... 116 km flat lands task - a bit too big ...



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Mag. Markus Harpf <> writes:
Gerolf is in the comp, but he has a big problem with his arm, so
he did not fly the 2nd Task. The overall result after two... mehr

... 217 km task on day 1 ...



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1. Elio Cataldi
2. Tom Weissenberger
3. Michi Friesenbichler

4. -10. Dietmar Tschabrun, Walter Mayer, Seppi Salvenmoser, Günther Tschurnig,
Firedl Peschel, Gerolf Heinrichs, Kurt Irländer mehr

Sehr viele Notauslösungen haben über die Jahre die Zuverlässigkeit und die enorm geringen Sinkwerte in der Praxis bewiesen. Zunächst muss ein Rettungsschirm vernünftig auszulösen sein und schnell tragend öffnen. Die sichere Landung resultiert dann aus dem Sinkwert und zu einem wichtigen Teil auch aus der Pendelstabilität.
Ein guter... mehr

Im Bezirk Weiz ist am Samstagnachmittag ein Paragleiter abgestürzt. Der 65-jährige Pensionist musste vom Notarzt versorgt und mit Prellungen ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden. mehr

Hannes Arch aus Trofaiach hebt erfolgreich im Airrace, der Formel 1 der Kunstflieger, ab: Vom Leben, das keinen Horizont, aber eine Heimat hat. mehr

Gestern habe ich ein Video von dem Acro Team “Acro Base” gepostet, auf der Website von Acro Base findet Ihr weitere schöne Videos unter anderem auch Speedflying oder Speedriding …. ein Besuch lohnt sich !!! mehr

Seit sechs Wochen sind die neuen Lufträume für den Flughafen Basel-Mülhausen in Kraft. Aktiv waren sie noch nie. Für die Aviatiksportler in der Region ist dies aber kein Grund zum Entspannen. mehr

Diese Video hat zwar nicht direkt was mit fliegen zu tun ist aber trotzdem sehenswert. Die Jungs zeigen ein paar verrückte Sprünge aus der grössten Personenseilbahn der Welt zwischen La Plagne und Les Arcs. mehr

... David Glover gets their story ...



Dustin/Jonny
talk about the flight

(Or better yet, listen to the interview while you watch a replay of Jonny's flight at the forum link below!) mehr

... Dustin goes long and gets a big reward from Wills Wing ...



Steven Pearson <>
writes:
Dustin emailed me when he got back to Quest last night, and I
replied, "I was watching as Davis posted your progress. Well done!... mehr

... Kraig Coomber is out in the field providing service ...



http://www.moyesusa.com/

Kraig Coomber is out here for the competitions and I spoke with him for a few
minutes about a little fitting problem (I had a hard time zipping it up) that I
was having with my Moyes Matrix harness (a hand me down from Kurt Warren through
Dustin... mehr

... Moving west to get around the Jacksonville airspace ...



Jonny's track log:
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34215

Steve Kroop writes:
I thought you were not going to write about it unless they went
over 300 ;-) But I am glad you did! I particularly like the way you wrote about
this spectacular flight (sequence of... mehr

... Low and slow. ...



Rick Brown <> writes:
Unfortunately, due to the weather conditions, we were unable to
get the whole clinic, but we were able to tow each other first using Falcons
then the next morning on the Condors.... mehr

... So what happened to the homologation? ...



The FAI writes:
FAI has canceled the following paraglider joint record claims :


Paragliders
Straight distance
Vosburg (South Africa) - End tba (South Africa)
423.5 km
07.12.2006
423.4 km (21.06.2002 - William GADD, Canada)
Reason for cancellation: Does not outperform with minimum margin... mehr

... Using GSPDump to make invalid IGC files, valid (sort of). ...


Marc Fink <>
writes:
For the first time, I had a problem with an igc upload to the DHV
OLC site (http://www.xccomp.org/)
--when I downloaded the flight from my... mehr

... They flew together ...



Spoke with Dustin this morning. He said that they flew almost the
whole way together. That even when they would take separate lines they would
very soon be back right next to each other. That they were take different
thermals and climb a few hundred yards apart at the same rate.

The conditions got better... mehr

... They have to get back in order to fly home ...



Chris Smith, Jonny Durand Jr, and Dustin Martin are racing to
escape from possible tornados in Georgia and heading back to Quest Air tonight.
Jonny flew his Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 and Dustin his Wills Wing T2 - 144 to the
next east coast and Florida state hang gliding record of 283... mehr

... Jonny and Dustin landed as it grew dark and shaded to the north ...



They landed long before sundown as they approached the front to
the north. It got dark ahead and the lift stopped. They landed near Sylvania,
not to far from the South Carolina border.

They landed in the same field. mehr

... At 5:45 they broke the east coast rigid wing record of 234 miles. ...



David Glover just spoke with Jonny. He and Dustin are at 7,000'.
Dustin's vario and GPS batteries are almost out. They have a 25 mph tail wind.
They've gone beyond 235 miles. mehr

... 200 miles out at 4:45 PM ...



They stayed over highway 301 a long ways away from Savannah
airspace. The restricted airspaces nearby are not active today so that they can
fly through them if needed, but they should be west of them.

They are in the convergence that was predicted in the forecast which heads north
into South Carolina.... mehr