The review and outlook for July with the following topics: !!!Fear!!!; On unusual routes through the Piave Valley / Bassano; The fascination of paragliding; Over Iceland; Paragliding safety training at Lake Idro.
I use AI in my blog to translate German texts into English. This works quite well for the most part, but sometimes the meaning of the text is not recognised and translated incorrectly. Could AI answer my questions about paragliding in the various disciplines? Would it be conceivable to dispense with the knowledge in forums, YouTube, blogs, fellow pilots, books etc. and rely solely on text-based AI à la ChatGPT? I have asked one question from various category and checked ChatGPT's answer for accuracy.
The topic of trimming paragliders and its effect on flight behaviour and ultimately also on safety has been the subject of intense discussion in the scene for several years now. Nevertheless, for most pilots, checking and re-trimming paragliders seems to be a job for the check centres. How can pilots be enabled to check the trim and how can they be supported in trimming their own glider? Nora Martiny and Benjamin Lutze must have thought about this and much more, and their answer: the website we-measure.io.
What do we need to bear in mind when approaching airspace that we are not allowed to fly into? What altitude should you set on your aircraft? What should you do if you have inadvertently flown into a prohibited airspace? Georg Bube, an experienced cross-country pilot, will try to answer all these questions in a presentation.
There are plenty of stories to tell about cross-country flying. One person who does this in great detail is Dmitry Balabanov. He reaches a large audience with his elaborately produced videos, which he uploads to YouTube. But it's not just his stories of cross-country flying, often from Roldanillo or Bassano, that he has to tell, there are also other aspects of his flying life that make him an interesting interview partner.
Where can you fly 100 or even 200 XC kilometres? What should I bear in mind? What equipment should you have with you? What skills should you have to fly such distances? How can I plan routes? What tools will help me to find the next thermal in flight? Questions upon questions, which I get to the bottom of in an interview with Ulrich Scheller, an experienced cross-country pilot.
