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Swedish doctor and hot air balloon pilot John Grubbström was elected the FAI's new president at the organisation's general conference in Dublin this month. He succeeds Pierre Portmann, who held the post for six years and has now been made 'President of honour'.

Michael Pohl and 18-year-old Christoph Bessei, were awarded iPod Touches from Austrian paraglider manufacturer Nova, who named them 'Pilots of the Year'.

Australian brothers Daniel and Nick Pierce climbed 5,800 m Mt Misti in Peru, and speedflew back down again on their Gin speed wings - in four minutes.

The Long Mynd soaring club in England are hosting a winter’s day of paragliding films and talks on 4 December in Shrewsbury in aid of the local air ambulance.

Applications are open for Australia's Corryong Open 2011 paragliding competition, which takes place at Mount Elliot, Victoria, next February.

A film of the spectacular, new-format Parabatix paramotor Sky Races event is in the making, and we have the official trailer here.

Paragliding in India has been banned until 20 October 2010, dealing another blow to the sport in the country...

XC360, Cross Country magazine's Facebook short film competition was won by Matjaz Klemencic with his film, Substitute for a Dream. Congratulation to Matjaz – he wins a Sup'Air harness.

France's Yann Martail is the 2010 Paragliding World Cup Superfinal champion. He won the two-week competition flying an Ozone R10.2 – the paraglider that has dominated the competition circuit all season.

Paragliding competitions could be revolutionised following the decision of the Paraglider Manufacturers Association to support Serial Class for FAI Cat 1 competition, effectively banning Open Class paragliders