Paramotor Pariahs

Every endeavor has them: people who selfishly claim their “rights” to this or that even though its harmful to others trying to do the same thing. A good example is flying from a sensitive site and tearing it up–making lots of noise and inflicting on one group of people. They will complain, the site owner will be pressured to say “no” to paramotoring, and everybody loses.

In our sport there are two primary contenders. One bills himself as “instructor” but is horrible for most of the unsuspecting people who think “that free training” is remotely a thing. The other is (or was) horribly disrespectful of sites but may have come down from that (as of 2019). Both make many completely false claims that are easily falsifiable.


Powered Skydiving

If you’ve encountered the term powered skydiving, we’d like to clear up what it is. When you add power to a wing it becomes powered (insert wing name). In the case of hang gliding, that’s powered hang gliding. We added power to a paragliding wing and...

Dell Schanze Causes Midair Paramotor Crash

More on Powered Paragliding’s Loudest, Least Honest Mouth Last month the video below came out exposing a 2011 crash caused by Dell Schanze getting tangled in another pilot’s lines. Hooks on Dell’s boots causing the lead pilot’s wing to deform...

Dell Schanze Gets ANOTHER Beach Closed

Setting the Record Straight About Powered Paragliding’s Loudest, Lyingest Mouth He leaves an enormous wake in his path. I was told that Dell was in the San Diego area and local pilots were bracing for the worst. They got it. The particular area he flew, just...

Dell Schanze Strikes again

Sept 06, 2011 Complete Disregard For Others Closes the Entire Oregon Coast To Paramotoring We should not be surprised but we should all be mad as hell. I’ve flown this coast and it’s a beautiful place. Flown respectfully, as it has been for years by Brad...