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Mike Purfield wrote:
> I cant really afford flying lessons to learn how to fly beforehand. Is it
> a bad idea to fly an ultralight with no prior experience? Perhaps I should
> ask: how bad of an idea is this?

Pretty bad!!! If you think training is expensive, check out the cost of
ignorance! ;)

Hehehe... but seriously Mike, a lot of folks let the simple appearance
of an ultralight fool them into thinking that it would be a cake-walk to
put something together from hardware store parts and go try it out to
see if it will fly. Unfortunately the cost of failure is more than you
would want to pay. If you want to build something for fun try RC planes
before you build something that you will strap your butt into and commit
aviation.
On the other hand, if you seriously want to FLY, you can buy a used
Quicksilver for a whole lot less money than it would cost you to build a
viable ultralight from scratch.

good luck, have fun, get some instruction, BE CAREFUL,
Rick P.

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