Thinking of learning to fly a paraglider? Kerim Jaspersen’s new film explains all

John Clarke on learning to hang glide in the 1970s, with a one-legged mate called Norman…

Video: Hang glider pilot sucked into a cu-nim and then throws reserve

What’s the difference between GPS altitude and barometric altitude? Mark Graham explains

Ten tips for paragliding and hang gliding competition. By Greg Hamerton

What sort of pilot are your? Cross Country’s psychology department looks at different paragliding and hang gliding personalities and questions why we fly the way we fly

Want to learn to hang glide or paraglider in the UK? Here’s where to go. From the north of the country southwards. SCOTLAND Flying Fever PG / Hill Based on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Trains ab-initio, cross country and SIV courses abroad in Nepal, France, Bulgaria with holidays to Outer Mongolia. Zabdi V Keen [...]

Thermalling well is all about mental mapping, staying alert to new information and exploration within the thermal. And lots of flying is the only way to collect the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle, writes Bob Drury

Lois Grugger from Salzburg Flying School has flown a record 112 km FAI tandem triangle with the new Advance BiBeta 4

2007 US Paragliding National Champion Dean Stratton and 2008 Pre-world gold medalist Josh Cohn will be holding a well rounded clinic in Santa Barbara, California

The Killarney Open took place in Queensland from January 26 to February 2nd 2008

A series of choice cuts from Burkhard Martens’ new technique book on everything you need to know about cross country paragliding and hang gliding

Barely an equation in sight! Just straight-forward explanations and diagrams of that most treasured of subjects for all pilots, the weather

A series of choice cuts from Burkhard Martens’ new technique book on everything you need to know about cross country flying

An extract from Thermal Flying by Burkhard Martens, the bible for paragliding and hang gliding pilots

Jocky Sanderson talks us through the most accessible and effective way of burning off height quickly on a paraglider

The first time your risers go slack, and your leading edge lurches down towards and tries to slap you in the face…

Bob Drury picks up some tips from some of the best paraglider and hang glider pilots in the world about how they thermal, in the final part of Cross Country magazine’s definitive guide to thermalling

How to Thermal better: Cross Country Magazine’s definitive guide to flying hang gliders and paragliders in thermals by Bob Drury

Paragliding World Champion Louise Crandal’s life takes an unexpected twist as she falls for a bird of prey