How Much Wind SHOULD You Fly A Paramotor In?

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Clean your sensor dawgie :)

Thanks Trevor. Do you have a preferred app that provides accurate wind speed and gust information?

Thanks Trevor as a new pilot after training on my own now with no one to fly with i have to make all the fly no fly decisions i never received instructions in class on when to fly this helps thanks loved your kitting class in Texas

Good video Trevor.

Great info. Thanks Trevor!

Looks like your camera has a lot of spots.

Your cutoff ranges sound very nice. I find my favorite takeoffs are right around 4-5mph. If the wing is self inflating on the ground and i’m having to fight it, it’s not as much fun. I’m a flatlander… but 8mph still sounds a bit much on the ground.

Excellent advice! As usual!!

I went to Aviator PPG last year but your knowledge has been an awesome resource for secondary opinions for me so to say. Still working on getting equipment but just bookmarked this in case I ever need a refresh 🤘

What about safe kiting thresholds?

Very good advice for beginners. Great that you covered gusts as well.
Remember though that a +5MPH gust can quickly turn into a 5MPH drop in average wind speed… “Drop” being the operative word here.
Keep those legs down in gusty weather till you are well clear of the ground!
Yeah… I’m experienced alright.. 😂

Truth! 😘

Thanks for the video. I did not receive a lot of information with my training and have been learning as I go. Would have liked to have that information in my training.

good advice! i am flying by the same rule.
now go and clean that camera sensor. 😅👍☝

Thank you Trev, for sharing ur knowledge with us! highly appreciated

Very good instructions here thanks

Good info but you didn't cover one more factor - winds aloft. The wind gradient is an important consideration - winds may be acceptable at ground level but totally different 1,000 ft up. Often I see wind speeds of greater than 20 mph at 1,000 when surface (flat land) winds are in the 8-10 mph range - that's my cutoff. I don't want to get up at altitude and see my ground speed slow to a crawl or be forced to fly at very low altitudes to escape the wind.

Great info! I didn’t get hard numbers or ratios like this in my beginner training. Thanks Trevor, see you next week at advanced training in SS

Thank you very much for the video! Is that your advice for the wohle day or is it different on for example midday when there are thermics?

Great post. You can't be too careful when it comes to flying. Sometimes the hardest thing to do in this sport is to say, "no, not today".

THANK YOU!! for taking time and making this video, it helps.

Good range I feel as a new PPG pilot! Great video Trevor. Your videos are getting better and better 🍻

Appreciate your training videos, but real life training has no substitute. Thank you for your patience with my fear of heights thing, but when you said stay over there, 20 min later- still hovering in the same spot- I had the best seat on the beach, and lost a significant chunk of my fear! So windy here in Florida lately, can’t wait to get up again in a couple of days! Thanks for this video!

Just to add to the gust comment that Trevor said, I usually don’t like to fly over a 3 mph gust spread. Anything over than that you’re going to have a bad time lol. I live in Wisconsin so there is hills and trees so you get turbulence off that but regardless I always found anything over 3 mph gust spread can get pretty gnarly sometimes.

That's so valuable. Thank you.

One of the things that worries me about getting into this sport is the wind. I live in a windy state. I don't think there's ever a time when the wind isn't blowing 10 mph lol.

which is ideal? if 0mph is not good?, isnt it hard to pull the wing up? and very fast when landing?

Problem is, you can't go anywhere in high winds and get back!