Yeah. It’s not cheap. But class should definitely be much cheaper than $10k… http://www.madcityparagliding.com/prices.html is $2.9k for example. That is about typical.

Of course gear is extra, but you don’t need to consider purchasing until after training is done. Rental gear should be included with training.

Also places like Mad City allow paying in increments, and renting gear after graduating while you save up! And if they know you’re on a budget they should be able to help hook you up with some used, cheaper but SAFE/modern gear.

Lastly any reputable instructor should encourage you to come out for introductions, watch people fly, show you the gear and what the sport is about, totally free. :)

Probably because Sync on your phone is connecting/downloading directly from Imgur, which is bad for privacy. Voyager uses the image cached on your instance, if possible, to avoid connecting to arbitrary hosts to load images when browsing your feed.

It’s a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

Not a client issue.

It’s a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

Not a client issue.

It’s a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

It’s not a client issue. It’s a lemmy/instance-specific issue. Look at the following link in your browser, then tap the image to expand. You will see bad image quality. https://lemmy.world/comment/11323036

Edit: Works fine with my vger.social account. Looks like shit on lemmy.world.

Edit 2: Looks like shit on sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world. Which are both running very outdated 0.19.3. Looks great on feddit.org, vger.social, lemm.ee which are running up to date version of Lemmy (0.19.5).

You’re welcome! 💜

It depends on your instance.

This will be resolved once https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4698 is resolved so please give it a “thumbs up” if you want it!

Can you do a screen recording? THanks!

Hey, awesome!

How expensive is the cheapest way to fly?

Probably about $10,000 US to get training and initial gear. However depending on your instructor you can pay as you go, for example pay training in chunks, then afterwards rent gear from your instructor, save and buy wing, then save and buy motor.

And is the fan powered via motor or battery?

Most motors are two stroke. However there are some electric motors. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWU6Mqi6GTw

If you want to get in to the hobby, check out what instructors are in your area, if they are any good they would be happy to have you come out and show you around, answer your questions etc.