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Benjamin Jordan set up the Above and Beyond project to inspire school children in his native Canada. His mission: to fly west to east across Canada dropping in to schools and summer camps to inspire, educate and raise money for under-privileged children. Along the way he flew above storm clouds, crossed the Rockies, the Georgia [...]

TOP TIP – Collapsing your glider in strong winds

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Taken from the Kitchen Productions Ground Handling DVD this top tip will teach you how to collapse your glider safely in strong winds. This method best suited for experienced pilots uses the A’s to collapse the wing while stalling the other side.

TOP TIP – How to turn your glider over

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

What’s the best way of turning your wing over. Taken from the Kitchen Productions Ground Handling DVD this top tip will teach you how to turn your glider over in a controlled manner. You can also use this method, on a soft grass surface to empty your glider of debris.

Paramotor Vol Bivouac – Paris to Basse-Ham

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Franck Simonnet vol bivouacs with the minimum of help, and shows us that paramotor adventure can exist on your own doorstep.

Flight over Mt Blanc

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Norway’s Marius Jansen (www.tandemparaglider.com) flew his tandem powered paraglider over the summit of Mont Blanc in June.
As reported in issue 9 of Paramotor Magazine, a good forecast for Chamonix, France, saw him make the 20 hour drive south with photographer and tandem passenger Knut Ståle Thomassen. With access to the most obvious start point, the [...]

How to make an easy spot-landing target

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Antoine Mateos and Jérôme Pommier show us how easy it is to make a perfect spot-landing target.
Photos by Armel Couette. www.armel-photos.net

How to make a simple, inexpensive map holder

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Alexandre Mateos and Mathieu Rouanet show us how to make a map holder for navigation tasks

Photos by Antoine Mateos.

LAS CANDELAS VIDEO REPORT

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Our video report of the first international event of the year

RAPID DESCENT TECHNIQUES

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Need to get down in a hurry? Bob Drury explains what to do and when to do it

THE DULV AND PARAMOTOR CERTIFICATION

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Marcus King delves into DULV and finds out how the current certification system works. With certification currently such an important issue for our sport we have decided to publish the article from Issue 3 of Paramotor Magazine here in full.