Paragliders – Paragliding in Strong Wind – How to Escape to Safety and Avoid The Rotor

This is a very good article on dealing with strong winds encountered in flight from paraglidersforsale.org link here

choose your tandem paragliding pilot wisely

There are many types of people in the world. Just as you may feel comfortable with one driver and constantly pushing your imaginary brake in the car with some one else driving it is very important that you choose your tandem pilot wisely.

A good tandem pilot will be confident, experienced but not a maverick dare devil. He/She will very carefully assess the conditions before flight and share these observations with you.

AND REMEMBER YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOUR OWN LIFE, IF YOU DON'T FEEL RIGHT OR THE TANDEM PILOT DOESN'T SEEM SOBER, THERE OR WHATEVER, YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL OFF THE FLIGHT. You can always choose another pilot, launch or day. Once you are airborn that choice is gone.

That said tandem paragliding has a very safe record and the majority of tandem pilots are very skilled and always considering your safety.

If you live in California, we recommend Patrick at WingEnvy.com , he is very professional and you will feel safe with him right away.

Here is an article from Turkey (link) where a tandem pilot risked his life and that of his client by flying in very low visibility fog. Luckily there was only broken bones. And this is a situation where the tandem pilot perhaps choose making more money over safety. If visibility is very low, you as the client can say "no, I want to wait for better conditions".

Paragliding is heavenly, enjoy it, be smart too!

Wheelchair users can Paraglide too!

Click here for article and video

Himachal villagers takes up paragliding as an occupation

Villagers of a small village in Himachal Pradesh are taking up paragliding a profession as it is proving to be a lucrative source of income.
more...

Tim O'neal talks about Paragliding competitions and what's needed

http://biggovtsucks.blogspot.com/2010/03/getting-started-addressing.html

Getting Started
Addressing the Prerequisites
You want to give it a try – but are you ready? You don’t have to be a sky-god to fly your first few comps – Just not a danger to yourself or others. You can build your list of skills gradually. Let’s go down the list and discuss how to develop some of the tools you should have in your aviation toolbox. ...  (read full article on the link above)

jackson hole baby

these guys have too much fun on paragliders, a bit close to the trees you think?

What a first day of paragliding lesson looks like

he asks the question, should i be doing this?

http://quickiewheelchair.aospb.org/im-about-to-take-up-paragliding.htm

i'm about to take up paragliding, we have all at one time asked ourselves is this crazy? is it worth it? well i think i'm hooked, hopeless at any escape from the dream of flying.

dust devil grabs two launching paraglider pilots!!!

a great paragliding lesson about low wing overs

no stunts low to the ground, keep you wing evenly loaded at all times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDpAXYR2ol0
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10641

Mavericks 2009 Thanksgiving swell

balls

Video of IcePeak 3 High Performance Paraglider

Make sure you watch to the end when the paraglider balls up in an unrecoverable frontal tuck. These high performance gliders are only for the bravest and best pilots. For me a tested and relatively safe glider is the only way to go in my early stages of learning. This is a very experienced pilot and his parachute deployment at the end is perfect and should be watched by all paragliding pilots!

valley de bravo 2010

paragliding south mountain

http://vimeo.com/9140560

South Mountain Winter Paragliding About this video: "It just doesn't get any better than this, Phoenix paraglider pilots and 3 from out of town spent the day flying what South Mountain gave us. Gaggles of 8 and more in light thermals to 4300 ' and flights of about an hour were had by many. What an amazing day of desert paragliding in the winter."

ground handling lessons by

Exercises for practicing paragliding on the ground.
A tutorial in how to improve your flying skills
flyincanarias.com

http://vimeo.com/1301794

UK seems to leading the way in paragliding

Parajet International plans to make the most of the British Airways UK Opportunity Grant

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/opportunitygrant/7095114/Parajet-International-plans-to-make-the-most-of-the-British-Airways-UK-Opportunity-Grant.html

Dealing with fear in paragliding

This is not the best written article but humorous and some good points non-the-less http://airsoftsnipers.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/paragliding-and-fear-dealing-with-it-and-still-enjoy-your-flight/