Beautiful flight... But... You have to be more careful... Never start your motor without it either being on your back, or in a rack. That can slice and dice you in the blink of an eye. Safe flying my friend!
Muy buen vídeo. Es en excelente Paramotor Italiano, yo he sobrevolado todo un país con él, inclusive he sobrevolado sobre el agua zonas de océano para aterrizar en islas, pueden ver los vídeos en mi canal.
Here's a tip from a sailor. When there is almost ZERO wind, get something like a cotton cord and lite it (so it smolder) It will slowly burn and leave smoke. The smoke is an excellent wind direction indicator. Another more fun way is to use bubbles!
I was about 225lbs (in my birthday suit) when I did a test/demo flight of my buddies Top80 Miniplane with a large prop. Put up a video talking about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nz_Evof8YZw.html Basically.... it wasn't a setup that I wanted to invest in for low wind takeoff situations even though I could get into the air with it. It does the job reasonably well, however, for my buddy that flies it... I believe he is probably about 160lbs. If you are in the 240lb range... A moster 185 has plenty of power, but I'd seriously look into getting setup with a cage/frame that offers a larger than normal cage so you can swing a bigger than typical propellor. Most paramotors use a 125cm or maybe 130cm prop. There are a few setups out there such as PAP Tinox or MacFly (and others I expect) that offer cages that are 150cm and permit you to spin a prop as big as 140cm safely. I'd think seriously about looking into one of those (I just recently bought my 3rd paramotor and went the PAP Tinox route with a 140cm helix prop and I'm loving it).
I would not try running a top 80 paramotor again if I was doing it over. I was 200 lbs when I finally upgraded to a 185 cc. The top 80 just could hardly handle it. I had to rebuild the motor almost every 40 hrs because I had to stay on the throttle all the time. It is supposed It go minimum 100 hrs between rebuilding. I can recommend the top80 for 180 lbs or less and with high octane fuel it should last. But if you overwork it constantly you will pay.
