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Paragliding Skills: Improve Your Ground Handling
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Improving your ground handling skills is very important for paraglider pilots, both for your safety on the launch site, and...
Strong Wind Depower: Rear Riser Control
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Launching in strong wind is difficult to learn, because if you get it wrong you’re quickly overpowered. Here’s a technique...
How To Cobra Launch (and not get bitten)
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The Cobra Launch is an alternative launch technique for moderate to strong wind. It works by pulling the wing up...
Managing Your Paraglider On Windy Launch Sites
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Flying in strong winds can be really risky, so I thought I'd share with you just a normal procedure that...
Paraglider Control: Stall, Spin, Collapse!
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Wings are great, until they stop working. This is often due to pilot input, which is an avoidable mistake. Sometimes...
Safety: Managing the Mayhem
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Team pilot Ruth Churchill Dower recounts a high altitude incident in the Himalaya. A sudden updraught led to a stall...
