One of the great things about paramotors, you can just fly
until you run out of fuel, then land.

Roberto

"Luke Scharf" <luke@vt.edu> wrote in message news:pan.2002.09.28.03.01.17.175640.4115@vt.edu...
> As a powerplane guy who uses his watch instead of the fuel gages, I'd much
> rather land with some extra fuel than have to deadstick the Cessna 172
> that I rent into a field somewhere.
>
> Of course, I'm reading this group to find out how other folks do things...
> :-)
>
> -Luke
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:51:53 -0400, Roberto wrote:
> > Aren't we talking about paramotors? There's no way you could use burn
> > rate on those little suckers. In an airplane, you generally climb,
> > cruise, and descend, whereas paramotor flying is "to each his own",
> > where you might be climbing full throttle and then idling down, or you
> > might maintain altitude, or you might be going up and down over and
> > over.
> >
> > The power necessary to maintain altitude is quite variable, also, being
> > affected to a large degree by inherent lift/sink in the air.
> >
> > - Rob

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