by Jeff Goin | Dec 26, 2020 | 19: Risk & Safety
This question was posed on a forum that I was included on. The short answer is “yes,” but there’s a lot more to it. A few years ago I was offered this immensely powerful machine to try out. It was normally used for tandems, weighed nearly 100 pounds,...
by Jeff Goin | Nov 24, 2020 | Electric Paramotor
Electrics are coming. They’re quieter, cheaper to operate, have far, far fewer moving parts, don’t struggle to start, and can be fueled from your house or car. Eventually the battery buggaboo that limits range will make them fit the desires of more and...
by Jeff Goin | Nov 16, 2020 | Log: Helicopter, Recent
We carefully ventured out into Covid Country with Ellie, cruising over to, then down the coast of Clearwater and others. Amazingly enough, we’ve never actually done that in anything but a paramotor. This was a good way to do it, too. Airspeed was a blindingly...
by Jeff Goin | Nov 4, 2020 | For Sale, Recent
Selling it all for charity! We have collected a fair amount of book production goodies over the years, because it’s kinda cool to reminisce. But we’ve decided it’s time to part with it, donating the proceeds to paramotor charity Resurgence PPG. The...
by Jeff Goin | Nov 2, 2020 | Accident Reports, Log: Hang Glider, Recent
There I was, enjoying a little cruise about the countryside, visiting many of my local haunts, including a flyby of runway 4 at Kermit Week’s Fantasy of Flight. Just before reaching the intersection of Fantasy’s two runways, I throttled up to climb. ...
