[Frank Colver]

But I am still having fun....I will stop doing all this when it stops being fun....thats my rule

Yes! I stopped rowing class 4 & class 5 river rapids when it was no longer worth the butterflies in my stomach and the difficulty sleeping the night before the class 5's.

Frank C.

[Rick Masters]

Paraglider pilot develops safe-splat device.


Flight tests indicate that more work is needed.

[Rick Masters]

Paramotorist invents new playground toy    

[reluctantsparrow]

I bet the neighbors love that guy...
Progress report on my invention.
No one seems interested.....even after I tried just giving it away.
I deleted the "first flight" video because I was pretty discouraged and trying to decide what to do next....
I decided to to go ahead and file a provisional...mainly because one manufacture told me "oh, thats been done before" and "there are a lot of problems with your solution"....
So, I went ahead a filed a provisional patent on it. I figure if I am going to invest a bunch of energy to convince a manufacture my idea works or produce it myself I might as well make a buck on it.....so yes, I now have a filing date with the USPTO.
AND...been flying with it looking for all the "problems" my "solution" supposedly has built into it...
I just can't find the "problems".... but I am Still looking.

finally was able to afford a sport camera to document flying suprone with the "invention" attached.
.... did a prone flight last week to experiment with the camera and make sure it wasnt going to throw off my CG, etc.....this is my first ever flight with a sport camera and I did not want to document the suprone set up until i knew there were no problems flying with a camera I had not experienced....My next footage will be flying in the suprone position with the "bar" attached so you guys can help me find the "problems" with it.....maybe today...the forcast looks hopeful...

[Bob Kuczewski]

Nice flights, and a very cool video!!!

[reluctantsparrow]

Sunny and Cold here at POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, UTAH. Down here to snag some suprone/flybar airtime and footage. Maybe try a few suprone sliders for breakfast. Going to try out some new Wheels I threw together as well ( I built them by tearing apart an old wheelchair and re-arranging the parts)..Lots of Drag but my vision of the ultimate Safe-Splat Set up...(feet first plus large wheels).....Will post video soon to solicit critique, comments, and observations.
My 12 inch Wheels are mounted on two shock absorbing axles that attach to existing basetube with four pip pins...Add the fly bar to the set up and it looks like I am flying a sky Harley.....Still not as confident flying feet first as head first....another reason I am at the point....to get dialed in to flying this way....to get in lots of take offs and landings...just have to dodge all the nylon pylons.....not used to that....probably going to get flushed a lot.

[Frank Colver]

..to get in lots of take offs and landings...just have to dodge all the nylon pylons.....not used to that....probably going to get flushed a lot.

Spend the winter in SoCal Lots of takeoffs and landings at Dockweiler Beach and nothing to dodge.

Frank Colver

[reluctantsparrow]

coming down here to the point has been a real "wake-up" call for me.......OMG!
Now I am experiencing what a lot of you are up against....
7 am....rise and shine....set up glider....
8 am...ready to fly....air is smooth but already full of bags
9 am....even more bags...I count about 20 of them....Lots of hangies set up but only one brave enough to fly....the rest of us just wait, hoping the winds will increase enough to blow the bags out of the sky....so we wait....and wait....and wait....
12 am....several of the hangs are just breaking down now without ever getting a chance to fly....I count four breaking down on launch....three more take off but get flushed to the lower LZ because of dodging bags......Geezus......I still have not launched.
2 Pm....finally getting strong enough to shut down the bags but the sky is now very turbulent....Dangerous Dave takes off as does my buddy Steve Danielson....looks like rock and roll...
2:30 pm....I say the hell with it and take off....Flybar works great but serious rock and roll air....Dangerous Dave said he considers the air 50 percent fun....50 percent no fun....

I top land after getting my a** kicked and call it a day....the air is really rough.....so now I get it....the bags eat up all the smooth morning air and the hangies are left with the scraps.....how frustrating this must be. I cant imagine living down here and putting up with this every single day.....Why don't they have windows during the morning where the hangs get to fly on the odd hours....paras on the evens....like..
7 to 8....hang gliders only
8 to 9....paragliders only
9 to 10...hangs
10 to 11....paras...
???????????????????????.....
Do the paras realize that hogging all the good air in this manner makes them look like a bunch of pricks to us ground bound hangies that used to be able to enjoy the same smooth air they totally hijack each and every day?
If I lived down here I would be tempted to go against my better judgement and learn to para just so I could get some smooth airtime....even though a hang glider is a far more airworthy craft......HOW frustrating this must be....glad as hell I don't live here...

[Bill Cummings]

coming down here to the point has been a real "wake-up" call for me.......OMG!
Now I am experiencing what a lot of you are up against....
7 am....rise and shine....set up glider....
8 am...ready to fly....air is smooth but already full of bags
9 am....even more bags...I count about 20 of them....Lots of hangies set up but only one brave enough to fly....the rest of us just wait, hoping the winds will increase enough to blow the bags out of the sky....so we wait....and wait....and wait....
12 am....several of the hangs are just breaking down now without ever getting a chance to fly....I count four breaking down on launch....three more take off but get flushed to the lower LZ because of dodging bags......Geezus......I still have not launched.
2 Pm....finally getting strong enough to shut down the bags but the sky is now very turbulent....Dangerous Dave takes off as does my buddy Steve Danielson....looks like rock and roll...
2:30 pm....I say the hell with it and take off....Flybar works great but serious rock and roll air....Dangerous Dave said he considers the air 50 percent fun....50 percent no fun....

I top land after getting my a** kicked and call it a day....the air is really rough.....so now I get it....the bags eat up all the smooth morning air and the hangies are left with the scraps.....how frustrating this must be. I cant imagine living down here and putting up with this every single day.....Why don't they have windows during the morning where the hangs get to fly on the odd hours....paras on the evens....like..
7 to 8....hang gliders only
8 to 9....paragliders only
9 to 10...hangs
10 to 11....paras...
???????????????????????.....
Do the paras realize that hogging all the good air in this manner makes them look like a bunch of pricks to us ground bound hangies that used to be able to enjoy the same smooth air they totally hijack each and every day?
If I lived down here I would be tempted to go against my better judgement and learn to para just so I could get some smooth airtime....even though a hang glider is a far more airworthy craft......HOW frustrating this must be....glad as hell I don't live here...

Here is an old post I put up about POTM in 2012:
Bill Cummings
Post subject: Re: Tooele Hawks Forum
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Thanks Bob.
I’m thinking strongly about following Utah’s hwy 6 to Spanish Fork where it connects to Utah Interstate 15, just to the southeast of Utah Lake.

This is my usual route from Las Cruces, NM to Chelan, Washington.
I used to stop and hang glide at South Face Point of the Mountain, Utah.

I once towed up on the north bench before there were any houses. Now there is a whole town on the bench.

I quit going once I flew into a flying box canyon of paragliders at South Face.

With eight or nine PG’s kiting on the rim and several flying north in a row I was over taking a PG’er ahead of me and flying south. I couldn’t get over, I couldn’t get under, I couldn’t go right and land, and I couldn’t turn out and around in front of the PG’ers flying north. I had to dive down hill and skim the ground and go under the PG’ers going north to avoid the PG pilot I was overtaking. I landed and decided to “bag it and drag it,” and never fly there again. I used to love it there.

I’m thinking that the Stockton Bar on the south face would have early morning south winds due to the Great Salt Lake that causes the early morning south winds at Point of the Mountain.

The big lake heats up all day and lifts off all night and into the following morning drawing the wind out of the south toward the lake.

Now all I have to find out is ---is it also crowded at the Stockton Bar? If not I may stop by during the last few days of June.

So Tooele Hawks---What is the traffic like on the Bar?

Bill C. H4, 30448

[Rick Masters]

Point of the Mountain is almost as boring as Torrey Pines - even without paragliders.