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Starrflügelmeisterschaft 2021 Bösingen - Final »

Felix Ruhle was flying in the competition also

Sun, Aug 1 2021, 10:19:30 am MDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Conrad Loten|Starrflü

https://www.dhv.de/home-deutsch/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/starrfluegel-cup-deutsche-starrfluegelmeisterschaft-2021-boesingen/

Task 3: https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2021/07/Starrfluegelcup/SC2021-T3.html

One in goal.

Final results:

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2021/07/Starrfluegelcup/SC2021-O.html

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Rafael Burri Atos Vx 822.8 152.2 521.2 1496
2 Jochen Zeyher Atos Vr 997.2 162.5 152.4 1312
3 Alfred Mayer Atos Vrq 966.4 94.0 247.1 1308
4 Lothar Braun Atos Vq Race 795.6 71.0 440.5 1307
5 Andreas Kimmich Atos Vr Plus 915.5 75.2 291.8 1283
6 Bernd Weist Atos Vx 759.9 83.2 389.1 1232
7 Toni Raumauf Atos Vr 760.7 166.5 284.0 1211
8 Diether Beck Atos Vr 857.0 71.0 238.6 1167
9 Peter Friedemann Atos Vr 765.6 71.0 321.4 1158
10 Felix Rühle Atos Vr Plus 589.4 71.0 493.4 1154

Starrflügelmeisterschaft 2021 Bösingen »

German rigid wing competition

July 30, 2021, 3:18:15 pm MDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Conrad Loten

https://www.dhv.de/home-deutsch/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/starrfluegel-cup-deutsche-starrfluegelmeisterschaft-2021-boesingen/

Task 1 (July 29th):

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2021/07/Starrfluegelcup/SC2021-T1.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jochen Zeyher Atos VR 01:27:38 997.2
2 Alfred Mayer Atos VRQ 01:29:59 966.4
3 Andreas Kimmich Atos VR Plus 01:35:12 915.5
4 Dirk Ripkens Atos VRQ 01:38:51 883.8
5 Diether Beck Atos VR 01:42:06 857.0
6 Norbert Kirchner Atos VQ race 01:43:38 844.7
7 Rafael Burri Atos VX 01:46:26 822.8
8 Lothar Braun Atos VQ race 01:50:00 795.6
9 Peter Friedemann Atos VR 01:54:03 765.6
10 Toni Raumauf Atos VR 01:54:43 760.7

Task 2 (July 30th):

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2021/07/Starrfluegelcup/SC2021-T2.html

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Richard Herzog Atos VR 64.22 185.7
2 Konrad Baumgartner Atos VRS Light 60.37 178.3
3 Toni Raumauf Atos VR 54.29 166.5
4 Jochen Zeyher Atos VR 52.17 162.5
5 Rafael Burri Atos VX 47.59 152.2
6 Jürgen Rüdinger Atos VR 29.56 123.4
7 Wolfgang Hauber Atos VQ 15.84 101.1
8 Rainer Thieringer Atos VQ race 14.31 98.2
9 Holger Hueneke Atos VR 13.79 96.9
10 Ralf Thieringer Atos VR 13.73 96.8

Cumulative:

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2021/07/Starrfluegelcup/SC2021-O.html

# Name Glider Total
1 Jochen Zeyher Atos VR 1160
2 Alfred Mayer Atos VRQ 1060
3 Andreas Kimmich Atos VR Plus 991
4 Rafael Burri Atos VX 975
5 Dirk Ripkens Atos VRQ 955
6 Diether Beck Atos VR 928
7 Toni Raumauf Atos VR 927
8 Norbert Kirchner Atos VQ race 916
9 Lothar Braun Atos VQ race 867
10 Rainer Thieringer Atos VQ race 84

2020 German Open »

January 3, 2020, 8:07:23 EST

2020 German Open

Hillside launch from Kandel

Conrad Loten|German Open 2020

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2020/

Scroll down for a bit of English.

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Hadewych Van Kempen »

December 27, 2019, 8:49:45 EST

Hadewych Van Kempen

No Corryong or Forbes

Conrad Loten|Facebook

Very dumb landing at Bombala. Broke humerus and maybe elbow. They'll probably operate and release me tomorrow. Glenn Selmes is holding my hand which is very nice and Conrad Loten was there to make sure I'm treated well. Big relief to have them around.

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6558811/a-lucky-escape-for-a-hang-glider-pilot-after-a-crash-at-dudley-beach/?cs=7573

A 53 year-old woman has been treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics after her hang glider crashed in a remote location at Dudley Beach on Thursday. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to the scene around 11.30am in what became a multi-agency effort to reach the woman.

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2019 Worlds »

July 18, 2019, 8:09:35 MDT

2019 Worlds

The German version

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|PG|record|Suan Selenati|weather|Worlds 2019

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/weltmeisterschaften-tolmezzoita-2019/

Thursday, July 18, 2019 - rest day The weather forecast is against a flight day, so the day was already canceled on Wednesday evening!

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 3rd passage - 76 km with destination Bordano

Kajo reports: Flying is the best medicine This morning, no cock woke me, but my back pain. Damn, and I was hoping they would go away overnight. As the youngest member of the team, I feel very old now. But thanks to the loving care of Anna and Regina and with the support of various tablets, it has at least a little better.

Today the organizers wanted to see us on the mountain even earlier. After a surprisingly uneventful, already boring ride, we arrived more than punctual at the start. After the comfortable building a few umbrellas lulled low over the start. Well that did not look so outstanding. And why did we leave earlier? Over time, the conditions improved and it was a small 78 km task tender. You could either fly on direct route through the lowlands or took the detour via the supposedly faster mountains. Like almost everyone else, I opted for the direct route. The day got better with time and we were able to finish quickly.

After Primoz and Roland I came as the third German pilot to the finish and was thus able to make my contribution to the team ranking. To the delight of our driver, a short time later, the other three arrived. Every minute, almost 100 pilots flew to the finish and provided plenty of exciting landing approaches. Fortunately, the Landewiese is so big that you always find a gap between the other dragons.

Much to my relief, my back was much better after the flight. The mix of adrenaline and happiness hormones has probably worked wonders. At dinner (the Uli has conjured a delicious curry) we learn that tomorrow will not be flown. It is bad weather approaching and the organizers canceled the day tomorrow. So let's end the day with a glass of wine quite comfortably and make plans for our first rest day. Greetings from Tolmezzo Kajo.

All pilots are in the air. The time has been running since 14:15. We are just on a cappuccino to look at the live tracking, then go full throttle into the finish to Bordano. Yes, the distances to the starting place and back to the finish are not without!

Exciting finish: Alex Ploner ahead of Manfred Ruhmer and Marco Laurenzi. From us Primoz, Roland, Kajo, Jörg, Semo and Gerd are (in this order) in the finish. Today we were not among the fastest, but we'll see what's on the bottom of the list. Regina.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - Primoz wins the day's victory

Primoz reports: After the first task, I was not completely satisfied with my performance. It was clear, more determination was needed. Task 2 has brought better weather, base up to 2200m and good climbs. The route went back and forth along the hills, with a jump to the north and the goal in Bordano near Gemona.

My start this time was with the first group, although not the highest - homework !! With sparkling decisions, faster gliding and a little luck, I was able to gradually settle from the main pulp, but finally after the Gemona valley crossing. From there we had the lead with Christian. The turnaround behind Tolmezzo has proven to be quite complicated. But Christian seemed to know what he was doing, and in fact we were able to dig ourselves out of the vegetables. In addition, there was the Peter and has shown a great trail back. Straight to the lee of a rocky mountain.

The expected rodeo arrived, which I had survived best and was able to turn up with Peter. Christian stayed a bit deeper while searching for the thermals. At the penultimate turn, 15 km from the finish we met the Manfred, he flew his own route and has overtaken all. When he sees us, he is deep in the direction of the last turn, Peter and I have turned up at the point up to 1900 m, until the final approach calculator 8: 1 has shown. From there, gas was the best tactic. Greetings at home and keep your fingers crossed! Primoz.

3rd place in the team ranking, that's the result of today - yeahh! And thanks to Primoz, who won today's victory of the day ahead of Peter Neuenschwander and Manfred Ruhmer. Gerd flew in 9th place and Roland on rank 27. Kajo and Semo many at the end of the Talwind victim. Now the boys are going to eat pizza, they deserve it. Roland needs his daily Italian ice cream and kajo and I hold the position here at home. Kajo has to treat his lumbago, but he'll get it back tomorrow. I still have a lot to prepare for tomorrow.

Monday, July 15, 2019 - 86 km from Meduno to Bordano

Gerd reports: Airy Travel Day 1 Today the cock crowed early. The competition begins! Getting up at dawn and eating the meal so that we would not get hounded right at the beginning - at least that was the plan. Then we should make a little wrong decision regarding the route, we decided on the way over the highway. Already the driveway cost us the first minutes because of technical problems. This should have been against the time we wanted to leave the highway again, nor the lesser evil. After 25 minutes of waiting time and lane change in the back of our coach, the pilots were slowly nervous and showed, each in his own individual way, signs of mild restlessness. Our estimated time of arrival shifted noticeably in the direction of the planned race start. Arrived at the toll booth, this was then attached to his telephone set and not willing to grant us early passage. But this angered the driver of our coach a lot and he threw him unkind words to his ear. Since the latter was not able to speak the same language, luckily there were no further delays, and we were then able to continue our journey unmolested. The timetable should not turn out to be as strict as announced - despite globalization, Italy has fortunately been preserved. So we could start our intended hang glider flight as hoped with all others.

The weather conditions were not optimal, but despite shadows were updrafts available and you could work out with some initial effort a nice height, from which we began our breezy journey over 87km. The thermal conditions improved and our pack was on the journey at a considerable speed. That this should be better was clear in the further daily routine, as more and more showers poured in the area. Many dragons were able to master the way to the finish. Among them were Kajo, Semo (Georg), Roland, Primoz and myself from our German troupe. Brother Jörg, however, the rain played badly. The showers spread around him and prevented his further journey to the finish. Not only that, when folding his glider, the rain should anticipate the shower that was actually planned in our accommodation. Now that we have finished our supper and have taken our supper, we will lay down and wait for tomorrow's new day. Good night's sleep on all sides, Gerd.

Again we started this morning. First at 8:30 am Teamleaderbriefing, then briefly stopped by our landlady to pick up a modem and then quickly from the direction of Meduno. Our boys left before me, so I had to accelerate. Finally, we wanted to complete the sticker campaign for the leading edges today.

The organizers want to send us out early this morning, because it should overdevelop soon. Anna, Roland's partner drove me. Direct way is announced, which is 5 minutes faster than the highway, says the Navi. I hope I did not miss a speed camera and sometimes I looked aside to see if Anna still had color on her face. But she was brave. I gave gas. After 1:15 minutes arrived at the launch site, everyone was already there, but not our boys. Oh dear, which way have you taken the well? An hour later - finally, the bus turns the corner. It was probably an odyssey. The tolls on the highway did not work at all. Already at the ticket rent went nothing, then when paying at the toll booth… our so quiet driver Uli has probably been a little irritated and accused the quiet calling Mautstellenkassier as Grattler… Thank God he did not understand Bavarian Language, otherwise he would have kept the boys waiting longer.

But luckily the already started paragliders could only sink into the valley and the competition organizers were still waiting with the briefing. Everything in the time frame. At some point, the Meet Director finally called for the briefing: 86 km towards Aviano then the finish to Bordano. Everything was ratzfatz, our boys were fast in the air. This time I could not drive fast enough to get to the finish in time, then there were already about 30 pilots. Including Gerd, Roland, Semo and Primoz. Kajo hit hard and came soon afterwards and that with fancy Vario half way. Thankfully, there are the trackers that still record the track. Jörgi had to land in front of the finish. He took another involuntary shower in the pouring rain. Three Italians won the day today: Christian Ciech ahead of Alex Ploner and Suan Selenati. Greetings from Tolmezzo Regina.

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Videos and Reports from the European Championships

July 18, 2018, 7:26:47 MDT

Videos and Reports from the European Championships

In German

Conrad Loten|video

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/europa-und-weltmeisterschaften-fai-1-fai-5-in-krushevomazedonien-2018/videos/

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/europa-und-weltmeisterschaften-fai-1-fai-5-in-krushevomazedonien-2018/

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Mon, Jul 9 2018, 7:46:02 am MDT

They start flying on Tuesday

Conrad Loten|European Championships 2018|photo

http://hgeu2018.mk/

HG Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2391
2D/3D SPLIT beta: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2391

German team news: here.

Czech team photos: here.

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The best of Namibia

January 3, 2018, 7:09:54 EST

The best of Namibia

It's warm down there

Conrad Loten|video

https://youtu.be/SXCBvmcjDTE

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/rekordjagd-in-namibia/

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Namibia 2017

December 19, 2017, 7:58:00 EST

Namibia 2017

Desert Flying

Conrad Loten

Daily update here.

https://www.streckenjaeger.com/

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Hang Gliding Meeting 2018 in Hartenstein

December 6, 2017, 8:50:57 EST

Hang Gliding Meeting 2018 in Hartenstein

A replacement

Conrad Loten|PG|weather

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/drachenflug-welt/

The DHV plans for the 14/15 April 2018 (alternative 21/22 April) a season opening with a hang gliding and wind exhibition, lectures, trial courses, free flying for paragliding and hang gliders, etc. in Hartenstein at the airfield. A replacement for the weather-related unusual Hang Gliding Meeting 2017.

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Namibia Flying

December 5, 2017, 7:40:26 CST

Namibia Flying

Pilots return to attempt record flights

Conrad Loten|record

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/rekordjagd-in-namibia/

4 December - Strong wind and final checks. A storm from the east lets us stay on the ground today, because in the evening the strong wind should turn west and continue to blow. There is still much to organize, but this day is well suited. Yesterday a few pilots made their first test flights. Everything went well. The live tracking works too. We look forward to the next days.

3 December - First preparations. Today, first of all, the containers will be cleared out of the first arrivals, the UL towed aircraft will be ready for take-off, the aircraft will be set up, windsocks will be attached, equipment will be checked, live tracking will be checked and much more. The day is hot and windy and not suitable for long distances. All the more for the preparations. The first good days are announced for Wednesday.

2 December - The first pilots arrive in Burgsdorf.

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2017 German Open »

July 28, 2017, 10:59:08 MST -0600

2017 German Open

Flex wings fly

Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|German Open 2017

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2017/

http://www.dcb.org/wettbewerbe/german-open-hg/2017/

The task today is an elapsed time seed run to Wellmitz over 116 km. The goal Wellmitz is located east of Altes Lager at the border to Poland. Start time is 11:15.

The wind was sporty with gusts up to 36kmh. The wind was from the west throughout the course line. A large shaded area with virga was nearby, then it dissipated quickly and the flexis started towing. The tows were sporty, but all pilots were hot to fly this second task after days of not flying.

The promised working heights up to 1,700m were never reached. Most pilots flew the course between 1,000-1,300m. The top pilots were able to come back in the start circle and restart their start times.

The pilots did not go in the direction of the Fläminger Höhenzug. Instead, they flew zigzagging across the forest. Often, the pilots crawled the entire flight at low altitudes. Lukas worked almost exclusively between 800-1,000m, but nevertheless flew far.

A large number of pilots made it to the Schwielochsee, after which it seemed to be painful. Ultimately, six pilots landed at the finish line. Two Flexis: Corinna Schwiegershausen and Jonas Willemeit. Four Rigid: Volkmar Kienöl, Dirk Ripkens, Tom Schreiner, Carlos Punet (Spain). Naoki Itagaki (Japan), however, made it to Wellmitz, but he dove further across the Oder River and found himself in Poland again.

It must be mentioned: the aerotow launches were faster than ever before. The tugs and helper team deserve great thanks for the experienced work. And amazingly, there was not a single weak link break today despite the violent gusts and turmoil and all landed safely.

Corinna in first:

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2017 German Open »

July 27, 2017, 2:34:29 pm MST -0600

2017 German Open

A couple of rigids made goal

Conrad Loten|Facebook|German Open 2017

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2017/

http://www.dcb.org/wettbewerbe/german-open-hg/2017/

The flex wing task didn't take place due to overcast and weak conditions. The rigids started first and given the weak conditions and low cloudbase two pilots made it to goal. At least that's what I get from the "machine" translations.

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2017 German Open »

July 24, 2017, 11:15:17 MST -0600

2017 German Open

A reasonable day now to be followed by two days of rain

Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|German Open 2017

https://www.facebook.com/corinna.schwiegershausen/posts/10154849102896314

Corinna Schwiegershausen

80km Task, shady, tricky day. Slow start against a cross headwind. With Lukas who flew like a gentleman, Roland, Kajo, Hans and Yeti, I was in best company to do the out and return. Two hours there, 45 minutes back. Now the rain moves in for two days. Roland won the day ahead of Hans, Kajo Clauß, Yeti and me.

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2017/

http://www.dcb.org/wettbewerbe/german-open-hg/2017/

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2016 European Championships »

July 28, 2016, 3:52:52 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

DHV video teaser

Conrad Loten|European Championships 2016|video

https://youtu.be/ihWrVGsa9V8

https://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/em-und-wm-mazedonien-2016/

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2016 German Open »

May 7, 2016, 6:01:16 pm EST -0400

2016 German Open

Primoz ten minutes ahead on the last day

Conrad Loten|German Open 2016|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2016/news-of-the-day/

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Gricar, Primoz Aeros Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:29:28 1000
2 Bader, Lukas Moyes Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:39:07 852
3 Wöhrle, Roland Moyes Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:39:16 842
4 Eertman, Joost Icaro Laminar Z9 14.8 01:39:45 837
5 Tschurnig, Günther Icaro Laminar 14.1 01:39:48 833
6 Peternel, Franc Wills Wing T2C 144 01:40:15 822
7 Selenati, Suan Wills Wing T2C 144 01:40:25 819
8 Bajewski, Jörg Wills Wing T2C 154 01:41:28 807
9 Helden, Martin Icaro Laminar Z9 14.8 01:41:41 804
10 Dönhuber, Gerd Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:42:52 789

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Selenati, Suan Wills Wing T2C 144 866 754 819 2439
2 Dönhuber, Gerd Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 729 914 789 2432
3 Tänzer, Arne Icaro Laminar 14.1 622 1000 786 2408
4 Wöhrle, Roland Moyes Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 711 846 842 2399
5 Peternel, Franc Wills Wing T2C 144 649 881 822 2352
6 Gricar, Primoz Aeros Combat 13,5 09 GT 1000 331 1000 2331
7 Kaiser, Raimund Icaro Laminar Z9 820 830 680 2330
8 Ebenfeld, Markus Icaro Laminar Zero 9 14.1 663 752 732 2147
9 Peschl, Friedrich Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 500 800 646 1946
10 Vollmer, Achim Aeros Combat 12,8 09 GT 687 400 787 1874

2016 German Open »

May 6, 2016, 8:31:28 pm EST -0400

2016 German Open

Primoz twenty minutes ahead on the first day

Conrad Loten|German Open 2016|Konstantin Lukyanov|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2016/news-of-the-day/

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Gricar, Primoz Aeros Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:46:47 1000
2 Selenati, Suan Wills Wing T2C 144 02:06:30 866
3 Kaiser, Raimund Icaro Laminar Z9 02:20:26 820
4 Lukyanov, Konstantin Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:29:35 788
5 Dönhuber, Gerd Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:35:44 729
6 Wöhrle, Roland Moyes Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 02:55:07 711
7 Vollmer, Achim Aeros Combat 12,8 09 GT 02:56:56 687
8 Krasnokutskyy, Maxim Moyes Litespeed S5 02:57:25 681
9 Waibel, Joachim Moyes Litespeed RS 4 03:02:51 675
10 Lüders, Konrad Moyes Moyes Litespeed RX 4 03:10:13 665

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Tanzer, Arne Icaro Laminar 14.1 04:08:33 1000
2 Dönhuber, Gerd Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 04:26:06 914
3 Peternel, Franc Wills Wing T2C 144 04:31:31 881
4 Wöhrle, Roland Moyes Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 04:41:52 846
5 Kaiser, Raimund Icaro Laminar Z9 04:50:23 830
6 Mayer, Walter Moyes Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 04:57:00 804
7 Peschl, Friedrich Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 04:59:02 800
8 Selenati, Suan Wills Wing T2C 144 05:32:30 754
9 Ebenfeld, Markus Icaro Laminar Zero 9 14.1 05:24:36 752
10 Liebig, Richard Icaro Laminar 06:29:55 668

Cumulative:

  Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Kaiser, Raimund Icaro Laminar Z9 820 830 1650
2 Dönhuber, Gerd Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 729 914 1643
3 Tanzer, Arne Icaro Laminar 14.1 622 1000 1622
4 Selenati, Suan Wills Wing T2C 144 866 754 1620
5 Wöhrle, Roland Moyes Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 711 846 1557
6 Peternel, Franc Wills Wing T2C 144 649 881 1530
7 Ebenfeld, Markus Icaro Laminar Zero 9 14.1 663 752 1415
8 Gricar, Primoz Aeros Combat 13,5 09 GT 1000 331 1331
9 Peschl, Friedrich Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 500 800 1300
10 Messing, Michael Wills Wing T2C 144 578 604 1182

2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 7 »

April 18, 2015, 8:13:52 EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day

And the winner is...

Conrad Loten|Dalby Big Air 2015|Facebook|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Phil Schroder|Rohan Taylor

http://williamolive.com/dalby/comp results 2015.html

Task 7:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 01:11:26 927
2 Chris Lawry   01:12:24 907
3 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX 3.5 01:13:00 883
4 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 01:13:37 875
5 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 01:14:57 864
6 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 01:14:00 860
7 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 4 01:16:53 814
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 01:19:48 781
9 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 01:21:34 764
10 Jason Kath   01:22:56 738

At goal. Photo by Nick Purcell.

Photo by Phil Schroder

Totals:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 5683
2 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 5539
3 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 5414
4 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 5210
5 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 5108
6 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 5044
7 Hagen Bruggemann Moyes RS 4 4869
8 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 13.5 4821
9 Jason Kath   4813
10 John Smith Moyes RX 5 4803

Old guys rule.

2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 6 »

April 17, 2015, 8:21:20 pm EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day 6

Fifteen at goal 170 km away.

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Phil Schroder

http://williamolive.com/dalby/comp results 2015.html

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 John Smith Moyes RX 5 03:17:01 990
2 Len Paton Moyes RX 4 03:19:26 965
3 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 03:21:32 932
4 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 03:21:26 925
5 Chris Lawry   03:23:04 907
6 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 13.5 03:28:08 863
7 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 03:30:01 852
8 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 03:29:06 848
9 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 03:33:26 829
10 Tony Giammichele Moyes RX 3.5 03:42:37 778
10 Hagen Bruggemann Moyes RS 4 03:42:43 778
12 Rory Duncan Wills Wing T2 03:48:55 756
13 Viv Clements   03:46:50 746
14 Neale Halsall Airborne Rev 13.5 03:57:36 722
15 Chris Czajkowski Moyes RX 5 04:35:51 600

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 4949
2 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 4775
3 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 4517
4 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 4487
5 Curt Warren Moyes RX 4 4461
6 John Smith Moyes RX 5 4439
7 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 4415
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 4263
9 Hagen Bruggemann Moyes RS 4 4136
10 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 13.5 4098

2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 4 »

April 15, 2015, 8:16:18 EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day

Curt Warren wins again

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Phil Schroder

open class

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/open comp_result.html

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/task_result_2015-04-15_%2820150415-1802%29.html

sports class

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/sports%20task_result_2015-04-15_%2820150415-1828%29.html

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/sports comp_result.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 03:13:26 1000
2 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 13.5 03:17:32 952
3 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 03:23:08 911
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 03:23:14 905
5 Jason Kath   03:24:22 888
6 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 03:29:23 861
7 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 03:29:58 856
8 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 03:37:32 806
9 Mark Russell Moyes RS 4 03:40:23 800
10 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2 03:44:37 782
11 Trevor Purcell Moyes LS 5 03:42:43 781
12 Curt Warren Moyes RX 4 03:48:37 779
13 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 03:49:11 767
14 Hagen Bruggemann Moyes RS 4 04:10:10 703

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes RX 4 3698
2 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 3469
3 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 3360
4 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 3314
5 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 3313
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 3121
7 Jason Kath   3111
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 3108
9 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 3039
10 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2 3016

2015 New South Wales State Titles »

February 18, 2015, 7:56:04 EST

New South Wales State Titles

Cameron wins once again

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|New South Wales State Titles 2015|Phil Schroder|Wills Wing T2C

Task 4:

http://highcloud.net/xc/task_result.php?comPk=147&tasPk=710

Place Pilot Glider Time Total
1 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 2:29:03 816
2 Peter Ebeling Wills Wing T2C 2:30:32 784
3 Adam Stevens rev13.5 2:31:15 768
4 Bruce Wynne RX 3.5 Technora Zoom 2:32:41 743
5 Conrad Loten rs3.5 2:43:18 688

http://wow.asn.au/comps/?q=node/12

Cumulative:

1 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 3586
2 Harrison Rowntree RX 3.5 Technora 3274
3 Bruce Wynne Rogallo 3203
4 Phil Schroder rev 3084
5 Adam Stevens rex 3037

Cameron Tunbridge writes:

Today's task 107k out to Brezat and return to Manila Sky Ranch. Almost bombed at take off but made goal and flew to the lake for a swim.

2015 New South Wales State Titles »

February 16, 2015, 8:43:54 EST

New South Wales State Titles

Cameron leads after two days

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|New South Wales State Titles 2015|Phil Schroder|Wills Wing T2C

Task 2 results: http://wow.asn.au/comps/?q=node/12

1 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 1809 1103 706
2 Harrison Rowntree RX 3.5 Technora 1766 971 795
3 Len Paton 1743 1021 722
4 Adam Stevens rex 1713 1036 677
5 Phil Schroder rev 1669 957 712
6 Conrad Loten rs3.5 1620 952 668
7 Bruce Wynne Rogallo 1568 944 624
8 Dick Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 1502 942 560
9 Gary Herman Litespeed S3.5 1445 933 512
10 Dustan Hansen Rev 14 1397 855 542

Single surface glider at goal.

2015 New South Wales State Titles »

February 15, 2015, 9:49:51 pm EST

New South Wales State Titles

No Jonny this year

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2015|Phil Schroder|Wills Wing T2C

http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=147

Cameron wins the first day on his Wills Wing T2C 154. Adam Stevens is second on a rex. Phil Schroder third on a rev.

1 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 998
2 Adam Stevens rex 995
3 Phil Schroder rev 963
4 Len Paton 919
5 Conrad Loten rs3.5 877
6 Dustan Hansen Rev 14 861
7 Gary Herman Litespeed S3.5 855
8 Harrison Rowntree RX 3.5 Technora 850
9 Paul Bissett-Amess Litespeed 835
10 Dick Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 828
Peter Ebeling Wills Wing T2C 828

2015 Forbes Flatlands »

January 2, 2015, 6:14:38 pm EST

2015 Forbes Flatlands

Day Two Results

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Forbes Flatlands 2015|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:39:42 999
2 Jochen Zeischka BEL Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:43:22 935
3 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:49:22 874
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL   02:56:23 799
5 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RX 02:58:17 770
6 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 02:59:18 741
7 Conrad Loten NZL   03:11:01 735
8 Christian Voiblet SUI Wills Wing T2C 03:11:34 726
9 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 03:12:22 720
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 03:12:24 713

The task:

No Dist. Id Radius
(meters)
1 0.0 km FORBE 400
2 SS 9.6 km FORBE 10000
3 56.7 km MARSDE 400
4 107.1 km TYAGON 20000
5 ES 162.1 km STOC15 400

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 1700
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX 5 1661
3 Jochen Zeischka BEL Moyes RX 4 1648
4 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes RX 3.5 1641
5 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes RX 3.5 1640
6 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 1600
7 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 1587
8 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros 1549
9 Olav Olsen NOR Moyes RX 3.5 1539
10 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 1530

Vicki gets this shot:

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Wings over Wellington »

November 13, 2014, 10:38:35 PST

Wings over Wellington

Results so far

Conrad Loten|Steve Blenkinsop

http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=142

1 Konrad Heilman Moyes LitespeedRX 3.5 4054
2 Steve Blenkinsop RX3.5 Technora 4031
3 Nils Vesk moyes Rx3.5 4030
4 Conrad Loten rx3.5 3942
5 Guy Hubbard Moys Litespeed RS4 3921

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Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014

October 5, 2014, 8:19:41 MDT

Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014

Last day

Conrad Loten|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wills Wing

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Andrew Luton Airborne Fun 190 01:06:52 832
2 Conrad Loten Moyes Malibu 188 01:20:55 819
3 Nils Vesk Moyes Malibu 188 01:21:05 813
4 Micheal Tomlinson Airborne Fun 190 01:26:21 766
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes Malibu 2 188 01:44:38 717
6 Bruce Wynne Moyes Malibu 2 188 01:27:11 711
7 Luke Browne Moyes Malibu 188 01:54:03 652
8 Alastair Bramwell-Davies Wills Wing Falcon 01:38:28 647
9 Chris Rolfe Moyes Malibu 2 188 01:48:58 614
10 Steve Docherty Moyes Malibu 2 188 01:50:38 596
11 Gabriel Toniolo Seedwing Funky 17 01:51:15 593

Final Score:

# Name Glider Total
1 Andrew Luton Airborne Fun 190 2362
2 Steve Docherty Moyes Malibu 2 188 2302
3 Trent Brown Moyes Malibu 188 2071
4 Conrad Loten Moyes Malibu 188 1976
5 Alastair Bramwell-Davies Wills Wing Falcon 1702
6 Micheal Tomlinson Airborne Fun 190 1698
7 Nils Vesk Moyes Malibu 188 1586
8 Howard Jones Northwing Freedom 170 1581
9 Bruce Wynne Moyes Malibu 2 188 1579
10 Rohan Taylor Moyes Malibu 2 188 1550

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Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014

October 4, 2014, 8:31:59 MDT

Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014

Day Two

Alan Bond|Conrad Loten|Trent Brown|Wills Wing

http://williamolive.com/forbes-big-spring/comp%2520results%25202014.html

Day Two:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Andrew Luton 02:25:34 993
2 Alan Bond Wills Wing Falcon 4 02:41:25 897
3 Steve Docherty Airborne Fun 02:51:41 868
4 Chris Czajkowski 03:12:54 811
5 Chris Rolfe Moyes Malibu 2 188 03:19:31 799

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Docherty Airborne Fun 1702
2 Trent Brown 1633
3 Andrew Luton 1525
4 Howard Jones NorthWing Freedom 170 1433
5 Alan Bond Wills Wing Falcon 4 1206
6 Conrad Loten 1147
7 Hoss Tefali Moyes Malibu 188 1081
8 Chris Czajkowski 1067
9 Richard Hughes 1053
10 Alastair Bramwell-Davies Wills Wing Falcon 1048

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The 2014 Worlds - from Regina

July 1, 2014, 7:01:51 MDT

The 2014 Worlds - from Regina

You'll need to have it translated

Conrad Loten

Conrad Loten|Worlds 2014

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/wm-annecy-2014/

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Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 12, 2014, 8:02:26 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Final day stopped

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Kathryn's photo:

Last task:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 19,39 132
2 nick purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 19,25 131
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 18,92 130
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 18,02 126
4 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 18,05 126
6 Sam Prest Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 16,81 118
7 Hugh Glenn Moyes Litespeed RX 4 16,57 116
8 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 15,97 112
9 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 15,32 108
10 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 14,91 106

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4360
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 4173
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3998
4 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3791
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3763
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3731
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3498
8 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 3465
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 3247
10 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 3124

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 11, 2014, 7:40:55 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Windy

Conrad Loten|Facebook|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kathryn O'Riordan|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Adam Stevens' driver help with retrieve:

Kathryn O'Riordan driving to goal:

Brodrick explains: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=718361818208119

Grant and Blinky at goal. Grant flew under the power lines to get there:

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time km/h Dist. Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:38:45 32,6 86,24 971
2 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:38:54 32,6 86,24 951
3 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4     85,01 807
4 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5     79,78 784
4 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4     80,18 784
6 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5     80,61 759
7 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4     76,05 729
8 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5     73,68 698
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4     72,33 697
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5     71,02 666

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4235
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 4062
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3883
4 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3754
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3683
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3626
7 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 3437
8 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3385
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 3167
10 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 3097

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 10, 2014, 8:20:45 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Curt wins again (after falling down yesterday)

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:57:35 985
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:57:58 970
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:58:01 968
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:02:52 885
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:07:34 845
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:11:28 813
7 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:13:56 789
8 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:15:39 713
9 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:15:36 705
10 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:26:00 689

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 3285
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3270
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3220
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3192
5 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2974
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2737
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2676
8 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2634
9 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2631
10 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2582

Blinky at goal:

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/competitions/dalby-big-air-2014

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Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 9, 2014, 8:42:14 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Lenny wins

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:50:40 999
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:51:08 976
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:51:32 958
4 Sam Prest Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:52:20 942
5 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:52:36 932
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:53:24 920
7 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:53:35 918
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:53:56 907
9 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:02:57 824
10 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 02:04:25 814

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2384
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2347
3 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2317
4 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 2314
5 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2252
6 cameron tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 2096
7 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 2013
8 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 4 1976
9 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 1962
10 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 1951

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 8, 2014, 8:25:49 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Curt wins task 2

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:41:17 1000
2 nick purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:44:32 939
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:45:49 919
4 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:45:50 913
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:46:02 908
6 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:46:02 907
7 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:46:44 892
8 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:47:21 878
9 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:47:33 876
10 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:48:11 869

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 1508
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1426
3 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1399
4 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 1382
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 1371
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1332
7 cameron tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154 1322
8 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 1208
9 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1164
10 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1152

Kathryn.

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 7, 2014, 8:40:47 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Billo rescores day one

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Original scoring: http://ozreport.com/18.66#9

# Name Glider Last
Dist.1
Alt.2 Dist.3 Total
1 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,66 1081 48,47 480
2 cameron tunbridge airborne rev 14.5 37,79 1039 48,18 478
3 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,71 972 47,43 472
4 Tim Osborne wills wing u2 37,68 955 47,23 470
5 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 37,75 926 47,01 469
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 35,51 1093 46,44 461
6 adam stevens airbone rev 13.5 37,78 874 46,52 461
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,74 878 46,52 461
9 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,69 746 45,15 438
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 37,47 753 45,00 436

The new version of the FS scoring program allows one to score a distance based on your altitude when the task was stopped.

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The German team in Valle

Thu, Mar 27 2014, 7:51:50 am EDT

Lots of pictures and many stories

Conrad Loten|Joerg Ewald

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/vor-wm-2014-in-valle-de-bravomexiko/

In English here.

Thanks to Joergi.

Forbes Flatlands, Task 6, day 7 »

January 3, 2014, 3:51:43 pm EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 6, day 7

A 194 km task with fortunate conditions

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2014|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Paris Williams|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Five hours and twenty minutes in the air. Atilla and Lukas set a 194.5 km slight dogleg task to the southeast. The forecast was for the strongest lift of the competition up to 10,000' (our height limit), with cu's after 3 PM and a seventeen knot west southwest wind at 5 PM. Fortunately the wind turned out to be west with a touch of north in it until around 6 PM.

I pinned off and immediately climbed to 5,500'. It looked like it will be an easy day in the start cylinder. Then it all fell part as lift was hard to find and we had to scratch around low for an hour and a half before we finally got back up to 5,500'. I had searched in a wide area for lift and others had also and not found much. I don't think that any pilot was able to make it to the edge of the ten kilometer start cylinder in time for the first start at 2 PM.

I had gone out about seven kilometers in the start cylinder to find lift and a half a dozen pilots had joined me. Paris and Conrad were far below, and Christian nearby. We moved west to get under a small gaggle of pilots high above us a minute before the second start window at 2:30. We could see the more fortunate pilots high above us but it was time to go.

I lead out for the lower twenty pilots and within three kilometers found lift that averaged 500 fpm but showed 800+ fpm on the twenty second averager to 8,400'. A much different situation than we had just faced no matter where we went inside the start cylinder.

The next thermal thirteen kilometers to the south was even stronger at an average of 570 fpm to 8,300'. It was under a cu at 2:55 PM and we had left the blue and now there were scattered cu's in front of us. It looked to be a great day. We has an 8 mph cross, slightly head wind.

As we ran south east we were averaging 400 to 700 fpm thermals under cumulus clouds. I could just see the first group of pilots, those half dozen or so that had been so much higher than us at the start, just over my head as I went from cu to cu. It was like they had taken an earlier clock. Jonny, Paris, and many others were scattered much lower than this group.

As we approached Boorowa at 140 kilometers out and the turnpoint on this slight dog leg it was clear that we were in for the big change in our situation. The wind had picked up as forecast to 18 mph, but unlike the forecast for 5 PM it was west not west south west. This was very fortunate as we were heading south west. Our course would change to west southwest at Boorowa.

The big change was the could cover. The cu's had diffused as they sometimes do and the ground was about 90% shaded all the rest of the 50 kilometers to go. Unlike the two days previous when we had a high thin overcast, these diffuse clouds were thicker and the sun reaching the ground weaker. It looked like we would have difficulties.





There were four or five pilots in the area near the turnpoint and we plowed into the dark and found 300 fpm to just over 7000'. Things were looking not so bad. The lift continued to be between 200 and 300 fpm, and the strong wind didn't seem to make it too turbulent. We were headed over rough terrain with limited retrieval so it was nice to be able to stay up although after fifteen kilometers of the fifty kilometer leg we weren't getting much over 5,500'.
 
Twenty five kilometers from the goal Rod Flockhart and I were working 300 fpm. He saw a pilot turning well seven kilometers ahead and went for him, I didn't see the pilot, hated to leave the thermal, but figured that we had a better chance to find lift together. It was a 300 fpm thermal also but a lot closer to goal. In fact it was the last thermal required to get to goal.

I took off with 17:1 and an eighteen mph tail wind even though the wind had finally turned west southwest. Plenty of speed getting to goal. About twenty pilots in all made it in. Half my crew landed out for the first time. I got a ride home in the goal car. Carl was left there at goal waiting for retrieve as he hadn't taken an earlier proffered ride home with Jonny.

Paris arrived into goal five minutes before Mike but in about ninth place so Paris may be leading.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Trent Brown Moyes RX 03:10:10 1000
2 Carl Wallbank Moyes RX 03:10:18 995
3 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 03:10:21 994
4 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 03:10:29 991
5 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 03:10:31 990
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 03:10:41 987
7 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 03:11:18 976
8 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 03:12:16 962
9 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 03:15:09 928
10 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 03:15:24 926
11 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 03:18:37 894
12 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 03:24:52 841
12 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 03:24:50 841
14 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat 03:30:01 803
15 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 03:31:04 796
16 Davis Straub Moyes RX 03:32:53 783
17 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 03:40:53 735
18 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 03:41:51 729
19 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 03:47:52 698
20 Federico Martini Moyes RX 04:04:51 625

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 5392
2 Michael Bilyk USA Moyes RX 5371
3 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RX 5344
4 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 5188
5 Glen Mcfarlane AUS Moyes RX 5028
6 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RX 5023
7 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 4961
8 Adam Stevens AUS Moyes RX 4948
9 Yasuhiro Noma JPN Moyes RX 4824
10 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RX 4769
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 4738
12 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 4577
13 Geoff Robertson AUS Moyes RX 4421
14 Anton Struganov RUS Moyes RX 4319
15 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RX 4317
16 Davis Straub USA Moyes RX 4215
17 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX 3993
18 Christian Voiblet SUI Wills Wing T2C 3963
19 Rod Flockhart AUS Moyes RX 3684
20 Gavin Myers AUS Moyes LSS 3481

Forbes Flatlands, by the numbers »

Thu, Jan 2 2014, 2:56:21 pm EST

Forbes Flatlands, by the numbers

Something seems to be missing from the latest results

Akiko Suzuki|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Enda Murphy|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2014|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kathryn O'Riordan|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

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# Name Glider
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5
2 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 13.2
3 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5
5 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 144
6 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5
7 Jeff Robertson Moyes RX 3.5
8 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 144
9 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3.5
10 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5
11 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.75
11 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4
13 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5
14 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 154
15 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS
16 Anton Struganov Moyes RX
17 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat
18 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5
19 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5
20 Lukas Bader Moyes RS
20 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4
22 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5
23 Tony Giammichele Moyes RS 3.5
24 Andrew Luton Airborne C4
25 Ryosuke Hattori Aeros Combat
26 Olav Olsen Moyes RS
27 Mark Russell Moyes RS4
28 Kathryn O'Riordan Moyes RX 3
29 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev
30 Victor Hare Moyes RX 3.5
31 Peter Lamont Moyes S 5
32 Len Paton Moyes RS 4
33 Maximilian Respondek Moyes RS
34 Peter Ebeling Wills Wing T2C 144
35 Jon snr Durand Moyes RS 3.5
36 Gavin Myers Moyes S5
36 Enda Murphy Moyes RX 3.5
38 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5
39 Dean Hervatin Airborne Rev
40 Andrew Barnes Moyes RS 3.5
41 Adam Jones Moyes S
42 Federico Martini Moyes RX 3.5
43 Akiko Suzuki Icaro Laminar
44 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4
45 Michael Tomlinson  
46 Patrick Collin Moyes RS
47 Tony Masters Moyes RX 3.5
48 Mikhail Karmazin Aeros Combat
49 Jamie Shelden Wills Wing T2C 136
50 Phil Seeley Airborne C4
51 Ai Fukutomi Moyes RX 3
52 Hadewych van Kempen Moyes Litesport
52 Hanspeter Schütz Moyes RX 3.5

Forbes Flatlands, Task 5, day 5 »

Wed, Jan 1 2014, 7:05:22 am EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 5, day 5

Flying under an overcast sky

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2014|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Paris Williams|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Attila, Lukas, and Glen (with input from Steve Blenkisop) formed the task committee today. After changing their task based on my weather forecast they called a dogleg to Stockinbingal with the turnpoint a thirteen kilometer cylinder centered at Crow:

Unfortunately my forecast included this:

The cyclone in Western Australia sent out a long tail that covered the sky today (with a few minor breaks). It was gray, gray, gray whenever you looked up. But we've flown in Australia in these conditions before and had great soaring.

The wind was out of the north northwest at 13 mph on launch and we were all looking up at the sky which had turned from blue overhead to gray every where within an hour. Some were wondering if it was worth towing up.

I was the second one off in my line and it turned out the lift was a little less than 200 fpm, sometimes more. Jonny launched early got up and went on course early, which you can do under the Oz GAP 2005 scoring system. Steve Blenkisop, and others also went early.

I stayed around with many others and climbed to 6,700' a couple of times before the start window opened at 2 PM. It was nothing but shade down the course line.

A bunch of us left together and spread out to find the lift. It turned out to be quite robust. After a couple of thermals I was happy to lead out and stumbled into 550 fpm. We kept getting higher (and colder) with each thermal getting to 8,100' before Grenfell. We were running into a quartering head wind at eleven mph.

Just before the hills north of Grenfell the highest eight guys took off over the rest of us. I decided it was pointless to go under them in the next thermal as that would just keep me behind and below them. Of course, using them to spot the next thermal is always useful, but I wanted to go out ahead.

I just kept on flying past the lead gaggle trying to get out in the lead (what, are you nuts on a overcast day?) and find the next thermal before they caught on. Unfortunately, things got quite weak not just for me apparently right at this point in the flight.

I found 200 fpm on the hills sides east of Grenfell and that got me high enough to go searching again on my own. It looked quite bleak ahead. No obvious sources of lift.

I went to a small hillside with a line of trees and worked 60 fpm from 1,500' AGL. Moving around I found better, 170 fpm and a drift from the west. After I got up a bit Filippo and Attila joined me and we climbed to 5,200'. I left when it got too weak for me to feel good about staying in the gaggle.

After a thirteen kilometer glide it looked like I was going to be landing. I saw a pilot on the ground by a main road. I noticed that there was a small break on the clouds and there were shadows from the trees on the ground. When I came over the field that the pilot landed in I felt a little bit of lift.

It was only 100 fpm but that got me high enough to get to the 200 fpm thermal a little closer to the turnpoint. I twirling into the turnpoint cylinder and then found 300 fpm as Conrad flew by and out into the shade as the sun had quickly gone away. Climbing to 5,500' I went on glide when the thermal gave out.

It was a thirteen kilometer glide to the ground.

It doesn't look like anyone got close to the goal.

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Task 5:

1 Carl Wallbank Moyes RX 111.8 900
2 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 110.2 892
3 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 110.1 891
4 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 110.0 890
5 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 108.7 878
6 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 108.5 876
7 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 108.1 871
8 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 107.6 865
9 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 107.4 861
9 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 107.3 861
11 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 107.0 855
12 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 104.6 809
13 Davis Straub Moyes RX 102.8 779
14 Jamie Shelden Wills Wing T2C 97.2 724
15 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 95.3 712
16 Len Paton Moyes RS 92.0 690
16 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 92.0 690
18 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 90.4 675
19 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 88.4 657
20 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 88.2 655

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 4529
2 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 4498
3 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 4454
4 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4355
5 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 4219
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 4138
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 4027
8 Trent Brown Moyes RX 4015
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 3969
10 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3929
11 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 3909
12 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3893
13 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3810
14 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 3615
15 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 3569
16 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 3445
17 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3431
18 Gavin Myers Moyes LSS 3113
19 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 3029
20 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 2967

Forbes Flatlands, Task 4, day 4 »

Tue, Dec 31 2013, 8:14:20 am EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 4, day 4

A cross wind leg in the middle of the task

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2013|Glen McFarland|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Conrad Loten, Glen McFarland and Trent Brown were the task committee today. I've been asking various pilots to be on the task committee one day at a time so as not to over burden any three pilots for the whole meet. Many pilots will not serve on the task committee (it is a lot of work and you get little or no reward). So it comes down to having the same people calling the same type of tasks, which may or may not be appropriate for the long term success of the competition. Also I noted that some pilots were concerned that certain tasks were called by certain pilots to match their skills as opposed to what was best for the competition. I'm sure that they had good reasons for this.

My input to the task committee consists of the weather. I have little or no influence on the actual task, other than to find skilled and opinioned pilots who are willing to be on the task committee. On the second day I proposed a possible task as I had a few minutes extra before the task committee meets (I get there to the bowling club an hour early to go over the weather), and it was rejected immediately. I didn't propose any before and have not since.

The forecast was for 15 knot southwestern wind, lift to 9,000' to 10,000' and better lift than the day before. A good day it appeared. No cu's, of course.

The task committee called a task to the northeast given the winds, but there are limited options (waypoints) in that direction. One possibility was to go straight line 200 kilometers to Dunedoo, but that seemed too easy and a long ways back, especially on New Years night. Glen or Conrad (I don't remember which) proposed a zig zag in the middle of the course to make it more difficult and sent us back to Wellington airfield.

The task guidelines are to set the most difficult part of the task as the last leg, not the second or middle leg, but as I said they felt that there were limited options in that direction. We could have gone straight to Gulgong airfield, as another possibility which was discussed by the task committee.

Here is that task they decided on:

As you can see it goes right through Parkes airspace, which we can do with our VHF AM (airband) radios. The first turnpoint at Yeoval and the second at Cumnoc have five kilometer radii to reduce the cross wind leg. The task is 158 kilometers long.

The wind was out of the southeast when we got to Bill's tow paddock next to the airfield. This would have made it quite difficult to accomplish the task. But just as we started launching it swung around.

I was twelfth in the right line and pinned off at 1,000' AGL in light lift. I finally found the core and the lift was as forecast. I was soon over 7,000' and cold because I didn't listen to my own weather forecast calling for eight degrees Celsius at the top of lift and hadn't worn enough clothes.

Almost all pilots headed northwest toward the edge of the ten kilometer start circle like we did yesterday, but I didn't think that that was a great idea. The first leg of the task today was much further to the east and I wanted to leave the start cylinder closer to the course line. I got near the northeast extent of the start cylinder but didn't find any good lift along the way so had to drift three kilometers outside it before I got up, back over 7,000'. I then headed back inside the start cylinder into a 21 mph head wind to take the second clock, not high (5,200'), but high enough.

Running down the course line I found some nice lift and looking ahead saw Paris was five other gliders very low racing way down below and just in front of me. I checked their progress until I saw Paris turning and then went over to them to find strong lift to 7,000'. Instead of leaving them when I was high above, I waited until they caught up so that I could fly with them. Paris, Conrad and I took off together toward the town of Parkes.

Sixteen kilometers later we were down to below 3,500'. I kept shading to the east (right) toward the airfield (no commercial jets would be landing on this day). They got lower and lower again as I found good lift and watched half a dozen pilots work their way back up again. When they found a good core I joined up with them high.

The next thermal was much better and a dozen of us climbed to 7,800' before the range that we needed to cross to head toward Yeoval. We were just six kilometers south of the Parkes dish (radio antenna).

 I didn't think much of the lift just on the west edge of the range so went to the left of Jonny out in front to see what was on the other side. I found 400+ and then 500 fpm in much better thermals. I was freezing now and shivering at 8,800'.

Getting the turnpoint at Yeoval was easy and then the big turn into the 17 mph direct cross wind went well as I stayed high and found 450+ fpm to 8,100'. I could see Conrad way below.

Racing out of that thermal Rod Flockhart caught me and flying at 55 mph he pulled ahead (I was doing 45 mph) as we quickly made the Cumnoc turnpoint and headed to the northeast.

There was a 350 fpm thermal waiting for us and a bunch of us got up right away to 7,900'. It was beginning to feel warm. There was a range right along our course line just ahead and I went for it. The wind would be flowing along the ridge line.

I glided for sixteen kilometers right over the ridge and didn't find any lift. I had to turn out to the valley to the west as Jonas Lobitz came scooting by and Paris Williams came 500' over us. With the sixteen mph tail wind Jonas was going fast but getting awfully low as was I. Finally at 1,100' AGL he found something and I joined him. We were in survival mode and drifting very quickly down the course line.

We worked 100 to 200 fpm for eight kilometers climbing 2,500' in seventeen minutes. This saved us but really slowed us down. We then found 600 fpm eighteen kilometers from goal and that got us in.

Task 4:

# Name Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 14:35:00 17:02:39 02:27:39 975
2 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 14:35:00 17:03:42 02:28:42 949
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 14:35:00 17:04:30 02:29:30 936
4 Gavin Myers Moyes S5 14:35:00 17:07:03 02:32:03 902
5 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 14:15:00 16:57:04 02:42:04 878
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 16:58:46 02:43:46 860
7 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 14:35:00 17:11:41 02:36:41 852
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.75 14:35:00 17:11:45 02:36:45 851
8 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 14:35:00 17:11:43 02:36:43 851
10 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 14:35:00 17:12:35 02:37:35 843
11 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5 14:35:00 17:12:42 02:37:42 842
12 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 17:02:06 02:47:06 828
13 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 17:03:41 02:48:41 813
14 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 17:03:51 02:48:51 812
15 Andrew Luton Airborne C4 14:15:00 17:04:28 02:49:28 806
16 Tony Giammichele Moyes RS 3.5 14:35:00 17:18:55 02:43:55 787
17 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4 14:35:00 17:19:02 02:44:02 786
18 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3.5 14:35:00 17:20:24 02:45:24 775
19 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat 14:15:00 17:08:47 02:53:47 769
20 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 14:15:00 17:11:22 02:56:22 749
21 Carl Wallbank   14:15:00 17:11:34 02:56:34 747
22 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 17:11:40 02:56:40 746
23 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 14:15:00 17:13:03 02:58:03 736
24 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 14:15:00 17:15:16 03:00:16 719
25 Federico Martini Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 17:25:01 03:10:01 653
26 Andrew Barnes Moyes RS 3.5 14:15:00 17:26:26 03:11:26 644
27 Dean Hervatin Airborne Rev 14:35:00 18:40:45 04:05:45 430

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5 3638
2 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 3606
3 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 3593
4 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4 3500
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 3476
5 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 3476
7 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 3463
8 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5 3348
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 3314
10 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 3270
11 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 3067
12 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 3030
13 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 2920
14 Gavin Myers Moyes S5 2846
15 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 2750
16 Tony Giammichele Moyes RS 3.5 2717
17 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 2693
18 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3.5 2652
19 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 2636
20 Andrew Luton Airborne C4 2455

Forbes Flatlands, Task 3, day 3 »

Mon, Dec 30 2013, 8:03:21 am EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 1, day 1

Attila suggests a change that makes the task easier

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Enda Murphy|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kathryn O'Riordan|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

The forecast was for lift better than the day before but not quite as good as the first day. We would be able to get to 8,000'. The winds would start light but build to 11 knots south west. Again no cu's.

The task committee called a dogleg to Tomingley (with a eleven kilometer cylinder) just to keep us on the mountain range and then to Yeoval, but there was some kind of hubbub about that so after a discussion with the Task Committee and input from Attila, they changed the goal to Wellington airfield. The course line would have taken us through Parkes airspace which is okay with our air band radios. (The Sport Class goal was straight o Yeoval right smack dab through the Parkes airspace and one pilot made it.)

Unlike day 2 there was plenty of lift right away and I climbed to 5,000' and a little later to almost 6,000'. The winds varied between four and twelve mph out of the south west.

We moved quickly to the northwest to get upwind of the course line and to the edge of the ten kilometer start cylinder. There were plenty of pilots around. The wind pushed us back toward the course line and Jonny, Attila, and Jon Snr took the 2:30 PM first start clock (which turned out not to do them any good at all). The rest of us waited for the 2:50 clock and a big gaggle took off then.

The lift varied between 400 and 500 fpm on average. Good cores that allowed one to put the glider up on a tip if there wasn't any interference from other gliders. There was a eleven mph tail wind, so the going was easy.

I was a bit lower than the top guys in the lead gaggle. Paris, Steve Blenkisop, Jonas and another pilot jumped ahead of the gaggle. Later I took off from lower down the gaggle following one higher pilot while the rest stayed behind. This got me into better lift quicker and when the gaggle caught me I was now relatively much higher.

We came to the ridge south of the Tomingley turnpoint plenty high and found good lift. Paris, etc. were high above us but we were climbing fast. We found good lift going over the ridge to the east and on the other side. Paris, Steve, and Jonas got flushed on the other side and watched us as we flew other them as they dug their way out of a small valley.

We continued to find good lift going east although I had to stop for 250 fpm before I went further into the next set of hills to get 500 fpm to 7,500'. There were pilots all around in various thermals getting up.

It was a nineteen kilometer glide to the ridge west of Wellington and the last obstacle before goal at the airfield. We were down to 1,700' AGL before four of us got into 200 fpm which was the last thermal needed to get to goal thirteen kilometers away. We had no problem making it in.

Plenty of pilots at goal, thirty five to be exact.

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Task 3:

# Name Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 14:50:00 17:30:09 02:40:09 952
2 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 14:50:00 17:30:12 02:40:12 949
3 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:30:58 02:40:58 930
4 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4 14:50:00 17:31:00 02:41:00 929
5 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:31:09 02:41:09 926
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 14:50:00 17:31:32 02:41:32 919
7 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 14:50:00 17:31:50 02:41:50 914
8 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:32:02 02:42:02 911
9 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 14:30:00 17:19:43 02:49:43 901
10 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 17:19:54 02:49:54 899
11 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 14:50:00 17:35:13 02:45:13 868
12 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:35:40 02:45:40 863
13 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:36:21 02:46:21 855
14 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:39:17 02:49:17 823
15 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 17:28:01 02:58:01 811
16 Enda Murphy Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:41:06 02:51:06 805
17 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 14:30:00 17:29:25 02:59:25 798
18 Jon snr Durand Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:00 17:31:07 03:01:07 781
19 Andrew Barnes Moyes RS 3.5 14:50:00 17:45:04 02:55:04 769
19 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 14:30:00 17:32:29 03:02:29 769
21 Gavin Myers Moyes S5 14:30:00 17:33:26 03:03:26 761
21 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 17:33:26 03:03:26 761
23 Olav Olsen Moyes RS 14:30:00 17:34:53 03:04:53 748
24 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 14:30:00 17:35:57 03:05:57 739
25 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 14:30:00 17:39:41 03:09:41 708
26 Federico Martini Moyes RX 3.5 14:50:00 17:54:41 03:04:41 695
27 Tony Giammichele Moyes RS 3.5 14:50:00 17:55:05 03:05:05 692
28 Victor Hare Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 17:42:43 03:12:43 685
29 Mark Russell moyes RS4 14:30:00 17:43:52 03:13:52 677
30 Andrew Luton Airborne C4 14:50:00 17:57:39 03:07:39 675
31 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 17:48:54 03:18:54 642
32 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat 14:50:00 18:12:47 03:22:47 588
33 Kathryn O'Riordan Moyes RX 3 14:30:00 18:05:04 03:35:04 547
34 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:00 18:12:56 03:42:56 509
35 Cameron Tunbridge Wills Wing T2C 14:30:00 18:26:04 03:56:04 454

Cumulative:

1 Michael Bilyk USA Moyes RX 3.5 2825
2 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 2763
3 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RX 3.5 2727
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RX 4 2714
5 Anton Struganov RUS Moyes RX 2690
6 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2651
7 Glen Mcfarlane AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2648
8 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2625
9 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 2618
10 Adam Stevens AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2506
11 Yasuhiro Noma JPN Moyes RX 3.5 2410
12 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 4 2378
13 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2068
14 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 2001
15 Rohan Taylor AUS Moyes RS 1971
16 Christian Voiblet SUI Wills Wing T2C 1970
17 Gavin Myers AUS Moyes S5 1944
18 Tony Giammichele AUS Moyes RS 3.5 1930
19 Geoff Robertson AUS Moyes RX 3.5 1890
20 Davis Straub USA Moyes RX 3.5 1877
21 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX 5 1815

No Australians among the top five.

Results from Task 2

Sun, Dec 29 2013, 2:40:25 pm EST

Results from Task 2

Mike Bylik and Paris tied for first place

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5 02:29:20 1000
2 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 02:29:23 998
3 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 02:29:24 997
4 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4 02:29:44 990
5 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 02:29:55 986
6 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 02:29:59 985
7 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 02:31:41 963
8 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 02:32:29 954
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 02:44:27 900
10 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5 02:46:21 885
11 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 02:42:51 865
12 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 02:49:13 864
13 Gavin Myers Moyes S5 02:53:42 832
14 Ryosuke Hattori Aeros Combat 03:02:39 776

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Paris Williams Aeros Combat GT 1895
1 Michael Bilyk Moyes RX 3.5 1895
3 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 1815
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 1795
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 1785
5 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 4 1785
7 Adam Stevens Moyes RX 3.5 1744
8 Anton Struganov Moyes RX 1737
9 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 1699
10 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 1669
11 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 1598
12 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 1579
13 Ryosuke Hattori Aeros Combat 1454
14 Geoff Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 1244
15 Tony Giammichele Moyes RS 3.5 1234
16 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 1228
17 Gavin Myers Moyes S5 1181
18 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 1166
19 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 1079
20 Christian Voiblet Wills Wing T2C 1053
21 Davis Straub Moyes RX 3.5 1051
22 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.75 999
23 Andrew Luton Airborne C4 970
24 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 936
25 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 911

Forbes Flatlands, Task 1, day 1 »

Sat, Dec 28 2013, 7:00:44 am EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 1, day 1

A race task with lots in goal

Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather|Wesley "Wes" Hill|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

I’ve shaken up the task committee to bring in new pilots and new thinking. Steve Blenkisop, Trent Brown, and Bruce Wynn formed the task committee on the first day. I’ll rotate in other pilots as the week goes on. They called a great task today, a zig zag in a strong cross wind, first south southeast to Grenfell, then north northeast to Gooloogong, then east northeast to Canowindra, then south east to a field near Woodstock. It was named the Child of God task. About 150 kilometers.

The pilots were launched in random order with a small open launch for those who found themselves at the back and were willing to go first. I was off sixth in my line and barely got there in time after handling the unofficial team director duties, weather forecasting, and task committee wrangling. I pinned off early as the tug just kept climbing.

It was my first time on a Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 in thermal conditions and it was just fine. I climbed right up and waited for the first start window with at first a dozen other pilots. The wind was 10+ mph out of the west northwest. The wind was breaking up the thermals.

We tried heading up wind to get a better start position, but that didn’t work as we didn’t find good lift. Most of the pilots drifted downwind and climbed to 7,000’. I decided to head up wind again and did get to work some lift with only a few pilots as the tugs pulled up the rest of them from Bill’s field below. Those pilots who drifted downwind took the first start clock.

I wasn’t in a great spot for the 2 PM start window so worked to get higher and further south for the 2:20 start and hooked up with Filippo and Jonny as well as a dozen other pilots. I was able to get much higher than the others and took the second clock at 8,600’, 1000’ over Filippo and 500’ over Jonny.

Filippo was charging ahead on his Wills Wing T2C with the extra winglets. He had a great glide and he, Jonny and I came into the first thermal twelve kilometers outside the start cylinder at about the same altitude. The thermal was not that strong, 300+ fpm and that would be the story as we worked our way south southeast. Out on the flats the thermals were broken, we didn’t get to 8,000’ often less than 6,000’, and the thermals varied between 200 and 300 fpm on average. Filippo continued to out race us all.

The wind was blowing us sideways and it took an hour and twenty minutes to go the fifty three kilometers to the Grenfell turnpoint. There is a nice little mountain range (not very high) before the Grenfell turnpoint and unlike the flats it was pumping. I lost Jonny just before the range but found good lift, especially on the southern end just before the turnpoint, averaging 700 fpm to 8,700'.

The conditions had scattered our gaggle and I was mostly on my own now with a few pilots lower than me. The hills past the turnpoint also were pumping and I worked 600 fpm to 9,500' before heading out into the flats. I didn't work any lift until I got to the small hills south of Gooloogong that faced into the west wind (and the sun) and climbed back to 8,600'. The race had picked up significantly with the wind now a tail wind at about 10 mph.

The next turnpoint at Canowindra was almost downwind and I found 355 fpm at a little west facing ridge five kilometers before it. I could see a few pilots down below me and then suddenly there was Filippo also below. Seems he got low and had to slow down. Attila, who thought that the task was wimpy, also got low and was lucky to make it into goal.

I took the thermal to almost 8,000' before the turnpoint and after the turnpoint headed southeast for the last 25 kilometer leg. Now the lift got weak and I was down to 3,500', 2000' AGL. We had thought that this last leg would be a cross wind leg, but in fact it was down wind as the wind still had a north component. I worked 100 fpm and then after getting up a little moved to 260 fpm, which was enough to get me to 5,300' and into goal.

Paris was first in on the first clock with Mike Bilyk and Steven Blenkisop. Jonny came in twelve minutes later. The goal quickly filled up. It was a real race to goal day. Not an endurance day. Still I was in the air for four and a half hours.

Task 1:

# Name SS ES Time Total
1 Jonny Durand 14:20:00 17:12:14 02:52:14 962
2 Paris Williams 14:00:00 17:03:47 03:03:47 896
3 Steve Blenkinsop 14:00:00 17:03:58 03:03:58 894
3 Michael Bilyk 14:00:00 17:03:58 03:03:58 894
5 Filippo Oppici 14:20:00 17:19:10 02:59:10 862
6 Adam Stevens 14:00:00 17:07:25 03:07:25 858
7 Jeff Robertson 14:00:00 17:08:55 03:08:55 843
8 Christian Voiblet 14:20:00 17:21:36 03:01:36 838
9 Davis Straub 14:20:00 17:21:55 03:01:55 835
10 Conrad Loten 14:00:00 17:10:28 03:10:28 828

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results-show.html?id_results=3&db=results2014&class=results_open

There is a sport class competition also and you'll find the results here.

Thanks to Wesley Hill, the scorekeeper and the pilots for getting their flight in so fast.

2013 Gulgong Classic »

November 29, 2013, 10:38:03 pm PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

274 km task

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams

Konrado writes:

Gulgong Hang Gliding Classic day 7 - Big day called, a 274km dog leg with 129km cross wind. As some big guy says around here "No pussy tasks!" Conditions look accordingly awesome.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes LS RX 5 04:27:12 979
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 04:53:46 780
3 Curt Warren Moyes LS RX 4 05:07:56 772
4 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 04:54:56 757
5 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 05:09:46 745
6 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 4 05:04:41 724
7 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 05:22:05 683
8 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 05:25:33 636
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes LS RX 3.75 05:26:37 627
10 Dave May moyes LS RX 3.5 05:38:09 622
11 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes LS RX 3.5 05:40:39 613
12 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 05:40:40 601
13 Andrew Barnes Moyes LS RS 3.5 06:03:04 543
14 Rory Duncan WW T2C 136 06:26:34 478

Final results :

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes LS RX 5 4625
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 4480
3 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 4458
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 4 4272
5 Curt Warren Moyes LS RX 4 4151
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 3942
7 Rod Flockhart Moyes LS RX 3.75 3576
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 3557
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 3364
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 3231

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

Jonny's photo from goal:

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November 27, 2013, 8:19:55 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Paris takes the lead

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Trent Brown

The "Americans" finish first and second. Paris gets comfortable with Gulgong.

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:04:26 941
2 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 03:03:50 922
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 03:15:54 907
4 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 03:18:18 879
5 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:20:19 819
6 Rod Flockhart   03:50:50 722
7 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:52:23 704
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 04:00:47 689
9 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 04:02:03 664
10 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 04:02:00 652
11 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 04:14:15 624
12 Dave May moyes LS RX 3.5 04:18:44 588
13 Mark Russell moyes litespeed RS4 05:03:04 508

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 3700
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 3698
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 3641
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 3545
5 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 3377
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 3253
7 Rod Flockhart   2939
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 2803
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 2754
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 2586

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

Konrado writes:

Gulgong Hang Gliding Classic 2013 day 4: Another big day, five hors in the air, 146km triangle, with a 50+ km upwind leg on a blue but consistent day. Goal back at the Gulgong airfield glider set up in the hangar ready for day 5.

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November 26, 2013, 7:53:17 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task three

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Paris Williams   03:47:16 990
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 03:48:18 972
3 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:48:43 955
4 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:49:11 941
5 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:53:44 896
6 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 04:01:45 793
7 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 04:09:25 780
8 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 04:15:46 726
9 Andrew Luton   04:38:37 657
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 04:34:46 649
11 Rod Flockhart   04:50:41 605
12 Richard Heffer   04:54:03 588

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 2818
2 Paris Williams   2778
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 2726
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 2722
5 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 2547
6 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 2434
7 Rod Flockhart   2202
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 2171
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 2092
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 1908

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

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November 25, 2013, 8:52:38 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task two:

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Enda Murphy|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|William "Billo" Olive

Billo's photo of the Gulgong airfield:

His refurbished trike.

Task two:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 02:15:22 939
2 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 02:08:38 937
3 Paris Williams   02:18:31 901
4 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 02:22:17 870
5 Enda Murphy moyes LS RX 3.5 02:36:33 793
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 02:36:50 773
7 Rod Flockhart   02:39:46 762
8 Andrew Luton   02:45:59 733
9 Phil Schroder airborne REV 02:53:53 705
10 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:04:44 638
11 Jamie Oorschot   03:17:21 584

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 1920
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 1840
3 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 1819
4 Paris Williams   1785
5 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 1596
6 Rod Flockhart   1569
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 1467
8 Phil Schroder airborne REV 1396
9 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 1368
10 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 1338

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

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November 23, 2013, 6:34:38 pm PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task for the first day

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder

Jonny's picture from the first day:

Task is 143 km to the north.

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Jonny writes:

Day 1 turned out good with climbs to over 9,000ft and mostly blue. We had a 25 kph cross wind most of the 140 Kms but conditions allowed about 15 pilots to make goal. Atilla won the day in under 3 hrs with me hot on heels then Paris about 10 minutes later. Today is looking good as is most of the week!

Task 1 Results:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 02:54:14 980
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 02:54:43 969
3 Paris Williams 03:04:01 880
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:04:01 878
5 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 03:06:08 849
6 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 03:09:41 829
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:10:01 824
8 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:11:53 817
9 Rod Flockhart 03:12:50 801
10 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 03:15:30 786
11 Rory Duncan airborne sting III 03:25:11 724
12 Geoffrey Robertson 03:36:26 685
13 Phil Schroder airborne REV 03:36:17 682

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The Pepe Lopes Medal

October 25, 2013, 8:27:10 PDT

The Pepe Lopes Medal

Conrad

CIVL|Conrad Loten|Roberto Nichele

Swiss Nic <willswing> writes:

http://www.fai.org/civl-awards/civl-individual-disciplines

This Medal was established in February 1993 in memory of Pedro Paulo "Pepe" Lopes of Brazil who was the World Hang Gliding Champion in 1981. His energy and good humour played a big part in developing Brazil as an important centre for international competitions. He died during a hang gliding competition in Japan in 1991. The Medal may be awarded annually, on recommendation by the FAI Hang Gliding Commission, for outstanding contributions to sportsmanship or international understanding in the sport of hang gliding.

The year 2012 winner, my personal hero : 2012 Conrad Loten (New Zealand)

On the 24th of December 2012 at about 1.30, Conrad Loten and Roberto Nichele (Switzerland) aka ‘Swiss Nic’ launched hang gliders in the Hunter Valley NSW Australia. Conrad launched first successfully. Unfortunately Nic crashed below launch on a cliff face. Conrad landed and returned to launch by which time Nic had been hanging in his glider unconscious head down in 40C for some one and a half hours.

Emergency services had difficulty affecting a rescue. Conrad took it upon himself to climb down to Nic, as he assessed the situation as critical with Nic having sustained head injuries. Due to legal reasons, emergency services were not able to assist Conrad. Although he is a highly qualified medical practitioner he has no recue training.

With great difficulty and danger to himself, Conrad was able to get to Nic and using basic tools cut through his glider, raise his head and administer first aid. Eventually with Conrad’s help and insistence, Nic was extracted and evacuated to hospital. He was found to have cerebral bleeding and was placed on life support. He is now on a recovery program for his brain injury and hopes are held for a good recovery. There is little doubt that without Conrad’s selfless act, that went well beyond what is expected of a doctor, the result for Nic would have been considerably worse and most probably fatal.

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October 2, 2013, 8:11:05 MDT

2013 Canungra Classic

Folks at goal, Jonny in the lead

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2013|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Enda Murphy|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn

Panorama at goal: http://t.co/Mo3mpJCFaj from Jonny Durand.

Results: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/

Task 3:

1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 01:54:46 989
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 01:59:34 919
3 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 01:59:38 910
4 Adam Parer Moyes RX3.5 01:59:42 905
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 02:04:47 848
6 Tony Giammichele Moyes LS 3.5 02:15:47 803
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 02:19:15 801
8 Dave Stevens Moyes RX 02:18:39 785
9 Tim Osborn Moyes LS5 02:29:59 758
10 David Staver Moyes LS S 3.5 02:24:25 751

Cumulative:

1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 2716
2 Adam Parer Moyes RX3.5 2645
3 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX4 2379
4 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 2218
5 Enda Murphy Moyes RX 2155
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 2152
7 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 2123
8 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes LS RX3.5 2099
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 2098
10 John Smith Moyes LS RX 2077

http://t.co/Q5Gj7Ezv0D

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/task-4-74km-around-2-turnpoints-goal.html

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September 30, 2013, 8:10:24 MDT

2013 Canungra Classic

Jonny first on the first day

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2013|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr

The Beechmont launch. Photo by Jonny Durand.

Adam Parer after coming to second on the second day.

Results: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/

Jonny writes:

Another challenging flight today from Flying Fox to Woodenbong via 2 turn points. Glen Mcfarlene wins the day ahead of Adam Parer and Conrad Loten. Jonas Lobitz and I got stuck low before crossing the scenic Mt Lyndsey. Many pilots including myself had some very interesting glides over trees but everyone seemed to survive.

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.au/

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Slow moving object in the flight path

August 22, 2013, 6:12:09 pm MDT

Slow moving object in the flight path

The report is out

Conrad Loten|PG

http://avherald.com/h?article=466f3b5e&opt=0

Swiss RJ1H near Zurich on May 8th 2013, near miss with paraglider.

A Swiss European Airlines Avro RJ-100, registration HB-IYS performing flight LX-781 from Brussels (Belgium) to Zurich (Switzerland), was on approach to Zurich descending through 6800 feet north of the aerodrome in German Class C Airspace, about 8nm west northwest of Waldshut-Tiengen (Germany) and about 23nm northwest of Zurich Airport, when the crew noticed a paraglider in their immediate vicinity, a collision was avoided. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on Zurich's runway 14 about 8 minutes later.

Germany's BFU reported in their monthly bulletin released on Aug 16th, that the crew of the Avro estimated the minimum remaining separation at about 50-100 feet vertically and 50-100 meters horizontally. No damage occurred.

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The pre-Worlds (women and stiffies) in Annecy

Mon, Jul 8 2013, 9:19:34 am CDT

Some reasonable weather

Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Pre-Worlds 2013|weather

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

http://www.pressbhgc.blogspot.de/

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/pre-wm-annecyfra/

Results here: http://dca.ffvl.fr/hg2014/index.php/en/resultatscourses

2013 King Ludwig Open »

Mon, May 6 2013, 8:29:04 am EDT

Wills Wing allowed in in this German competition

Carsten Friedrichs|Conrad Loten|King Ludwig Open 2013|Wills Wing

Carsten Friedrichs «Carsten Friedrichs» writes:

This year, everybody with a certified (LTF, HGMA or BHPA) or uncertified glider is allowed to participate in the King Ludwig Open at Tegelberg from June 6th until 9th 2013. This is the competition that was combined with the German Open last year.

Every glider that satisfies the requirements defined in the FAI Sporting code Sect. 7A Version 2012 can attend the competition. Dieter münchmeyer wrote, that compared to last year the rules were changed in order to not exclude pilots with an HGMA certified glider.

Local Rules: http://www.dhv.de/web/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2013/06/Ausschreibung_KLO13engl.pdf

General Information: http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/5-king-ludwig-open-2013-int-deutsche-meisterschaft/

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The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 20, 2013, 6:57:06 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Final results

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:41:28 999
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:45:24 945
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:50:51 906
4 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:50:59 900
5 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:51:21 892
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:51:31 888
7 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 01:51:48 887
8 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:20:43 767

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 5159
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 5123
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4933
4 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4811
5 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 4371
6 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 4159
7 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 4123
8 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4024
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3982
10 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3768

Looks like Attila almost lost it on the last day. He didn't make goal and if he had gone 5 km less he would have lost it.

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 19, 2013, 8:24:38 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 5

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:58:40 997
2 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:58:45 980
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:00:26 956
4 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 02:04:38 904
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:04:44 898
6 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5 02:06:28 882
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:09:28 858
8 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RS4 02:14:49 820
9 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:16:54 807
10 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:11:54 804

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 4647
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4232
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4027
4 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 3971
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3909
6 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3767
7 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 3481
8 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3365
9 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 3248
10 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5 3243

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 18, 2013, 9:36:41 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 4

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:32:26 949
2 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 01:43:08 892
3 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:37:10 873
4 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:44:39 872
5 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:43:37 781
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:43:37 779
7 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:39:22 775
8 Gavin Myers Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:44:41 760
9 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:58:03 749
10 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:52:02 708

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 3650
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3428
3 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3102
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3071
5 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 3067
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2992
7 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 2982
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2904
9 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2856
10 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2787

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 17, 2013, 7:40:36 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 3

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Facebook|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes litespeed S5 01:55:16 979
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:03:22 877
3 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:13:53 871
4 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 02:16:05 839
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:09:27 831
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:21:26 804
7 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:24:53 782
8 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 02:25:59 777
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:25:31 776
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 02:29:30 752

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2701
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2555
3 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2503
4 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2467
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2394
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2374
7 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 2304
8 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2213
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 2175
10 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 13.5 2136

The Dalby airfield:

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 15, 2013, 8:33:37 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 2

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed 01:24:03 990
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:25:44 949
3 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:28:05 904
4 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:28:13 897
5 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:28:29 889
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:28:51 880
7 Dave Stevens Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:29:16 872
8 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 01:34:08 828
9 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed S 01:42:37 757
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 01:42:35 753

Totals:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed 1924
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1835
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1820
4 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 1766
5 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1728
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1679
7 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 1617
8 Simon Braithwaite Moyes Litesport 4 1616
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 1575
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 1557

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 14, 2013, 8:14:08 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 1

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed 02:08:56 933
2 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:16:23 930
3 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 02:16:34 913
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:17:12 902
5 Simon Braithwaite Moyes Litesport 4 02:11:33 888
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 02:20:14 885
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:12:28 884
8 nick purcell Moyes Litespeed 4 02:20:20 859
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:25:22 827
10 Gavin Mye Moyes Litespeed 5 02:28:24 801

NSW State Titles at Manilla

February 19, 2013, 9:23:06 pm MST

NSW State Titles at Manilla

Jonas and Jonny only at goal

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Tim Osborn

Dave May reporting here.

After three days:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2811
2 Jonas Lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2663
3 Rohan Taylor moyes litespeed rs 4 2258
4 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2224
5 Bruce Wynne moyes litespeed rs 4 2186
6 Yasuhiro Noma moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2106
7 John Smith moyes litespeed rs 4 2099
8 Len Paton moyes litespeed rs 4 2093
9 Tim Osborne moyes litespeed 5 2031
10 Adam Parer moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1998

Fourth task canceled due to windy conditions on the course.

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NSW State Titles at Manilla

February 18, 2013, 5:13:46 pm PST

NSW State Titles at Manilla

Wednesday supposed to be windy.

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Dave May reporting here.

Third day, only four on the west launch. Pilots on all launches it appears.

After two days:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1835
2 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1734
3 Jonas Lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1686
4 John Smith moyes litespeed rs 4 1618
5 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 1532
6 Adam Parer moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1506
7 Rohan Taylor moyes litespeed rs 4 1500
8 Bruce Wynne moyes litespeed rs 4 1474
9 Jon snr Durand moyes litespeed rx 4 1451
10 Yasuhiro Noma moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1448

Conrad won last year and is in second place.

The Superfinal PWC in Roldanillo, Colombia

Mon, Jan 21 2013, 11:21:02 pm AEDT

The PWC in Roldanillo, Colombia

das Fliegen über Feuer verboten ist

Conrad Loten|video|David Cassetta|PG World Cup 2013

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/gleitschirm-szene/live-berichte/world-cup-superfinal-kolumbienroldanillo/

David Cassetta averaged 1727 fpm over this fire hitting 3297.2 fpm at one point. His track log is here. Yassen Savov threw his reserve. His track log is here. The prohibition re flying over fires came after this incident.

English translation

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2013 Worlds »

January 19, 2013, 5:35:44 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Party after the competition and the rains came

Conrad Loten|record|Tove Heaney|weather|Worlds 2013

Dancing with the stars:

It's a clown with Tove.

No rest days.

Thick clouds and rain around but not at the Forbes airfield the day after the competition. On Saturday it looked like this:

The forecast is for a high chance of thunderstorms every day for eight days after the competition. Thanks to Molly Moyes for the good weather.

Many pilots showed up at Stanwell Tops on Saturday for the southern change that occurred late Friday evening. A little bit of rain now and then but strong winds. Was 46.5 in Sydney before the cold air came in to make it 22. Hottest day on record for Sydney.

2013 Worlds »

January 14, 2013, 7:10:31 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The results from the sixth task

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Chasing the English: http://pressbhgc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sunday-13th-january-2013-here-we-go.html

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Dist. Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 131,09 917
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 131,09 915
3 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 131,11 914
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 130,81 912
5 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 130,62 911
6 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 120,87 854
7 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,58 853
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 120,32 851
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,30 851
8 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,24 851
8 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,25 851
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 120,27 851
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 120,25 851
14 Max Turiaco BRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 120,16 850
14 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,22 850
16 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 119,48 840
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 119,09 834
18 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 119,02 832
19 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 118,93 830
20 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX4 118,72 826
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 118,72 826

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 5515
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 5358
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 5166
4 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5101
5 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5054
6 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 5052
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 5047
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 5018
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 4950
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 4949
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4902
12 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 4855
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4778
14 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 4738
15 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 4725
16 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4723
17 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 4709
18 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4681
19 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4672
20 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 463

Teams:

# Id Name Total
1   ITA 15621
2   USA 15519
3   AUS 15303
4   GBR 14999
5   AUT 14897

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 3542
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 2392
3 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2236
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2143
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2032
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1749
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 757
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 674

2013 Worlds »

January 9, 2013, 7:22:31 AEDT

2013 Worlds

Stories

Chisato Nojiri|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Kathleen Rigg|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|video|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com.au/

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/weltmeisterschaften-2013-in-australien/

In English here.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4245926707662&set=a.4245902707062.2151191.1270494070&type=1&theater

https://picasaweb.google.com/107932196518838943087/ForbesFlatlandsWorldComp

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151626099224689.609230.752154688&type=3

Opening ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaaU-DCOwYw

First, Jamie Shelden has a Moyes Litespeed RX 3. Because she is a big girl she wanted a custom version with the big control frame. She's the only one apparently. She has a history with Gerolf Heinrichs and he has not been helpful to here (according to her). She is getting great help from Kraig Coomber, but still there is too much bar pressure. As far as I'm concerned, gliders are always a custom deal.

Second, Wolfgang Siess has a little bit of a crumbling up problem with his outboard carbon leading edge with at the outboard sprog on his Wills Wing T2C. It appears as though the heat here was a bit too much for this leading edge and it wrinkled and cracked and he noticed only after he landed on the first day. He noticed that the leading edge was soft.

He has a new outboard carbon leading edge in now and is getting Swiss Nick's glider shipped here for parts. This is the first time that this has been reported on a Wills Wing carbon leading edge.

Third, Chisato Nojiri from Japan was in in the 52 position at goal on the first day two places ahead of Corinna, to win the day for the women's competition (the Women's Worlds). Kathleen Rigg was in third, the last person to make goal. She had turtled earlier in the launch paddock.

Forbes on the practice day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_BfnfVQ5c

Prime 7 News here.

The local paper:

http://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/1218701/town-welcomes-worlds-best/?cs=719

http://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/1219324/gliding-takes-off/?cs=719

http://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/1222773/wind-delays-world-titles/?cs=717

http://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/1219583/learning-to-fly/?cs=719

Hot Weather, here.

http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/298967_4972037346425_1249139164_n.jpg

The team in the lead after the first day:

Low top of lift over the tow paddock on the first day:

Swiss Nic Hurt on Christmas Eve

Fri, Dec 28 2012, 9:01:41 am PST

In the Hunter Valley

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Heather Mull|photo|Roberto Nichele|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan

Cameron Tunbridge «Cameron Tunbridge» sends this note from Heather Mull:

UPDATE ON SWISS NIC:

As many hang glider pilots will now be aware, on 24th December Swiss Nic (Roberto Nichele) had a failed hill launch in NSW Hunter Valley, Australia. First aid was given on site by Conrad Loten (hang glider pilot and emergency room doctor at John Hunter hospital) and Nic was transferred to the John Hunter hospital by helicopter. He sustained internal trauma to the head and was put into the intensive care unit in an induced coma and on a ventilator.

With some progress over the last days in the form of responding to voices with hand squeezes, Conrad recommended friends visit Nic to keep the stimulation process going. Mart and I have been visiting Camo, so today (the 28th) we contacted the hospital and all went to visit this afternoon. The timing was great, as when we arrived they were busy taking his ventilator tube out for the first time. We were able to see Nic straight away and spent a couple of hours with him. He was groggy and it was obviously difficult for him to open his eyes, but he opened them on several occasions and recognised who we were - communicating to questions mainly with hand gestures and a reasonably firm hand grip. He slept much of the time whilst his body copes with the recovery process.

The whole time we were there, Nic was able to breathe normally apart from some supplemental oxygen, but he even took that mask off for a while when the tube came out. He has a chest infection as well, so his physiotherapist was wanting him to take deep breaths as often as possible and cough to get the muck up from his lungs. He could understand everything we were saying to him and even managed to whisper and understand some words in four different languages. His sense of humour is still intact, as when Mart made a comment about the difficulty of the Swiss language, Nic slowly lifted his hand and definitely gave him the "bird." Nic sparked up noticeably when the guys took some photos of him for his girlfriend Natalia and the doctor also contacted Natalia while we were there. Natalia was able to talk to Nic.

To summarise what the doctor said to us, Nic has had a severe impact to the head which will take a long recovery - many months, and the extent of the recovery depends on the individual. Plans are already under way for his medically accompanied return to Switzerland by aeroplane (he also has travel insurance). If all goes well, this may be within the next week. We were very happy to see the amount of progress he made just today - breathing on his own again and communicating a little with us. As we left, Tish and Chris came in to visit again. So if you live in the area, the doctor suggested a roster of visitors could be made up so that he is getting lots of stimulation over the coming days. Things certainly looked much more positive for Nic today than several days ago, and we'll all keep our fingers crossed now for a speedy and full recovery.

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Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 7:54:41 am PST

Task 3

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Jonny Durand writes:

What another great day in Gulgong, a 140km task was set and it started off very slowly with many pilots having reflights. Just as the start gate came to a close the day started to turn on and we were off and racing. Trent Brown and Conrad Loten had the best starts and the rest of were late to the gate.

I eventually caught Trent after about 40 kms and took the lead. I stayed in the lead for nearly the rest of the task before I got low in the rain front. Trent came over me about 20kms from goal at cloudbase along with others trailing behind him. I had to take a light climb and finished about 15 minutes after Trent. Nick Purcell will take out 2nd place with John smith in 3rd. I think about 10-12 pilots made goal in the end with Matt Barlow just squeezing in late. Tomorrow looks like another good day so stay tuned.

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:00:51 1000
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:09:53 902
3 Nick Purcell Moyes Ls Rs 4 02:11:13 875
4 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 02:11:35 865
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:12:07 854
6 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 02:13:43 838
7 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 02:19:41 811
8 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 02:27:42 760
9 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:32:31 698
10 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:33:29 690
11 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 02:32:37 689

Totals:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 2751
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2723
3 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 2409
4 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 2317
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2273
6 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2236
7 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 2201
8 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2087
9 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 1940
10 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 1886

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Super Race in Brasilia

August 31, 2012, 10:42:38 MDT

Super Race in Brasilia

Day six

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|James Stinnett|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Mario Campanella|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

The task: http://superrace2012.blogspot.com/2012/08/brasilia-prova-6-124-km.html

http://www.superrace2012.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/resultados-prova-6-brasilia.html

Day six:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 André Wolf RS Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:09:10 921
2 James Stinnett USA   02:10:14 884
3 Marcelo Andrei Gomes RJ Aeros Combat GT 02:22:04 855
4 Fabio Cardoso Nunes RJ Wills Wing T2C 02:24:06 853
5 Michel Louzada SP Wills Wing T2C 144 02:23:11 843
6 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes LS RS 3.5 02:24:13 842
7 Eduardo Fernandes DF Wills Wing TC2 02:23:55 834
8 Marcelo Menin SP   02:25:21 813
9 Curt Warren AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:26:11 810
10 Mario Campanella RJ Icaro Laminar Z9 02:27:46 789

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Curt Warren AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 5475
2 Michel Louzada SP Wills Wing T2C 144 5224
3 André Wolf RS Moyes LS RX 3.5 5193
4 Sergio Galvas SP Wills Wing T2C 4925
5 Glauco Pinto DF Icaro Laminar Z9 4864
6 Brenno Albuquerque RJ Wills Wing T2C 4838
7 Eduardo Oliveira MS Wills Wing T2C 154 4762
8 David Brito Filho SP Wills Wing T2C 144 4736
9 Fabio Cardoso Nunes RJ Wills Wing T2C 4706
10 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 4680

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Super Race in Brasilia

August 28, 2012, 10:47:20 MDT

Super Race in Brasilia

Day three, Curt kicking butt.

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

The third day:

The task: http://superrace2012.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/brasilia-prova-3.html

http://superrace2012.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/resultados-prova-3-brasilia.html

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 01:57:53 1000
2 Conrad Loten NZL   02:07:20 859
3 Eduardo Oliveira MS Wills Wing T2C 154 02:14:05 797
4 Marcio Freire Fernandes SP Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:14:55 792
5 Michel Louzada SP Wills Wing T2C 144 02:06:47 772
6 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes LS RS 02:09:03 746
7 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:09:39 743
8 Dave May AUS Moyes LS RS 3.5 02:11:10 730
9 David Brito Filho SP Wills Wing T2C 144 02:22:35 727
10 Max Turiaco RJ Aeros Combat 02:22:51 725

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Curt Warren AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 2907
2 Eduardo Oliveira MS Wills Wing T2C 154 2572
3 Michel Louzada SP Wills Wing T2C 144 2561
4 Glauco Pinto DF Icaro Laminar Z9 2502
5 Marcelo Andrei Gomes RJ Aeros Combat GT 2478
6 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes LS RX 3.5 2443
7 Brenno Albuquerque RJ Wills Wing T2C 2420
8 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes LS RS 2418
9 Sergio Galvas SP Wills Wing T2C 2403
10 David Brito Filho SP Wills Wing T2C 144 2373

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/competitions/i-dirt-brasilia-superrace-task-3

I was actually getting a good dose of dirt in the mouth and eyes, while climbing from 1000ft and higher. From then, on I couldn’t get the song “I like Dirt” by the Chilli Peppers out of my head.

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Resolution of the German Open issues?

Tue, May 22 2012, 8:13:53 am EDT

Do we know the answers to why all the problems occurred?

Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|German Open 2012|Klaus Tänzler|Manfred Ruhmer|Wills Wing

German Open here.

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

It was tail wind until 1pm, and quite a lot of us started discussing the new rules and their problems with Klaus Tänzler (head of the DHV) who had come to Tegelberg today. Manfred had disappeared already, I would have liked a person who test flies and builds the gliders and works for the manufacturer (or is the manufacturer) to discuss the problems that we had to face with Klaus.

What exactly caused the top two pilots from the first task to be penalized for improper sprog settings?

Will Wills Wing pilots continue to not be allowed to fly at the German Open?

Was Manfred flying a prototype, if so was it certified? Did he cheat or not on the sprog settings as has been intimated by Klaus Tänzler?

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2012 German Open⁣ Corinna interview »

Tue, May 22 2012, 8:13:21 am EDT

German TV

Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|German Open 2012|video

German Open here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7kZ63pK4E#!

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Wills Wing Outlaw in Germany

Thu, May 17 2012, 8:48:50 am EDT

You can't compete with the T2C 144 in the German Open

CIVL|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Mike Meier|Nichele Roberto|PG|record|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Wills Wing

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Nichele Roberto «Nichele Roberto» sends:

(DHV) website for the German Open here.

The local rules (PDF) here.

"Airworthy glider with valid type test (airworthiness certificate)…"

A German pilot who bought a T2C 144 from me this year called upset that they won't allow him to attend the meet. Not totally sure if this applies to foreign pilots too. Could be explained with insurance issues.

Steven Pearson «Steven Pearson» writes:

The 154 is DHV certified, the 144 isn’t. The DHV is protecting the revenue stream from their certification program to the detriment of the German pilots—so much for the ‘EU’. Mike can give you the historical details ad nauseum.

Mike Meier «Mike Meier» writes:

This is a complex issue with a long history. In brief, here’s what I can tell you about it.

The U2 160, T2C 154 and Sport 2 155 have been issued the Gütesiegel by the DHV Technical Department, which is an approved testing center for hang gliders and paragliders for the LBA (German Civil Aviation Authorities), signifying that these gliders meet the German LTF Airworthiness Standards for hang gliders.

Wills Wing has not applied for LTF certification for any of our remaining current production models. In the case of the three models for which we have obtained LTF certification, we did so in each case because our dealers selling into the German market believed that having the LTF certification would increase sales. We have not found any clear indication that this has been the case. The process of obtaining LTF certification in addition to HGMA certification, which all of our current production models (except the Condors) have, is significantly burdensome and expensive, and completely redundant from an airworthiness perspective.

With regard to the insurance issue, and restrictions on flying gliders in Germany that do not have the Gütesiegel, I am far from expert on these issues. As I understand the law in Germany, based on my visit there in 2008 and a discussion with someone who is familiar with all of the legal issues, if you are living in Germany at least 180 days out of the year, it is (technically) illegal to fly a hang glider without the Gütesiegel. It is my understanding that to do so is not considered any sort of serious crime or offense, but technically, it is illegal. Also, if one is flying a hang glider without the Gütesiegel, then one is not covered by the 3rd party liability insurance (which would pay if, for example, you crashed your glider into someone's car and damaged it). One's personal insurance, such as medical insurance, is NOT affected by whether you fly a glider with, or without the Gütesiegel, as I understand it.

However, there is also a European law that says that if an aircraft has a type certificate in one European country, then another European country cannot demand a different certificate. A number of Wills Wing models that do not have the German Gütesiegel do hold Austrian Type Certificates, based on the Austrian acceptance of the HGMA certification. It is therefore at least somewhat uncertain as to the legal standing or validity of any German law that requires specifically a German certification.

Over the last 30 years there have been many significant attempts to negotiate recognition within Germany for the other major hang gliding certification programs – HGMA and BHPA (British). None of these attempts has yet been successful – within Germany, only the LTF certification is recognized as valid. Over that same time period there has been ample opportunity to observe the safety record of gliders that have been certified under one airworthiness program and not under the others. There has been no indication during this time of any difference in safety between gliders certified under one program versus those certified under another program. A detailed comparative analysis of the HGMA and LTF certification programs has shown that both programs are very similar in the manner in which they define and test for hang glider airworthiness, and that where the programs do differ in technical matters, the HGMA airworthiness standards are in fact more valid from a technical standpoint than are the LTF standards.

The FAI Sporting Code Section 7A defines a certified hang glider as follows:

12. 2.2.1 Certified Gliders

Hang gliders of a make and model for which there is airworthiness approval issued by either the BHPA, DHV or HGMA and which have not been altered in any way since manufacture that would affect this certification. Sprogs must be set within the certified range.

The FAI and CIVL therefore recognize HGMA and BHPA certification for the purposes of competition as equivalent to German certification. It is unfortunate, and seems without any rational justification that a German pilot has been denied the opportunity to compete in a competition in his home country on an HGMA certified glider.

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Dalby Big Air

April 21, 2012, 7:37:05 EDT

Dalby Competition

Scott Barrett wins the last day and wins the competition

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Conrad Lotten was a mere seventeen points behind in second place but dropped back on the last day coming in twentieth as thirty pilots made goal. Scott was the fastest into goal starting a bit later than Curt who came into goal first but was second for the day. Rohan Holtkamp was third for the day just behind Curt.

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 Total
1 Scott Barrett airborne rev 13.5 747 803 470 893 889 861 977 5640
2 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rs 3.5 779 866 256 902 913 930 715 5361
3 adam stevens airbone rev 13.5 824 709 450 889 819 740 753 5184
4 Rohan Holtkamp airborne rev 13.5 870 825 175 496 992 854 960 5172
5 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 558 855 341 831 874 840 770 5069
6 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 296 881 244 784 886 934 967 4992
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 688 835 99 894 854 678 859 4907
8 john smith moyes litespeed rs 4 821 865 292 889 807 378 755 4807
9 jonas lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 781 336 136 968 870 801 882 4774
10 Len Paton moyes litespeed rs 4 744 975 189 673 759 610 780 4730

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The DHV on the Forbes Flatlands

Thu, Jan 26 2012, 9:57:55 am PST

Pictures and German

Conrad Loten|Joerg Ewald

http://www.dhv.de/web/piloteninfos/sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/vor-wm-forbesaustralien-2012/

Thanks to Joergi.

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Forbes Flatlands - task five results »

January 11, 2012, 11:26:39 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task five

A white sky with high diffuse clouds

Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Forbes Flatlands|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Rohan and Scott, flying Airborne REV's, win the day again and go back to one and two in the overall lead. Jonny out of the competition.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:34:49 18:27:50 03:53:01 983
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:32:15 18:27:27 03:55:12 970
3 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:04 18:28:15 03:58:11 937
4 Mitch Shipley USA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:29:29 18:28:14 03:58:45 936
4 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 14:26:58 18:27:30 04:00:32 936
6 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:37:24 18:33:20 03:55:56 933
7 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:45 18:32:51 04:02:06 922
8 Rod Flockhart AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:38:00 18:34:32 03:56:32 920
9 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 14:33:02 18:33:16 04:00:14 913
10 John Smith NZL Moyes RS 4 14:32:47 18:33:26 04:00:39 903

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 4114
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3863
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 3731
4 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3647
5 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3625
6 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 3585
7 Hans Kiefinger GER Aeros GT 13.2 3536
8 John Smith NZL Moyes RS 4 3408
9 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 3362
10 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3360
11 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3350
12 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 3325
13 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 3312
14 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3299
15 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 3279

Wednesday cancelled due to high winds. It looks like we'll have three good final days.

Forbes Flatlands - day three results »

Forbes Flatlands - day three

Attila goes early and wins the day

Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Primoz Gricar|Roberto Nichele|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C


http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Day 3:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:08:23 16:58:04 02:49:41 940
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:44:29 17:28:22 02:43:53 884
3 Roberto Nichele SUI Wills Wing T2C 144 14:14:15 17:07:01 02:52:46 880
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:29:45 17:19:04 02:49:19 873
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 14:30:55 17:19:56 02:49:01 867
6 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:30:14 17:20:02 02:49:48 860
7 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:10:08 17:09:50 02:59:42 841
8 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 14:24:42 17:19:07 02:54:25 838
9 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:30:07 17:22:42 02:52:35 834
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 14:31:38 17:24:11 02:52:33 830

Totals after three days:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2357
2 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 2216
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 2176
4 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 2136
5 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros Combat L 13,7 09 2117
5 Roberto Nichele SUI Wills Wing T2C 144 2117
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2097
8 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2053
9 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2036
10 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 2004

Tish, a flying fish

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 9:37:24 am PST

Coming out of retirement

Conrad Loten|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan

Conrad Loten «Conrad Loten» writes:

I will be at Forbes to try to qualify for the NZ team. Tascha is coming out of retirement to fly there as well.

Fosters, Australian for beer (in the US).

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Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championship (Steve Hocking), Day 5

Wed, Jan 12 2011, 1:11:00 pm AEDT

Forbes Floodlands

Nineteen knots in the tow paddock

Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Forbes Flatlands Championships 2011|Grant Heaney|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Roberto Nichele|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|video|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results2011.php

http://www.jonnydurand.blogspot.com/

http://kathryn.typepad.com/

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/flyingtrent

http://www.flockhartrod.blogspot.com/

We call the day at noon after hoping during the morning that the winds at the airfield will die down.

Date/Time (EDT) Speed (knots) Gust (knots)
12/12:00PM 21 32
12/11:54AM 20 32
12/11:00AM 19 25
12/10:00AM 18 26
12/09:00AM 19 29
12/08:55AM 18 29
12/08:00AM 14 17
12/07:00AM 3 4

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60801/IDN60801.94715.shtml

We had three good days of flying at this second competition at Forbes. Six out of ten days in all.

Final Results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2800
2 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2460
3 Trent Brown Aus Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2355
4 Steve Blenkinsop Aus Moyes Litespeed S3.5 2266
5 Yasuhiro Noma Jpn Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2246
6 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 2156
7 Grant Heaney Aus Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2063
8 Davis Straub Usa Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 1953
9 Conrad Loten Nzl Moyes Litespeed S 4 1942
10 Roberto Nichele Sui Wills Wing T2C-144 1875
11 Larry Bunner Usa Wills Wing T2C 144 1873

The RS 3.5 seems to be the preferred size and model of the Litespeed.

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Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championship (Steve Hocking), Day 4

Tue, Jan 11 2011, 7:56:33 pm AEDT

Forbes Floodlands

Too iffy a day for a task

Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Forbes Flatlands Championships 2011|Grant Heaney|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Roberto Nichele|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|weather|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results2011.php

http://www.jonnydurand.blogspot.com/

http://kathryn.typepad.com/

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/flyingtrent

http://www.flockhartrod.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/warrenwindsport

After the first three days:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2829
2 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2488
3 Trent Brown Aus Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2383
4 Steve Blenkinsop Aus Moyes Litespeed S3.5 2281
5 Yasuhiro Noma Jpn Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2267
6 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 2171
7 Grant Heaney Aus Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2083
8 Conrad Loten Nzl Moyes Litespeed 1971
9 Davis Straub Usa Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 1968
10 Roberto Nichele Sui Wills Wing T2C-144 1900
11 Larry Bunner Usa Wills  Wing T2C 144 1889

The weather was a bit too iffy for a task today. Moderate breeze on the ground. 40 km/h (25 mph) up at 3,000' (compared to 18 mph yesterday). Rain during the day, clearing, then overcast. Nearby cu's, but no lift over the airfield.

We gave it a good go, but called it when it got too late without a good chance of getting good for a fair task.

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2010 Canungra Classic »

October 9, 2010, 8:19:13 MDT

2010 Canungra Classic

Looks like about one day's worth of flying out of eight

Canungra Classic 2010|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

The Canungra Classic results found here. Three days flown, five days rain. Looks like there isn't a drought up there in Queensland.

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1184
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1020
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1006
4 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4 945
5 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 862
6 Peter Dall ATOS 844
7 Adam Stevens Airborne C4 815
8 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat 779
9 Davo Staver Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 682
10 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 666

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2010 Canungra Classic »

October 7, 2010, 8:15:44 MDT

2010 Canungra Classic

Conrad Loten wins the second task

Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2010|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

The Canungra Classic results found here.

Task 2:

# Name Time Total
1 Conrad Loten 01:41:25 735
2 Jon Durand Jnr 01:39:13 730
3 Trent Brown 01:49:43 693
4 Peter Dall 01:52:09 684
5 Steve Blenkinsop 01:53:39 678
6 Tony Giammichele 01:54:08 676
7 Neil Petersen 02:12:01 620
8 Adam Stevens   496
9 Rod Flockhart   467
10 Jonas Lobitz   425

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Dist. Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:42:58 47,13 307
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:58:40 47,13 292
3 Jon Durand Moyes Litespeed S 5 02:36:41 47,13 265
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5   47,11 249
5 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5   46,64 248
6 Adam Stevens Airborne C4   40,71 228
7 Davo Staver Moyes Litespeed S 3.5   30,23 197
8 Ward Gunn Moyes Litespeed S 4.5   24,95 181
9 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5   17,33 158
9 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 13.5   17,21 158
11 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4   12,53 141
11 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5   12,61 141

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NSW State Titles - final results »

Sat, Feb 20 2010, 2:50:17 pm PST

NSW State Titles

A very close finish

Øyvind Ellefsen|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2010|Scott Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

http://www.ellefsen.net/

http://www.jonnydurand.blogspot.com/

Results after five days of flying. Billo writes:

I decided not to fly on the last day so as to be able to get the scoring done early, but when I got down from the hill into the comp HQ there was no power. A total blackout in Manilla, then the mobile phone system went down too, so no internet either.

I completed the scoring to the dulcet tones of a trio of large generator sets, but I couldn't upload the results until this morning. They are on the web now.

I forgot to give a special mention to the Kiwi contingent. A large number came over for a trans Tasman challenge. This is great to see, and I'd like to thank them all for showing up.

The challenge was won by the Aussies, I don't have the scores to hand as I calculated them on the back of a beer coaster, but if anybody wants to work it out for themselves, add the scores of the top 4 pilots from each country on each day.

It was something like 17,000 to 14,000.

1. Jon Jnr Durand, Australia, 4037

2. Conrad Loten, NZ, 3974

3. Scott Barrett, Australia, 3763

Tim Ettridge writes:

Jonny Durand, to no one's surprise, wins the NSW Titles comp again…for the tenth time in a row. This, despite bombing out at a mere 30K on the third of five tasks flown and scoring only 300 points.

New Zealand's Conrad Loten came in second, after landing in the east bombout field on the last day and, with the aid of his crew, getting back up in time to relaunch.

Scott Barrett came in third and, being the highest placing NSW resident, becomes the New South Wales Champion.

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NSW State Titles »

Fri, Feb 19 2010, 9:22:51 am PST

Jonny moves back into the lead, you can't keep a good man down

Øyvind Ellefsen|Chris Jones|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Scott Barrett

http://www.ellefsen.net/

Results so far after four days of flying.

# Pilot Glider Total
1. Jon Jnr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS4 3306
2. Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4 3146
3. John Smith Aeros Combat 14 2964
4. Oyvind Ellefsen Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 2957
5. Scott Barrett Airborne Rev 13.5 2949
6. Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed S3.5 2820
7. Dustan Hansen Airborne C2 14 2706
8. Matt Barlow Aeros Combat 15 2700
9. Dave May Moyes Litespeed 2673
10. Chris Jones Moyes Litespeed S4 2632

Fourth task:

# Pilot Glider Time Total Points
1. Jon Jnr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:47:06 1000
2. Dave Seib Moyes 01:49:31 948
3. Tony Lowrey Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 02:02:40 794
4. Chris Jones Moyes Litespeed S4 02:12:06 760
5. Neil Peterson Aeros Combat 13 02:12:21 758
6. Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed S3.5 02:12:57 752
7. Matt Barlow Aeros Combat 15 02:17:03 717
8. Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:17:20 715
9. Scott Barrett Airborne Rev 13.5 02:16:11 683
10. Dustan Hansen Airborne C2 14 02:23:14 668

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2010 Forbes Flatlands - 8th day »

January 10, 2010, 11:03:24 pm AEDT

2010 Forbes Flatlands

Six and a half hours in the air

Ben Dunn|Conrad Loten|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Forbes Flatlands 2010|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

The task committee, Gerolf, Dave May, and Conrad Loten, called a 206 km triangle to the north, given the forecast for light winds with the center of the high pressure moving south to the west of us during the day. The forecast for cu's was a bit weak with only thin cu's predicted, but the lift was seen to be reasonable if a bit weaker than the previous two days.

The lift, the height of cloud base, and the thickness of the cu's turned out to be better than predicted, but the winds were strong out of the southwest, but not on the ground. This made for a long and difficult task getting back to Forbes.

To avoid the heat I was ready to take off first, when the word came down that the task had been changed to just Tomingley and back, 188 kilometers. Most likely because there were no cu's showing up at the noon launch time (as forecasted). I quickly deleted the Trundal waypoint and launched.

While it was blue there was still plenty of lift and it was possible to get to over 8,000' in time for the first start time. Given the long task, I wanted to get going early. Cu's started forming during the hour between the launch and the first start time.

I raced out with Steve Blenkinsop and quickly found lift that averaged over 500 fpm. There were plenty of clouds on the course line and it was easy to find the lift. I was thirty kilometers north of the edge of the start circle when the last start time came around (forty minutes after the first start time).

Fifteen minutes later I was 40 kilometers north of the start cylinder at almost cloud base just above Steve Blenkinsop. I told myself (apparently not too convincingly) that I should just stay with Steve as he was doing well in the competition (much better than me). But as we raced down the cloud street, that was just about to end before Peak Hill, Steve stopped to work his way as high as possible.

For some reason I didn't see the point of this and charged on ahead. Forty five minutes later I was groveling east of Peak Hill as I heard Zac and Jeff behind me catching up.

Jeff got low a couple of times and slowed way down. Zac kept moving along as did Larry. I finally got back up past Peak Hill, but eleven kilometers from the turnpoint I saw a pilot going back. Jeez, I had already lost twenty two kilometers. Steve stayed high the whole way toward the turnpoint.

There was strong lift just before the turnpoint and I found 700 fpm to over 8,000'. It was easy to get the turnpoint as I hooked up with Larry. Jeff was working hard to stay up. Coming back into the head wind there was plenty of lift and good clouds and I stayed high for the next twenty kilometers.

Larry got stuck behind me and Jeff was fifteen kilometers back. Zippy was just out ahead a little.

After climbing to 8,500' south of Peak Hill I had a disastrous glide. Eighteen kilometers later I was down to 1,500' AGL next to the mine north of Parkes. I would spend the next hour there drifting backwards in the 14 mph head wind, just trying to get back up.

There was a cu-nimb back by the turnpoint but east of it. The sport class goal was at Tomingley. Four out of five made it for the longest sport class task of the competition. The one pilot was only two kilometers short.

There was another cu-nimb forming east and north of Parkes. I was on the western edge of it as it expanded going west. This provided some reasonable lift but I was already eight kilometers down wind of the course line so I didn't get too far under it.

The lift worked well, but when I got to Parkes I didn't find it again, and had to land. Jeff had been able to get back up while I was groveling. So did Larry. Zac had been really low just before I got low and was back in the game. Jeff was now climbing to 11,000'.

Zac and Jeff made it in. Larry was just 3 kilometers short. See the results page to see who won the day.

On-line pilot registration systems

January 7, 2010, 7:22:59 AEDT

On-line pilot registration systems

From the HGFA newsletter

Brett Hardin|Conrad Loten|PG

Meet organizers, you can have a pilot registration system at no cost to you. You control it and you can put on your web site.

One barrier to running a competition is having an on-line system that automates the task of pre-registering pilots coming to the competition, and gets them to pay in advance. You'll find a pilot registration form template and tracking system that does this for you with a few minor modifications here.

You can set this up on your own web or blog site or use Google's. Modify it to your tastes.

For example, here and here. A speed gliding registration implementation is found here with organizer comments here.

A different approach is to use an existing on-line service that has a pilot registration system up and running with a centralized database that can be used for multiple competitions. Brett Hardin, Bright resident, has a paragliding pilot registration server available here: http://ozparaglidingcomps.com (click the "More info" menu item to see the list of feature) and here: http://usparaglidingcomps.com. With a few tweaks he says that it could handle hang gliding meets, although he's not sure he wants to support them.

An existing on-line pilot registration system like Brett's for hang gliders (and paragliders) is found at http://goflyxc.com.

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2010 Forbes Flatlands - 1st day »

January 4, 2010, 0:01:31 AEDT

2010 Forbes Flatlands

Looks like Zippy won the day

Ben Dunn|Conrad Loten|Facebook|Flytec 6030|Forbes Flatlands 2010|Jamie Shelden|Jeff Shapiro|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|sailplane|weather

A great start to the 2010 Forbes Flatlands with a beautiful cool day in the tow paddock at the airport (30 degrees). No cu's, a top of the lift about 4,700' (4,000' AGL) a nice stiff breeze at 14 mph and higher out of the south southwest.

We have an innovation that we are trying out here at the Forbes Flatlands. A ten person rotating task committee, with three task members (in addition to me as the weather person) each day. The first day, we had Attila, Len Paton, and Jon Senior.  Len Paton was very up on the latest RASP forecast so he provided most of the weather forecasting, which I really appreciated, as it made my job easier.

They picked a task to the northeast, essentially cross tail wind for 167 km to Goolma between Wellington and Gulgong. The idea was to get up into the high country away from the flooded areas so that we wouldn't have stranded pilots, or have to fly over huge shallow lakes.

When we got to the airfield Jonny Junior freaked out a bit that we had a task heading toward some towering cu's that were a hundred miles to the east. Lenny had checked the chances of over development and saw that as far as the RASP was concerned it was not a concern. This didn't assuage Jonny's concerns so he got the task committee to call a different task with a turnpoint 50 kilometers to the north northeast (cross wind) and then downwind 90 kilometers to a 5 KM goal cylinder around the sailplane port at Narromine. 5 KM in order to stay out of their way. (The towering cu's never amounted to anything.)

We are trying out another innovation here penalizing pilots if they leave too early. If you leave before the start clock opens we just rotate your start time around the first start time, and leave your elapse interval time unchanged. Easy to do and very effective in providing a small "penalty." Lukas Bader felt that it was possible for some pilots to start way early (a bit difficult to do in a tow comp) and if conditions changed rapidly during the day, the early starters may have an unfair advantage, even with their time rotated (say no one made goal).

So I added an additional penalty of ten percent if pilots left more than (or equal to) one start interval before the first start time. The point of allowing pilots to leave early is to make the towing situation less crowded and easier to handle, to not excessively penalize pilots for leaving a few minutes early.

In Category 1 competition often there is a large penalty for leaving early. I believe that the main reason for this is that if GAP 2002 is used for scoring it is very difficult to move a pilot's track log (and not just their start and finish time) so that they can be properly scored. Since we are using OzGAP 2005, this is not an issue.

With three launch lines and seven tugs for seventy pilots (six in sport class) the launches went quickly, even with the first pilots in the launch line holding back (no cu's). There was plenty of lift to 4,100' and those of us who got off early had no problem staying up and staying within the 10 kilometer start radius.

We did our best to work our way to the upwind side of the course line (west) but we didn't get too far past it by the time we were ready to start out on course. Most of us took the second clock at 2:40 PM. Zippy and about ten pilots took the third one. I wasn't too high when we started, but then neither was anyone else.

I hooked up with Conrad Loten right after the start and we got low quickly (1,300' AGL), but we found 400 fpm and were able to get going. We caught up quickly with pilots who took the first start time and others who started west of us and took the second start time. There is a nice rocky ridge line to the north northeast and it provided the necessary lift.

It required a bit of team work getting to the first turnpoint at Trundle. Conrad and I hooked up with Lukas Bader and other pilot so that we could all search for lift. I found a little rocket just before the turnpoint while the others missed out pushing ahead. All the lift was very narrow on this first day, and you really had to make tight turns to stay it it. I had no problem doing that with the new Airborne Rev 13.5.

I was also able to glide with all the other gliders. The VG was easy to pull on, and the bar pressure was reasonable. It felt like a stable steady ship that is easy to fly, flies straight and goes fast.

Since I got high before the turnpoint I was able to get to it easily and find the lift at the turnpoint to get up and out of there while I watched the other I was with low and slowly climbing. Now I was chasing the few guys in front of me having left my gaggle behind.

I couldquite catch them, and as I circled up in 160 fpm lift about twenty kilometers past the turnpoint, Carl, Jonny and Zippy came in under me. I decided, that this looks like a good crew and that I'd stick with them.

This worked out well until we went on a long glide and I was down to 1,100'. Jonny had gone further to the west, more on the course line, and got stuck by himself low also. There were half a dozen of us digging our way out of our self imposed hole with Zippy even lower and scratching.

We took a little over 200 fpm to a bit over 4,000' and headed downwind toward goal which was now only 30 kilometers away. I was getting glides of 18:1 with the 14 mph tail wind, and every time I was turning I was drifting directly toward the goal.

I didn't get very high any more, but I didn't need to. With the wind it was easy to make it into goal, at the five kilometer radius (my 6030 had me making it to the center of the goal cylinder at Narromine with a few hundred feet).

Jonny, Carl, Lukas, Attila, later Noma, and much later Larry Bunner made goal and landed near us. Larry had the wrong task activated and it took him a while to figure it out. He almost went down a few times. Zippy crossed the goal line just before me and started twenty minutes after the rest of us. So we think he won the day.

Jeff Shapiro went down early at the first turnpoint.

Results.

The task and flight.

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More luck from Adam Parer

More luck from Adam Parer

Lucky to survive his wounds

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Monica Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

We stayed at Scott and Monica Barrett's in North Belmont (near Newcastle) for three days after Christmas while they were visiting family in Victoria. We had the opportunity to have dinners with Conrad Loten (and Annucia and Myra), Billo (and Julia) and Adam Parer (who is now living at his mother's house in Newcastle). I took the opportunity to teach Billo additional aspects of the Davis' Scoring Program which he will use to also score the NSW State Titles (Jonny's favorite competition) and the Dalby Big Air. A little time with the program's author always helps. He also got an updated version.

Discussions with Conrad and Adam, who, by the way, is doing very well, revealed the extent of Adam's peril from his injuries in the few hours after he sustained them. Adam has already detailed how fortunate he was to survive his tuck, tumble and subsequent high speed spin in articles here in the Oz Report and on his blog. What was not quite so clear was how lucky he was to survive the wounds sustained from his deployment in free fall.

Adam had massive injuries to his chest, six broken ribs on the right side (Conrad described this side as flailed), two (not found at first) on the left. A collapsed lung and cracked sternum.  Because of the collapsed lung and internal bleeding there he had trouble breathing. But he could have easily had two collapsed lungs which would have suffocated him.

Because Adam is healthy and fit (and still is) he was able to able to reinflate the right lung within twenty four hours when it is usual to have to do much more invasive measures to deal with the damage. The fact that he was helicoptered out of the field to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle brought its own peril as reduced pressure on the lungs could have caused further damage. The pilot flew 200' off the trees and skimmed over the Great Dividing Range into the Hunter valley.

Adam is well on his road to a much greater recovery than was expected. Conrad was initially skeptical that the upper right ribs would ever go back into place but now it looks like that is already a possibility. Adam is swimming a kilometer every day, running hard and feels that his lung capacity (six weeks after the accident) is back to normal or close to it. His lung capacity will be tested soon.

He is being careful. Not flying and not riding a bike. He doesn't want to endanger his recovery progress. He will return to work at the fire department next Monday, but at a desk job for now. He has six months of accrued sick leave, but doesn't want to use it up.

He looks thin (he lost a lot of weight after his wife died) but healthy. His eyes (you may have seen the pictures) have whites instead of reds. I could see him favoring his right side, but not extensively.

We were very happy to visit with Adam and see that he is doing so well. He is enjoying staying with his mother and she is happy to have him there. Adam is particularly happy to see the huge interest in High Energy parachutes which can sustain freefall. Many pilots are ordering them to replace their existing chutes.

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Adam Parer on his tuck and tumble

Fri, Nov 27 2009, 5:31:16 am PST

Wow! Take a deep breath before you read this

Adam Parer|Chris Jones|Conrad Loten|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Phil Schroder|video|weather

Adam Parer «Adam Parer» writes:

I got out of hospital 3 days ago and tried to put something together about the accident last night. It’s a scary incident but the outcome has nothing but positive implications for all of us. We can survive a parachute deployment at terminal velocity after separating from our glider. Best to avoid such an event but if it does happen it need not be a death sentence. I am very lucky to be alive, and extremely grateful to still be here. Hoping what follows covers all questions but have also attached a more formal report too.

Adam's Formal Report.

It was the 2nd task of the Gulgong Classic and just like the day before the wind gusts and turbulence in the tow paddock were moderate to heavy. It was about 30-35 degrees Celsius at ground level and the conditions seemed stable although the weather report had predicted good instability. Due to the rough conditions weak links were breaking just about every other tow and the two tugs worked hard to eventually get everyone off the ground successfully. The task was 209km, north, to Manilla Airstrip.

I towed out of the airstrip around 1:30pm and went to release height behind Pete Marhiene. During the first thermal I noticed several light inversion layers. Eventually I drifted downwind and met up with Chris Jones, Phil Schroder, Oliver Barthelmes and Dave May and we topped out at 6500' before heading NW in a cross-tail direction to get on the upwind side of the course line.

Chris was ahead by 200m and after a 5km glide I watched him complete two turns in what looked like solid lift. Eventually Dave, Oli and Phil would also head for Chris. Before I got there he had already straightened up and was back into a search pattern. This was typical of the conditions for the day; very short lived 'bubble' climbs, mild to moderate turbulence and generally a stable type of feel to the weather. Way off to the north great looking clouds filled the sky along the Liverpool Range and beyond, we needed to get there but for now we continued to hunt for a core that may be lurking around in the stable conditions of Gulgong.

While Chris, Oli, Phil and Dave tended to search upwind I turned downwind for about 100m and noticed the air felt much better there, still bumpy and stable but at least it was more buoyant I fully expected to only gain a few turns out of any climb I may find before it too petered out. Soon I felt some lift ahead and more to the left so I began a shallow turn in that direction and the vario started to chirp at about 200-300'/min. VG was off except for about 1 arms length of rope. I was flying at about 50kph with a bar position faster than best glide speed.

As I climbed for about a ¼ of the first turn the 'G' began to lighten and the nose started to ease over. For that first split second I expected a 'wire slapper' to precede a return into normal flight. This did not happen. The 'G' went to zero and the nose continued over. I braced onto the basebar and attempted to pull in and maintain hang position. This however could not be maintained. The 'G' went negative and the nose went over. I maintained some grip on the basebar and kept the torso as close to it as possible but the leg/boot end of the harness could not and continued to move toward the undersurface and my upper body would eventually follow. The nose-over motion accelerated and then I lost contact with the basebar.

As I fell weightless through the air the glider proceeded to tumble and I clear the wing without making contact as it passed underneath inverted. Just as the glider came around upright I bottomed out with a thud when the hang strap went tight and for a split second I thought the glider may stabilize however it had more than enough momentum to enter the 2nd tumble. Again I don't recall hitting any part of the glider as it went over a second time. Once again I fell with another thud when the hang straps went tight but this time the tension lasted for a much shorter period of time. I went weightless as if falling straight down for several meters before feeling the beginning of a rotation/spin in the horizontal plane (like a sycamore seed). We suspect the side wire had broken at this point and the wings began to fold together.

The first spin finished quickly but I entered the 2nd spin with much more speed. I tried to go for the parachute handle but the 'G' force had already built up significantly. Soon my arms (and eventually my head) were forced and held out away from the center of rotation preventing me from reaching the parachute handle. I realized I was in a bad way but my life depended on getting to the parachute. Hard as I tried and with all of my strength my arms remained straight pointing away from the harness.

What followed is something I could never have imagined, a force developed by these rotations, an incredible rapid acceleration in speed and the rapidly increasing 'G'. I have watched video of similar motion when a glider folds its wings but on those occasions the rotation seems to reach a maximum after a number of rotations. Not in this case. The 'G' force continued to increase and was transverse to my prone position, pooling blood ventrally in the front half of my body. The eyes sustained advanced hematoma from this force. By the 5th and 6th rotation the load was so severe I knew the equipment would have to fail soon and hopefully before I sustained serious injury. Then in a split second the 'G' force went to zero and I was being thrown through space. At least I could move my arms and hold my head up. I reached for the parachute handle.

I was aware of moving horizontally with a lot of velocity and could also hear the airspeed accelerating very quickly. Motion through the air was like a projectile but soon turned into a freefall. I realized then I had definitely separated from the glider. I located the parachute handle and pulled with my right hand but it didn't budge, and after a few more heaves I was convinced the parachute was going to need a lot more persuasion to come out. (We would discover the back plate had failed catastrophically and the opening of the parachute port was deformed as a result).

As I fought to remove the parachute I was aware of free-falling straight down in a boot-first/head-up/'pencil' position. This would later be confirmed by eye witnesses. Over the next 5 seconds while I continued to struggle with the parachute the sound of the airflow achieved a maximum and I realized I was at terminal velocity.

One arm was not enough so I reached down with the left and with both hands heaved on the handle. After another couple of seconds I felt the parachute finally come loose. I threw it sideways, let go and waited.

What came next was the most painful and violent impact I have ever felt in my life, like I had been torn in half. Extreme pain instantly filled the body with the worst of it concentrated in chest and upper back. I knew I had sustained serious injury and immediately suspected my back was broken. I looked up just enough to see one of the most beautiful things, a clean circular shape of the front 1/3 of the parachute, taut, inflated and in tact. The airflow was quiet now and the earth was no longer hurtling towards me. In less than 15 seconds I had fallen 4000', the parachute and harness survived the deployment and so had I but not without injury, and the pain suggested I was in a real bad way.

The thought of paralysis filled my mind and I needed to know. I tried to wriggle my fingers and they moved. I thought with some dread, 'My legs?' I wriggled my feet and they moved too. Relief mixed with the pain but concern remained that my back was probably broken despite the spinal cord being intact. I needed a soft landing to protect what wasn't damaged. I looked down and the remaining 2000' came up very slowly. I could only just breathe. I needed to get down as soon as possible and get help.

After a minute of trying to get more air into my lungs my color vision started to fade, I was graying out. I remained conscious but gradually blacked out and feared I may have sustained fatal internal injuries.

My thoughts immediately went to my wife who passed away earlier this year. I hoped that if this was what was happening to me then I would be with her soon and I felt content for the first time in 4 months. My soul mate, taken away so early in our life with whom I had shared so much… Pain was no longer on my mind and I felt calm. A few moments passed before awareness came over me, I was not dying, I would survive, and this was not my time. The peace gave way to the pain which returned with a vengeance. Shock set-in and I passed out.

When I came too I was on my back looking up at the sky. I looked around and suddenly the realization of what had just happened came back all at once. I said out loud in astonishment and relief, "I survived!" Then I started to get dragged backwards at a waking pace for a few feet before coming to a stop. I looked over my shoulder and there was that beautiful red colored parachute again, right behind me on the ground and still inflated. A gust came through and again I slowly got dragged along the ground a few more feet.

The pain was worse than ever now and I had to get out of the harness. I rechecked arm and leg movement and all were still working. I unclipped the leg loops and the waist belt. As I struggled in vain to undo the chest buckle I heard a voice from behind, a farmer who had seen my parachute from a distance sitting inflated on the ground drove over to check it out. "Can I give you a hand son?" He asked as he walked into my field of view where I lay on my back. "Yes, undo this buckle and call an ambulance", was my reply.

He too struggled with the chest strap and I thought it may be jammed from the deployment. I had one more go and it released. I rolled out of the harness, stood up, walked over to the shade of a nearby tree and carefully crouched in the least painful position. There I stayed for the next 90minutes until I could be evacuated.

Three things I saw that day will stay with me for the rest of my life. First, a glimpse of that High Energy parachute sitting high above and taking me safely to earth after the wildest and most painful ride of my life. And again as I lay unconscious in that field then waking up, looking over my shoulder to see it there once again, that big red parachute on the ground and still inflated as if it continued to watch over me.

Second was the sight of Oli, Dave, Phil and Chris all coming into land only meters away from where I crouched in absolute searing pain. I watched them get out of their harnesses one by one and I felt much better straight away. They rallied around me in relative silence but their concern was obvious. It took 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive but the pilots urged the paramedics on and tried to hurry them to do what ever was necessary to get me out of there and into hospital. I heard Oli pleading with the Ambulance Officer, "You need to get the helicopter, just send the helicopter right now". "Dave sat next to me and relayed my answers as I could hardly speak. I can't describe how good it was to have them there.

Photo by Tim Ettridge

Then the red and yellow Westpac helicopter arrived! The crew was on the ball and once airborne I finally realised I was safe. We lifted off and headed straight for The John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.

As I was wheeled in through the hospital doors a familiar face in a green medical gown stood there waiting, Conrad Loten, fellow hang glider pilot and head of the Emergency Department took over my treatment and directed his staff calmly but with obvious authority and competence. After the CAT scan Conrad came over to my bed and confirmed the damage; 6 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, broken sternum and a flail fracture of the chest. "What about my back?" I asked. With the slight smile he assured me the back was in perfect condition, no damage to the spine whatsoever.

Quietly but with apparent concern Conrad kept in touch of my progress and treatment over the next week. I was very lucky indeed to have him looking after me. Friends visited everyday and thankfully I made a quick recovery in that first week. My family came with real food to spare me and my recovering body what wasn't offered on the hospital 'menu'. While the prognosis is still uncertain it seems as though I could expect to make something close to a full recovery. Everyday I am feeling much stronger.

I was very lucky to have survived this accident and many things were in my favor including a lot of luck. The specialists believe health and fitness gave me a big advantage not only aiding in the healing but also preventing more serious injury. Since my wife passed away some months ago I have lost a bit of weight and I suspect the less momentum I had when the parachute inflated the better. She always looked out for me in the most unusual and often in the least obvious of ways and it feels she continues to.

In hindsight I began preparation for this accident 18 months ago. At Forbes in 2007 I watched Austrian pilot, Andreas Orgler, experience an almost identical accident. While his incident did not involve the violent sycamore rotation he did tumble twice and then separated from his glider. His pilotless wing then descended straight at me, head-on, and only just cleared mine with a closing speed that would have certainly brought me down too. Meanwhile Andreas quickly deployed his parachute during his freefall and well before achieving terminal velocity. Despite his much lower speed the inflation was explosively and the parachute failed. He continued to freefall right before my eyes.

Witnessing such a traumatic event left me deeply affected for a long time but it was the motivation to understand why it happened and then reequip with the most advanced skyline harness and a new High Energy parachute. This equipment that could and did survive this rare and 'unlikely' event where pilot and glider are separated in flight. The accident in Forbes helped prepare me to survive mine at Gulgong. This may be small consolation to those who have never met me and knew Andreas, but the fact is there are many people here now who are very relieved and very happy because I am alive. He helped save my life.

I am very happy to be alive.

My understanding of flying has not changed in any way and I am not left with any doubt about the safety and risks of hang gliding. I hope to fly again but that depends on the ribs, and if I get to fly for another 15yrs I would be surprised if I ever come across the same air that lead to my accident last Monday. Nothing I could have done and no sort of equipment would have behaved differently. The air was tipping me over no matter what.

The Rev is the most stable and beautiful glider I have flown in and when I eventually reequip it will be with the same gear.

Check your equipment and update to the best, the extra few $100 is worth it!

Adam has a lot more to say here.

Pictures of the damage here.

2009 Canungra Classic »

Fri, Oct 9 2009, 8:08:13 am PDT

Ricky Duncan in first place overall

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2009|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Phil Schroder|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tim Osborn|Trent Brown

It looks like a lot of pilots got penalties of 100%. I assume for airspace violations.

Task 5:

# Id Name Glider Time Total
1 4 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:34:14 845
2 20 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:35:37 829
3 25 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:36:31 818
4 16 Keiran Brown Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 01:39:15 787
5 11 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 01:49:50 681
6 22 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 01:52:55 654
7 10 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 01:56:37 589
8 54 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:02:53 574
9 40 Andrew Carswell 02:01:45 540
10 17 Dave May 02:09:02 531

Penalties:
Note: % penalty is used to calc penalty as a % of total score. Both types can be combined. None affect the scoring of other pilots.

Id Name Penalty Reason
45 Peter Smart 100% W4500
46 Adam Stevens 100% N7500
42 Daniel Shaw 100% N7500 W4500
29 Tim Hannah 100% N7500
48 David Leeming 100% No Altitude
51 Tim Osborn 100% E6500
55 Bodie Heyward 100% E6500 N7500
49 Mark Gilbert 100% E6500
57 Scott Ireland 100% E6500
3 Cameron Tunbridge 100% E6500 W4500
18 Neil Petersen 100% N7500 W4500
14 Andrew Barnes 100% N7500
21 Tony Giammichele 100% N7500 W4500
15 Rohan Holtkamp 100% W4500
13 Trent Brown 100% N7500
6 Phil Schroder 100% E6500
19 Conrad Loten 100% E6500 N7500
23 Andy Schmidt 100% E6500 W4500
9 Nick Purcell 100% N7500
36 Joel Mckay 100% E6500 N7500 W4500 8500
8 Warren Simonsen 100% E6500 N7500 W4500 W2500
38 John Blain 100% E6500 N7500 8500
26 Sam Prest 100% W4500
24 Derek Wagner 100% W4500
35 Glen Mcfarlane 100% W4500
7 Trevor Purcell 100% N7500

Overall:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 3779
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 3609
3 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 3308
4 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 3247
5 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 3187
6 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 3137
7 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 2940
8 Keiran Brown Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2839
9 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 2663
10 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 2660

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2009 Canungra Classic »

October 7, 2009, 8:47:55 PDT

2009 Canungra Classic

A stopped task due to cu-nimbs

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2009|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown

Task 4:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 61,74 699
2 Adam Stevens Airborne Climax C4 13.5 58,12 671
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4 57,14 664
4 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 51,28 619
5 Andrew Carswell 45,56 580
6 Dave Stevens Moyes Litespeed RS 4 41,92 552
7 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 40,97 545
8 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 39,99 536
9 Sam Prest Airborne Climax C4 13.5 39,46 530
10 Tim Hannah Airborne Climax C4 14 39,40 529

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3330
2 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 3205
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 3137
4 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 2719
5 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 2429
6 Adam Stevens Airborne Climax C4 13.5 2375
7 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed S 4 2369
8 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 2342
9 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 13.5 2317
10 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2272

Sprogs, what next? »

Tue, May 12 2009, 10:20:44 am EDT

To penalize or not

CIVL|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|sprogs|Wills Wing T2C

This last weekend the CIVL Sprog workgroup was supposed to have made a decision regarding testing sprogs at the Worlds in Laragne. Dennis wrote on Friday:

One proposal is to have a two degree allowance and penalties and the second my recent one a public display of every pilot's sprog settings and no real penalties.

The Women's and Rigid Wing pre-Worlds is taking place at Tegelberg in Germany. It started on Sunday. We should have more news soon about how sprog testing is going there.

Comp pilots express themselves on sprog measurements: http://www.dhv.de/typo/HG_Top-Piloten_zur_S.5379.0.html

Here is a proposal from Klaus Taenzler «klaustaenzler@dhv.de» who writes (but not to me):

SPROG MEASUREMENT

The limits: In order to ensure that gliders comply with the general airworthiness rules in FAI Sporting Code Section 7A the following will be applied: All Flex-Gliders (Class FAI 1) must have their sprog set to the certified angle. The penalty line is –2°. A placard fixed to the glider must identify the glider. For a prototype the pilot must present a datasheet from the glider manufacturer with the sprog settings in degree. Gliders without any pitch-test according to either HGMA, BHPA or DHV standards are not allowed and can not register.

The procedure: The measurement instrument in use is a “Spi-Tronic Pro 360° Digital Level” with a measuring length of 153 mm and a display indicating one position after the decimal point. The accuracy of the measurement instrument is 0.1° horizontal / 0.2° vertical, the repeatability is +- 0.1°. The measurement is carried out at the fixing point of the sprog wire with the centre of the fixing point as centre of the measuring length. If the sprog has a kink or a reinforcement, the measurement is done in front of the kink and reinforcement towards the leading edge at the parallel tube section. Measurements with VG fully tight (100%).

Official measurements have to be done during the registration day. The pilot whose glider measurements were within the set limits will get a paper with which he can go to registration. Without this paper he cannot register.

During the competition random checks can be made for the first three pilots in goal and arbitrarily by the official measuring team, picking the gliders, which are obviously too low. To avoid stress for the pilots, measurements during the competition should take place after the flights in the landing zone. (After a landing crash which affect the glider's structure no measurement can be done.) A glider that is measured too low is not allowed to take off again before the settings are corrected. Measuring of the corrected sprog settings by the official measuring team can be done on the landing spot or on take off the next flying day, but not later than the first briefing. It’s the responsibility of the pilot to get measured. If a glider's sprog is measured too low, the penalty will be 20% of the winner’s score of the last flown task. This penalty will be repeated every time this glider is measured too low a next time.

The official measurement does not tell anything about the airworthiness of the glider regarding the pitch of the glider. It is a field measurement that is done only to verify if the glider is within the given competition rules. It is not a good idea to set the sprogs close to the -2° limit. For example Corinna had her glider adjusted to the limit (- 2°) during the German Open (she ranked 4th overall!) Then, for the registration of the pre-world she got a new measurement (after a whack) and had to raise her sprogs 4 mm, I think this was due to the unavoidable measurement variation.

Has the Wills Wing T2C (not the T2) been pitch tested and its sprog settings (2° lower than T2) been certified?

I wonder how much of an unavoidable measurement variation we are talking about? 0.1°?

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Dalby Big Air - Curt Warren wins

Sat, Mar 14 2009, 9:49:06 pm EDT

Jonny Durand, Jr., second

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Total results.

# Pilot Glider Total
1. Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 3201.62
2. Jonny Durand Moyes Litesport 4 2883.97
3. Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2843.65
4. Adam Parer Airborne C4 13.5 2520.18
5. Cameron Tunbridge Airborne C4 13.5 2398.50
6. Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2381.66
7. Olli Barthelmes Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 2281.76
8. Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2208.32
9. Dave May Airborne C4 14 2000.15

They got four tasks in spite of the cyclone (hurricane). Curt won the last day by a large margin.

Big Flights in Dalby

March 9, 2009, 9:39:05 EDT

Big Flights in Dalby

338 km (but not 346 km)

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|weather

Cameron Tunbridge has reported flying 338 km, for the second longest task called and made in a hang gliding competition (longest in Australia). The longest was last August in Big Spring at 215 miles (346 km) and Cameron's task was 338 km (210 miles). Fourteen pilots made it to goal. Curt Warren is first, Conrad Loten is second, Adam Parer third, Cameron fourth, and Jonny thirteenth. The wind was 20 mph. Speed over the ground greater than 40 mph.

On Monday the weather wasn't so good.

Results here: http://soaringspot.com/dba2009/

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2009 New South Wales State Titles, day 5, task 5 »

February 4, 2009, 10:00:12 pm AEDT

2009 New South Wales State Titles, day 5, task 5

A beautiful day with puffy clouds

Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2009|PG

The results.

http://www.westcoastbrit.blogspot.com/

http://www.jonnydurand.blogspot.com/



Again the NSW RASP was calling for overdevelopment, but I looked at the projected temperature traces for Lake Keepit (also on the NSW RASP page) and it sure looked like the air mass above 8,000' was projected to be too dry for cu-nimb development. It looked to me like we would have lots of cu's about 1000' to 2000' thick (the wet bulb temperature and the temperature profile met at 7,000').

Still Conrad Loten on the task committee was concerned and wanted a short task (90 km) to Bingara. I thought that it was a good idea so we could get some of the intermediate gliders to goal.

The winds were supposed to be about 8 to 10 knots out of the south east after noon. Cloud base at 7000' to 8000'. There were plenty of cu's in the sky at 10 AM, with some vertical development.

There was a light wind coming in on the east launch when we got to the hill at 11 AM. Otherwise very little air movement. I set up down next to the launch. Others spread themselves out on the carpet up by the southeast launch.

We called an early day again with the first start window at 1:15 and the launch open right after the pilot briefing. But, of course, even the light wind on the east launch had stopped and it was intermittently blowing down.

We had to wait for a puff to come in, and in the first one three pilots got off at our launch and three or four from the southeast launch including Jonny and Blay. The pilots climbed up very slowly out in front not encouraging the rest of us.

I was next and when it finally came in again I was off quickly with three or more pilots behind me before it stopped again. The lift for us was much better and I got on top of the gaggle and climbed at 700 fpm to cloud base. The earlier pilots came back in low to our thermal and climbed up to cloud base also.

It was hard to keep out of the clouds and we climbed up the sides of them and up under ledges of higher bases getting to almost 8,000'. The second start time was approaching and I headed out first with Blay and Jonny just behind me

Blay sped along and was soon out in front with Jonny just behind him. I can't seem to fly quite as fast. Perhaps I just need to pull in more. One would presume so.

Three of us just behind Blay and Jonny stopped for some light lift then I headed down the course line hoping for better. I saw a paraglider ahead and went for him hitting 500 fpm. Here I made a mistake and didn't stop long enough thinking that the paraglider was in better lift. I would later not find any lift where he had been. 

I pushed ahead not worrying about lift as I was remembering the 700 fpm that I got off launch and looking for that. I headed north northeast to the right side of the highway southeast o Barraba where I saw Jonny and Blay circling. I came in under them but didn't find anything. I was low and in survival mode.

I stayed up for a while in a little less than zero sink but, couldn't find a solid core to get me back up and landed at Barraba.

It was such a good looking day that I took too many risks thinking that lift would be easy to find and speed was what was required. It was not to be. Plenty of folks who chose more wisely made goal quickly.

There may have been a little OD on the course very late. There were cu-nimbs far to our east over the Great Dividing Range at 7 PM. For the most part it was a perfect flying day.

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The New South Wales State Titles - day four, task three

Tue, Feb 26 2008, 4:33:52 am MST

Day four, Task three

We are forced back to the north launch

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|dust devil|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2008|Scott Barrett|weather

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The results are up at the soaring spot: http://www.soaringspot.com/nswst2008/

With a bank of high clouds over us and extending to the north and east and a light to moderate (not good) north east wind, we can't launch from the favored west launch and are finally forced to go back to the northeast launch. A number of pilots will refuse to launch from there and stay on the west launch hoping against hope.

When we drove up the hill we went first to the north launch, and found ourselves alone. There was a brisk wind from the left about 90 degrees to the launch, but every once in a while a thermal would come through and straighten up the flags around launch.

We trundle over to the west launch as that is where everyone else is hoping that the day will be like the day before, where it came up on the west side in the afternoon. The strong winds and the clouds will keep the west side from heating up and make this definitely unlikely.

Given the iffy conditions (actually the northeast launch looks better than the day before as there is a good amount of wind there), the pilots opt for nine start gates, so pilots who start later won't get double penalties (they'll already be out of the battle for arrival points). This is passed overwhelmingly with Jonny and Dave Seib complaining about it.

I quickly go back down to the northeast launch and get my glider out, but I'm not fast enough. Maybe I'm holding back a bit based on the day before. Jonny, Conrad, Scott, Cameron, and Dave all get off the hill before I can get to launch. The valley is dark below, there are thick high cloud above, they will ridge soar for the next fifteen to twenty minutes at 200' over launch while the winds at launch blow from the left.

Finally the sun comes out, the thermals start coming up the launch and I launch easily after Bruce Wynn. There are nice thermals and I climb out slowly watching Jonny, Scott, etc. a few thousand feet over me and down wind, but still in the start circle. They had the advantage of that extra bit of thermals when the sun first came out before we could launch.

Jon Durand Sr launches and I come back over him as he looks like he is climbing well. There are maybe ten guys flying just above the launch now but they are not getting up as Jon and I drift south over the range not getting particularly high. The shade comes back again and it is all dark on the eastern side of Mt. Borah. There are cu's and sunlight to the south along our course line.

The guys in front of us and much higher take the second start time, and we are trying for the third (well, at least I am). But the shade on the ridge and the lack of lift means I have to run for the sunlight to the south, starting ten minutes after the second start gate, and we are much lower at 3,300' (2000' AGL) than the first group. The wind is 12 to 15 mph out of the north.

In spite of the good looking clouds and lots of sunlight on the ground, the lift is weak, broken up and rough at approximately 200 fpm. I don't stay in any "thermal" very long only getting to 4,500' before trying the next good looking cloud.

I have chosen a cloud street to the left of the course line for the best chance to find lift but at the rate we are going downwind we will miss the turnpoint. I have to find a strong thermal and fast. It looks like there is one ahead and I race for it leaving Jon in 250 fpm.

It turns out to be 450 fpm and I take it to 6,700' leaving Jon behind. The top of this thermal is north east of the turnpoint at the towers south west of Lake Keepit. I pull out of the thermal early to stay well below the cloud that I'm about to race under, pull in the bar and race to the tower turnpoint. It is raining a few kilometers past the towers and it looks like this will kill the chances for the next guys if they get this far.

There are really thick black cu's south east of the turnpoint over some hills basically along the same line that I chose on the first leg. I head back to the hills and find strong lift where I expected to. This gets me up to 6,900' and lets me go on glide fast. I go at 90 km/h over the ground under the clouds watching a dust devil move south twelve kilometers ahead of me right on my direct line to goal. I will get to that dust devil and climb again.

Off to my right to the west about twenty kilometers is a cu-nimb with a wall of rain about twenty kilometers long going north south. It doesn't look particularly threatening, but I do need to head somewhat toward it to get to goal. It has cleared away an area to its east of cu's so I stay further east. The ground to my west is shaded, but I'm over sunny hot fields with some good looking cu's ahead.

The winds now out of the northwest at about 14 mph. At eighteen kilometers out I find 500 fpm at 2,500' AGL. I watch the L/D required to get to goal and the Altitude above Goal fields as I climb out. At 4,700' AGL I should have goal by 1,000'. There is shade most of the way to goal.

It looks mellow down there, as I can see the dust coming from a tractor in a field and it is moving from the northwest but at a reasonable rate and steady. I can see rain between me and the goal, but it doesn't look like heavy rain, at least yet. There is plenty of heavy rain a couple of kilometers west of the goal though and also northwest.

I do best glide into goal with little bits of lift and reasonable sink over the shaded area. The rain isn't too bad as I fly into it about five kilometers from goal and it stays with me to goal. I arrive with 200' to spare at the edge of the 400 meter cylinder. I don't see anyone else at goal, but they are in a different field and I'm too low to see them. Only six pilots make goal.

Jon Durand Sr decides not to fly into the rain and deliberately lands six kilometers short of goal. Conrad flies away from goal after getting the cylinder to get away from the rain as much as possible. It does pour down a bit for about five minutes after I land. The winds are light.

1. JONNY Durand 01:23:06 413
2. SCOTT Barrett 01:26:18 396
3. DAVE Seib 01:35:49 366
4. DAVIS Straub 01:43:02 349
5. CAMERON Tunbridge 01:51:03 343
6. CONRAD Loten 01:51:21 342

Jonny and Scott took a similar course to mine after the turnpoint, but they and Dave Seib went a lot closer to Lake Keepit than I was willing to go on the first leg. They started a couple of thousand feet higher and ten minutes before Jon Sr and I.

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The New South Wales State Titles - day two, task one

Sun, Feb 24 2008, 4:26:32 am MST

Day two, Task one

Cirrus makes for weak lift…

Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|New South Wales State Titles 2008|PG|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown|weather

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The results are up at the soaring spot: http://www.soaringspot.com/nswst2008/

1.Jonny DurandMoyes Litespeed Rs 3.553.7186
2.Davis StraubAirborne C4 - 13.540.1161
3.Dave SeibMoyes Litespeed Rs 435.1151
4.Scott BarrettAirborne C4 - 13.535.1151
5.Conrad LotenMoyes Litespeed S34.3149
6.Sam PrestAirborne C4 - 13.531.5140
7.Adam StevensAirborne C2 - 13L17.3114
8.Trent BrownAirborne C4 - 13.513.9107
9.Cameron TunbridgeAirborne C4 - 1413.8106
10.Jon DurandMoyes Litespeed S 513.4105

The cirrus clouds were already there in the morning and the satellite showed a wide of band cirrus east/west half way across Australia. It looked like these clouds would be with us for the day at least. That would cut down on the solar radiation and it seemed to me that the forecasted lift from the RASP forecast would be too high. A weak day, with no cumulus clouds, light to moderate winds out of the southwest, lots of periods of shading. Might not even get a flight in.

The conditions stay the same, except that the light winds on launch out of the west, improve a bit by the 12:30 PM pilot briefing, so at least we might be able to ridge soar a bit. We on the task committee call a 66 km task out 44 km 22 km past Barraba, and back to Barraba air field. We don't think that we will get over 4,000'. Launch is 2,800' and the Barraba air field is 1,670'.

There are lots of paragliders around and after the launch window opens four of them are slowly getting up. This is enough to get me going and I take off third, an hour before the last start window. I don't know why everyone is waiting around, other than the fact that this is the first task, and pilots usually are slow to get going on the first day. I find ridge lift and thermals and climb to 5,300' right away.

I like getting off a bit early and getting high so that I can have a commanding view of the competition. I can check out Scott, Jonny and Dave Seib to see how they are doing after they launch. I was able to stay up above everyone as I got so high quickly and even during the down cycles I can maintain my position.

With everyone starting so slowly, we take the last start gate at 2:45 PM at 4,300'. I'm with Dave Seib and Jonny Durand Jr. Scott Barrett is just below us. Pilots are already landing in the bomb out zone. A half dozen pilots that left earlier after they launched right after me, have already landed just outside the minimum distance circle at 5 km. I had earlier decided not to leave with them as none of the top pilots were in that group and they weren't getting up.

With Jonny in the lead, and Dave and I spread out we glide down the ridge. Just past its end and coming to a little plateau north of it I find the lift. Dave joins me and Jonny has to come back underneath us. It is weak and we are only able to climb back up to 3,800'. The four of us are now flying together. Everyone else around us is either landing or about to.

We work a little bit of lift a bit north and then we go on glide into the forest getting down to 2,200', 700' AGL. Jonny has found a strong thermal and Scott is in it with him. Dave and I come in low and find even better lift below them. We scream up at 600 fpm and soon go up through them to 5,000'. It is alternately sunny and shady on the ground below us. The only clouds are cirrus clouds.

We go on a long glide. Jonny is out in front again. Scott is off to the right. I go left feeling something up wind which turns into nothing. I see Jonny hook one and Dave and Scott join him. I come in under them, but just off the deck. I go out over the trees to get under them but I don't find it. I'm at 500' AGL and start working really light lift over trees, but with a bail out upwind.

I work low for the next half hour, in lift that averages 30 fpm. Finally I get to 1,800' AGL and head for another area of likely lift. I find 300+ fpm to almost 5,000' just south east of Barraba. Meanwhile Scott, Jonny and Dave have moved ahead but Scott and Dave don't find much lift near or past Barraba and don't get up. Jonny works weak lift just past Barraba and gets up enough to keep going.

I find good lift past Baraaba, and get back to 4,600' but there is nothing after that as the road rises up high going north and I find a friendly field to land in as the ground up a head quickly gets higher than me.

Jonny is able to get the turnpoint 8 km past where I land. When he turns around the wind is too strong to make much headway.

Almost two thirds of the field didn't get out of the start circle, which is set as the minimum distance. Indeed it was a day of weak lift, but it could be found.

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Landing in a wildlife park

September 3, 2007, 9:18:40 MDT

Landing

Critters

Conrad Loten|sailplane

Gerry sends this link to a cute photo of a sailplane and some giraffes.

http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/galerie/piloten/200.jpg.

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New ATOS VR 07

New sail cloth and fixed outer rib

ATOS VR

Tue, Nov 21 2006, 8:40:19 am PST

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Aeronautic Innovation Rühle & Co GmbH|Conrad Loten|weather

www.a-i-r.de

http://www.a-i-r.de/pages-d/ATOS-VR (2007).htm.

New particularly sail material of advantages developed for the ATOS: * distinguished small air permeability * clearly smaller shrink, by influences of the weather * dirt-deflecting one, smooth surface for the Pliloten means this: * even sail tension, thus necessarily * longer durability * improved achievement by optimal seat fixed ribs at the wing external pipe less retrim * strengthened outerwings - larger flight peace at high speeds * new fitting - of fewer individual parts and with it faster up dismantling permission test with short keel final Kiel for Mosquito enterprise successfully finally.

So the VR has a new sail cloth and the fixed outer rib which was shown at the Worlds in May is now standard.

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NSW Titles »

February 12, 2006, 8:01:47 pm PST

NSW Titles

Five days is a wrap as Jonnie wins and Dave Seib comes back after falling down.

Conrad Loten|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

http://www.nswhgstatetitles.com/

Place Name Glider Total
1 DURAND Jon (Jnr) Moyes Litespeed S4 4692
2 SEIB Dave Moyes Litespeed S5 4192
3 GJERDE Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 4074
4 HOLTKAMP Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 3908
5 LOTEN Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 3856
6 PARER Adam Airborne C4 14 3706
7 TUNBRIDGE Cameron Airborne C4 14 3631
8 SCHRODER Phil Airborne C4 13 3504
9 PATON Len Moyes Litespeed S 4 3242
10 DANIEL Alan Airborne C4 13 3107

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NSW State Titles »

February 8, 2006, 10:40:12 pm PST

A hard fought contest.

Conrad Loten|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

The results after four tasks can be found here. Dave Seib fell down on fourth task and Jonnie, Mr. Consistency, moved into first with Conrad right behind him and Rohan winning the fourth task.

Place Name Glider Total
1 DURAND Jon (Jnr) Moyes Litespeed S4 3746
2 LOTEN Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 3549
3 GJERDE Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 3452
4 TUNBRIDGE Cameron Airborne C4 14 3444
5 SCHRODER Phil Airborne C4 13 3277
6 SEIB Dave Moyes Litespeed S5 3241
7 PARER Adam Airborne C4 14 3058
8 HOLTKAMP Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 3038
9 DANIEL Alan Airborne C4 13 2788
10 PATON Len Moyes Litespeed S 4 2752