Author: winguu

Nicole Schmmidt told her Nikita 5 she loved it – watch her preview video from May 2016 – and now freestyle pilots can get their hands on the serial version. Icaro say it’s capable of taking talented freestyle pilots through to pro acro pilot status. If you fly it lighter in the weight range, it will give you […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Tens of thousands of paragliding and paramotoring harnesses have been potentially ruled un-airworthy following a safety notice from buckle-maker Finsterwalder. The company, which supplies buckles to dozens of harness manufactures, issued a safety notice about Click-Lock and T-Lock buckles at the start of June. Since then, it has become clear that thousands of harnesses will […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Antoine Boisellier’s beautiful film about paragliding, hang gliding and other forms of free flight is available as a pay-to-view download, rent or buy. The 52-minute documentary was made for French TV and features stunning aerial and flying footage throughout the Alps. See it here: vimeo.com/ondemand/lclversionfrance …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Olympic Wings, paragliding seminar for cross-country flying, with Bruce Goldsmith and the participation of pilots from all over the world. It was an incredible week of June with great flying, every day for everyone! The Olympic Wings team would like to thank each of the pilots for their fantastic cooperation, joyful mood and responsible […] …read more

Source:: Paragliding Hellas

[See image gallery at paragliding.olympicwings.com] …read more

Source:: Paragliding Hellas

Dave Turner just got back to civilization after an epic journey in Alaska. Here he shares his experience:

“Alaska has proved to be an experience of a lifetime- and oh boy, do we have some stories to tell! Two days ago we popped out at Cantwell, having made a vol biv traverse of most of the Alaska Range by hiking and flying our paragliders. Our route was about 450 kilometers long, and we flew approximately 64% of the distance covered. It was 29 days of pure adventure.

We started out at the SW tip of the Alaska Range, right at the border of Lake Clark National Park. From there we headed up towards the north slope of the range, battling bad weather and brutally rough hiking terrain. Oh yeah, did I mention that we had to post hole for MILES through waist deep snow over Sled Pass? Two days for six miles, hiking 12 hours a day!? Luckily we had a few short flights in these first days as well, which gave us hope that our route would work.

Since no one has really ever flown a paraglider where we traversed through, we were totally unsure of what conditions we would encounter. …read more

Source:: Ozone Paragliders

Gold and bronze medals at the European PPG Slalom …read more

Source:: Niviuk

New N-Gravity 4, show must go on! …read more

Source:: Niviuk

The European Slalom Championships took place in the south of Spain in Bornos from June 12 – 18, 2016. It was the first FAI slalom event organized over the water to increase the safety of pilots.

There were 37 pilots competing from 7 countries. Good weather conditions allowed many slalom tasks to be run nearly every morning, which is necessary to run a proper, fair, and well played competition.

OZONE Team pilot Alex Mateos, flying a Viper 4, lead most of the competition days and managed to keep first place until the finals. Alex Mateos was flying in 2 categories, foot launch and single trike, and won both categories with a great style!

Alex reports:

“Polish team were the biggest competition for me, they were very strong and establish themselves in leading positions from the beginning of the competitions. Some of the pilots error and mechanical problems results in water splash but always with no injuries and manage to prepare their equipment to continue competition. What a pleasure to fly over water! I am very satisfy with my performance and result in this competition. I could finally show my new Viper 4, new Thor 250 and light Macfly trike. It was not so …read more

Source:: Ozone Paramotor