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The 105 videos from the federation's channel and the 141 photos from its photo library, brought together on one page: by theme, to watch right here.

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Videos

The federation's videos

Training and maintenance tutorials, microlight classes, Handivol, Tour ULM, Mondial, competitions: click on a video to watch it.

105 videos

Safety and training

Training tutorials, Return to Flying and the reflexes that save lives.

Training tutorial, season 1, episode 1
Engine failure on take-off

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Training tutorial, season 1, episode 2
The rescue parachute

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Training tutorial, season 2, episode 1
The pre-flight check

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Training tutorial, season 2, episode 2
Engine failure over open country

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Training tutorial, season 2, episode 3
The final turn

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Translated training tutorial
Engine failure on take-off, English version
Frequently asked questions
Is microlighting dangerous?

Featured in FAQ
Training
Passing the theory exam with ExamULM

Featured in Validity of the common microlight pilot theory exam · 2023
Dr Jack's lessons: a taster
"The airspeed indicator is life!"

Featured in Filming of "Leçons de Dr Jack" · 2018
Return to Flying: the how-to video
How about doing a REV?

Featured in What about doing a REV? · 2018
Return to flying
ReV tutorial: how it works

Featured in Return to Flying heading for the 800 ReV mark · 2020
Return to flying
Return to Flying from the inside

Featured in Cautious return to flying · 2021
Return to flying
Take part in Return to Flying

Featured in FAQ
Back to flying, May 2020
Returning to flying safely: classes 1 and 2

Featured in Advice from our experts on video · 2020
Back to flying, May 2020
Returning to flying safely: classes 3, 4 and 6

Featured in A controlled return to flying · 2020
Major sensitivity zones
Bearded vulture ZSM

Featured in ZSM Bearded Vulture · 2022

Mechanics tutorials

Six tutorials on maintaining your machine: returning a paramotor to service, propeller, carburettors, oil change, oils and fuels.

Mechanic's tutorial no. 1
Returning a paramotor to service

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Mechanic's tutorial no. 2
Replacing a propeller

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Mechanic's tutorial no. 3
Checking the carburettor

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Mechanic's tutorial no. 4
Engine oil change

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Mechanic's tutorial no. 5
Synchronising the carburettors

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019
Mechanic's tutorial no. 6
Everything about microlight oils and fuels

Featured in The YouTube Tutorials · 2019

Discover microlighting

The six classes, the BIA, Handivol and films to make you want to fly.

The diversity of microlighting in one film
The 6 microlight classes

Featured in microlighting
The film shown in Europe
The 6 microlight classes, English version
Federation film
The BIA, young people and FFPLUM support

Featured in Sport and leisure aviation... for everyone! · 2018
The BIA and first steps
Beginners, make your dream come true!
Filmed in the Drôme
Handivol: microlighting is closed to no one
Handivol
Discover Handivol flying
In Guyane with the national seaplane flying division
Flying in France: a taster
At the Tignes flying club
Fly over the Alps in a weight-shift microlight

Featured in Fly over the Alps in a weight-shift microlight! · 2021
Interview with Marc Dabrigeon
The national seaplane flying division

Featured in National Seaplane Flying Division · 2021
Heritage
A Sirocco at the Le Bourget museum

Featured in A Sirocco at the Le Bourget museum · 2018
Heritage
Thomas Joron has (re)flown his Micro’B

Featured in Thomas Joron has (re)flown his Micro'B! · 2020
Aeronautical culture
Bernard Chabbert talks to us about microlighting
History of the federation
Alain Dreyer, first president of the FFPLUM

Featured in Death of Alain Dreyer, founding president of the French Microlight Federation… · 2023

Microlight Tour and events

The Microlight Tour, the Mondial de l’ULM, shows and meetings.

Tour ULM
Microlight Tour 2018: a taster

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
The convoy, the volunteers and the partners
The 2018 Microlight Tour "on the ground"

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
The Microlight Tour in the air
La belle vadrouille

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
A word from the president before the start

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Charlotte, 22, instructor on the Microlight Tour

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Unusual machines

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Stage 3

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Stage 4

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Stage 1

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Stage 2

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Stage 5

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Interview no. 4

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Interview no. 5

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
An all-women crew for Auxane

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
Lurcy-Lévis, heading east, bright and early

Featured in Lurcy-Lévis, heading east, bright and early · 2018
Tour ULM 2018
The Tour is coming to an end!

Featured in The Tour ULM 2018 Blog · 2018
Youth Microlight Tour
Microlight Tour 2023: see you in July!

Featured in YOUTH MICROLIGHT TOUR 2023 · 2023
Blois
Mondial de l’ULM 2021: the best moments

Featured in MONDIAL DE L'ULM 2022: 200% MICROLIGHT! · 2021
Blois
Mondial de l’ULM 2021: the best moments, continued

Featured in MONDIAL DE L'ULM 2022: 200% MICROLIGHT! · 2021
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
Take part in the FFPLUM Challenge

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge, week 2

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge, week 3

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge, week 4

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge, week 5

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge, week 6

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
FFPLUM Challenge, spring 2020
The FFPLUM Challenge: the best of

Featured in FFPLUM Challenge: the best footage of the week · 2020
Microlight World Fair
Interview with Damien Cazé, Director General of the DGAC

Featured in MONDIAL DE L'ULM 2022: 200% MICROLIGHT! · 2021
Microlight World Fair
Discover the Mondial de l’ULM on video

Featured in Discover the Mondial de l'ULM on video! · 2021
Microlight World Fair
Mondial de l’ULM 2022: the show on video

Featured in Mondial de l'ULM 2022: relive the show on video · 2022
Video conference replay
Mondial de l’ULM 2022: the fly-in arrivals
Shows
Blois Microlight Show 2018

Featured in Federation news 2019 · 2019
Shows
The 2019 Blois Microlight Show
53rd International Paris Air Show
FFPLUM at the Paris Air Show
National Mountain Flying Division
Galdez meeting at Gap-Tallard
The microlight women pilots meeting
Women flying at Levroux

Featured in Women's introductory flights at the ULM Club Albatros in Auch · 2020
The partnership ceremony
FFPLUM and the French Navy

Featured in Air-Sea Camp: a week for our young members · 2021
With the French Navy
Relive the 2021 Air-Sea Camp

Featured in Air-Sea Camp renewed for 2022! · 2022

Sport and competition

Championships, STOL, slalom and records.

The teaser
French Microlight Championship 2018

Featured in 2018 French Microlight Championship · 2018
At Couhé-Vérac
2019 French Microlight Championships

Featured in National competitions · 2019
Thailand, 2018
10th Paramotor World Championships

Featured in The French team 2018 are champions in Thailand! · 2018
Paramotor, Thailand
Slalom at the 2018 World Championships

Featured in Resources and guides · 2022
Slalom
2022 Paramotor Slalom World Championship

Featured in Resources and guides · 2022
How the project developed
Paramotor world altitude record

Featured in World altitude record by paramotor · 2017
Colin and Louis Fargher
Weight-shift microlight world distance record

Featured in Resources and guides · 2022
The lockdown interview: Noël Mazaudier and Pascal Vallée
And what about sport?

Featured in FEDERAL INFORMATION: COVID-19 (old) · 2020
Regional competitions
Come along to a regional microlight competition

Featured in Resources and guides · 2022
STOL
STOL at Belmont-Saint-Affrique

Featured in STOL 2021 at Belmont St Affrique · 2021
STOL
STOL at Belmont: learning and competition
STOL
The 2022 French STOL Open

Featured in Resources and guides · 2022

Federation life

Licence and insurance, greetings, webinars and clubs of the month.

Licence
2020 Licence: the video guide
The licence tutorial
Taking out a licence in pictures

Featured in Licence and Insurance 2022 · 2017
The licence tutorial
Microlight licence: why and how?
The insurance tutorial
Why and how to get insured
Insurance
2021 Insurance: follow the guide in pictures
New Year greetings
The federation's 2020 New Year greetings
New Year greetings
The federation's 2022 New Year greetings
New Year greetings
The federation's 2023 New Year greetings
Federation life
2018 Extended Board of Directors
The Sport division conference
FFPLUM webinars

Featured in FFPLUM webinars · 2023
The lockdown interview
Georges Humeau, an example to follow

Featured in Georges Humeau, an example to follow · 2020
Introducing the aerodrome
Club of the month: Opale R Formation ULM

Featured in Club of the month: Opale R Formation ULM, a dynamic club in the… · 2023
Episode 1
Club of the month: Planet’Air d’Épernay

Featured in Le club du mois : club ULM Planet'Air d'Épernay · 2022
Episode 2
Club of the month: Planet’Air d’Épernay

Featured in Le club du mois : club ULM Planet'Air d'Épernay · 2022
Episode 3
Club of the month: Planet’Air d’Épernay

Featured in Le club du mois : club ULM Planet'Air d'Épernay · 2022

Reports and partners

Reports and videos from partners mentioned by the federation in its articles.

Report by France 3 Occitanie
The French paramotor team

Featured in French Paramotor Team training and selection · 2022
Video by Air Courtage Assurances, the federation's broker
Insurance: the most common cases

Featured in Licence and Insurance 2026 · 2017
The explanatory video
The Grande Course 2024
Cited by the federation
Banner towing: a professional's appeal

Featured in Why ban banner towing? · 2021
Webinar replay
Harvesting meadow seeds
TV report
Seed harvesting at La Rochelle aerodrome

Photos

The federation's photo library

By microlight class or by theme: click on a photo to enlarge it, then browse with the arrows.

141 photos

Photos: © Federation media, French Microlight Federation · Photo contest: the photographers of the Mondial de l’ULM 2024.

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They support the federation

All our partners

Videos and photos

The federation's videos

Safety and training

Engine failure on take-off

The rescue parachute

The pre-flight check

Engine failure over open country

The final turn

Engine failure on take-off, English version

Is microlighting dangerous?

Passing the theory exam with ExamULM

"The airspeed indicator is life!"

How about doing a REV?

ReV tutorial: how it works

Return to Flying from the inside

Take part in Return to Flying

Returning to flying safely: classes 1 and 2

Returning to flying safely: classes 3, 4 and 6

Bearded vulture ZSM

Mechanics tutorials

Returning a paramotor to service

Replacing a propeller

Checking the carburettor

Engine oil change

Synchronising the carburettors

Everything about microlight oils and fuels

Discover microlighting

The 6 microlight classes

The 6 microlight classes, English version

The BIA, young people and FFPLUM support

Beginners, make your dream come true!

Handivol: microlighting is closed to no one

Discover Handivol flying

Flying in France: a taster

Fly over the Alps in a weight-shift microlight

The national seaplane flying division

A Sirocco at the Le Bourget museum

Thomas Joron has (re)flown his Micro’B

Bernard Chabbert talks to us about microlighting

Alain Dreyer, first president of the FFPLUM

Microlight Tour and events

Microlight Tour 2018: a taster

The 2018 Microlight Tour "on the ground"

La belle vadrouille

A word from the president before the start

Charlotte, 22, instructor on the Microlight Tour

Unusual machines

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 5

Interview no. 4

Interview no. 5

An all-women crew for Auxane

Lurcy-Lévis, heading east, bright and early

The Tour is coming to an end!

Microlight Tour 2023: see you in July!

Mondial de l’ULM 2021: the best moments

Mondial de l’ULM 2021: the best moments, continued

Take part in the FFPLUM Challenge

The FFPLUM Challenge, week 2

The FFPLUM Challenge, week 3

The FFPLUM Challenge, week 4

The FFPLUM Challenge, week 5

The FFPLUM Challenge, week 6

The FFPLUM Challenge: the best of

Interview with Damien Cazé, Director General of the DGAC

Discover the Mondial de l’ULM on video

Mondial de l’ULM 2022: the show on video

Mondial de l’ULM 2022: the fly-in arrivals

Blois Microlight Show 2018

The 2019 Blois Microlight Show

FFPLUM at the Paris Air Show

Galdez meeting at Gap-Tallard

Women flying at Levroux

FFPLUM and the French Navy

Relive the 2021 Air-Sea Camp

Sport and competition

French Microlight Championship 2018