Nil Wind Take Offs - Top Tips for Paramotoring

This Top Tips episode is about Nil Wind Take Offs and is inline with the APPI PPG Training Syllabus. It is not a substitute for a training course! To book a course visit: www.skyschoolu...
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[@davekn74]

excellent detail..very impressed. I really feel some of these tips will help my forward launch which I am struggling with as a beginner

[@TAZ.MENARD]

Always straight to the point. That’s why I watch your videos. Simple, concise instructions. 🙂

[@salqubeq5203]

Great tutorial with detailed video clips. Useful & helpful for beginners like me. Thanks for sharing & do make more like these. Maybe show more repeat video examples so they can be observed by the student who is trying to get his head around these steps. Keep up the good work. Cheers

[@snakevera]

I remember using this video to help me 2 years ago...Still the best nil wind tutorial out there 🚀✌

[@vyacheslavdrozdov5924]

Спасибо вам большое за науку! Очень полезное видео!

[@tzgardner]

Another great tip that helped me was hold on to your A lines as long as you can while you're running. I kept having failed nil wind launches because I was letting go of my A's too early.

[@GALCOHEN5]

Just all your videos are accurate and excellent! Straight to the point. Just the right instructions, just in time and where I would have been happy for another angle on the situation, you just provided another look from another angle. i will add that the written instructions at the end made it even simpler to memorize. After hundreds of videos I watched on many others, yours most success to remove my rust especially in quarantine breaks .. Thanks! The takeoff, landing and preflight videos are simply superb. and in my ritual view list. thanks from israel :-)

[@SkySchool]

Thanks for the feedback. Blue skies and safe landings...

[@Allan9966]

Yes, that's what I love - a nil wind launch with loads of spectators!

[@lt.dansparamotoradventures2592]

Nice video. Pilots shouldn't be afraid of Nil wind situations. Once you understand it and practice it there are no issues. I look forward to Nil winds.

[@vola1367]

I would imagine that nil wind is also really comfy to fly in

[@lt.dansparamotoradventures2592]

@@vola1367 Yes, usually.

[@tncpowell]

I know its an old video, I have just been through 14 days of training and at this stage I will do anything to avoid reverse launches! I love the nil wind forwards!

[@TheCryptKeeper8]

Great video and explanation but would have liked it without the music as to better hear the stages of increasing throttle imputs.

[@wompstopm123]

ok i didnt know about pre setting the wing tips by pulling the brakes before kiting thats a good one

[@David_Wolfe]

Great tips. Happy to subscribe and looking forward to watching more of your videos.

[@sengsational]

Having decided I wasn't going to do nil wind launches, I went the whole summer here in NC without flying; it's nil or storming, never anything else. There's a reason why the USPPA ratings 1 and 2 don't require nil wind proficiency...that comes with PPG3 rating. Why? Because it's physically demanding and just ain't easy to get right! Conditions here dictate that I need to give up the sport or get proficient at nil wind launches! I can usually get off the A's and validate good wing position. My question: Once you've got control and are on full power, and pulling the bit of brake, how long should it take before getting picked up? Alex makes it look easy...6 steps (2 seconds) from brake pressure to getting lifted. In my super hot and humid summer weather, I'm on my last ounce of energy and as I wait for the speed and brakes to lift. I'm thinking maybe Ricardo had it right: "know your limitations" (but that involves knees). In my case (stamina & dexterity), maybe this nil wind thing is just going to evade me and I need to drive to the beach.

[@patrickmckowen2999]

Thx for posting Cheers, Patrick

[@Technics19]

PATRICK MCKOWEN are you flying yet Patrick?

[@patrickmckowen2999]

Only one flight so far this summer -- hoping to get back up soon. Cheers

[@BrianPhillipsRC]

thanks again!

[@cjfazio3012]

Good explanation

[@lt.dansparamotoradventures2592]

Get on it and go!

[@bartacomuskidd775]

I have no idea about any of this, but it would help beginners and people looking into paramotor if we could hear the engine instead of music. What your putting into it, when you goose it, how long you stay on it. etc.

[@markbailey6051]

Thank you.

[@hamidnoori4257]

Wow great

[@GabrielRodriguez-nx3em]

Thank you

[@TheCryptKeeper8]

Great video. Thanks QUESTION: WHAT are the complications, if any, of launching in zero wind with the trims in , to say, minus 1 instead of neutral. I practice kiting with this setting in very light winds .

[@SkySchool]

If you set them to neutral the wing can have a tendency to inflate quite fast and overshoot unless the pilot applies quite a lot of both brakes. The wing then has a faster take off speed on the white stitch. The brakes also feel more spongy and have less feedback compared to when the trimmers are applied below the white switch. We therefore prefer to have the trimmers set 1 or 2 lines from full slow. Hope that makes sense!

[@TheCryptKeeper8]

@@SkySchool Thank you muchly

[@lifeofbassman7228]

The good ole woop woop wooooooooop tactic as my instructor called it

[@CBXGABRIEL]

exellent

[@randybeard6040]

Wouldn't it be much More Safe if you had Netting around Ring of Hoop???

[@juanmanuelrodriguez1870]

Look again...lol

[@dreamingofbeingfree1217]

What's the price for a set up like that. As a startup?

[@Smt_Glaive]

New ..5000-8000$

[@bensondentalassociates8690]

A brand new motor goes for about 6,500 and a wing around 2-3k

[@JPTulo]

Mark Bailey Don’t forget training. Always factor in the cost of decent training, it will save you time and money in the long run for sure.

[@sonnypod8492]

you would think a no wind take off would be easier. hmmm shows what I know

[@dellysport4490]

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