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    one life, live it!

    in Paramotoring Videos & Aerial photography

    Posted

    All well and good.....but there is one flaw in his advice.

    "Find out what you want to do in life and just do it....don't worry about money."

    Well Einstein....I know what I want to do....I want to fly every day, but I am retired and have no money to buy a kit to allow me to do what I want to do.

    Easy to say "live your dreams....or follow your dreams", but as we all know, it all requires money, and most of us have to do things that we don't enjoy, in order to make the money to allow us to do the things that we do enjoy.

    Safe and Happy Flying to All.

    Cheers.

    I think the whole point in what he is saying is, if you really want to do something you can find a way to make it happen.

    Reserve container + cockpit

    in Other

    Posted

    Hi All does anyone have any experience with Gin combi or Supair reserve container/cockpit?

    Which would you recommend?

    Thank you,

    Miro

    I have the supair one, its good, you can fit quite a bit in the top and it zips up wich is ideal as everything is secure while you are taking off and landing :D

    Paramotor Orienteering day. Late March 2014. :-)

    in Events

    Posted

    It would be great if we could now start a list of 'Ground Crew' helpers to man the tasks at each of the waypoints. :-)

    Ideally we need 14 people to help. It would be great if those people were able to arrive at Membury on the day before the event as some planning and briefings will need to be given and some driving in the morning will be needed to get to your waypoint.

    Camping can be arranged either at the Airfield or on my back field. Either way it will be a good evening! :-) :-)

    Thanks very much in advance for your help!!!

    SW :D

    Careful, that's not the first time he has invitied a bunch of fellas in to his "back field" :D

    Torque effects

    in Safety Matters

    Posted

    Cheeeeeers

    Got it.

    Also chatted to Instructor today whilst stood around moaning about

    wind speed and you all agree.

    Simples.

    I did a hang check today and found that there was very little force required to twist

    and move paramotor 90 degrees off square. I was expecting a greater resistance

    to staying square.

    Please comment on this.

    Thanks for replies.

    Regards

    Richard

    the further the plane of the prop is from vertical the more tourqe effect will make its presence felt, when you do a hang check you want your motor to be leaning back just enough so that when you apply full power its sits upright, have you checked your harness is adjusted equally both sides?

    Torque effects

    in Safety Matters

    Posted

    Hi

    I don't understand why it may be dangerous to pull a tight left hand

    turn under full climb at low speeds. ( against the torque).

    Richard

    Imagine the motor trying to turn to the right due to torque, your risers slightly twisted to the right then you pull a tight left turn, the wing turns left against the motor trying to turn right. Result = twisted risers, and the wing flying opposite to the thrust of motor. Action is to power off hands up and hope you have enough height to recover normal flight.

    Hope this helps.

    Whitters. :explode:

    power off slowly, or you may spin right round in the opposite direction :D

    1st UK Slalom Comp

    in General paramotor discussion

    Posted

    Is that actually the norm ??

    I know people who did not have to do any flying at all ?

    SW :D

    I guess its up to who the examiner is, if he has already seen you fly and knows you are competent then theres nothing to prove by flying again.

    oh and you have to land within 20 metres of an object placed out in the field :D

    1st UK Slalom Comp

    in General paramotor discussion

    Posted

    you will have to do some flying if you use the alternate entry scheme, you have to show you can take off fly a couple of circuits of the field and land with good control, you will also have to do a cross country, the examiner will give you a map with about 3 waypoints on it, you will have to take off and hit all three then return to the field, your flight will be logged, usually by a gps attached to your frame, your log will be checked when you return.

    Nearest guys to baldock herts?

    in Newbies ( want to fly a paramotor? )

    Posted

    Yeah that's it. Frazer was there at the same time I was, is Frazer still around on here?

    So it's not looking good so far for something more local...

    sorry mate only just realised I had not replied, frazer got as far as his first flight, then unfortunately personal problems intervened and never went any further, Alex may be some distance from you, but hey anything worth doing aint going to be easy :D

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