13 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 13 conversations tagged certification, 13 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Luc Armant, Nick Neynes, Tom Lolies and Zsolt Ero. The subject runs alongside paragliding, wing design, two liners.
Luc Armant explains that a paraglider's pitch stability comes entirely from its profile shape, because the wing has no tail, and that the profile's moment coefficient decides where the lift
Nick Neynens spent fifteen years flying at the top of the sport, in places most pilots only read about, before a rescue helicopter changed the course of it. He talks about that turn and what
Tom Lolies traces his route from a student project bringing proper modelling and scientific method into paraglider design, through seven years designing at BGD, to running a three person res
Zsolt Ero argues that harness certification tests the wrong thing, because a perfect vertical drop does not represent a real impact, and the standard coming next leaves the weight limit, the
Luc Armant explains how competition rules and the scoring system shape what designers build, and warns that forcing racing into a lower class would simply produce competition wings inside th
Aljaz Valic, co-founder of the Slovenian brand 777, sets out the design thinking behind their EN B wings and why he believes development stalls once a class becomes effectively one single ty
Alain Zoller of Air Turquoise explains who actually decides that a wing is safe to fly, walking through the CEN technical committees and the Work Group 6 that writes paragliding's test stand
Ziad Bassil test flies more wings than almost anyone in the sport and writes them all up, working from the thought that birds cannot swap wings but humans can. He is generous about the field
Frantisek Pavlousek of UP Paragliders brings three decades of wing design to a conversation about whether performance can run away from safety in a beginner wing, and how much a buyer can re
Christian Ciech of ICARO 2000 explains what actually goes into a flying helmet, from design and materials through to how certification works in practice. It is one of the few conversations i
In this episode of Paragliding Atlas, we have an exciting conversation with Stephan Stiegler, the innovative designer from . Stephan has spearheaded the technological change in the paraglidi
Guillem Batlle, the aerospace engineer heading R&D at Niviuk, and mechanical engineer Adria Grau explain how a wing is actually developed and tested before it ever reaches a shop. Much of th
Beni Kalin introduces the wing technology from Go Flare Global and how borrowing ideas from kiting lets a wing convert vertical energy in a way a conventional paraglider cannot. The conversa