Wings and Whale Sharks
Flying a small microlight over the tropical blue ocean of the Islands of Seychelles, your imagination and emotions will be captured. Participate in the personal discoveries of whale shark secrets, marine observational sampling, life threatening flying adventures, romance and heartache in this in depth and very personal memoir about life as a marine air survey pilot.
Between 2002 and 2008, Johan was the chief survey pilot for the Marine Conservation Society of Seychelles.…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 10:46am —
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The new Oxygen 2 harness is a versatile, high quality harness for pilots of all abilities. The Oxygen 2 is light and simple enough for new students, but sleek and full featured enough for experts. Now the harness of choice for the Ozone Test and Design Team, the Oxygen 2 was designed to be sensitive and comfortable at the same time, and can be flown with any glider.
Experienced pilots will love the feel of the O2 in active air, with progressive weight shift and a precise feel for core-seeking i…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on June 23, 2009 at 10:44am —
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This is a great page on the FAI website where you can check out the latest Paragliding world record claims.
http://www.fai.org/node/603
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Added by Jon M Bishop on May 26, 2009 at 11:14am —
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GIN test pilot, Seyong Jung, won the World Cup in Korea (Mungyeong). Second was Denis Cortella (F) also flying the GIN Boomerang 6. Seyong has been working in our factory, testing paragliders everyday with Gin Seok Song for almost 20 years. It is a great result for this very fine technical pilot. He has already achieved fine results in the past, like 7th in the 2001 World Championships and 3 times Korean champion.
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Added by Jon M Bishop on May 19, 2009 at 10:16am —
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The Ultralite broke records in 2007 as the lightest wing ever to be certified in the history of paragliding, and now the Ultralite 09 is even lighter, with several hundred grams weight savings on every size. Also, the 19m Ultralite is now certified EN B, making it one of the smallest EN wings ever certified, with just 16.9m2 projected area.
A special new hard-finish 27gm2 rib material from Porcher Sport has been incorporated into the internal construction, new rigidification has been sewn into…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on March 2, 2009 at 1:11pm —
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I have just received word from my instructor in South Africa that the world open distance record was broken this weekend in South Africa with South African pilot Neville Hullet flying 507 kms after launching in Cooperton in the Northern Cape, which is very dry and hot so he obviously capitalised on some massive thermals.
The previous record was set in Brazil at a distance of 461 kms.
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Added by Jon M Bishop on December 15, 2008 at 3:48pm —
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GIN is proud to support this year again the 3rd edition of the Speedflying Pro Les Arcs, the biggest Speedride event in the world.
This year again, the 25 best riders will fight for the title.
http://www.gingliders.com/newsletter/news074-public.htm
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Added by Jon M Bishop on November 28, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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The Bullet 09 is the classic standard speed riding and speed flying wing for your winter pursuits, in 10m, 12m, and 14m sizes. The Bullet 09 can be ski or foot launched.
The Bullet GT is for Speed Riding (Ski Launch) only, and comes in 7.7m and 9.8m sizes, for pilots who need more speed and less glide. Ozone claims that anyone who has already done a season or so of speed riding will love the GT.
The XT16 is for foot launched speed flying. A totally new design by Rob Whittal, the XT16 is large en…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on November 28, 2008 at 12:27pm —
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Hi All.
You may have noticed a new tab on Cloudseekers called 'Flying Sites'. It's a link to the new Wiki I have started to create a worldwide database of paragliding and hanggliding sites.
Now the trick is, it relies on you and the rest of the paragliding community to make it work as we all know that local knowledge of sites is the best knowledge. So we need pilots to contribute to their local knowledge to make it work.
I am letting the Cloudseekers members know about it first as you guys ar…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on November 18, 2008 at 5:12pm —
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Swing Release the Mistral 5 DHV 1-2, the replacement for their best selling glider.
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Added by Jon M Bishop on March 19, 2008 at 12:40pm —
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In line with the market appetite for lightweight equipment, APCO announcing fresh, cool additions to our emergency parachute range - Mayday 16 Light (LT) and Mayday 16 Superlight (SLT) - designed for pilots who wish to keep their equipment extremely light
The time proven classic DHV certified Mayday 16 from APCO has undergone an intensive diet !!! Keeping the performance and quality same, but just slimming down the weight and bulk to incredible:…
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Added by Jon M Bishop on March 18, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Looking forward to my first mountain flight over the easter weekend.
We'll be heading up to Mpumalanga in South Africa to a town called Barberton, just near the Kruger National Park. Apparently you fly over houses and land on a golf course! Should be very interesting.
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Added by Jon M Bishop on March 16, 2008 at 11:55am —
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