Paramotoring is the ultimate form of personal powered flight. This is the aviation sport for everyone with a tight budget but a thirst to fly. A paramotor outfit doesn't demand airfields and hangars. It will fit in its owner's car and can be flown from fields smaller than football pitches. In many countries, including Britain, no licence is required.
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Noel Whittall is a writer who has been flying hang gliders and paragliders for many years. He is an ex-chairman of the British Hang Gliding Assocation and is Secretary of CIVL, the FAI commission which regulates the sport world-wide.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is the second edition of this book after the first one was released several years ago. Due to the ever changing nature of paramotoring (new safety procedures, equipment improvments, technology advances etc...) a new edition was required and was duly released. It promised that it had been widely updated and revised, this claim is my main problem with this book.
The text reads virtually word for word identically to the first, outdated edition, virtually all the photo's used are of the same old fashioned equimpment from the first book, and apart from the change of cover it is, to all intents and purposes, the same as the first book.
Given how important the advances are made in recent years I belive it is misleading for this book to claim to be current and up to date when it blatently is outdated in both it's ideas and thinking.
For me this revised book was a real missed oportunity to offer a great deal of new, useful information to 'want be pilots' out there, instead it has a distinct whiff of 'quick, shodilly rebadged cash in oportunity' on the back of recent publicity for paramotors from the likes of Bear Ghrils et al.
If you are totally new to paramotors then this book might have some value to for you, indead it does have some pearls of wisdom to impart that I haven't come accross elsewhere. However, you should be aware there are much better books out there. In conclusion, if you were to only buy one book on paramotoring, you would be much better off looking elsewhere, probally at Jeff Goin's Paramotoring Bible.
Disapointing!
The text reads virtually word for word identically to the first, outdated edition, virtually all the photo's used are of the same old fashioned equimpment from the first book, and apart from the change of cover it is, to all intents and purposes, the same as the first book.
Given how important the advances are made in recent years I belive it is misleading for this book to claim to be current and up to date when it blatently is outdated in both it's ideas and thinking.
For me this revised book was a real missed oportunity to offer a great deal of new, useful information to 'want be pilots' out there, instead it has a distinct whiff of 'quick, shodilly rebadged cash in oportunity' on the back of recent publicity for paramotors from the likes of Bear Ghrils et al.
If you are totally new to paramotors then this book might have some value to for you, indead it does have some pearls of wisdom to impart that I haven't come accross elsewhere. However, you should be aware there are much better books out there. In conclusion, if you were to only buy one book on paramotoring, you would be much better off looking elsewhere, probally at Jeff Goin's Paramotoring Bible.
Disapointing!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Been new to paramotoring I found this book very useful and easy to understand. It covers all topics and is not too complicated for persons starting out.
By Graeme
Excellent read, covers all aspects well without getting too bogged down with lots of technical stuff. Well worth the money, the sort of book you'll always refer back to.
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all you need to start
All the basics covered from equipement to weather forecasting. My instructor recommended this book and I wasn't disappointed!
Published on 11 Oct 2010 by Phoenix Nights
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A great PPG-book
It's a great book that explains almost everything you need to know. It's deffently one of the books you need to read before starting to PPG.
Published on 12 July 2009 by Peter Spliid Pedersen
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