The Parakite Book
A paraglider-derived wing whose risers put steering and acceleration in the same two handles. You leave the ground on it. Covers the FLARE system, why hands-up is the safe place, sizing at 80 kg all-up, and the licence routes through the UK, Europe and South Africa.
Read → Volume TwoThe Power Kite Book
Foils and inflatables flown on handles or a bar, built to drag you across sand, grass or snow. Covers the wind window, why the gust decides your size, the specific kites to buy at 67 kg, and the access rules that decide which British beaches you can use.
Read →The names are close enough to cause real trouble. A power kite pulls you along the ground and you stay attached to it through handles or a harness; it has no certification regime and needs no licence. A parakite is flown in free flight, in the air, under rules written for gliders — and while no certification standard exists for the wings either, every country covered here expects a paragliding rating before you fly one.
Take them with you
Each book as one file, with the stylesheet and all three typefaces embedded. Once it is on your disk it needs no network at all — and it still carries the A4 print stylesheet, so printing from the downloaded copy gives you the typeset book rather than a web page.
Compiled from manufacturer specifications, school and federation pages, retailer pricing, UK legislation and the CAA. Every figure that could not be established from a primary source is marked as a gap in the book it belongs to rather than quietly filled in. Neither book substitutes for instruction.