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Bye SIV, hello SLO

You don’t understand what I’m writing about? Yeah, to hell with all acronyms! Last weekend a special training of extreme flying situations (French: „Simulation d’Incident en Vol“) was planned for the pilots of the Swiss League. The course was to take place around Interlaken, our designated trainer being no other than the current World Champion Andy Aebi. However, the weather,…

The One-Glider-Per-Year Average

Already glider number nine in less than ten years! I can hardly believe it. In 2001 I bought my first paragliding equipment. It lasted quite a while. But when I seriously got into cross-country and competition flying, the permanent change started: adapting and improving all parts constantly. The illustration below shows all models I have used or still use. Evolution…

Once upon a time in Greece

„Tell about your first XC,“ is a thread on the paragliding forum. Here’s my story. Greece, Olymp, 4th of October 2001. Early afternoon on a warm and sunny day. It’s the 16th flight since I got my licence. After two hours in the air on my Paratech P25 full of joy spiraling, wingovering and climbing the house thermals again and…

Season kicks off in Crans Montana

No XC flying since Mexico – hopefully this will change tomorrow. The weather forecast for the weekend in Switzerland is quite complicated. Martin Scheel, our Swiss League team leader, did his best to pick a place with possible good flights for Saturday and Sunday. His decision will lead us, the pilots of the Swiss League, to Crans Montana, a place…

XC Killer Application

Wow! This is a tool, I’ve been waiting for… Today I got an email from Tom Payne, Britain’s X-Alps competitor, and paragliding forum moderator: „… by the way: I’ve just created a little tool to help you plan your FAI triangles: http://www.paraglidingforum.com/xcplanner/„. It’s easy to use, and does exactly what you think it should do. Just drag the turnpoint to…

My Weather with iWeather

About one year ago, I wrote about a mobile application built by Ergon, the company I’m working for. Since then, the iPhone has emerged, and found a lot of friends all around the world. One of them is our CEO, Patrick Burkhalter. He decided to launch a development project for the iPhone. Since he is also a passionate paraglider pilot,…

The Winner Is …

Today the CIVL plenary voted for the place of the next World Championships. Clear winner with 19 votes is Piedrahita, Spain. The World Championships will be held from July 2nd to 15th, 2011. Other candidates were Feltre in Italy (2 votes), and Kayseri in Turkey (8). Piedrahita is a beautiful flying site. I’ve flown there 2005 in two comps in…

Frauenabend

Vlnr stehend: Kamira (Brasilien), Anna (Schweden), Renata (Tschechien), Caroll (Italien), Joanna (Venezuela), Kari (USA), Anja (Schweiz), Klaudia (Polen), Marion (Österreich), Rasa (Litauen), Nicole (Kanada); sitzend: Xiangping (China), Regula (Schweiz), Harmony (Neuseeland), Keiko (Japan), Desiree (Südafrika)Klaudia initates this meeting in the evening after one of the longest tasks of the world championships. Subject: an international girls-only competition among the top female…

Task 4 und Erfolg auf einem Nebenschauplatz

Beim Einschreiben zur WM gab es Diskussionen mit den FAI/CIVL-Delegierten. Die Herren bemängelten unsere vom AeCS ausgestellten Lizenzen. Es fehle ein obligatorischer Passus (nach FAI Sporting Code, General Section 8.1.7): „This licence, to be valid, must bear the FAI logo and be signed by the holder who, in signing it, acknowledges that he knows and understands the Sporting Code of…