The Stubai Paragliding Cup and Testival takes place in Austria on 2-4 March 2012

Cross Country magazine are in Kössen, for the Super Paragliding Testival 2011.

Thomas Hofbauer wins first 2011 Bordairline adventure race

Austria’s Fly Carinthia flying school and Seeadler Club are organising a paragliding festival in Goldeck, Austria, from 2-3 April 2011

The 20th Stubai Cup and Testival kicks off the 2011 Alpine paragliding season from 18 – 20 March.

This year’s Super Paragliding Testival has been scheduled for 2-5 June in Kössen Austria, with 10-13 June as reserve dates.

Applications for the 2011 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding adventure race, have opened and athletes have until 30 September 2010 to apply.

Icaro Paragliders are holding a summer party at the Austrian paragliding site of Kössen to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and everyone is invited.

The European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking

The Austrian Ministry of Transport’s new ZLLV 2010 (decree for civil aircraft and airsport devices) is expected to be in force by May 2010. It means that non-motorised paragliders, hang gliders and parachutes no longer have to be registered in Austria.

The Nova Pilots’ Team are having their annual cross country meet at Greifenburg (Austria) this May, open to all pilots, regardless of the paraglider they fly.

The Biotech Bordairline adventure races are a series of paraglider hike-and-fly races, which will be flown in four countries in 2010.

The ninth edition of the Outdoortrophy, an extreme sports relay competition featuring mountain running, paragliding, kayaking and mountain biking, will take place on 14 August 2010 in Lingenau/Vorarlberg, Austria.

Austrian paraglider manufacturer Nova have relocated their offices to more spacious premises in Terfens, 20 km from Innsbruck. The move will not affect production.

Berkhard Martens and his wife Renate Brümmer, better-known as Nina, each flew their paragliders to new German records in August 2009.

37 year old snowboard instructor and mountain bike guide, Alex Rauter, has achieved his self-set challenge to ascend and fly off 7 peaks in his home ground of the Zugspitz, Tyrol, accumulating 8848m of ascent in total (the height of Everest).

A place in the top ten was the goal in the World Cup in Italy for Alex Schalber, top pilot from Salzburg.

An all-star cast at the Peak to Creek race thrilled spectators in the Ötztal Valley, Austria on May 10, 2008

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

This summer, Alex Rauter is planning to climb seven mountains in the Zugspitz area (Tyrol, Austria) and fly down again aboard his Nova Ibex, all within 24 hours.