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Free postage but you will have to pay for your own box and hole to put it in. Some brightspark will try it with out the training = Darwin award

[Edited on 11-10-04 by mangogrooveworkshop]

LOCOST FLYING OR WHAT

Strange how they don't include a coffin

Yer bunch o' Jessies!

If it was quarter the price I'd give it a go!

James

You bunch of lightweights - how difficult can it be

It is a big parachute! When people fall out of planes and stuff they float when atatched to a parachute - safe as houses.

Flying around already attatched to a big floaty parachute thingy has got to be one step safer than one of those big new fangled metal aeroplanes - everybody knows that if you fall out of the sky attatched to a big lump of metal you are definately not going to float.

Basic phisics - thats all.



Phil

A bloke I used to work with had a great philosophy on this kind of thing including climbing ladders. His motto was "I'll go as high as you like as long as I can keep one foot on the floor" .

It would be funnier if he was an amputee.

I'd love to do paramotoring. Locost paramotor anyone? I'm sure we can knock one up without too much bother.

It's actually quite fun, I was taken for a ride in one a few years ago, not fast, but it does fly, and it doesnt need a runway more than 25ft or a pilots license, or FAA approval.

Why? My mate Kev has a false leg and he can still climb a ladder. His new leg is carbon fibre, flash or what?

"It is a big parachute! When people fall out of planes and stuff they"

When I was in France microlighting in '99, there was a guy at the same school was taking up (flexwing as opposed to 3 axis) microlighting and he'd been paramotoring when the canopy folded at about 100 - 200 feet.

He was a bit sore, but decided to give it a rest!

"and it doesnt need a runway more than 25ft or a pilots license, or FAA approval"

In the UK you need a minimum of (IIRC) 4hours tuition and a few exams.

Also, having watched them taking off from the field behind work - you definitely need more than 25ft! Yoy may get off the ground in 25ft, but you'll only be 25ft of the ground in 250ft!!!

ATB

Simon

I do a spot a paragliding and living near lincolnshire could do with a paramotor.
Its classed as a foot launched aircraft and is completely unregulated.
That said anyone attempting it without tuition will bury themselves face first into the ground on first attempt of a launch and once they realise you have to run bolt upright they will find themselves running around in cicles cos of the prop torque....
Very funny to watch

John

Now we know what causes them, it's self taught paragliders not alien spacecraft.

Contender for the Darwin award!!