Nirvana Adventures hosted a bunch of very special guests at the Shelar site. 70 children from St. Catherine's Home, an orphanage in Mumbai came over for an evening of paragliding. The children were thrilled to see the gliders at close range and were all eager to give it a try. This was the opening day of their 3 day adventure camp held by the Siemens Workers Union at Malavali, Lonavala a part of their Corporate Social responsibility commitment. CSR is not new for Nirvana Adventures in fact it was interesting to see the youngest 3 members of our crew, our greatest CSR initiative so far, share the secrets of kiting the glider with these 70 kids from the city. Ravi, Bandya and Sandeep are local village children who have been around at the Shelar site since the time we started paragliding here 10 years ago.

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Tandem Paragliding weekends have become a popular weekend option for discerning people looking for a weekend in the outdoors – Many corporate groups, individuals and clubs continue to visit us for a weekend of relaxation at native place, meeting pilots / students, and going to the flying site with the nirvana team for an afternoon of high flying without having to go through the learning process.

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Large number of P1 pilots have taken that extra step towards making paragliding their hobby. The conditions at Kamshet were perfect to get started with P2 course. Laminar winds, sweet conditions and extended soaring flights.

P2 pilot count has gone up. As part of Nirvana Flying Club they enjoy post learning support thanks to the large stocks of flyable equipment at Nirvana Adventures™. P2s can land up for the weekend stay at Native Place, rent out equipment from us and have a fantastic time as they did during your course. All at special rates for our Nirvana club members so let the good times roll. Write to Sanjay for full details and bookings.

Congratulations to Bruce Goldsmith, FR3, and Harmony Gaw, Magic4, for their success at the World Paragliding Championships 2007 which just finished in Manilla, Australia. Five tough xc tasks were flown over the two weeks of the event and Bruce won by being the only pilot out of the 150 competitors to get to goal every single day. Harmony was 3rd Woman flying a Magic4 small .

This is the first time that a paraglider pilot has won a World Championships on a glider he has designed himself. The FR3-24 that Bruce was flying is actually the standard model, not a special proto and the exceptional performance of this wing certainly helped Bruce on the way to victory. Ideas that often spring from the competition wings influence the complete Airwave range, from school glider to tandem producing a range of Airwave gliders that always strive to break new ground. That is why success at top level means more than just success at top level.

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We have been hosting visiting pilots since the early days in 1997. Recently we have been attracting groups on guided flying holidays from schools and clubs looking forward to good weather and winter sunshine when conditions may not be that exciting back home.

December 06 & January 07 Native Place and Nirvana Adventures hosted Philippe Grimpaillou and his groups of French and Belgian pilots. Then in February 07 there was Peder with his group from Sweden. With every single day being sunny & flyable, topped up with great infrastructure and logistics support resulted in our guests going back home with great flights, hours of airtime, interesting experiences and plans to be back.

Native Place - Our base goes through further upgrade. A variety of inviting hang out areas with great views abound for you to lounge about in solitude, or amongst friends. Enjoy quiet places to curl up with a book as well as vibrant interactive areas where guests can meet. Choose depending upon your mood.

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We continue to be on all top magazines and newspapers in the country and abroad.


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Season 2006-07 opened in October with a batch from INS Garuda the flying wing of the Indian Navy. Teaching aviators was an interesting experience. They were a great bunch of guys who enjoyed being initiated into the world of free flight and the Nirvana Flying Trip. Through the season we continued to have many more naval students.

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