Three of the latest flying DVD releases reviewed by Hugh Miller

The Coupe Icare festival, held in the French Alps on the 17-19 September, was swamped by pilots keen to celebrate the free flying culture and the end of another European season.

“So, there I was, having just started a gentle left hand turn when the nice sedate little DHV 1-2 I was flying decided to enter a spin on about 6cm of left brake. I thought, but not a problem. Hands up, and it’ll stop. It didn’t!”
Cross Country’s Ian Blackmore goes for a little twirl.

The original film ‘Instability’ was made in 1992 and was the first instructional paragliding film to show paraglider pilots how to cope with collapses and other possible flight incidents. It became a classic, and is still used today by many paragliding schools worldwide. Bruce Goldsmith explains the background for a new sequel set to revolutionise the way we learn how to deal with collapses