by Jeff Goin | Apr 20, 2019 | 35: Preserving the Sport, Paramotor Pariahs
It turns out that paramotors and skittish prey don’t mix. Given that hunters gravitate to the same times of day as we do and frequently at the same times, it might be good to learn where they’re likely to be. Bullets fly. We fly. We’d rather not meet...
by Jeff Goin | Sep 25, 2014 | Paramotor Pariahs
It should come as no surprise that Dell Schanze has managed to define yet another low in the business ethics of powered paragliding. Nobody has even come close to being this clueless or classless. In an effort to dupe the gullible into thinking there is, in fact,...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 20, 2013 | Paramotor Pariahs, Ultralights
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...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 16, 2013 | Paramotor Pariahs
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...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 10, 2012 | Paramotor Pariahs
Setting the Record Straight About Powered Paragliding’s Loudest, Most Dishonest Mouth | PPG Truth Discussion Group Dell Schanze strikes again. This isn’t hunting, it’s torture for the simple pleasure of it. Chasing a bird for a few seconds is one...
by Jeff Goin | Jan 1, 2012 | Paramotor Pariahs
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...
by Jeff Goin | Sep 6, 2011 | Paramotor Pariahs
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...
by Jeff Goin | Sep 19, 2010 | Paramotor Pariahs, Parapinions
Feeling sorry for, but not falling for it I saw this headline and knew exactly who it was written for. Spot on. See also Dell’s many other travesties/dishonesties inflicted on our precious freedom. Unfortunately Dell does great harm to real efforts at improving...
by Jeff Goin | Aug 19, 2010 | Paramotor Pariahs, Parapinions
If you’ve searched for Powered Paragliding on the internet you have, no doubt, come across Dell Schanze, who has made it his mission to inundate YouTube with incessant videos making ridiculously grandiose claims and spewing complete fabrications. Even more...
by Jeff Goin | Oct 3, 2008 | Paramotor Pariahs
Sorry, I just couldn’t take it any more and removed the review due to the extraordinarily unethical behavior of it’s maker. 2010 July 17 The sham that is Dell Schanze goes beyond anything I’ve seen, involving outright lies and jumps of pure fantasy....
by Jeff Goin | Sep 11, 2007 | Paramotor Pariahs
In September, 2007, this report aired in Salt Lake City about Dell Schanze buzzing a commercial tour boat. I’ve said for years that one of paramotoring’s greatest appeals is the lack of a 500 foot minimum distance rule—a requirement followed by nearly all...
