Author: winguu

After 5 tasks the PWC in Bir/Billing, India, has come to a close with 7 of the top 10 pilots flying Enzo 2s. The comp was a great success with good conditions and excellent flying in one of the most beautiful and challenging flying spots in the world. The top 3 spots were separated by only 12 points making the contest extremely close. Congratulations to Xevi Bonet and Julien Wirtz for their podium finishes!

Here are the full results from the comp.

Cheers from all the team!

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Source:: Ozone Paragliders

On 26 October 2015, Frenchman Julien Irilli and his sister Emilie flew a Niviuk Bi Peak 3 tandem for 363km in Brazil. It’s a pending World record for ‘free distance using up to three turnpoints’, and is with the FAI for ratification. It was the pair’s first flight of their trip to Quixadá, and was ten hours in […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Thuraya’s SatSleeve transforms your smartphone into a satellite phone, offering internet access from anywhere in the world. There are two ways of doing this: SatSleeve+ clips on to a phone like a cover, turning your own phone into a satellite phone. SatSleeve Hotspot creates a WiFi hotspot which allows a group of people to connect to […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The FAI have listings on their website of all the safety notices that have been issued for hang gliding and paragliding equipment. The lists are in reverse-chronological order, and can be found here: paragliding equipment safety notices, and hang gliding equipment safety notices. Fai.org • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com. Subscribe to the world’s favourite […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

We love competitions that focus on fun and mentoring, so we were happy to hear about the upcoming Monarca Open‘s new format. With a new aim to mentor sport pilots into XC and competition with daily briefings and debriefings, the mission of the Monarca Open is to help you to improve your level of flying. So, if you are looking for a warm place to fly with consistent conditions and a very well organized competition that will increase your skill level, then the Monarca Open is the place to be this coming January. The competition runs from the 4th-9th of January 2016 and is followed by the Paragliding World Cup Super Final from the 12th-23rd, making it a prime time to be around some of the best pilots in the world. More competition information can be found on their website.

Cheers and we look forward to hearing about your flights!

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Free Flight Night at the Kendal Mountain Festival will feature a host of films from the famous Coupe Icare Film Festival in France this year, as well as a unique presentation from paragliding and hang gliding star and filmmaker Antoine Boisselier. The festival, which takes place over four days in November in Kendal, UK is […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Franz Altmann takes on Bruce Goldsmith’s high-level EN B Following the successful sports class Tala and the low-end EN B Wasp, there has been great anticipation of a high-end intermediate from the Bruce Goldsmith stable. By the beginning of this year the time had come – the Base was ready and available. We were fortunate […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The Trango XC2 was one of the standout sports wings of 2013, but is this a worthy successor? Hugh Miller finds out Call me spoilt, but I wasn’t that keen to try the Trango XC3. I’d been enjoying the sublime pleasures of flying CCC wings in between reviewing the GTO2, M6, Triton 2 and Pure […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

What’s it like being a young woman learning to fly in a male-dominated scene? I feel proud to represent the more feminine side of PPG, and I hope I can get the word out that women can and are getting out there like me, flying paramotors and loving every minute of it. France has a […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Kari Ellis introduces the little town of Deniliquin, home to booming thermals, ripping climbs and long glides until sunset Deniliquin is a town in the New South Wales Riverina region of Australia and, amongst paraglider and hang-glider pilots, it is fast building a reputation as a mecca for flatland flying. Similar to other famous flatland […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine