There's 2 guys here in the states with KZfaq channels that fly paramotors and one of them went to 10,000' and the other went to 17,000' (with oxygen)

Not sure who you're replying to or who you got your info from... but as far as I can tell from reading FAR Part 103, there's no maximum altitude for ULs, only airspace restrictions. They can only fly in class G and E airspace. (with certain limitations for E) Class E goes as high as 18 000' so that would be the max altitude as far as I can tell.

pjd412 Legal to fly to 17,999’ class A starts at 18,000

@WalterRamjet HeroOfOurNation Not to mention, the Transponder rule. ALL aircraft above 10,000 feet, must have a mode C capability. A lot of fast traffic at 10k.

@@mmatt FAR 91.215 (i) In all airspace at and above 10,000 feet, a Mode C, or S Transponder is required. If this rookie wants to fly that high, he should go through the extensive training that us licensed pilots do. Remember, at 10,000 ft, the speed restriction comes off, and he is the only one puttering along like a model A!

I know right...? He must have absolutely no life.... ;-) :-P

@@mmatt XD

mmatt 😂

@@mmatt I have no life. I still answer to some Space Shuttle Challenger disaster findings that were asked about 12 years ago. It is not as if we will ever meet. This is not real life. It is just a video sharing network that encourages commentary. If you have no life, such as the subject person or myself, why not answer correspondence that is old. I left a time capsule in a wall of my childhood home. Inside a metal ammo cannister I left a Rubick's Cube, a mix music cassette with the music of the time, all the coins of the year plus a five dollar bill, a Polaroid photograph of the house as it was in 1986, an E.T. Atari 2600 game cartridge, some fossils, buckeye, an old microcasstte recorder with me voicing greetings and felicitations from 1986 in Spanish, French, and English, the keys to a 1979 Chrysler Newport, an old RadioShack crystal controlled scanner with the frequency crystals for the local weather service, 49.890 Mhz, 152.3 Mhz, and 460.5 Mhz. The original front door Skeleton key to the original front door that was put in the attic after the door was modernised is in there also. My favorite thing I left in the ammo box was a handheld pocket LED electronic game called Cosmic 2000. I almost did not leave it because I loved it. But I am glad I did. I have no life. There is nothing wrong with that.

like you?

huh?

Indrid Cold Look up “The Gimli Glider”. One of the first 767’s was under fuelled, they landed at a disused airport. Captain was a glider pilot.

Thank you for sharing that event. Just read the wikipedia on the incident. Unbelievable! Had no idea a passenger jet could actually glide if need be! The Airbus lost 2000 feet per minute during its glide-approach to the airport. Very intense to say the least! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

I wonder at what altitude would you need suplimental oxygen, cold weather clothing?

​@@gordondeitz7838 While the clothing probably depends on the day, I know the FAA requires supplimenal oxygen for periods over 30 minutes at 12,500 feet or higher. Or for pilots any time above 14,000 feet.

@@Spartan136 👍 cool thanks fo the info.

Good day SIR, IN UNiform. My father was Polish. mother Eastern Moldova (Bessarabia) Great MOTHERLAND. Check eLazair, we Are CANADIAN made 1961. Nice to know you

Ed Guhl I am also Canadian made, Polish father and British mother. Same year in Ontario. Interesting coincidence. I flew north of Pickering with a retired CAF pilot until his ultralight training business went bankrupt. Lots of fun though.

Looks like he just strapped wings and an engine on a kiddy ride at the local county fair. 😂

That's not a bad rig up, but I think flying above dense trees should be treated like flying over open water. If done at all only done at a combination of altitude and terrain that allows you to reach a decent LZ. Just an opinion, and I'm sure both types of terrain are unavoidable for at least some part of the flying population.

queue the guinness cartoon: BRILLIANT! for real. If I ever get an ultralight and it's pull start (it probably will be to save weight for something else like additional fuel)... it darn sure will have the ability to pull start from the seat.

I'm in.

mmatt this video was so cool, you’re the man.

Yeah! Wow! The third dimension will really light the game up! Also flying all the way to the scene of the crash with a paint ball in your eye will thin out the weekend warriors.

Thanks for the comment! I just try to remember that there are many more non-pilots out there than pilots and so I can't expect them to know everything about flying. There are definitely a lot of misconceptions out there!

mmatt you were in perfect control had the airport/runway in sight at all times and there was no danger to people or property . There is nothing wrong with what you did. Do not listen to the neigh sayers keep doing what you love!!!!

LOL! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)

My thoughts exactly

That is awesome. How long did you train before your first flight? I have talked myself into buying a ultralight so I am looking for some knowledge from new and experienced alike.My dad used to fly (still can just hasn't in a while) and his dad. And my moms dad was a pilot as well.It might be in my blood.

I had about four hours of flight instruction and was told that I was ready to solo. I wasn't very comfortable about that, so a did about 50 hops back and forth along the strip climbing up to a max of about 150 ft. On the highest flight I knew that I was too high to land back on the strip so I had to choose between landing on the field beyond the strip (uncool) or keep climbing. This was how I did my first official solo. The second one was the flight I described on my previous post.

That is awesome.I am now looking for ultralight instructors near me.I was thinking about just trying it, but a little help never hurt anyone. It is hard to find ultralights and instructors around where I live, and very rarely even see any flying. I found a guy selling 2 ultralights for a good deal, but I only want one and he will not separate them. I really want a quicksilver or clone.

@Jack Casey From your comment, I can see that you are sad, bitter person with no sense of humour. Just for the record, in the last two sentences of my comment, I was actually making fun of myself.

Jeremy White, do it. I'm near 70 and have been getting back into shape. I'm thinking of doing PPG. Seriously, do it.

@@mky9227 The best way to live in life is to live it fearlessly. That way at least you can say you lived your life and not that it was lived for you. Bless all.

@@mky9227 thats why you make sure you don't have kids or have to pay a lot of bills

@@mky9227 yeah exactly. I am 22. I am not gonna start with kids until i am 35. If ever at all. The world we live in, it isnt very nice

Thanks for the comment! I try to produce the best quality picture I can but many people have told me that the content and story are way more important. I gotta keep working on the story part...

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)

I still get that feeling every now and then even watching my own videos. Funny that I didn't notice it while I was flying.

mmatt I know and it doesn’t make sense really. I was telling a viewer that I can’t stand looking off a building and can NOT watch videos of the guys who climb tower cranes or antennas and do chin-ups hanging off etc. Yet I taught rope rescue and flew many hours (with doors)! It’s just certain heights that get me. I think it being in control of the plane that gives a sense of security I guess ??

Ya, probably. That an knowing that you're strapped in with a seatbelt.

Glad you liked it! :-) Go get flying if that's what you want to do. My only regret is that I didn't do it sooner!

Well, because theres less oxygen ;)

Well that was corny as hell lol

Sounds like an adventure! Thanks for sharing! :-)

@@mmatt It was an adventure, but I flew my Quicksilver MX for 20 years and had a lot of adventures. The most memorable adventure happened when I was a new ultralight pilot. I met an old pilot they called Vern at the Perris California airport in the early Eighties. Vern was a "character" in his late eighties. Vern wore a WWI style leather helmet and claimed to have flown biplanes in WWI, which was possible given his age at the time. Vern wanted me to fly over to the Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival with him, he said it would be fun to get a close-up look at the colorful hot air balloons from the air. I was hesitant, because I hadn't strayed far from the airport at that time, but I finally agreed to follow him. When we got to the festival, not a single balloon was in the air. I found out later that gusty winds had grounded the balloons and the crowd was getting drunk, bored and restless without the air show. Suddenly, Vern decided to land in a big open field next to the festival. I didn't want to land, but I wasn't sure how to get back to the airport without following Vern, so I came down behind him. With the balloons grounded, we were the only entertainment at the festival and what seemed like thousands of bored festival goers came running out into the field to greet us. Vern climbed up on his plane and started waving to the crowd and giving a speech while people were cheering us. You'd think Lindbergh had just landed in Paris! While Vern was basking in glory, I noticed that a line of official looking Jeeps were headed our way with flashing lights and I started to worry. It was the Temecula police and we were in trouble, because it turned out that we landed in a field inhabited by some little field mouse that was an endangered species protected by a California law. The police said we were responsible for possibly killing thousands of the field mice by attracting a large crowd into the field and they refused to let us take off while they decided what to do with us. The cops finally decided to make us completely disassemble our planes and haul them out on trailers as punishment. I was much younger than Vern, so I volunteered to hitchhike back to the airfield to get my trailer and drive it back. I got several rides, but I also had to do a lot of walking, so it took hours to get back to the airport. To my surprise, Vern was having a beer and relaxing in his lawn chair when I got to the airport. His ultralight was tied down and in one piece. He said the cops hung around for an hour or two and then they left, so he jumped into his plane and took off. When I returned to the festival grounds the next day, the cops had returned and they were so pissed off that Vern got away Scott Free that they sat and watched me tear down my plane and load it on the trailer. Then, I had to tow it back to the airport and put my plane back together, while old Vern sat in his lawn chair, drinking a cold beer, and laughing his ass off. About a year later, Vern crashed his plane and died when a sudden wind gust pushed him into the side of a mountain during a landing. He probably died instantly, because the paramedic told me the stick went straight through Vern's heart.

Well that went from 100 to zero really quick! Great story though.... Like I always say, adventures are often most fun when they're all over.

Thanks! Those sound like fun planes to fly!

mmatt Yes. Especially the Lazair with twin Pioneer 100cc chainsaw engines. Google Lazair. Very interesting.

Thanks! :-)

Sims are a ton of fun! I must have thousands of hours on X-Plane!

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I wish I had started way sooner too. It's super fun. :-)