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The best-selling Powered Paragliding Bible takes you from “first sight to first flight” and way beyond. Download as an e-Book here.
Paramotoring is the flying of our dreams, offering exceptional freedom and capability, but carries great risk to the uninformed. That is why our products were created—to offer reliable, digestible, fun information that improves success, safety, and enjoyment.
The best-selling PPG Bible takes you from “first sight to first flight” and way beyond, helping you aviate confidently in the national airspace system while enjoying the ride.
Paramotor pilots enjoy fine control, spectacular views, and practical portability in an affordable package. Experienced pilots make it look easy, and their skill makes it so, but sword-swallowing looks easy—just shove the thing down your throat, right? You bet there’s more than meets the eye!
The PPG bible, along with the Master Series, Airspace, Risk & Reward (video) and other information available here can help you survive and prosper at this incredible trip to the skies. Plus, we’ll try to keep you entertained in the process. This is, after all, all about fun.
For experienced pilots wanting to teach, we worked with top instructors to develop the 400-page Paraglider & Paramotor Instructor Book.
Visit our Educational section to see topics organized by Chapters in the book. Chapter 19, for example, is all about risk management. Use the menu above to click on “Educational.”
Education
Articles Organized by Chapters of the Powered Paragliding Bible and For Troubleshooting Problems.
We are all about education. Besides the book, we strive to make this website a repository of useful, reliable information for pilots starting or continuing their life aloft.
As such, we’ve provided several areas that get updated periodically, adding to what’s in the PPG Bible. Sometimes it’s detail that could be distracting when just learning.
There are also extra chapters that cover even more material that didn’t warrant inclusion in the book.
Recent Articles
Accident analysis, events, and musings on the sport are added on a periodic basis.
Mx: Redrive & Clutch Problems
Problem Possible solution or link. Calculating Redrive Ratio If you have a paramotor for which you don't know the ratio you can calculate it using one of several methods, measure the radius (or diameter) or count the teeth. Here are the details of each method. ...
Paraglider Care
Paragliders are like film. Remember that? They like it cool, dry and dark. Care is sweetly simple--keep them reasonably clean, don't stuff or fold tightly, and get them inspected periodically. The paraglider is more important than the motor in that it's failure would...
Does Avgas run Cooler in a Paramotor?
Testing the difference in running temperature between car gas and av gas There's a lot of dispute as to which is better to run in your paramotor, avgas or mogas (as in motorcar), especially with the higher ethanol content of mogas. But one claim is significant: that...
Transitioning from Motor to Freeflight
Launch and landing sites are frequently in tight spaces with little room to maneuver. Plus, you may be sharing the site, especially launch, with numerous other pilots. It's not the place to have marginal wing handling skills. The USHPA has a ratings program where the...
Transitioning from Freeflight To Motors
A day with a good motor instructor will be money well spent. The PPG bible devotes an entire chapter but here are some of the things you want to learn. 1. Learn about the extreme risk of getting injured by the prop. There's more to it than meets the eye. 2. You must...
Essential Reading
Powered Paragliding Bible 6
(available Here)
The widely acclaimed authoritative source on powered paragliding encompasses everything from first sight to first flight. It combines knowledge and wisdom from the multiyear #1 ranked pilot in the U.S., and many of the sport’s leading instructors. More importantly, it comes from a passion to get reliable knowledge in the hands of those who want it.
Master Powered Paragliding DVDs
the most amazing way to fly ever devised
Paramotors aren’t fast, they take a lot of effort to launch, they require an associate degree in two stroke mechanics and don’t allow you to carry much. So what’s the big deal?