The wonderful world of paragliding and its technology.

Fabrics of Paragliding

The study of clouds helps us to fly in paragliding.

Types of Clouds

Brief details of paragliding .

The Paragliding is a sport whose name comes from the words "parachuting" of "pending".

Paragliding: The glider is regarded as free flight, opposed to a variety where it is used as an engine propellant called paramotor.

This is getting off, flying and landing with a flap on your own. The takeoff is done on foot, usually from the edge of a hillside addressed to the wind. The pilot sits in a sling, joined the sail through two runners. Use a helmet and has an emergency parachute, and generally a varioaltímetro, GPS and radio equipment.

It is also possible to do with a mechanical winch operator controls giving greater or lesser tension to a rope that was hooked into the harness of the pilot. Such flights is typical plains where the permanence of flight occurs according to the crew's ability to find areas thermal or dynamic effect that occurs in any training with respect to the wind.

However, the science of flight sailing and consequently the Paragliding se basa en thermal currents. These occur when hot air mass that is driving by, for contact on this soil warmed by the sun's rays. This air mass is dilates to raise its temperature and is lighter than the surrounding air so it began to rise, amounting remember as a hot-air balloon to heat its interior air mass. The ascension of hot air called thermal engine is used by all non-motorized glider aircraft.

There are several ways to obtain gain height, these are thermal, restitution, or dynamic slope, wave and convergence of mountain breezes. They all have their own peculiarities, including some clouds like cumulus convection can provide descent and lenticular clouds are associated with large descent produced by the topography of the land.

The refund occurs at dusk, when large bodies of water or woods restored to air the latent heat stored during the day, providing gentle descent but of enormous dimensionsThe flight dynamic is moving on an obstacle in front of the wind, then east to upload it provides a mass of air upward. The mountain wave is produced by high speed winds that descend and ascend andalusia accident terrain and because of the elasticity of air, producing huge upstream and downstream, as well as very troubled areas; can amplified if there are several mountain ranges and occurs a phenomenon called resonance. The convergence of different orientation breezes produce a zone stretched upward and usually crowned by clouds of convection. This convergence can be displaced by wind and weather in higher layers of the atmosphere are authentic and highways of free flight. We have come to exceed distances of 400 miles in a straight line because of this phenomenon.

The range of maximum and minimum speeds for a model glider intermediate is: Speed màxima: 50 kms an hour. Speed less than 24 kilometres an hour, for a paragliding competition at the maximum speed can exceed 60 miles an hour with a ratio of 10:1 planning, namely that for every ten meters that moves naturally drops one.

Being a flap, the turbulence can produce folded, distorting the wing profile and thus losing their ability to lift and entering various configurations of flight: spiral, auger, asymmetric loss, etc.