I am proposing to host a paramotoring event at Colleymore over four days: 25 - 28 June, which runs over a weekend. The event is the British Open Paramotoring Championship and the expectation is that around 30 competitors will take part over the weekend. The most appropriate field for the event is shown on the attached document.
It is around 1/2 kilometre from the nearest house at Great Coxwell and the only impact that the event is likely to have on the village is from the noise of the paramotors as they take off and return. I have been learning to paramotor for a couple of years and you may have heard my paramotor in that field when I have been practising. > > The organisers will make sure that the competitors do not fly over the village, so there should not be any impact from that, and there will be no crowds or extra vehicle movements as it isn’t a spectator sport, but I am sure that the noise of the paramotors as they take off and land will be audible – I guess a paramotor engine noise is not dissimilar to a chainsaw over that distance. Various studies have been conducted on noise levels from Paramotors. They tested a range of engines and found them to be in the range of up to 100-120db at the pilots' heads (right next to the engine) and 85-105db at their feet. It did not study the dropoff at further distances, but use of an online calculator such as http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm suggests that a 110db noise measured at 1m from the source will drop to 63db at 200m distance - within the realms of normal conversational volume, and even lower 56db at 500m - the approximate distance to the village. Please do come back to the Parish Council with any queries, or concerns that you would like addressed. I am sure that weather permitting we could do a take off and landing from the field so that you could assess the likely impact of the noise from the village if you were concerned about it. For full details please click here.
It is around 1/2 kilometre from the nearest house at Great Coxwell and the only impact that the event is likely to have on the village is from the noise of the paramotors as they take off and return. I have been learning to paramotor for a couple of years and you may have heard my paramotor in that field when I have been practising. > > The organisers will make sure that the competitors do not fly over the village, so there should not be any impact from that, and there will be no crowds or extra vehicle movements as it isn’t a spectator sport, but I am sure that the noise of the paramotors as they take off and land will be audible – I guess a paramotor engine noise is not dissimilar to a chainsaw over that distance. Various studies have been conducted on noise levels from Paramotors. They tested a range of engines and found them to be in the range of up to 100-120db at the pilots' heads (right next to the engine) and 85-105db at their feet. It did not study the dropoff at further distances, but use of an online calculator such as http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm suggests that a 110db noise measured at 1m from the source will drop to 63db at 200m distance - within the realms of normal conversational volume, and even lower 56db at 500m - the approximate distance to the village. Please do come back to the Parish Council with any queries, or concerns that you would like addressed. I am sure that weather permitting we could do a take off and landing from the field so that you could assess the likely impact of the noise from the village if you were concerned about it. For full details please click here.
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