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In August of 1999, Grant achieved his student pilot permit (SPP#036657) class ultra-light for paramotoring in St. Jean Chrysostome, Quebec. Grant is a member of: the United States Hang Gliding Association (Paragliding Division) USHGA#70306, the Canadian Owners And Pilots Association COPA#1558479 and has logged more than 70 hours of air-time and more than 170 flights. See A Field of Angels. One of the oldest, historical flying sites is Torrey Pines in San Diego California. Check out the May/June 1999 Issue of Paragliding. Are you eating right for your sport? How's your spark plug? (long load time)
Eric Dufour of www.paratour.com 
Grant's
mentor (David Sieger also taught Grant). Be sure to check out the SILEX wing.
You can get Sea/Ski-Doo Bombardier Rotax Formulae XPS Synthetic 2 stroke oil at Central Outboard Marine (905-477-7044) located at 8625 Woodbine Avenue, north from Highway 7 on the east side of Woodbine. On October 7th, 1999 the price for a 4 litre container was $39.95. While you're there check out the 'Hand-E-View Mirror' (only available in the winter time). It's a velcro strap wrist mounted mirror ($10); handy for looking at your gas tank or checking your wing while in the air. You can also get the NGK spark plugs there too (NGK-R,BR7HS, R is for risister and you'll want this if you want to use a helmet and radio for communications). The motor cycle shop at Brimley and Sheppard East (south east corner) also has the spark plugs. If you have a Walbro WB32 carburator you can get the material to make a new air filter from Canadian Tire. The item reference is Mastercraft-Humidifier Evaporator Pad. You can probably cut about 12 air filters from one package. The dimensions are 3/4 X 8 1/4 X 24 3/4 inches. The part number is 64-3114-0 and costs $4.79 (2001.May.7). This works out to about $.40 per filter not bad. If you want an air filter try searching "K&N air filter" or look at go-kart filters. If you need to cut your own gaskets, try UPS Autoparts Ltd. 1306 Kennedy Road, Scarborough, Ontario (416.757.2595). As of 2001.Sep.1 they have 3 types of thicknesses and range from $6-8/foot. If you're looking for O-Rings or Gasket's try Abel O Rings in Toronto. The SD cage uses D-013 (package of 100). If you need a throttle collar, these are those metal stopper that fit on the throttle cable end near the carburator. As of 2001.Oct.4 you can get a pack of 3-4 for $2.19 from John's Photo and Hobby (416.421.1850) 2188 Danforth Avenue on the north side just east of Woodbine. The normal cable from Eric on the SD's is 1/16 of an inch. So you'll need some a bit bigger. These are called wheel collars and are used in model making and can usually be found in hobby shops (train, model plane, model building). Check out the parts page for more pieces.
www3.sympatico.ca/canadian-paragliding
www.pilotpointer.com
www.phd.nl/aviation/wx/(CWCU
for Barrie)
www.ultralightnews.ca(L'il
Hustler's Ultralight Store, Holland Landing, Ontario)
In order to study for the Ultra-Light exam, he has been building a page (tp12804e) to help you study. The page is the Transport Canada Study Guide with additional links to the on-line references. Some day all the links will be finished. The steps to attaining your Pilot Permit for Ultra-Light Aeroplanes which is what you'll eventually need/want if you aspire to be fully licensed are highlighted here and also by Transport Canada. There are three publications that are referenced in the Study Guide. The CARs, AIP, and the FTM. The CARs is online and rather expensive; Canadian Aviation Regulations. You only need the following sections studying if you want to print them out.
If you want to order the other two manuals (AIP-Aeronautical Information Publication TP-2300E, FTM-Airplane Flight Training Manual ISBN:0-7715-5115-0 CAD$27.95+GST & shipping & handling total is CAD$35.68) from the government publishing office, call 1-800-635-7943.
United States Hang Gliding Association Inc.(USHGA)
Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association
of Canada(HPAC)
North American Powered Paragliding
Association(NAPPA)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pilotsppgclubon-line
powered paragliding club
Canadian Owners And Pilots AssociationLiability
Insurance
Hangsim Do you want to try a realistic soaring
simulator?
Para Gear, Para Gear helmet camera
devices
Flight Suits (Nomex
suits, military, gloves)
Solo Parts (Mojos
Gear, riser pulleys)
Video (AM-A Higher Calling - a cross country adventure film)
Helmets (Paratour SkyCom, supported radios)
Dimensions to build your own windsock
Dimensions to
build your own stuff sack for your wing
Hanwag Boots, Smartwool & Bridgedale Socks
Register yourself as a PPG pilot
http://www.flight.firstnet.co.uk/
First flight across the UK
http://www.poweredparaglider.com/ good
references
http://www.gallaudet.edu/~hdsnyder/cloud.html
cloud
altitude calculator
http://www.ionline.net/~elubitz/ Canadian
Ultralight Information
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.dunlop/
If you experience an accident, please fill out an accident report. It helps us
all! Your biggest strength is to know your weaknesses and then strengthen them.
Beware of cloud suck!
Pilots can also report bird strikes or obtain additional information on
Transport Canada's Bird Hazard Website at
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/wildlife.htm. Alternatively, bird strikes can
be reported toll-free at: 1-888-282-BIRD (2473).
These first two pictures were taken by Randy & Pauline Frise in Riviere Ouelle, about 2 hours east of Levis on highway 20 on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river. The location that you see is the end of a runway owned by Bombardier. Bombardier has a factory hear for building and testing their snowmobiles and sea-doos.
Randy is a fellow paramotorist and fly's out of Western Ontario. They were taken just before Grant's first solo. The round bar is the training bar Eric uses to assist you on your first solo. pre-solo-1(135k), pre-solo-2(150k).
On September 4, 1999, Glynis came to the sod farm and did a wonderful job of filming. (after landing 54k, water pic ver.)
There is a section in the AIP-AIR 3.18 Positive and negative G-force that refers to an adapted publication The Pilot's Guide to Medical Human Factors, Health and Welfare Canada Publication (Pub#:H34-54-1992E). This one is worth getting, if you can find, to understand more about what your body can be susceptible to during flying (specifically spirals for rapid decents-avoid cloud suck). Keywords for searching are G-LOC, G Straining, G Tolerance, AGSM, and useful links are (http://www.gretmar.com/webdoctor/g-loc.html, http://www.oocities.org/strega17/centrifuge.html, http://wwwsam.brooks.af.mil/af/files/fsguide/HTML/Chapter_04.html)
Grant Fitz, fitzgr@yahoo.com
Copyright © 2001-2005 Grant Fitz. All rights reserved.
