The Paraglider Podcast
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The Paraglider Podcast
A collection of podcasts covering all things paragliding including competitions, technique, meteorology, safety and XC flying
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72 эпизодSolo Vol Biv and Hike and Fly Comps
Kinga Masztalerz is a Polish pilot who spends half her year in New Zealand and the other in Europe, chasing an eternal summer. She is one of the very,...
Dust devils
Our latest podcast with Matt Senior and Jesse Williams is on dust devils. The Scientific American describes dust devils as small, rotating columns of...
X-Pyr 2018 route analysis with Greg Hamerton
Greg Hamerton is well known as the Paragliding Evangelist at Flybubble UK. His videos and articles on techniques, safety and adventures are a fountain...
Preparing to Fly
Simon Blake is a pilot from the north-west of England. Having learnt to fly paragliders, he was very diligent about noting down his flights and what h...
Participating in the X-Pyr
The X-Pyr started in 2012 with just a dozen competitors. The first edition was 438km from Hondaribia on the Altantic coast to Port de la Selva on the...
Acro and the British Acrobatic Paragliding Academy
British acro pilots Lee Tryhorn, Alex Colbeck and Jack Pimblett set up the British Acro Paragliding Academy to promote the discipline and help pilots...
Effective Coaching: Site Briefing
Every pilot has had a site briefing and most have provided one, but there is a dearth of guidance on how to effectively do one. In this podcast Judith...
Ten Random Questions for... Lawrie Noctor
Originally from the Isle of Wight, Lawrie lives and flies in the Peak District. A member of a flying family (his dad, uncle and cousin all fly), he wa...
Ten Random Questions for... Sebas Ospina
Juan Sebastian Ospina, commonly known as Sebas, was born in Colombia, has lived for many years in England and now lives and works as a tandem pilot in...
Ten Random Questions for... Tim Pentreath
Tim Pentreath is an Advance UK XC Team pilot from Bath. He has been flying for many, many years and last year finally made his first 200+ km flight in...
Ten Random Questions for... Dara Hogan
Dara is an Irish pilot from Dublin who describes himself as a weekend pilot rather than a Sky-God. As he approaches 70, his ambition is to fly 50km so...
Ten Random Questions for... Kussy Gomez Roa
Kussy is originally from Venezuela but has lived and flown in New Zealand for many years. A skydiver and competition pilot, she nevertheless likes to...
Ten Random Questions for... Malin Lobb
Malin is a pilot originally from the SW of England. He flies speed wings, paragliders and paramotors. A keen competition pilot, he has been instrument...
Ten Random Questions for... Rhona Carrigan
Rhona Carrigan is a Pennine Club pilot and member of the Pennine Posse. In this podcast she answers questions on what she would change her vario tune...
Ten Random Questions for... Bob Moore
Bob Moore lives and flies in the south-west of the UK. He has flown in various
areas of Europe and Australia. He is retired but keeps busy wit...
Ten Random Questions for... Gavin Jillings
Gavin Jillings runs Rose Valley Lodge in Sopot, Bulgaria. He was so taken with the place that he and his wife Lucy packed up and shipped out from Belf...
Good Karma - flying and charity
Many of us travel to far-flung places to appreciate the amazing scenery, cheap drinks, food and accommodation and better flying weather than we can fi...
Ten Random Questions for... Greg Hamerton
Greg Hamerton is a South African pilot who lives and flies in the UK. He is the chief paragliding evangelist for Flybubble, a job he describes as perf...
Ten Random Questions for...Ollie Chitty
Ollie Chitty is a hang gliding instructor, competition pilot and British hang gliding record holder. A young pilot, he comes from a flying family and...
Ten Random Questions for... Andrew Craig
Andrew Craig is a pilot from the south of England (originally from London), but now lives in Wiltshire for the better flying opportunities. A former j...
Ten Random Questions for... Mark Meadows
Ten Random Questions for Mark Meadows, organiser of Parafest. He is a keen paramotor and paraglider pilot who puts flying way before work. In this pod...
Ten Random Questions for...Viv Fouracre
In our continuing series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... we have come up with 250 flying-related questions and put them int...
Flying Mothers
In the second podcast on flying and motherhood I speak to Ruth Churchill-Dower and Judy Leden from the UK, Heidi Insam from Italy and Elli Torro from...
Ten Random Questions for... Tim-Patrick Meyer
The latest in our series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... is with Tim-Patrick Meyer from Germany. He learnt to fly in Chile...
Flying when Pregnant
In this podcast I talk to Ruth Churchill-Dower and Judy Leden from the UK, Heidi Insam from Italy and Elli Torro from Finland.
This po...
Ten Random Questions for... Matthew Tandy
At The Paraglider we have started a new series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... We have come up with 250 flying-related ques...
Ten Random Questions for... Lee Tryhorn
Our latest series of podcasts is called Ten Random Questions for... We have come up with 250 flying-related questions and have fed these into a random...
Making Good Launch Decisions
In this podcast Judith Mole examines how we make decisions, what influences our decision making process and looks at ways we can make better decisions...
Accidents - You Can Make a Difference
John Hovey is an experienced first aid trainer and expedition leader with the with the National Outdoor Leadership School (www.nols.edu). This podcast...
Traversing the Rockies
Gavin McClurg is a professional adventurer. As well as circumnavigating the world by boat, he used to be in the US ski team, is an accomplished white-...
Sharing the Sky with Hang Gliders
Kathleen Rigg is an extremely accomplished hang glider pilot based in Derbyshire, England. She has flown at the top level of the Womens World Hang Gli...
Testing and Demoing Gliders
Ziad Bassil (Dust of the Universe) is passionate about testing gliders. He has flown a staggering number of them over the past 20 years. With his frie...
Collective Flying with the Flying Collective
Phil Colbert and Barney Woodhead (Niviuk UK) are part of the Pennine Posse - a lose gaggle of pilots who fly and party together. Their strategy of sha...
Seven Steps to Dealing with Fear in Paragliding
Heike Hamann learned to fly in 1992 and recently completed a Masters in Process
Oriented Psychology. After a few paragliding incidents she dev...
Safety and Fun
Tim ONeill started flying 44 years ago in sailplanes and has been hooked on aviation ever since. He began flying paragliders in 2002 and has been an a...
Amusing Aviation Anecdotes - Landings/Retrieves
Jug Aggarwal, Matt Beechinor, Alan Ford and Iain Frew. When you land out, you often find yourself in somewhat bizarre places, as is proved in this col...
The NorCal league: how to run a successful flexible competition series
Jugdeep Aggarwal (Flymaster USA) - there are many formats for competitions. Larger international competitions usually run over one to two weeks. Small...
Shhhh... don"t mention the S-word
Timothy Bishop - in this podcast Tim and I discuss safety, including human factors, attitude and how we can improve paragliding safety culture. Tim co...
Coastal flying
Her-Hsin Tsai - as well as being a keen XC flyer, Hamish (as he is better known in the paragliding community) lives and flies at the coast. In this po...
Possible Future Developments in Competition Technology
Chris Trow (Fast Retrieve) - following my interview with the PWC and British Open retrieve manager for the Marshalling podcast, here Chris talks about...