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Summary: An exciting combo of powered paragliding and go kart riding! Learn weather tips for powered trike paragliding in this free extreme sports video.

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Chad Bastian Chad Bastian has been flying paragliders since 1993. He has owned one of the top US paragliding flight schools, Fly Above All, since 1998. He has since ope... read more

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Ultralight Trike Weather Tips

CHAD BASTIAN: Hi. This is Chad Bastian. Welcome to Expert Village. We're here to talk about the trike buggy and PPG triking with paragliders. All right. In this clip, we're going to just discuss the weather and what kind of conditions we want to fly our trike buggy in. Weather's pretty big. We've got to look out there and see what it's doing. But we also, maybe want to check the winds aloft. We want to check what is expected as far as fronts, highs or lows, systems moving into the area. If we've got something moving in, chances are the weather's going to change in the next couple of hours. Wind speed we're looking for with the trike buggy is zero. That's the most perfect conditions to trike buggy with and we have no curve balls thrown at us from the wind at all. We have perfect conditions, we can roll as fast as we need to, we're not carrying the motor on our back, so we can take a long roll out as long we've got a field that's long enough to take off with. If you got unlimited space, zero wind conditions is really our nicest option. Now, I can take this buggy off in probably as little as fifty feet. If I have a perfect inflation, I can lift off probably even between here and the road over there, fifty feet away, but I like to give myself more room. If there's a little bit of a head wind, and I would suggest to a new pilot, flies in zero to five miles per hour. Anything over five, even gusting over five, I think it would be a mistake for a new pilot to fly in anything over that.

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