Paramania are hosting a safety and advanced flying weekend at their new base at Thouars Airfield in Northern France during the weekend of the 26th to 28th of October. “Now that paramotoring is definately getting bigger and more people are taking to the skies”, said the company’s Pascal Campbell-Jones, “we decided to create a yearly event, where several of the sports key people are invited to share their experience, to help us all progress safely whilst improving our flying skills.”

The weekend will see a number of talks and demonstrations from some of the sports most talented stars as well as the chance to improve your own flying skills. Bunk room and camping facilities will be available on site and there is plenty of local accomodation available. Reserve your place at www.flyparamania.com.

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The first Gourmet PPG DVD was a huge success, showcasing the amazing freedom and beauty of cross country paramotoring. But what if there were no roads for your chase van to follow, only endless sand and water? Get a chase yacht of course! Join the Gourmet Team once again and experience the majesty of Magdalena Bay, a new documentary from Lite Touch Films.

This Gourmet trip was special. The flying was outstanding, covering some of the most remote stretches of the North American coastline, where no paramotor has ever flown before. The team also pioneered a secret paragliding beach, a free flight paradise with magical lift. One pilot, who had never flown motorless, soared for hours on his very first paragliding flight! But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Harsh reality struck several times, twisting this Gourmet exploit into potluck PPG. Enjoy the ride, and show your friends and family once again why you are so insanely addicted to this fantastic form of flight.

Scheduled release December 1st, 2007, the DVD will be available through www.xcshop.com and all good dealers.

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After verifying an increase of the temperature in the motors which work under a full power, and believing opportune to communicate it to its consumers, we invite you to make small modifications to improve the yield and the reliability.
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INVITATION TO THE FILM PREMIER OF FARANG KINOK

Indasky Productions and Paramotor Magazine would like to invite you to the premier of Farang Kinok, a film by Sophie Guibal.

Filmed in Thailand, Farang Kinok follows ex-world champion Mathieu Rouanet as he flies through the country, meeting Pascal Campbell-Jones and Julius Gee on the way. Described by the director as an ‘off the cuff human adventure through a land of smiles and beauty’, Farang Kinok uses hi-tech onboard footage to create a stunning film that takes paramotor adventures to another dimension

Along with ‘Kimchi Session’, which will be shown during the Coupe-Icare Film Festival, the movie will be part of a new collection of films to be released on DVD.

The premier showing will take place on the Cross Country and Paramotor Magazine stand at the Coupe Icare(K13) at 6:30pm on Friday (21/09/07) evening. We will be serving drinks and hope you can join us.

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A veritable confectionary store of eye-candy! 24 sucullent images of paragliding, hang gliding and paramotoring by the best photographers in the world.

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Ramon Morillas’ world record for distance on a paramotor has been broken in Mexico by Fernando Iriarte. Fernando took off at 7.15 in the morning from Puerto Vallata, Jalisco and headed in a northerly direction with favourable winds. By one in the afternoon he had flown over 500km and was on target to gain the record. He eventually touched down at 9:08pm in the Bay of Kino, Sonoro after flying for thirteen hours and 53 minutes and having covered 1,144 km beating the previous record of 1,106 km. The flight details will be sent to the FAI for ratification.

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After one week of competition and eight tasks the Paramotoring World Championships are over. Ramon Morillas was crowned champion for the third time after all the protests and counter protests had finally been resolved. Former champion Mathieu Rouanet took second place in the single foot launch ahead of the UK’s Michel Carnet.

In the single trikes Daniel Crespo managed to hold onto his lead to take the gold medal ahead of Tomasz Kudaszewcz (POL) and Michaela Machartova (CZ).

In the tandem classes Spain’s Nino Muelas and Antonio Lope took first place in the trike discipline. Winners of the foot launch discipline were Jurgis and Arturas Smarlovskis from Lithuania.

In the team competitions France won the foot launch competition ahead of Great Britain and Spain. In the trike category it was Spain that took the top spot ahead of the Czech Republic and Poland.

At the final party all the protests and team rivalries were quickly forgotten as the awards were handed out and the partying started. Michaela Machartova and Jansy Kelly were awarded special diplomas for being the first women to win a task in a Microlight World Championship in their discipline. The pilots are now recovering with some sight seeing in Beijing before making the long journey home.

We will have a full report on the world championships in Issue 3 of Paramotor Magazine due out in October.

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It looks like the last task of the worlds has been cancelled, apparently due to the proposed navigation task with estimations of speed not being in the locally declared list of tasks. This leaves Ramon Morillas in the top spot followed by Mathieu Rouanet, but with several protests still being heard we won’t know the true winner until the official results are posted tomorrow.

The last speed triangle task turned out to be a good one for the UK team with their pilots Paul Bailey and Dave Hairs taking the top spots ahead of Canadian Dave Sigier. The top three in the overall standings finished fourth, fifth and sixth all keeping the pressure on. In the single trikes class it was a task for the girls to shine. UK’s Jansy Kelly took the lion’s share of the points, followed by Michaela Machartova and the Chinese pilot Gao Desong. The overall leader Daniel Crespo’s lead was reduced after he landed out losing all the points for the out and return section of the task.

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Jason Killian took-off from the west coast near Ballyshannon, County Donegal around 12:15pm on the 5th September and landed near Blackrock, County Louth two and a half hours later and in so doing made the first crossing by paramotor of Ireland. Low cloud, turbulence and rain plagued the first part of the flight, but once Jason was out of the mountains and into the flatlands the flight went well and without incident. Flying with a Bailey 4-stroke with a standard fuel tank and a Dudek Reaction TST wing and making use of a tail wind gave Jason good fuel consumption, in fact he landed with nearly half a tank of fuel still remaining. The total distance was approximately 140km, the GPS trace will be available soon.

Reporting Dara Hogan

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The UK’s Laura Baumont, flying in only her second competition and one of only three female pilots taking part has won the 7th task of the worlds. Laura took first place the contract navigation task, where pilots have to declare the turnpoints they will use and then fly the course, ahead of fellow UK pilot Dave Hairs. There were no changes at the top of the overall scoreboard with Ramon still holding onto his lead. Laura and Dave’s high scores have helped the British team move into second behind France with the Spanish team now in third.

In the trike class Daniel Crespo is still in the overall lead with task winner Poland’s Tomasz Kudaszewicz moving into second ahead of Michaela Machartova who appears to have had a bad task.

Today the pilots have been enjoying some flying over the Great Wall of China, the highlight of the trip for many. They are now back at the field ready for the next task, which is due to be a speed triangle task with limited fuel.

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