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Day 3, Deano in Brazil… The first taste of competition

admin — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:09:28 +0000

After waiting for the rain to subside all day yesterday and this morning, we were finally granted a window of opportunity to get out and practice some tasks before lunch, despite quite strong and changeable winds.

Most of the time the wind was drawing offshore so was not the best, with some rotor coming off the back of highrise buildings; but flyable none the less.

I had a trial ‘head-to-head’ run with Grzegorz Krzyzanowski from Poland around the pylons this afternoon which was fun and exciting, both swapping the lead and having some overtaking maneuvers.

There’s definitely a difference in styles out there between the paraglider pilots and their acro wings and most of us Europeans with our reflex paramotor wings. Both my Parajet Polini200 motor and Paramania GTR20 wing are performing faultlessly with just a little tweak here and there to set things up for the conditions.

Training is now over and much shorter than anticipated but there’s not much that can be done when the weather doesn’t play ball. At least the forecast is favourable for the weekend event.

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-Dean Eldridge

Fly Games World Championship, Brazil: Deanos Update: Day 2

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:14:26 +0000

Just a quick update before an early start tomorrow.

As the organizers have been waiting for everyone to turn up and everything to be fair, the briefings were not until today and the flying will start early tomorrow morning.

Thankfully everything arrived in one piece and I had no problems with customs, unlike a few others.

We are now all chomping at the bit to get in the air after chomping on the local delicacies the past day and a half, less eating more flying!!

Tomorrow will just be a shakedown test, no testing of tasks although we now know them all inside out after lengthy but very informative briefings. The organizers have obviously done their homework, have setup an amazing course right on the beach outside the hotel and have covered most eventualities with logistics and weather conditions, should that arise.

It’s really going to be a wonderful, visual spectacle for the people of Santos!

Friday will be a more intense day with timings of the actual tasks but in a practice scenario should there be the necessity to change anything.

Some of the tasks involve two pilots racing together at the same time, I am up against Grzegorz Krzyżanowski from Poland..! Then all hell breaks loose at the weekend with two frantic days of racing.

The scoring system seems very fair and is in a knockout style. 17 of us will be whittled down to 12, the top 10 plus the best 2 of the 7 remaining in a separate shootout. Sounds strange but is actually very fair. The 12 will then go down to the last 5 on the Sunday and then it’s an actual race between the top 2 of the 5 pilots, head-to-head for the final. All very interesting!

I am desperate to get out there fresh tomorrow and strut my stuff so will now catch up on some much needed sleep.

-Dean Eldridge

UAE’s First Paramotor Safety Seminar March 18th to 19th

Theron — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:11:44 +0000

We at Paramania know what it is like to have massive amounts of fun with Paramotoring but also stress that safety is key. Ali Al Hammadi in Dubai knows this too and has put together the first UAE Paramotor Safety Seminar plus camping trip for pilots and enthusiasts.

Join Mike Campbell-Jones and Mathieu Rouanet as they speak about the topic of Reflex wings and the technology behind it, theory of flight and motor geometry. They will also be joined by Ali Al Hammadi, Pascal Campbell-Jones and others.

Some of the topics at the event will be:

Reflex technology and debate about the system
Theory of flight
Certification and testing methods
Maintenance and inspection
Assessing meteorological conditions
Competition flying
Pros and cons of hang points and it’s geometry on a motor
Inspection and Maintenance

and much more…

For more information and to reserve your place please contact event organizer Ali by email ( Ali.hammadi.85@gmail.com) or call +971 50 422 7335.

Note from a very happy customer, thanks Awod!

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:28:33 +0000

Here is a note from one of our happy customers, we wanted to include it in the blog because it was such a great compliment to what we have been doing here at Paramania. Awod Saeed Al-Ahmar is a long time pilot out of Saudi Arabia.

Dear Paramania,

I have been a PPG pilot since 2006 and my first wing was a Revo, I bought it from Land & Space Aviation school in Saudia Arabia, I was trying other wings from other brands but I did not feel comfortable with them. My friend Ahmed Al-Zahrani who I lost three months ago advised me to get the first Fusion and I did and I really liked it soooooo much – that was in late 2008.

After 2008 I wanted to upgrade wings again, and again I tried many wings and did not feel comfortable with them. My friend Fahad Al-Zkeri who runs the school now advised me to get a Revo2 and I just got it a week ago and guess what? It is an amazing wing, I really really loove it.

I think this a continuous successes of your products and this is the reason of making me one of the Paramania fans.

So thank you for making my flying dream nicer and safer.

Friendly note:

If you make the wings with more color options without any extra expense it will be very very nice. Make many colors, make it happy colors, just like the old Fusion.

Best regards,

Awod Saeed Al-Ahmar