Just Wanna Fly

Just Wanna Fly

By Jade LearLeisureAviation
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Just Wanna Fly episodes

  • JUST WANNA FLY-123-Meet Jon-Alan Drh Martin Owner of Wind Pirate PPG Gear, Saint David, Arizona

    Meet Jon-Alan - I have loved all things aviation as long as I can remember I grew up on a ranch in rural Idaho and was involved in rodeo and mule shows at an early age. As a teen I loved to fly and had family friends that owned bush planes that I would climb into every opportunity me and my dad bought a hang glider trike about 16 years ago and then I was introduced to paramotor 10 years ago when I moved to Maricopa Arizona and found Airparamo right down the road from my house. I took one flight and was instantly hooked it took me a couple years to get enough money for one and I began my paramotor journey in 2015 working with Mo there as an assistant instructor for a couple years and then ventured out on my own starting Windpirate PPG . My dad had a saddle shop and custom leather shop so I was already very familiar with commercial sewing and failing to find any high quality covers on the market at the time for my paramotor I decided to make one and immediately had interest from others in my flight group for orders so I began making and selling custom paramotor covers, kiting harnesses and a few other items. I began training and providing paramotor equipment full time in 2017. traveling to the Northwest in the summer and training in Arizona in the winter

    Last year I purchased 40 acres near tombstone Arizona to put in a full service paramotor flight Park with a grass field . I am currently An Instructor admin with the USPPA and do instructor clinics as well as regular classes

    1 hr 16 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY - 120 - Let's meet Chucky Wright from Sarasota FLY

    Let's Meet Chucky-

    I’m a God fearing adventure seeking hard working guy who lives life to the fullest everyday and pushes the limits of what the human body, mind and and body to the limit I love all extreme sports and anything to do with progression mentally and physical. I have my own business love to work hard and play hard and have fun along the way. I’m 28 years old born in Miami, grew up in michgan and now back in Florida. You’ll find me training in the daily, working and or flying or diving.
    Follow Chuck on IG:
    @Superchuckcw

    1 hr 17 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY - 119 - SKY HIKER MIKE - Boulder Colorado. PPG PILOT Flying Flamingo Jade 783 subscribers Analytics Edit video

    Meet SKY HIKER MIKE -

    I grew up in Minnesota in the Plymouth Minnetonka area, ended up in Brainerd for High school. College brought me to Colorado and I could never go back. I studied aerospace engineering, astrophysics and planetary sciences. After college, I worked for a couple different companies, settling in at an energy research company. But I didn’t really like the work. I had always been wanting to learn to fly, but was always deterred by the costs. I would go to the local airport, talk about lessons, then I would tally up the cost and just couldn’t justify it. Then find myself there a couple years later remembering I had already done this… eventually I stumbled upon paramotoring. And just like everyone, started with “that’s crazy”, then doing more and more research and more video bingeing, understanding more of the risks, I just had to do it. Got training. On my first flight attempt I face planted, went home to think it out. Next day I started flying and nailed out several flights. Since then it has just been and epic adventure after epic adventure. Ive also always loved teaching, mostly math and sciences, but it’s has been extremely rewarding combining the two passions to open Sky Hikers.

    1 hr 8 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY - #117- Meet General Aviation Pilots Ben Nemcek & Luke Navis

    Let's meet Ben and Luke -

    Ben - I’ve been flying for just over a year. My moms high school friend gave me a ride I’m his seaplane and that got me into flying. I want to build a bigger flight school with multiple airplanes and fly charter. Ben is a flight instructor and owner of True North Flight School, LLC in Arbor Vitae, WI
    Luke - I’m Luke Navis! A CFI in the Sheboygan County area. Started flying just about 3 years ago. Have done training in northern Wisconsin and Daytona Beach FL.

    1 hr 8 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY - #117- Meet General Aviation Pilots Ben Nemcek & Luke Navis

    Ben - I’ve been flying for just over a year. My moms high school friend gave me a ride I’m his seaplane and that got me into flying. I want to build a bigger flight school with multiple airplanes and fly charter. Ben is a flight instructor and owner of True North Flight School, LLC in Arbor Vitae, WI

    Luke - I’m Luke Navis! A CFI in the Sheboygan County area. Started flying just about 3 years ago. Have done training in northern Wisconsin and Daytona Beach FL.

    1 hr 8 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY -#116- BART BERRY aka: SCARY BERRY joins us this week

    Meet Bart Berry -

    ill be 51 yrs old August 8th, married 21yrs no kids, live in Huntington Indiana, love the air and water... ppg, scuba, skydiving, riding my motorcycle, ect.. being active, bucket list items are hot air ballooning, zip lining, cage diving with great whites. I love making memories and youtube videos. Had open heart double bypass surgery in 2019 and actually died on the table 17 times ?

    1 hr 3 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY -#115- Meet Heather White, newer PPC Pilot from Bainbridge Georgia

    Meet Heather -

    I am the daughter of an Air Force Pilot and an Airline Stewardess. I went to a Santana Concert in Charlotte and saw a Groupon for an introductory flight in a hanglider in Ashville, so I went for it! The ride was amazing! An ultra lite took us up 2000 feet. We unhooked and slowly spiraled down, an eagle flying with us! The ride lasted less than 15 minutes. I was hooked. I started shopping for hang gliders.
    I knew I wanted a longer hang time without being in a closed cockpit. So I kept searching for a mode of flying that would fit the bill. When I took my grandlove on her 10 year old trip to Washington DC, my brother was flying a backpack style powered parachute. Wow. This was close.....but....I weighed more back then and this girl was not running to get in the air unless someone was chasing me with a knife.
    I continued searching and happened to come across a video on youtube of a buckeye dream machine powered parachute. Then the serious shopping began.
    I found one nearby. Still at this point, I had never even flown in one. But, I brought money with me, he took me up in it, and I bought it right away.
    It was a two seater and had a 10 gallon fuel tank so he said it would only be legal if I got a Sport Pilot license and pointed me in the direction of Bill Wallace and Melinda Bliss.
    Three months later I was training with them. At this point it had been two and a half years from the hang gliding experience.
    Because I still work full time, and live 4 hours from the training, and winds were horrible the last year and a half. It took me a year and three months to complete my Sport Pilots Licensing . I have just purchased a second powered parachute, a phoenix that has been frankensteined with another machine. I love the chute in this one, a hybrid APCO. I love the seating, and I love the amount of structure so I can have more places to hang bags and my radio/com system.
    I look forward to semi retiring and hitting the road with my husband, a toy hauler, our kayaks, motorcycles and my powered parachute. Hoping to fly in every state!

    1 hr 7 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY-78 - Let's talk to Eric Lear PPG Pilot, and General Aviation Student

    Let's bring Eric back to the screen....

    Eric raced a professional off road buggy circuit for 15 years, from the U.P. Michigan ,Wisconsin, throughout the midwest.
    He has for years building RC Model airplanes, since 1992, and now has 18 on display.
    He was raised in Alaska from 6yrs old until he 21yrs old.
    He then went to learn the HVAC business. Now for the past 20 years has owned a Lennox Dealership, in Northern Wisconsin.
    In 2020, Eric convinced Jade to check out Paramotoring as MadCity Paragliding. Eric learned both foot-launch and trike during his training. And has become a USPPA Instructor with Foot-launch, Trike and has his Tandem exemption.
    We have now opened up, Northern Lights Paramotor, LLC. and working with students, between their busy schedules and his full-time job.
    Eric has also started training, and working towards his private pilots license. And we just recently purchased a Piper Cherokee 180, along with a hangar. We have just this past week completed putting in a insulated ceiling and heat, so our students will be able to have a comfortable atmosphere of learning the books, on how to fly a paramotor
    We also put together our 1st Northern Lights Fly-in, July 2022, and plan on having our 2nd Fly-in July 21-23, 2023. So if you are in general aviation, or a paramotor pilot, please mark this weekend on your calendar.
    www.NorthernLightsParamotor.com

    1 hr 42 min
  • JUST WANNA FLY #77 - Meet Erika Klein & her Mom Cyndia Zumpft-Klein, Hang Gliding Pilots/Instructors

    Erika Klein has wanted to hang glide since seeing a picture of a hang glider in a book when she was 10. She started at 16 and since then has flown around the U.S. and the world, though she specializes in low-altitude dune soaring. When she left for college, her mom Cyndia Zumpft-Klein—who previously took a hang gliding training hill lesson in the 80s—decided to become a pilot too at age 50. They love flying together and both earned their basic instructor ratings, which they use to teach part-time with Windsports at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles. Erika was also on staff at the U.S. Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USHPA) for several years and is now focused on using social media to show the fun and accessible side of hang gliding. She has over 70,000 followers on Instagram and her dune soaring videos have received millions of views on both Instagram and TikTok.

    Instragram - Erika.j.klein, TikTok- erikajklein, Facebook - Cyndia Zumpft Klein & Erika Klein

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    1 hr 35 min

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