weeks. Today I went out and was getting approx. 8600rpm.

    That's a 10% decrease in volatility in approx. 2 1/2 weeks.

    So therefore my fuel incurs 83% of its total 2 month volatility loss within the first 2 1/2 weeks. :shock:

    What's worse, I found out today that in a 6-9mph headwind, that extra 1000rpm is the difference between me climbing out or just running aimlessly along the ground! :shock::shock:

    So after a quick google trawl here's my questions...

    1. Does anyone use premium 97/98 octane, super 98/99 octane or high performance 102 octane in their motor and what difference do you see in RPM?

    2. Has anyone ever used a stabiliser in their paramotor fuel and how did it go?

    3. General thoughts?

    I need to get my hands on some premium unleaded to measure the rpm at 97 octane but it seems very few forecourts sell it anymore.

    Navigation phone app

    in Navigation

    Posted

    Livetrack 24

    I bought the unlock but it turns out my network loses it's 3G signal too often for it to work properly. I need to change phone & network! I did have to trawl the Internet to get an airspace file for Ireland, but found one free which seems to match my airmap.

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