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Wed, Apr 30 2014, 8:18:50 am EDT

Flying in Bir-Billing, Himachal Pradesh, India

The Spring season

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https://OzReport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37343

A first video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex7RO8u5gvo

A pictured report here (scroll down for English translation): http://www.abschweb.de/fleunde/windfried/hindu.htm

Bir-Billing at the southern edge of the Indian Himalayas without doubt can be counted among the best flying sites in the world. A passable forest road leads up to the launch sites. For the launch space, not a single bush needed to be cut for ideal take off opportunities in three directions. The flying region was discovered in the 1980's by hang glider pilots. With their at that time seemingly usual cocky occurrence and outrageous sense of entitlement towards the local farmer society they quickly made themselves unpopular. This was repelled subtlety by the local population. Only years later with the paraglider boom free flight became a substantial component of the local economy.

Bir is a very well established paragliding site, with decent road, nice Hotels and an ample landing field. Going over the back there is another chapter, meaning You fly into extrem terrain. A look at the map shows however, that within glide there are the Barot valley and the Kullu valley with distinct landing opportunities and good roads for retrieval.

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