Not quite a Supercub or Maule, but I image it has some pretty good STOL characteristics.

I have almost a 1000 hours in a Powered Parachute. I once hauled mine into an Emergency Forest Service strip about 35 miles outside of Coeur D Alene Idaho and flew it around over nothing but Pine Trees in the mountains. Here's a short vid of me flying up the Clearwater River after taking off from Orofino, Idaho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikvzmo8fp2M


The biggest downfall with PPC's is at 28mph you can't really go anyplace and anything over about 8-10kts of wind and you might as well not even drive to the airport. They are awesome for scouting for property or wildlife though. You can turn a 180 in the length of your parachute and mine would do about 800fpm climb after taking off in 50ft. Had a lot of fun in that little bird. I paid $6500 for it and flew it for 5 years. I replaced the NGK plugs a few times and the fuel lines once for a grand maintenance total of about $50. I sold it in this terrible market a few months ago for 5K so I got about 500 hours of flight time for $1500 and the price of gas. No insurance, no annuals, no hangar, ect. It had a 46hp Rotax 503 air cooled and would run for 2.5 hours on 6 gallons of pump gas. You can't really beat those numbers for cheap flying.