Hi all,
I have just joined this forum. I fly a powered parachute in Belize, that's in Central America, at the Yucatan Peninsula, right below Mexico on the Caribbean Coast. Quite a way from Australia.
I got my PPC almost 2 years ago, and have enjoyed it since. I have logged about 150 hours to date. Mostly I fly in the early morning hours, where the wind is calm. Most days after 7.00/8.00 o'clock it gets bumpy and at times quite windy as the temperature goes up. The area I take of from is the lawn right behind my house, so that can't be much better.
I'm a farmer, and uses the PPC quite a lot to inspect the fields, mostly bananas, but also rice and oranges. It is realy usefull for me to be able to fly over the fields, you see so much more and in a much wider perspective, than if you walk inside the plantations, where you hardly can see more than 75-100 ft ahead.