November 10, 2011 Escape Paragliding | Escape XC | Jocky Sanderson | learn paragliding | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures | xc flying Astrid Rao

XC Flying with Jocky Sanderson at Kamshet, India

They flew 6 km back over the hill in a down wind glide. Just 6 km you may say but we were super excited to see Rinul and Foram head out . Way to go girls I said to myself as I kept turning in sink to get yet another view of the crescent shaped wings fading out as they glided further away from us. My heart flew with them.

November 10, 2011 Escape Paragliding | Jockey Sanderson Kamshet | Jocky Sanderson | Jocky Sanderson India | Paragliding Blogs | paragliding club kamshet | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures | Paragliding Safety and thermalling course | Paragliding Safety Clinics | paragliding school Astrid Rao

3 Day Paragliding Safety & Thermalling Course with Jocky Sanderson at Kamshet

All in all it was a wonderful experience. Jocky Sanderson acted as a catalyst and raised our energy levels, heightened ur eagerness to learn & better ourselves. Practice Practice Practice, Push your boundaries, become one with your wing were the key words flying around. He changed the way we percieved our home sites and opened our thought process to new and exciting possibilities.

January 28, 2011 école parapente | paragliding courses in india | parapente en inde Astrid Rao

Fly back home

French paraglider pilot and instructor Philippe Lebre visited us again for the 6th time this January accompanied by a bunch of old friends and pilots from Moustiers Ste Marie. They spent a week at Native Place enjoying the paragliding, the food, fragrant plantings,

January 12, 2011 learn paragliding | paragliding club | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures | paragliding school Astrid Rao

The Nirvana Paragliding Experience

I often talk about the ‘nirvana paragliding trip’ a special experience that each of our students and visiting pilots go through – one filled with excitement, discovery, lasting friendships & memories and a sense of belonging to the Nirvana Paragliding Family and Native Place.

September 20, 2010 Astrid Rao

Nirvana goes to Bir in June

Rinul takes off Bir in springtime they say is beautiful. I have often imagined the mountain slopes covered in wildflowers and hoped to get there someday in June. I almost got to experience it this June but stuff happened and plans changed. The rest of the Nirvana paragliding team made it though. Steve of course [...]

February 26, 2010 Astrid Rao

Weekday’s Break at Panchgani

Sammy Dag Ravi Bandya Vinya Sandeep Ganesh and Pushkar drove out to Panchgani on Monday morning where they enjoyed 4 great days of fun flying. On the weekend they came back to Native Place with strawberries, Sanjay took the wine up from Mumbai and Dag served up his famous strawberries and red wine desert at [...]

July 3, 2009 Astrid Rao

10 days of full on flying at Bir Billing – June 2009

  This June, Daniel Fernandes accompanied Ravi, Vinya, Bandya and Sandeep on their Bir Billing flying trip. After a day exploring Delhi en route from Mumbai they headed up the mountains further north to cooler climes and peaceful familiar surroundings. It was raining when they got there and after a few days of being holed [...]

October 20, 2008 Astrid Rao

Singing the Billing Blues

  Back home to Mumbai and Kamshet but our thoughts keep going back to Bir Billing. We miss the daily flying fix,  the friends we made,  the general excitement and more. Doc and Piku are still there and and killing it every day with great flights.  Doc has been  enjoying the air and testing the [...]

October 12, 2008 Astrid Rao

Our last flying day at Billing

Then the last flying day dawned and after two days of staying within familiar surroundings  I was focused and ready to head out again but this time keeping the rules of the game in the fore front of my mind. At take off I decided to fix up my talk back but Steve told me [...]

October 11, 2008 Astrid Rao

A spate of good weather

  The next 5 days went off like clock work – breakfast at 9, head out to the site by 10, wait for the vultures and the wind dummies to takeoff, launch, milk the house thermal till about 3000 m and then headed out in some pre decided direction.  We usually took off after 12 [...]