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I dare say they have heard it all before, G-OBBLE, G-ONNACRASH, G-WIZ etc. May be a fun compo to come up with better ideas than mine

Surely some mistake ?

That is probably the most understated remark you have ever made. 'Douchebag who would keep a hundred psychiatrists employed for many years' would be most other peoples reaction

Paramotor Engine Store, Jln.Asia Afrika No.288A Bandung, 40261 Indonesia Try and find and find a satisfied customer, I doubt you will. Skyads.aero had a spate a while back of extremely cheap motors, all originating in Indonesia, probably the same people.

Its not a Sky Cima K2 so according to a famous American instructor its a 'deathtrap'

I know this (I have followed threads) but couldn't resist the joke

Would love to join you at your flying field but you are selfish bastard and wont tell anyone where it is

Yes you ARE bored, the only answer to both questions is YES

After 11 years I would imagine it has been sold.........

Its Dell Schanzes long lost cousin

The Mipfly is in essence a Linux computer with all the advantages and disadvantages of Open Source. I am not sure where you get the idea that a random phone could 'effortlessly emulate' a device that is built for a specific purpose with sensors chosen for that purpose.Emulating is worthless without accurate sensor input and most phones dont have accurate enough sensors, why would they ?

This topic has drifted so far from the original (2 years ago) that its almost worthless. https://www.mipfly.com Had a look at this last year at Parafest and was impressed by the clarity of the screen and the abilty to customise. Its primarily a PG instrument but very useful for PPG

I suspect he is referring to people who take a tandem flight first, I know quite a few people who have seen PG/PPG flying and thought they would like to try it only to decide its not for them after a tandem flight.

A couple of hours south of you is Airways Airsports who have a very professional set up and good rep https://airways-airsports.com/

Body mounted leaf blower ? Tell it like it is ! External turbo charger for the car

My local club has closed all (primarily PG) sites. Below is the statementy justifying this. Have to say I agree with them Covid-19 Response from the Pennine Soaring Club Committee Considering the escalating seriousness of the current Pandemic, requests from Mountain Rescue Teams, advice from the Police and authorities, the Committee feels it is inappropriate to continue free-flight activities from our sites. The reasons for this decision include: • any additional stress on the health system and emergency services currently is irresponsible; • paragliding is a highly visible activity and while all are being urged to avoid all unnecessary travel and contact, flying anywhere would cause a very bad perception our sport to the general public, authorities and landowners. Despite paragliding being an appropriately socially-distant activity, the travelling, fuelling, chatting and socialising are not, so to protect the future access to our sites we are closing all sites within our control with immediate effect, and urge all members to respect the spirit of this decision by putting away their equipment and avoiding the temptation to fly anywhere. We will constantly monitor the situation – rest assured the committee contains some of the most active and regular fliers in the club, so we don’t want to stop flying for any longer than necessary. However, the alternative of having the activity being banned from above may result in permanent loss of access. Please remember: flaunting this suspension could lose us (you) our sites. Please also draw attention to this to any of your mates who may not be members, no-one will distinguish between members and non-members.

Any chance of a photo? This sounds imteresting.

' This funnel cloud never made contact with the ground and therefore could not be classified as a tornado ' As soon as I saw the word tornado mentioned I packed up and went home

I did a conversion course with Simon at SkyHighPPG and used a Top80(miniplane) with a 26m Gin wing. I was happy enough that I bought a second hand PAP Top80 (from Cas on here) and bought a Roadster 3 to go with it. Not a speed demon set up but it suits my 90kg 63 year old body. Maybe I will look into something a little larger eventually but the biggest plus for the Top80 for me is that there is a wealth of knowledge out there about the motor, most issues have been resolved and parts are (relatively) cheap. OK its the VW Beetle of paramotoring but like the Beetle it gets you from A to B cheaply and reliably

You dont say which ones you bought, I bought the Sky GTX (cheaper and, more importantly, lighter) The size 9 fitted from the word go, almost as comfortable as my go to Salomans.

Not sure where you trained but Big Ears was a part of my training and is a relatively simple method of losing height (as opposed to B-stalls) Did you do asymetric stalls ? Its another fairly straightforward excercise that gives you confidence in your wings desire to fly

Free lift, gotta love it

Sadly FB is more insidious than that. Even with a fake name they will track your activity across the net even after you have closed down the FB page and will build a profile. Hell, they got into trouble for tracking non FB users !

Hate to burst your bubble Paul but whatsapp is owned by FB. I have the same problem, I avoid FB like the plague but find that everyone insists on using FB/whatsapp which to me is unaceptable, guess I will remain the Billy No-mates until everyone sees sense and switches to Telegram or Signal

You might be better off posting that question on Reddit (r/paramotor) as this is a mostly UK forum https://www.reddit.com/r/paramotor