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Weather: the majestic thunderstorm

How does a thundercloud form, and how does it differ from an ordinary cumuliform cloud? The first answers were put forward in the 1940s.
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Managing a difficult cliff launch

The Head Game: Making stress work for you

“Stress is natural...” Mental coach Benjamin Gaudry on ways to manage fear
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Chrigel Maurer executes a downwind fly-on-the-wall top-landing

How to: Become a top-landing Jedi

Being able to top-land is an essential skill for every XC pilot, says Kinga Masztalerz. The secret is not to rush
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Paragliding in the Chartreuse as the snow melts in early spring. Photo: Jerome Maupoint

Weather: XC and the spring snowline

As our planet warms the winter snowline creeps higher up the mountain slopes. What does that mean for pilots?
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Black Vulture in Colombia

The Head Game: Managing your emotions

Paragliding is an inner adventure – an encounter with oneself where every take-off, thermal, transition and landing is accompanied by a flood of emotions
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Flying in the Dolomites

Learning to Fly the Alps with Ferdi Vogel

Ferdinand Vogel explains how to use ‘triangle theory’ to find thermals in the mountains
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Juraj Koren ski and fly

The ski-and-fly path to enlightenment

Winter opens a new world of experiences, freedom and pure joy. Here is your pathway to the art form of ski-and-fly.
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Kinga Masztalerz

Masterclass: Top-landing skills with Kinga Masztalerz

Kinga Masztalerz takes us through top-landing from nailing your first ones to those advanced techniques we’ve all seen
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Why cyclones are getting wetter

Why cyclones are getting wetter

The final week of November 2025 was devastating for several South Asian countries as Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar unleashed days of rain.
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Luke Nicol zones out to tune in at the SRS Àger 2025

The Head Game: Assessing your mental state

Understanding your mental state is essential to flying safely. Regular training will make you approach each flight with greater confidence
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