Archive for the ‘Free Flying’ Category

Just came across this video on youtube, very cool paragliding packing method.  Gathering the A’s separately is a great idea.     It should work great when the wind is blowing or when you’re in a hurry.   Although most of us use stuff bags, it should still help keep everything nice and mushroomed when you put [...]

Acro Pilot Pal Takats has just broken the XC distance record in Chile on a  U-Turn Passion.   Pal said this about his flight – The take-off was a shitty turbulent really low forehill of the bigger mountains after I bombed out from the “1200″ take-off…It was my first flight on this part of the [...]

Cade Palmer is one bad ass tandem pilot.     I want to go for a ride with this guy!   Here’s his latest video, nicely edited and definitely a great film.    Its great to see how happy Cade is sharing the air with his passengers and absolutely priceless to see their reactions! Cade [...]

If you haven’t seen the latest Sky Paragliders Newsletter, they cover a lot of important information about EN Ratings and also talk about their new Antea 2 Paraglider. The Sky Newsletter is available for download @ the following link below: SKY_News_from _the_Sky_No5

U-Turn is set to release it’s latest high performance glider in the next few weeks called the Passion.  Prepare to be shocked and get ready for a high performance ride that will keep you begging for more. The Passion comes equipped with a 6.85 flat aspect ratio but according to a review on Paragliding Forum, [...]

Apco Aviation must have some well trusted team members as no one knew this glider was coming!   Apco is claiming there new 2 liner competition paraglider called the Enigma actually behaves more like a EN D certified glider.  Its easy to recover from collapses from and is rock solid stable all the way through [...]

Having a UAV Drone film you speed flying has got to be pretty sweet! Check out this video form Team Black Sheep. The Speed Flying pilot Swoops and dives through the trees and the UAV hangs right behind them. Very cool!