Techniques and Skills

Helping you fly better with expert advice

How to: fly like a shark

Do you shark here often? Hugh Miller has some easy-to-use tips on how we can learn from sailplane pilots on gliding efficiently.
Read More
Julien Garcia in the goal field at the end of the FAI

Thinking differently: ‘Forget flow: stay focused and confident.’

‘Forget flow: stay focused and confident.’ The final part in our series exploring the coaching philosophy and approach of Julien Garcia, the French team paragliding coach.
Read More
Aletsch Glacier

How to fly 100km in the Alps

If you can fly 30km you can climb in thermals and you can connect those thermals together, so what is stopping you doing that time after time?
Read More

Flying with big clouds and storms

When storms are forecast and clouds growing, how do you know whether it is safe to fly, or time to get out of the air? Bruce Goldsmith offers some pointers
Read More

How to: Get a Flying Start

Do you nail your launches every time? Felix Wölk has some top tips to help make every take-off a perfect one
Read More
Photo: Jacques-Paul Stefani

Top Tips for Buying a Glider

When it comes time to buy a new glider, be honest with yourself, listen to those feelings –that's the only thing that matters.
Read More
launching from dirt road

How to: Fly by wire

Bastienne Wentzel explains how to get in the air from a standing start on the ground by being towed by a winch
Read More

Thinking Differently: ‘You do you’

The third in a five-part series exploring the philosophy and approach of Julien Garcia, the French team paragliding coach
Read More
side collapse

When tucking-in really matters

If you spend long enough teaching SIV, instructors from different countries will boil down the pilot skills needed to the same things
Read More
Jocky Sanderson using the radio

How to use your paragliding radio – properly

There is a right way – and lots of wrong ways – to communicate in the air. Here are some top tips on how to manage your radio
Read More