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World Paramotor Championships: 20-27 August 2016, UK
The FAI World Paramotor Championships kicks off on 20 August 2016 for one week of high calibre classic competition. The venue is an airfield in the south of England, and the competition will run at the same time as the World Microlight Championships. The microlight competition will be directed by eight-time FAI World or European […] …read more
Theo de Blic wins first Acro Games
Theo de Blic won the Acro Games in Organya over the weekend 13/14 August 2016. Created by Horacio Llorens the Acro Games was a new format competition featuring two rounds. Featuring 15 of the world’s best acro pilots, the first round was Classification and took place on the Saturday. After that round, the top eight […] …read more
CIVL responds to ‘Bikinigate’
“We are in fact making constant efforts to promote and encourage women in air sports…” Jamie Shelden, CIVL Secretary, posted this message to her Facebook page. It is CIVL’s ‘official response’ to the social media sexism row at the FAI European Paragliding Championships. Jamie has agreed to its publication here I am a female pilot […] …read more
Apco Swift paraglider racing harness
Apco have released a new race-spec paraglider harness, called the Swift. It has a pod and a prominent fairing, and Apco describe it as “by far the most spohisticated harness they have ever designed”, and a “masteriece of mechanics and aerodynamics”. We worked hard to achieve a balance between comfort and activeness. The Swift will transmit exactly what […] …read more
Nirvana release low-hangpoint paramotor harness
Paramotor-manufacturers Nirvana have released their first low-hangpoint PPG harness. Made for the Instinct, it’s available in two sizes for pilot weight brackets of 50-70-90kg and 70-90-110kg. The low hangpoints make it very weightshift sensitive, ideal for aerobatics and slalom pilots. The new harness comes in Nirvana’s characteristic orange and black colour scheme, and sits in their range alongside […] …read more
Sol Hercules 380: paramotor trike wing
The Hercules 380 from Sol is a paramotor wing for solo and tandem trikes. Designed for experienced pilots to fly long distances on, Sol say the Hercules 380 is fast, and designed to offer the best combination of safety, speed, glide efficiency and handling characteristics that they could create. It was designed with feedback from trike pilots, who helped mould its […] …read more
Mastering Paragliding: On tour with Kelly Farina
“After our first morning in the air, I ask Kelly what he thinks of my body position. ‘It’s alright,’ he replies. ‘Lean in more, put your nose right in line with the inside riser.’ Later that day I try out some circles, my new body position in mind. Wow, I think, as the glider locks-in […] …read more
Harness review: X-Rated 7
“This looks like the love child of the Exoceat and X-Rated 6, with a much longer V-shaped fairing, and if it were to be unveiled on a take-off in France I’d imagine it’d be met with cries of “C’est enorme!” This expression gets it just right – it’s enormous, but more importantly it’s an enormous […] …read more
Paraglider review: Sky Apollo, EN B
“Brake pressure is perhaps 70% of that of the Mentor 4, and the hybrid hard brake handles add to the directness of feel: it all adds up to an ‘advanced’ character,” writes Hugh Miller, reviewing the Sky Apollo. See what’s in Cross County 173, September 2016 …read more