Before the Paragliding World Championships started in Roldanillo we interviewed a few of the pilots in a bid to get to know them better. We’ll be running a few of those interviews here on XCmag.com during the competition. Here we catch up with Swiss pilot Michael Küffer, 25. Got a job? Student Business Administration and […] …read more
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Paragliding World Championships: Joanna Di Grigioli
Before the Paragliding World Championships started in Roldanillo we interviewed a few of the pilots in a bid to get to know them better. We’ll be running a few of those interviews here on XCmag.com during the competition. Here we catch up with Venezuelan pilot Joanna Di Grigoli, 36. Well known on the international comp […] …read more
Prize Draw Winners
The winners of the 2015 Cross Country Subscriber’s Draw are: Tormod Helgesen (NORWAY): Wing of Your Choice Damon Cokenias (USA): Harness from Supair Jon Magnus Sandvik (NORWAY): Flytec Element Todd Roberts (USA): Babu Adventure Camp Holiday Eric Miller (USA): Day’s Fly Guiding with Sup’Air team pilots Thomas Mullin (USA): Velodrom Sunglasses Marek Glos (IRELAND): […] …read more
Paragliding World Championships 2015: Seb Ospina
Before the Paragliding World Championships started in Roldanillo we interviewed a few of the less well known pilots in a bid to get to know them better. We’ll be running a few of those interviews here on XCmag.com during the competition. We kick off with Juan Sebastian Ospina, 25, better known to all as Seb. […] …read more
Paragliding World Championships 2015: Task videos
We were out and about on launch at the Paragliding World Championships in Roldanillo, Colombia, during Task 3. And Belgium pilot Tom Ceunen has been the competition’s eye in the sky… • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com Subscribe to Cross Country. Buy and sell gear on Skyads.aero Home …read more
Artik 4 pilots: Luca Basso
Artik 4 pilots: Luca Basso …read more
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Video: On launch with the pilots at Task 2
We headed to launch to talk to some of the pilots at the Paragliding World Championships in Roldanillo, Colombia. • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com Subscribe to Cross Country. Buy and sell gear on Skyads.aero Home …read more
Archive: Yassen Savov on fire at the PWC Superfinal 2013
Yassen Savov flirted with fire in the PWC Superfinal in Colombia in 2013. We published his story in issue 146 of Cross Country magazine. As the issue of flying in fire thermals raises its head again at the 14th FAI Paragliding World Championships, we publish his amazing story online. By Yassen Savov, former European Paragliding […] …read more
Understanding fire thermals, pyrocumulus and pyroCb
The practice task at the Paragliding World Championships in Colombia has already thrown up an interesting point of contention: flying in fire thermals. As we report on the Airtribune blog: The land around the site here is agricultural, with a lot of space given over to sugarcane. When the farmers burn off the stubble they […] …read more
