30 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 30 conversations tagged safety, 29 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Shams & Ouka, Brett Janaway, Bill Belcourt and Tilen Ceglar & Stan Radzikowski. The subject runs alongside paragliding, competition, risk management.
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
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
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
Pal Takats says he is no longer willing to accept air that can collapse a wing no matter how good the pilot is, and argues that competition should reward the best pilot rather than the one p
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
In this episode I sit with the founder of Gin Gliders, to talk about his 5 decade free flight legacy, Starting with rogallo shaped hang gliders back in the day to pioneering Boomerang compet
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.
Erlend Ukvitne talks through the route from wanting a place at the X-Alps to actually earning one, and the mindset behind his attempt at a world record. Much of it is practical advice for pi
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.
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
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
A short opening to 2025 in which the host thanks listeners for the first stretch of the show and sets out what is planned for the year ahead. It closes with an invitation to make a pact abou
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
Raul Rodriguez invented many of the manoeuvres that acro is built on, and the conversation covers how a pilot should come into the discipline, starting with SIV on an ordinary wing to learn
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
A solo episode built on a whitepaper from Finsterwalder and Charly, about the carabiners connecting a pilot to the wing and why metal that looks perfectly fine can already be fatigued. It co
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
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
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
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