Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:21 pm
#1734463
To gyrocopter/auto gyro - or not.
Got a colleague who does 3-axis ULM, delta, **** powered parachute thingy etc. He’s colour blind, so never thought of PPL.
I’m not in the situation to fly SEP much (in fact - at all); young kids, busy life etc.
We both kinda agreed we love flying- and in fact “learning to fly”.
I’ve tried 3-axis ULM once; it was for me the equivalent of driving a skittish bare bones 1.0L Vauxhall Nova versus a Lycosaur 3 or 5 series BMW. Not an unpleasant experience, certainly better than nowt - but it just didn’t “click” for me.
Nothing at all against the pilots who fly ULM, and that I made clear to my colleague- it just somehow didn’t “work” for me.
Moving past the ULM thing, he said, the closest he’s had to having “motorcycle in the sky” is the delta.
I’ve never ridden a motorcycle, and never will - delta don’t appeal to me; yet autogyro do.
I’m (again) seriously considering taking up autogyro training.
Has much changed in the past couple of years? An autogyro with enclosed canopy - to me at least - looks effin good fun.
Got a colleague who does 3-axis ULM, delta, **** powered parachute thingy etc. He’s colour blind, so never thought of PPL.
I’m not in the situation to fly SEP much (in fact - at all); young kids, busy life etc.
We both kinda agreed we love flying- and in fact “learning to fly”.
I’ve tried 3-axis ULM once; it was for me the equivalent of driving a skittish bare bones 1.0L Vauxhall Nova versus a Lycosaur 3 or 5 series BMW. Not an unpleasant experience, certainly better than nowt - but it just didn’t “click” for me.
Nothing at all against the pilots who fly ULM, and that I made clear to my colleague- it just somehow didn’t “work” for me.
Moving past the ULM thing, he said, the closest he’s had to having “motorcycle in the sky” is the delta.
I’ve never ridden a motorcycle, and never will - delta don’t appeal to me; yet autogyro do.
I’m (again) seriously considering taking up autogyro training.
Has much changed in the past couple of years? An autogyro with enclosed canopy - to me at least - looks effin good fun.