The Paraglider Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Solo Vol Biv and Hike and Fly Comps
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kinga Masztalerz is a Polish pilot who spends half her year in New Zealand and the other in Europe, chasing an eternal summer. She is one of the very,...
Dust devils
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest podcast with Matt Senior and Jesse Williams is on dust devils. The Scientific American describes dust devils as small, rotating columns of ...
X-Pyr 2018 route analysis with Greg Hamerton
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Hamerton is well known as the Paragliding Evangelist at Flybubble UK. His videos and articles on techniques, safety and adventures are a fountain...
Preparing to Fly
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Blake is a pilot from the north-west of England. Having learnt to fly paragliders, he was very diligent about noting down his flights and what h...
Participating in the X-Pyr
28 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The X-Pyr started in 2012 with just a dozen competitors. The first edition was 438km from Hondaribia on the Altantic coast to Port de la Selva on the ...
Acro and the British Acrobatic Paragliding Academy
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
British acro pilots Lee Tryhorn, Alex Colbeck and Jack Pimblett set up the British Acro Paragliding Academy to promote the discipline and help pilots ...
Effective Coaching: Site Briefing
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every pilot has had a site briefing and most have provided one, but there is a dearth of guidance on how to effectively do one. In this podcast Judith...
Ten Random Questions for... Lawrie Noctor
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from the Isle of Wight, Lawrie lives and flies in the Peak District. A member of a flying family (his dad, uncle and cousin all fly), he wa...
Ten Random Questions for... Sebas Ospina
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Sebastian Ospina, commonly known as Sebas, was born in Colombia, has lived for many years in England and now lives and works as a tandem pilot in...
Ten Random Questions for... Tim Pentreath
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Pentreath is an Advance UK XC Team pilot from Bath. He has been flying for many, many years and last year finally made his first 200+ km flight in...
Ten Random Questions for... Dara Hogan
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dara is an Irish pilot from Dublin who describes himself as a weekend pilot rather than a Sky-God. As he approaches 70, his ambition is to fly 50km so...
Ten Random Questions for... Kussy Gomez Roa
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kussy is originally from Venezuela but has lived and flown in New Zealand for many years. A skydiver and competition pilot, she nevertheless likes to ...
Ten Random Questions for... Malin Lobb
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Malin is a pilot originally from the SW of England. He flies speed wings, paragliders and paramotors. A keen competition pilot, he has been instrument...
Ten Random Questions for... Rhona Carrigan
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rhona Carrigan is a Pennine Club pilot and member of the Pennine Posse. In this podcast she answers questions on what she would change her vario tune ...
Ten Random Questions for... Bob Moore
28 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Moore lives and flies in the south-west of the UK. He has flown in various areas of Europe and Australia. He is retired but keeps busy with his ...
Ten Random Questions for... Gavin Jillings
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin Jillings runs Rose Valley Lodge in Sopot, Bulgaria. He was so taken with the place that he and his wife Lucy packed up and shipped out from Belf...
Good Karma - flying and charity
07 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us travel to far-flung places to appreciate the amazing scenery, cheap drinks, food and accommodation and better flying weather than we can fi...
Ten Random Questions for... Greg Hamerton
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Hamerton is a South African pilot who lives and flies in the UK. He is the chief paragliding evangelist for Flybubble, a job he describes as perf...
Ten Random Questions for...Ollie Chitty
02 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ollie Chitty is a hang gliding instructor, competition pilot and British hang gliding record holder. A young pilot, he comes from a flying family and ...
Ten Random Questions for... Andrew Craig
18 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Craig is a pilot from the south of England (originally from London), but now lives in Wiltshire for the better flying opportunities. A former j...
Ten Random Questions for... Mark Meadows
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ten Random Questions for Mark Meadows, organiser of Parafest. He is a keen paramotor and paraglider pilot who puts flying way before work. In this pod...
Ten Random Questions for...Viv Fouracre
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In our continuing series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... we have come up with 250 flying-related questions and put them int...
Flying Mothers
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the second podcast on flying and motherhood I speak to Ruth Churchill-Dower and Judy Leden from the UK, Heidi Insam from Italy and Elli Torro from ...
Ten Random Questions for... Tim-Patrick Meyer
24 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The latest in our series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... is with Tim-Patrick Meyer from Germany. He learnt to fly in Chile ...
Flying when Pregnant
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Ruth Churchill-Dower and Judy Leden from the UK, Heidi Insam from Italy and Elli Torro from Finland. This podcast is one...
Ten Random Questions for... Matthew Tandy
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
At The Paraglider we have started a new series of fortnightly podcasts called Ten Random Questions for... We have come up with 250 flying-related ques...
Ten Random Questions for... Lee Tryhorn
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest series of podcasts is called Ten Random Questions for... We have come up with 250 flying-related questions and have fed these into a random...
Making Good Launch Decisions
21 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Judith Mole examines how we make decisions, what influences our decision making process and looks at ways we can make better decisions...
Accidents - You Can Make a Difference
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
John Hovey is an experienced first aid trainer and expedition leader with the with the National Outdoor Leadership School (www.nols.edu). This podcast...
Traversing the Rockies
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin McClurg is a professional adventurer. As well as circumnavigating the world by boat, he used to be in the US ski team, is an accomplished white-...
Sharing the Sky with Hang Gliders
29 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Rigg is an extremely accomplished hang glider pilot based in Derbyshire, England. She has flown at the top level of the Womens World Hang Gli...
Testing and Demoing Gliders
21 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ziad Bassil (Dust of the Universe) is passionate about testing gliders. He has flown a staggering number of them over the past 20 years. With his frie...
Collective Flying with the Flying Collective
08 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Colbert and Barney Woodhead (Niviuk UK) are part of the Pennine Posse - a lose gaggle of pilots who fly and party together. Their strategy of sha...
Seven Steps to Dealing with Fear in Paragliding
31 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Heike Hamann learned to fly in 1992 and recently completed a Masters in Process Oriented Psychology. After a few paragliding incidents she developed...
Safety and Fun
08 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tim ONeill started flying 44 years ago in sailplanes and has been hooked on aviation ever since. He began flying paragliders in 2002 and has been an a...
Amusing Aviation Anecdotes - Landings/Retrieves
06 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jug Aggarwal, Matt Beechinor, Alan Ford and Iain Frew. When you land out, you often find yourself in somewhat bizarre places, as is proved in this col...
The NorCal league: how to run a successful flexible competition series
13 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jugdeep Aggarwal (Flymaster USA) - there are many formats for competitions. Larger international competitions usually run over one to two weeks. Small...
Shhhh... don"t mention the S-word
24 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Bishop - in this podcast Tim and I discuss safety, including human factors, attitude and how we can improve paragliding safety culture. Tim co...
Coastal flying
15 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Her-Hsin Tsai - as well as being a keen XC flyer, Hamish (as he is better known in the paragliding community) lives and flies at the coast. In this po...
Possible Future Developments in Competition Technology
15 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Trow (Fast Retrieve) - following my interview with the PWC and British Open retrieve manager for the Marshalling podcast, here Chris talks about...
Serial Class! A 2012 comp season roundup from the ex-open class perspective
15 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Cohn, Nick Greece, Adam Hill, Craig Morgan, Russ Ogden, Yassen Savov and Adrian Thomas - during the 2011 Paragliding World Championships, CIVL ba...
Serial Class! A 2012 comp season roundup from the sports/traditional serial class perspective
05 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
James Bradley, Mike Miller, Idris Birch and Pat Dower - serial class has not only had a profound effect on former open class pilots, but traditional s...
Marshalling and Supporting a Competition
15 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Charlesworth, Sarah Frysol, Alex Hatfield, Alan Horsfield, Barbara St Aubyn and Chris Trow - many pilots are not aware of the immense amount of ...
Crossing the Pyrenees Unsupported
15 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Crosby (Active Edge) and Steve Nash (Nova) - in August/September 2012 Steve and Dean set out to cross the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Medit...
Vol bivouac and lightweight gear
05 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Nash (Nova) and Dean Crosby (Active Edge) - in August/September 2012 Steve and Dean set out to cross the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Medit...
The Big One - flying 233km in the UK
15 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Cameron - on the 13th of May 2012 Kirsty flew a massive straight line flight of 233km from Milk Hill in Wiltshire to the flats of Norfolk. This...
Competition scoring - for competitors
05 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jorg Ewald - this podcast is about scoring formulas and how they work. It is not aimed at scorers, but competition pilots so they can know more about ...
Flatland flying
15 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Ham (flyPiedrahita) should need little introduction. He is a multiple record holder, former British champion and long term national team member....
Breaking the British PG distance record
15 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Carter - the big UK XC ambition of 2011 was to break the 200km mark on a paraglider. Richard bypassed this distance on the 9th of August with ...
Flying in wave
15 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Hudson (Derbyshire Flying Centre) - wave is a fairly common weather condition in the UK and can provide excellent and exhilarating flying, but i...
Flying Triangles
15 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Kai Coleman - after achieving huge open-distance XC flights in the UK, Kai started turning his attention to triangle flying and has done so successful...
Improving your flying
15 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Mole - in this podcast I talk about some of the strategies I have used to become a better pilot in a structured way over the last eighteen mont...
Making the most of blue thermal days
15 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Thomas has been flying various aircraft since 1979 and has a huge amount of XC experience. He excels on blue thermal days and in this podcast he ...
Competing in the British Paragliding Nationals
15 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Dockerill, Wendy Griffiths and Simon Twiss - in this podcast Martin, Wendy and Simon talk about why they decided to enter the competition, what...
Advanced Thermalling
05 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Farina (Austrian Arena). This podcast doesnt explain what a thermal is or how to find one, but it explains the common mistakes people make and h...
Winter Flying
15 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
David Thomson (Border Crossings). If you think winter flying is the same as summer flying just colder, think again. There are lots of differences (met...
Paragliding Guiding
15 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Colombe (Passion Paragliding), Adam Hill (Frontier Paragliding) and Kelly Farina (Austrian Arena) discuss what guiding is about, and how you can ...
Paragliding: A new pilot"s perspective
15 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Melise Harland recently qualified and in this podcast she discusses her progress to date, explains some of the things shes learnt and illustrates the ...
The Red Bull X-Alps - The Inside Story
05 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Payne. In this follow-up podcast about the Red Bull X-Alps, Tom talks candidly about his experiences, joys, aches and pains of the race.
Paragliding and the Mind
15 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Spirling is a long-standing sail plane, hang glider, paraglider pilot and psychologist. In this podcast he explains how the brain works and how y...
Preparing for the X-Alps
15 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Payne took part in the Red Bull X-Alps for the first time in 2009. This podcast is an informal chat about his preparation and strategies for the r...
An XC flight from the Malverns
15 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Three different perspectives with Wayne Millichope, Geoff Minshull and Judith Mole. This podcast is a discussion between us about the flight, the deci...
Alpine Flying
05 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Payne has lived in the French Alps since 2003. Here he talks about strategies and characteristics of alpine flying, including how to plan an XC in...
SIV/Pilotage
02 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Dower (Pat Dower Paragliding), Geoff Minshull and Judith Mole. This podcast describes the experience of an SIV course, the benefits of undertaking...
Coaching
15 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
David Thomson (Border Crossings) is the chief coach for the Lanarkshire and Lothian Soaring Club in Scotland. In this podcast he discusses the subcons...
Mental training
15 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Anja Kroll - in this podcast, Anja (twice the PWC womens champion) talks about becoming a competition pilot and some of the strategies she used to bec...
You"ve got your CP - what next?
15 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Dann (Beyond Extreme) is a highly experienced paraglider pilot and instructor. This podcast is aimed at new pilots, who have just completed their...
Flying 100km
15 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Westgate was a paragliding world record holder and did four flights over 100km in the UK in six weeks in June/July 2008. In this podcast, Ric...
First competiton season
05 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Knight talks about his first season flying competitions, the BPC, and offers advice to people considering entering competitions for the first t...
Flying in competitions
15 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Nicky Moss from AirDesign, ex-Spanish Womens Champion, ex-British team member.
Getting your confidence back after an accident
05 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Mole. Relatively early in my hang gliding career, I broke my arm at Lords Seat in Derbyshire. In this podcast, I talk about the steps I took to...
XC tips
15 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Kai Coleman - the former British distance record holder discusses some tips and tricks for XC flying and talks about some of his favourite sites in th...