I've been farting around with this for a while - finally nearly finished (just light/reg bar and waterproof cover to add. The base is a bakrak stainless steel towbar rack. I have fitted a 4mm checkerplate alumimium base, and made frame from 30mm box section stainless. One stainless steel bar slips through the frame, through the swing arms and out the other side - where a small padlock secures it for transport and theft. It is extemely strong, light, and allows the fitting and removing of the paramotor in literally seconds - as shown in video.
Unlike most examples, the base of the frame is NOT bolted down -t his puts lots of stress on the cage base as the weight of the paramotor during acceleration pushes against the base - potentially damaging/bending it. Instead, the vertical section secures onto the swing arms - the strongest part! and the load is a lateral one - strong with no chance of cage damage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOlP3Im7bvI
Some footage of flying at the Las Candelas paramotor festival at La Puebla De Los Infantes, Sevilla, Spain.
Sorry it's taken so long to get around to editing this - but it took a while to learn Final Cut, and then find time to actually put it all together.
Hope you like it - please comment if you do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfn6Y8wgME
This is from thingiverse. It printed in about an hour. Add a few o-rings and you have an anti-vibration mount for your gopro. This one is by this guy: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:92014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOo79cm9Wo
First flight about 2 hours before I had to come down for a pee! Then up again for another 90 mins - was reaaally windy second flight though - only a few folk up. tricky take off with all that gubbins on my head. Experimental video really - just trying new angles - my gimbal screwed up and was pointing at sky, and the gopro had set itself to some crappy white balance/colour that I couldn't get rid of in editing... so it is what it is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjX4-K-E9FM
This is a test shot of some of my 3d footage properly aligned and sent to youtube with their yt3d:enable=true flag - I find the cross eye (no 3d equipment) one works really well - but I can only cross my eyes enough with it in a small window.
These were shot in South Africa using 2 identical Panasonic Lumix FX37 digital cameras.
This is just a sample, I took various clips with different toe ins, and am still experimenting with the settings. Both of these have had the left/right eye adjusted to give a decent 3d view by moving one image slightly horizontally - otherwise there is too big a difference between the shots and your brain doesn't process them correctly
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0flxTiRz7I
Quick top to bottom from 'The Map of Africa'. This was my first ever free flight on my reaction - there was no lift so it was pretty quick. It was tricky with the wind direction on landing getting low enough over the houses and car park to allow me to bleed the reaction's speed off before landing in the sea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mEevLU1eU
Once a year I do a long VBlog video, showing setup and blathering on about what I do, and imparting dubious wisdom... This is that video. :-)
If you'd rather go straight to the flying - click the links below to go straight to that section.
Take off: @24 min 23 secs
https://bit.ly/2WinuSV
4700 feet above the Clouds: @31 min 43 secs
https://bit.ly/2ISDF6B
Engine off above the Clouds: @33 min 25 secs
https://bit.ly/2vxWkeW
Landing: @35 min 35 secs
https://bit.ly/2ZQ7XMw
If you have a Garmin Fenix watch, and want to get my free paramotor app - stufly that I mention in the video you can get it here:
Fenix 3:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/10bbeff2-2ab0-4e18-8bb2-b6a3fd808873
Fenix 4:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/40a6a027-4876-4eb5-bcce-3789facd93b6
Search my channel for tutorial videos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQzmeS1nM4
6 jumps today, including a 'hop and pop' and 2 coach jumps where i have to dock (join up) with another jumper. I can't claim they were great, but the coach thought they were better than they expected for this level so all good! Only some exam questions now and an A licence beckons.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MyTKOs2Jz4