8 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 8 conversations tagged collapses, 8 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Beni Kalin & Heli Schrempf, Brett Janaway, Bryan Van Ostheim and Michael Nesler. The subject runs alongside two liners, certification, paragliding.
Beni Kalin and Heli Schrempf discuss why so many pilots end up on an unsustainable progression, skipping steps into intermediate syndrome without realising it, and often reflecting only afte
Brett Janaway tells how the Sports Racing Series began around 2012 with a few organisers agreeing over a beer to link their events into one series, and why he is careful that what happens in
In this episode, I talk to Bryan Van Ostheim, the brain behind taking parakite performance to a whole new level. We talk about what lies beyond the thrill to explore the aerodynamics of free
Michael Nesler invented RAST, the system used in Swing wings that limits how far a collapse can travel across the canopy, and has since built his own two liner in the EN B class. The episode
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
Helmut Schrempf sets out a modernised way of running SIV courses, built around teaching deliberate control of the wing rather than working through a fixed list of manoeuvres. His case is tha
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
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