This is a really cool video of two highly skilled professionals having a great time in a beautiful part of the world. Awesome editing skills! Thanks for making all other paramotor videos look boring!      Best part is the wing tip drag knocking the cans down, so sweet! Pascal is flying his Dudek Hadron and I believe his paramotor is an Adventure X Race. So cool to see them arrive at the star wars village at the end!

Here’s the latest ExtremePPG.com video. Just a little something I put together from my last flight. Winds were too high for working on paramotor circle foot drags but it sure was fun for downwind dashes! As you can see from some of the shots, I was hauling ass on the downwinds low to the ground. Not recommended but it is a lot of fun! Always fun to mess around with new camera angles too. Only down side is you have to see my face!

Just came across this video on youtube, very cool paragliding packing method.  Gathering the A’s separately is a great idea.     It should work great when the wind is blowing or when you’re in a hurry.   Although most of us use stuff bags, it should still help keep everything nice and mushroomed when you put it away.

Just a quick video I put together flying around in Virginia Beach.  Trying to work on doing paramotor circle foot drags in a limited space.  This is the only area I have thats smooth enough to drag feet but isn’t very wide.  So far I’ve gotten to 180 degrees.  Going to make it all the way around soon!

Paramotor Fly Camping on a 1000 foot mesa is not something many people can say they have done. In fact, I don’t think anyone has ever done that before until now. Barndt has taken this sport and the art of fly camping to the next level. In typical Barndt fashion, he does it with style and class as you can tell by the title tags in the video. I admit, I am just a little bit jealous that I wasn’t up there too. Nice one Byron and awesome video!

Here is the final paramotor race between Alex Mateos and Laurent Salinas.   What a great race guys!  Nice job on those turn’s alex!  Almost caught him in the end!

Dell Schanze is a named heard quite frequently in the sport of PPG. Some love him, some hate him but one thing is certain – he makes one hell of a paramotor. Dell, also known as SUPERDELL owns the largest paramotor manufacturing business in the USA. He’s been building paramotors for over 10 years and has been designing and building the Flat Top Paramotor for over 5 years. He works with many website where customers can buy his designs – Yes we are one of them. On top of being a very successful busines man, Dell is also an incredibly skilled pilot. To this day, I have still never seen any pilot lay down wing tip drag after wing tip drag like dell can. He’s been a paramotor pilot for more than a decade and flown nearly every configuration out there.

I’ve been involved in a death spiral gone wrong crash and because of the flat top design, walked away from the crash.  I’ve owned 4 different flat tops over the years and will continue to buy a flat top in the future.   Keep up the great work Dell, Shane, Eric and all the distributors that make this unit a reality.  Thanks for building such a quality product guys!

Check out Dell’s websites TotallyAwesome.com or U-Turn USA

Good friends Barn and Treehugs got together over Thanksgiving for some awesome paramotor flying near Barn’s home in Whitefish Montana.     Shane put together this lackluster video that really fails to capture anything this sport has to offer. But seriously though, Shane has been putting together some amazing videos lately! Great job and watch out for that tree!

Cheers guys!

Acro Pilot Pal Takats has just broken the XC distance record in Chile on a  U-Turn Passion.   Pal said this about his flight -

The take-off was a shitty turbulent really low forehill of the bigger mountains after I bombed out from the “1200″ take-off…It was my first flight on this part of the ridge with the intention to fly towards Iquique. But the condition were terrible, strong inversion, really turbulent bubbles along the mountains. It worked out great to have the U-Turn Passion with good performance, but not having to stress on a 2-liner. The bottom of the inversion was around 7-800 meters and therefore I had to fly pretty low all the time, but the today the light SW wind made it possible, even with low altitude I could pass some keypoints where you usually need a lot more height to safely fly through very ugly lee rotors. In the beginning I was slow and the day just simply didnt felt good enough to continue, I was struggling and just wanted to overfly Tocopilla to study the passage there (I actually taught Im surely not gonna make it with that height) but then my average speed started to improove and I decided to give it a go. Was worth it. I couldnt believe, but finally managed to land at the point which I could not have overflown today, the air-space of Iquique airport. This weekend I am going to try it again, with no restriction

Congratulations Pal  You are an awesome pilot and a great dude!   Hurry up and come to the USA so we can hang out and you can teach me something.

Watch his website JustAcro.com for updates on his xc flight.

The following is an independent review of the U-Turn Passion Paraglider by Shane Denherder.

Well, while Dell has been logging time on his new favorite piece of tissue, I’ve
been flying the crap out of the U-Turn Passion (M).

The Passion is U-Turn’s latest high-performance EN-C glider. It sports a 6,85:1
aspect ratio, comp lines, and comes standard with PG acro-like toggles with
magnetic keepers. It should be noted that these toggles are utterly worthless
if you are motoring, as the throttle doesn’t allow you to use them properly. We
swapped them out for some of our standard toggles and both liked it a lot
better.

The glider comes in a S (23.5m), S/M (25m), M (27m), and L (29m). We’ll have
the technical data (weights, specs etc), color charts, and certification report
available on our website soon. Weight of the glider ranges from 5.5 to 6.6kg
depending on size.

We first flew the glider (motoring) about a week ago. We were both impressed
with it’s ease of launch, snappy roll rate, great stability, speed, and CRAZY
glide ratio. I had flown it a couple more times since then, and let Byron from
ppgfun.com fly it over the weekend in Montana. The glider is just fun. It
handles great and you can literally get around barely above idle. Dell (170lbs)
was able to pass our friend Paul (160lbs) on Paul’s small K2 at trim speed, so
we know the thing is fast (it’s a 27m after all). Additionally, the glider is a
little more dynamic than your typical intermediate wing; so it carries energy
really well but not to the point of being scary. You can flare FOREVER on this
thing and do a two step landing in 3mph wind.

I got a chance to go do two tows up to about 3000agl today over the dirt
(straight paragliding) and that’s when I really fell in love. The glider is
just super stable! I make it a point to go no hands after unhooking when I’m
towing to take pictures up at high altitude, and the glider didn’t do anything
too psychotic when I let her fly.

I wasn’t being coached through maneuvers (on dirt) so I didn’t get too crazy. I
did play with the speed system, pressure is light and smooth throughout. I wish
I could say it has a monster speed system that makes your eyes water, but the
change was pretty moderate.

I did some nice wingovers, the glider likes to turn and doesn’t get too out of
hand on oscillations. One thing to note is that being a high AR wing, it rolls
and doesn’t really dive unless you really stuff brake. Asymmetric spirals were
fun and predictable

The glider has split A’s, so isolating and pulling big ears is a cinch. the
glider is stable when you pull ears, and actually bends a pretty significant
chunk of the glider contributing to a good decent rate. Ears came out with a
quick pump of the brakes.

I did pull one asymmetric collapse, moderate pull at trim speed, flat weight
shift, and used counter-brake to recover. It was surprisingly tame, and only
made about a 30 degree heading change requiring little brake to correct and
check.

Spot landings are a challenge with this glider. You WILL overshoot for sure, it
just wants to glide!!! I really can’t wait to get it out over the water with a
coach on the radio and see how it reacts to some more “spicy” scenarios. I
think that building that trust with your wing is key to progressing with it, and
reacting accordingly when things go “not-so-great”.

I know one thing, this is the perfect high performance intermediate glider for
that aspiring PG pilot. I think I’m going to grab myself one for this next
free-flight season.

I also wouldn’t mind having one in the 23m size for motoring, as I’m sure it’s
going to be that much better. Getting 2.5 hours out of a tank of gas is fun!!!