Looks like if I can't be a pilot chosen to be at the World
Championships then I'm fresh meat for being the meet director. I've been drafted
to fulfill my duties to the hang gliding competition community in this capacity
by Vicki Moyes, who is organizing the competition. So this is fair warning to
all the pilots coming to the Worlds that... mehr

http://www.xcmag.com/2012/11/in-issue-144-guy-andersons-story-of-survival/

When Guy Anderson went missing during the Sun Valley Paragliding World Cup in
August 2012 the hearts of pilots around the world sank.
With a failed tracking system, and no one knowing where he was, the job of
finding him was like the proverbial needle in a haystack.... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcJ59LY3bMk

Thanks to Iván Molina Piédrola. mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGcXumAjHM
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Steve Kroop at Flytec <<info>>
writes:
Besides user-inflicted damage, the most common cause of instrument
problems that I see is from leaky single-use batteries. The fluid that leaks
from these batteries is highly corrosive and if allowed to remain on circuit
board, will cause irreparable damage. Generally speaking if the... mehr

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/11/dust-devils.html
So far, the team has found that dust devils move forward faster
than previously thought and that large ones can move just as quickly as smaller
ones. Unlike the spiral-like trajectories of Martian dust devils, most of the
Earthly ones appear to move in straight lines.
Thanks to... mehr

Shaun O'Neill <<oneill.shaunr>>
writes:
Ancient Celtic folklore speaks of a wonderful mythical land, a
place many dream of but, alas, so few will have the chance to visit. A land
where eagles soar free and the people are content. A land of wild mountains
surrounded by deep blue sea.
A remote and rugged island on the west coast of... mehr

Patrick Kruse <<patrick>>
writes:
When the design team here at Ruffwear set out to build our high
angle belay harness for our canine companions, we incorporated design cues from
many of the activities we are passionate about. We envisioned a wide variety of
users, everyone from Search and Rescue, Canyoneering, Mountaineering,... mehr

Alan Coffield <<alcoffield>>
writes:
Here is a video of us rolling our Super Floater off Crestline hang
glider launch in California. My friends and I have three super floaters, a BUG,
and a couple of Goat (air chair style) gliders. We are all dual hang glider and
sailplane pilots in the Crestline Soaring Club. I also own a Grob... mehr

http://vimeo.com/35244017
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Here.
GoPro App Features:
Full control of your HD HERO2 camera's setting + features
Live preview makes framing your shot easy
Access to GoPro's Photo and Video of the Day mehr

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http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/tennessee-tree-toppers-team-challenge.html
Day one of the Team Challenge and I'm loving the relaxed
attitude/learning environment the club has created here. What's really nice for
me is that I'm totally off the hook for doing anything and I get to be 100%
tourist - it's really heaven. The... mehr

http://xcplanner.appspot.com/
James Bradley <<jb183>> writes:
XC Planner does another fun thing now:
- Display IGC tracklogs (just drag and drop them onto the map)
mehr

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/11/hang-gliding
Hang-gliding is quite the purest form of flying. Sailplanes
insulate the pilot too much from the passage of air. Motorised aircraft dull the
senses with noise and vibration, and isolate the pilot still further from his
surroundings. Helicopters move with all the grace of a washing... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHunfvxpqS0

Mineral Bottom / Mary's Gash Cliff Launch Exit with Base Jumpers.
Glider is a Wills Wing T2C 154. Should have zipped up my harness for the short
flight, my head angle is way too high at speed with it unzipped. I've launched
this a bunch in other gliders, but this was only my second launch in the... mehr

Planning a cross country route on-line without pre-existing
waypoints
http://xcplanner.appspot.com/http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=44972It is a cross country flight planner, not a contest route planner. You can't
import waypoints into it.
- it should work on your mobile phone (iPhone/Android)
- you draw your flight, and XC... mehr

http://188.40.246.141/pgtools/waypointplanner/
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=34143
- You can put a radius around each turnpoint
- You can also type waypoint names into the Go To box to go directly to a
waypoint
- The description can be retrieved from Google when you click on the refresh
button by the input box - this sets the... mehr

Scot Trueblood <<paradisehanggliding>>
writes:
We could not have a better venue than our location at Whale Harbor
in Islamorada. Our Ultimate Adventure Fly and Dive packages. Seeing a living
coral reef from the air, then landing next to it and seeing it from below is an
amazing educational experience.
https://vimeo.com/52899569.
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http://www.naviter.com/2012/11/seeyou-for-android/
This is a little application that displays your flights. The flights can be
recorded on your phone using the free SeeYou flight recorder app (or uploaded to your phone's memory card from your vario or
flight computer), from the SeeYou cloud where you have stored your previous
flights, or... mehr