Paramotoring - Flight 9 - Beautiful Bath (UK), a perfect flight!
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- We headed off over Bath again but this time to explore the countryside on a longer flight, just under 1hr. We hit thermals which were great (not everyone likes the bumps, but I love them!), travelled through a valley, encountered a grounded hot-air balloon as well as one flying, horses, felled trees and lots of people waving to us from the ground!
An incredible flight, loved it!
Wonderful!!;
Awesome flight. I love flying near hot air balloons and almost always the passengers get a kick out of seeing me right next to them at altitude.
Thanks +PPGFlyr, it was such a good flight and a great place to fly! I'm not sure that the balloon was supposed to have landed where it did, therefore I think that the passengers were glad to see some entertainment :)
Looks amazing what are the laws on paramotoring in the UK, are they strict?
Its amazing!! Basically you've got to abide by CAA regulations on airspace, besides that you just need permission from the land-owner to use their land to take off!
can you take off at public areas like large parks or so?
dLoLe yes you can I'm pretty sure
Sergeant do you have to have yraining to fly a paramotor e.g. safety and emergency situation stuff
I personally learnt to paraglide first, starting with a 1-day experience day in Wales (Axis Paragliding), loved it and then bought a wing which I then spent 2-3 months with learning how to control in a large field, just on the ground. Once I was comfortable with the wing, I then bought the motor (Parajet Volution Mk2) and took my first flight, loved it!
Is that a reserve shoot on your front?
+Finnan Lane yes, its an Ozone Angel 140kg in an Evo Independence container with velcro upper section for my instruments etc, why do you ask?
Is it an expensive sport, once you have bought the kit? Is training expensive? Thanks
To be honest, once you own all of the kit, it isn't an expensive sport/hobby at all, go for it!!
how does one go about getting set up and insured/certified for this in the uk?
Getting setup is really about finding a decent instructor that is BHPA approved, also look into beginners wings which are suitable, when I learnt I narrowed the choices down to the Ozone Roadster 2 (my current wing, love it), the Apco Lift and the Revo 3.
If you join the BHPA and have qualifications with them, they'll insure your flights although there are many implications around whether they'll cover you - it is rare that you would ever cause damage to the property of someone else, it is unfortunately only yourself that you'd probably injure :) there are other third parties that can cover you as well.
Is it true there are no legal requirements towards getting into paramotoring? Read somewhere that it needs no license or anything. Don't know if that's true or not.
Precisely, there is of course aviation law which you must obide by, but for the actual sport/hobby itself no formal license nor qualification is required BUT I highly recommend that you seek training, you can do some serious damage here, even just training in a field on your own can cause serious damage to your head if a gust of wind drags you.
sergeant is right on this part i would get a paramotor and look into training as i live in England but i dont have the money for it
hem iraapn it's not a public field but the owners have been spoken with in the past and they seem cool with it - we cause no damage nor harm.
hem iraapn as for training, give Axis Paragliding a call in Wales, just over the bridge, speak to Steve and say that Ash referred you!
hem iraapn haha, perhaps! Give it a try!