I noticed several years ago that music and aviation seem to go together. I don’t understand the connection, but when it produces things like this little video, I’m just glad that there is a connection.

This was put together by the Fat Wing Flyers and the link will take you to their video. Enjoy!

Fat Wing Flyers on YouTube

Also this year, there has been an effort to gather quality speakers for their forum program. Below is a schedule and it includes our own Roy Beisswenger as one of the presenters. The link will allow you to download a handy PDF so that you can have the information at your fingertips when you head to Lakeland!

Roy will also be on Sun ‘n Fun Radio 6 pm on Friday. Hopefully you can tune in!

Paradise City ForumsHeld in the Flight Operations Tent

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

• 10:00 Carla Larsh–Getting Started in Ultralights & Light Planes
• 11:00-1:00 Dan Johnson–LAMA at Work
• 1:00 James Wiebe–Belite Aircraft News
• 2:00 Barry Pruitt–Bristel Light Planes-USA
• 3:00 George Douglas–Amsoil Synthetics: Making an informed decision

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

• 10-12:00 Phil Lockwood–Rotax 2 Stroke Engine Maintenance
• 1:00 Rick Mathews–Aviation Access Project
• 2:00 Danny Dezauche–The CGS Hawk
• 3:00 Rand Vollmer–Pipestrel: Why a Towing Motor Glider Should be in Your Short List

Thursday, April 11, 2013

• 10-12:00 Phil Lockwood–Rotax 4 Stroke Engine Maintenance & 912 IS Engine
• 1-2:30 Roy Beisswenger–Expanding your Fun (transitioning from GA to UL)
• 3:00-4:30 Brian Carpenter–Explaining Electric Motorgliders

Friday, April 12, 2013

• 10:00–Bill McKee–Colyaer Freedom 100 S-LSA (Amphibian)
• 11:00–Randall Fishman–Electra Flyer & Electric Aircraft
• 12:00-Eric Adams–Fisher Flying Products
• 1-2:30 Roy Beiswenger–Flight Training thru a LODA
• 3:00–Marco Gallum–Aero Novesavenda

Saturday, April 13, 2013

• 10:00–Bob Snyder–Auto Gyro-USA
• 11-12:30–Carol Carpenter–Light Sport Maintenance: Your Questions Answered
• 1:00 Ryan Ruel & Matt Liknaitzky–The Airplane Factory: ‘The Sling”
• 2:00 George Douglas–Amsoil Synthetics: Making an Informed Decision
• 3:00–Dan Grunloh–Tips to Low Cost Flying

And of course the schedule is subject to change, although hopefully it won’t!

PDF Download – Paradise City Forums

Gary is also a contributor to Powered Sport Flying Magazine and here he shows his talents as a videographer, too!

Koontz Fly-In Video

This little spoof puts all of that in perspective from an international point of view. The subtitles are great, but may need a little bit of translation. Of course they don’t have an FAA in Great Britain, but they do have a CAA. The rest of it should make sense in context.

And of course it really helps the comedy if you don’t understand a word of German! Who said that ignorance isn’t bliss!

This was put together by the folks at MyFlyPal.com and the link will take you to their video. Enjoy!

MyFlyPal Video

The 'chase-bike' captures the complete pedal-powered victory.

It is the The Icarus Cup video by Ben Ashman and Freddy Too. It’s a competition to see which team can stay in the sky the longest. No one ever leaves the airport, but then again, it is a really big airport!

Check out the YouTube video at the link!

YouTube

While the United States didn’t field a team for this event, the President of the International Jury was from the United States Ultralight Association. Roy Beisswenger had the honor of opening and closing the event as well as working out the occasional disputes that happened during the competition.

Recently a documentary about event was made and published on YouTube. All the great people who make powergliding so cool are here. Listen them talk and watch them fly. If you don’t fly yet, it will motivate you to start. If you already fly, it will motivate you to attend the next world championship!

The video can be found at:

Levitation: World Paramotor Championship 2012

You can learn more:

Learn more about the championship

Official Site