Rocknstick

Cheers guys, will go for a mirror, incidentally, you can actually see or at least I can see the Zeniths tank in flight, not all of it, I'm not a giraffe but you can see the hips at the bottom quite easily so you know when you start to see it sloshing about your down to 5/6 litres

Not sure if this is a design feature of that odd tank they have on the zenith or I've just discovered a taken for contortion.

I have a 26m little wing, learned out in spain on a 28. Had my first flight on it on Thursday, low winds and a very short take off field, was up in the air in about 20m flew lovely, as said above, simple risers.

I'm not a huge fan of the tip steering nap type things but I guess that's probably just me.

I'm not sure what you normally get with a wing with with the revo I got a standard storage bag,a rucksack, a big round stuff sack, a riser bag, a spair set of lines, repair patches, and some bits and bobs for the risers, anti side loading clips, mallions and the like.

Hoping to get out and have a fly tomorrow so will be able to give more info on how it performed, speed wise and the like.

I'm thinking of getting one of these for my zenith with the fuel sensor, does anyone have any experience fitting these?

Heyup Nick, the finger throttle is actually oretty damn good, I learned on a zenith with one and I must admit I found it much easier than the standard types, I found the bicycle brake type ones fairly aquard.

Cheers, plenty of Good info there thanks

Ahh is the volution tank not detachable?

Ha!! Yeah fair point. Back to basics, nice and simple.

Problem with it is you can land wherever given reason, but unless your camping spot has permission to take off you kinda stuffed right. But I guess if you were for sake of argument on a moor top with no one about, surely sometimes the wind can pick you up off the ground all on its own accidentally. Leaving you no really choice but to fly back home...

Check out DD hammocks for light weight sleeping gear, I have a couple of them there great, problem is you need trees and wings and trees don't mix

Would love to know how that trip goes.

I wonder is a multi burning stove would work as you could just burn fuel to cook.

Guess it just depends on if the weight gained substites the weight lost?

i am trying to plan a 340km coast to coast at the moment for next year.

fuel caches on the way, or scoping out petrol stations.

camping kit will come in under 5kg, ultra light tent- 1kg or bivi 600g, wing as sleeping bag- in a custom made saussice bag. msr stove 20g,

just need good weather.

What stove is that? They got a new one? I have the pocket rocket great piece of kit for the size. Must admit I do also like my jetboil system.

Wouldn't have Thaught sleeping in the wing is that great of an idea, won't that help soften up the fabric? But I guess the off time won't bother it to much, sweat might no be great for the fabric, as I'm assuming it dosent breathe?

.... fun epics? (the engine spluttering as the tank dried, just as the landing site came into view after a tantalizing few mins of 'will I won't i')

I would categorise that scenario as poor planning, not fun epic.

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Fair enough, don't get me wrong, I understand the necessity to plan things. All I meant was in general flying.

If you do something long enough your always gonna have 'an incident'

I've never flown one, but I can imagine how aquard it must be, without the extra weight. Was just curious.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Parajet-volutio ... nav=SEARCH

Does this look like a good deal?

I'm not in a position to be buying a motor but was curious about ages of things. Seems legit. More encouraging then the 'only been flown for a few hours' description.

So having a clutch seems like a good idea, they will be centrifugal I guess

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Benefits:

Prop is only spin in when engine engaged (less chance of prop/line strike.

Less chance of injury while on the Ground?

Efficiency - no energy required to spin prop at tickover

But as you have to give the engine more power to get the prop spinning does this mean you can't just tickle the throttle for small amounts of power, like you could on a direct drive.

Or does it take more revs to effect your flight than it does to engage the clutch?

What are your experiences with both?

Who is doing this? how hard is it to carry and attach enough camping gear to your rig.

obviously you wont be taking your massive basecamp tent with you but just wondered

What peoples experiences of it have been?

Any difficulties you may have had and what tricks you have to overcome them.

Where have you been? any fun epics? (the engine spluttering as the tank dried, just as the landing site came into view after a tantalizing few mins of 'will I won't i')

Cheers, will do.

How hard is it to carry enough kit to go camping?

Heyup everyone, wanted to introduce myself. I'm wanting to get into this fantastic looking sport.

Current plan involves reading and watching as much as I can about paramotors, trying to find out what's makes a good/bad motor ( sifting through the all the propaganda is a bit hard work)

I've bought myself one book, read that ( not memorised it) got another commit, paramotor bible v4.

I'm planning to go to Spain to do my course in January, hopefully then I'll have more of an idea of the kind of kit I will be wanting.

As for now with no experience the idea of buying sec one hand is out the question as I don't know what's good and bad and won't be able to tell if the seller is feeding me a pile a bovine excretion about its history/use/age.

But I must admit I like the look of the parajet frames. Thy just seem sturdy and fairly slick. The volution that is, the zenith looks a little bit bendy for my liking, alt how the interchangeable parts is nice.

What are people's thaughts?

Cheers

Nick

Yes sorry 'hi all'

I was just curious really, if all goes well come next year I'll be a fully fledged flyer but for now I'm an imaginary pilot only.

Loving the idea of long distance trips. And camping. Also isn't there a limit to the size of the fuel tanks on a paramotor? I Thaught I'd read it was 10l and then on the parajet website there tanks were bigger 13/14l? Is this an old rule of one from america and I miss understood?

Cheers

Nick

Why don't paramotorists use the little bag sock thing that paragliders use?

I assume the use this for comfort and to aid in streamlining. Rather than just dangling there legs and causing more drag?

Or do they and I just haven't seen a video with someone using it? Surely this would be better for long distance xc?