Terry Owens

Thank you both. Hopefully I get my first lesson tomorrow.

Thanks for that, I wouldn't fly without it either. Is that £140 for foot launch and trike/quad? And also is that the price of insurance from this forum? ie. £30 for VIP member and then £140 insurance? Terry

Hi, How much does insurance cost for paramotoring both foot launch and trike/quad? Do I need to tell my life insurance company (Royal London) I intend flying soon?

Thanks for that.

Does anyone know where I can get some training at reasonable cost near me, Liverpool?

I have just had a call from Adam Fish regarding paramotor training, what an abrupt rude man he is. I said I would like to learn to fly and he immediately said it would cost me £10,000 and he wasn't interested in anything else. Incredulously I said 'What just to learn to fly'? He then replied with the motor cost £5,500, I interrupted with I have my own paramotor and wing - I was just short of a few things like flying suit and emergency parachute. He then said he wasn't interested in teaching people to fly he just wanted to sell them the whole kit. So if you should come across his website https://paramotorlessons.co.uk/ have a laugh and move on.

On the weekend I traveled to collect a paramotor and in passing it was said, at the airfield, they look forward to seeing me again but when I learned to fly I cannot land or take off from the field unless I had BHPA training. This closed shop mentality really gets up my nose and is the reason I left the Microlight Association some 25 years ago, and at leased they had some legitimacy in law - and did they ever milk it. The agrument went 'why aren't the officials and board members pursuing, on behalf of their membership, the same rights to fly as people enjoy in the States'. After all the assembled officials learned to fly without oppressive regulation in the 70's yet by the late 80's those same people had formed a closed shop and were feathering their nests by charging £50/hour to teach PPL 'D' pilots to fly. Needless to say I didn't get an answer and was asked to leave, so I never did learn to fly. By the 90's I discovered paramotoring and enthusiastically went next door to discuss the possibilty with my neighbour, who piloted a hang glider most weekends. He immediately poo poo'ed the idea as far too dangerous even for a 'Suicide Sam' like me, I used to ride motorbikes quickly, because the wing was apt to collapse often and without warning. I have to announce that last statement may have been true at the start of the sport but was in no way true now, if it was ever true, the fatalities would be so high that the CCA would have taken control a long time ago. It is now 2021 and I am probably well passed my use by date at 66 but it is something I have wanted to do since I was 5 years old or earlier. So now I am looking for someone to teach me to fly in the Liverpool area (I know I can't fly over Liverpool as it is controlled airspace and a built up area) and to explain a few things like the starting sentence in this post for one. Terry

I should quailify my statement: The above would be entirely correct but there is a grey area if you set yourself up as a professional teacher as opposed to someone that is giving flying lessons. Just because you can obtain insurance does not make you a professional teacher, ie. You need insurance to teach someone to drive but that does not make you a professional driving instructor. There is also a grey area regarding payment for lessons but that is another arguement.

Your solicitor is quite correct where the person you teach is of sound mind and of age to make their (note the correct spelling of the word) own decisions.