25 years of Paragliding
P5- Cross Country Clinic
Pilots at this level have achieved the below skill level in the sport of paragliding
Practical skills
- Clear weather analysis and changes through the day.
- Understanding of lee sides in thermic conditions
- Reading the wind direction and speed at different altitudes
- Choosing the lift lines
- Arriving over the next ridge and finding thermal sources and triggers
- Making head wind and tail wind transitions
- Figuring out wind direction in air
- Predicting lee sides on terrain
- Where to arrive on the next ridge
- Out landings
- Cross wind landings, Slope landings
- Avoiding cloud suck
- Staying hydrated through the flight
- mental state and awareness at higher altitudes
- Informing others about your location through tracking
- Finding retrieve
kiting skills
- Strong wind take off
- Nil wind take off
- Wind flow over terrain
Theoretical knowledge
- AOA and Polar curve for speed to fly
- Inversions and sheer layers
- Air law, do not fly over 5000mts altitude above sea level
- Operation of tracker devices and emergency radio frequencies
- Accident procedures
- Using your phone as a additional device
- Valley winds
- Conversion lines
- Cloud formations, which to use and which to avoid
- cloud flying is prohibited all over the world
- Cloud base and top of lift
- Out landings
- obstacles on the ground and how to locate them
- Understanding the ground slope angle from the sky
- Retrieve methods in the locality
- Flying over lakes/ water bodies
- Landing in strong winds
- Predicting gust fronts
- Do not fly over restricted air spaces or into military areas
- Cloud suck, what to do
- White out procedure