Paragliding Launch at 2008 Chabre Open

The Irish team at the Chabre Open Paragliding Competition at Laragne in SE France is an amazing event led by Jocky Sanderson. The mass launch is amazing and Jocky and his team got 120 paragliders into the air in 30 minutes - that's one every 15 seconds. I was one of them but I waited until the crowding had eased off before flying out to join them.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Paragliding
• IHPA
• Chabre
• Ozone
• Competition

[bigdogITbiker]

hi, is hang gliding or paragliding faster for travelling from one place to another place, if both are non machined powered? thank you

[darahogan]

Hang gliding is faster,

Cheers, Dara.

[gerijh]

its completly out of focus dara.

and may I add I noticed that there was no filming done in the air!!!

[darahogan]

Hi gerijh,

The clip is in perfect focus courtesy of the Nokia N95's excellent auto-focus. What you're seeing is the result of YouTube's "conversion" process to reduce the download file size and the bandwidth requirement. Click on "View in High Quality" to see the original - in perfect focus.

My in-air pics that day were stills. Look me up on Fotki to see them - DaraHogan. I don't see any of your shots on-line. You must send a link so that we can appraise them?

Yours patiently,

ParaDara

[erica1509]

great day!

[lookus69]

it looks great! but a bit scary!

[Morimdin]

Hey dude:) Questions about pragliding! How long can you stay in the air, and how high can you go? I wanna start paragliding cause it looks so god damn awsome!

[Lawrence7of9]

Hi Dara, great video off your mobile? Wow! I miss having your pictures of my flying, having to make do with my ropey video (on youtube too!) hi to all the IHPA guys! Craigster

[geniennis]

Brilliant sight Dara. Great colour. Lovely smooth launches. Cheers.

[flyhghgy]

Cool to see so many gliders launch at once!