Posted on Monday 17 September 2012

Parajet Team pilot Dean Eldridge led home an international field of freestyle paramotor pilots to win the World Fly Games in Metis sur-Mer, Canada. With pilots battling changeable weather conditions, the result was adrenline-fuelled racing from start to finish.

The World Fly Games is based on pure speed and precision, how a pilot can adjust to conditions and race - not only against the clock but against other participants at the same time. Launching from a fixed 50m square platform on the water, pilots travel at top speeds between inflatable pylons just inches above the water鈥檚 surface making for a spectacular and thrilling race.

The disruption caused from a confiscated fuel tank by German custom officers at Frankfurt while en-route to the games was short lived as Deano, flying his Parajet Zenith Thor 200 and Paramania GTR wing continued the form he showed at the British Championships. With the high calibre of 2012 World Champion Pascal Vall茅e and three times World Champion Ramon Morillas among the field of pilots, the race was by no means going to be a foregone conclusion. It was to be a war of attrition as pilots persevered with the rain, completing three slalom-style tasks on Saturday before the conditions became worse and pilots were forced to land.

As the pilots lined up for the second day of events, a decline in weather conditions made it unsafe for pilots to fly and forced its cancelation. With Dean taking first spot in all three of Saturday’s events, the Parajet Team pilot was awarded the podium ahead of Laurent Salinas in second and Paco Moyano War in third.

“It has been a frustrating weekend due to the weather conditions,” comments Dean. “Of course it would have been great to win with more tasks finished but no one would have turned down the position I was in and someone has to win, so I feel good being Champion. Despite the fuel tank issue resulting in a lack of testing, I felt confident going into Saturday with the manoeuvrability and performance of the Zenith coupled with the GTR 18. Again this proved to be a winning combination.”

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