The Escola de Voo de Santiago de Cacém would like to warmly invite pilots to join them for a 200 km paramotor trip, the 5th Raid Cercal. Pilots will fly from Sao Domingos to Santo Andre, Portugal, on 3-4 October 2009. A fee of 30 Euros covers hotel accommodation for pilot and one guest, Saturday [...]
The Johan trophy is an award in memory of Belgian paramotor pilot, Johan Bossuyt, who died in a trike accident in 2006. Johan was a very popular and extraordinarily selfless pilot, whose acts of kindness, such as staying up all night fixing a competitor’s motor during a competition so that he could continue the following [...]
The first leg of the 2010 British Paramotor League will take place on the weekend of 12-13 September at Flyschool’s Leisure Lakes site near Southport in Lancashire. The initial briefing will take place on the Friday evening at 9pm with registration open from about 6pm. www.flyschool.co.uk Discuss here
In the United Kingdom, the CAA’s consultation into the definition for a “self propelled hang-glider” has resulted in a proposal from them to the Secretary of State that the maximum fuel capacity limit should be removed, and a single figure for a maximum unladen mass, including full fuel, of 70kg should be the new requirement. [...]
At dawn on the morning of 6 August, a team of British paramotorists crossed the shark-infested straits of Gibralter landing in Ceuta, Morocco, completing the world’s longest solar powered paramotor journey, which started in Monaco 15 days and 2,000 km earlier. The 12 mile crossing was completed in less than half an hour, demonstrating the [...]
Some of paramotoring’s finest pilots are heading to Ireland for a mid-summer safety weekend, August 22-23. Only 40 km from the Irish capital Dublin, the Irish Paramotor Safety Seminar will take place over two days, Saturday and Sunday 22 – 23 August, in Johnstown Bridge, County Kildare. The focus will be on learning from the [...]
UKPPG are holding the East of England PPG Come & Try Weekend on 29 – 31 August at their flying site in March, Cambridgeshire, where pilots can come along for a long weekend of fun and test fly different motors, wings and accessories. Paramotors available for test flights include the Bailey 4 Strokes, Flattop and [...]
The last Lord Stones Fly In of 2009 will on the 12 & 13 September, with a ÂŁ10 registration (which will be donated to the Air Ambulance). Details on www.axbsports.com soon
The first ever ‘Great North Fly-in’, will take place at Eshott Airfield, Northumberland on the weekend of 22 – 23rd August 2009. The event will include Microlights/LAA/Giros and Paramotors. The idea is to get as many flyers of whatever aircraft to attend the event, and to have a lot of fun, especially in the Beer [...]
On 14-18 Aug, the Seawind 2009 Paramotor Festival will be held in Haiyang, a beautiful coastal city near Qingdao. This is the first time a paramotor festival has been held in China (but hopefully it will become an annual event), and the organisers are looking forward to gathering together lots of clubs and pilots. A [...]
