Safety Committee Members Needed

By: Bastien Dufour, HPAC/ACVL Quebec Director Flight Safety is the core of the sport of hang gliding and paragliding! Can you or a fellow pilot volunteer for the HPAC/ACVL Safety Committee to give back to the sport that you love? The objective of the Committee is...

Has competition changed the way I fly cross-country?

By JP Robert Vandenbegine, Chair, HPAC/ACVL Competition Committee Although much of this topic can be applied to various other competitive disciplines and obviously to hang gliding as well, before I start it is worth mentioning that I am a paraglider pilot and that my...

Post-Covid Thoughts

By Michael Robertson, High Perspective, Locust Hill, Ontario To fly or not to fly, that was and is the Covid question. Of course, each individual and school must make their own decisions according to their beliefs. Here’s what we did in 2020 and our rationale. This...

FlyTerrace: Newest Club in Canada

By Yanick Boisclair Copper Mountain is an old abandoned flying site where hang gliders used to fly until 25 years ago. I met one of them last summer. He said that at the time they would call his glider “The Killer”, because it was technically impossible to recover...