Apco NRG XC 2
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17.5 m²! That’s all I was allowed to try of this little slalom racing machine. Slalom? And that’s not all it’s good for! The letters ‘XC’ figure in its full name, and we’re going to see why...
Skytrex 3.0 FANET/FLARM
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For several months Skytraxx has integrated, as an option, a FANET receiver/transmitter in their instruments. Our review: a Skytraxx 3.0 equipped with a FANET/FLARM antenna to enable it to communicate with other FANET instruments and with stations on the ground, as well as aircraft equipped with FLARM. The first trials show that the ‘collaborative flying’ function is very effective.
First impressions Niviuk Artik 5
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The Artik 5 is now available. Philippe Lami has flown it a few times and gives us his first impressions…
Instruments & Collaborative Intelligence
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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
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independence pioneer 3
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news dolomiti superfly 2018
news neo container lite
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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
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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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Swing Arcus RS & RS Lite
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Our test pilot Philippe Lami has flown the Swing Paragliders Arcus RS over several months, in both the classic and the lightweight version. He has also used it in school.
The German manufacturer Swing now equips its whole range with their inhouse #RAST technology, developed by their R&D team, led by Michael Nesler. It first appeared at the Coupe Icare in 2016 on the school wing, the Mito.
One effect of the RAST: we noticed, during the course of multiple test flights, that the wing never overflew! In fact, the scoop was done in 2 steps, without any heaviness.
The Arcus RS / RS Lite was also really calm in deliberately induced collapses! In fact, only the front part of the leading edge crumpled. The rear part remained inflated and prevented the collapse from biting deeply into the chord. Less depth equals less rotation, indeed none.
Read the whole review here.
Paramotoring: Flight of the Swans
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Sacha Dench has been awarded the Britannia Trophy for Flight of the Swans.
She flew thousands of kilometres by paramotor to help birds. Read again the interesting account of her adventure, published in Free Aero Magazine 8_2016.
Sharing with Children
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Sharing your passion with children: obviously it is ideal to fly with them on a tandem adapted to their weight. But with a passenger weighing 20-30 kg, you can easily find yourself too low in the weight range, which is often a minimum of 130 kg. Flying at the bottom end of the weight range has some disadvantages.
Another topic in this article: special spreaders and harnesses for lightweight passengers.
Radical Sharing
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The Swiss pilot Ueli Kestenholz, regularly shares his ground shaving runs with passengers. With each passenger, he does a succession of ‘runs’ before progressively moving to more radical manoeuvres.
PWCA 2018 Brazil
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Some nice pictures of the second event in the 2018 World Cup event which took place in Brazil.
Foot launched paramotors & new Rollbar
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In good conditions, foot launched paramotors let you easily take passengers of all sizes.
You can count on requiring a minimum of 0.16 HP/kg of all up weight, to be comfortable. Thus a pilot and passenger each weighing 80 kg would need 160 x 0.16 = 26 HP to be comfortable.
Review: The new roll bar from Kangook attaches directly onto the swan necks. It is thus very easy to convert a solo paramotor into a tandem…