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Santa, the Tooth Fairy . . . and Minimum Sink

"Conventional wisdom says that if you fly with some brake on, you can stay up longer in light conditions.  Well, it can be true that your electronics say sink rate is less, but is this missing the point?  I think so."

Article on How to get the wing to fly up rather than you dragging it into the sky!

"For as long as I can remember I have been meeting pilots who take off as they were taught, by showing ‘lots of commitment’, running forward energetically whilst dragging their paragliders up in to the sky, normally this will lead to the aircraft diving after your feet leave the ground as the wing passes through the overhead (and temporally forward) due to gravity acting on the pilot, before finally settling back above you."

              (Or weight shift is not just for turns!) 

"All paraglider pilots ‘know’ that the speed system “pulls down the A risers”, so first we need to check and see if this, as the expression implies, is true."

Accidental Reserve Deployment on Launch

            (Or Must an incident turn into a accident! Yet again!) 

As with much of what I do in paragliding, this article is aimed at looking at actual accidents that typically result in injury and who doing a little thinking "outside the box" when coupled with adopting better practices can help keep pilots safe.