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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With winter on the horizon in the Alps in Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014) we take an in-depth look at how to learn to speedride. It’s not as simple as borrowing your mate’s 8m speed wing! Arnaud Baumy is a paragliding and speedriding instructor in Les Arcs. He got into the sport with Francois Bon […]
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Jon Chambers has competed twice in the Red Bull X-Alps and got to Monaco once – finishing fourth in the 2013 race. In Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014) he explains how any pilot can take the techniques that X-Alps pilots use to train and turn them on themselves. The aim is not to turn us […]
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Changes to the EN flight test for paragliders were announced in April this year, including one that will automatically classify the glider EN D if folding lines are used in the test. In Cross Country 156 (Nov/Dec 2014) we sit down with Randi Eriksen from test house Air Turquoise and ask what the changes are, […]
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