by Jeff Goin | Apr 28, 2019 | Reviews: Other
Walk and roll! Adding wheels to a paramotor can make it a whole different craft and there are many flavors. My experience suggests that transitioning to wheels is easy provided the pilot heeds some simple advice as covered in the Powered Paragliding Bible and your...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 12, 2019 | Reviews: Other
Rescue systems are now available from both the air and the water. Auto Inflation Auto-Inflation Device: About Agama | Resetting the Agama I put the Agama system to a realistic test (see the results here) and it passed with floating colors. Don’t bet your life on...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 20, 2013 | Reviews: Other
Since our props are fixed pitch the tachometer is a direct measurement of power. Of course you don’t know the absolute hp (have to know torque) but if you’re putting out a higher RPM, you’re pushing harder. So if you’re gonna have only one...
by Jeff Goin | Mar 5, 2013 | Reviews: Other
2013-Mar-05 This is a multi-purpose device that, besides offering the usual RPM/CHT/EGT/Time, it most uniquely, adds a fuel level indicator system. The fuel tank pickup gives fine level measurements using an ingenious tube-in-tube sensor that goes in through the top...
by Jeff Goin | Dec 27, 2012 | Reviews: Other
A cool new way to see your actual fuel flow has been on the market now for at least a year and I got to try it out a few months ago. Here are my observations. The Tiggy Fuel Monitor gives the pilot a direct read of the fuel actually flowing to his motor. It is, to my...
by Jeff Goin | Feb 4, 2012 | Reviews: Other, Reviews: Paramotors
Leon Wacker of Paracruiser has been building machines for others for years along with offering a variety of packages through his own company. He is a tinkerer, too, and enjoys coming up with clever solutions to common problems. In this case, the problem of an easily...
by Jeff Goin | Jan 12, 2011 | 15: Advanced Ground Handling, Reviews: Other
This is a compilation of the early reviews from when the video first came out. All the videos have been done to the same quality but we didn’t bother collecting comments from them. From Paramotor Magazine: Several years in the making, Jeff Goin’s latest...
by Jeff Goin | May 16, 2009 | Communications, Reviews: Other
There are over a dozen aviation radios on the market and the beauty is, if your headset or helmet uses the standard aviation plugs, it will probably work all aviation radios as described below. If it uses a proprietary plug then it will only work with that one radio....
by Jeff Goin | Aug 30, 2007 | Reviews: Other
Robin Rumbolt is an electronics engineer and paramotor pilot. He offers this information up to a sport that struggles to communicate effectively while airborne. First of all, I have to admit to you that I am an ICOM junkie. I own six of their radios, five handheld�s...
by Jeff Goin | May 16, 2007 | Reviews: Other
Helmets protect both brains and ears. They should be comfortable and provide good sound attenuation while allowing radio communications. The latter grieves the designers more than anything, it seems, since there are so many radios with equally varied connectors....
by Jeff Goin | May 16, 2004 | Entertainment, Reviews: Other
Glen Boyd purchased his PPG helmet, including a push-to-talk (PTT) in 2004. He offered up this humorous treatment of radio use during his training. It was funny enough to land in “Entertainment but is sufficiently informative to include in reviews. He wrote: The...
