Author: JoeO

Powered Paraglider pilot since 2005

#414 Red Rocks

Photos by Mike Bennett

It was a beautiful morning
…Sunny 40 degrees…3 to 4 mph out of the West.

Marek … Mike Bennett … and myself. Mike and I launched after Marek and flew to the Red Rock Ampitheater. I stayed high and got bumped around pretty good, Mike stayed low and found nice smooth air. We made the day for a bunch of scouts that were camping at Bear Creek. I did some hard banking turns at 150 feet for them and I think they would have followed me all the way to Red Rocks if they could have.

Mike Bennett got some good photos and video. This was the first time he flew to the Ampitheater and his discription of the flight is wonderful.

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Saturday at Simms…. Wing in a chevron was the wrong choice for layout in these light shifting winds. It came up very slowly. Forty minutes per flight. Marek flew earlier and stayed just long enough to see me get up.

Sunday at Vance Brand. I was going to meet Marek and Robert but they no showed. There was a message on my cell but I didn’t retrieve it until I was already at the field. Oh Well… I was there and they were not… So I flew.

This morning I used the motor to build a wall …. with the lines tight… the wing came up smartly.


The first stick of swoop divers were either inexperienced or the nil wind made for difficult landings. I watched several do face plants after c0ming in too hot to run it out.

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First Flight I launched with the Eden III for the first time at altitude using the Falcon. I’d routed the brake lines through the Hang point loops and didn’t like the feel…(too much friction)… so landed quickly. When I went to relaunch I must have been careless because a line went into the prop during inflation and band that was it for the Eden until I replace some lines.

Relaunched with the PowerPlay Sting 250 and had a nice flight. Below Marak was practicing takeoff and landing.

That afternoon Chip and Sean climbed the hills west of the house and did some free flight I went out to the boat and work on getting it livable. The offer for an electric slip is enticing.

#403 #404 Simms

0700 hours 27 degrees Very Light Breeze. Best part of the flight was boating around the field at 25 to 50 feet. Gas was low…I think there is about 1/3 of a gallon when the spy tube hits bottom. Maybe 20 minutes of air time. Snowboard pants and midweight ski gloves were just fine to keep off the cold.
1730 hours Flew with John Black in the afternoon. The guy can fly.
Denver Skyline at sunset