All the action from the Coupe Icare. Who made the XCmag wall of fame?

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

The video of last August’s Azores Flying festival is just finished, so sit back, and enjoy some summer island fun.

The 6th Ghana Paragliding festival is now an important part of the Easter celebrations in Nkawkaw, Ghana. Planning is iunderway for this year’s event, which takes place from 22 – 25 April 2011.

The Midwinter Uplift is an all-day paragliding and hang gliding festival in Shrewsbury, Shropshire near the fabled British XC site of Long Mynd.

Planning for the 2011 Flight Festival, which will take place at Germany’s Tegelberg from 1 – 3 October 2011, is already underway.

This year the Kendal Mountain Festival in England’s Lake District is to have a dedicated free-flight evening, so come along to socialise and enjoy the flying-related films and lectures.

Flight international festival for paragliders, hang gliders and microlights takes place at the Tegelberg, Germany, over the weekend of 25 – 26 September.

The eleventh edition of Spain’s popular Festival of the Air, El Yelmo, has officially opened in a hot and sunny Sierra de Segura, Andalucia. It runs until Sunday.

The FIA El Yelmo International Air film festival in Andalucia, Spain, takes place on 1 – 4 July 2010. The deadline for submissions to the film and photo contests is 18 June.

Canadian extreme filmmaker Peter Chrzanowski is running a mountain sport festival from Pemberton in May, covering many sports including Peter’s passion, paragliding.

The 16th annual Azores Paragliding Festival takes place on the island of Sao Miguel from 26 – 29 August 2010.

It is with sadness that Parateam club of St Hilaire du Touvet announced earlier this month that the 2009 event was the last of Dune du Pyla’s Wagas Festivals.

The Ghana Paragliding Festival has become an integral part of the annual Easter celebrations at Nkawkaw since the first one in 2005, and this year it takes place from April 2-5 2010.

The 5th annual international paragliding festival and accuracy competition in Serdivian, north-west Turkey (about 2 hours east of Istanbul), takes place from 30 July – 4 August 2010.

Landslides in official landing area have meant the 2010 Flypa paragliding festival in Tenerife has been cancelled.

The Phuket Paragliding Club, Thailand, are to host their first ever `Fun Fly’ paragliding festival from 21 – 23 May 2010.

LLAMFF, Llanberis Mountain Film Festival, are calling upon hang glider and paraglider film makers to submit entries to their mountain/adventure film competition. Closing date is 31 Jan 2010.

Cumulus Paragliding School is having a party

The El Yelmo International Air Festival (FIA) will be back on July 3 – 6 at the foot of El Yelmo mountain in the Sierra of Segura, Jaen province, Andalusia