Here is the first post to ppgwings groups. I hope we can get the designers to share there information here as I believe it will be beneficial to us all. I...
I have flown a Sting Powerplay 160 for 3.5 years. I have a Paramania Revolution on order. The sting is and was a great glider, and would reccomend it highly....
Mike, Your choice of words is definitely the clearest and least likely to cause confusion. FAST / SLOW Set it in concrete now, after all you are the boss! Best...
In a message dated 4/11/2006 9:04:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, billgkerr@... writes: I heard it defined as Trimmers On, Off, In, Out, Fast, Slow. To...
Here's my two cents...since we fly powered pgs the main purpose of the trim tabs is to "trim" the wing to counter act the prop torque. So I tend to use the...
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I'm easily confused, can we please keep it as Fast and Slow trim, anyone without an adjustable harness could call it asymmetrical fast and slow, it would be...
hey good idea for a group. I have been paramotoring since 2000, and fly both inland thermal flights and smooth beach air along the south shore of long island....
Dave, I have one on order also. Cant wait. In the files section you can see two files dealing with a demo weekend I held last fall. Independent pilots opinion...
The photo on the home page is of Ryan Smith(power atlas) and myself, Powerplay Sting. I would like to change this photo about twice a week so if you have on ...
I fly a Kompress with an Apco Thrust. I find the Thrust a great pleasure to fly. It's not quite as fast as my friends Eden II, about 2 mph less. It's very...
Dave, I have been lurking on the LIPG site, and get daily emails from Phillipe. I really want to free fly this year and I am planning on making a trip up there...
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hello Mike, All long post [supper fast flying} YES YES YES the revolution is au some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! flew today on the beach 20 to 1200 ' over an hr....
On reflex wings it's improper to use the trim tabs to counter torque. Even on non-reflex wings I would weight shift, adjust the harness or the motor mount to...
Max, The reason trim tabs are present on motor wings is so pilots can adjust the wing for torque. Free-flight wings typically don't have trim because they can...
... Max, The reason trim tabs are present on motor wings is so pilots can adjust the wing for torque. Hi Bruce, Respectfully, there is more than one use of...
Max Trikes don't weight shift too good. How do you adjust the motor mount to counter torque? Jerry ... torque. Even on non-reflex wings I would weight shift,...
... torque. Even on non-reflex wings I would weight shift, adjust the harness or the motor mount to counter torque. Trim tabs for me are to adjust the flight...
At parastars this year I told MCJ that when I fly, I adust my right trimmer to conteract torque, I could tell right away that he did not agree for my use of...
Sorry Jerry, not to counter cruise torque. Acceleration torque can be countered by washers under the left or right engine mounts. Usually this is properly...
It's funny to hear all of you talk about torque. That was solved over ten years ago by the DK folks in Japan. If you take a look at a DK frame you will see the...
Robert Interesting comments. I wonder why the other engine manufacturers have not similarly addressed the torque issue. With the smaller engines it's not as...
Jerry, My guess is the engine manufactures are too busy copying each others bad and ugly designs to stop and think outside the box. Just because a unit is old...
Hi Mike, I also ordered my revolution through jose at aerolight, i'm getting the 28, gold ground color. did you join the lipg?, it's well worth it, a good...