9 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 9 conversations tagged harnesses, 9 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Shams & Ouka, Zsolt Ero, Roman Barthelemy and Alain Zoller. The subject runs alongside paragliding, safety, certification.
Shams flies with his dog Ouka, and this is the practical version of how that works: the training, the equipment, and how to judge whether the dog actually wants to be there. He took the idea
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
Supair's lead harness designer explains Skymate, a harness that reads around a hundred data points every second and uses machine learning to tell an autorotation apart from ordinary flight.
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
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
Eric Roussel explains why Neo designs and manufactures in France rather than Asia, from the cost arithmetic that forces them into higher quality and more innovation, to the reason the brand
Veselin Ovcharov of Fly The Earth talks through the second version of his acro harness, and why he thinks the sport has been flying rucksacks for decades while the technology drifted elsewhe
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