Top 10 Christmas 2013 gifts for hang glider and paraglider pilots

Fifty Ways to Fly Better The new book from Bruce Goldsmith and friends – 25 years of free flight knowledge distilled into 235 essential pages. Cross Country Flying + Thermal Flying Two classic books on how to fly by Burkhard Martens. Best Flying Sites of the Alps A must-have if you’re planning a trip to any […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Video review: GIN Carrera, EN B Sports glider

Fly Bubble paragliding school in the UK review the new GIN Carrera, which is GIN’s latest sports paraglider. Although aimed at ‘EN C pilots’ the glider has been certified EN B in S, M and L sizes. GIN owner Gin Seok Song explained more about this in an interview with Cross Country earlier this year. […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

A letter from the editor: Black Friday, Cyber Monday and XCshop.com

As the countdown to Christmas begins, we here at Cross Country magazine got excited because, hey, Christmas means people buy stuff and sometimes they buy things from www.xcshop.com, which is where we put things that we want to sell. And if we sell things, then that’s good, because it means we get to keep doing […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine