6 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 6 conversations tagged weather, 6 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Brett Janaway, Ivelin Kalushkov, Vistasp Kharas and Godfrey Wenness. The subject runs alongside paragliding, cross country, competition.
Brett Janaway works backwards from the ground to build a mental picture of what a thermal actually looks like, rather than the version in the textbook, then covers finding it, centring the c
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
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
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
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