[HN Gopher] What Is Paramotoring?
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What Is Paramotoring?
Author : tta
Score : 12 points
Date : 2022-01-27 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| filoeleven wrote:
| I learned about and became enthralled by this hobby in 2018. I
| also know that I will not do the maintenance/upkeep that's
| required after every 10 hours of flight for a two-stroke
| gasoline-powered paramotor. Electric is much simpler.
|
| I'm holding onto hope that battery tech improvements make
| electric paramotors more worthwhile in the next 5-10 years. The
| last time I looked, a gas engine gets you around 50 minutes of
| flight, and an electric motor around 30 minutes.
|
| There's an airport somewhat close to me that offers training.
| Probably not worth getting trained unless I'm up for buying and
| maintaining my own rig though. Wing + motor + trailer + place to
| keep them in is pushing $15k at the very least, not counting
| upkeep and training (or an emergency chute). If I had the dough
| to throw, it'd be an easy decision. As it stands, I'm just hoping
| that the tech catches up to my desires before I'm too old to try
| it out.
|
| The premise is wonderful though. Launch from any park or field
| and freely explore the surrounding area from the sky, without
| much more than an overgrown child-safety seat with a propeller on
| the back and a wing that beats the Huffman encoding when stored
| away. No instrument panel, no yokes or levers; just a throttle
| and two handfuls of strings and some know-how.
| addaon wrote:
| I fly mostly unpowered paragliders (AMA), but I do have a silly
| little electric paramotor that I've flown with a couple of times.
|
| It's also worth distinguishing paramotoring (using a relatively-
| high-performance paraglider wing) from powered parachutes (using
| higher-internal-pressure, lower performance wings).
| pedalpete wrote:
| I'm the founder of https://ayvri.com - is it safe to say you're
| a user?
| addaon wrote:
| Not actually a user; I've mostly kept tech and flying
| separate so far. I'll take a look though!
| mongrelion wrote:
| > I've mostly kept tech and flying separate so far.
|
| Don't you upload your tracks to something like xcontest or
| similar to analyse your flights?
| addaon wrote:
| Rarely? When I'm on a trip (Colombia, Macedonia, Valle)
| I'll do so over beers to chat things over with other
| pilots; when it's more casual or local flying, I'm doing
| it for the experience and the joy, not the retrospective
| analysis.
| mongrelion wrote:
| Hang glider and paraglider pilot here. Surprised to see
| paramotoring being brought up on HN. Even more surprised to
| see the founder of ayvri posting in the same thread! And yes,
| I'm a user, though not OP :p
| filoeleven wrote:
| How long does your silly little electric paramotor fly before
| it runs out? Is it a one-prop, or a four- or six-prop model?
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