MICROLIGHT FLYING
What is it?
Microlight
flying is similar to flying of an aero plane.
Engine Weight-
The only difference being that the low powered engine is
used on airframe, which is lighter in weight. Initially, microlight started
using a Motor cycle engine, presently ‘ROTAX’ engine is most popular.
Categories of
microlights-
It has two categories, one is the conventional control
Microlight. This
means that the flying
method and techniques are like airplane. The second
is weight shift type of microlight, here the flying techniques are similar to
flying of Hang-gliding. Both types
encourage aviation and make flying affordable.
Uses-
Microlight is coming up in a big way in the field of sports aviation. It is also
being used for spraying pesticides on crops and agricultural lands, transporting
a person from place A to place B which are near by and even people have started
doing Skydiving from it. As on date,
there are lot of restrictions on flying microlights in India from security
angle, yet it is gaining momentum and getting popular.