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.
In the article Checking paraglider trim, I already mentioned how important it is to regularly check the trim of your paraglider. At that time, the trim was checked with the help of a commercial provider, but for some time now it has been possible to carry out the check via the we-measure website. In this article, I would like to explain in more detail how this works and what you need to bear in mind.
To check the trim of a paraglider, the lines must be pre-tensioned with a defined force. To achieve this, you need a tensioning device. This article explains how I set it up.
In this article I have already reported on the rescue throw training, which is organized and carried out by Bodenlos e.V.. But training without learning something from it doesn't really make sense. That's why I've summarized here once again the findings described by my club colleagues in the club's internal forum, most of whose texts I have taken over from the original. I have supplemented the texts with my own findings.
Once again this year, almost a tradition for the Bodenlos e.V., rescue throwing training took place in a gym in Munich. However, there was not only a rescue throw training, but also various other activities. You can read about them in this article.
