Katy Wingnuts

I needed to replace the bearings inside the main pulley/hub on my Moster 185 plus. I already had an eccentric shaft with bearings pre-installed sitting in my spare parts bin. It was late evening and I wanted to fly the next morning, so I hurried through an attempted repair but ended up damaging my prop hub due to carelessness and impatience. Hopefully sharing is caring.... The sad thing is I'm pretty sure I pulled this same stunt a few years ago. I had a vague memory that told me I needed to be relatively gentle with it, but I was in a hurry and thought I was being more gentle this time..... I wasn't... :) Enjoy

This weekend I went with a couple of my paramotoring buddies and we attended a reserve parachute clinic that was put on by the local hanggliding community. I think all three of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and felt like it was well worth our time. I captured a bit of footage and thought I'd share it here. I open the video with a brief clip from a few years ago when I tried to test a throw on my own and got a bit of a surprise. As you can tell by what happens, I'm the last guy you'd want to get reserve advice from but hopefully sharing this stuff from my perspective can help us all in the long run. Take care, fly safe, and have fun~

I managed to get out to do a little flying at the 2022 Firelake Balloon festival. I was first one in the air this morning and conditions were really nice/calm on the surface but only a couple hundred feet in the air we had ~20mph winds. So the gradient was noticeable making it a bit bumpy and also making it where you didn't want to go downwind much. So.... I put in a short ~1/2 hour flight and then landed and took some footage of the other local flyers that came out this morning. Thanks to everyone for letting a visiting paramotor pilot (me) join you guys!

May 2021 highlights of flights with the Katy Wingnuts

Paramotor flight through the cotton fields

September 2019 Katy Wingnuts Highlights of Paramotor flying