Records fall on UK’s Super Sunday

Two pilots smashed the UK open distance paragliding record on Sunday 3 August 2014, with record flights that took them past the 250km mark and across England to the coast. Former GB Champion Mark Watts flew a record-breaking 275.5km to grab the open distance record, while sports class pilot Al Wilson flew just shy of […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Nordic Championships 2014 – Bygland, Norway

Nordic Championships 2014 – Bygland, Norway

Just a few weeks before the competition in Bygland I got the disturbing feeling that something was wrong.
And it was. The organizers failed to pay and send the cat2 application to the FAI in time. End even if all normal channels (justacro.com, Facebook and so on) had announced this as an cat2 event, FAI could not approve the delayed payment and applicationform.

The competition in Bygland, was the only competition in Norway this season, and the only easy way for norwegian pilots to get FAI ranking points, so this was a very bad situation.

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Source: Just Acro

Guy Anderson: ‘Why I love flying paragliding comps’

From ‘Epic fail in Colombia’ to ‘Epic 200k in the USA’ the paragliding comp scene has seen some big moments in 2014 so far. Not all of them have been pretty, but for many pilots taking part the politics and wrangling over wings has simply been an unwanted distraction from what’s really important: flying fast in […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

European Paragliding Championships 2014: 3-16 August

What the drone sees … a view of the main take off in Kopaonik during the Paragliding World Cup in 2013. Video: Nobojsa Rosic The European Paragliding Championships kicks off in Serbia on Sunday 3 August for two weeks of high-level competition. The comp is being held in Kopaonik from 3-16 August 2014 and will […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Alex wins gold, silver and bronze medals in European Slalom Championships

European Slalom Championships, which took place last week 21-26 of July in Couhe, France, were the 2nd FAI category 1 slalom competition in the history of the sport.

Competitors from eight countries came together for this event.

Alex Mateos led the competition at the start, ahead of some very strong pilots, and in the end the difference between the top four pilots was incredible small, measured in hundredths of a second.

In addition to the traditional slalom elimination format, one task was run in teams, where 4 pilots from the same nation flew tasks in the form of a relay-race.

Alex won a gold …read more

Source: Ozone Paramotor

Cross Country Sup’Air Sora contest winners

Gaëtan Heudeleine and Victor Sebe in full swing… Cross Country magazine prize winners Lex Hagenbeek and Gaëtan Heudeleine had an “excellent” day on Thursday 17 July when they hooked up with the Sup’Air tandem team to go flying with the new Sup’Air Sora. Lex was the lucky winner pulled out of the hat following a […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine