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Chalet-Card

Chalet Card: What to do in an emergency

Download your Chalet card here in two formats. One to save to your smartphone, or one to print out and put in your wallet or glider bag.
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Honza Rejmanek

Honza Rejmanek: Plotting the perfect day

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Chest-buckle safety notice affects ‘Tens of thousands’

Tens of thousands of paragliding and paramotoring harnesses have been potentially ruled un-airworthy following a safety notice
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Miso Soup thermalling theory

Honza Rejmanek: The Miso Soup Connection

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Weather in Owens Valley

Honza Rejmanek: Flying and Valley Winds

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Honza’s Weather: Windflow around big mountains

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Italian search-and-rescue helicopter

Free-flying in the Dolomites at risk

Free flying in the Dolomites is under threat, because pilots are unwittingly impeding helicopter search-and-rescue operations in the area
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How to thermal a paraglider, part 2

Bob Drury picks up some tips from some of the best paraglider and hang glider pilots in the world about how they thermal, in the final part of Cross Country magazine's definitive guide to thermalling
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How to thermal a paraglider, part 1

How to Thermal better: Cross Country Magazine's definitive guide to flying hang gliders and paragliders in thermals.
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Advance Epsilon 7 line kit

Safety: Free line kit for Advance Epsilon 7 and Zeta models

Advance are advising the retrofitting of a free line kit to Epsilon 7 and Zeta paragliders, to bring them up to the latest standard
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