42 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 42 conversations tagged paragliding, 41 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Bill Belcourt, Tilen Ceglar & Stan Radzikowski, Julien Garcia and Damien Lacaze. The subject runs alongside safety, competition, adventure.
Bill Belcourt's answer to reducing fatalities is training, ahead of everything else, and he is direct that some pilots are racing who are not ready to be racing. His wider point is that the
Tilen Ceglar and Stan Radzikowski give the view from inside the World Cup gaggle on the debate that had been running across the community. Their case is that competition flying has spent yea
Julien Garcia explains what the CIVLRESIGN movement is actually asking for, which he frames as an institution acknowledging a systemic failure rather than any attack on individuals. His cent
An episode uncovering alchemy of adventure. I talk with Red Bull X-Alps athlete and vol biv pilot Damien Lacaze, as he opens up about his journey in paragliding, stories from the mountains,
On the side lines of recently concluded PWC Krusevo 2025 edition I got to sit down with Maxime in a tell all tale about how we all can approach the sport of paragliding in a way that makes u
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.
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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.
Ivelin Kalushkov of Sky Nomad in central Bulgaria walks through how he actually reads weather apps, and how to cut through the number of forecasting options a pilot is faced with. The episod
Shane Tighe went from engineering in the Australian flatlands to a place on the X-Alps start line, a 1,200 kilometre race across the Alps on legs and wings alone. He talks about the fifteen
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
Sandrine Roy is circumnavigating the globe without using a plane or a car, stitching the journey together by paraglider, bicycle and sailing boat. The conversation treats vol biv as a way of
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
Eddie Colfox was one of the early explorers of vol biv flying, and this is three decades of stories from expeditions alongside John Silvester. The films that came out of those trips, among t
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
Kinga Masztalerz points out that everyone calls paragliding a mental game, yet very few pilots train the mind the way they train ground handling or thermalling. She makes the case for being
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
Andreas Lattner of hochzwei.media describes leaving a salaried job to build a living out of flying and filming, in one of the most expensive economies in the world. The conversation is about
Benjamin Kellet is one of the most followed paraglider pilots on Instagram, and this is a straight look at how he makes short form films that actually travel. It covers the craft behind them
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
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
The second half of the conversation with Benjamin Jordan turns to storytelling, and how a narrative gets built around a flight rather than bolted onto it afterwards. He walks through the app
Benjamin Jordan, a pilot and adventure filmmaker, talks about how he visualises a project and then actually gets it made, and what happens when things go against him partway through. This is
Manfred Ruhmer has flown fixed, flexible and collapsible wings across more than three decades, and this conversation is about what a career that long does to your relationship with risk. He
Subir Sidhu rose through the sport quickly, and the conversation is about how to do that without outrunning your own margin, pushing where he wanted to and holding back where he had to. He d
Philipp Zellner has spent more than a decade flying at altitude in the Himalayas, and this first Risk vs Reward episode is about how he weighs that against the consequences. He tells the sto
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
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
Klaudia Bulgakow describes what competition flying actually teaches, and why pilots who turn up expecting to learn from the back of the field come away frustrated when the real learning sits
Goran Dimiskovski, president of the Paragliding World Cup Association, describes what it takes to organise racing at that scale and what goes on behind the scenes of a World Cup. He speaks f
Nikolay Yotov of Skynomad takes the show to Africa for the first time, on flying in Kenya ahead of the pre World Cup held there. It covers what the sites are actually like and what it means
Vistasp Kharas walks through Panchgani ahead of the pre World Cup held there, covering what the site asks of a pilot and what to expect from competition flying in India. The episode also mar
As we soar into 2024, I wanted to kick off the year with a special "Ask Me Anything" episode. First and foremost, I hope each of you had a fantastic holiday season filled with joy, adventure
Godfrey Wenness talks through flying at Manilla in New South Wales, where violent dust devil style climbs build on super adiabatic days but the air is still less punishing than big alpine co
Honorin Hamard, a French competition pilot with close to 8,000 hours by his early thirties and several world records behind him, explains how he approaches a race and why he keeps flying to
Antoine Girard was told that flying at 8,000 metres was not possible, so in 2016 he went and did it, and now talks about 9,000 as a way of showing there is no ceiling at all. He describes re
Jigish Gohil gives the local view of Bir Billing, starting with the safety briefing he thinks every visiting pilot should read before they arrive, and the landing out stories that explain wh
Eddie Colfox decodes flying at Bir Billing and the routes north through the Himalayas, including the run to Manali, with a warning to be careful of the cloud and of assuming that the pilot a
In the show's very first episode, Pal Takats maps out flying in Colombia, from the sites of the Valle del Cauca and their airspace to what a European should expect from the pace of life on t