Macro Weather, Glider Hookin
This is the 2nd article in a series of columns that will review step by step concepts concerning weather and flying pointers. Get together with your local instructor and club to discuss these topics in greater detail. Be sure and expand your library of books and videos. This column will recommend certain books and videos, …
Basic Weather, Preflight Checklist
This is the first in a series of columns that will review step by step concepts concerning weather and flying pointers. Get together with your local instructor and club to discuss these topics in greater detail. Be sure and expand your library of books and videos. This column will recommend certain books and videos, realize …
Paragliding in the Coloma, Auburn, El Dorado Hills Area
There are a couple of paragliding sites located in the CA foothills south of Auburn. One is located on BLM Land and the other is private property. Please contact one of the local pilots before flying either of these sites. Here are site guides for both flying sites: Coloma Paragliding site 1: Cronan Ranch Coloma …
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Thermal Flying Tips
Here are a few tips to help improve your thermal flying. 1. Listen to your variometer. As you hear its pitch increase, indicating stronger lift, straighten up your flight path a bit so that you fly deeper into the strongest part of the thermal. When your vairos pitch decreases, indicating weaker lift, tighten up your …
Motorized Paragliders
Powered paragliding is an increasingly popular form of sports aviation. A Powered Paraglider, also sometimes called a Paramotor, Motorized Paraglider or PPG is a truly amazing device. It’s one of the most simple and compact aircrafts ever invented. Most are so small that then can be broken down and put in the trunk of your car. …
Rescue Parachutes for Paragliding and PPG
As a paraglider pilot one of the most important pieces of equipment you may ever own is your reserve / rescue parachute. It is a piece of equipment that all of us hope we will never have to use and with a little luck and a commitment to flying conservatively chances are you never will …
Paragliding Equipment Added Charly/Ozone
Sport Paragliding is now a proud distributor of Charly Paragliding helmets. Charly has a complete line of some of the best quality paragliding helmets on the market today. The Charly Insider full face helmet is one of the most popular model, is reasonably priced and comes in a wide selection of colors. For competition pilots …
Air Masses Warm Fronts / Cold Fronts
An air mass is any large volume of air having a relatively uniform temperature and water vapor content. A front is simply the boundary between two air masses. When a cold air mass pushes into a warm airmass, we call the boundary a Cold Front. When the warm air pushes forward, we call the boundary …
Weather The Big Picture – Paragliding
Structure of the Atmosphere / Density Altitude To understand the weather it helps to know a little about the air. Air is simply a gas comprised primarily of nitrogen and oxygen and a variable amount of water vapor. Air has mass and weight. At sea level where the air is most dense it exerts a …