British Open Paramotor Championship Documentary (2/3)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 22. 07. 2024
- Having attended my first paramotor competition last year, knowing there wasn't much information regarding what classic paramotor competitions are, I decided to film/document my experience of The British Open Paramotor Championship 2020.
I entered into the Club Pilot class. A new class added for the 2020 championship which is aimed at introducing new pilots with lower airtime into the competition scene. I fully support the addition of the Club Pilot class as it provided the perfect base to go from knowing nothing about competitions to how each task can be planned for and completed.
This is part 2 of 3 of the British Open Paramotor Championship Documentary. In this episode we attempt our first competition task (The snake task), learn how the main championship undertake an eco task, try our own eco task and take our BHPA pilot exam. Look out for the exam results, that footdrag take off and my special technique for gaining an extra 2 kph.
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Snake Task Planning
5:57 - Flight Prep
6:56 - Launch! The Snake Task
9:00 - Map Board Problems
10:23 - Going Off Track
12:53 - Landing
13:03 - Learning About The Eco Task
14:38 - Time To Rest Up
16:25 - Snake Task Scores
17:10 - BHPA Pilot Exam
18:35 - Eco Task Breifing
21:36 - Weigh In
21:53 - The Competition Spirit
23:29 - Launch! The Eco Task
27:24 - Off Track Again!
28:23 - Mid Flight Update & Turbulance
28:58 - More Economical Using Speedbar?
30:03 - How To Gain 2 KPH!
30:51 - Landing & Weigh In
32:13 - Fuel Burn Calculation
32:56 - Evening Breifing
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Loving this series, good job.
love these kind of video's. keep them coming.
Glad youâre enjoying them! Last part is out this Saturday at 6pm âșïž
It's nice to see how fast you have progressed. Not only your confidence but your knowledge too. Comps are not for me at all, I get to much anxiety. But you seem to enjoy the pressure. And on top of that still mange to give good content for the viewers.
I need to get up and get some air time. Work is just so busy right now I don't even have time to fart lol.
Well done Dan! Thanks for sharing, look forward to the next one. đ
Thanks Andy, plenty of information in the next one regarding the championship pilots setups đ
Dan, such a useful video to really show the details, the lessons learnt and how it goes first hand. This will be a great resource.
Iâm quite fond of the map board cam although a little wider might have been cool. Itâs been really good to hear people come back and say theyâre now looking to have a go đ
Awesome video Dan! đ€
Haha just replied to your comment on the first video. Iâm glad theyâre coming across well!
Nice job Dan .......
Thank you Wayne, hope to see you soon! Do you fly from the winch site a lot now?
@@DanielJonesParamotor yes and i got 1 to 2 more feels i can fly from
Nice one! Iâve been thinking about popping by the glider site one day for a look đ
Excellent! I'm jealous and bummed that either there isn't anything like this in the US, or that I don't know about it. I may have to plan to come to the 2021 BOPC!
Thereâs a world classic competition so I would have thought there must be a US team? Maybe itâs not as advertised as the huge flying you have out there? This years championships are held at my regular flying site (Wingland Airfield) between 7th-11th July. Because itâs an open competition youâll easily be able to enter!
@@DanielJonesParamotor Thanks for the suggestion! Looks like the 11th FAI World Paramotor Championships will be April 20-30, 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. wpc2022.com.br/en/
I wish there were something more at the level you're starting at in the US. It looks like the USPPA had this organized through 2016, but then it stopped. www.usppa.org/competition/
I'm not quite up to entering the World Championships quite yet... :-) I'd love something closer to home that is well organized but has a Novice entry level group.
@@ooglek yep Brazil is the next one, pretty sure you have to be in a team for worlds. And seems like thereâs opportunity to setup some comps over in the US.
The link you sent over looks very similar to what the comps used to be like here. They changed quite a lot from what I understand for safety reasons like taking away the slaloms over land.
What about looking into running competitions yourself? Get a team together and see if USPPA will help with funding? Maybe just even approach them on the subject? Would be cool to see it get setup again!
@@DanielJonesParamotor I may try to do that. I'm doing an XC with a few friends to a local Fly In in May, I may just learn how to create the maps and choose the routes, then practice following them myself and try to understand things. Is there a website that covers the A-Z for newbs on this front? What it is, what you can and cannot do, etc? I guess I don't know the term(s) for it, so I don't know what to look for.
Maybe time for you to do a intro video not on the mechanics of a lap board but of what it is, what its called, why it is a difficult challenge, general rules, apps that you can NOT look at while in flight but help you score when you are flying independently for practice, etc. Hell, it's a whole series! :-D
Unfortunately thereâs not a one stop shop for everything about classic competitions as theyâre run slightly different everywhere. I can point you in the direction of the British comps website www.ppgcomps.co.uk you can find the task catalogue on there with what task and how theyâre scored. I also did a animated video on each task at the British comp that you might like.
The problem I found when researching classic comps was that there wasnât much of any information about what actually happens there, just some old videos from 4-5 years ago. Thatâs why I filmed this comp, to showcase a different side of flying. If you havenât already, Iâve put all my comp prep videos in a playlist that range from side mounting my reserve to get wing speeds. Thereâs plans in the pipeline to get one of the British national team pilots to co host some how to videos in the future. Iâm a little strapped for time this year because of planning and getting ready to fly the length of the UK but Iâll try my best to get them together đ
Wow awesome, How many months can we use this glider..?
You can fly all year round, it gets a little colder in the winter though!
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