Do THIS If You Suck At Forward Launches!!

[@RwP223]

I'm a new pilot, I built my own paramotor from a pile of parts. I hang tested it early on and messed up on the angle. The frame angle was good, but my motor mounts tilted the motor back farther. I caught it when I started doing XC flights, I nearly ran out of fuel, I was bringing about 1.7 gal/hr with a Top 80 wood propped, trimmed gas U1.1 wing. After fixing the angle, my burn rate dropped to about 1.2 gal/hr. With a carbon prop, I'm at 1.0 gal/hr. My forward launches are much more confident, needing way less runway.

[@lobbyrobby]

Any videos on KZbin of your build?

[@Spectrakvl]

Thanks for the video, totally agree with you. Perhaps a good practice is to regularly lean back under full power when doing the warm up cycle. This would help to get used to the lean back angle. There’s so much going on with a nil wind forward launch (with respect, your depiction of proper technique had the wing fully inflated and pilot not transitioning from forward running to lean back thrust take off), that transition to a lean back can take a little to master. It needs to be a conscious decision until it becomes habit. Thanks again!

[@Johnny-gb7eh]

Great video dude! Good reminder for me, especially nil wind launches I tend to try muscle it leaning forward.

[@michaelcordero1111]

Good video, and great info! Thanks!

[@IrisPPG]

Nice vid dude!

[@cloudpandarism2627]

thanks for that. i need to force myself remember that tomorrow at the beach

[@TrevorSteele1]

Do it!

[@cloudpandarism2627]

@@TrevorSteele1 one more question i need help with: trims all the way in as the glider manual says? or all the way out for full speed as the guys all try to tell me here? or 50% for launch and landings? i am already at the very upper limit of my 31m XXL wing with 165kg take off weight. last time i couldnt stand the landing because i came in like a meteor. so much speed...

[@TrevorSteele1]

@@cloudpandarism2627 What wing?

[@cloudpandarism2627]

@@TrevorSteele1 Crappy but brand new APCO karisma. the only brand i could order that time in china. nobody here knows anything about paramotor and opinions going very far apart. most people telling me full speed on trimms. others say 50-60%. APCO manual say 100% trimm for lowest speed at launch and landings. i dont know whom i should trust anymore. full speed i tested last time and almost faceplanted so i sit that landing by just letting myself fall down. if i use 100% trimms with lowest speed i fear i dont have enough energy to flare and drop like a stone. wind will be 2-3ms tomorrow. i got some flights done years ago and started training again on my own last year with 1 flight.

[@cloudpandarism2627]

@@TrevorSteele1 cheers trevor, i went to ocean today first time with paramotor. my god the wind is stable there. i tested 100% trimm setting for slowest speed and it felt sooo much better. thanks for help mate

[@michaelkennedy2528]

Technically speaking: The thrust is the exact same, no matter the direction. The engine is still spinning the prop at X RPM, creating thrust, but it is USLESS thrust when directed upward. A airplane propeller is still producing x pounds of thrust no matter the direction, but it is useless until it is directed in a useful manner.

[@pdrsar5090]

How should a trike paramotor be angled on the trike to take advantage of this?

[@TrevorSteele1]

A Trike should actually be tilted forward about 5 degrees or so. Trikes don't need to worry about this because you aren't running with a trike so you don't have to worry about being pushed into the ground and you don't have to worry about how fast you run!

[@joyfulpyro2589]

Where is the Fat Joe song Lean Back lol

[@TrevorSteele1]

Dang I forgot to add it!

[@SeeCoryRun]

Beat me to it, haha!

[@joyfulpyro2589]

@@SeeCoryRun lolololol great minds think alike