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Another short PPG video in Mark's paragliding video gallery. Mark
is trying to take off but does not turn the master switch on.
Luckily Andre is close by and things work out.... Got the
help these young guys here and there.... ;-) See the PPG
video here.
Flight to Fort Erie with Mark. A great
paramotoring film. After couple
of weeks of crappy weather I started to feel the familiar feeling
of flight withdrawal. This is when one constantly checks weather
forecast and occasionally makes involuntary paramotor noises.
The Saturday started to look good. I called Shawn and Cibbet or is
it Csaba? No one could make it so it was just me and Mark. When we
got to the Sodom Rd. field conditions were perfect. Just slight
breezes and it was very warm. We fueled up and the plan was to
follow parkway all the way to Fort Erie and follow the QEW highway
back. We were also planning to film a paramotor tandem later on since we had
all afternoon to our disposal. We took off without any problems
and headed to Fort Erie.....Video from our PPG flight is here.
First trike
student in the air - congrats Barney See video by Markhere.
Video from our
Tandem trike flight at Bieda's. Check it out the PPG tandem
movie here.
This is hilarious - funny power paramotor
instructor movie. Shoot and put
together by Mark. I did not know I could shake my ass like
this...and who says Czechs can't dance... see the short film here.
Party on Sat
was wild...We were dragging our feet on Sunday... See here.
Tandem
with Mark June 19, 2005 Check out the video here.
Course July 2,
2005 - Short vide from ground school; by Mark See video here.
Mark takes Csaba on first PPG XC flight. See
the wmv file here.
New acro move - Infinite Tumbling
- Raul Rodrigues Check it out here...
and no your player did not get stuck, he does about 60 tumblings
in the row...crazy...
Bob flies until he turns into a chunk of ice... See Bob
land paramotor here.
Not so good trip to
Ellicottville - 2005 Major paraglider
collapse on this video. See the PPG flight video here.
This is how it all started...See video of
old fashion (circa 1977) hangliding here.
Introducing new performance glider from Sky
Paragliders - ARES. See video here.
Great PG video of Czech pilots flying in
Italian Dolomites. Check it out here.
It is high quality video so it may take a while to load.
Fly with us! Or
not? Paraglider
with trike - major collapse. To fully understand what happened
read more info here
posted on May 14/05. Video from this paragliding
accident is here.
It was a huge 80 % paraglider collapse very close to ground caused
by strong thermal activity.
Czech
engineering - how to fix bent axle on crashed trike. See PPG video
here.
May 6/05 Trike test. So
I have finally tested my new trike and let me tell you it is
awesome! After couple busted inflations and loss of pants (I have
added this extra bracket for additional foot support that ripped
my pants - and shortly after removed it again) I have perfected
the take off technique and flew the trike about 8 times. I have
got to tell you it is kind of nice when one does not have to get
up with the machine... Definitely way to go for someone who does
not have the physical fitness to carry the paramotor. Especially
with the super powerfull Simon RR... See the video
here.
This film captures great power paraglider sunset flight with Mark. See
the MPEG video here.
Video from my line snag in speed system prop
bust....To fully understand what happened see news Sep 21/04 - This is just
little paragliding accident that has happened to me. See
the extreme movie
here.
Even Gorillas fly Walkerjet..... See
paragliding monkey flight video here.
Video film is courtesy of make up artist ;-) Mete Canturk.
Paramotoring video from our flight in Ellicottville - see
news Sep 28/04 This video is 9 min long, just under 10
MB. See the PPG film here.
Paramotor training day at the Sodom Rd. field - April 20,
2004 Jeff's third PPG paramotor flight. See PPG movie of
Jeff's take power paraglider take off in windy situation here.
Sean flew and landed in mock. Bob ground handled. Pictures here.
PPG video file (256 Kb)
Paramotor Tandem flight with Debbie. If
I remember this tandem correctly, we had very easy take off and
awesome conditions to fly in. In return for the tandem flight
Debbie promised to perform her famous
hula hoop dance routine. Video and editing courtesy of Mete.
Paramotor Tandem landing with Debbie. See the paramotor tandem flight and landing
here.
Purple Pig get together - a PPG fly in movie. Great flying
on Sat. Prop that has decided to fly off on it's own. Monkey
butlers but lack of pigs at Purple Pig. OK, this is my first shot
on digital video editing but the raw footage is very low quality
sooooo please excuse... See it here.
Video - Ouch 2000. Various
paragliding incidents and paragliding accidents.... Most of the situations and gliders are
characteristic for the 1988 and 1989 years when I started
paragliding... Been there done that... 26.5 MB click here.
Flying paramotor at Chuck's place. Check out
this extreme video of dangerous take off using paramotor and
paraglider. The take off area
was quite tricky. Spot 40 by 40 ft with 20 ft cliff at the edge.
Definitely not a place for beginner to take off with PPG. Even I had little
butterflies in my stomach.... See the PPG video of my tricky takeoff
here.
1.4 MB.
Video of PPG trike flight over Niagara Falls with
Jim and Yuri. Super fun PPG movie. Yuri was nice enough to make a 3.5 min video from
our Saturday flying. Size 10 MB. It goes as such: Andre taking of
on trike. Jim taking off - foot launch. Andre low pass on trike.
Yuri
at 3000 ft by the Niagara Falls with Andre flying
below. Andre landing on trike. Sam the man. See
video here
Great paragliding video of Sky Paragliders. Well, I have
posted link to this paragliding video while back but I just
noticed that that link does not work and the site that it was on
no longer exist. I have searched on the web to see if it is hosted
somewhere else but no luck. I thought it would be shame if such
nice film was lost. So here is a copy that I have put on my site.
Check it out it is called "Children
of the wind" and it is awesome.
Video feed from "Fly in" in Thornton: Andre
flying powered paraglider in rough thermal conditions, Phil is tossing his rescue -
just practice on the ground, Grant half flying half walking.
21 MB Click
here. For story from "Fly in" in Thornton click
here.
Video of another paraglider emergency parachute toss. Asymmetrical
collapse, negative spin, rescue parachute deployment. 1.4
MB Click
here.
Wmv file.Czech pilot tosses paraglider spare parachute : This
extreme PG video (8
MB) is worth the wait - spiral on performance glider gets out of
control and pilot is forced to toss his rescue emergency spare
parachute... To download this video right click on this link
and choose save target as. This file is DivX movie file. If you
can not open this file, download (700 kb) and install the Playa viewer
by right clicking on this link. Scary
PG video.
If you have fast connection you MUST see this
PG video.
(59 MB) Unbelievable 300 km tandem PG flight in Nepal on paraglider
Vector/Discovery manufactured by Gradient
- another great Czech paraglider manufacturer. (This is a high
resolution video and even with high speed connection the video may
be "jerky" so you may have to right click on the link
above and "save as" on your hard drive first and then
play.)
These are not paragliding
PG or Powered Paragliding PPG videos just couple of super cool movies.
Some people prefer kite surfing over powered
paragliding because it is safer... do not think so! Watch here.
