Touching Cloudbase by Ian Currer

Touching Cloudbase by Ian Currer

"Touching Cloudbase" is the world's best selling guide to the sport. It is widely used as a course textbook in the UK and many other countries. This 5th edition is more comprehensive than ever, dealing with all aspect of the sport; from health and safety to understanding the weather, and from setting up your equipment, to mountain flying or using a paramotor. New chapters cover expeditions, speed flying and Acro flying. Almost every professional school and instructor recommends "Touching Cloudbase". It not only gives a clear introduction to the sport, but provides all the information needed to pass your BHPA Elementary, Club, and Pilot level exams! This book contains details on everything from assessing conditions and launch techniques to buying kit and flying cross-country. It is packed with inspirational photographs and excellent illustrations. "Touching Cloudbase" is ideal for both the reader interested in finding out more about the sport and the pilot under training.

"Ian's cheerful and to the point prose style means that you rarely need to go over a paragraph twice to make sense of it" (Skywings magazine) "It is possible to learn paragliding without Touching Cloudbase but it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to!" (Skywings magazine)"

Ian Currer is also the author of Windsurfing The Complete Guide, & Kitesurfing The Complete Guide, both highly successful publications in the UK and beyond. He has been an author and professional paragliding instructor for over 27 years. Ian is the principal architect of the current UK training system, an examiner or instructors and co-author of several of the associations' exam papers.

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ISBN 13	9780952886228
ISBN 10	0952886227
Title	Touching Cloudbase
Author	Ian Currer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Air Supplies
Year published	2011-10-01
Number of pages	266
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