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MikeF Bze

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  1. Some pics from Belize Hi Tony Sorry to dissapoint you, but no visible mayan ruins close to where I fly, but I have attached a few pics from some of my flying to other places. #1 is from a banana area (we grow bananas!). In the back ground you can see a cloud of mist. Thats the crop duster working. Those guys fly realy low. Normally when they ferry (go to or from the mixing station) I stay well above them, you might thing that they out of habit stick so close to ground. #2 is from an early morning flight, where there were low hanging clouds.The mountain tops in the back ground are part of the "Mayan Mountains", which is a range going through parts of Central America. They are not that tall here in Belize, the tallest about 4,500 ft. Mike Bananas and Mountains.doc Bananas and Mountains.doc Bananas and Mountains.doc
  2. Airframes Unlimited Hi all, I fly an Airframes Unlimited, a "no frils" type of PPC. I especially like the way the line risers are attached to the main frame (loading straps, attached with a loop around the main structure, strength more than 5,000 lbs each). It is a single seater, which my friends have complained quite a lot about, infact so much that I'm now in the process of getting a 2-seater. The AFU PPC's are all welded frames, the CG point is a little high compared to others, but had not realy been of any problem to me in the 2 years I've been flying. When ever there is a little wind, you just have to take of/land into the wind and that's it. The engine is a Rotax 447. It's doing well. I have now a little over 150 hours. I live in Belize in Central America, and I'm for the time being the only PPC flyer in the country.... I have attached two pictures of the PPC; one flying and one on the ground (with me drying the chute after an early morning flight and wet grass on the landing..) Oh..and the 2-seater I'm getting is an "Avcat Gobler", very similar to the AFU's. Mike
  3. 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.
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