Paramotor noise tests. Powered paragliding with the Flat Top paramotor from U-Turn USA is the quietest manned, powered aircraft on earth. With over a 10:1 glide ratio it requires as little as 5 hp to stay aloft. The engine is almost completely silent as you cannot even hear the motor run past about 1/3rd throttle. All you hear is the hum of the propeller. This propeller is brand new technology from the world’s leading PPG propeller manufacturer. The paraglider flown with a paramotor also make a huge difference in the amount of noise made. Here both the 22sm Eris III RS from Sky Paragliders and the 25sm Airforce from U-Turn are tested back to back to compare nose levels and the acceptability of the pitch created. As you can hear from the unedited audio, the Flat Top 120 with either of these gliders is extremely quiet. For more information on the quietest aircraft the world has ever seen just contact the distributor at http://u-turnusa.com or call them at 801-631-1731 or toll free in the USA at 800-707-2525

Paramotor oopsies are pretty common in powered paragliding. What is completely uncommon is the safety and durability of the Flat Top paramotor. Not only is it the lightest unit in it’s class but the safety and durability are simply unmatched for any ultralight or personal aircraft. Watch closely the slow motion replay and you see just how hard the pilot smacks into the ground but flies away without any damage to himself or the aircraft. There are hundreds of reason for both the lack of damage and the lack of injuries on Flat Top paramotors. Strength and durability of the Flat Top is no mistake:

The frame is made considerably wider than other units. By making the frame wider it makes the cage pieces smaller and the smaller the cage pieces the stronger they are. Next the bottom cage pieces on the Flat Top are smaller than the top. Since the bottom pieces are the most common to bash into the ground this design feature dramatically adds to the strength. Then the whole cage piece is strung with 400 lb strength kevlar line that is integrally riveted right to the cage. Because of the angle of impacts like this, that 5200 lbs of kevlar strength resists the flex on the cage back towards the prop. The cage piece is attached directly to the frame so when you try to flex the outside of the cage piece to the rear you pull on all 5200 lb strength of kevlar directly against the T6 heat treated frame. Remarkable the design works so well that even if you bash in so hard that you literally crush the cage piece inwards it STILL doesn’t flex to the rear. People have been completely dumbfounded to find they hit so hard that they crushed their cage piece INWARD but it did not flex to the rear so the prop was still left undamaged and their protection from the prop was therefore still in tact. Even a crushed Flat Top cage piece still continues to protect the pilot from the spinning prop.

The safety of the pilot was the number one concern when designing the Flat Top. Watch closely how the pilots body never contacts the ground. The exact placement of the crumple zone ensures that the crumple zone will be the first to take an impact and NOT the pilots body. To achieve this there are many many factors. The comfort bars are one of the most important. Just like a roll cage in a car, the crush zone does absolutely nothing unless the driver is strapped securely inside of it. The comfort bars on the Flat Top hold the pilot INSIDE of the crumple zone. They also run the full length of the pilots rib cage all the way down to your hip. So if you smash into the ground you have a huge surface area against your body forcing the crush zones to work. If the “comfort bars” were one single bar then if you did smash into the ground that one bar would be forced right into your ribs with amazing force. Next the comfort bars have to be extremely solid and strong. If your “comfort bars” flex then they completely eliminate any affective crumple zone. Again it would be like no seat belt in your car as it allows your body to just flop into the ground without forcing the crumple zone to crush and absorb impact.

The solid comfort bars of the Flat Top also hold you solidly inside your aircraft for maximum precision. Just like a Ferrari that has a completely form fitting seat that you are securely fastened inside of with a seatbelt, the Flat Top comfort bars give you that complete support so that your Flat Top aircraft moves as you move. It hugs your body just like a race car so when you throw the Flat Top into a maneuver you don’t have your paramotor slopping around such as the tail wagging the dog syndrome of other designs.

Watch closely how the skids catch the weight of the pilot AND paramotor. Instead of the pilot’s body smacking into the ground and the weight of the paramotor crashing down on top of them the Flat Top paramotor does the opposite. It catches you before your body hits the ground and absorbs the impact. People have literally full stalled Flat Tops right into the ground and walked away completely uninjured.

The Flat Top design also prevents the crash and smash. The very low center of gravity pared with the rounded skids & smoothed edges prevents anything from catching and flipping you onto your face. The proper balance of the low certified height hang points along with the above are why this type of incident often results in the pilot just flying away without damage or injury. If you have a high center of gravity with high hang points and sharp points at the bottom of the paramotor then the cage on the bottom wants to catch forcing you forward and into the ground. Then the thrust and high…

At a mere 9 pounds total weight, Dell Schanze is able to carry his entire aircraft on his back.  The k2 paraglider only weighs 7 pounds, the harness only weighs a mere 2 pounds!

“Paragliding St Maartin in the Caribbean with WPSDA Paramotor World Champion SUPERDELL flying his K2 paraglider. Today he studies the mountains until he finds where he thinks the most likely spot will be for the best flight, then hikes the mountain and makes it happen. It takes incredible skill and experience to fully understand weather patterns and conditions and how they interact with the terrain to make the best lift. Here you get to hear first hand how he studies the hills, what he looks for and how he determines where the excellent flying is going to be. For more information on how to gain these skills and the right equipment for the journey head to http://u-turnusa.com or call them at 801-631-1731 or in the USA call Toll Free at 800-707-2525.”

http://u-turnusa.com Paragliding world’s first paraglider flight from the island of St Thomas in the Caribbean! WPSDA World Champion SUPERDELL Schanze pulls off an incredibly impossible launch out of a parking lot overlook, between trees and over a 5 ft railing. Once again wild man SUPERDELL shows his stuff continuing to set records all over the world. Normally found flying the legendary Flat Top paramotors, this time he harnesses the extreme efficiency of the K2 paraglider and uses lift from rising air to make flight possible without a motor at all. The K2 paraglider seen as the biggest advancement in the history of paragliding aids it making the impossible, possible. With incredible glide performance, super easy launch characteristics and an industry setting standard for safety, flight is now possible from the most unusual places. For more information on the products displayed in this video just visit http://u-turnusa.com or call 801-631-1731 or in the USA Toll Free at 800-707-2525

Paramotor World Champion Dell Schanze does his trademark endless wingtip drag winning the WPSDA YouTUBE World Championship by an astonishing amount. No other pilot on earth can currently come close to matching this incredible display of masterful piloting. Powered Skydiving or Paragliding is the power sport for the 21st century. The equipment flown here is the 2010 Limited Edition Flat Top 200 SUPER with the Medium Eris III RS from Sky Paragliders. Incredibly the Flat Top paramotor flown here still maintains the highest safety record for any ultralight aircraft. Zero deaths and only one injury to date have ever occured on this particular model because of the amazingly innovative features.

Paramotor World’s fastest, safest, best handling beginner paraglider!! The K2 from Sky Paragliders is the biggest advancement in the history of paragling. It is the only glider made for paragliding and powered paragliding that will pass all our safety tests even at fast trim. Most gliders literally become death traps if you use the trim tabs on the risers to accelerate. We would warn all out there to be extremely careful of using the trims and get with us or other certified instructors to learn everything about them if you don’t fully understand how they work. Trim buckles lock the glider in an accelerated flight mode decreasing the angle of attack. If you take a collapse on most gliders with the trims out the outcome can be extremely violent and the glider simply may not recover without expert piloting. With the K2 you can see the testing done in one of our previous videos where we collapsed the heck out of it at both trims speed AND fast trim and it completely passed all of our safety requirements. That means with a K2 it is the first glider in history to offer an extreme level of safety even fully accelerated in a paramotor configuration. Watch the handling in this video!!! Another drawback of accelerating many gliders is that you lose not just safety but also handling when you speed the glider up. With the K2 you can flick it around like nothing at all. No other glider we have ever tested can even be compared to the level of safety, speed, handling and ease of launch & landing with the K2. Sky Paragliders has hit a homerun with this new glider changing the entire sport forever. Now the speeds we are seeing on the GPS can be off a bit depending on wind, direction and attitude of glider. Other tests we have performed have shown the K2 slightly slower at between 36-38mph. Even at those speeds it is the only beginner paramotor glider that can reach those speeds while still providing incredible safety. Most gliders if flown in their safest configuration will only reach speeds of about 25-26mph so 36-38 is the biggest advancement we have ever seen in the sport for a pretty much completely stupid proof wing. No other glider can compare to the safety so realistically nothing can be compared to a K2 at this point as there simply are no other gliders in it’s class that we are aware of. For more information on this incredible wing contact the distributors at http://u-turnusa.com or just call 800-707-2525 in the USA or 801-631-1731 outside the USA. If we have to make one recomendation for all current or prospective pilots it would be to get one of these gliders. Beginner or master it makes no difference. The K2 offers the performance the experts dream of along with the safety mandatory for first time flyers.

Red Bull Airforce pilot Othar Lawrence and SUPERDELL Schanze having some fun over Utah Lake with their Flat Top paramotors. This incredible aircraft is becoming extremely popular for adventurists all over the world. It is also extremely valuable for search & rescue, boarder patrol, police & military as well as thousands of other applications. Your own personal inexpensive and safe backpack aircraft can break down to the size of a large suitcase for travel with you anywhere you go. The high end Flat Top paramotor chosen by professionals has pioneered a new industry making the dream of flight a reality for people everywhere with the sport of powered paragliding.

Ok to tune the Flat Top 200/SUPER paramotor first you warm the motor up really good. Then use a screwdriver to tune the low end. If you mash the throttle and the motor instantly revs up then turn it clockwise bit by bit until when you mash the throttle all at once the motor bogs. Once you know where it bogs you then start turning it counter clockwise until you get instant response again and then just another little bit past that. Now hold the motor full throttle and by hand turn the T screw until you can hear the highest rpm of the motor. Then just to check that you have it fairly well balanced you can turn it all the way one way until the motor bogs, then all the way the other. Then set it back close to the center but where you hear the highest rpm of the motor. Now if it still has instant response and runs great you are all done. Or you can go through the same process again starting with the low end. The Flat Top is really easy to tune and once it is tuned it is very unlikely you will ever need to tune it again unless you make a huge change in altitude or the weather changes considerably. Then just go through this same process again. This is the motor to use if you want to take powered paragliding to the next level.