PPC over Ringwood (Vic) Golf Club

[red750]

I was sitting out at the Ringwood Golf Club while my wife was at an afternoon tea for a friend's birthday. While there, I saw a PPC approaching from the south east over a built-up area. It flew directly overhead in a north-westerly direction, then turned over the Eastlink Freeway and travelled south. It flew out of sight behind trees on the golf course. About 20 minutes later, it appeared again, from approximately the same location, travelling a similar path, but turned over the golf course as shown on the yellow track on the image below. I was surprised to see a PPC over a suburban built-up area like this. I do not know where it took off from, or landed. The image shows an approximation of the two flight paths as best as I could estimate.

 

 

 

[Pearo]

Was it under 1000ft? Not sure what the issue is here?

 

 

[red750]

Just curious, that's all. I've never seen one around here before.

 

 

[Jaba-who]

What's a PPC?

 

 

[flyerme]

P

 

What's a PPC?

powered parachute ......

 

 

[Cosmick]

PPC has similar rules. 1000ft over built up areas (within gliding distance of a emergency landing oppertunity) but can fly down to 300ft over non built up. Same same but different. There are a few paddocks there which could be used for take off and landing.

 

 

[tillmanr]

There are occasionally 2 PPCs fly from somewhere in the Lysterfield valley (near Upper Ferntree Gully)

 

 

[facthunter]

The gliding distance would not be great. Nev

 

 

[Cosmick]

The gliding distance would not be great. Nev

No, as little as 4:1

 

 

[facthunter]

That's exactly the figure I had in mind. It would want to be a small town , or you would need a lot of height. Nev

 

 

[Downunder]

Red, are you sure it was a PPC? Not a PPG (powered para glider)

 

 

[red750]

I am a little sketchy on the exact classification, Downunder, but it looked like this, with a canopy of pockets:

 

 

 

[Downunder]

Yeah, you're correct, PPC.

 

 

[Downunder]

The gliding distance would not be great. Nev

True, but landing distance would not be great either.

 

 

[Guernsey]

Depending on wind speed, landing distance could be nil or even in reverse, I've seen it happen.

 

Alan.

 

 

[skylink hornet]

At the end of the day, what it was, or who it was, was having fun. Good on em wish it was me.

 

 

[Robbo]

They have flown from the parkland to the left of the eastlink freeway and also in the park to the right of the freeway.

 

They are radio equipped but only heard them on 123.450 when there was two of them chatting to each one day.

 

That was a few years back though.