News: 2009

223 km with an EPSILON 5 in Portugal

17.11.09 | Last June Carlos Barbas made a flight of over 223 km with an EPSILON 5. News of this flight has only just reached us. Read his report here.

ALPHA HIKE Test report in Thermik Magazine

08.06.09 | Plenty of mountain walkers, trekkers and pilots who travel already relish the HIKE’s qualities, and now the Thermik Magazine tester has been well and truly bowled over by this lightened wing.

EPSILON 6 approved for paramotoring

20.05.09 | No ifs or buts - the EPSILON 6 paramotor with the hybrid risers has DULV approval for all sizes as well as the usual EN/LTF certification.

Paramotor World Record with an EPSILON 6

18.05.09 | Karen Skinner sets three new paramotor world records at the Flypa Festival in Teneriffe.

SIGMA 7 wins sport class and ladies title at the Kumba Open

20.04.09 | Khobi Bowden and her SIGMA 7 finish 8th overall in a field of 51 pilots at the first major contest in the South African calendar for 2009. 500km maestro Nevil Hulett wins the event – there was plenty of competition.

XC SECRETS Trip To Spain A Great Success!

The weather gods were very kind to us throughout our XC SECRETS trips to Spain (6-22 November 2009) with warm climes, the sun shining and great flyable conditions almost every day...

Flybubble Paragliding Trips & Courses Abroad 2010 - 2011

We're organising a new series of paragliding trips and courses abroad for all paraglider pilots looking to improve their flying skills whilst gaining AIRTIME! These exclusive trips will provide expert instruction, thermalling and XC mentoring from the Flybubble Paragliding Team.

As a rough guide we've split our paragliding trips into 3 levels...

FLYING START :: Learn To Fly & Get Quali-Fly'd!
Learn to paraglide to a high standard with expert instructors and achieve your BHPA Club Pilot rating (internationally recognised FAI-IPPI).

For more info see Learn To Paraglide

AIRTIME :: Improve Flying Skills & Get Airtime!
Aimed at low-airtime paraglider pilots wanting to build up their all-round flying skills, and general confidence and ability, and get lots of AIRTIME!

For more info see Paragliding Trips & Courses Abroad

XC SECRETS :: Thermalling & XC Trips
For all intermediate paraglider pilots and above wanting to hone their thermalling and cross country flying skills. Expand your XC horizons!

For more info see Paragliding Trips & Courses Abroad

Contact Us for more details or to book your place!

Graham Steel Wins 2009 UK Paragliding XC League

Graham Steel wins the UK Paragliding XC League for the third time and sets a new British winching distance record on his Advance Omega 7...

FLYBABBLE :: Flybubble Paragliding General News & Info Update!

September and October were great months for paragliding training in the south of England - as they often seem to be - with some of our paragliding students making real leaps forward with their training, and our tandem paragliding passengers enjoying truly fantastic tandem paraglider flights over our wonderful South Downs hills.

Adrian Thomas is British Paragliding Champion 2009

The British Paragliding Championships (BPChamps) is usually held each year over three rounds, one in the UK and two abroad...