XCmag donned its 3D glasses and headed to the movies to see Rio – The Movie

French firm Escape paragliders are growing, and looking for new dealers.

Nova’s new tandem paraglider, the Bion, has a huge weight range of 115 – 230kg

Adam Hill and Frontiers Paragliding are running tours in new places this year.

Petra Slivova, double world champion and triple European champion, has joined team Gin.

US pilot Nick Greece is appealing for help to support the Cloudbase Foundation in Ghana

New trips and new operator at Himalayan paragliding site of Bir

Competition paragliders will stay in FAI Cat 1 events is the decision taken at the CIVL plenary in Lausanne.

Alpine paragliding guiding company Austrian Arena have a new, media-rich website.

Airwave paragliders alive and kicking says company boss Markus Villinger

Swiss paragliding firm Advance have announced that they will be forming an international team of serial class competition pilots whom they will mentor and coach, hopefully to the top of the serial class rankings.

CIVL, the body that looks after hang gliding and paragliding records and competitions, met at the end of October.

UP have announced two new members will be joining their team: Red Bull X-Alps athlete Stefan ‘Boxi’ Bocks and aeronautical engineer Bernhard Lechner will be starting with them in 2011.

Swedish doctor and hot air balloon pilot John Grubbström was elected the FAI’s new president at the organisation’s general conference in Dublin this month. He succeeds Pierre Portmann, who held the post for six years and has now been made ‘President of honour’.

Michael Pohl and 18-year-old Christoph Bessei, were awarded iPod Touches from Austrian paraglider manufacturer Nova, who named them ‘Pilots of the Year’.

Paragliding competitions could be revolutionised following the decision of the Paraglider Manufacturers Association to support Serial Class for FAI Cat 1 competition, effectively banning Open Class paragliders

Cross Country is at the Coupe Icare in St Hilaire du Touvet, France. We’ll be blogging on this page so check back over the weekend for updates. If you’re heading to the festival, come and visit us on stand B21

Niviuk have created an official communications department, to be run by Ignasi Pons (Nani).

In July 2010 India’s paragliding community came together to form a National Association for the sport, the Paragliding Association of India.

We reported online on 12 July 2010 that Korean brand Sun Gliders had been bought and was moving to India. We are happy to make clear that this is not the case.