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Thanks for your thoughts Christian. Much appreciated. I'm still weighing everything up.

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I'm looking at going to the 'dark side' from free flying and taking up paramotoring. I live in the West Midlands and I'm seriously considering an Air Conception Nitro 200 or a Miniplane with a Top 80. I am practical and I can turn my hands to most things but I have very little knowledge of 2 stroke engines and zero knowledge of paramotor maintenance and component replacement other than a replacing a spark plug. With the right advice and information I could probably do most maintenance myself but if I had a mechanical or electrical problem or if the engine needed to be stripped down and rebuilt are there reputable specialist mechanics in the country who I could take my motor to to fix? Would a decent motorcycle mechanic be able to maintain of fix a paramotor engine or would he need to have some relevant/specialist paramotor engine knowledge? Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, I'm an experienced PG instructor and commercial tandem pilot. I'm looking to buy a paramotor and at this stage Its likely I will go for the Air conception Nitro 200 or possibly a miniplane. The fact that they are light weight and seem to be reliable is what appeals to me. I own two solo gliders, both old but in good condition in trim with good fabric porosity. Neither have trimmers attached to the risers. One is a 22m2 Uturn Freeforce (freestyle wing) with a 55-95kg all up certified weight range (DHV 2) which I happily fly 10-15KG over the top of the weight range when I free fly. My XC wing is a large Nova Tattoo L, 29m2, 100-130 (DHV2) all up weight range, which is fairly fast, especially on speedbar, given that I'm at the bottom end of it flying solo. I am 88KG naked. I'd rather spend the money on a new paramotor and make do with a FF paraglider if I can for the time being, but my wing of choice in the future would be an Ozone Spyder 26. My question is could I fly one both of these wings with power, safely and happily with either the AC Nitro or the Miniplane? I've done 3 flights with a Zenith/Moster Plus paramotor and will be doing a conversion course next month. I've seen a video of Dell S buzzing around on a Uturn Freeforce under power wihich shows great handling and agility but I don't know what his wing loading would have been. Any advice from someone who has had experience of flying free flying paragliders under power would be most welcome. Cheers