Microlight flying - low level along the Norfolk coast

[carot2003]

Nice video..

[alanheath]

What a fantastic experience. I won't be trying it though. I can imagine it is just the sort of thing that I would become obsessed with - as if land travel did not already obsess me enough!!

Absolutely marvellous watching it! Thanks!!

[airmanbooker]

So I've met another FAR 103 pilot named Gary, that loves good hip hop in his flight videos! Nice!

[BiggerThinking1]

honestly how high are the odds of a mechanical failure sending u plummeting like a rock cos id love to do it but scares shit out of me!

[Metllerr]

@BiggerThinking1 Well, all things fun generally carry some element of risk, but the likelihood of engine failure is pretty small. If it happens at a normal height then there's plenty of time to pick somewhere to land - this is one of the things you'll be trained to do anyway. As for flying at very low level, I was flying flat out so that I could trade speed for height if necessary and I'd have dropped it on the beach ahead and to the side of me. Much less risky than riding a motorbike I'd say.

[alanheath]

@Metllerr I think people are afraid of things they do not understand. Like when people will not go somewhere because there was a terrorist bomb ignoring the fact that the risk of getting killed in a car accident is a thousand times greater. We have all seen car accidents, the mangled wrecks afterwards and some of us have seen dead bodies afterwards. But it does not stop us driving.

Having said that, I have had engine failue in a car and I do appreciate the point here!

[joziguy]

Brilliant!

[cruisinbysom]

Hey Gary, great vid, looks a brill place to fly low level, a quick question ... is that some sort of heater you've got piped into the cockpit?

[Microlightgary]

Thanks very much - it is (just have to keep your eyes open to comply with the 500' rule) The plane's been replaced a couple of years now, but yup its a heater. Standard sort of thing with a casing around an exhaust pipe and a hose from there into the cockpit. Worked a bit but not nearly enough to keep the cockpit warm against all those entry pointsin the X-Air ! Used to hold my hand up to the outlet and that was ok though...

[Infiltrator2K]

Best ultralight video I've seen yet :) Thanks for the upload

[xairflyer1969]

Great video, nice aircraft.

[helimeal]

Nice! So whats the performance like on the Falcon? Once went up in an Xair 582, ok but a bit slow.

[Microlightgary]

Hiya, try both if funds will allow! If not, flex flying is more of an immediate buzz; think motorbike v car here. If I could afford it I'd have both, but am sticking with 3-axis for now, Really, really down to personal preference. Happy flying, I'm sure you'll love whichever you choose : )

[tomdavis1986]

what are they like to fly compared to a thruster

[Microlightgary]

Sorry Tom, never flown a Thruster, although my 1500 hr + instructor loved the X-Air Falcon, comparing it very favourably to the Thruster, particularly that great X-Air suspension. Horses for courses; if they were the same price I'd choose the Thruster Sprint for build quality and no Dacron skins, but as they're not, I'd choose an X-Air Falcon and bank the difference. Unless I was instructing of course when its a Thruster or nothing I'm afraid!

[xairflyer1969]

Excellent video, hope you post many more, happy flying.

[slaurence1]

Nice flying, have flown there myself in my Quantum 912. There is always someone who is going to say 500ft rule!

[pg200]

Remember height = Safety!!!

[lunarmodule5]

Great video! Nice to see my home county from up on high!

[adelus555]

waaaaaaaaaaaww

[merseysidestomper]

Cool what peir did you fly over.

[Microlightgary]

Its Southwold, near Lowestoft

[barham1000]

great vid m8, nice low flying!