These faggots should be strictly restricted to class F airspace, with well defined dimension and NEVER EVER LEFT OUT, sick and tired of avoiding them. Yesterday while flying a personal Cessna 310 from a buddy of mine and 3 weeks ago on the Dash 8 with the small airliner I fly for. >23 year old co pilot
>>1948692 a 6 pound flying machine that literally fits in a backpack is really one of the greatest inventions ever. Imagine unironically owning a Cessna in 2023
>>1948669 mountain bikers of the sky are paragliders roadies of the sky are hang gliders paramotors and microlights are more like motorcyclists of the sky anyway cope and seethe you are the cagie of the sky and you shold know your place (stuck behind a sky cyclist)
imagine spending millions of dollars on cars and seeing someone have more fun with 15 grand than you've ever had in your entire life. "Zomg this lambo pulls 1.4 Gs!!!" Meanwhile I'm blacking out pulling 6 Gs on my paraglider ahahaha CARS ARE A C TIER HOBBY. YOU SPEND TONS OF MONEY ON STATUS. YOU'RE LIKE A WOMAN BUYING A PURSE. YOU ARE ACTUALLY FUCKING RETARDED AND GAY.
Imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars on your PPL and you don't even have a paraglider or sim setup. You don't love flying. You're in it for status.
>Tucker Gotts friend dies paramotoring recently >Tucker's youtube videos have been showing him doing increasingly risky shit Only a matter of time before he stops uploading
>>1948750 >Can hold more than one person (girlfriend/friends) >Can achieve far higher top speeds >Has cabin climate control so you aren't freezing your face off even with a snow fox and ski goggles >Actually good for getting from one airport to another >Proven engineering track-record, don't have to worry about some fucktard building the motor and it failing on me over the ocean I'd far sooner save up to buy a cessna than one of these dangerous little things. I'll give you that they're neat, but the sky was designed for airplanes. Ask a friend who owns a cessna for a ride in it a single time over the mountains or the desert and I guarantee you'll change your mind in a heartbeat.
>>1951383 I don't really want to die from winds suddenly changing directions, and would much prefer an aircraft that I can actually use to travel across the US and visit friends in.
>>1950682 yeah but this is more fun ooh wagie cagies got his climate control while he sits there on autopilot for hours to go from one peice of tarmac to another boooooringggg >the sky was designed for airplanes. it was designed for birds and a glider is the closest thing to a bird
>>1951415 planes are as vulnreble to the wind as any other aircraft id have thoughta supposed pilot would know that? and planes are a retarded way to travel just take a train lol
>>1952237 im dissapointed this isnt a thing outside some crazy prototypes id love a paraglider with a pedal powered propeller imagine how cool that would be
>>1953413 >Can't fly safely when it's dark, excessively windy, or raining. >Need space around where you're taking off and landing. >Can't fly in high traffic airspace, like in towns. They aren't particularly practical.
>>1948669 >>1954328 >>1954337 >>1953413 >Militaries around the world are going to start using them because of their low cost, noise, heat signature. Perfect for bypassing air defenses.
>>1954550 The decline of the battleship in the face of missiles and the decline of the infantry garrison in favour of cavalry response legions also predicted this.
>>1953413 how much training do you need to learn to fly these and what happens during an accident not like falling off a bike i heard these things collapse mid air too
>>1948795 >mountain bikers of the sky are paragliders so can they go up from a lowground because my understanding was you can only glide down making them more like downhill mtb fucks
>>1957760 Most accredited PPG schools have about a week long curriculum. Ground school and theory, weather, communications, airfield operations, kiting practice, towing aloft, and then coached solos.
Go through the PPG bible and that should get you a good body of knowledge.
If you actually think Hamas used paragliders to invade you are actually gay and retarded and under 6 foot and you should never ever attempt to pilot any kind of aircraft because you're not smart enough
>>1957762 you are extremely stupid how are you on this board and dont know how a glider or a bicycle works? >>1962608 the sky is more than big enough for all of us
>>1953413 i mean no but you cant with a plane or even a helicopter either flying makes even less sense as transport than cars do >>1953948 lol its incredible they climb at 45 degrees lol if you cant find a place to take off and land one of these then you just arent looking hard enough >>1954415 almost like the military industrial complex lied to us that they need billions of our tax money to develop stealth planes or whatever and real war is actually just about shit being simple cheap and practical >>1954550 so did arma 3 lol >>1957760 technically you dont neeeees any, yknow like a bike (depends on country) but rly you should just join a school and practice kiting in your own time till the instructor says your ready i mean its extremely cheap compared to a pilots licence and a plane >i heard these things collapse mid air too i heard bicycle fall over i heard planes can spin i hear helicopters get mast bump just dont fly like a retard lol and most importantly dont fly in weather that is above your experience level thats what kills pilots basically the same as any other aircraft or trying to hit jumps on a bicycle when you havnt learned how to yet >>1957797 yeah this
>>1964619 >just dont fly like a retard lol as a fully self acknowledged retard, I can't guarantee that, hell I can't stop myself from riding like a retard with a bike, I don't possess the self control to not fly like a retard
>>1975109 is this a bot post or what? i dont get it also his helmet is falling off under the weight of his goog (which he is wearing in broad daylight why?) looks silly
>>1979129 The electric cyclists of the sky. The PPGs (cyclists) do not like them and neither do the aircraft (motorists). That said, they have their place too.
>>1979477 First thing a midwit thinks is "electric" when they see a paramotor. Enjoy being 100 IQ you dumb bitch. You'll never have the balls or brains to paraglide
>>1975983 I think the helmet is just too small for him and he's tilting it forward to have the brim in the right spot even though nothing else is. Also it's really stupid to have ear cutouts and not be wearing earmuffs. The night vision is the least silly part, after all it's only a matter of hours before it's dark again.
>>1964619 > i mean no but you cant with a plane or even a helicopter either flying makes even less sense as transport than cars do t. Never been to Alaska
>>1981446 You could probably make it work but the range and performance will be crap. Which is saying something because gas paramotors already have crap range.
>>2000378 Plenty of videos available on yt of electric paramotors being subpar for you to watch but you won't cause of your severe fluoride induced adhd
>>1952886 the thrust you'd get would be negligible compared to just the speed gained by pointing your glider downward thats why it took so long for the plane to be invented, and by extension paragliders, because they have to have a shit ton of force while weighing nothing
planefag here, paragliders are based as hell i wanna buy a cheap kit biplane with an open cockpit someday for light aerobatics and i think wing walking is exceedingly based, theres a guy who gives lessons and lets you do it in the span of a single day and its not that gay shit where you're strapped on top of the plane for the whole flight, you get out of the cockpit yourself and climb on the wings
>>1964619 >>1954415 >>1954381 I'd take it with a grain of salt. They almost certainly just let the invasion happen as proven by massive shorting on the stock market just days before, so it's not that paragliders were somehow tactically advantageous and made a difference.
>>1948669 So they are literal conservative heroes saving the world compared to your decadent faggot ass? Where can I sign the petition for the commission of their medals?
>>2002332 (nta) I'm legit surprised they're even still trying w/electrics at this point. Until there's some new breakthrough in energy storage (i.e. much better batteries) these things will always have either dogshit range or anemic performance. It's a miracle they can even get airborne in their current form.
>>2006482 we're supposed to think the IDF simultaneously has the ability to manchurian candidate sleeper agents to assassinate heavily guarded VIPs in the heart of tehran and get away without being detected but also somehow can't spot a coordinated paramotor attack by hundreds of militants in their literal backyard, hmmmmmmmmm yep no one saw it coming! everyone rally around bibi, who definitely was not about to go to jail
>>2017321 supposedly the IDF can tell who is and isn't a hamas special forces operative with their super quantum entanglement brain wave detectors even if it's a 3 day old infant in the maternity ward that can't speak yet, yet they didn't notice that hundreds of hamas special forces operatives simultaneously ordered and trained on paramotors after receiving coordinated transfers from the IRGC, hmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>1950682 >Can hold more than one person (girlfriend/friends) Women ruin everything, why would I want one gasping randomly every 10 seconds while I'm flying? >Friends Lol, lmao even.
>>1952237 >>1952886 >>1953408 >>2003039 Now I wanna see someone try a pedal-powered hybrid airship: the buoyant lift might reduce the thrust needed just enough to allow human-powered flight.
>>2012270 you don't need power at all to stay airborne, just clever usage of updrafts electric motors are small as fuck https://openppg.com/shop/paramotors/openppg-sp140/ this one weighs 13 kg so someone who weighs in at 70kg can pack this and 7kg of batteries to give him more freedom between updrafts and when they're flat he's still as efficient as someone who weighs in at 90kg in an unpowered paraglider
>>2039666 I’m OP, and I hate Jews. These are Jewish inventions and incredibly dangerously. That’s fine if you want to fly it. But if we collide. My plane and I will do just fine while you’ll be gone. Like motorcycles accidents with cars
>>2039666 nice digits but the real issue here is zionazis, people often get them confused because zionazis will call you antisemitic if they try to steal from you and you say no
>>1950147 Tucker is a textbook sky cowboy so his days are numbered. Anyways what happened to that retard that did flyby AK-47s and fed seagulls to his prop
>>1954415 >give up all your ironworks, steelworks, and manufacturing to china >only hire 80 iq shit skins >durr guess we have to make soldiers fight with hanggliders now lol
we live in a clown world, the rich play with us like children play with videogames.
>>1948669 God man I cannot wait until I can afford one of these. As someone who spends all of their time on /b/ and knows nothing about transportation (bikes, cars, etc) this is my dream vehicle. I dont care if its more dangerous than a car.
>>1954550 no it didn't. mgs4 promised that countries would give another go at the FELIN system and tanks would have legs and jump around and shit and generally be incredibly high tech and that hte only reason we didnt have fully autonomous nuclear-equipped AI battle mechs was because all their traning data was sourced from one mommy dommy who got btfo by an autistic gourmand 20 years prior anyway
>watch air ambulance documentary >helicopter arrives on site of an accident >patient is loaded up >cyclists of the sky show up >helicopter no longer allowed to take off >cyclists of the sky do not respond on the radio
It would be more accurate to call them the E-bike riders of the sky. Much like how the only reason people ride e-bikes is because they're too retarded to get a proper electric motorcycle license, paramotorists are simply too mentally retarded to get a proper drivers license, and neither of them respect the rules of their given forms of transportation