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we need to take a trip down you way too mate, we will have organize a weekend soon.

When I click to go to the auction part of the site the page wont load

I need a pie

Myself, Clive and Matt took an early morning flight today from our field in canewdon down to a place called action park just west of Rayliegh in essex. lovely flight along the river watching the world wake up. below are a few snapshots taken from my go pro footage, I have not resized them. Flying down the river Crouch me and my shadow boats leaving for an early start Birds taking flight over hullbridge picture postcard farm

stuck this in here as for some reason I cant seem to get into the auction site. I have a go pro for sale, its the first one not the HD one but it works fine. Go Pro cam housing head mount strap thing a stretchy strap thing with a mount on it, so you can strap it to you leg etc RGB lead to view on your telly a couple of stick on mounts. has a 2GB card in it at the moment but you can always put a bigger one, I never had a problem with having just 2GB in original box with all instruction manuals. works perfect. £40 plus postage

Thanks Al, I have done the above but wont know if it worked until I meet up with someone else with a 2 metre radio.

it is sometimes easy to get caught out, tonight myself and Matt K were over canewdon, windsock was looking like it was around 5 mph, forward launch off I went, I had done some adjustments to my carb and was going to have a quick blatt around the field to test it out. good forward speed climbing to around 60ft into wind, turned around and all of a sudden it was like I had lit the afterburners, shot across the field at a hell of a rate, and I dont mean fast, I mean fecking fast, required a good dose of throttle and a bit of brake to sort things out, did another circuit and was getting thrown all over the place, so came around and landed in a very short distance, now i fly a Nuc and this has a great glide so was expecting a bit more time to getting ready to touch down, but it came down like my old Revo 2. All the indications told us it was fairly docile, but once I got up there it proved to be anything but

Stu, its not so much the wind strength but the variation and direction you need to look at, for instance a wind of 5 mph with gusts to 7 mph in the fairly constant direction will be much easier to take off in than a wind of 7 mph with gusts to 12 mph, Higher wind speed does not always stop us from flying. last night at canewdon we had 8 mph with gusts to around 10 mph, wich was not too bad, you just had to time your launch. mind you it did switch 360 degrees by the time we had set up, we all had to turn our wings around. proberly the worst wind I took off in was 8 mph gusting to 17 mph, made for a tricky landing too if I were you at your stage of flying I would proberly steer clear of any wind speed showing gusting to double figures. also with higher wind speeds you need to take into account the terrain around your launch site, rotor from trees etc will have more effect the higher the wind speed. even a windspeed of around 5mph have have an effect from something like a small rise in the terrain if you are low down.

I have the above 2 metre transciever, I accidently changed the channel when it was in my pocket some time back on an XC, I then tried to find the number lock setting on it so it did not happen again, however since pressing lots of different buttons it now seems to only receive and not transmit my voice, but when I tested it with another radio, the other radio picked up the signal but you could not hear me talking, I have a manual for the radio but it does not have a troubleshooting giude at all. When I key the mike a message reading "error" comes up on the display, does anyone have the same and had the same problem and is there a way to reset it back to the factory settings? Thanks, Dave

Happy birthday mate. Hope you get some airtime on your new GTR up in hunstanton

That was you was it, you owe me one 99, with sprinkles too

do you have any weather patterns that are particular to the area? like the mistral in some parts of france?

could be a bargain for a newbie http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110941227275? ... 1438.l2649

can I bring my sock

and dont diss the hippies man, like you know with all this bad vibe and stuff, I really dont want to be on a downer man

I dont think there is any right or wrong answer to the question of wether to take a training course, or to learn alongside other more experienced pilots. all individuals are just that "individual" we are all different and pick up different skills at different rates, some of us can take to the practical side of flying very quickly, but may struggle with the stuff like navigatin, air law etc. I think people fall mostly into two groups when they start out in this sport/pastime whatever you want to call it. first there are those who just want to fly, get up in the air and just enjoy it. Then there are those want to embrace all it has to offer, pushing themselves to accomplish more all the time. wich of the two above you fall into depends greatly on what type of character you are, it also gives a fair indication as to wether a paid up training program may be for you, or learning alongside others would be a better route. sure we may learn better when we are given a structered framework to follow, but that is not exclusive. What we enjoy most about this sport is freedom and that same freedom means we also have a choice how we go about acheiving our goals. Just as making the right wing/motor choice is important so is the route you take and only you can decide on that. I think most people with a bit of common sense can learn to fly a paramotor, but flying one of thses things is just part of the big picture, becoming a pilot takes another set of skills, understanding air law, navigation, meteorology, dynamics of flight etc. learning to fly and learning to be a pilot are different things. just my 2 cents worth

lucky you, when I was chatting to him I kept mentioning I would love to fly in one but he never took the bait not sure if they still hold the devon strutt fly in at the airfield but Chris asked me to fly at that, but on the day it was far too windy

I think the description said he had quite a few injuries

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went over canewdon for a bit of a buzz around on thursday and myself and Clive got a nice low flypast by the vulcan bomber, right over our field

does a guy still fly a gyrocoptor for the airstrip there? he kept it in the big concrete biulding on the right as you come onto the site

Nice one mate, I know the place well, helped out a guy named Chris howells when he had an open day at the old rotor bunker next to where you took off, lovely part of the world,

horses for courses mate, most people have a couple of motors before they really feel comfortable with a machine/brand, its no different than choosing a wing, get what YOU feel comfortable with, thats what counts.

I think the battery technology proberly already exists, I think its just not economicaly viable for such an application as a paramotor at this time. an electric paramotor with a range comparable to what we already have could proberly be biult but the cost would be something like 3 times the most expensive petrol driven motor available today, and whos going to be crazy enough to try and market that?

Hell of a head wind 17mph