4 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 4 conversations tagged fear, 4 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Russell Ogden, Beni Kalin & Heli Schrempf, Will Gadd and Ashutosh Chopra. The subject runs alongside paragliding, ozone, test pilot.
Russell Ogden argues that a free spread of information is what keeps the sport safe, and describes himself as a second generation pilot who came up through a UK training system that was alre
A short extract in which Beni Kalin and Heli Schrempf discuss how flying constantly can breed overconfidence rather than guard against it, particularly in speed flying where the air is smoot
Will Gadd argues that the people who show up determined to overcome their fear are the ones who do not last, and that the useful move is to accept the fear and build real capacity behind it.
Ashutosh Chopra, an aviator by profession, works through where passion stops and obsession starts in a sport with no biological retirement age to tell anyone when to stop. His approach to fe