Just turned final approach into our Powered Paragliding field that we fly out of in Morgantown PA. We were testing a tow behind camera.
Touchdown in Waupauca
The completion of formation flight training in preparation for the first evern formation flight of 50 Cherokee aircraft doing a mass arrival into Oshkosh.
Mission Complete
The fun of Oshkosh just coming to an end and now its time to cleanup and get back to reality.
Evening Ride
This is actually my 2nd PPG flight ever. My buddy captured the flight in video and I took a snapshot from the final approach segment.
This is the COG Railroad
After taking the COG Railroad to the top of the Mount Washington, we jumped in the Viking Witch (PA28) and flew up over the top of Mount Washington. What a beautiful day!.
Launching From Kolb
I was just starting my "Forward Launch" when photographer/pilot Mark Holman caught me on camera. If you would like to see more of his PPG pics, click on this picture and the login stuff is. Username pilots and password ppg .
Morgantown in the morning. 6:00 am to be exact. I arrived in Morgantown this morning about 5:40 and got all my gear ready and airborne just before the 6:00 alarm went off on my iPhone. I had a really nice flight with the ride mostly smooth when below 150 feet. Right before the flight ended (about 45 minutes), it started getting a little bumpy so the coffee that was waiting on me at Duncan Donuts wasn't gonna be waiting long. I hope you enjoy the video and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pennppg
Good Morning! Rob, John (on his PPC), and I took an early morning flight from Flying M Aerodrome this morning to see the sites over Germansville and New Tripoli. The weather was cooler and less humid that it has been and made for a real fun flight. I really like this sound track in the background, hope I can find more of the same type. Hope you enjoy the vid, as always. Be Particular!
What an amazing Weekend! We started on Friday with a farewell to Beer Week - even though it still had a few days to go. We knew we'd be busy with other fun stuff and wouldn't be able to get back out so we sent Beer Week off with a bang over yonder at Capones with Beth & Joy & Matt & Will & Kyle and myself. On Saturday morning Beth and I got up to start working out in the yards and spreading the five yards of mulch that we'd ordered.
Matt and Joy had offered to let us borrow their wheel barrows but we'd have to come get them in the truck. I happily accepted their offer and headed over. Unbeknownst to Beth and I, they had a plan to come and help and Matt and Will jumped in the truck and we headed back over with extra hands and tools. Joy followed shortly after with the pup and lunch! This was going to be a work party for sure! When we arrived back home, Beth and Kyle had already started weedin' & seedin' and the party had begun. By 5:00 pm, we were all shattered and called it mission complete; all mulch spread.
We had a big bbq afterwards and perhaps re-celebrated the end of Beer Week with a few more good 'uns and some dead chickens, porkchops, corn, sweet taters, Sangria, and a whole lot more. Plus, all the pups got a bath since they'd been playing all day and had mud from head to toe! I'd say a pretty successful day!
On Sunday Beth and I got up at 7:00 to head over to Brian's Harley Davidson in Langhorne Pennsylvania to queue up for the Bucks County Covered Bridge Poker Run. We were thinking there would be about 100 bikers there but boy were we surprised to learned that there were 540!!!!! We registered, received our riding pins and poker sheets, lined up with about 80 other riders and headed out for our first stop (pictured to the left) at Van Sant Airport in Northern Bucks County. Here we went to the check-in table and each picked a card. The facilitators marked our poker sheets with the card that we'd picked and the object was to get the best hand by picking a card at each of five stops. Neither Beth nor I ended up with anything more than a pairs of Kings but the 7.5 hours (yes, 7.5 hours) of riding through the Pennsylvania Countryside was incredible. The Vulcan 1600 (motorcycle) that we have is so comfortable that we never ached from the long day. We headed back home around 3:30 pm and as soon as I walked in the door, I got a call from one of my Paragliding buddies, Matt-Matt asking if we were coming out to fly on this gorgeous day. I was a tuckered from being out in the sun, but any opportunity to fly can't be quickly ignored. Beth wanted to do some stuff around the house, so I loaded up the truck and headed out to Morgantown, one hours drive towards the west. As quickly as I arrived, I unpacked my gear, said some quick hello's, and launched. Hopefully the video attached below will do the flight some justice. It was simply amazing. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to posting the next one too.
Today Matt and I did some war games maneuvering throughout the Morgantown (Pa) valley area. We (unbeknownst to Matt) decided that he'd be the aggressor and I, the defender of freedom and hot air balloon flying. I started following him around and decided later, again unbeknownst to him, that I'd followed him around long enough to run him out of the area and returned to our LZ to prepare for grub time.
The air was a bit trashy but it still made for a fun day of flying. There were three balloons initially when we took off, but I've no idea where the third one ended up going. I guess Matt Matt shot it down. I hope you enjoy the video and come back or more later.
Hi!, I’m Shane Watts and have been involved in the aviation community for 25+ years. I began my aviation career as an Air Traffic Controller serving in the United States Air Force. I truly enjoyed the time served and the opportunities I had along the way. I did see the world, sometimes with 80 pounds of gear with the 1st Combat Communications Group, and sometimes in Bermuda shorts and flips flops. I served as an air traffic controller, and simultaneously began flying in September of 1997. I soloed on my fourth training day. When I had made up my mind to learn to fly, I flew every single day, and sometimes twice. This strategy seemed to work and 3 weeks later I successfully flew my checkride. During my career I held Pilot-Controller Liaisons (PICLs) duties and was lucky enough to get rides in T37's, T38's, UH-1's, UH60's, T43's, and an F16! All in all 21 hours worth; now I have 1200+ hours and I love to fly and I try to get airborne as often as I can. The amazement of flying has never subsided in me. Recently (Aug 2010), I began Powered Paragliding and have met another long lived dream. I'm still flying fixed wing, but now I have an additional vehicle to get airborne.
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Morgantown in the morning. 6:00 am to be exact. I arrived in Morgantown this morning about 5:40 and got all my gear ready and airborne just before the 6:00 alarm went off on my iPhone. I had a really nice flight with the ride mostly smooth when below 150 feet. Right before the flight ended (about 45 minutes), it started getting a little bumpy so the coffee that was waiting on me at Duncan Donuts wasn't gonna be waiting long. I hope you enjoy the video and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pennppg 
