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 .
We had a ball down in Virginia over the long Memorial Day Weekend. What a blast! I took about 5 hours of video and slowly (but surely) getting to it. I hope to get the remaining edited up in the very near future. Each year the event is getting larger and I/We do hope ya'll decide to come down. Even if you're not flyers, there is always a party going on and a dead chicken on the grill somewhere. Hope to see you soon!
Take a look at the video, hope you enjoy! This was the first time I was using a GoPro chest harness and didn't realize that my knees would be showing up in the video. So, we'll call this one a first person view of the airport. If you sit on your keyboard it'll look like your legs are in the vid. lol
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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