Been lurking on here for about six months now and decided to introduce myself.
I'm in my earlish 30's and have been slowly learning to fly paramotors over the last 2 and a half years. Have several flights under my wings (no pun intended) and have decided that i want to also pursue the free flight route.
I did a days course approx 8 years ago at Powburn with rocket Ron on hangliders and reliased that to get a licence was going to cost me over £1500 at the time. I couldn't justify that kind of money after buying my first house, so gave up on the idea.
Then about 2.5 years ago i got my van stickered up and the guy had a screen saver of a paramotor on his desktop. To cut a long story short, 3 months later i had a 60hour old av8er corsair blackdevil and a i splashed out on a new Dudek Synthesis 34 wing.
I had 3-4 flights before suffering a horrendous motorcycle accident and breaking the following.
4 ribs in numerous places
left hand
nose shattered
chin bone fractured
shattered sternum
broken back in 12 places.
I was also dead on the side of the road and had cpr my 2 passers by.
I have since had two veratbrae and a rib removed. The verabrae have been replaced with titamium cages and i have full movemnet back, but still still have pain.
So that put a stop to PPG for a while.
Was almost having my first PPG flight a few weeks ago but due to motor problems i didn't take off.
Anyway, enough of the bable. I'm wanting to probably join this group of paragliders and get my CP to be able to freefly.
I was going to use Gordie who seems like a stand up kind of bloke. Yes he's in the lakes but i can hopefully make the most of the weekend.
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello and hopefully make the next meeting.
Louis
