A 2nd edition of Maldevta Paragliding Festival , Dehradun Uttrakhand. A Three day event organized by Himalayan Aerosport Association along with BSF was a fun aero-sports festival with lots of flying, tandem joyrides, hot air balloon rides, powered paraglider flying and drone flying. Festival also hosted it’s second Paragliding Accuracy competition with 57 national and […]
Only few are blessed with the ability of seeing the invisible & we as Paragliding pilots are among those lucky few who ride & surf on the invisible. We are also blessed to soak in the stunning landscapes of earth’s beauty with a bird’s eye view. These feelings become very evident and profound when we […]
Temple Pilots APPI Advance SIV/Acro Training, Bilaspur 2018, Himachal – High Octane, High Adrenaline, 11 Days of Non Stop Action with 3 Back to Back Advance SIV/Acro Courses. 28 Pilots from our Club & other parts of the world pushed their limits & that of their Gliders to achieve high level of competence in their […]
SIV – stands for ‘Simulation d’Incident en Vol’ and roughly translated means simulating incident in flight. SIV / ACRO 2018 : To be living in a country home in a tiny hamlet atop a hill, 5 minutes walk from the Take Off & doing all kinds of gymnastics with your Glider is a heady mix […]
Day 2 & 3 – High Octane, High Adrenaline, Full Action & Drama. We did over 30 Full Stalls on day two, all with good exits & recovery save one splash in the lake. Shantanu just didn’t want to go into the water & he happened to be the first one. He didn’t deploy the Reserve either […]
Advance Safety & Skills Clinic : SIV Course, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh. DAY 1 – We started with Pitch Oscillations, Asymmetric Deflations & turns, Symmetric Collapses, B- Line Stalls, Progressive Spirals & Exits, Wing Overs & Rear riser landings. Big day as most pilots got three flights each on the first day. To learn to check […]
A beautiful day in the sky – On the main spine the cloud tops were reaching upto 3200 but in the back mountains I could reach 4000+ meters & more was possible. Fun flying with Jets & Sach and the Himalayan Griffin Vultures. Once I was with five in the back mountains, beautifully carving the […]
Season warm up for Sachin, Jitendra & Avi. It’s always beautiful in the mountains & it’s always a joy to be in the sky. We couldn’t be happier.. The Forecast & the Flying – High pressure in the mountains & Low pressure in the flats. Meteo forecast said no cloud development but there was plenty after 12 pm. Thermal […]
The Grand Finale – Stalls, Spins & Reserve Parachute Deployments. Most SIV pilots are now comfortable with doing a full stall, hold the wing in tail slide (back fly) for a bit and then ease off to a punchy dive & a safe Recovery. Karthik, Sajid, Imran, Alok, Imad & Instructor Jitu are glad to […]
High Octane n Adrenaline Sky Stunts Party – all the pilots are pretty pepped up, in a high stress course like the SIV, the pilots body pumps a complex mixture of extremely powerful chemicals into the bloodstream, with adrenaline in the lead. The brain starts to overdose as the stress levels increase. Google on the […]
