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Paragliding World Cup Roldanillo, Colombia, 6th-13th February 2022

The World Cup first ventured to Roldanillo in 2011, with pilots from 28 countries competing. It was such a great success that two Super Finals were then held there, in 2013 and 2018. PWC is returning in 2022 with pilots from 33 different countries, and the highest pilot quality we’ve ever seen.
Since those early days Roldanillo has become one of the best competition venues in the World thanks to its reliability, easy logistics, thermal quality, textbook flying conditions and most importantly the people.
The people of Colombia have been welcoming pilots with open arms for over a decade and it’s not uncommon to see pilots flooding into Roldanillo on the back of motorcycles, tractors or even a donkey from time to time!!
The Paragliding World Cup starts in a weeks’ time and many top pilots are already landing here to train for this event.

Roldanillo is a traditional Colombian town sitting in the valley of Valle Del Cauca at 925 m. The launch, Augua Panela, is 869 metres above the town with beautiful views and trees for shade. Pilots can expect to find thermals as strong as 5-6 metres a second, with cloud base reaching 3000 plus metres. All of Valle Del Cauca works wonderfully giving very interesting tasks with lots of different routes for pilots to choose from, taking the valley, which side of the valley, or flying the mountains. The landing zones are huge and everywhere, which makes it possible for pilots to get lower than ever imagined low saves.

Roldanillo has become home from home for many of the top pilots on the World Cup circuit, basing themselves here to run courses, adding glitter to our star-studded selection list. All that needs to be said about the pilot quality: ‘CF’ wasn’t enough to get a place!
In addition, Roldanillo 2022 is going to be a great chance to see what Gin's R&D department have been up to. An updated 2022 version of the Boomerang 12 will be put through its paces during the competition by Torsten Siegel before it goes on sale. Honorin Hamard from Ozone will also be stretching his wings flying the first production model of the Zeno 2. The Niviuk X-One is very much on the up too, with more pilots than ever before flying it.
Keep up with all the fun and frolics on the World Cup website, pwca.org and on the PWCA Live App at https://live.pwca.org (which is now a web app). It includes the live Commentary, the tracking and all the scores. For those who can’t work out one end of a paragliding competition from another, the Commentary gives a thermal-by-thermal explanation.
(Photo by Ulric Jessop)
All the results will be available here: https://live.pwca.org/scores?comp=29

Indian Summer 2020

Indian Summer 2020

Paragliding activities have recovered surprisingly well from the first shock of COVID. Manufacturers, who feared bankruptcy, are selling more than ever before, and during this summer, the skies have been full of pilots happy to have found their freedom again.
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Trends 2020 part 1

Trends 2020 1/2: here is the first part of our review of this year’s new products. As always, we are publishing all the new trends in two parts. In this edition, we also test some of the older trends like the Buteo, to check what has become of them…

Thermikmesse 2020
Reserve All-Up Weight
Stubai-Cup 2020
Bornes To Fly
Harnesses
Paragliding Databases
Folding Lines for En C?
News Phi
Head Over From 7100M
Video : Phi Allegro
News BGD
Gin Light For Xc
Video: Gin Camino
Xc Tracer Maxx With Screen
Fatal Accidents Of French Licence-Holders: Surprises, Statistics…
Bag/Harness Neo Shorty
Flying With Skis
Video: Neo Arva Airbag
Snowfeet: To Take-Off With Ski Feet
Ozone Mojo 6
News Ozone Zeolite/Zeolite Gt
News Swing Helios RS
News Skywalk
Arriba 4
News Skywalk
Cayenne 6
Test Niviuk Skin 3 And Skin 3 P
Niviuk Peak 5, Kougar 3
Single Or Double Skin?
Nova Double Skin
Nova Bantam
Quick Test Of The Nova Aonic
Test Icaro Buteo XC
A Reminder Of Our Tests Of The Nova Phantom
An Icaro Quick Folding Bag
Supair: Leaf 2/Leaf 2 Light
Video Leaf 2/Leaf 2 Light
Test Gin Leopard XS En D
Air Cross
Test Air Design Rise
Portfolio Ramon Morillasin Egypt

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Autumn 2019

Portfolio Coupe Icare 2019
Parabible: Paratroc replaces Para2000
Video: Nicolas Aubert Skimming
Test Nova Ion 5 and the Ion 5 light
Test Phi Maestro
Aerial Internet And Weather Stations For Pilots
Instruments from the Black Forest
Review: Skytraxx 2.1, small and powerful, FANET&FLARM included…
Test Dudek Colt 2
Test PPG Wing ITV Piper
Test PPG Wing Nova Speedmax 2
Portfolio Markus Gründhammer
Managing fear (2/2)
Lessons from the crash of flight AF 447: speak up!
Coupe Icare: Film Festival
Trailer: Lost in Karakorum
Trailer: Still Flying
Trailer: Icare
Trailer: Playing with the invisible
Trailer: Wayra
Trailer: Rencontre avec Zouhair
Trailer: Butterfly
Trailer: Flying in Iceland
Trailer: Own the Skies

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A summary of the summer

Red Bull X-Alps 2019
Inverse X-Alps for Science
Video: Save the Alps
Météo-Parapente, new weather services
Landing on Mont Blanc 2019
The Syride Server knows it all.
Sys’evolution vs E-Ink Tablet
Managing fear 1/2
Portfolio On The Way…
News Gin Leopard
Review Gin Atlas 2
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Mental Training. Bio-Hacking for pilots...

A pilot’s mental training is a key element, both for winning the World Cup and for clocking up the kilometres in an XC, or for leisure flying. There are lots of ways of making your mind work before and during a flight, from now on, we’ll frequently return to this subject.In this edition, we’ll be putting the spotlight on WHM, a method of ‘bio-hacking,’ working in depth with how we function, which can be very efficient

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#trends 2019 paragliding, paramotoring

Once again there are numerous trends concerning ‘Light’ and ‘hike&fly’ in 2019. It’s nicely timed as it’s the year of the Red Bull X-Alps, or to put it more precisely, the 9th edition of this completely mad race, which will encourage many pilots to make the most of the mountains before and after flying, on foot and whilst bivouacking...

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#_icare_2018 and #trends part 1/2

At the 2018 Coupe Icare, the biggest free flying festival in the world, new technology such as the RAST system took pride of place. Hi-tech for flying with total peace of mind. We also noticed that the single skins, whilst diversifying, have gone fully into another, well established trend: lighter and simpler. This return to basics has also happened in cutting edge technology, such as the use of high-tech modern fabric like Skytex 27. It has been tried and tested for more than a decade now. The next step in light weight, Skytex 21, is expected to feature in the 2019 X-Alps. We visited the textile factory in France.

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Summer 2018: The omnipresent heat ‘at all levels,’ should have stabilised the atmosphere more, stifling the thermals under a leaden veil or rather under an ‘anticyclonic cushion.’ But this wasn’t the case. Explanations and "Omegas"...

We are often asked ‘how do you take beautiful photos of paragliders?’ We have gathered together some great photos and put explanations with them. In addition, in response to our request, some photographers have chosen one of their favourite photos and told us its story themselves.

Fabric Karabiner, Softlinks vs. Softlinks: A few things worth knowing about these fashionable connectors. Also: an example of a fairly badly made connector.

By the way, look out for the next issue, later on this month: Special Coupe Icare 2018 and the first trends for 2019. We will show you in detail the latest equipment, the most interesting technological developments and explain how the framework of our sport is evolving....

COUPE ICARE 2018
NEWS SUPAIR DELIGHT 3
NEWS : ADVANCE XI
THE WEATHER IN THE SUMMER OF 2018: HEAT, OMEGA AND SURPRISES.
FLYING IN STRONG THERMALS... PORTFOLIO FLYING IN JORDAN
KORTEL DESIGN : KOCKPIT PHOTO STOLEN MOMENTS
PORTFOLIO PARA-PHOTO
DIGITAL TOOLS
TEST DUDEK : REPORT’AIR
TEST : DA VINCI XCHORD
AERIAL AEROLOGY
TRIBUNE PMA: SOFTLINKS
TEST ARTIK 5

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Cocooning

Amongst other subjects, in this issue, we made an interesting observation: cocoon harnesses (especially the lightweight ones), are taking off in force, and rightly so: they bring performance and precision piloting, as well as comfort…

We are the Rovers Norvège
Video: Trailer Norway
Weather
PRE-WORLD CUP in Cerdagne
News : Et en + c’est vrai
Supertestival kössen
Aspect ratio
Test : Phi Symphonia
Cocooning
Supair Strike
Neo Stay Up
Harness test Nearbird Genesis
Paramotor World Championship in Thailand.
EN, TC136/WG6: Flying norms
A concrete example: the harness

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Instruments & Collaborative Intelligence

To fly a paraglider safely, you don’t need to have an instrument. This is rare in the world of aviation! Nonetheless, modern varios are becoming more and more efficient in helping us to increase distances and the time we spend in the air. In this issue, amongst other things, we’ll take a close look at some instrument innovations…

quick test of the artik 5
news supair eona 2
independence pioneer 3
skyman rock 2
news highadventure beamer 3 reserve
news paratroc compress bag
news vario ungravity
news dolomiti superfly 2018
news neo container lite
news advance: daypack 3
news krushevo ozone open 2018
airtour 2018 competition or adventure?
news exomo
antartica seven virgin summits
flying with and without collaborative hitech instruments
collaborative flying: flarm&fanet
xc-tracer
gpsbip and captive sensors
vario screens: readability
segment screens flymaster vario ls mipfly
mipfly
news ascent h2
icarus x and icarus trophy
syride sys'evolution
test smartphone outdoor action-x3
caterpillar smartphone
traps in the water
test apco nrg xc II
portrait marie mateos

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PWCA 2018 Brazil

Some nice pictures of the second event in the 2018 World Cup event which took place in Brazil.

Sharing

Sharing our passion: tandems are one of the best ways. In this edition, along with other tests and information, we review tandem wings and describe ways to share great moments in the sky with friends.

MOONLIGHT SPEEDRIDING, SPEEDRIDING, NEO: SPEEDRIDING, SHARING: TANDEM SPEEDRIDING, GIN SPEEDRIDING, SPEEDRIDING LEVEL WINGS , VIDEO: OZONE RAPI-DOS , SHARING: SPEEDRIDING BIPLACE , VIDEO:WHEN A BLIND MAN FLIES, NEWS NOVA IBEX 4, VIDEO: NOVA IBEX 4, FILM OF THE WEATHER IN 2017, VIDEO: WEST RIDE STORY, PHI: SYMPHONIA, SHARING FLIGHTS, TEST: AIR DESIGN HERO, TEST ADVANCE IOTA 2: THE VERDICT, THE TANDEM SUPAIR SORA, SKYWALK JOINT 4,SWING TWIN RS (RAST), ADVANCE BI PI AND BI BETA 6, BIPLACES NOVA,TREKKING, OZONE ARE DOUBLING UP THIS YEAR…, LIGHT FOR SHARING, SHARING WITH CHILDREN, CHILDREN FLY SOLO, VIDEO: A FAMILY EXPEDITION, TEST & TECHNIQUES: FOOT LAUNCHED TANDEM PARAMOTOR,TEST: INDEPENDENCE-AIR TAXI, TEST: NIVIUK TAKOO 4, TEST APCO GAME 42 , TEST BGD DUAL LITE, VIDEO: TEST BGD DUAL LITE ,TEST AIRCROSS DOUBLE U

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Stubai Cup 2018

The Stubai Cup, which is one of the biggest events after the Coupe Icare, took place at the beginning of March.

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The 2017 Paragliding World Cup

Super Final in Colombia

The 2017 Paragliding World Cup Super Final took place from the 9th to the 20th of January 2018 in Roldanillo in Colombia. It was won by Michael Sigel and Laurie Genovese...

Trends 2018

The 2018 season is almost here. Since the Coupe Icare, lots of new products and trends have surfaced. Here’s a resumé of the wings and equipment that we’ll see in the air...

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WHO'S WHO?
We’re making the most of this equipment tour to introduce some of the essential figures
from the world of
paramotoring. There are a lot of amazing pioneers and personalities...

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Light 2017

News
Adventure Pluma: Carbon everywhere!
Softlinks : simpler?
Taking off barefoot
The rules in the Mercantour National Park
Portfolio Vol Bivouac
Bivouac tents
The single skins move on
Test Niviuk Skin 2 vs Skyman Sir Edmund
Test Niviuk Bi Skin 2 P vs Skyman Sir Edmund Bi
Test lightweight helmets
Harness test: the Crux at the summit
Test Scorpio Alpage harness and backpack
Test GIN Explorer
Test Air Design : Vita 2 Superlight
Water when bivouacing
Portable solar oven
Reminder: folding lines

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Paragliding World Cup Pico do Gaviao, Brazil

The Paragliding World Cup based at Aguas da Prata in Brazil was always going to be a Battle Royal.

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Climbing

300 KM on an EN B
168 KM on a tandem
Franky Zapata and his Flyboard Air
Climbing in a cauldron
To the sea
Finding the source
Cross section unleashed
The dust dance
To go up, release the handbrake
Portfolio a heavenly slalom
XAlps 2017: Chrigel wins again
Chrigel’s winning wing…
Paul Guschlbaur 3rd
Rising star Stanislav Mayer
Gaspard Pétiot
The outtersider at the top...
World championships monte avena
Test Ozone Delta 3
Test Apco Swift R
Climbing with smartphones
Going up electrically
Review Exomo
Measuring the thrust

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Competition

Ultra light glider championships
Ozone Ozium 2
Niviuk Dobermann 2
Back to Grand-bo
Pioupiou everywhere
Mike Küng : Challenge
X-Alps : Chrigel x 5 ?
Skywalk : X-Alps3
Information: X-Alps 2017
XC-Tracer @ X-Alps
Flymaster: Tracker
World Championship at Monte Avena
The PWC in Serbia
The new racing machines
Three liners versus two liners
Four liners
BGD Diva
AirDesign : Hero
Test : Skywalk Poison X-Alps
Test: Niviuk Klimber P
Adventure: new racing wing
Ozone: Viper 4
Paramotor competition: Popular pylons
Home-made competitions
Icarus Trophy 2017

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Safety

This edition is principally about (passive) safety. In a future edition, we’ll review new back protectors. News
Reserves on great form!
Tree landings
Karabiners: a weak link
Softlinks: buckle up
PMA: Lark’s head revisited?
Collision: risks and solutions
Test Independence Zippy

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Trends 2017

Following the Thermikmesse and Stubai-Cup trade shows, we’ve given a roundup of some of the new products for this season, in this edition. Wing reviews: Nova Phantom, l'Ozone Zeno vs. Enzo 2, EN B Air Cross U-Cruise (record: 446 km with this wing)

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End of winter 2017

SUPER FINAL Paragliding World Cup 2016
TEST MINI-INSTRUMENTS their evolution
CHT – EGT Valuable readings
AIGUILLE DU MIDI high mountains at your feet
SPEEDRIDING Chamonix
SITES Jungfraujoch, Little Matterhorn
TEST Dudek Nucleon XX
EXPEDITION following the migration route

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Light, hike, fly & bivouac 2016

Portfolio: Gründhammer
Lightweight tents
News
Polini: Thor 190 light revisited
Icaro: Spreader Bars
T ravel: the bird woman has landed
Gin: yeti cross reserve
High adventure: beamer 3 lightweight reserve
Fabric: light coming of age ?
Lightweight wings: presentation and tests
Advance: PI2, compress bag and pipack
Air Design: Vita 2 Superlight
Gin: Sprint 3s
Nova: Ion 4
Nova: Mentor 4 light
Skywalk: Poison X-alps
Gin: Griffin
Ozone: Jomo
Niviuk: Klimber P
Niviuk: Bi Skin 2 P31, the lightest tandem in the world
Equipment
Sleeves
Poles
Lightweight Merrell shoes
Trekking travelling belt
Test Nervure: Expé 2 harness
Travel: Bike and fly across Europe
Flying bicycles
Travel: Icarus Trophy
Test: lightweight motors
Polini: Thor 80
kangook: Trekk II, the travelling chassis
Reuter flexible tank: ideal for travellers

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Playing with wings

Technique : playing on the ground with Jean Baptiste Chandelier
Technique : ‘Touch’ for everyone
Technique : weight shift towards or away from the slope ?
Preparation : clipping in facing the wing
Flying techniques: steering using the rear risers
Take off techniques: cobra inflation
Mad Mike Küng: the pioneer of rear riser steering
News: Niviuk Roller
News: Ozone Fazer 3
Travel: The Danish Dune
Flying techniques: near the ground on a paramotor
Portfolio: Axel Jamgotchian
Playing perfectly: don’t try this at home
Test paraglider: Independence Geronimo 2
Test paraglider: Ground handling wings, Icaro Furia/Kiwi
Test paraglider motor: Apco Lift EZ
Test paramotor: Bidalot Eole 135

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Coupe Icare 2016

At the end of September the Coupe Icare 2016 was, as always, an amazing spectacle and the biggest showcase of free flying and paramotoring in the world.

On the paragliding side, the new technology race is clearly on with the ever present SharkNose, or similar, as well as others like mini ribs right down to the EN As.

The EN B category is more and more sought after, the manufacturers offering wings which are very honed and with very high performance. The Nova Phantom, an EN B with 99 cells and at the modest price of 6500€, is an extreme example. We visited most of the stands.

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Making-of

Making a paraglider

The office staff and the teams
Digital design
Raw materials: fabrics
Raw materials: maillons
Raw materials: lines
The parts of a paraglider wing
Manufacture
paramotor manufacturers

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2016, a new season

News
Portfolio
Omikron-Advance gets into accro
Grounded thanks to the buckles
Flight Technics
Controlling with your feet
Tests
Gin Carrera+
BGD Cure
Swing Mito - Myth or magic?
Aircross - Double U
Reports
The right mix for a paramotor
Stand up flying on a drone
SMAAP simulator

Special Instruments

What’s the point?
The flight recorder
GSM live tracking
Live tracking by satellite Spot, Delorme inReach SE, Explorer, YBTracking YB3
Measuring the wind
Air speed probes: true speed
Instruments: the new generation
Gyro-vario: new sensors and algorithms AHRS

Tests:
XC-Tracer, Flytec Sensbox & Connect & Element, Compass C-Pilot Evo & Easy Pilot & XC-Pilot, Skytraxx 2.0 & 3.0, ASI Flynet XC1, Syride SysNav V3, Flymaster Live SD, Naviter Oudie 3+ & 4, Reversale VGP, Ascent H1 update, Digifly, GPSBip, Skybean Skydrop, Fly Electonics Motor Monitor

Trends 2016

PORTFOLIO: Horacio Llorens - Polar Paramotoring
News paragliding World Cup
Las Candelas
TRENDS:
Trends: the weight of wings
Stretch out! (Trends aspect ratio)
Leading edge rods: a new trend from yesterday, evident today
Stubai Cup
The Swan project
TESTS:
Niviuk Ikuma 23, 25
Skywalk Cayenne 5 S, XS
Niviuk Kougar 2
Ozone Roadster 2
Ozone Viper 3
Dudek Snake versus snake XX
The exhibitors at the 2016 Thermik-messe trade show

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NEWS
PHOTOS, TECHNIQUES, TESTS, COMPARISONS
Feeling light
Single skins, back to our roots
Going up with single skins
The Skin Plume and the UFO face to face
Lightweight wings, the pros and cons
Unsheathed lines: why they need to be protected

THE X-ALPS 2015 – FOR ALL
EQUIPMENT TRIED AND TESTED, WHICH BENEFITS ALL PILOTS
Quick test: Kortel Kolibri Pro
Quick test: Skywalk Range X-Alps
Quick test: Skyman Coconea
Head torch test, an enlightened choice
X-Alps: the return of the poles
Leatherman: the multipurpose tool
A battery, up to the toughest race?

QUICK TESTS AND A LOOK AT HANDLING
Karpo Fly Fantom extra light
Nova Ibex 3
Icaro Sitta
Ozone UL 3
Skyman CrossCountry
Gradient Denali
Trekking Trek
Nova Ion 3 light
Paramotor Adventure X-Race Lite

PRESENTATION
Paramotor Miniplane, the next generation
Polini light: Thor 80
Paramotor Simplify X1 Adventure

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JBC’S new video

Pilot and film maker, Jean Baptiste Chandelier has just released an impressive new video clip.

Weather, finding the right info to get higher

NEWS

TECHINCAL

Which weather forecast for tomorrow?

Eight tips for forecasting the best days

The enigma of the Emagram

TESTS

Piou-Piou : the weather station for everyone

Windfinder, the full story

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The Paragliding World Cup Bir, India

From the 21st to the 28th of October 2015 the Paragliding World Cup flew to Bollywood and beyond and, despite initial fears, there weren’t too many cases of Bir Belly even by the end of the competition.

Coupe Icare 2015

New wings
New equipment

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Harness

PORTFOLIO: Pyla force 10
ACTUS News
TECHNICAL The harness, a third means of control
Leg straps are back
Cocoons evolve
Cocoon advice
Paramotor hang points, the highs and lows
TESTS
Kortel Kruyer II
Kortel Kolibri
Neo String
Ozone F*Lite
Apco Split Legs
Skywalk Rangeair
Advance Lightness 2
Supair Delight 2
Niviuk Konvers
Woody Valley Wani/Wani Light
Harnesses for tandem passengers and children
Adventure X-Race LT
Attachments by Fly Products
Kangook Trekk
PAP 1400 PA 125
Blois and Ballenstedt

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Portfolio X-Alps 2015

The hardest hike and fly race in the world wasn’t too hard for Chrigel Maurer. For the fourth time he arrived far ahead of the others, in eight days, four hours and forty two minutes.

Whilst the other competitors have got until noon on Friday to battle it out, we are publishing this portfolio with the best moments of the race for the top places.

The first...

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Firsts on paragliders and paramotors

First flights in the desert

First news of the summer

First 50 km

First single skin ‘normal paraglider’

Test Niviuk Skin

First wings what’s a first wing?

Test Ozone Atom 3

Test Advance Epsilon 7

Test Ozone Buzz Z4 and Buzz M

Test Adventure Flex-One

Test Air Design Ramaflex

From the first autonomous flight to the first tumbling on a paramotor

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Tips and Tales from Bir in India - Paragliding World Cup

The last leg of this years Paragliding World Cup will be held in Bir, India from the 24th to the 31st of October 2015. To find out more about flying in Bir, I turned the clocks back many, many years and got in touch with the very colourful Eddie Colfox...

Asymmetric collapses

News

ASYMMETRIC COLLAPSES: THE BASICS

COLLAPSES IN ALL THEIR GLORY

THE CATAPULT COLLAPSE: THE ELASTIC EFFECT

FOLDING LINES FOR CERTIFIED COLLAPSES

A CASCADE OF COLLAPSES

REFLEX WINGS: THE UNCOLLAPSABLE PROFILE?

COLLAPSES: UNDOING A CRAVAT

ACTIVE FLY SIMULATOR

COLLAPSES: BIRDS HAVE THEM TOO

HOW TO COPE WITH A TREE LANDING

Get ready to take off for a new season!

SPRING WEATHER

NEW PRODUCTS

THE THERMIKMESSE AND STUBAÏ CUP TRADE SHOWS

CLIPPING IN EASILY

GROUND HANDLING

PARAGLIDER ASSISTED DRAWING

SINGLE SKINS 2.0

X-ALPS 2015: THE ROUTE

HIKE AND FLY, AN ONLINE DISTANCE COMPETITION

Trends for 2015

Trends for 2015. In this issue, you’ll find news and information about the people, the races, the gear and the activities which are going to be the talk of the coming season.

Dobermann-Niviuk Portfolio

The Spanish manufacturer asked Antonin Michaud Soret to film a promotional video for their freestyle/slalom paramotor wing, the Dobermann.

Urban Pylons – Korean Style. Film: We are the rovers 2

The latest episode of ‘We are the Rovers’ has just been filmed in Korea, starring Sylvain Dupuis and his paramotoring friends.

Light: lighter, more compact equipment

Tests

Softlinks
Nevures’ Whizz
Neo’s String
Kortel Kruyer 2
Woody Valley’s Wani
The sky’s the limit: lightweight paramotoring.
Monopeaux with motor

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Actus
Dyneema
Titanium

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Full flight test plus video : Trekking Senso and Senso Sport

The French manufacturer has succeeded in making this wing in Europe, no mean feet given the very tight financial constraints at the moment. The first wing, the Senso, came out in 2013. A year later the Senso Sport was launched with the same profile and geometry but a kilo lighter, and with other improvements.

Canada: Europe 7000 km behind me 3 000 km of forest in front of me...

Sylvain Dupuis visited Canada this autumn, and discovered a wonderful playground for paramotoring. He shares his trip with us…

Coupe Icare 2014: the paragliding festival with all the new ideas.

Once again, this unique ‘family festival’, the biggest of its kind in the paragliding/paramotoring world, was the place to unveil new products and market the latest trends.

Hitec: New Technology designed for pilots

Tests: a bluetooth vario for less than 70 euros…
Pioupiou: your own personal windtalker for 200 euros
The skynet network: swarm intelligence for pilots
Satellite based safety: delorme versus yellowbrick
Drones: on your heels
Modern profiles : reflex and shark
Light : a harness weighing less than 100 grammes…
Report: google glass : head-up display for paraglider pilots

Clouds - A Dangerous, Heavenly, Threatening Landscape

Clouds crown the thermals and the fabulous earthly landscape, and also represent danger. But when?

Landing out, where and how?

When a pilot goes off on his first little XC flight on a paraglider or a paramotor, he needs to be able to choose a place he doesn’t know as a landing field and to land safely…

Interview - Kirsty Cameron

Even the men have to admit that out-flying Kirsty Cameron on a paraglider is easier said than done these days! This week we managed to catch up with Kirsty, female winner of the 2014 Coeur de Savoie Paragliding World Cup, British women’s champion and on the overall podium in the British Open in Gemona, for an interview...

V-Max : ITV's sporty wing

With the arrival of their competitor’s latest generation reflex wings, ITV have had to react and add to their range, a lively, sporty paramotor wing, placed above the Boxer. Introducing the Vmax, a paraglider with a classic profile, but which includes some of the advantages of a reflex wing…

The Paragliding World Cup's new drone.

Philippe Broers, the Paragliding World Cup's cameraman, is making some fantastic new films thanks to his remote controlled drone...

The Azores: portfolio and practical information

Have you ever nearly cried after a flight? I have here in the Azores, on the Island of Sao Miguel. Surfing in the confluence on the crest of the Sete Cidades crater, fed by a thermic breeze on the inside and a sea breeze on the outside, is an unmistakable experience, mind-blowing, mad.

Flying techniques: frontals on a paraglider and a paramotor

Front collapses are, as a general rule, benign incidents. However with modern wings, certain unexpected behaviour can occur…

Flying techniques: speed

Speed isn’t really the strong point of our non-rigid wings. Yet, in XC or cruising we need it. What are the limits for our paragliders and what options do the manufacturers have?

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