SAFA Skysailor Magazine

20 SKY SAILOR July | August 2021 Winter Reading List New: Advanced Paragliding Authored by Gavin McClurg, edited by the Cross Country team, ‘Advanced Paragliding’ is aimed at intermediate pilots over 100 hours and up, to help them build on their foundations and progress. There’s a big focus on aerology, meteorology, psychology, safety and risk-management. If you have 100 hours or more and want to go places in paragliding, this is for you. ‘Advanced Paragliding’ draws on over eight years’ of in-depth interviews with over 100 of the world’s best pilots. With Gavin’s incredible popularity among a listener base of over 30,000 pilots worldwide, this book has got to be good. Available from XC shop . Beginners are not forgotten If you’re interested in paragliding or have already started training, ‘Paragliding – The Beginner’s Guide’ by Bastienne Wentzel and published last year, is useful. Learn the essentials of keeping safe – like how turbulence forms behind hills and terrain – through to the intricacies of thermalling thousands of feet high. All the know-how to help guide you from your first thrilling, ground-skimming flights to aerobat- ic manoeuvres and beyond. It follows the teach- ing syllabuses of the BHPA (UK), USHPA (USA) and other national paragliding bodies, including Australia and New Zealand. Also available from the XC shop here . New: The Beginner’s Guide To Hike & Fly If you like hiking with your flying, this book may be for you. Watch out for Kinga Masztalerz’s review in our next issue! Meanwhile, or if you can’t wait, find out more here . Read up on the Red Bull XAlps action online At time of closing this issue, Chrigel Maurer is in the lead, once more, and by the time you see this, the winner of the event is likely decided. However, for some extended reading, some of the various competitor or commentator blogs might be of interest. The official site is: www.redbullxalps.com , but there are plenty of other blogs and comments to find. Options include. • • Nova, following the motto ‘by pilots for pilots’, their blog is aimed to be informative and entertaining! See www.nova. eu/x-alps or www.facebook.com/novawings for links. • • Girl Gone Wild, Kinga Masztalerz may have missed out on participating in person this year, but her daily posts can still be found here: KingaGoneWild sgneist@gmail.com 01 Jun 2021 Christian Maurer in St Christoph, Austria, on 23 June 2021 Photo: © zooom / Lukas Pilz