#techno2024
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1 Cover 2 Edito 2 content 3 Coupe Icare 2024 6 Ad Niviuk Hiko 7 Harnesses and protections 11 Ad Gin 12 Protectors: things are moving 14 Ad Zoom XA 16 Ad Stodeus 17 U96 18 Ad Niviuk Takoo6 19 Niviuk Arrow P 28 Reversible yes but no 31 Ad Niviuk Artik 7 32 Ad Skyman Shark 32 Advance Boundless 33 Ad Phi Beat 2 Light 33 Video: Advance Boundless 34 Ad Dudek 35 Gin Genie x-Lite 38 GIN 39 Ad Next generation 42 Ad Niviuk Takoo 43 winglets 45 20 years after: the Bionic 46 Ozone Magnum 4 48 Niviuk Takoo 6 49 News: Ozone ALTA-7 50 News: Ozone LYGHT 51 Ad Skyman Shark 51 News: Advance Sigma DLS 52 AirG Dent de Lion 54 Skyman Sir Edmund Shark 56 SWING Serac RS 60 Vidéo: The RAST story 61 Kite risers: controlling the angle of attack 62 Flare Moustache 64 Vidéo: Moustache piste 67 Flare Line 68 Flow Mullet 70 Little Cloud Puffin kite risers 71 Apco Nestra 74 Sky Paragliders 75 Phi 77 Zoom 79 Ad Coupe Icare 2024 80 ImprintRead the magazine as always for free:
#sitting!
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1 Cover 2 Summary 4 Reserve to the rescue… 5 Video: Reserve release 6 World champions 9 Low flying shot 10 Shot smiley 12 An all blue Stodeus 13 #sitting! Harnesses 17 The rise of the Submarine 20 Test Neo Shorty 26 Air Design Sock vs Little Cloud Grasshopper MK 2 35 Dudek Hike & Cruise and Dudek Techno 2023 36 Dudek Techno 2023 41 Dudek Hike & Cruise 46 Red Bull X-Alps 2023: Maurer wins again... 50 Interview with Celine Lorenz 59 Video: Jean-Baptiste Chandelier No Way 60 The making of: Jean-Baptiste Chandelier No Way 70 Impressum 70 Index ads
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Paragliding World Cup Brasov, Romania, 24th June to 1st of July 2023
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PWCA announces:
"At the end of this month the World Cup will be making its way to Brasov in Romania for our first ever event there.
Brasov is in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. It is one of the oldest cities in the country. Already known for skiing and hiking, its reputation as a “gateway” to the big mountains for paragliding is on the up.
In the mountains pilots can expect to find the occasional +7m/s climb, more generally thermals are around 3-5m/s, with some valley breeze.
There is a great variety of flying. Away from the mountains the pilots will be able to enjoy the fertile flat lands surrounded by tree covered hills. Thermals here are on average 1-2m/s, with low saves being in short supply!
This combination of landscapes and thermals will offer an interesting playground for the pilots, who will have to sharpen their senses to know when it’s time to change down a gear.
It is also hoped that tasks will take the pilots over Bran Castle, better known as Dracula’s Castle.
Equally interesting are the colourful collection of pilots taking part. Ex World champion and World Cup winner, Joachim Oberhauser will be competing alongside five other Paragliding World Cup winners.
We will be welcoming 23 new pilots, including Jacob Butterworth, who will be flying alongside (or perhaps slightly ahead of) his dad Richard.
A first in paragliding history, we will be celebrating Pepe Malecki’s 100th World Cup, here in Romania. He will be the first pilot ever to achieve this!
Follow the action on the Flymaster tracking and the World Cup Webapp (live.pwca.org) and website (pwca.org). The leaderboard now has live scoring. The commentary will be in: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Korean.
The split screen facility permits any combination of leaderboard, tracking and commentary. With the return of our Brazilian partner VETOR, the team leaderboard will display 22 teams, all vying for the top spot!
We have also recently introduced the maillot jaune (overall race leader), maillot vert (leadout point leader) and maillot rose (leading lady) on the tracking and in the air.
Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/officialparaglidingworldcup/
Photos of the pilots and their social media: https://live.pwca.org/photos.php"
#springtime2023
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1 Cover 2 Summary 3 World Championship 4 The X-Alps: Sleep more 5 Shot Ozone Viper Xc 6 EN C 2 liner Alex Höllwarth 7 X-Alps: Niviuk Klimber 3P 9 Flying technique, caress your risers 13 Stodeus UltraBip mini-vario maximum performance 22 Heavenly Bathtub Story by Laurie Genovese 23 Video Laurie Genovese 25 Drinking and peeing while paragliding 29 Video: Home Sweet Home 30 Portfolio Home Sweet Home 39 An unusual shot 40 Spring photo shoots 42 Stubai harnesses 43 Progress in the single skins 45 Getting started: Seven EN C 2 liners 53 Video: Seven EN C 2 liners 54 Impressum 55 Index ads
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#trends2023_2-2
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55 Advance Stubai 56 Apple Watch variometer 14 Chinese Balloon ? 1 Cover 53 Drift Merlin 43 Dudek Hike&Cruise 2 Editorial 74 Events: Cinema Icares 71 Flight Level Zero: 172 km out and return trip to the sea 69 Formation Qatar 40 Gin Bonanza 3 41 Gin Evora 20 Harnesses Niviuk 82 Index ads 24 Little Cloud Grasshopper MK 2 26 Neo 11 New models Phi 37 Niviuk Champions 35 Niviuk Kode P 12 and 14 36 Niviuk Peak 6 Artik R 38 Niviuk R-Bus 2 6 Nova Aonic Light, winch release 81 Ours 44 Ozone Photon Ozone Moxie 34 Phi Symphonia 2 Light 39 Profly Mike Küng 22 PWCA 2023 Castelo Brazil 16 PWCA Superfinal 3 Salons Thermikmesse, Stubai 46 Shot Ozone Zeolite Antoine Girard 49 Skyman Shark 50 Skyman U96 48 Skywalk Mint 32 Stubai-Cup 18 Submarine 2 Summary 28 Supair 47 Swing Libra RS 3 Thermikmesse, Stubai Cup trade fair 8 Twisted brakes... 52 U-Turn 68 X-Alps 2023: The route 1 Cover 2 Summary 2 Editorial 3 Thermikmesse, Stubai Cup trade fair 3 Salons Thermikmesse, Stubai 6 Nova Aonic Light, winch release 8 Twisted brakes... 11 New models Phi 14 Chinese Balloon ? 16 PWCA Superfinal 18 Submarine 20 Harnesses Niviuk 22 PWCA 2023 Castelo Brazil 24 Little Cloud Grasshopper MK 2 26 Neo 27 Video: Stand-Up Rescue System 28 Supair 32 Stubai-Cup 34 Phi Symphonia 2 Light 35 Niviuk Kode P 12 and 14 36 Niviuk Peak 6 Artik R 37 Niviuk Champions 38 Niviuk R-Bus 2 39 Profly Mike Küng 40 Gin Bonanza 3 41 Gin Evora 43 Dudek Hike&Cruise 44 Ozone Photon Ozone Moxie 46 Shot Ozone Zeolite Antoine Girard 47 Swing Libra RS 48 Skywalk Mint 49 Skyman Shark 50 Skyman U96 52 U-Turn 53 Drift Merlin 54 Advance Strapless 3 55 Advance Stubai 56 Apple Watch variometer 58 Video: Test Apple Watch 8 60 Interview with Chrigel Maurer 68 X-Alps 2023: The route 69 Formation Qatar 70 Video: AirLight paramotor fireworks 71 Flight Level Zero: 172 km out and return trip to the sea 74 Events: Cinema Icares 75 Trailer Video: Lumdo Kolola 76 Video: Eliot Nochez 77 Video: Trailer ‘Vulnerability’ 78 Video: From Avoriaz with Love 79 Video: Teaser Tic Tac 80 Video: Home Sweet Home 81 Ours 82 Index ads
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World Cup Castelo, Brazil 18th – 25th March 2023
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News of the PWCA Headquarters:
"Castelo’s truly stunning landscape with huge granite domes surrounded by mountains and waterfalls, makes it one of the most beautiful places to fly in the world. It’s complex aerology, thanks to the sea breeze, gives added interest, giving a technically challenging arial playground.
The World Cup’s return to Castelo and the Ubá valley is long overdue. Four very successful competitions have already been held here: 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Yann Martail and Emanuelle Zufferey won in 2012. Will it be all change at the top, or more of the same from two of the World’s most consistent and long serving pilots?
Hot off the top spot from the recent Super Final in Mexico in December, Honorin Hamard, will also be competing. Baptiste Lambert, third in the Super Final, with three World Cup wins already could put up a real challenge to Honorin’s bid to win his seventh World Cup. However, for once, this is probably not going to be all about the French. Top Brazilian pilots Rafael Barros, Rafael Saladini, Luciano Horn, Erico Oliveira and Gilmar Couto are also in with a real chance of landing on the top spot in a place, and with conditions, that they all know very well. Not to mention young Brazilian prodigy, 21-year-old Caio Buzzarello.
The race for the ladies’ podium could well be a French/Brazilian duel too with Meryl Delferriere and Marcella Uchoa obvious favourites. But there are a lot of other very experienced ladies taking part. Violeta Jimenez, third overall in this years’ Monarca Open, will, like Meryl and Marcella be setting her sights on a good overall ranking too! Boys beware!
The name Timo Leonetti is probably ringing bells for some, and alarm bells for others. This will be Timo’s debut World Cup. Although he will be the youngest pilot in the competition, he is by no means a novice. Invited by Gin Gliders, he won XContest 2022 and already has 569km as his longest flight. He set a new long-distance World and European speed record last year for a 300km triangle (29.5km/h) and he’s only 20 years old!
A lot of respect also has to go to the legendary Pepe Malecki who will be taking part in his 99th World Cup, here in Castelo.
With 18 AA pilots taking part, the only thing that is certain is that it will be a very challenging competition.
On the team leaderboard, the Paragliding World Cup Association is delighted to welcome aboard two new partners: Cameli Municipality and Northwest Paragliding. With 19 partner teams taking part, the team competition will, once again, be very exciting to watch, culminating in a Partners' Trophy which will be awarded at the Super Final.
Tune into our website https://pwca.org and our live app https://live.pwca.org.
Our split screen facility allows you to watch the tracking, commentary (in eight different languages) and live leader-boards at the same time: https://live.pwca.org/app/live.html. As always, in the commentary, we will be including live photographs, giving a bird’s eye view of the task from the air as it unfolds.
Visit our pilot photo gallery, with links to their social media: https://live.pwca.org/photos.php
All the results will be available at: https://live.pwca.org/scores
Follow us on Instagram:officialparaglidingworldcup"
Credit photo: Ulric Jessop
Paragliding World Cup Super Final, Valle de Bravo, Mexico, 6-17 December
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From the 6th to the 17th of December the World’s best pilots will be taking to the skies above Valle de Bravo, 150km west of Mexico City, for the last event in this 30th anniversary year of the Paragliding World Cup.
El Peñón, Temascaltepec is a well-known competition venue having already hosted two Super Finals (2011 and 2015) and a World Cup (2014). It is famous for its consistent and reliable flying conditions. The best time to fly is November to May with the XC season kicking off properly in December, when the conditions allow 100 km triangles with 4,000m cloud bases.
The launch was expanded in 2008 in preparation for the World Championships. The ramp has space for at least four paragliders at the same time and allows 150 pilots to take off in less than 40 minutes.
There are many favourites to win this year’s title, from local pilot Manuel Quintanilla, to any of the staggering 21 pilots taking part who have already won a World Cup. They have won an incredible 39 World Cups between them!
5 pilots competing have already won the Super Final: Luc Armant (defending champion), Charles Cazaux, Pierre Remy, Aaron Durogati (twice!) and Maxime Pinot.
Not to mention the 5 World Champions and 4 European Champions who will be there trying to win this ultimate title.
Even more impressive still, out of the 15 ladies competing, 9 have already won the ladies’ ranking. They have won an incredible 46 World Cups between them!
3 have already won the Super Final: Meryl Delferriere, Seiko Fukuoka Naville (defending champion and three times winner) and Keiko Hiraki.
The ladies hold 9 World and European titles between them.
Whoever wins, will be crowned with the most prestigious title in paragliding history, in a sky where half the pilots have a letter A, the highest possible qualification letter. Or, put another way, almost half of those taking part have either been in the top five in a World Cup or won a task!
Read the profiles of the top pilots on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/officialparaglidingworldcup/
Keep up with the live commentary (now available in 8 different languages), the scores and the tracking on https://live.pwca.org
Follow the Flymaster tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=4824
Philippe Broers’ videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/paraglidingworldcup
Photo gallery of pilots competing: https://live.pwca.org/photos.php
Websites: https://www.alas.com.mx and https://pwcamexico.com/flyingsite.php
Promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLLEbHWLGc
Text: Ruth Jessop Photo: Ulric Jessop/Alas del Hombre
#trends2023_1-2
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The first real loop the loop
Explanations: looping the loop
X-Alps : the list
Jump from 39.000 m
Video: Speedriding Avoriaz
Skate and parachute
Coupe Icare 2022
Trends 2023
GIN Boomerang 12, the Humpback whale
Air Design
Neo
Alain Zoller
Supair
Phi
EN C 2 liner
Niviuk
Meryl Delferriere @ Niviuk
The battle of the submarines
Ozone
Skywalk
Independence
Skyman
Swing
Advance
U-Turn
Instruments Stodeus
XC-Tracer, Air 3
Free Aero is back
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#autumn 2022
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1 Cover Gin Fuse 3
2 Editorial
4 The faces of a storm...
6 Fungir Gowind
8 Trends 2023
11 Hike&Fly Dent de Crolles
15 2,5 lines with EN B
23 Holland and Denmark by paramotor
27 Test Niviuk Klimber 2P
30 2835 km following the butterflies
38 Video: Teaser FlyMonarco
40 Test Instrument Skytraxx 4.0
47 Index ads
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#flight gear 2022 1_2
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The new developments in 2022, notably those on display or launched since the Stubai Cup in the spring, have been numerous. But a large number of wings which have already been certified have still not been able to be delivered due to the saturation in production.
An interesting trend this summer, for which Swing have created the term ‘Social flying,’ has also appeared: Flying for pleasure, without any performance ambitions, with friends, often on foot and safely.
This is why paragliding is still booming at a time dominated by COVID and the war. In France alone, the number of licences passed has very noticeably increased. 1000 more licences were granted at the end of July 2022 compared to the previous year. Numerous new ‘tolerant’ models have targeted this market segment for safe wings for ‘Social Flying.’ While two years ago, the word we heard the most on each stand was ‘performance,’ this year it is ‘safety’ - a very welcome evolution…
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