Lake Havasu UltraLight Tour

[78Southwind]

I took a flight around Lake Havasu today. As you can see from the pictures is was bitchin. :action-smiley-035:

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[GotHalos]

Very cool!! :thumbup:

Was it a friends or?

[Slacker]

Great Pics! Was that you that flew over the Channel?

[78Southwind]

Very cool!! :thumbup:

Was it a friends or?


www.ultralightdreamcatchers.com



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[78Southwind]

Great Pics! Was that you that flew over the Channel?

Maybe i was flying from 12:20 to 1:20 PM. There was another flight around 2 or so. I saw them flying when we were at Schugrues.

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[Slacker]

Love seein pics of the backwaters up the river

[78Southwind]

Love seein pics of the backwaters up the river

It was pretty cool checking out the dunes.

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[78Southwind]

These are just snips of the video i recorded. I took about 30 minutes of video and the pilot recorded 30 minutes on his go pro. I pick up the video from him tomorrow.

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[ChumpChange]

Super cool. At the same time, you'd never catch me in one of those!

[Stainless]

78, I assume ultra is solo, what kind of training does it require? Looks like an incredible experience! :)


CH3NO2

[Miss Managed Assets]

Not solo, pilot flying and one passenger right behind him. The pilot (who flew in Vietnam, pretty cool)said it takes 6 months to get a license to fly one of these including your training hours.

[Stainless]

Oh, I didn't realize they can carry two people. Makes since the training. Are you gonna go up in one MMA?


CH3NO2

[nowski]

The water is an incredible view from up above. I'm going to have to try that in the near future, looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing your trip with us including the resource. Back in the day (1988 - 1994) we use to fly a parasail on our river trips. We flew that thing over Lake Powell, Lake Mojave, Lake Havasu and even on the river. When we flew this thing on the river we would start south of Jack Smith Park and Land in the river just before Park Moabi due to a couple of power lines. I got pretty good at maneuvering that parasail, I always wanted to pull one of my passengers under the power lines but deep down inside I didn't want to put there lives on the line if you know what I mean. The parasail was one of the best river toys we had in our arsenal of fun. The picture shown is me flying @ Lake Powell. B.T.W. because the parasail was ours taking up a beer or a cocktail was the parasailers option...

[Miss Managed Assets]

Oh, I didn't realize they can carry two people. Makes since the training. Are you gonna go up in one MMA?


CH3NO2

78 was the Guinea Pig, maybe I'll go up next time :)
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[78Southwind]

The water is an incredible view from up above. I'm going to have to try that in the near future, looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing your trip with us including the resource. Back in the day (1988 - 1994) we use to fly a parasail on our river trips. We flew that thing over Lake Powell, Lake Mojave, Lake Havasu and even on the river. When we flew this thing on the river we would start south of Jack Smith Park and Land in the river just before Park Moabi due to a couple of power lines. I got pretty good at maneuvering that parasail, I always wanted to pull one of my passengers under the power lines but deep down inside I didn't want to put there lives on the line if you know what I mean. The parasail was one of the best river toys we had in our arsenal of fun. The picture shown is me flying @ Lake Powell. B.T.W. because the parasail was ours taking up a beer or a cocktail was the parasailers option...

Awesome always wanted to try that...

[78Southwind]

Here's a couple donkeys.

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[78Southwind]

78, I assume ultra is solo, what kind of training does it require? Looks like an incredible experience! :)


CH3NO2

The instructor told me that you don't need a certificate (License) to fly an Ultralight by yourself. However, if you want to get your Sports License so you can fly with a passenger you have to do about 15 hours of flying with an instructor and 5 hours solo. You are probably looking at 35 to 40 hours with flight and ground school. The instructor that I used is pretty expensive at $140 an hour but he is an awesome instructor and has been flying Ultralights since 1979. He learned to fly in the military. I just did an introductory flight with him but it gave me 1 hour towards my 15 hours.

[78Southwind]

I was finally able to upload some of the video I took. The Nautical Inns internet upload speed sux.


http://youtu.be/2NOl61ElUIk

[papaletch4130]

Crazy how low the water is.. Looks like fun!!

[nowski]

Question??? Do you know what the weight limit is to be able to fly?

[78Southwind]

Question??? Do you know what the weight limit is to be able to fly?

Reb (the instructor) told me his ultralight was rated for a 300 lb passenger. I asked him if he had to fight my weight at all and said no the heavier the passenger the easier it was for him.

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[nowski]

Reb (the instructor) told me his ultralight was rated for a 300 lb passenger. I asked him if he had to fight my weight at all and said no the heavier the passenger the easier it was for him.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2 Thanks!!! Something to look forward to on my next river trip...

[Wendi]

Very cool 78SW

[BigDoug]

Yes, i agree, that was cool !!

[78Southwind]

Heading north passing the sandbar.


http://youtu.be/WDVFexZbRSk

[Paul65K]

Yeah that's the guy in the hangar across from me in Havasu.....I'm guessing you probably parked next to my hangar when you went for the ride!!

Seems like a nice enough guy but you'd never get me in one of those things.....I can't see quite as much from the plane but I see it just fine and I'm happy to have a real airplane around me.....but then again I'm afraid to fly :D

[78Southwind]

Taking off.


http://youtu.be/F7Y1hwwlc6A

[78Southwind]

Yeah that's the guy in the hangar across from me in Havasu.....I'm guessing you probably parked next to my hangar when you went for the ride!!

Seems like a nice enough guy but you'd never get me in one of those things.....I can't see quite as much from the plane but I see it just fine and I'm happy to have a real airplane around me.....but then again I'm afraid to fly :D

I grew up flying with my Dad in small planes (Cessna and Piper) out of Fullerton Airport. It's kind of weird when I was young I didn't like flying in big commercial planes. I guess I just trusted Dad more. :biggrin: The funny thing is my Dad called me a couple hours after I went for the flight and he thought I said I was going to go flying in an ultralight (not that I just got back from flying in an ultralight) and he was trying to talk me out of it. :airplane:

[78Southwind]

Last picture snips from the instructors video.

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[thatguy]

That's bad ass!!!

I've often thought of doing that...I have plenty of room on the property for a strip!