A Complete Training Manual and Reference for Paramotor Pilots
By Jeff Goin
Combo: PPG Bible & Master PPG 1-4
Book: PPG Bible
DVD's: Master PPG 1-4, Tips & Tricks
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PPG Bible - 7th Edition
by Jeff Goin
Powered Paragliding Bible 7:
The Ultimate Paramotor Manual and Reference
Description
PPG Bible 7 is a clear, CONCISE, and professionally-illustrated guide for anyone wanting to become an ACCOMPLISHED paramotor pilot, either footlaunch or on wheels. It is comprehensive but breaks down information into digestible chunks to make success safer and more enjoyable.
It builds on our most successful book to date, the 6th edition, with every section updated.
We take you from first sight to first flight and way beyond. The Equipment content and illustrations now reflect what has become the de facto standard in paramotor gear, including appropriate training gear through competition-winning gear.
You’ll find out what the sport is about, what a skilled pilot is capable of, and how to become that skilled pilot. Not just the specific twists of technique, but how to practice, how to know you’ve got it, where the dark corners lurk, and how to avoid them. And it dispels many stubborn myths.
What you Get
To make it easier to use, the book comes in 6 sections.
Section I (Ch 1 – 6) is the most important. It takes you from knowing nothing through ground handling, first flights, terminology, DETAILED equipment illustrations, and necessary cautions. Chapter 6 is for those learning on or transitioning to wheels. This section isn’t about academics yet–that’s covered later–because initial learning is mostly about physical skills. It covers what physical skills are considered essential to set out alone.
Section II (Ch 7 – 14) provides the head knowledge needed to be independent. It covers weather, performance, law, airspace, and maintenance, including a troubleshooting flow chart.
Section III (Ch 15 – 21) is for mastering the sport. Really mastering. Precision flying, formation, advanced ground handling, competition, and techniques to make the next level. Remarkably precision control is available to those who are willing to work at it.
Section IV (Ch 22 – 25) is for the curious. It’s a big part of why this is also a reference manual. It’s where the more in-depth knowledge lives. Some of it is quite practical and will help make sound pilot judgments, but some will just satisfy your need to know. This is especially invaluable to anyone wanting to build their own machine.
Section V (Ch 26 – 29) is about buying gear: wing, motor, and even accessories. It will help understand the trade-offs, especially how to avoid hypesters and shysters who will gladly sell their square pegged gear to fill your round-holed needs.
Section VI (Ch 30 – 32) answers the question of what now? Some are just plain fun, but that s what this sport is about. It includes new coverage on the latest in photography, such as how to set up a really good “follow cam” that makes you the star of an impressive movie.
Even if you’re just curious about what paramotoring is all about, including the search for training, then this book is perfect. More than any edition before, it will help you learn, then excel as a paramotor pilot.
Master PPG1 - Advanced Ground Handling
Master Powered Paragliding #1 is the first in a series of four tuitional DVDs aimed at pilots of paramotor and paraglider wings.
DVD #1 kicks the series off by focusing on that common bugbear: ground handling. With a cast of colourful and talented pilots, the excellently narrated DVD breaks down handling your wing on the ground into 15 chapters that take you from inflation, through controlling a paraglider wing through to killing it safely.
Master Powered Paragliding #1 is a whooping 101 minutes of audio visual information that leaves your head literally buzzing with all the tricks and tips you’ve picked up and desperate to get out there and practice them.
As you would expect from Jeff Goin, the author of the best selling Powered Paragliding Bible, Master Powered Paragliding #1 is a powerful learning tool for paraglider pilots, either powered or unpowered.
We combine information from several of our sports most skilled pilots, taking the time to show a variety of techniques for newly fledged pilots who yearn to achieve the next level.
Using live action, animation and graphics we explain the basics then move on to the fun stuff. Techniques are covered that go from differences in wing layout to climbing up poles and walls. For sure, some of what's shown is just plain fun but every effort is made to explain what is being doing and why.
The action is stopped or slowed as necessary to explain what's going on in an understandable manner. Your time is respected and it moves thoroughly but briskly through the many topics--you'll want to watch with a remote control.
Join Bill Heaner, Steve Mayer, Phil Russman, Jeff Goin and others as they open magic of advanced paraglider ground handling and get ready to move up to the next level.
MASTER PPG2 - Advanced Launching
Part 2 of 4 in the Master Powered Paragliding Series, where you'll go way beyond the basics of launching a paramotor.
This is the most thorough training tool for advanced paramotor launching ever compiled. Using a combination of live action and animation, it is a comprehensive tutorial to help pilots, who have already learned the basics, launch like their life depends on it. And learn new techniques to improve success is many different situations.
92 minutes of live action with graphics and animation to clear up some surprisingly prevalent misunderstandings. Packed exposés on launching in no wind, high wind, confined areas, roads, crosswinds, finesse in all situations, high level launching around obstructions, wheels, tandems, how to configure your machine and much more.
These tips will help you nail a launch when it just has to work!
MASTER PPG3 - Inflight Precision
Part 3 of 4 in the Master Powered Paragliding Series. This is the most important video of the series since it builds the foundation of all precision flying. It will help master every other skill you learn for flying a powered paraglider precisely.
Join some of the world's best pilots as they expose their secrets along with animations to make the concepts crystal clear.
It's also the most fun with gorgeous flying from all over the world. At 1:55 running time this has been the most ambitious project of the series due to the sheer volume of material covered. Starting with the basics of precision flying it will show how to fly precisely, within inches of your desired flight path, how to turn precisely and with finesse, how perform steep maneuvers in style, how to best handle turbulence then, just for fun, covers competition, foot dragging, formation flying and much more.
MASTER PPG4 - Advanced Landing
Part 4 of 4 in the Master Powered Paragliding Series. Master landing with style, grace and accuracy EVERY time.
Working with some of the best pilots in the world we thoroughly show and explain techniques that can dramatically increase your success at making soft, stand up landings every time on the spot of your choosing.
We explain how to handle engine-out landings in many situations that involve different glide decisions with variations of winds and terrain.
As with the rest of the series it uses a combination of live action, 3D animations, 2D animations and other graphics to clarify exactly how the techniques work. Everything from nailing one-step spot landings to the graceful slider arrivals that make you look like a pro.
Tips & Tricks from the Pros
The world's leading PPG pilots talk technique, explaining and demonstrating the most important PPG skills.
This DVD is, we think, possibly one of the most information-packed PPG DVDs ever created and we are excited to get it out there into the hands of pilots around the world. It is available in English only. The length is over 2hrs, mostly informational but with some action footage mixed in.
This exciting DVD contains more than two hours of explanations and demonstrations by the world's top pilots. Join these professional pilots in discovering the best of both the newest and the most time-tested techniques. Watch the Ozone Team break down the most crucial aspects of PPG flight in a simple and easy to understand manner. Launch technology, in flight maneuver, and landing strategies are just the beginning...
With Pro Pilots: Mathieu Rouanet, Alex Coralie and Jean Mateos, Chad Bastian, Paul Mahony, and guest starring the lovely Squash Falconer. Thus, some of the world's most experienced PPG pilots talk about everything from engine maintenance tips, to launching more efficiently in high wind and zero wind, and maneuvering your PPG wing in the air more effectively.
This DVD contains a large amount of information, but thanks to an extensive menu it is simple to navigate from topic to topic, and action footage from around the globe will keep you on the edge of your seat even if you do tire of learning for a moment.
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Please note: These DVD's are made at Ozone's factory in Vietnam, and don't always play on local DVD players for some reason. They work fine in a computer and on about 95% of DVD players.
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