7 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 7 conversations tagged reserves, 6 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Dr Matt Wilkes, Urs Haari, Alain Zoller and Marko Milutinovic. The subject runs alongside safety, training, muscle memory.
Dr Matt Wilkes shares research on where pilots actually reach for a reserve handle under rotation, which follows the skeleton rather than the harness layout: the hip bone when rotating forwa
There is much more to reserve parachutes than just getting them repacked periodically and in a correct way! This talk is a snippet from one of our most replayed moments from an episode where
Urs Haari argues the reserve certification process needs new rules, describing a descent where his measured ground speed under a reserve reached 50 kilometres an hour, far beyond what the pu
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
Marko Milutinovic describes a competition where midairs, reserve deployments and serious injuries were happening daily, to the point that the jury wanted to stop for a day so everyone could
Gabriel Orsini, who flies under the name partytillimpact, talks about safety, gear rigs and how transparent manufacturers really are about their equipment. The thread running through it is h