Hang Gliding and Paragliding Volume 44 / Issue 12:December 2014 | Page 24

LEFT Moon Baby. Mathieu Bérubé (H-3) at Lookout Mountain Flight Park | photo by Adam Bain.

the notion that a “higher-performing”
wing will improve their overall flying
experience—after all, a lot of the sky
gods we aspire to be like fly higherperforming wings. But what about the
times they kick our butts on lowerperformance wings, too? Thinking
about it objectively, the wing has far less
impact on the quality of a flight than the
skill of the pilot driving it.
I’ve written a lot about the