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have seen both fly, went for a ride in a trike instead(weight shift aircraft)...bought the trike. i was not crazy of the powered parachute...has to run full throttle all the time, and much more subjective to thermals. the trike has an 11 to 1 glide ratio, and can be equiped with an emergency reserve parachute (ballistic, BRC)


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Yes, sir, what would you like to know?


(I'm the the French Alps at the moment... just flew 50km on my PG - should have some great picture3s to share soon...)


Regards,

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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As posted back in January, Alysse and I both did tandem paraglides over the beach in Rio de Janeiro Brasil.

I stayed in the air over 40 minutes at sunset, what a great view! But it was a little boring just hanging out there. Alysse wanted more emotion and they played with toggles and did spirals etc and her ride was over much quicker.

Those guys stay in the air as much as FOUR hours and can put on the distance traveling too.

There are many PG (called parapente in Brasil) and hangglider ramps in the mountains of Rio and Sao Paulo states.

there are a couple great canopy flying websites that talk about paragliding...here's one:

http://www.daedaluscanopies.com/glhistory.htm
marc

"The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton

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That's not the speedbar.

That's just the footrest. The speedbar is more like a bar...it doesn't flex much.

Toshi

EDIT: duh, just looked at mine.

The lower first bar of the speedbar is flexy, so that's probably what he's stepping on.

Toshi

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My friend and I teach powered paragliding. We fly right from the dropzone. Since the weather's better for powered paragliding early, we usually swoop the pond before any jumpers. After we're done flying, we head over to the dz and jump the rest of the day. Best of both worlds!

our website is Whitehawk PPG
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out and shouting,
".... holy crap....what a ride!"

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