Electric Paramotor Best Case Flight - UNCUT

[@butchdavis2703]

I love these uncut longer videos. Tucker is always bringing the best content. Imagine how many people he has inspired to start flying paramotor’s. I’m definitely one of them. That electric paramotor is sick. I would love to have one to fly. I hope they can make batteries that at least last for 2 hours.

[@Turbo_Tastic]

would be interesting to see an EMF meter to see how much dangerous EMF is coming off of that electric motor. Plus Lithium batteries are deadely, can you imagine if they swelled and caught fire mid flight? Would be nice to have a jetison button to drop them if they caught fire, because there is no putting them out. Go watch some of those electric bus or Tesla cars catching fire, it is insane the amount of explosions that occur.

[@prague5419]

All these years I've never seen you drop anything that you didn't mean to drop (see: toilet paper, HA HA), but everytime you hold your phone out without a lanyard my butt puckers up.

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

16:00 do you check for power lines preflight on a map? (Seems like you knew they were coming up) Do you have to do it visually in the spur of the moment? Or a combination of the two? Do you always plan flight paths or do I just need to become familiar with the area?

[@urazz7739]

I would do another best-case scenario test Tucker. you probably should've had the throttle set to chill mode because from what you said when you got this paramotor, it has less throttle and max speed, which sounds like it'll be more efficient as well. Combine that with a bigger glider and you'll probably reach an hour in flight time is my guess.

[@RoofAndAMeal4UsAll]

Altitude hold! Brilliant idea, wow this was a seat of the pants drama! Great flight thanks for sharing.

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

I actually watched the worst case flight first now I found this video, so what is the conclusion and the difference between the two?

[@PAPilot53]

I love that, “I’m doing science up here, sir!”

[@tedwakeman3426]

Hi Tucker you are one of the best well rounded pilots ever.always wanted to build a small lite electric paramotor just to get to the ridge lift OR from thermal to thermal .Flying the combo cross-country.what do you think

[@tuckergottuncut7180]

Thank you!!

[@LovesM855A1]

Tucker you can add battery to it run in parallel for more mah…..

[@unexpectedpotato1184]

could use a mouse wheel button to adjust the rpm on cruise control

[@coffeebreakrecab]

Do you happen to know what the distance you traveled was? Thanks for the tests!

[@scottkint]

Looks like fun!

[@cloudpandarism2627]

ALTITUDE HOLD is something i am working on since months! strange that you mentioned that tucker 😁

[@rule1dontgosplat]

My old drone had altitude hold as well as fully autonomous flights to waypoints, takeoff, and landing. All using a little box half the size of an iphone. It seems like an arduino with some sensors could do the altitude hold thing pretty easy.

[@cloudpandarism2627]

@@rule1dontgosplat pretty easy not. but yes it will be a feature one day i think.

[@JPspinFPV]

The developers have put in countless hours of on the flight control firmware we have available to the RC market. That said, I could see that hardware and software being adapted to this application.

[@rule1dontgosplat]

@@JPspinFPV Agreed. Basically that’s all this is. The brushless motor, the ESC, the battery… all just bigger versions of the RC industry. This unit is even simpler because instead of a remote control with transceiver, the ESC is being controlled directly.

[@philsgreenice]

@@rule1dontgosplat Light - small battery - enough to catch ridge lift in about 10 t0 15 seconds from beach level and continue with natural lift. Over one hour flights sometimes - landing with a nearly full battery. Not in this video but I dd it many times. Fun! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6DHYoivp9Sif7c

[@CanadiansInCarsGettingCocky]

Here for the Electric ButtFan Test!

[@ik04]

Is it wise to have your hands inside the prop arc when connecting the battery? Do you trust the power switch that much?

[@rule1dontgosplat]

it’s not the power switch… the power switch initializes an Electronic Speed Control. When it’s ready, which takes about five seconds, it beeps. They fail “off” instead of on, and will only run the motor when given the proper PWM signal from the throttle. In addition, they’re designed to not switch on if given a signal from the throttle that’s anything but at a minimum setting. So even if you switch on the battery as you hold full throttle, nothing happens.

[@philsgreenice]

Connecting the cable does not arm the motor. Same thing with the ON/OFF switch at the top. The controller will not operate even if the switch is turned ON. There is a sequence to follow afterward to arm the system. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3zUkKVpoLVse9k

[@ik04]

@@philsgreenice That's good. I hope everyone designs their system that way. Risk management is an embedded part of aviation and PPGs are not toys. Thanks!

[@philsgreenice]

@@ik04 More videos where they came from😃.

[@chrisr3927]

I want this!

[@vooooooood]

The first thing I notice with the electric is the fact that your voice does not have the vibrational output that the 2 stroke does.

[@krisfahnz]

How would that rig react to a speed bar is what I wonder. :D

[@artoodeetoo3064]

Do you see the battery tech improving on these at all? It's been stuck at about 30-40 minutes for years now, and I'd love to make the switch, but it's just not ready yet. For me personally anyways

[@philsgreenice]

New battery coming in a few months - longer flight time.

[@flyingtime5501]

Can you elaborate? I usually keep up with new battery tech, but have I behind?​@@philsgreenice

[@flyingtime5501]

​@@philsgreenicecan you elaborate more on that please? I may have fallen behind on new bat tech!?

[@philsgreenice]

@@flyingtime5501 All I heard was 4 to 5 lbs heavier and about 10 to 15 more flight time minutes.

[@flyingtime5501]

@@philsgreenice thanks...is that from open PPG? Or somewhere else?

[@sacooper802]

open PPG battery pack been on back order sometime now, maybe in late april or early May they have more, they told me you can get 1000 cycles out of battery pack in an email, and you say 500 cycles, I trust what you say, you both didnt agree on the posted weight either, hmmm can we trust what open PPG say?

[@coffeebreakrecab]

It really depends on how you treat the battery. If you go from full to zero all the time I would say more like 500. If you go more between 20 and 80% its more like 1000 (full cycles). The older unit actually weighs less. Thats why Tucker had different numbers. But they should update that

[@guscarlson7021]

If you fly low enough along the power lines, will the EM field surrounding them charge your battery through induction?

[@guscarlson7021]

Let's see max rate of climb and climb endurance max altitude.