Video: Learning to paraglide from first flight to thermals
Perfect for beginners, this new film captures the learning process and reveals what it’s like to learn to fly a paraglider
Thinking of learning to fly a paraglider?
German pilot and film maker Kerim Jasperson spent the summer of 2011 filming his girlfriend as she went through the initial stages of training.
The result, Flying is Freedom, is a unique and personal 24-minute film which sees Lena Kruckenberg go from nervous new pilot to launching solo from the famous Tegelberg in Bavaria and earning her licence.
The film is a perfect introduction to the sport for anyone who wants to find out more about learning to fly paragliders.
In German it has English subtitles – click on the CC logo on the frame in YouTube to make the subtitles appear.
Kerim is an established short-filmmaker: he made the five-minute Rush Hour Dream, which caught the imagination of pilots and film festival audiences around the world last year.
Rush Hour Dream
Lena Kruckenberg learning to paraglide
German pilot and film maker Kerim Jasperson spent the summer of 2011 filming his girlfriend as she went through the initial stages of training.
The result, Flying is Freedom, is a unique and personal 24-minute film which sees Lena Kruckenberg go from nervous new pilot to launching solo from the famous Tegelberg in Bavaria and earning her licence.
The film is a perfect introduction to the sport for anyone who wants to find out more about learning to fly paragliders.
In German it has English subtitles – click on the CC logo on the frame in YouTube to make the subtitles appear.
Kerim is an established short-filmmaker: he made the five-minute Rush Hour Dream, which caught the imagination of pilots and film festival audiences around the world last year.
Rush Hour Dream
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