When and how did you learn paraglider ?

EG: I started flying in 1998 with paraglider, and in 2000 I got into skydiving and BASE jumping. I dove headfirst into paraglider—I bought my Vision Up before I’d even started. First up was a week-long course in the rain where we didn’t fly at all, so I really learned from my friends in the fields behind our houses 🙂 I’ve got the textbook example of paragliding pilot journey paragliding pilot definitely shouldn’t follow… On my very first flight stuck a pirate flag in my glider
My third flight a soaring flight where I hit the ground head-on twice before making it back home.
My seventh flight towed by a “cunimb,” and I didn’t know how to do the ears! So, I first tried pulling on my A-lines (which I quickly released!) and then pulling on my stabilizers; before realizing that neither technique was working, and that I absolutely had to descend, I launched into “3.6s.” Before nearly passing out from the centrifugal force; and ending up landing in the middle of a horse jumping course, passing just 15 meters from a large high-voltage power line…
Armed with that experience, I managed to crash head-on into my best friend, then pull off a wing-to-wing maneuver on a flight —on a night when there was no moon…
In short, I skipped all the steps while everyone was telling me to take my time…
Then, well, I got scared, trying to fly too early in the afternoons. And ever since I’ve been a paragliding pilot —I only fly in the morning or evening on rest days.

Do you have a special memory of flight to share with us?

EG: My best flight will remain the one in Norway (in Are) in restit, with my friend Romain Raisson who has been flying with Supair for more than 25 years !