Cynth, the view is better.
refer to my post on previous page. Walk? 
Personally, I prefer aircraft with a wing on each side.
Maybe he’s quitting due to the effect the noise from the motor may have on his ears. Those things can get loud after a while. But I have to admit they look like a lot of fun too. Only other downside I see is that a tank of gas will run more than most mid-priced whistles 
Good Luck and GodSpeed!
Way to go Phil!
After more than fifteen years of hang gliding and a bit of trike flying I can understand your excitement. There just aren’t much that can compare (oh, sex maybe). No need to give up whistling. My experience is that there will be plenty of time sitting around the air field or landing zone waiting for weather to improve or winds to change. So keep a few whistles under the seat, they will come in handy. Best practice times I ever had was actually after a good cross country flight, sitting on my packet up glider, waiting to get picket up.
Sold my last glider a few years ago and invested in a new road cycle and a set of pipes. Miss flying immensely and occasionally dream about flying and entering a monster thermal.
I can almost feel the guttery feeling when I wake up and my wife claims that I even cling to the bedpost. I’m sure I will take it up again when the kids get older, until then I’ll have to settle for playing ITM and cycling.
I also agree with Chiffed, floaters are great on a microlight.
Or if you live on the coast get some fat wheels so you can land on the beach.
You should get into contact with BJS he is another microlighting whistle player that might not be living to far from you.
STIFF WINGS!
/MarcusR
BTW: Airborne Windsports even have microlight home delivery 
Birmingham to Belfast
Man, some guys will do ANYTHING to get babes! 
Gravity…It’s not just a good idea, It’s the law. 
Doc
Hey Phil, looks like you could make one of those out of some bass whisltes, a couple of bed sheets and some sticky-backed plastic. How long before we see a “Chieftain” microlight?
Now there’s a thought!
P
Don’t forget to call Freeman for a large supply of Sticky-Tack; sometimes duct tape won’t do it.
“Spare the duct tape: Spoil the project”
-Red Green
Mebey that dumbass Icarus wouldn’t have melted his wings iffen he’d a used duct tape instead…
Oh, trust me, Duct Tape will melt. (don’t ask! )
Ah, there’s a time for duct tape and a time for bailing wire…
mufflers need bailing wire.
-I flew Rogallo wings for a few years, then gave it up when my inner chicken manifested strongly. Its the power that transforms it, however. Much of the tedium of hang gliding is driving long hours and miles to a flying site, then waiting one to three days for the wind to change and permit takeoff. Getting to power up changes everything! We back-when-I-was-a-lad types can barely imagine it. May you thrive with your new passion!
Wow, you are one of the pioneers 
Yepp, that’s how it use to be, lots of driving and waiting on launch or LZ (Good opertunity to whip out a few whistles though).
The only chance to get a girlfriend was if you found one with a profound interest of driving a VW buss and spend afternoons alone on mountain tops.
Then in the nineties motorized microlights revolutionized the sport and gave us aero towing.
It’s like taking an express shuttle up to the first thermal 
/MarcusR
I am amazed at the number of whistlers who fly or flew. I live near Nothampton in the UK. Do any of you guys live near me? I started hang gliding in 79 went on to microlights then when foot launched powered came along with no regulation that combined both worlds.
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~bjs/hangmicro.html
Well,the wife got me 3 more hours of lessons …yippeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Can’t wait.
Phil
Have fun! 
Cut some tubes right and you would have drones at the right wind speed.
Then you just need to fly and play a chanter at the same time.
Bloody hell - it’s a Great Scottish Roc!
Cut some tubes right and you would have drones at the right wind speed.
I made a nice set of wind chimes out of the remains after one of my crashes