RECORD 475 KM PARAMOTOR TANDEM

475KM EN PARAMOTEUR BIPLACE

By Valentin Burkhardt

STRAIGHT LINE DISTANCE: 474.7 On the 7th of February 2022, the Portu‐guese pilot Eduardo Lagoa, accompanied by his co‐pilot Carla Alves, set a new para‐motoring record of 474.7 km. On their 40m2 Niviuk R‐Bus wing, they flew from Templèque (Toledo, Spain), to Setùbal in Portugal, in 6h41. The details of the record were declared with the Fédération Aéro‐nautique Internationale in the category R (microlight and paramotors), under the cat‐egory RPL2T, beating the previous record set by Polish pilot Krzysztof Romicki (427.07 km in 2018).

The buggy used was a Power2Fly Fenix XC, and their instrument was a Flymaster Live.