subtlealpine

Best thing to do is try some motors first before buying. If you are still under training, can your instructor provide motors to try? If you have finished training, then ask around if you can try motors first. Sounds to me like you would be better suited on a Moster, but it also depends on your flying style: XC, Acro, etc.

View Advert Dudek Universal 1.1 28m Year 2019. 150 hours. Fire colours. Stored well. Bought new from Clive Mason, serviced by The Loft in 2021, and not flown much since as I have a Nuc XX as well. Comes with * Ruck sack motobag * Older style fast bag (not the new style Dew bag) * Standard bag (wrote my name on soz) * Riser bag * Loft report Wing had a line strike in 2020 which ripped a seam. The Loft replaced the panel and I can't even find where they repaired it, came back like new. Inspection welcome, Bedford Area. Advertiser subtlealpine Date 23/10/22 Price £1,500 Category Wings  

Yeah was a great event, despite mashing my knees and prop! Looking forward to the next one already...

Very inspiring Andy, I admire your perseverance which will surely be rewarded very soon. I sincerely wish you the best.

Yep, a quality event, well done to everyone that helped put it together!

Nice! I really need to do the same. What's your patter for approaching people? What form of comms do you use? (face-face, email, phone, etc)

Yeah I haven't touched the knot from the factory. I'm sure that changing the knot will fix it, I'm just wondering what everyone else does in this regard. Do they use TEA or offset carabiner loops.

Clive spent two hours getting the harness adjusted just perfect only a few weeks ago! So choices are Put left riser in upper loop and right right riser in lower loop on carabiners Move the knot down an inch or so Asymmetric trimmers - feels wrong to me, but maybe a short-term fix or in-flight adjustment if it's not quite right when out on an XC I will go to the field later and just test it out. I think I will do it in the order above. Thanks!

After getting my new wing I haven't adjusted it yet for straight and level flight when cruising trimmed out on XCs. In my last XC if I trim out and cruise in level flight the motor turns to the right slightly. Even when compensating with weight shift, it doesn't correct it. If I use my TEA line to correct, it then turns to the left. I had to pull on the left tip steering toggle down to my ears for most of the flight, which got annoying. So I guess I have two options to fix this: 1) Adjust the TEA knot so that when it's engaged I will be flying straight when cruising 2) Try the upper carabiner riser loop on one side. My wing has two loops to connect to the carabiner. How do people solve this commonly? Adjusting the TEA knot, use the upper carabiner loop or some other method? I have a bulldog Moster 185 and a Dudek Universal 1.1 28m

I have a 28m and I lost some weight recently so a 25.5 is probably more my size...

I bought a UK topographical air chart but I don't know how to read it properly. Are there are any online resources that show this? My Google search didn't come up with much, but I did find this http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/aip/vfrcharts/downloads/QUARTER_LEGEND_A4.pdf I have SHEET 8 ENGLAND SOUTH Edition 24 (2020) 1:250,000 For example I can see a region that says this in purple with a dashed line around it: LUTON LTA D 4500'-5500' 129.550 (0013). Does this mean Class D airspace between 4500-5500 feet? Can I fly my paramotor under 4500'? What does 129.550 mean? What does 0013 mean? Some lines are dashed and some are solid. What's the difference? I'm guessing CTR D SFC-3500' would mean class D airspace from surface to 3500 feet? What does CTR mean? There are some heavy solid black lines on the map with dashes crossed through them. What are they? There are also dashed black lines. I guide book or online tutorial on reading these maps would be great if anyone has a link. Cheers

Sent you a PM Matty.

This was my first fly-in and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great laid back atmosphere, everyone really friendly. Just great sitting by the fire pit in my moon chair chatting about paramotoring. Fireworks were spectacular! How do people without a facebook account access the photos? Would love to browse through.

Day 11 19:00 - 21:30 3rd June 2018 Total training time: 9½ days Arrived at the field about 18:30 and started setting up with a few other guys. Weather was quite humid and warm around 22C, light wind dropping down to nil wind by 20:00. Plan was to ask Steve to talk me up over the radios and then he'd join me. We had problems with starting the bulldog up as it kept cutting out due to air in the fuel lines, once we had it running sweet, the throttle cable was sticking a little bit. On closer examination it was decided to err on the side of caution and get a new throttle cable and abandon the bulldog for the evening. Steve very kindly offered his beauty to be flown by me and he would talk me up and down. Very generous of him as I know he wanted to fly that evening. At this point I started feeling very nervous, started sweating a lot, probably because I had never been up on my own wing before (a dudek synthesis 31 LT). The wind had completely disappeared at this point so I needed a full-effort launch. After a lot of deliberation, I finally went for the launch and the wing came up great, but something didn't feel right to me, so I bottled it and stopped. When I stopped, the wing stayed above me so it was a perfect launch and I just didn't have the conviction to commit to the launch. Grrr. I was soaked in sweat at this point, so put the motor down, took off the flight suit, drank lots of water and cooled off. 10 mins later I set up again but I didn't have the full conviction and the wing didn't come up above me fully so it was a botched launch. We set up again right away, and this time I gave it everything I had mentally and physically and was determined to not bottle it this time! I needed quite a long run due to the nil wind, but got airborne nicely. I was still feeling pretty anxious on launch but once I was 50m up I felt much better and got comfortable in the seat. My mind was such a mess that I pulled the brakes down after launch a little bit and Steve screamed in my ear "Brakes up! Brakes up! Arms up!" After that, all was good! Launch Just after launch Interesting how, when under stress how my mind does stupid stuff like that. Here's the edited video of the 30 minute flight: I didn't want to come down, but we were getting close to sunset so I had to come in for a landing. Landing was not the best, but I got down without hurting myself, although I did fall over again. As you can see in the video I came in way too low because I haven't worked out in my mind what the glide slope is without power yet. Hopefully next flight I can come in a bit higher without any power, and have better judgement of the glide slope. Final Approach A great evening, and thanks again to Steve for the encouragement to keep going with the launches. Several times I said to him, "I'm not going up tonight", but it was just fear and anxiety, and I got through it and now feel great. To any new or wannabe pilots: get yourself proper training, don't try and do it yourself. There is so much going on mentally and physically that you need a trainer. I have had two flights now and I still need a trainer to guide me up and down for at least the next five to ten flights I would imagine.

I've narrowed it down to either a tow bar shelf or a trailer now. I have a garage I can put the trailer in so it's not a big deal. I will be attaching it to a small car, Ford Fiesta which should be able to pull a paramotor on a box trailer just fine. Doesn't seem to be a huge market for box trailers in the UK that can it a paramotor snugly inside.