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We just received the latest update from Antoine Girard and Martin Beaujouan. The guys have flown above untouched Andean terrain to continue with their 2500km South American bivouac flight.

Antoine reports:

“We have just achieved 800km of fly-biv in the Andes. 650km of which were never flown before. We crossed through passes higher than 4000m.
Our highest cloudbase was 5200m, at a temperature of -3°C. Flying conditions are hard with stability in the morning, very strong valley wind (50kmh) as high as 1500m from the ground.
The most complicated was the water management in this desert. We had to bring 10 lt of water each to survive 3 days. Stunning flights in moon like landscape. It was a total success for this exploration.

We are now on the Pacific coast to fly the next 1000km of dunes in fly-biv. It has been done once before. Exploration will be on again on the north of Arica.”

Follow Antoine and Martin’s progress along their South American bivouac flight HERE.

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Source:: Ozone Paragliders

The new Zealand Paragliding open 2018 just came to an end. The competition attracted 100 international pilots and and was based in Wanaka, South Island, using the Treble Cone take off site. Meet director, Mark Hardman ran a well organised fun event with tasks up to 96km. Weather was mixed but four challenging tasks were completed. A mix of mountain flying with associated valley winds to contend with and flat land conditions gave pilots varied flying.

The overall winner was Tony Sheperd (from Scotland) flying his Zeno followed by Zhenjun Zhao (from China) in second, and local pilot Louis Tapper in third.

In the sport class, the winner was Abe Laguna flying the new Alpina 3. Abe finished fifth in the overall category.

For full results click here

Congrats and cheers from all the OZONE team.

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Source:: Ozone Paragliders

Apco Mayday reserves have been upgraded with improved new bridles and deployment bags

The post Apco Mayday reserves upgraded appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Eurofly’s Snake is a nanolight trike, which can be assembled and disassembled easily and transported in the boot of a car

The post Eurofly Snake nanolight trike appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Gradient have released a new version of their EN-B Golden: All sizes of the Golden 5 are expected to be ready by late-March 2018

The post Gradient announce Golden 5 appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

XC Ibérico Piedrahíta is a cross-country competition for EN-A, B and C paragliders

The post Cash prizes in Piedrahita XC competition appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

UP have made a new ‘serious’ alpine rucksack for paragliders. The Summiteer Light takes 90 litres of kit and weighs just 382g.

The post UP Summiteer Light rucksack appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The Rock 2 is Skyman’s new lightweight EN-A paraglider, successor to The Rock

The post The Rock 2 – Skyman’s new EN-A paraglider appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The Paragliding World Cup in Bright, Australia has begun.

It promises to be a real battle of the titans with the Australian pilots having had lots of competition practice in the recent Bright and Corryong Opens. The Rest of the World have just had time to repack their wings and come here straight from the grueling 10-day Super Final.

The town of Bright and its famous Mystic launch is situated in the heart of the Australian Alpine Region and should suit a lot of the northern hemisphere pilots.
The first World Cup took place here way back in 1998 and since then it has been the take-off for National comps every year.

In general, the whole hill is a trigger point giving monster lift straight away and making a fantastic starting point for any number of interesting race courses. Narrow valleys make the transitions easy and particularly suited to big triangles giving lots of options for task setting. The conditions should be strong but very manageable, with cloudbase relatively high, usually above 2,500m.

The PWC reports from the first day of competition:

Today we went to Gundowring launch 1.5 hours northeast of Bright. Getting everyone off was difficult as the wind switched round unexpectedly …read more

Source:: Ozone Paragliders

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