The Long Mynd soaring club in England are hosting a winter’s day of paragliding films and talks on 4 December in Shrewsbury in aid of the local air ambulance.
Users of UK’s uncontrolled Class G airspace, which includes hang glider and paraglider pilots, are asked to take 10 – 15 minutes to complete a pilot survey for the Airspace & Safety Initiative (ASI).
Airways Airsports are offering discounts in their online shop, for hang glider or paraglider flights entered in the UK XC league
Organisers have described last weekend’s Lakes Charity Classic as “possibly the biggest and most successful free flying/comp event of its type ever held in this country”.
The 20th Lakes Charity Classic (LCC) hang gliding and paragliding festival will be held over the weekend of 4 – 6 June 2010 in the beautiful Buttermere in the English Lake District.
The new British paragliding cross country league’s website is now up and running.
NATS and Airbox together have created Aware, an affordable airspace alerting and positional awareness device that can be regularly updated with the latest airspace information.
I innocently reduced my flight to save all [parties] the hassle. Your report implies I cheated to gain multiple advantages. This is not the case
Want to step up your paragliding game this season? Axis UK team pilot Mark Watts and ex-British champion Hugh Miller will be running a cross country paragliding clinic for UK pilots this spring, with seminars, air-to-air coaching and free retrieves.
Craig Morgan is Britain’s new paragliding champion for 2008
Jocky Sanderson takes BBC presenter Andrew Marr on a paraglider, over the Shropshire countryside
A complete photo gallery of the recent British Open held in Pedro Bernardo, Spain
As part of the Scottish Nationals series, Flying Fever are hosting an Arran paragliding competition over the weekend of 17-18 May 2008
Bruce Kavanagh (Wills Wing T2) took first place in the first round of the British Open Series at the Long Mynd
Steve Nash wins X-Scotia 2008 – Scotland’s biggest adventure paragliding race
The X-Scotia is an adventure race based around Lochearnhead and Killin on Loch Tay in Scotland
Registration for all three rounds of the 2008 British Open Competitions is now open
Accidental anglophile Jerome Maupoint discovers the paraglider pilot’s mighty pleasuredome offered by the UK’s Lake District
Limits? What limits? Matt Gerdes shakes his head in disbelief at Mike Kung’s latest feat: crossing the English Channel by paraglider
Hang gliding on a sunny day, the climbs got better and better until suddenly, Ozzie Haines was in cloud. A classic tale of cloudsuck and getting away with it
