Kathleen Rigg is an extremely accomplished hang glider pilot based
in Derbyshire, England. She has flown at the top level of the Women's World Hang
Gliding Championships for years, has been the British Women's Champion numerous
times and has been awarded the Royal Aero Club Individual Gold Award.
With the number of hang gliders declining in recent years, paraglider pilots are
getting less opportunity to fly with hang gliders and are therefore often
unaware of their flying, launch and landing characteristics, difference in
speed, etc. This lack of understanding had sometimes inadvertently caused
problems for hang glider pilots and lead to friction between the two
communities.
In this podcast Kathleen explains some of the issues about sharing the sky from
the hang glider perspective and talks about what we can all do to make things
easier for everyone - and that includes paraglider pilots as well!
