Updates from around the paragliding and free-flying world
Ian Blackmore goes flying in Billing, India one of the wildest paragliding sites in the world
Read moreHang gliding on a sunny day, the climbs got better and better until suddenly, Ozzie Haines was in cloud. A classic tale of cloudsuck and getting away with it
Read moreIan Blackmore tests the latest (2002) intermediate from the Czech Republic’s great rising star, Sky Paragliders
Read moreOver-whelmed by conflicting advice on how to go XC on your paraglider or hang glider? Ian Blackmore clarifies the basic do’s and don’ts of XC flying so you can exert your mental energy on getting the most out of your flying day
Read moreTwists have become the number one danger for paragliding competition pilots. Bruce Goldsmith explains why
Read moreOzone’s managing director Mike Cavanagh questions the sanity of the proposed new CEN testing standards. Published in 2002
Read moreAvian’s new performer prove that the British hang gliding manufacturing industry is not only alive, but also kicking, says Richard Sheppard
Read more‘Launch early if you want to go far,’ according to the Chelan cognoscente. ‘Early,’ in XC context, means noon-ish – if you wait much later than that, especially on a paraglider, you risk running out of daylight and lift.
Read more‘I pulled my reserve handle and … nothing.’ One of the most powerful paragliding tales of survival ever published. A lesson in luck, by Bob Drury
Read moreOn Thursday 31 January 2002, Enda Murphy and Rhett Rockman (Aussie Paragliding Champion) broke the triple from Manilla Mt Borah, Australia. They flew together for 301 km
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