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Posted on February 29, 2012 in Glenn Tupper   

With a little help from my friends

They say this is God’s Country. The Colorado landscape is breathtaking, I think God spent a little more time crafting here and it shows. Recently I was sent here for work but spent some time with some of the local pilots. It’s an amazing thing when someone you barely know entrusts you with one of their most prized possessions; their paramotor. That says a lot for what a great sport we take partake in, the kindness and consideration that we all share, the desire to see all of our fellow aviators take to the air. Mike Bennett and Alex Donaghy were kind enough to lend me their engines and it was almost as if their joy came from seeing me, a lone pilot so far away from home with no wings to get into the air. They, like so many others, know what it means for all of us to leave the ground and I can’t thank them and all the pilots from Denver, the FRF Paramotor Squadron and the boys from Pikes Peak PPG Club enough for taking me in and showing me once again the amazing camaraderie this sport has to offer. Blue Skies my friends!

Posted on February 27, 2012 in Phil Jennings   

Holy Smoke! Testing Some New Modifications

With a high pressure forecast, the weekend was looking good for flying. I had made a number of modifications to my Volution Custom Top80 and was eager to get testing as well as needing to get some competition practice in. The least important of my mods, but most exciting, was my new smoke sytem that I had just made and fitted. It seemed to work well and after pulling a few spirals you could see a lovely twist of dense white smoke in the air that followed my every move. I grabbed a few stills with the GoPro mounted on a new frame mount that I had made. This is fixed onto the top of cage section and allows forward or rear pictures and video, although I found it to be unsuitable for reverse launching as it catches the lines.

Posted on February 13, 2012 in Kester Haynes   

A Flying Visit, Old School Style!

What an awesome weekend. Took a flying visit back to my home town on Exmoor and got the chance to do some tandem flying with some old school friends, taking them up over our old stomping ground. It was really great to give them a unique and different perspective of somewhere so familiar, and to share that experience. With some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK, we were able to switch off the engine and ridge-soar with the Kestrals. Brilliant! I love to fly over new and exciting places but I find that I never loose interest flying over this area that we all know so well. I think my friends and I have pretty much explored every aspect and used so many different forms of transport; from bicycles to off road motorbike, to horses and just walking. However, seeing these places from the air adds another dimension.

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