2021 Championship documentary – part 3
The final part of Dan’s epic journey…
Learning
Help and guidance on preparing equipment, maps, and task planning for entering a paramotor championship.
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2021 Championship documentary – part 2
Second instalment of Dan Jones’s experience from newbie to podium.
2021 Championship documentary – part 1
Dan Jones documents his journey…
What to expect…
Watch the highlights from the 2021 championship
Read MoreHow to… Score points in competition tasks
First time competition pilot in 2020, Daniel Jones has produced this fantastic breakdown on the strategy and structure of Paramotor competition tasks. If spending a few pleasant summer days testing and developing your pilot skills on these kind of challenges sounds…
How to… mark minutes of travel on a map
Paul Martin outlines the essentials of how to plan precision navigation tasks.
Read MoreHow to… Plan airspeed/groundspeed for tasks
British Team Pilot and twice British National Paramotor Champion Paul Martin explains how to plan atask in which you need to declare when you’ll arrive at certain turnpoints along a predefined flight path. The article was originally published in Skywings December…
How to… Make a Map Board 2
For anyone wanting to utilise a paper map while flying a paramotor, a map board is essential. A good one provides a flat, stable surface that allows the map to be attached, and is able to turn to orientate the…
How to… make and use a map board
British Team pilot Mike Page (3rd place in British National Paramotor Championships 2019) presents the fourth in his excellent Nav School video series, explaining how to make and use a map board in flight Our thanks to Mike Page for contributing this video.
How to… plan or re-plan navigation in-flight
British Team pilot Mike Page (3rd place in British National Paramotor Championships 2019) presents the third in his excellent Nav School video series, explaining how to plan or replan your flights in the air, as you make on-the-fly decisions in course planning. Our…
How to…Fly accurate visual navigation flights
British Team pilot and Mike Page (3rd place in British National Paramotor Championships 2019) presents the second in his excellent Nav School video series, with live footage of how to fly accurately the route he planned in the previous video. Our…
How to… Plan visual navigation flights
British Team pilot and Mike Page (3rd place in British National Paramotor Championships 2019) presents the first in his excellent Nav School video series. Lesson 1 covers the basics of precision visual navigation planning. Although the lesson is based around slow speed precision…