How To Fly A Paramotor!

and then I grab this line real steep like that and it's like one two three and then we're doing a sack or going around backwards and I'm like so this is Jake our Memorial Airport we're here because if you've been following along we have a two-week TFR presidential temporary flight restriction back at home we are gonna do something a little different I've noticed like a lot of comments of people that are new to the channel new to paramotors and basically know absolutely nothing about paramotors so I want to go kind of like back to basics and talk about how to control a paramotor I've said a lot of times in the past that I don't ever want to teach like how to fly in a video but these concepts are so basic that I'm not afraid of anyone like using them to go out and train themselves rather than getting formal training which is highly recommended yeah I just want to kind of talk about some of the basic stuff and then a little bit more advanced of control methods and 2d steering because a lot of people have asked about that recently I'll explain that when we get in the air we've got about half an hour there's thunderstorms in the area so we're gonna keep an eye on those also what you got there champ Greenpeace snack crisps by harvest snap slightly salted sounds like some rabbit food to me okay first lesson and kind of control paramotor this is very very basic by the way don't take any of this as like oh it looks easy this is just a whole lot more to it I'm just gonna explain it in very basic terms so in my hands here I've got to break toggles between my index and middle fingers I've got the A's which are the front of the wing around my thumbs and then in this hand I have my throttle which is my ring and monkey finger for power all right so I'm gonna run forward I'm gonna pull light pressure on the A's while pulling the wing up mostly with my body run run run get the wing up add the power get on the break and as I come off the ground I pull a little bit of brake pressure basically to get myself lift alright that was the quick and dirty how to launch a paramotor don't go try it at home because it won't work like that all right go poll is being positioned I got to avoid these trees all right so it dawned on me I've never made a video this basic but I've started to realize just looking at people's comments that there are quite a number of people watching the videos currently that don't know like anything about paramotors so this is paramotor basics on how to control your paramotor in the air like I said I'll reinforce the enough idea get formal training if you're going to get into the sport it's not worth risking trying to do it yourself there's just way too much to it to try to learn all on your own in my opinion so let's start out basic at my left hand I've got my handy throttle they have different ones different hand grips and everything but basically throttle is up and down some people think that you have to pull on your brakes to go up and down but really that's only momentary up and down your real climate descent is controlled by your throttle so I've got a bunch of trees in front of me I want to get some altitude just in case my motor dies I'm just gonna squeeze my throttle nice and smooth power increases and I start going up that's all there is to that now look easy over here I've got a nice open field I want to come down and play in it roll off a throttle nice and easy and I start gliding down then a nice comfortable angle and then somewhere in the middle is cruise power super simple there's going for it alright so up next we have the break toggles you can see those here they're stowed on a magnet and very simply if that's a word simply yeah as an orange juice if you pull right you go right if you pull after you go left the way it works is it makes drag on the wing and slows that side down essentially so very simple to do if I want to go right because there's high tension lines in front of me and I don't want to get zapped and die I'll just pull on the right one just a little bit and it'll make a nice turn same thing if I want to swing left pull left but here's where it gets a little tiny bit more complicated we also have weight shift and weight shift kind of sounds self-explanatory and shifting your weight in the harness the way the suspension system works is your glider is clipped into this arm over here and this arm is fitted throughout the harness and then the whole motor and frame basically hangs off the back of this arm so what that means is this harness moves it articulates left and right to do a proper you would kind of get your weight up top close to this riser and then shift your weight in the harness onto your right leg now my center of gravity is shifted to the right and in the sea I'm actually tilting the sea port to the right and you can see we're carving a nice slow right turn if I come back to neutral we can fly straight again I'll hold my go Pole we want to go left shift your weight left you can cross your leg all the way over to exaggerate it but I'd never do that in real life so we just made a 90-degree left turn now the way you combine both of those in in real life and in good form is use both of them together if anyone's familiar with flying an airplane you have ailerons and rudder and basically to make a coordinated turn you use both of them together so if I wanted to make a right 360 around this house proper form would be look right lead right and that pole right and I can make a nice with this wing it doesn't take punch I use two fingers on my break you can really steer around with very light pressure so if you're thinking in terms of an airplane if you do a shallow turn you can kind of just use your ailerons bank it and do a very shallow turn but when you start to get into this steeper turns you have to combine your elevator and sometimes your power too so in a pair of motor if I wanted to do a really tight 360 what it would look like is look lean pull add power and pulling both brakes in the turn it really it slows down your forward speed while creating more lift so your radius of your turn gets tighter if that makes sense how am i doing am i am i sounding like a good teacher if I sound like a good teacher hit the thumbs up okay final concept I've seen a lot of comments about this recently I think because I'm using like a lot of different camera angles and some people noticed that my brake line over here actually has two lines and that's pretty standard for wings of this class like a slalom style now any beginner glider or like any paragliding way that's not designed for a motor eventually only has one line okay so what this system does it's called 2d steering because it gives you like two dimensions really this bait line the inner one goes through this pulley and then spreads out to 95% of the weight on the right side the other line doesn't go through the pulley and just connects like five percent of the tip and what that beads is if I stow this brake still both brakes and I pull on just the tip line all I'm doing is curling that tip around but it's extremely effective look at this one finger and it's if I pull on the other line the same thing will happen but it's a port 50 turn if that it's a lot more pressure like a pulling four pounds of four because it's grabbing like more surface area of the wing the tip is almost like power steering and the way you use these two lines together is if I pull close to my body like in line with the riser I engage the tip or then the centerline but if I push out you can see it goes through the pulley and I've been gauging like the whole Center half of the wing so one example of how you would use that is if you wanted to do a big slalom turn you could approach the pylon and start the turn with just the tip push out while you're in the turn to get that lift and tighten the radius and then like use the opposite tip to roll back and then be right on heading so it kind of look like this now there's a lot of different ways you can use all that stuff together and it just kind of it gives you more options more capability something you kind of learn to work with over time I think I'm gonna head back to the airport it's got to be getting close to sunset but I want to get a lot of altitude on the way there so I'm gonna throttle up and fly all right let's talk about some more advanced things a lot of people like I'll say I'm gonna trim out and often people are like what does that mean but it's hard for me to explain every single time what I'm just in the moment so here's the explanation for trimming out there's different ways to control our speed paramotor wings they just want to fly at one constant speed it's not like adding power makes you go faster or slower you have to change the wings angle of attack to go faster or slower and that's what the troops do so basically on the back of the riser we got the trip which is this one on each side and on the front we have this guy which is referred to as a speed bar and I don't have my speed bar set up but I'll explain that second so the trips are on the back and they link to the DS and the Seas and slightly on this way and basically when you let the trip out it lets up the back edge of the wing so you're changing the angle of attack relative to the wind like if you stick your hand out of the window you do one of these numbers you're flattening out so it can go faster I'll do that I'll dump the trips what I do is I put a finger on each of them and then you push the little thing you see it slid out by waiting just dough a little bit these lines went up shifted like that and now we're cruising a little bit faster this way I cruise with it in the middle that's what's recommended basically that's where 95% of my flying is if you want to go even faster you can use the speed bar and I rarely have my speed bar set up I'd like to fly with it more but it's really just in my opinion not that necessary so the speed bar hooks onto this line it goes down through a pulley that's connected to the arm then a pulley connected to my harness and then there's a bar behind my needs and you hook it on your heel and push it forward extend your knees and lock them and what that'll do is it grabs this and pulls down like the A's B's and C's and on this particular wing I would say about a third of the speed range is in the trims and the other two-thirds comes from the speed bar now the thing is when you increase your speed you kind of reduce your maneuverability so at slower speeds you can throw the wing around and go crazy but once you get going really fast on these wings you're basically damn that's a nice house on a straight line and you can make finer course corrections so I don't really do that often but it's a nice thing to do because this wasn't a haul ass it'll do like 50 something files an hour is that like a NASCAR car number 36 that's crazy it looks like a NASCAR car there's two of them 72 well I hope you guys enjoyed my teacher pulpit my tutorial on how to control paramotor in the air maybe you learned something maybe you do everything and it was boring but thanks for watching you know thanks for sticking around till now I'd like to do more very basic videos many people think that I build my pair of motors and they're not commercially available and they're like oh you should mass-produce these you'd make a lot of money but they are like being mass-produced right now I bought this so I was going to go over kind of like a basically buy motor and why I fly it and then like Jaclyn's motor and why she flies it and any other pilot that I come across with a different motor do like an interview session with them so let me know in the comments if you like that sort of thing if you're not into it that's cool I won't do it but I'm gonna do a thing I want to do a sat on pole cam so I'm not really gonna explain much of how this goes but I brace on my riser maybe I will and then I grab this line real steep like that and yeah it's like one few three and then we're doing a set and we're going around backwards and I'm like and then you kind of give it a little outside break a little inside break and now you're like mad dizzy and your lack kuda handle water okay I'm gonna keep keep it rolling and keep teaching until we touch the ground because that's today's episode paramotors kind of fly like pendulums they it is a pendulum or a weight hanging on a string so left and right and forward and aft you can have oscillations and one of the cool things is you use those oscillations in a good way to maneuver and that's part of learning to fly so basically when I land I get a big swoop kill my motor hope I didn't come in downwind and abyss oh hey it was lumpy you wouldn't have liked it it would have been possible it wasn't dangerous but you wouldn't have liked it I feel like such a teacher the whole time I just rambled on like this is how you fly a pair of motor I hope people enjoy it you better enjoy it all right we're all packed up not ready to go I have to go breaking the FBO and use the bathroom but I'll keep it short hope you guys enjoyed this one if you do leave a comment don't forget let me know what you think about the whole like super basic beginner stuff like my paramotor and why I like it and Jaclyn's paramotor and why she likes it when I fly it yeah next time next time when it's not bumpy and thunderstorm II all right I will see you guys in the next one Jaqueline don't kill it Oh

Channel: Tucker Gott

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Length: 18min 15sec (1095 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 19 2018