HOW TO FLY XC ON AN EN A PARAGLIDER
http://www.xcmag.com/2013/11/how-to-fly ... araglider/
Jetman flew around Mt. Fuji!
http://twitter.com/jetmanyvesrossy
Bruce Goldsmith's twitter gives out helpful thermalling tips:
"When #thermalling in the core try to imagine that you are grabbing hold of a lump of rising air with your brake and turn in it."
twitter.com/BGD_Goldsmith
Paragliding updates from Switzerland - they have snow. twitter.com/smubo
Flying links
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Re: Flying links
anyone else have others?
Re: Flying links
Matt, great links!
This is not a new site, but it's comprehensive, and I've found it helpful. Petr recently went speed flying with Jerome at Soboba, so it's topical from that perspective:
http://www.expandingknowledge.com/Jerome/PG/Main.htm
Flybubble regularly posts useful paragliding tips on youtube, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyn-sEb-iBg (launching in a crosswind)
-John
This is not a new site, but it's comprehensive, and I've found it helpful. Petr recently went speed flying with Jerome at Soboba, so it's topical from that perspective:
http://www.expandingknowledge.com/Jerome/PG/Main.htm
Flybubble regularly posts useful paragliding tips on youtube, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyn-sEb-iBg (launching in a crosswind)
-John