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6112m: New paramotor altitude record
31.10.06 | New feat from Ramón MORILLAS, with his OMEGA 7, who beat his own altitude world record with paramotor (5414 m in Tenerifa in 2005) reaching the altitude of 6102 m ! He also established a world speed record to gain altitude between 0 and 6000 m. FAI certification have been requested.
Ramon took off from the sea level, on the beach of Motril (Andalusia, Spain) and flew his new Advance Omega 7 with a paramotor PAP Ros 100 towards the mountains of Sierra Nevada. After four hours of flight and having reached 5,000 meters of altitude, the lift caused by the wind on the highest peaks of the massive helped him climb to 6,102 meters. A new world record for the owner of the present record of height in paramotor (5414m achieved in Tenerife in 2005). Ramon did not use oxygen, he flew over all the +3000 of the mountain range in a flight that lasted 6 hours, and with conditions that he describe as "a bit rough, but thanks to that I could make it!".
"The hardest moments of the flight were when I crossed from the Alpujarra towards the peak of “El Caballo”, as the north wind was blowing from the mountain (+35 km/hr). It took me a lot of work to reach the front side of the Veleta peak, with a ground speed of between 5 and 10 km/h. Finally, after almost 4 hours flying I could start to soar the dynamic lift of the area called "Corral del Veleta". In this zone I was able to climb up to more than 4.500m, and then I headed a bit to the north to the leeside of the last three-thousand of Sierra Nevada, the Jerez Peak. There I tried to locate some wave lift and, although slowly, I started to climb at a very constant rate (0,5 m/seg).
The most difficult part in this type of flight is to find the lift and not to lose it. I was able to reach 5.000m and soon, I was at 5,500 m. Several times I lost the wave and every time it was more difficult to find it again. With tail wind I had a ground speed of 95 km/hr!
At that altitude, the cold is piercing and the lack of oxygen worsens your abilities. The last time that I was able to gain height the GPS marked a maximum of 6,102 meters, but I could see on the barograph that I was still 80m short of the 6,000 mark. I don’t know if I lost the lift or if it just disappeared, but I had spent more than one hour over 5.500m, of which more than 45 minutes I had been over 6 thousands meters!
Of course, it was a while since I had lost the feel in my hands and feet. At that moment, I decided that I had to go down, and I had the best sensation of all the flight: just a little bit above me that I could almost touch them, were the Cirrus. Those clouds, of which we have so much spoken, studied and observed, were now so close to me and my glider ! Very impressive… I landed after more than 6 hours flying, in front of my house in El Purche".
Ramon Morillas is multiple world and Spain paramotor champion, world distance and altitude paramotor record holder and Team ADVANCE official pilot in paramotor and paragliding competition.
Text from Ojovolador.com
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