A clip flying around tonight so I could achieve my longest flight -- 1 hour 10 min -- since the conditions were great. I had enough fuel to go another hour but ran out of sunlight due to my late start. However, I feel like I would need a footrest to fly much longer. It's quite a long time to be sitting on what feels like a lawn chair with nothing to rest your feet on, legs just dangling.
It worked out for me that my launch was delayed, since one of my flying buddies got up earlier and found himself flying in the path of two military choppers (Ospreys, we believe) and did some maneuvers to drop altitude and get out of their way fast ... and, as important for him, to get out of the turbulent air that choppers create, which can really scramble a paramotorist's flight.
(At about 2:30 is a private campground run by some friends.)
30 окт 2024
