alan

TELLING ME IT WAS YOU !!

Shit I wont grass on the others then and take it like a man I will however turn up with only an inflatable doll a sleeping bag and a hot water bottle surely you could not do too much with that and play your cards right and I might let you have sloppy seconds on Hot Cherry

Thank you to all that attended I know some of you had very long journeys Pete B , Simon W , Rigger and Shamoo Stickeygrape The Geordie,Dave W,Andy L, Pete D, Tim W , Gary R, Paul K,Gary R.

Together with our club members we hopefully made new friends and shared in our passion for our sport.

With your help we managed to raise £180 for our Hosts the Hull Aero Club which will go towards that bloody awful road in,which should be addressed next month.

Ps sorry about gaffer taping your doors up Simon it just seemed like a good thing to do at the time and it is a good way of testing the quality of the paint job lol

Alan, Hull Aero Club member

Ps we will be having another one before the years out

Bummer that's typical otherwise I would have come.

Cheers Sticky it will be great to see you again will you have your new motor with you?

It's Parafly.co.uk if you put .com in it goes to the Spanish one cheers Alan.

Just downloading it now this could be really useful although sirri does have problems with my accent

well said Simon and Alan I too do not know why all swing arms are not solid although you would not expect that to happen under normal use.

Hello Hemburg,

I fly my Fusion off the cliffs near where i live and it flies fine there is no noticeable difference with my mates nova mentor but as yet i have not managed to thermal it but i hope to do so this year.

The lad i go soaring with who owns the nova mentor also has a Fusion and he has thermalled with his and said it was fine but not as good as his Nova which is understandable. Here is a link to me freeflying it off the cliffs

http://www.parafly.co.uk/showthread.php ... -Mappleton

Looks spot on macey

Hello Pete,

I fly a Fusion 29 that has a maximum weight of 160kg i weigh 97kg naked add the clothing reserve instruments etc it will take me to 110kgs easily, the wing weighs 9kg and the Flymecc weighs 25kg empty.

This puts me at 144kgs with no fuel or oil add on 12 litres of mix and i will be around the 153kgs at take off.

Even without the fuel i am over the size of the 26 Fusion and i frequently free fly the wing at around 120 kg, the specified freeflying weight is 105kg.

You have met me before at your flyin i was flying the blue Parajet and fusion wing and i came in my camper van at the Forrest of Dean i think, so you can put a face to the poster.

All in all pete i dont think i am flying light on my wing cheers Alan.

cheers Alan.

Clive and Pete b,

First of all thanks for your reply Clive, Pete b Clive states that it struggled for want of a better word with a pilot of 95kg now Clive does say he had the sky engine not the Paramotor so i don't know what set up he had when he was testing the engines and also Pete I have not stated anything about the bulldog as I have never flown one, the only Bulldog that I have seen is Paul Kilburns and he must weigh 9 stone sopping wet.

But back to your point does it struggle with climb rate or on the speedbar neither of you know that because neither of you have flown an actual Flymecc Carbon or have you?

With out sounding arsey when the original poster put this thread on he asked for opinions and facts re read what I have written I did not tell him to buy a Flymecc or a Bulldog I just gave facts regarding my machine, so when I saw Clives comments regarding his experience with an engine I had to comment.

All debate is good debate, so to recap for the poster these are the facts regarding the Flymecc ; I weigh all up 110kgs I have flown this year just over 100 hours on my machine at heights up to 6500' I fly with the two piece carbon prop and my machine does not struggle although it has not got the climb rate of my previous machine a Parajet Macro

Ourcast your reply is of course a true one based on Andy’s original question.

I loved the idea of a water-cooled engine and have had two sky 100 engines for test, as I was considering putting it into our Bulldog. Sadly they didn’t have the claimed power and would only just fly me, where as the Polini was a different story. This is based on pilot weight of 95-100kg flying modern reflex wings.

Apart from the above I actually like the idea of the Paramotor design, but wouldn't consider it a machine that will take any abuse with regards to structural strength. I've been to the factory and meet with Enreco who is a talented man when it comes to CNC and getting things to production.

But to answer the original question. I would say the Bulldog is far stronger in frame design. Possibly easer and cheaper to repair if needed. More novel pilot friendly useful ideas.

I will hope to post a series of short videos later today showing some of the ideas in more detail.

No doubt other Bulldog Spirit owners will share the views as well.

Hello Skybound i have no doubt that the bulldog frame is more rigid than the Flymecc carbon frame but your claim that they will not fly or have not got the power to fly a 100kg person on a reflex wing is wrong.

The chap i bought my paramotor from went over to Flymeccs factory to test fly one and became the UK dealer my main concern about giving up my Parajet was will the Flymecc be powerful enough.

He weighs in excess of 100kgs naked and brought back a video of him flying it on a Dudek reaction i think if you go on youtube the video is on there.

I weigh 97kg naked couple that with my flying gear a large reserve and a Fusion wing i will be at 110kg easily.

here is a video of me flying the Flymecc cheers Alan.

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I am rubbish at getting the video to work sorry heres the link

Spot on Mike i try to freefly my fusion as often as possible.

Hi Alan

I am just about to sell my V3.. I have a V5 on order. There is a guy at our field (Kev) he is getting 2.5LTR's per hour on a synth!!!! I get 2.5 from my fusion on full trims and around 3ltr's on full bar. I am in the middle/top end of my 26 fusion and will go down on full bar @ about 100/200fpm.

I am thinking about a 28 speedster i hope to be getting low 2's with that and go up on full bar and full throttle.

Your more than welcome to come down to hambrook and fly my Bailey when ever you like...

Cheers for that Morgy

Are you a dealer for fly mecc markco????? every post you put up is the same

You sound like me with Baileys....

Why not look at the V5

Hello morgy,

I had the v5 on my back yesterday really light and felt great what sort of fuel burn rate do you get I get 3 hours on 12 litres on average with my Flymecc, Paul Bailey was saying 2.5 litres as an average going as low as 2.

As most of my flights are 60 to 80 miles long and up to 3 hours long that sort of fuel burn rate would be great.

Endurance and reliability are a prerequisite for me and it would have to be something along the lines of the v5 to make me consider parting with my lovely Flymecc.

I hope to get down to some of the down south fly inns next year so I would be interested in how you are getting on with your V5 and you can check out my super little Flymecc cheers Alan.

Hello all,

I don't know anything about the Bulldog so I can only comment on my Flymecc which has proved itself to be ultra reliable.

As I have previosly said my last motor was a Parajet macro which I was also very impressed with but between the two I replaced a few parts on the Macro costing a fair few pounds where as the Flymecc has had nothing but the service parts spent on it a radiator on warranty and a split hose getting the old one off.

All in all the Flymecc has now flown more hours than the Parajet and apart from the hose and service bits it has cost me nothing.

In summary the Flymecc is an outstanding Paramotor and I can not wait to test fly the 200cc version. Ps test fly them it's the best way to decide

Don't worry simon if there are not many takers for the fly in and being a Yorkshire man , to save some money I can pop down to the local whippet rescue Center and pick up a few free sheep look a likes ( well skinned anyway) lol

Yes count me in i have not seen you southern softies for a while and i dont mind ruffing it on a freezing cold night round a warm camp fire with my rum (and then retiring to my centrally heated camper van every girl loves her accessories he he).

What a bummer Mark there was a chap on here a year or so ago that had a similar problem after only a short time in the air this was put down to the piston wearing and an upgrade one being brought out but if this is Leigh's machine it should have had this already.

You need to sell him one of your lovely Flymecc machines at least he would have years of trouble free flying but that does not soften the blow of buying things twice.

I would like to point out that when purchasing a paramotor it is a good idea if you are asking around about machines how many hours they fly a year, as all to often the pilot might only fly a few hours a year and his motor is fantastic I have put the equivalent of 3 to 4 years on mine this year and all but a weep on a radiator it has been bullet proof, and I fly a Flymecc a very underrated machine in my opinion.

Top motor, top backup (service parts for my 50 hours and than 100 hours) and a top bloke to deal with thrown in, yours one happy Flymecc owner Alan.

I forgot about this post but i can give you an update on the machine.

I have clocked just over 100 hours on the flymecc since i bought it last December, in this time only two items have had to be replaced the first was the radiator that developed a very small leak almost negligible but this was replaced under warranty no hassle.

Whilst replacing the radiator i split the bottom hose getting it off as they are sealed on so a new hose was required.

I have only landed it heavily once in all this time when cramp struck just as my legs where about to touch the ground but there was no damage to the machine.

My flying buddy also flys one and his has over 80 hours on the clock and apart from 1 silent block on the radiator splitting and a cage arm end breaking which was both replaced under warranty (and bearing in mind there is a two year warranty on the machines ) i dont think this is bad at all.

When you consider that a lot of pilots will probably fly less than 25 hours a year our machines have flown the equivalent of 3 to 4 years worth already.

Like morgy says getting parts can be slower because the manufacturer is in Italy but not a lot has gone wrong.

The motors start like they did from new and on 12 litres of fuel flying a Fusion 29 wing i can stay in the air for 3 hours and i weigh 95kg.

I am very impressed with the machine its very light on your back i love the way it splits down and the harness is very comfortable i did buy the two blade propeller which i prefer as the climb rate is better in my opinion, cheers Alan.

Very good Gary and good luck in the semis

I can only comment on the first Macro and i was 100% happy with my motor.

I have since sold the machine to a friend and he is also extremely happy with his purchase.

In my opinion you would be hard pressed to get a better machine and customer service from any other manufacturer.

Jim and co at Parajet get 5 stars from me, cheers Alan.

The above have been listed in the classifieds cheers Alan.

Iye that was close, held his nerve, there must have been a moment of doubt though what an adrenaline rush i wonder what the life expectancy is doing this all the time.

An ideal flying site or what!!!!

Cheers Gordon and yes we must have one of the best sites 365 days a year if only the weather would play ball and when you fly in winter and your very cold a centrally heated clubhouse with tea and food making facilities we love it (not to mention the bar).