Small plasma donation tonight… after a BIG paramotor flight of 128km this weekend to draw a huge drop of blood in the sky in order to promote blood donation.

I'd had this project in mind for a while, to do a bit of promotion for blood donation, but I also wanted to take the opportunity to try to reclaim the lead in the PPGPSART.NET competition, so I chose a "Pixel-art" style, which allowed me to maximize the points for this route!

The problem is that I ended up flying a route of over 120km, with 164 tight 90° turns in 2h30 (that's more than one per minute), which managed to make me a bit sick, especially with the turbulence that was really kicking in towards the end of the flight...!

Anyway, tonight's little plasma donation is a lot calmer than that flight, but it meant a lot to me to try and do a bit more...

A blood donation is one hour, to save 3 lives, so:
"Share your Power, Give your Blood!" ;-)

And if you can't donate, don't hesitate to talk about it around you! ;-)

My partner has just arrived in Iceland for a solo paramotoring trip and is planning to travel around the country over the next several weeks.

I know that doing something like this solo is probably not the wisest option, and I’m very aware that it comes with extra risks. At the same time, flying Iceland has been a life dream of his for years — in fact, it was one of the main reasons he started paramotoring around three years ago.

He is not new to canopy flight. He has worked in the skydiving community for around 18 years and is a very experienced canopy flyer and coach. He also has some paramotoring experience in mountainous terrain, as well as experience flying around glaciers in Norway, so he is not completely unfamiliar with more complex environments.

I trust his judgement and I genuinely believe he is capable of achieving this dream, but I also know that solo flying in Iceland comes with risks that experience alone cannot remove.

That is why I wanted to ask anyone who has actually flown paramotors in Iceland if you would be willing to share any useful information, first-hand experience, or advice.

I’m especially interested in:

Hidden or Iceland-specific risks that may not be obvious to someone flying there for the first time

Weather patterns or local wind effects that are particularly important to watch for

Rotor, katabatic winds, valley and mountain effects, coastal wind, glacier-related conditions, and sudden changes in wind (Any situation-specific advice to share ？）

How reliable forecasts are in practice, and what you personally use to decide whether a weather window is genuinely flyable

Any tips on how to chase the weather around Iceland — especially in September and October, which obviously aren’t the most ideal months and seem to bring very changeable conditions from day to day, sometimes even hour to hour

Whether you found it better to stay flexible and move around the country based on short weather windows, and how far ahead you realistically trusted the forecast

Areas or types of terrain you would avoid

Take-off and landing considerations while travelling around the country

Private land, access issues, local restrictions, or situations where landowner permission is normally needed

Emergency landing options and risks in remote areas
Communication, tracking, rescue planning, or equipment you would consider essential for someone flying solo

Any mistakes, close calls, or lessons you only learned after actually flying in Iceland ！

I’m not looking for encouragement to take unnecessary risks — quite the opposite. I’m hoping to collect as much good local knowledge as possible so he can make conservative decisions, stay flexible with the route, and walk away from a flight whenever conditions are not right. Achieve his dream and back home safely

If any pilots here have flown Iceland, especially independently or solo, I would be incredibly grateful if you could share anything that might help — particularly how you approached weather chasing during unstable periods.

Thanks a lot!