Mike Moore emailed us to tell us about his flight in Thailand. He’d flown his first 100km and wanted to tell the world. What he didn’t tell us was he was new to paragliding and his personal best was only his second ever XC flight. Good going! The thermal draws me up and away from […]
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Jeff Hamann knows a thing or two about the Pacific coastline of the Americas, having flown the length of it from the Mexican border with the USA to the top of South America. In the construction business in the USA, his job allows him short and sharp periods of vacation – and boy does he use […]
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“You should get in touch with a friend of mine in Alaska, he’s been doing some flying out there.” When pilots you respect – the pilot emailing was a world record holder – say things like that, it’s time to take a look. What we discovered when we followed up is amazing. Will Brown, a […]
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Paraglider design has advanced in leaps and bounds over the last five years. Sharknose technology, stiffening battens, 3D panel shaping and more efficient line layouts have all worked together to create better, punchier gliders that collapse less frequently and are a pleasure to fly. However, gliders have also got skinner – as technology has got […]
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Putting together the Cross Country Travel Guide special edition is always a pleasure. From finding out the latest developments at free-flight meccas like Annecy to talking to local pilots in far-flung places, it always reopens our eyes to the potential out there. This year we have selected several major destinations –from Annecy in France to […]
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Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014) sees the latest EN B from Apco Aviation put through its paces. Marcus King writes: I’m scratching down low, it’s pretty stable down here and others around me are sinking down to the landing. Pilots up high show there are some escape routes to the clouds so it’s just a […]
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“The first rule of igloo club is there is no igloo.” “The second rule of igloo club is build your own igloo.” “The third rule is anyone who comes to igloo club stays overnight in igloo club…” Photographer Andy Busslinger and friends head into the hills in Switzerland to spend the night out in an […]
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Bob Drury reviews the Ozone Rush 4 in Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014). We told him to take it out into the rush hour traffic above Chamonix – where he promptly put it through its paces in the alpine sky. Unrolling the Rush 4 you are immediately assured that this baby has all the technology […]
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In Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014) Marcus King takes an EN A paraglider out for a spin in the southern French Alps and flies a mini XC classic, from Col de Bleine to St Andre les Alpes. I worked every piece of lift on the way; if I arrived too low I would miss the […]
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Almost 4,000km long and snaking between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, Chile is a pilot’s paradise. In Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec) Loreto Hurtado introduces us… A few years ago on a plane flying north a friend looked out of the window and asked me: “Is that real?” Below us was a vast, empty desert. […]
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