Horrific Powered Parachute Crash- Well, maybe not "Horrific"

Self taught powered parachute pilot finds out its better to spend the dough for lessons by a pro. This was the 3rd "incident" for this self taught pilot.

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• rotax

[222delta1]

Do You Have To Have A Sports License To Fly This??? or can you buy one and fly it for fun?

[althe111]

@222delta1 You can buy and fly, it must meet specific weight limits. Search for powered parachute. The one in the video was a Airframes Unlimited out of Texas.

[JetPilott]

Not even a crash, much less horrific... Although the deception has gotten you 90,000 views, so I guess the mislabeling worked :)

[xlqex]

No, that's called sitting in a chair and doing nothing.

[RedDevilSquadron]

im a PPC pilot myself...what happened here was he didn't bring up his RPM enough to maintain the proper glide slope on approach, so naturally he slammed into the ground...

[monkey298]

This thing would get you so laid at burning man. Just ask some hammer "Hey, im gonna go fly in the sky, wanna join me?"

[fabio4756]

Why?

[heymynameistyler]

put a v8 on it, it will fly for sure

[Terryblount]

The judge ... in fact two of them .... examined the case and BOTH of them awarded me $6000 that don stutts never paid.... for an ENGINE that he was unauthorized to sell.  Had nothing to do with the airframe. Get the facts right.

[billzair]

@Terryblount

There are alot of afu machines out there flying perfectly fine. We"ve all heard how you cut up your machine, stuffed fiberglass tube into it and wonder why the guy wouldnt warranty the machine.Geez, give it up already bro.

[NYdrone]

Too much McDonald's and Burger King.

[Terryblount]

@TheNovaAxon They are dangerous because anytime your butt gets higher than your head you have to be careful. That's why OSHA requires fall protection anytime you are over 6 ft. from your base.

[Terryblount]

@Patman100100 No, the airframe is built so that the extra weight of a passenger is directly under the chute so it does not change the balance if a passenger is there or not. There are adjustments on the frame... or in some cases where the chute attaches, so it will fly and land slightly nose up with a 300 lb person or 90 lb person. These adjustments have to be made on the ground.

[Terryblount]

@kirbyghoul This aircraft flies the same with or WITHOUT an engine. The military drops ATV's out of jumbo planes (with these chutes) at high altitudes and they land perfectly nearly everytime. A ppc flies at a constant speed of between 25 to 30 mph... maybe up to 45 with an eliptical chute.

When flying, ALTITUDE is your friend. You have time to identify a location to glide to and land.

I have made many engine-out landings. The speed of decent is the same as droping from about 3 ft.