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Looks superb, I'll have to do this one!

I was there and can also say it's a great site to fly from and very quiet in the air when we've been there. you can paramotor from the landing field too.

I have your wind sock.

I'm going Friday or possibly Thurs night.

I'm in

sounds good.

Carlton could be on for Tuesday too

Anybody fancy a bimble somewhere if the weather permits?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdx7Y-NASOE&feature=c4-overview&list=UU4QG0XNiTVAUKyMALZr1Z8A This is my video from France in September this year. As you can see from Annecy there wasn't much flying as we had torrential rain for 5 days. There is a good stall right near the end (which wasn't m...

bill-scott wrote:great vid thought that last spiral was going to end with a splash

That wasn't me. He said it locked in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdx7Y-NA ... e=youtu.be

Please ignore the editing as I lost the file and had to go back to the old footage which still needed edited

bill-scott wrote:was that the field behind the supermarket

yes

There's me on the Buzz z3

Hello again :) Just thought I'd say hello after seeing you guys at the last meeting. I'm the paramotor pilot from Consett, and have been flying paramotors for almost 6 years now. I've dabbled with paragliding in Annecy, Signal Du Bissiant, St Hilaire, Laragne, Ager in Spain and Olu Deniz in Turkey a...

Looks like I'm the only one here at 7.09 

Hello Louis, good to hear from you and sounds like you were very lucky to survive your accident., I am interested to know did you self taught to fly paragliders then powered paragliders and where you were training ? PG & PPG both have there inherant dangers except there is more to go wrong with...

no your right about the ppg being safer in general, as like you say the theory is you are flying in smooth conditions. its good to see that even though have had a bad accident your just getting back on the horse. there is not a better sport than free flying no a more frustrating one, but its worth ...

sounds like a bad bike accident but after flying both paragliders and paramotors i would like to be very current on a paraglider before i got on a paramotor. problem one the weight as with your injuries i would think it would be a lot of strain if you have bad tecnique or landings. your accident mu...

ken waterson wrote:hi louis ride bikes myself nasty one
just up road from you at howdon hope to see you at meeting
if wanting lift let me no

I should be ok if i get finished work on time. Or i could be turning up in my work gear.

Hello form sunny North shields. Been lurking on here for about six months now and decided to introduce myself. I'm in my earlish 30's and have been slowly learning to fly paramotors over the last 2 and a half years. Have several flights under my wings (no pun intended) and have decided that i want t...