Jeff Goin’s Hang Glider Logbook

Oct 21, 2015 shifting weight. This is also as my official hang glider logbook since I’ll lose the paper one anyway. My first exposure to hang gliding was at 13 years old. My brother brought home a book showing a hang glider on one page and a sailplane on the...

2014 Air Conception Race 130

Air Conception has been focusing on lightweight powerhouses but this is a new high, or low, depending on your perspective. As best I can tell, this is the highest power-to-weight machine available. The example I flew was Eric Dufour’s demonstrator at Wings Over...

2014 Nirvana Instinct 230

Nirvana strives for refined, good looking performers in the premium price arena. I’ve flown this machine before (at the Endless Footdrag) but didn’t do a write-up. It’s time. This flight, in November, 2014 at Wings Over Winter near Orlando, was on...

2014 PAP 1250 with Moster 185

PAP has been a stalwart of paramotor manufacturers, building machines popular in Europe for many years. They strive to, among other things, make the experience more like free flight with lower hook-in points that more closely resemble free flight harnesses. I flew...