Nathan88

First thing that comes to my mind, attach a heat poof line from HT lead to the frame behind the pilots neck. Reach back and pull removing HT from spark plug. Very cowboy and comes with its own potential other problems but its an idea. Safety measures should be as bare bone minimum as possible so there's less to fail when needed.

There's a phone number for them aswel as email, might be worth a try.

Ciscomotors looks to be a small garage in Italy run by an old fella that most likely is still locked down. I'd say pop them an email and just wait it out.

This is how i imagine it. The more forward speed you generate (head wind) the less of an effect any rotor (side/up/down wind) would play on the wing (i imaging a speed boat cutting through waves, fluid dynamics and all that good stuff ), plus increasing internal air pressure of the wing making it a bit more "solid" yet "flexible" with the reflex wings. there's plenty of other factors that would go into stability of the wing. The rotor acting like mini gusts on multiple areas of the wing, top surface mainly as wings get stability from pilot weight below it, not wind "weight" pushing above it causing poor control or a collapse. The less time spent in that the better. The wing quickly transitioning from one force to another spells trouble. Would i have put my trims out ? I would like to think i would but i bet i would of had to much to think about before thinking "trim adjustment specific to random landing spot with dead zone/rotor". The pilot has had the time and experience to add those little extras on for added safety. Best thing to do when starting out is don't use such areas as bail out zones. You want as little as possible that you have to think about when in these situations. At lest till experience dictates otherwise.

Hello Rupert and welcome.

Option 1. I'd rather have small balls from the cold than have huge balls from riding the worlds highest trackless roller-coaster. UV's hitting 6 here on a cloudless day. Stay safe to those that do decide to fly, I think everyone is feeling anxious to get up but don't rush it, let the rust fall of naturally.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" Albert Camus 1914 - 1960. "Just waiting on those thermals to settle down" Nathan88 1988 - Present.

I'm not saying don't fly. just be aware there is a lot of panicky people around who think they know best about everything. For the next few months i wont be flying in eye shot of any towns.

Common sense would say that flying causes very little risk to our self's and the services we may use. But... the people who write the laws are not best known for common sense. All it takes is one copper with a bit of wellie behind him to see a paramotor and think to himself "i cant catch him to exercise my ego...how do i stop this?" Stay At Home, Save The Flights, Protect The LFS (Licence Free Sport).

There's definatly machines out there and you only get to buy once every few years so best to be safe than sorry. Ask questions to the seller, get as much info as possible. when you have bought one, during your first flights, it gives you peace of mind knowing that the last owner took care of it.

Gents, we've gone totally off topic, i think its time to split.

Im gonna have to think about this next one... don't want to make any snap decisions.

yer i had a look myself. the other thing i noticed, if you look at some of the other stuff hes selling, he dosnt look like someone who would just happen to own a well kept paramotor. looks more like he finds stuff in house clearances. Id stay clear.

Link it if you can dude, will give people an idea on condition and description.

I'm not sure who's joke was funniest. Capotecs or Peters? I'm torn between the two.

WHAT A RIP OFF ! (get it ? coz its fraying... ripping.... its a rip off...) Dad jokes never die.

Yerp, that's not good.

A little pop out speaker over the shoulder playing Rupert Holmes escape. "if you like pina coladas....." Quick call to the wife "sweetheart, need a pick up... no rush though" Life goals.

Thinking from a companies point of view, each air bag would have to be developed specifically for the frame its being mounted to for safety reasons. (imagine if you used one of these and mounted it to some obscure frame that made it fail to deploy, now in the accident report it says the pilot would of survive if the air bag had been designed differently) There's a lot of different set ups out there to cover, that's a lot of development and cost. Even if they said "only to be installed on X and X set ups", they'd be targeting a small bunch of customers in an already small market, plus its only the people in that group that wants one. There's a lot of cost, responsibility and not much profit when it comes to safety devices unfortunately. There isn't any harm in making one yourself if you want that little something extra.

If cost is an issue, you could always repurpose a ski helmet, set of peltors, motorbike bluetooth headset and a pair of ess v12 goggles. That gives you a brand new set up for about £70. I'm a cheap skate and that's what I did.

Well im around 15 to 16 stone (still holding on to that winter weight) and luckily my 110cc still gets me air born. im sure bigger pilots than myself have left the ground happily with the properly selected gear strapped to them. From experience, i manage to get started for £4000. Thats probably the very cheapest you can do it ( training and gear). id be looking at that as a very minimum, anything else is a bonus. Brads a good guy. the way i had to train with him was like one day here, one day there due to work. stay safe dude.

well... that's another topic for a different tread lol

There's a guy call brad in Scunthorpe near you, its who i trained with. Friendly bloke, very knowledgeable, laid back and offers a good price. Here's his site : https://paramotor-ltd.business.site/ once training is done its time to gear yourself up. older gear your looking at- wing = £1000-£2000. motor = £1500-£3000 new gear, wing = £2500+. motor £4000+ after all that the sport becomes a lot cheaper, just fuel really. any questions dude feel free to ask.

Awww see, my only experience of tandem flights is the happy smiling people on YouTube so I'd assume they would be good experiences for the majority of people. I get the 2 up bike comparison, just wouldn't of thought tandems had that same feeling. Everydays a school day. Stay safe.