https://youtu.be/nWESLjkAolE
mehr

When there is a strong southwest wind like on Tuesday (and it
looks like on Wednesday) you've pretty much got to go to the northeast. It's a
beautiful area with lots of big lakes, which you also have to avoid. Thankfully
there are plenty of possible landing areas.
I hadn't gone off in that direction in a good number of years, but was up for... mehr

Felix, first to goal:


Task 6:



#
Name
Glider
Time
Total



1
Felix Cantesanu
Aeros Discus C 14
01:24:29
987


2
Fermin Tello Toledo (Pony)
Wills Wing U2 145
01:27:24
938


3
Daniel Velez
Wills Wing Sport 3 155
01:27:23
936


4
Wolfgang Siess
Wills Wing Sport 3 170
01:28:00
915... mehr

Some Oz Report readers have been extra helpful in their support of
the Oz Report. We like to highlight their generosity. We especially thank Rob
Lesser, Stephan Mentler, Thomas C Ide, John Dullahan, Koos de Keijzer, Daniel
Lukaszewicz, Knut Ryerson, Orlando Stephenson, Timothy Delaney, Jean-Pierre
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https://obxtoday.com/things-to-do/teaching-hang-gliding/

Very simply, I love teaching hang gliding because I love watching
someone’s life change right in front of me. We have all sorts of students; there
are those who are confident it will be easy, those who’re just along for the
ride, those who are scared, and those who truly... mehr

John Kennedy writes:
Sorry to hear that this will be the last year of publication. I
found the Oz Report when I re-entered hang gliding in 2002. It has been an
invaluable source of information and encouragement.
My first glider was a Pliable Moose Standard that I won in a raffle, along with
a helmet, harness, and lessons from Upslope, in... mehr

We get a resolution of what point is used for the
calculation
Back on September 16th, 2019 right after the 2019 Santa Cruz Flats
Race I wrote to Joerg Ewald, the person most likely to understand my question
about the Flytec 6030. I wanted to understand how the 6030 was calculating my
required L/D, or glide ratio, to goal. Here is an edited... mehr

More about that later during the month
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https://airtribune.com/el-penon-classic-race-2020/results
Task 5:



#
Name
Glider
Time
Total



1
Erick Salgado
Moyes Gecko 155
00:54:39
986


2
Felix Cantesanu
Aeros Discus C 14
00:57:30
915


3
Wolfgang Siess
Wills Wing Sport 3 170
01:04:54
810


4
Damien Zahn
Wills Wing Sport 3 135... mehr

https://www.bautek.com/2020/02/28/wie-geht-es-mit-bautek-weiter

What's next with bautek?
In November 2007 my twin brother had a fatal accident with the hang glider. He
had forgotten to click in. My two nieces have inherited 50% of the bautek
company shares. They agreed that I would continue to run the company on my own.
To this day, my... mehr

https://airtribune.com/el-penon-classic-race-2020/results

Task 4:



#
Name
Glider
Time
Distance
Total



1
Wolfgang Siess
Wills Wing Sport 3 170
02:33:52
74.63
994


2
Daniel Velez
Wills Wing Sport 3 155

55.04
773


3
Jose Luis Jaramillo (Clutch)
Wills Wing Sport 3 155

55.14
768... mehr

Sara Weaver writes:
Team Colorado! Tavo Gutierrez, me, and Tim Delaney here in Valle
representing the high altitude tribe here for the El Peñon Classic.
The Day 4 task was to the volcano and back to Penitas with some turnpoints in
the middle, but only Wolfy made goal. The rest of us had a lot of fun and
frustration working the low cloud... mehr

https://airtribune.com/el-penon-classic-race-2020/results
Task 3:



#
Name
Glider
Time
Total



1
Erick Salgado
Moyes Gecko 155
01:26:56
997


2
Rodolfo Gotes
Wills Wing Sport U2 145
01:27:21
980


3
Felix Cantesanu
Aeros Discus C 14
01:38:56
844


4
Tim Delaney
Wills Wing Sport 3 135... mehr

Damien Zahn writes:
After a second task in which I finished just after Wolfgang Siess,
the day winner, the third competition day turned out to be trickier. I started
off pushing too much and found myself low when the race had barely begun. I
struggled for the rest of the flight to catch up and managed to finish 6th from
the day, landing 14... mehr

Ken Kenken writes:

El Penon Classic Race, Valle de Bravo Mexico. It's the first hang
gliding competition of the year in North America. It draws top, and I mean top
pilots from the entire hemisphere. There are pilots here from Canada, USA,
Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and Colombia that I know of.
Day 1 they set a fairly difficult task and these... mehr

https://youtu.be/K-iN3PXF4UY


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With Special Marine warnings on both coasts.

Thunder storm with heavy rain came through Wilotree Park an hour ago. mehr

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/25/two-rare-cloud-formations-combined-were-spotted-monday-over-mount-washington-new-hampshire/

The remarkable cloud spotted from the summit of Mount Washington in New
Hampshire on Monday morning was a hybrid combination of two rare cloud species:
the lenticular, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz wave... mehr

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