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?
Flying over Mont Blanc on a tandem
In June 2014, Guillaume Chatain and his passenger Pauline flew over Mont Blanc. They even saluted the summit with a tip-drag…
A hitch in pre-flight checks and the wing flies solo…
During a task of the Paragliding World Cup at the Saint Hilaire takeoff, a German competitor forgot the preflight check that every pilot must do one last time before taking off (photo sequence).
A symbolic flight over the Rhine.
A Serbian pilot, living in Strasbourg, has just managed to link the French Vosges and the German Black Forest by crossing the Rhine… A flight that was at the same time both technical and symbolic…
Signs in the sky - Paramotor: smoking for all!
Drawing spectacular lines in the sky isn’t the exclusive right of the Red Arrows. Here’s a simple way for paramotor pilots to get smoking…
SAT and Looping: two acrobatic manoeuvres unravelled
The Inversion and the SAT are two well known acrobatic manoeuvres. We explain step by step how top acro pilots perform these tricks...
Report: Travelling by paramotor
Thanks to the equipment getting lighter, new horizons are opening up for vol bivouac, whether foot launching or with a trike…
Flying techniques: stall
Letting go is never easy. Alcoholics, drug addicts, lovers and paraglider pilots all know! I started to write a boring course for you about stalling. Then I tried doing it on a paramotor and suddenly it became a whole lot more interesting! So let’s approach stalling here, bit by bit on a paraglider, and then on a paramotor. The comparison is surprising.
Portfolio Advance
For the development and manufacture of its wings and harnesses, Advance have built an immense factory in Hô Chi Minh City in Vietnam, inaugurated in time for the Swiss manufacturer’s 25th birthday. A photo tour of this enormous factory…
Jean-Baptiste Chandelier: Touch, his new film.
Jean Baptiste Chandelier became known thanks to some of his remarkable paragliding films such as Light Line and Urban Side. ‘JBC’ plans the films and is also the main actor in them. He’s a pilot with a unique style, hovering or flying above obstacles like walls or ramparts, gently touching them with his feet, before finally gracefully flying away to perform a violent infinite tumble…
Flight techniques : Altitudes
Our varios and GPSs tell us, amongst other things, our altitude. But which altitude? For a given position, at least three different readings can be arguably "correct". When it comes to respecting airspace this uncertainty isn’t practical.
Portfolio : Tuscany
Adi Geisegger, an Austrian photographer had had the same dream for fifteen years. Finally his dream to discover Tuscany from the air came true. What better way than by paramotor?
Sharknose an aerodynamic revolution?
A new technology has made its appearance in the air intakes of our wings. The openings are set back and placed in a break in the lower surface. Are these Sharknoses an aerodynamic revolution?
Portfolio Louis Garnier: Flying Flash
Louis Garnier is a French photographer with a special interest in, amongst other sports, action skiing. For these pictures he works, like many of his colleagues, with big flash units operated remotely. This technique allows the principal subject to be lifted off a grey or dusky sky in a very aesthetic manner.