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New : parkings GPS for paragliding sites

For every site, you can now give gps coordinates for car parking places.
The parking spots are added to the gps files in order to help you travel easily to the flying sites.
You can edit the parking locations from the 'Site map' on site pages.

PgSim : fly online !!

Working one's way up the 'Dents de Lanfon', above Annecy lake, France
site : Planfait, FR

Soaring above the launch of the Torrey Pines cliff site
site : Torrey Pines, US

@ take off, ready to cross the lake ?
site : Saint Vincent Les Forts, FR

Have you heard of PgSim ?
This little game allows you to fly a paraglide in a browser version of GoogleEarth.
The weather is always nice online : it s time you go try to beat your XC personnal record !
GO FLY !!
A discussion about this sim is on on PGForum.

Challenge with the sim !

The Simulator now comes with the 'competition' flavor : as a registered member, you can take part in the proposed tasks and compare your flying skills to the other pilots's ones !
You can also challenge everyone on a task you built yourself : are you the king of your homesite ?
The competion has now 4397 flights in 286 tasks.
Reach the 'comp' module here.

What is on PGE ?

ParaglidingEarth is now information on 4165 sites, 271 pg clubs and 100 pros, in 103 countries.
Thanks to 2359 members, you shall find here, among other things, 2888 pictures, 483 videos, or 1771 flights saved from our exclusive PG simulator.
These last 7 days on PGE : 37 sites were edited (among which 8 are new ones), 73 members visited us and 5 new pics were added..

5 last saved PG-Sim flights