News

Oliver Rössel, the current German serial class paragliding champion and one of the most successful competition pilots in the world, is running cross country training camps in the Alps next season.

German firm Aircross have created a lightweight version of their serial class racer: The U-Sport Evo is 3 kilos lighter than the original U-Sport, and Aircross' test pilots are reporting better launch characteristics and climbing performance as a result.

Ecuadorian pilot Juan Carlos Morán Reinoso has broken Ecuador's Open Distance paraglider record with a flight of 85.8 km from Bototillo on 24 November.

2009 Red Bull X-Alps winning team Chrigel Maurer and Thomas Theurillat will be giving a slide show and talk on "the Red Bull X-Alps 2009 - as it really was" at the Salzburg Mountain film festival tomorrow night, 7 December.

Organisers Moyes have made some late changes to the format of the Forbes Flatlands hang gliding championships, which take place in January 2011. Details are below, and entries should be received by this Friday, 10 December 2010.

Advance's Andy Hediger won the “Merrell Cup”, also the Argentinean Paragliding open, which took place in Tucuman, Argentina, during the third week of September.

Brazilian Gustavo Ferreira won the first of three rounds of the XC Open Series for 2011, which was held in Araxá, Brazil in October 2010.

The St Hil AirTour is a 289km hike-and-fly race that starts and finishes at the French hotspot of free-flight that is St Hilaire du Touvet

Italian pilot Benedetto Lo Tufo wins his choice of paraglider from either Aircross, Apco, Gin, Gradient, Ozone or Sol in the Cross Country Magazine Readers Draw

Australia's Gulgong Classic hang gliding competition finished on 27th November, and it was Jonny Durand jnr who lifted the cup again after a nail-biting six-task competition.