Hitec: New Technology designed for pilots
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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
Premature wear on the brake lines?
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Our contributor Lucian Haas, who loves ground handling in strong winds, has discovered premature wear due to keeper rings on a wing…
Clouds - A Dangerous, Heavenly, Threatening Landscape
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Clouds crown the thermals and the fabulous earthly landscape, and also represent danger. But when?
Landing out, where and how?
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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…
Niviuk News: the Kougar 2 and the Dobermann
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With these two wings, Niviuk enhances their presence in the paramotor market, having started with the Link and the Kougar 1 in 2011, six years after the inception of Niviuk.
Interview - Kirsty Cameron
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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...
Sol news: the Lotus One EN C+
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SOL have just announced the launch of a new top of the range wing for experienced pilots who are able to make the most of the vast performance potential of this wing.
The very latest from Flytec/Bräuniger
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Since the 2013 Coupe Icare, everyone has been talking about the new Flytec 7030/Bräuniger Conav 30. Finally we’re going to see it, a bit later than expected. One of the reasons is the recent arrival of a top level pilot on the Swiss company’s board of directors…
V-Max : ITV's sporty wing
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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.
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Philippe Broers, the Paragliding World Cup's cameraman, is making some fantastic new films thanks to his remote controlled drone...