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Brand new is the long awaited \u201cCross-Country Flying for Paraglider and Hang Glider Pilots\u201d It is the perfect supplementary to \u201cThermal Flying\u201d.\u00a0 It comes in hardcover, has 240 pages, 500 pictures and costs 37,95\u20ac.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nContents:<\/h3>\n
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? Planning a cross-country flight
? Online contest rules and tactics
? Cross-country weather
? Sources of weather information
? Cross-country flying for beginners
? Tactics, dolphin style, lee thermals, crossings
? The last few kilometres
? Clouds
? Flatland flying
? Flight analysis
? Tips for thermalling
? Speed-to-fly or McCready?
? Six best Alpine site descriptions
? Eight Interviews with the world\u2019s top cross-country pilots
? Six impressions of the world\u00b4s top XC sites<\/p>\n
? The detailed site decriptions are: Fiesch (CH), Fanas (CH) Pinzgau (A), Speikboden (I) Greifenburg (A) and Annecy (F).<\/p>\n
? The interviews are with: Chrigel Maurer (CH) Jocky Sanderson (GB), Torsten Hahne (D), Mads Syndergaard (DK), Karel Vejchodsky (CZ), Heli Eichholzer (A) and Ewa Wisnierska (D)<\/p>\n
? The site impressions are from: Quixada (BR), Manilla (AUS), Iquique (CL), De Aar (SA), Rift Valley (KEN), and Piedrahita (E)<\/p>\n
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The writer<\/h3>\n
Burkhard Martens was born in 1962 in Lower Saxony, Germany. After completing his studies in 1989 he moved to the south of Germany and took up paragliding. For several years he managed to work as an environmental engineer and be a very passionate pilot, but from \u201894 his life has been inseparable from flying. From \u201894 to \u201897 he worked for paraglider manufacturers, and from \u201897 to 2003 he owned and ran a paragliding school.<\/p>\n
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Since \u201803 he has worked freelance as a paragliding instructor, journalist and author. He took up hang gliding in 1998.
For 10 years Burkhard did the comp thing, flew in the German league, the Nationals and in the World Cup. He bagged several national and international records during this time, and some of them still stand. His most recent German record was a 280 km flight-to-goal in 2011.<\/p>\n
Burkhard\u2019s passion is cross-country flying, and after flying in the German XC League for twenty years he finally managed to win the Sports Class in 2004 and the Open Class in 2008. This success was followed by the publication of the book \u201cThermal Flying\u201c in German in 2005. This book has since been translated into nine (!) languages.
In April 2007 the next book in the series, \u201cDas Streckenflugbuch f\u00fcr Gleitschirm- und Drachenflieger\u201c (The XC-Flying Guide for Paraglider and Hang gliders) was published. Although it has only been on sale for a very short time the sales figures are already impressive. In 2010 the impressive DVD guide to the best flying sites in the eastern Alps was released (still on sale). In 2011 the third edition of \u201cThermal Flying\u201c was published in German. In 2013 the English second edition of \u201cThermal Flying\u201c and the long-awaited \u201cCross-Country Flying\u201c books have been published<\/p>\n
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