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Durand Stoneware

Wed, Nov 4 2020, 8:10:40 pm EST

Potting about

Facebook|Jon Durand snr|Judy Durand|video

2020 NSW State Titles »

February 21, 2020, 8:56:08 EST

2020 NSW State Titles

Day 6, task 3

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|New South Wales State Titles 2020|Trent Brown|video

http://williamolive.com/comps/manilla/2020/comp results 2014.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Distance Total
1 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3.5 pro 02:03:48 72.15 1000
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:13:56 72.15 626
3 Bruce Wynne Moyes RX 4 03:53:15 72.15 582
3 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 03:32:03 72.15 582
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:31:37 72.15 582
3 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:31:28 72.15 582
3 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:59:51 72.15 582
8 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 62.95 545
9 Shigeto Ishizaka Moyes RX 3.5 pro 61.97 539
10 Brodrick Osborne Moyes RS 4 53.89 483

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1921
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 4 Pro 1895
3 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 1789
4 Shigeto Ishizaka Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1572
5 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1509
6 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1321
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1307
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Gecko 155 1251
9 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1211
10 Bruce Wynne Moyes RX 4 1196

Harrison Rowntree writes:

I bombed out today after scratching at 400ft for about 12 minutes. As I was about to relaunch I was joined by a west side bomb out virgin, Jonny Durand. We packed up and reflew. Rory Duncan got a good climb out of his launch and started on his own for a day win.

Jonny and I got up with the rest of the field and flew the first half of the course together before getting split up in the shade. Jonny finished second, Steve Docherty in third and I was fourth by 8 seconds. I love landing at this goal. There's lawn, a pool and a bar.

2020 NSW State Titles »

February 20, 2020, 8:46:07 EST

2020 NSW State Titles

Day 5, task 2

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|New South Wales State Titles 2020|Trent Brown|video

http://williamolive.com/comps/manilla/2020/comp%252520results%2525202014.html

Task 2:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 48.33 826
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 4 Pro 48.05 819
3 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3.5 pro 47.69 817
4 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 41.97 723
5 Shigeto Ishizaka Moyes RX 3.5 pro 32.79 636
6 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes RX 3.5 32.86 628
7 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 32.64 626
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 31.68 611
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Gecko 155 31.90 611
10 Troy Horton Moyes Gecko 155 29.35 553

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 4 Pro 1299
2 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 1238
3 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1135
4 Shigeto Ishizaka Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1054
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3.5 pro 951
6 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Gecko 155 878
7 Rick Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 760
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 745
9 Michael Free Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 723
10 Vic Hare WW T2C 136 709

2020 NSW State Titles »

February 18, 2020, 8:31:58 EST

2020 NSW State Titles

They fly, task 1

Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2020|video

http://williamolive.com/comps/manilla/2020/comp%252520results%2525202014.html

http://williamolive.com/comps/manilla/2020/gap_task_result_2020-02-18.html

Task 1:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 4 Pro 39.86 442
2 Shigeto Ishizaka Moyes RX 3.5 pro 31.45 384
3 Bruce Wynne Moyes RX 4 30.74 379
3 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 4 Pro 30.74 379
5 Richard Heffer Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 30.70 378
6 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 28.76 352
7 Michael Free Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 27.85 338
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Gecko 155 17.38 235
9 Dustan Hansen airborne ev 14.5 11.64 192
10 Brad Porter Moyes RX 3.5 pro 8.76 169

https://www.facebook.com/harrison.rowntree/videos/10216175997574337/

It was supposed to be a write off today and it will be for many who were stuck on the hill with it blowing over the back. I sat ready to go for half an hour before a cycle blew up the face and allowed me to launch. I was rewarded with an easy climb to cloudbase and a fly along the side of a cloud to admire the view. No one in goal, Jonny will win the day with maybe 6km past TP2. I'm 2km short of TP2. It will be a low scoring day.

2018 Canungra Classic »

October 24, 2018, 6:14:56 MDT

2018 Canungra Classic

Results from day 5

Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Facebook|John Urlich|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104

Task 5:

Point Type Size Dist Description
LTAMB start 5000 0 TAMBORINE LAUNCH
70LRVL waypoint 1000 28.1 LARAVALE
18BRWY waypoint 1000 40.2 BROMELTON BRIDGE
21COUL waypoint 3000 58.7 BOONAH T GOAL
22BONA goal 1000 65.5 BOONAH AIRSTRIP
# Pilot Glider Time Tot
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Rx 5 Pro 1:31:09 964
2 Jon Durand Moyes Rx 4 pro 1:31:54 949
3 Ollver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 1:32:28 939
4 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1:29:42 914
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1:31:50 876
6 Steven Crosby Moyes RX 5 1:38:55 869
7 Josh Woods Moyes 3.5 Pro 1:45:08 812
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 2:05:22 702
9 Rory Duncan Moyes Rx 3 pro 2:07:14 612
10 Jon Durand Sr Moyes RX 4 2:22:37 603
11 John Urlich c4 2:09:32 576
12 Geoff Christophers Moyes RX 3.5 2:20:21 574
13 Viv Clements Moyes LSS 5 2:42:09 483

Rory at goal.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Ollver Chitty Moyes RX 5 pro 3752
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 pro 3589
3 Jon Durand Moyes rx 4 pro 3567
4 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 pro 3348
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3116
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 3090
7 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 pro 2949
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 pro 2746
9 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 pro 2454
10 Tony Cross REV 13.5 2325

2018 Canungra Classic »

October 21, 2018, 9:09:00 MDT

2018 Canungra Classic

Results

Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104#

Task 1:

# Pilot Glider Tot
1 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 982
2 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 933
3 Ollver Chitty Moyes RX 5 932
4 Jon Durand Moyes LSS 4 922
5 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 895
6 Trent Brown Moyes RX 5 861
7 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 846
8 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 845
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 807
9 Robert DeGroot Moyes RX 3.5 807

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1105

Task 2:

# Pilot Glider Kms Tot
1 Jon Durand Moyes rx 4 pro 31.68 420
2 Steve Blenkinsop moyes rx 3.5 31.36 417
3 Robert DeGroot Moyes rx 4 pro 27.12 402
4 Ollver Chitty Moyes RX 5 28.44 396
5 Attila Bertok moyes Rx 5 pro 29.27 392
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX3.5 pro 25.25 390
6 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 25.29 390
8 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 pro 23.8 375
9 Jon Durand Sr Moyes RX 4 17.54 300
10 Richard Martin moyes Rx 3 16.75 294

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1369
2 Jon Durand Moyes rx 4 pro 1339
3 Ollver Chitty Moyes RX 5 pro 1325
4 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 pro 1284
5 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 1260
6 Robert DeGroot Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1206
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1195
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1185
9 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 pro 1151
10 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 pro 995

2018 Dalby Big Air »

April 13, 2018, 9:12:34 EDT

2018 Dalby Big Air

Attila wins again and again, day 6, task 5

Attila Bertok|Dalby Big Air 2018|Grant Heaney|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2018/comp results.html

A thirty second win today over a two hour and forty five minute task, with Ollie Chitty just behind him. The bigger boys have faster glides. Nineteen in goal with three agonizingly close.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:45:24 992
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 02:45:54 967
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:46:06 964
4 Glen Mcfarlane WW T2C 144 02:46:31 961
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:47:14 938
6 Gavin Myers Moyes RX 5 02:50:18 907
7 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:59:07 844
8 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 4 03:00:01 826
9 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 03:06:09 802
10 Grant Heaney Moyes RX 3.5 03:10:08 781

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 4738
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 4450
3 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 4370
4 Glen Mcfarlane WW T2C 144 4352
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 4 4268
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4211
7 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4120
8 Vic Hare WW T2C 136 3802
9 steve crosby Moyes RX 5 3638
10 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 3628

2018 Dalby Big Air »

April 12, 2018, 8:47:31 EDT

2018 Dalby Big Air

Day 5, task 4, Attila wins again by 12 seconds

Attila Bertok|Dalby Big Air 2018|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2018/comp results.html

A very fast day with average speeds over 60 km/h. No doubt good winds. Thirty two in goal

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:20:30 993
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 02:20:42 987
3 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:23:52 917
3 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 4 02:23:56 917
5 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:23:40 912
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:24:37 894
7 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:25:25 892
8 Craig Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 02:25:56 885
9 Glen Mcfarlane WW T2C 144 02:27:18 870
10 Matthew Barlow Moyes RS 4 02:32:32 823

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 3746
2 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 3482
3 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS 4 3440
4 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 3430
5 Glen Mcfarlane WW T2C 144 3388
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3366
7 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3271
7 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3271
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3244
10 Vic Hare WW T2C 136 3017

2018 Dalby Big Air »

April 10, 2018, 10:39:55 EDT

2018 Dalby Big Air

Day 3, task 3

Attila Bertok|Dalby Big Air 2018|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Trent Brown

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2018/comp results.html

Apparently the last few kilometers were not easy.

Task 3:

# Name   Nat Glider Time Distance Total
1 Attila Bertok M HUN Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:44:45 103.75 1000
2 Guy Hubbard M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:50:48 103.75 962
3 Jon Durand Snr M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:56:10 103.75 945
4 Oliver Chitty M GBR Moyes RX5 Pro   102.84 828
5 Josh Woods M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro   101.05 817
6 Jonas Lobitz M NZL Moyes RX 3.5 Pro   100.41 814
7 Trent Brown M AUS Moyes RX 3.5   100.33 810
8 Adam Stevens M AUS Aeros Combat 12.7   99.30 802
9 Glen Mcfarlane M AUS Wills Wing  T2C 144   98.55 794
10 Jason Kath M AUS Wills Wing T2C 144   98.05 779

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 2754
2 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 2516
3 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2487
4 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX5 Pro 2484
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2462
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2442
7 Gavin Myers Moyes RX 5 2393
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2369
9 Nick Purcell Moyes RS 4 2355
10 steve crosby Moyes RX 5 2165

2018 Forbes Flatlands »

January 3, 2018, 6:58:34 pm EST

2018 Forbes Flatlands

Wednesday, Task 5 Results

Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2018|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Yoko Isomoto

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results

Rory goes into the lead as Attila falls down on the big task and doesn't make goal on this task.

Jonny recovers and his points for landing with Niki increase. The Sporting code:

"5.5.1 Assisting Injured Pilots - If a pilot lands or limits his flight to help another pilot, his score for the day shall be his average day-weighted score averaged over his the previous task scores; as the meet progresses that score will be adjusted after each task. The Meet Director may also award extra points."

Sasha just ahead of Yoko, with Niki on the sidelines.

Ollie wins two tasks in a row.

Two tasks to go.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Oliver Chitty GBR Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:47:40 992
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:48:33 976
3 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:48:46 958
4 Gavin Myers AUS Moyes LSS 5 02:49:25 951
5 Rory Duncan AUS Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:50:31 941
6 Nils Vesk AUS Moyes RX 3.5 03:04:27 874
7 Jon Durand Snr AUS Moyes RX 4 03:04:10 859
8 Craig Taylor AUS Moyes RX 3.5 03:11:44 839
9 Jason Kath AUS Wills Wing T2C 144 03:40:58 758

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 Total
1 Rory Duncan AUS Moyes RX 3 Pro 776 937 698 699 941 4051
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 271 981 801 979 976 4008
3 Josh Woods AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 794 988 906 761 537 3986
4 Oliver Chitty GBR Moyes RX 5 Pro 960 910 133 985 992 3980
5 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 793 817 881 757 609 3857
6 Tyler Borrdaile CAN Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 758 893 915 952 282 3800
7 Nils Vesk AUS Moyes RX 3.5 755 749 736 675 874 3789
8 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX 5 Pro 1000 972 948 285 549 3754
9 Jason Kath AUS Wills Wing T2C 144 747 591 782 815 758 3693
10 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 666 885 899 821 419 3690

2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic

Sat, Oct 14 2017, 9:51:41 am MDT

Final Results

Canungra Classic 2017|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|photo|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.chgc.asn.au/Canungra-Classic

Task 5:

Place Pilot Glider Time Total
1 JON Durand Moyes RX 3.5 (open) 1:00:56 557
2 ROHAN Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 (open) 1:01:01 554
3 JON Durand Sr Moyes RX 4.0 (open) 1:03:09 538
4 BILLY Miller-Macleod RX (open) 1:05:42 524

Final Results:

1 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 2765 159 0 361 882 809 554
2 Jon Durand Rxpro 2750 161 0 294 962 776 557
3 Steve Blenkinsop Rxpro 2542 142 0 357 901 798 344
4 Craig Taylor Moyes Litespeed RX3. 5 2225 148 0 201 885 793 198
5 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Lsrx 4 1951 55 0 320 733 305 538
6 Trent Brown RX 1910 126 0 137 724 752 171
7 Nick Purcell RX 1809 144 0 188 905 298 274
8 Robert Degroot RX 3.5 1740 98 0 112 531 744 255
9 Billy Miller-Macleod RX 1634 154 0 97 556 303 524
10 Harrison Rowntree Moyes RX 3.5 1596 145 0 138 735 303 275

Photos by Harrison Rountree.

2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic

Fri, Oct 13 2017, 10:01:24 am MDT

After four days of flying

Canungra Classic 2017|Facebook|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.chgc.asn.au/Canungra-Classic

1 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 2211 159 0 361 882 809
2 Steve Blenkinsop Rxpro 2198 142 0 357 901 798
3 Jon Durand Rxpro 2193 161 0 294 962 776
4 Craig Taylor Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2027 148 0 201 885 793
5 Trent Brown RX 1739 126 0 137 724 752
6 Guy Hubbard RX 1582 147 0 296 839 300
7 Nick Purcell RX 1535 144 0 188 905 298
8 Robert Degroot RX 3.5 1485 98 0 112 531 744
9 Geoff Christophers RX 1453 52 0 307 469 625
10 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Lsrx 4 1413 55 0 320 733 305

Fourth task:

1 ROHAN Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 2:37:29 809
2 STEVE Blenkinsop RX 2:37:48 798
3 CRAIG Taylor RX3.5 2:38:13 793
4 JON Durand Lsrxpro 2:41:12 776
5 TRENT Brown RX 2:46:12 752
6 ROBERT Degroot RX 3.5 2:46:11 744
7 GEOFF Christophers RX 3:16:13 625

The photo is live.

2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic

Thu, Oct 12 2017, 8:40:33 am MDT

Scores found

Canungra Classic 2017|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

Not here: https://airtribune.com/canungraclassic2017/blog

But here: http://www.chgc.asn.au/Canungra-Classic

1 Jon Durand Rxpro 1417 161 0 294 962
2 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 1402 159 0 361 882
3 Steve Blenkinsop Rxpro 1400 142 0 357 901
4 Guy Hubbard RX 1282 147 0 296 839
5 Josh Woods RX3.5 1269 160 0 223 886
6 Nick Purcell RX 1237 144 0 188 905
7 Craig Taylor Moyes Litespeed RX3. 5 1234 148 0 201 885
8 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Lsrx 4 1108 55 0 320 733
9 Trevor Purcell Lightspeed 1074 143 0 233 698
10 Gavin Myers Moyes RX 5.0 1051 94 0 171 786

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 24, 2017, 4:42:40 pm MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Final Results

Ben Dunn|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Mike Degtoff|Wayne Michelsen|Zac Majors

North wind, with poor launch conditions. Only Christian launched. Last day (Saturday) cancelled.


Photo by Mike Degtoff.

# Name Glider Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 3591
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 3520
3 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 3498
4 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 3332
5 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 3201
6 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 2950
7 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 2949
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 2473
9 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 2416
10 Ben Dunn moyes rx 3.5 1945

I'd say an excellent competition, with four good launchable, landable, and flyable days. Certainly the best conditions I've seen during a competition at Dinosaur ever. No days where you got so high you absolutely needed the oxygen. No days where the cu-nimbs swallowed pilots. Racing conditions for the most part.


Zac at his landing spot yesterday. Photo by Majo.

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 23, 2017, 10:06:31 pm MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Results

Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Mike Degtoff|Pete Lehmann|Wayne Michelsen|Zac Majors


Jonny being teleported over launch. Photo by Mike Degtoff.

Christian was 400' to 500' below launch before he got up.

Chitty at goal:

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 01:46:55 972
2 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:48:54 912
3 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli (Nene) Wills Wing T2C 144 01:50:01 902
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:55:56 832
5 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 02:01:38 802
6 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 01:56:50 797
7 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 02:21:25 627
8 Kevin Carter Wills Wing T2C 02:30:37 614
9 Bill Soderquist Moyes RX3.5 02:30:50 567
10 Will Ramsey Wills Wing T2C 02:34:12 521
11 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2-154 02:54:58 437
12 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 02:55:35 434
13 Ben Dunn moyes rx 3.5 02:58:17 423
14 Joey Villaflor Wills Wing T2C 144 03:43:44 391

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 3604
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 3527
3 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 3500
4 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 3335
5 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 3201
6 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 2954
7 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 2951
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 2484
9 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 2413
10 Ben Dunn moyes rx 3.5 1938

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 21, 2017, 7:05:22 pm MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Results after three days

Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Wayne Michelsen|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results/task2595/comp/class-1

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 987 741 967 2695
2 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 915 985 792 2692
3 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 903 858 837 2598
4 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 864 849 686 2399
5 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 760 805 798 2363
6 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 885 698 744 2327
7 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 774 675 785 2234
8 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 455 914 785 2154
9 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 782 663 534 1979
10 Kip Stone Wills Wing T2C-154 661 671 415 1747

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 20, 2017, 8:13:49 pm MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Results:

Ben Dunn|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Pete Lehmann|Wayne Michelsen

Ben Dunn landed a little short of goal:

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results

Very preliminary results with many corrections yet to come

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:43:02 969
2 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 03:04:49 847
3 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 03:11:43 809
4 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 03:03:49 801
5 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 03:15:06 796
6 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 03:08:59 763
7 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 04:02:05 569
8 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2-154 04:05:55 546

Zac made goal (NYP). Jonny Durand made goal (perhaps he missed the turnpoint). Ben Dunn landed near the goal. Kevin Carter landed a lot closer to the goal than the minimum distance.


Replay: https://airtribune.com/play/2595/2d

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 19, 2017, 7:31:24 pm MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Day 2 results

Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Niki Longshore|Pete Lehmann|Wayne Michelsen|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:48:36 985
2 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 01:50:34 914
3 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 01:55:16 858
4 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 01:55:55 849
5 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 02:00:25 805
6 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:06:34 741
7 Danny Jones Wills Wing T2 02:12:39 707
8 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 02:12:00 698
9 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 02:14:47 675
10 Kip Stone Wills Wing T2C-154 02:16:37 671
11 Niki Longshore Moyes RX 3.5 PRO 02:17:04 666
12 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 02:16:21 663
13 Ben Dunn moyes rx 3.5 02:32:16 591
14 Bill Soderquist Moyes RX3.5 02:47:21 497
15 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2-154 02:52:32 484
16 Alfredo Cabezas   02:54:32 463

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 1900
2 Nene Wills Wing T2C 144 1761
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1728
4 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 1713
5 Bruce Barmakian Icaro Laminar 13.2 1583
6 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 1565
7 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 1449
8 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 1445
9 Rodolfo Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 1369
10 Kip Stone Wills Wing T2C-154 1332

Dinosaur 2017 »

June 19, 2017, 7:58:30 MST -0600

Dinosaur 2017

Christian takes the lead

Christian Ciech|competition|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Wayne Michelsen|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2017/results

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:52:12 991
2 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:54:54 914
3 Jonny Durand Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO 02:00:38 875
4 Wayne Michelsen Icaro Laminar 02:10:50 787
5 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX4 02:10:59 776
6 Ollie Chitty Moyes Rx5 02:15:00 760
7 Kip Stone Wills Wing T2C-154 02:28:35 657
8 Kevin Carter Wills Wing T2C 02:42:19 609

2017 New South Wales State Titles »

February 25, 2017, 8:48:01 EST

2017 New South Wales State Titles

Glen McFarlane wins the competition

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2017

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/2017/comp results 2014.html

Task 6:

Sasha wins the day. The first win by a women in an open competition in some time.

# Name Glider SS Time Total
1 Sasha Serebrennikova Moyes LS RX 3 14:30:00 01:31:43 941
2 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 14:15:00 01:36:18 928
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:30:00 01:33:01 916
4 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 14:30:00 01:35:07 878
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:43:53 852
6 Rob de Groot Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:46:14 838
7 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 14:15:00 01:44:39 834
8 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 14:15:00 01:45:28 832
9 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 14:15:00 01:46:03 830
10 Rory Duncan Airborne REV 13.5 14:30:00 01:40:08 828

Final Results:

Glen first on a Wills Wing T2C 144, Jonny second on a Moyes Gecko 155.

1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 4918
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 4738
3 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 4602
4 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 4592
5 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 4458
6 Rory Duncan Airborne REV 13.5 4372
7 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 3993
8 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 3886
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 3839
10 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 3807

Sasha writes:

Finishing the comp at Manilla in style. I won the last day and a Molly Moyes' cookie coming before Jason Kath and Harrison Rowntree. This was a rough week for me at times, coming 400 m short of goal on the first day, then losing my glider which fell off a car while driving back, then I even got some stitches in my knee. Nevertheless very grateful to Moyes guys who had a spare RX3 which I could fly for the rest of the week and which brought me this nice winning goal today and 12th place overall.

2017 New South Wales State Titles »

February 24, 2017, 7:33:47 EST

2017 New South Wales State Titles

Harrison Rowntree charges down the course line under a cloud street

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2017|Niki Longshore

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/2017/comp results 2014.html

Task 5:

# Name Glider SS Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Time
Points
Total
1 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:38:38 63.5 417.0 72.2 975
2 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 14:15:00 01:43:14 59.9 353.2 61.7 897
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 14:00:00 01:58:41 88.4 246.8 60.7 818
4 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 14:30:00 01:48:05 17.4 313.9 27.9 782
5 Rory Duncan airborne rev 13.5 14:00:00 02:08:39 72.1 194.3 41.8 731
6 Rob de Groot Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:00:00 02:10:39 44.3 184.5 38.5 690
7 Shane Duncan Airborne REV 13.5 14:00:00 02:12:52 55.5 173.9 35.1 687
8 Richard Heffer Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 14:15:00 02:11:23 22.3 181.0 18.6 644
9 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 14:30:00 02:08:41 14.4 194.2 9.0 640
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Moyes LS RX 3 14:30:00 02:16:05   158.9 5.2 587
11 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:30:00 02:20:41 13.3 138.2 3.5 577
12 Niki Longshore Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 14:15:00 02:23:46 16.2 124.7 8.9 572

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 4081
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 3856
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 3675
4 Rory Duncan Airborne REV 13.5 3539
5 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 3528
6 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 3499
7 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 3143
8 Jon Durand Snr Moyes LS RX 4 3048
9 Richard Heffer Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 3031
10 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 3020

Harrison: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ40MSfFN2b/

Niki injured foot at goal:

2017 New South Wales State Titles »

February 23, 2017, 8:49:17 EST

2017 New South Wales State Titles

Glen wins the day again, two firsts and two seconds

CIVL|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2017|PG|William "Billo" Olive

From yesterday's goal:

Billo responded to my screed about the screwed up scoring system that they are using at the New South Wales Titles. Of course, it's the paraglider version of the GAP scoring system. I just wrote about this as the paraglider pilots at the CIVL Plenary recognized that it wasn't working out. They also have only one start time. It totally is screwing with the scoring at Manilla.

Why do we have these people in charge who have no clue? Billo was told to use it.

Today, the paraglider scoring system "worked" because many of the pilots took the forth start clock and none took the first two.

http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/2017/comp results 2014.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider SS Time Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing  T2C 144 14:15:00 01:52:57 991
2 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 14:15:00 01:53:07 984
3 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:53:29 983
4 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:53:09 982
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:15:00 01:56:54 915
6 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 14:45:00 01:55:29 810
7 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 14:15:00 02:08:06 787
8 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 14:15:00 02:11:30 774
9 Richard Heffer Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 14:15:00 02:12:24 752
10 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 14:15:00 02:16:33 722

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 3441
2 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 3143
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 3034
4 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 2922
5 Rory Duncan Airborne REC 13.5 2802
6 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 2700
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 2673
8 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 2628
9 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 2445
10 Richard Heffer Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 2383

Bruce Wynn "arrives" at goal:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ2ZvxYlCKM/

2017 New South Wales State Titles »

February 22, 2017, 9:24:36 EST

2017 New South Wales State Titles

OzGAP plus leading points, reduces the value of speed points

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2017|Niki Longshore

The Australians continue to mess around with GAP scoring. Last month they pulled out all the leading and arrival position points from the Forbes Flatlands. Now at the New South Wales State Titles they have combined OzGAP (how appropriate) with leading points (to make their own unique scoring system). OzGAP (arrival time points) doubles the points available to pilots who get to goal early (most likely by leaving early). There are no arrival points available if you arrive forty five minutes after the first point to goal.

So even if you are much much faster, if you take a clock one hour after the first pilot who gets to goal (and thereby had no chance what-so-ever of pimping off them), so much for arrival points. With seven start clocks on Wednesday, the 22nd, some pilots started an hour and a half after the first pilots.

Niki Longshore writes:

https://www.facebook.com/niki.longshore/posts/716976675150877

I set up at the west launch with a bunch of others despite the decision of a few who took the east launch. Namely, those who knew best. As it turned out, we waited forever. A few launched off to the east launch and got up. Before we knew it, seven start gates had come and gone. It was clearly time to move over to the east.

I finally got off the ground at 16:05. Then I nearly decked it. Unzipping three times, I was completely over the day. But I couldn't give up! I kept thinking, don't give up. Never.

I finally hooked a screamer that had my knuckles gripping the bar. I couldn't believe it. I went from zero to hero in a few short minutes. Most climbs today were over 1,000 fpm up.

I didn't even top the lift before going on course. It was a pure flogging. Even when I went on course I got flogged. Scary. Not much fun. Landing sounded nicer. But then Kelly Myrkle's voice rang out, "You're a badass." It was enough to harden up but I still had my doubts I would make the task.

Then I thought, how cool would it be to do this 100k task after launching after 4pm, nearly landing at bomb out, and then getting up, going on course, and doing it alone? That would be sweet, and it was all the motivation I needed.

So I did it. I can't believe it, but I did it. I landed at 7pm and the Hooligan team came to break down my glider. What a lucky girl.

Results: http://www.williamolive.com/manilla/2017/comp results 2014.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider SS Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Time
Points
Total
1 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 13:45:00 02:01:16 77.4 253.0 63.2 697
2 Glen Mcfarlane WW T2C 14:45:00 01:47:37 365.0 7.2 676
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 13:45:00 02:03:16 66.3 242.4 59.1 672
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:45:00 01:47:53 356.9 7.1 668
5 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 13:45:00 02:03:56 60.8 238.9 57.7 661
6 Rory Duncan airborne rev 13.5 13:45:00 02:07:10 70.8 222.7 51.6 649
7 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 13:45:00 02:14:43 67.9 188.2 38.9 599
8 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 14:45:00 02:11:27 202.7 0.7 507
9 Noel Collins Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 15:00:00 02:12:57 195.9 500
10 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 15:00:00 02:13:37 193.0 497
11 Sasha Serebrennikova Moyes LS RX 3 14:00:00 02:44:16 20.8 75.9 2.8 403
12 Peter Burkitt Moyes LS RX 5 14:45:00 02:41:13 86.3 390
13 Ward Gunn WW T2C 15:00:00 02:42:38 81.5 385
14 Richard Heffer Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 15:00:00 02:54:40 41.5 345
15 Niki Longshore Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 15:00:00 03:33:53 304
15 Troy Horton Moyes Gecko 155 15:00:00 03:30:32 304
15 James Atkinson 14:45:00 03:09:27 304

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 992 782 676 2450
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 812 776 672 2260
3 Rory Duncan airborne rev 13.5 515 1000 649 2164
4 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 782 680 697 2159
5 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 779 654 507 1940
6 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 750 594 497 1841
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes LS RX 3.5 739 351 668 1758
8 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 824 615 284 1723
9 Harrison Rowntree Moyes LS RX 3.5 544 511 661 1716
10 Niki Longshore Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 782 591 304 1677

2017 New South Wales State Titles »

February 21, 2017, 7:32:06 EST

2017 New South Wales State Titles

Task 2, day 3

Facebook|Glen McFarland|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2017|Niki Longshore|video

https://www.facebook.com/ward.gunn/posts/10211292825062752?pnref=story

Glen McFarland in-air video at goal: https://www.facebook.com/glen.mcfarlane.9/videos/vb.1464004607/10211058388403325/?type=2&theater¬if_t=live_video¬if_id=1487653472106358

Nikki at goal: https://www.facebook.com/niki.longshore/videos/pcb.716540351861176/716534498528428/?type=3&theater

Jonny landing: https://www.facebook.com/rory.duncan.37/videos/10210495010805072/

Results (preliminary): http://williamolive.com/manilla/2017/task_result_day two.html

Rory Duncan crushes the competition:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Rory Duncan airborne rev 13.5 01:46:44 1000
2 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 02:10:02 776
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 02:10:55 770
4 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 02:20:13 672
5 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:27:15 644
6 Rob de Groot Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:29:44 627
7 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 02:34:29 605
8 Jon snr Durand Moyes LS RX 4 02:38:27 600
9 Frank Chetcuti Moyes LS RS 3.5 02:36:23 593
10 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:36:53 591
11 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 02:39:54 584
12 Niki Longshore Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 02:40:59 580
13 Shane Duncan Airborne REV 13.5 02:42:24 574

Glen in first and Niki in eighth. Jonny in second with the Gecko, race tuned.

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 992 782 1774
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Gecko 155 812 776 1588
3 Rory Duncan airborne rev 13.5 515 1000 1515
4 Tony Armstrong Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 782 680 1462
5 Bruce Wynne Moyes LS RX 4 824 615 1439
6 Josh Woods Moyes LS RX 3.5 779 654 1433
7 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes LS RX 3.5 794 601 1395
8 Niki Longshore Moyes LS RX PRO 3.5 782 591 1373
9 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 750 594 1344
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes LS RS 3.5 726 603 1329

2017 Canungra Classic »

Sat, Oct 29 2016, 3:26:36 pm GMT

Final results

Canungra Classic 2017|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

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

http://www.hgoutlanders.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CanungraClassic2013/?fref=ts

http://highcloud.net/xc/task_result.php?comPk=200&tasPk=911

Task 5:

Place Pilot Glider Kms Total
1 GLEN Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 56.11 477
2 ROHAN Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 55.19 471
3 ADAM Stevens Moyes Lsrx 3.5 55 470
4 MIC Jackson Moyes Lsrx 5 53.65 464
5 JON Durand Moyes Lsrx 3.5 50.88 431
6 STEVE Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 35.14 347
7 GLEN Macleod Moyes Lsrx 3.5 31.51 328
8 NILS Vesk Moyes Lsrx 3.5 30.42 320
9 JON Durand Sr Moyes Lsrx 4 26.04 290
10 HOWARD Jones Moyes Lsrx 3.5 25.58 287

http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=200

Final results:

1 Jon Durand Moyes Lsrx 3.5 3997 813 957 981 815 431
2 Mic Jackson Moyes Ls 5 3921 851 853 936 817 464
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 3859 767 969 977 799 347
4 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 3745 695 961 836 776 477
5 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 3509 797 858 578 995 281
6 Adam Stevens Moyes RX3.5 3498 676 751 657 944 470
7 Josh Woods Moyes RX3.5 3488 687 972 762 814 253
8 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 3405 736 847 707 879 236
9 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS4 3326 804 846 231 974 471
10 Glen Macleod Moyes Lsrx 3.5 3278 671 871 497 911 328

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2016 Forbes Flatlands, day 7 »

Fri, Jan 8 2016, 7:47:48 am EST

A barbeque task

Forbes Flatlands 2016|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Justinas Pleikys|Steve Blenkinsop|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

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

Task 5:

# Name Glider Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Olav Lien Olsen Moyes RX 3.5 86.2 444.1 79.3 975
2 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 4 111.0 424.6 70.4 972
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 97.7 432.0 74.7 970
4 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 103.1 422.1 66.2 957
5 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2C 136 97.7 415.4 58.6 937
6 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 103.4 407.6 55.1 932
7 Justinas Pleikys Moyes RX 5 83.8 415.6 62.3 927
8 Gordon Rigg Moyes RX 3.5 93.9 404.7 51.8 916
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 96.4 403.6 48.7 914
10 Michael Jackson Moyes RX 5 99.0 398.8 45.7 909

Final:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 33 1000 949 1000 862 3844
2 Michael Jackson Moyes RX 5 28 909 889 926 909 3661
3 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 18 712 911 884 888 3413
4 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 16 746 764 846 957 3329
5 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX 3.5 34 840 804 877 715 3270
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 20 759 824 762 850 3215
7 Fredy Bircher Moyes RX 3.5 25 887 780 752 679 3123
8 Len Paton Moyes RX 4 26 680 755 896 724 3081
9 Simon Braithwaite Moyes RX 3.5 26 903 816 882 438 3065
10 Justinas Pleikys Moyes RX 5 16 671 769 656 927 3039

The land owner bob is letting us in!

Photo from Moyes Delta Gliders.

Seems like Gerolf was first into goal, but apparently there was a problem with his tracklog. So far anyway.

2016 Forbes Flatlands, day 5 »

January 6, 2016, 8:16:52 EST

2016 Forbes Flatlands, day 5

Many at goal

Facebook|Forbes Flatlands 2016|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Trent Brown|Wills Wing T2C

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

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 02:21:02 1000
2 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 02:24:12 938
3 Michael Jackson Moyes RX 5 02:26:21 913
4 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 4 02:30:49 869
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes RX 3.5 02:32:00 858
6 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 02:33:28 846
7 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2C 136 02:33:43 844
8 Andrew Barnes Moyes RX 3.5 02:34:03 841
9 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 02:34:09 840
10 Simon Braithwaite Moyes RX 3.5 02:35:13 832

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 33 1000 1000 2033
2 Michael Jackson Moyes RX 5 28 909 914 1851
3 Simon Braithwaite Moyes RX 3.5 26 903 834 1763
4 Fredy Bircher Moyes RX 3.5 25 887 797 1709
5 Tony Armstrong Moyes RX 3.5 34 840 822 1696
6 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 4 16 801 870 1687
7 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 18 712 939 1669
8 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 20 759 842 1621
9 Jon Durand Snr Moyes RX 4 17 763 815 1595
10 Malcolm Brown Moyes RX 3.5 19 744 815 1578

Elapsed time task again. Therefore no leading points and no start intervals.

Twenty five pilots at goal.

Fredy's picture:

Dinosaur day 7 cancelled »

September 5, 2015, 1:59:22 pm MDT

Dinosaur day 7 cancelled

Gail force winds force the end of the meet after three days of flying.

Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jim Yocom|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Pete Lehmann|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results

Final:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 962 928 1000 1962
2 Glen McFarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 947 1000 945 1947
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 987 916 730 1903
4 Pedro Garcia Wills Wing T2C 144 935 897 416 1832
5 Jon Sr Durand Moyes RX4 833 878 374 1711
6 Rudy Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 576 969 442 1545
7 Jonny Durand Moyes RX3.5 880 472 448 1352
8 Bruce Barmakian Wills Wing T2C 144 556 102 709 1265
9 Bill Soderquist Moyes RS3.5 812 443 380 1255
10 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2 154 266 536 673 1209

Sport class final:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Kelly Myrkle Aeros Discus 844 133 451 1295
2 Beau Buck North Wing Liberty 148 794 107 464 1258
3 Nathan Grimes Wills Wing U2 145 652 272 514 1166
4 Brian Morris Freedom 170 862 220 194 1082
5 Josiah Stephens Predator 142 450 114 468 918
6 Rob DeGroot Moyes Gecko 321 477 265 798
7 John Christian Wills Wing U2 145 613 107 0 720
8 Carlos Alvarado Wills Wing U2 145 363 272 203 635
9 Jon Lindburg Wills Wing Sport 2 135b 319 114 126 445
10 Rick Maddy Wills Wing U2 160 195 0 164 359

Kelley

Jim Yocom was the first of two ATOS pilots.

Dinosaur - day 4 »

Wed, Sep 2 2015, 10:37:51 pm MDT

The results

Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pete Lehmann|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Distance Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:59:35 115.67 717.5 49.4 197.8 35.3 1000
2 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 02:04:37 115.67 717.5 42.8 167.6 16.6 945
3 Dave Gibson Wills Wing T2C 144 03:19:32 115.67 717.5 7.5 8.8 734
4 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 107.93 688.0 41.6 730
5 Bruce Barmakian Wills Wing T2C 144 112.99 709.2 709
6 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2 154 105.07 672.8 673
7 Cory Barnwell Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 56.85 480.2 480
8 Aaron Rinn Wills Wing T2C 144 53.12 464.5 465
9 Felix Cantesanu Aeros Combat C 12.7 51.86 457.9 458
10 Jonny Durand Moyes RX3.5 50.24 447.5 448

I'm quite certain that Christian was happier to get his leading points than not.

Cumulative (well here's a little different outcome):

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 962 928 1000 1962
2 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 947 1000 945 1947
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 987 916 730 1903
4 Pedro Garcia Wills Wing T2C 144 935 897 416 1832
5 Jon Sr Durand Moyes RX4 833 878 374 1711
6 Rudy Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 576 969 442 1545
7 Jonny Durand Moyes RX3.5 880 472 448 1352
8 Bruce Barmakian Wills Wing T2C 144 556 102 709 1265
9 Bill Soderquist Moyes RS3.5 812 443 380 1255
10 Pete Lehmann Wills Wing T2 154 266 536 673 1209

Only the best two scores are used. Clearly, so far, Zac and Glen are disadvantaged by this elimination of the worst day (perhaps they'll have bad days later), while everyone else was advantaged, especially Christian.

Four sport class pilots made goal. Kelly Myrkle is in the overall lead.

Dinosaur - day 3 »

Tue, Sep 1 2015, 10:59:34 pm MDT

The results

Bill Soderquist|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 01:52:45 85.1 340.5 60.8 1000
2 Rudy Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 01:53:09 78.2 330.7 46.0 969
3 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:55:55 78.2 301.7 34.5 928
4 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:56:22 78.5 298.1 26.0 916
5 Pedro Garcia Wills Wing T2C 144 01:57:21 72.5 290.7 20.1 897
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX3.5 01:58:15 66.5 284.4 16.1 881
7 Jon Sr Durand Moyes RX4 01:59:14 72.4 277.9 13.8 878
8 Pete Lehman Wills Wing Sport 2-155 03:11:37 9.4 12.6 536

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 1946
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 1902
3 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 1889
4 Pedro Garcia Wills Wing T2C 144 1831
5 Jon Sr Durand Moyes RX4 1708
6 Rudy Gotes Wills Wing T2C 144 1537
7 Jonny Durand Moyes RX3.5 1350
8 Bill Soderquist Moyes RS3.5 1251
9 Pedro Montes Aeros Combat GT 15 1143
10 Josh Woods Moyes RX3.5 1119

Rob DeGroot was the only sport class pilot to make goal on a Moyes Gecko.

Brian Morris on a North Wing Freedom 170 (single surface) is in first place over all with Kelley Myrkle on an Aeros Discus right behind him. There is a handicap.

Dinosaur - day 2 »

Mon, Aug 31 2015, 9:53:41 pm MDT

Christian 40 seconds ahead

Bill Soderquist|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/blog__day_2

https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:39:40 81.3 354.9 63.4 986
2 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 01:40:20 86.0 340.0 46.0 959
3 Glen Mcfarlane Wills Wing T2C 144 01:40:22 82.4 339.5 33.2 942
4 Pedro Garcia Wills Wing T2C 144 01:40:35 82.1 336.5 24.2 929
5 Jonny Durand Moyes RX3.5 01:47:25 88.7 278.3 18.4 872
6 Jon Sr Durand Moyes RX4 01:51:11 66.5 255.2 15.0 823
7 Bill Soderquist Moyes RS3.5 01:52:55 57.7 245.4 13.3 803

Notice that Arrival Position and Time points (the difference between the values given) are way more important than Leading points (where the differences are very small among the top five pilots).

Sport class: Most pilots not scored yet.

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 5 »

April 16, 2015, 7:44:04 EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day 5

One pilot at goal and no one else nearby

Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Phil Schroder|William "Billo" Olive

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

Photo by Billo

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Dist. Total
1 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 03:22:50 98,32 997
2 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5   63,02 719
3 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4   47,38 640
4 Brodrick Osborne Moyes RS 4   45,65 623
5 Len Paton Moyes RX 4   44,25 614
6 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat-L   42,93 605
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4   41,57 591
8 Guy Williams Moyes RX 3.5   41,60 588
9 Mark Russell Moyes RS 4   40,68 578
10 Hagen Bruggemann Moyes RS 4   39,71 564

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Nils Vesk Moyes RX 3.5 4314
2 Curt Warren Moyes RX 4 4176
3 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX 4 4109
4 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 3770
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS 4 3714
6 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 3690
7 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 3659
8 Jason Kath   3635
9 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 3560
10 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 3498

Photo by Phil Schroder.

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 Dalby Big Air - Day 3 »

April 14, 2015, 7:25:22 EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day 3

Curt Warren wins again

Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phil Schroder

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

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/task_result_2015-04-14_%2820150414-1720%29.html

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren AUS Moyes RX 4 02:51:46 988
2 Geoffrey Robertson AUS Moyes RX 3.5 02:52:26 966
3 Jon snr Durand AUS Moyes RX4 02:53:18 962
4 Jason Kath AUS   02:55:20 924
5 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 4 02:55:35 918
6 Nils Vesk AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 03:02:40 875
7 John Smith NZL Moyes RX 3.5 03:03:10 854
8 Len Paton AUS Moyes RX 4 03:03:32 847
9 Dave May AUS Moyes RX 3.5 03:06:48 819
10 Rod Flockhart AUS Moyes RX 3.5 03:07:39 815

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes RX 4 2919
2 Konrad Heilmann Moyes RX 3.5 2566
3 John Smith Moyes RX 3.5 2551
4 Dave May Moyes RX 3.5 2545
5 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 2509
6 Rod Flockhart Moyes RX 3.5 2497
7 Jon snr Durand Moyes RX4 2468
8 Nils Vesk Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2457
9 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes RX 3.5 2296
10 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2 2233

Photo by Phil Schroder.

2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 2 »

April 13, 2015, 7:46:34 pm EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day 2

After two days

Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/

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

# Name Glider Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 1930
2 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1762
3 Josh Woods   1749
4 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1725
5 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 1696
6 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 1681
7 Nils Vesk Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1581
8 Vic Hare Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1512
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 1505
10 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5 1464

2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 2 »

April 13, 2015, 8:03:57 EDT

Dalby Big Air - Day 2

Most at goal

Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2015|Enda Murphy|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phil Schroder

At least 29 in goal. Enda Murphy injury.

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/task_result_2015-04-13_(20150413-1913).html

http://williamolive.com/dalby/2015/

# Name Glider Time Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:17:54 998
2 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:18:19 961
3 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:18:22 957
4 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 02:20:11 925
5 Tony Armstrong   02:20:58 908
6 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:25:10 871
7 Jason Kath   02:28:19 849
8 Josh Woods   02:28:23 846
9 Geoffrey Robertson   02:28:29 839
10 Phil Schroder   02:28:22 830

2015 Forbes Flatlands »

Thu, Jan 8 2015, 8:15:54 am EST

Zac Majors wins the Forbes Flatlands, continuing the tradition of non Moyes gliders winning there

Øyvind Ellefsen|Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2015|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors

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

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes RX 5 14:00:00 16:13:01 02:13:01 966
2 Steve Blenkinsop Aus Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 16:11:22 02:26:22 857
3 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 16:12:43 02:27:43 855
4 Geoff Robertson Aus Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 16:12:15 02:27:15 846
5 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing T2C 13:45:00 16:12:40 02:27:40 838
6 Kato Minoru Jpn Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 16:22:40 02:22:40 835
7 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 4 13:45:00 16:16:57 02:31:57 815
8 Jon Snr Durand Aus Moyes RX 4 13:45:00 16:16:40 02:31:40 802
9 Oyvind Ellefsen Nor Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 16:26:00 02:26:00 799
10 Trent Brown Aus Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 16:17:29 02:32:29 785

Looks like Attila took away a hundred points by going fast and starting later.

Final:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Zac Majors Usa Wills Wing T2C 144 5046
2 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes RX 3.5 4974
3 Gordon Rigg Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 4946
4 Jonas Lobitz Nzl Moyes Rs 3.5 4905
5 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 4 4890
6 Trent Brown Aus Moyes RX 3.5 4860
7 Olav Opsanger Nor Moyes RX 3.5 4754
8 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes RX 5 4746
9 Christian Voiblet Sui Aeros 4693
10 Olav Olsen Nor Moyes RX 3.5 4660

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/forbes-flatlands-last-task.html

But, with the expectation of overdevelopment, they called a shortish (for Forbes) task to the south and then east, thinking that most would take the first start. Most did, but not all. Atilla hung back and took the second start. Jonny apparently wanted to wait (as he wasn't able to leave the start circle right on time), but worried about the forecast storms and went on ahead with most everyone.

All the drivers sped to goal and watched the sky for storms and for the coming leaders. Blenky, Jonny and Atilla were the first three in (I think in that order), but with Atilla taking the second start and the others on the first. We watched several pilots come in over the next 15 minutes wondering what might have happened to Zac in first place. After 16 minutes, with probably 15 pilots between him and the first in, Zac finally made it - together with Gordon (in second place overall and Jonas in third). It was a nail biter for everyone at goal - and probably for those watching the trackers from abroad. In the end there were probably 35 at goal. And, by the way, the overdevelopment never reached us.

2014 Canungra Classic »

November 1, 2014, 9:06:56 PDT

2014 Canungra Classic

Final results

Canungra Classic 2014|Corinna Schwiegershausen|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/

Day 8:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Jonathan Kinred Moyes LS S 5 57.60 527
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 Tech 53.74 497
3 Nils Vesk Moyes LS RX 3.5 52.22 493
4 John Durand Sr Moyes LS RX 4 51.02 483
5 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 Tech 50.12 465
6 Simon Braithwaite Moyes LS RX 3.5 50.05 459
7 Jonas Lobitz Moyes LS RS 3.5 49.29 455
8 Darren Rickertt Moyes LS RX 3.5 49.14 450
8 Adam Stevens Moyes LS RX 3.5 48.50 450
10 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes LS RX 3 Tech 49.00 449

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 Tech 4688
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 Tech 4645
3 Jonathan Kinred Moyes LS S 5 4374
4 Adam Stevens Moyes LS RX 3.5 4319
5 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 4277
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes LS RS 3.5 3985
7 John Durand Sr Moyes LS RX 4 3976
8 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes LS RX 3 Tech 3967
9 Andrew Barnes Moyes LS RX 3.5 Tech 3704
10 Simon Braithwaite Moyes LS RX 3.5 3703

Photo from Fly Moyes.

2014 Canungra Classic »

Fri, Oct 31 2014, 8:26:40 am PDT

Day seven results

Canungra Classic 2014|Corinna Schwiegershausen|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/

Day 7:

# Name Glider SS ES Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Time
Points
Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 12:45:00 14:09:49 01:24:49 50.2 166.9 102.2 872
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 12:30:00 14:09:12 01:39:12 68.2 109.5 104.3 835
3 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Ls S 5 12:45:00 14:15:42 01:30:42 47.7 135.3 83.3 819
4 Adam Stevens Moyes Ls RX 3.5 12:30:00 14:17:07 01:47:07 69.1 90.0 79.1 791
5 John Durand Sr Moyes Ls RX 4 12:15:00 14:19:21 02:04:21 103.1 54.3 72.9 783
6 Simon Braithwaite Moyes Ls RX 3.5 12:30:00 14:17:29 01:47:29 60.7 89.2 78.1 781
7 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes Ls RX 3 Tech 12:30:00 14:18:15 01:48:15 59.9 87.4 75.9 776
8 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 12:15:00 14:32:10 02:17:10 146.1 31.1 43.1 773
9 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 12:45:00 14:36:17 01:51:17 48.6 80.8 35.6 718
10 Tony Armstrong Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 12:15:00 110.2 655

There were so few leading points for Steve as John Senior and Tony took them by going even earlier.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 4191
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 4180
3 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 3893
4 Adam Stevens Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3869
5 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Ls S 5 3847
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 3530
7 Andrew Barnes Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 3529
8 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes Ls RX 3 Tech 3518
9 John Durand Sr Moyes Ls RX 4 3493
10 Trent Brown Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Tech 3478

One more day.

2014 Canungra Classic »

October 29, 2014, 4:26:32 pm PDT

2014 Canungra Classic

Half the field at goal on day five

Canungra Classic 2014|Corinna Schwiegershausen|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/

Day 5:

1 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:26:21 995
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 01:30:03 967
3 Jonas Lobitz   01:31:38 945
4 Andrew Barnes Moyes RX 01:30:35 931
5 Simon Braithwaite Moyes RX3.5 01:31:23 914
6 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed 01:33:04 911
7 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:36:53 887
8 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed 5 01:47:41 840
9 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 01:28:50 825
10 Glen Macleod Moyes RS3.5 01:44:14 801

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 2374
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 2370
3 Adam Stevens Moyes RS 2366
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 2315
5 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 2136
6 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed 2080
7 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 1997
8 Andrew Barnes Moyes RX 1974
9 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1952
10 Jonas Lobitz   1934

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/2014/10/day-5-70km-to-lake-moogerah.html

The weather forecast looked much nicer for today, and it turned out to be a good Beechmont day. Finally we got to fly with a few clouds here and there, some convergence and also "real thermals" - it's just so pleasant if you can fly a full 360 in climb! All the way up to 2000m, it was such a luxury.

2014 Canungra Classic »

October 27, 2014, 9:30:31 PDT

2014 Canungra Classic

Results from the third day

Canungra Classic 2014|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/

Task 3:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 60.02 538
2 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed 5 54.99 499
3 Andrew Barnes Moyes RX 49.77 451
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 50.23 448
5 Adam Stevens Moyes RS 49.66 445
6 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 48.30 439
7 Rohan Taylor Moyes RS4 49.10 438
8 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed 48.07 435
9 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 47.70 427
10 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 42.85 387

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 1604
2 Adam Stevens Moyes RS 1572
3 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 1469
4 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 1369
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 1303
6 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 1294
7 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 1236
8 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes Litespeed 3.5s 1168
9 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed 1161
10 Hagen Bruggemann   1126

Pictures from the Canungra Classic here.

2014 Canungra Classic »

October 26, 2014, 8:56:40 pm PDT

2014 Canungra Classic

Results from the second day

Canungra Classic 2014|Corinna Schwiegershausen|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:27:41 619
2 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 01:26:06 614
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 01:34:18 590
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 01:36:24 579
4 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 01:33:22 579
6 Adam Stevens Moyes RS 01:37:46 576
7 Yasuhiro Noma Litespeed RX3.5 01:39:18 562
8 Jonathan Kinred Moyes Litespeed 01:39:47 560
9 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 01:29:34 553
10 Jerry Furnell T2C 154 01:46:15 538
11 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed 5 01:56:11 508

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 1109
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes RX 1100
3 Adam Stevens Moyes RS 1084
4 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 1016
5 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS4 988
6 John Durand Sr Moyes RX 828
7 Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes Litespeed 3.5s 821
8 Hagen Bruggemann   781
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 733
9 Jonas Lobitz   733

No cost to you Hang Gliding Training Camp

April 25, 2014, 8:42:17 EDT

Free Hang Gliding Training Camp

Canungra

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lisa Bradley|video

Billy Miller-Macleod <<billymillermacleod>> writes:

Free 3-day training camp from the 22nd of October to the 24th of October 2014.
Sites: Tamborine Mountain and Beechmont

Instructors:

  • Jon Durand Snr
  • Jon Durand Jnr
  • Ken Hill
  • Rod Flockhart
  • Dave Stevens
  • Dave Staver
  • Lisa Bradley

Bookings: Contact the organiser Billy Miller-Macleod; 0435 046 335; <>

This is a great opportunity for novice and intermediate pilots to improve their hang gliding skills. It is also an opportunity to enhance cross-country and competition performance under guidance from some of Australia's most skilled and experienced pilots. The Canungra Hang Gliding Classic competition follows directly after the training camp, so for those who enter, there will be two de-briefings throughout the competition week to monitor progress of pilots who attended the training camp.

Pilots are required to supply all hang gliding equipment. Pilots are encouraged to use GoPros (or any other video cameras) during the training camp so all pilots can watch in the evenings as well as helping instructors to give feedback.

Accommodation:

  • Camping at Canungra Showgrounds - 07 5543 5904
  • Canungra Motel - 07 5543 5155
  • Canungra Hotel - 07 5543 5233

Goals for the Training Camp:

  • Procedures for setting up gliders and equipment
  • Launch and landing techniques
  • Safe flying practices
  • Improving thermal techniques
  • Cross country flying with goals dependent on pilot ability
  • Local knowledge on the flying sights and terrain
  • Set goals for future flying

All the instructors are providing their instruction at no cost. All the organization is volunteered.

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 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.

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

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

# 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 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.

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

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.

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:

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.

2012 Canungra Classic »

September 28, 2012, 9:34:50 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Eleven at goal

Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2012|Curt Warren|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

Jonny, Red Bull girls, just before the sixth task.

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:25:57 1000
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 02:27:49 930
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 02:27:42 921
4 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 02:46:23 853
5 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 02:45:59 835
6 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:47:34 825
7 John Smith Moyes RS4 02:53:21 820
8 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 03:00:33 784
9 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 02:56:16 773
10 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:58:46 766

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 4277
2 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 3845
3 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 3653
4 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3651
5 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 3620
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 3619
7 John Smith Moyes RS4 3598
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3519
9 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 3504
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 3249

2012 Canungra Classic »

September 26, 2012, 8:26:04 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Senior wins the day

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2012|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

Task four:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS 4 77,96 343
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 62,07 301
3 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 43,56 257
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 42,75 256
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 41,70 251
6 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 38,29 237
7 Jason Kath Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 37,81 234
8 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 36,86 230
9 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 34,64 221
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne REV 14.5 28,03 199

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 2348
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2291
3 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 2077
4 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 2047
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 2034
6 John Smith Moyes RS4 2023
7 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 1988
8 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 1987
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 1962
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 1960

Forbes Flatlands - task four results »

January 10, 2012, 0:18:47 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - task four

So many at goal

Airborne Rev|Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Grant Heaney|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

Happy pilots in goal: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/2012/01/smiles.html

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

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Wolfgang Siess AUT Wills Wing T2C 14:45:39 16:50:52 02:05:13 946
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:32:59 16:43:35 02:10:36 942
3 Jon snr Durand AUS Moyes RS 4 14:45:00 16:56:26 02:11:26 871
4 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 14:33:36 16:52:42 02:19:06 867
5 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes RX 3 14:43:29 16:55:54 02:12:25 865
6 Christian Baertschi SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 14:44:14 16:56:55 02:12:41 856
7 Phil Schroder AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:42:15 16:57:42 02:15:27 836
8 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:42:03 16:59:10 02:17:07 827
9 Artur Dzamikhov RUS Moyes RS3.5 14:44:14 17:01:07 02:16:53 823
10 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes RS 4 14:48:06 17:03:54 02:15:48 815

Totals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 3131
2 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 2947
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 2913
4 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2893
5 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2848
6 Grant Heaney AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2810
7 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 2726
8 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2710
9 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 2700
10 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RS 3.5 2681

2011 Canungra Classic »

October 29, 2011, 10:33:51 pm PDT

2011 Canungra Classic

Final results

Canungra Classic 2011|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2011/index.html

  Pilot Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 4232
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3938
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 3837
4 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RS4 3652
5 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 13.5 3473
6 Scott Barrett Airborne Rev 3185
7 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Litespeed RS4 3172
8 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed S4 3131
9 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3028
10 David Newton Moyes Litespeed RS4 2988

2011 Canungra Classic »

October 24, 2011, 6:08:50 pm MDT

2011 Canungra Classic

Jon Junior and Senior take the lead

Canungra Classic 2011|Curt Warren|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2011/index.html

Res   Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 2585
2 Jon Durand Sr Moyes Litespeed RS4 2558
3 Rohan Holtkamp AirBorne Rev 13.5 2368
  Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 2368
5 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RS4 2318
6 Curt Warren   2091
7 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 13.5 2064
8 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 2039
9 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed S4 2025
10 David Newton   1999

2009 Canungra Classic »

2009 Canungra Classic

Ricky Duncan wins the 2009 Canungra Classic, fair and square

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor


Jonny, second; Rohan, third; Big John, fourth; wow! See more below.

The final results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 4852
2 Jon Durand jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 4643
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 4594
4 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 4130
5 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 4105
6 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 3809
7 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 3721
8 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 3523
9 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3457
10 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3394

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

2009 Canungra Classic »

October 5, 2009, 9:51:25 PDT

2009 Canungra Classic

Jonny wins the second task and goes into the lead

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2009/results_page.htm

http://jonnydurand.blogspot.com/2009/10/canungra-classic-day-3.html

Task 1 & 2 in Google Earth

Jonny with the Redbull girls getting excited.

Task 2:

#NameGliderTimeTotal
1Jon Durand jnrMoyes Litespeed RS 3.501:36:491000
2Rick DuncanAirborne Rev 13.501:51:30825
3Rohan HoltkampAirborne Rev 13.501:54:33800
4Jon Durand snrMoyes Litespeed S 502:09:08732
5Gabor SiposMoyes Litespeed RS 402:09:57726
6Dave StevensMoyes Litespeed RS 402:10:26723
7Adam ParerAirborne Climax C402:05:43721
8Andrew BarnesMoyes Litespeed RS 3.502:13:39702
9Tony GiammicheleMoyes Litespeed S 402:16:31683
10Keiran BrownMoyes Litespeed S 4.502:17:15679

Totals:

#NameGliderTotal
1Jon Durand jnrMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51854
2Rick DuncanAirborne Rev 13.51819
3Rohan HoltkampAirborne Rev 13.51800
4Tony GiammicheleMoyes Litespeed S 41567
5Richard HefferMoyes Litespeed RS41521
6Rod FlockhartMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51506
7Adam ParerAirborne Climax C41486
8Andrew BarnesMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51428
9Trevor PurcellMoyes Litespeed 51397
10Regan KowaldMoyes Litespeed S 51391

Big Jon hurt on landing

Thu, Jan 29 2009, 9:22:18 pm AEDT

From the main stream media

Jon Durand snr

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/01/28/43655_gold-coast-news.html

That would be Jon Durand Senior.

Forbes, going into day four, task four »

January 6, 2009, 8:58:07 AEDT

Forbes, going into day four, task four

After three good days

Attila Bertok|Chris Jones|Davis Straub|Enda Murphy|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Julia Kucherenko|Nick Purcell|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

The results.

Blay from Spain is leading the competition. Julia, who that Russian team almost didn't let fly last year, is leading all the Russians.

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Blay Olmos ESP Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2809
2 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2703
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 2665
4 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2522
5 Jon Durand Jnr AUS Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2497
6 Lukas Bader DEU Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2467
7 Pedro Luis Garicia Morelli ESP Aeros Combat L 13.7 2391
8 Federico Martini CHE Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2351
9 Chris Jones AUS Moyes Litespeed S 4 2336
10 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2254
11 Jon snr Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed S 5 2248
12 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2224
13 Julia Kucherenko RUS Aeros Combat 12 2050
14 Artur Dzamikhov RUS AEROS Combat L 13 1908
15 Guy Hubbard AUS Moyes Litespeed RS 4 1898
16 Davis Straub USA Moyes Litesport S 4 1893
17 Maxim Usachev RUS Aeros Combat L 1830
18 Enda Murphy AUS Moyes Litespeed S 4 1805
19 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne C4 1797
20 Nick Purcell AUS Moyes Litespeed S 4 1792

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

https://OzReport.com/ozweather.php

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 three, task two

Mon, Feb 25 2008, 5:16:44 am MST

Day three, Task two

Oz Report editor piles in on launch, relaunches later

Cameron Tunbridge|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kari Castle|New South Wales State Titles 2008|PG|Scott Barrett|weather

https://OzReport.com/ozweather.php

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

The forecast was for south east winds going northeast, light with cirrus and then cumulus clouds, perhaps a shower.

When we get up to the hill at 11 AM, the only wind is coming up the northeast launch, and then it is mostly from the north, almost 90 degrees to launch, right down the ridge line. Not too many people are happy to have to be on this launch. We'd all rather be on the west side, but it is blowing over the back there.

The general situation is that it should turn later to the west side as the sun goes over to that side, but that will be after 2 PM or so. The task committee (including yours truly) make a big error in not calling the day later, and getting everyone to go over to the west side to the safer launch. As soon as we call the task for a 2 PM to 2:45 start window, almost every one sets up, anticipating that they will have to launch on this side to make the start gate.

We wait around, which is not good, as it can only get worse. Then one novice competition pilot launches and sinks out. Then Jonny and Dave Seib launch and sink out. Jonny says this is the first time he has ever sunk out at Mt. Borah. Dave does in a downtube on landing and has to go back to Manilla to get another one.

The launches are harry with long runs and often the wind is sideways. A few more get off after they see a paraglider getting up way out away from the hill over in the valley. Scott Barrett, Cameron Tunbridge, Jon Durand, Sr., and Len Paton all get off the hill. They are able to get up and get pretty high as a few other pilots launch and land in the bomb out.

Finally I slip back into line after declining to launch after Jonny goes down. I take off in dodgy conditions with nothing coming in. After a run that was perhaps a bit too short I take off and start flying, but not fast enough. I am heading for the hill side below. Just before I crash into it I push out hard and slow down enough to keep from killing myself.

This ends launching on this side. No one wants to launch here any more. Everyone packs up and moves to the west.

I patch up and clean out the cuts on my shins and knees, pull the broken and bent down tubes off the glider and join my fellow competitors on the west side. The last launch time is coming up soon. I pop the new down tubes on, and with help from Kari Castle get ready to launch, after the last start time. The wind is coming up the west side nicely, but there are launch potatoes spread out all along the launchable area. I find a slot and take off in good conditions.

I'm off seventeen minutes after the last start window (3:02 PM). No time to spend any time in the start circle getting high without having it count against you. The guys who got up on the east side have started the task an hour previously.

Jonny got back up and launched from the west side, just before the second start time at 2:14 PM. Dave Seib launched at 2:41 PM. Four minutes before the last start time.

Jonny got the last start time six minutes late, spending 41 minutes in the start circle. Dave Seib spent 32 minutes in the start circle and headed out on course 29 minutes after the last start time. I spent 16 minutes in the start circle and headed out 32 minutes behind. Neither Dave nor I started high. I was the lowest.

Jonny went straight down the course line, over Lake Keepit, getting high before he got to the lake, low at the first turnpoint at the towers, down to 2,400' AGL, then super high, over 8,500' and staying high until just past the last turnpoint where he went on glide from 7,500' AGL going at over 110 km/h as he arrived uncharacteristically high at 1,400' AGL. His actual time on the course was 1:25:40.

Dave Seib flew the course in 1:37:07. The winners for the day (who started at the first start time) flew the task in 1:40. Dave flews fast low and did not get high until past the first turnpoint.

Cameron Tunbridge won the day, with Bruce Wynn right behind him, followed by Jonny, Scott Barrett, and Jon Durand.

I flew the course in 1:28:34 consistently finding good lift and staying between 4,500' and 7,500'. Like Jonny I went on glide just past the last turnpoint, but I had to climb in a good thermal there, while he was already high by the time he got to the turnpoint and could just go on glide. I glided in at no more than 90 km/h. Jonny's is the fastest flight of the day and mine is second to him.

Twenty five pilots made goal out of sixty two that are here. This is very high attendance.

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Dalby Big Air

April 2, 2007, 11:02:06 pm EDT

Dalby

Jon Durand Senior hurt. Dave Seib wins

Dragonfly|Grant Heaney|Jon Durand snr|photo|Scott Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

Billo writes:

The comp ran from the 25th of March to the 31st of March, and although conditions this year were not epic, as they have been in past comps, we got in rounds on six of the seven days. The Oz national team members Dave Seib and Scott Barrett were able to get some more valuable aerotow flatlands practice prior to Big Springs. Dave Seib won the comp, followed by Scott Barrett and Grant Heaney was third.

A Trans Tasman challenge was run between teams of seven New Zealanders and seven Ozzies. The Ozzies won comfortably, but the Kiwis put up a good showing and won a day. Jon Durand Snr was doing well until he hurt his shoulder on landing at Miles and didn't fly again during the comp. He was on the local Ozzie team, so they finished the next three rounds a man down. It was good to see the Kiwis, and we hope to see more of them here in the future.

There were four tugs this year, and we were getting the field off most days in an hour or so. Dragonfly pilots were Dalby club tugmaster Bob (Smokey) Keen, Dragonfly owner Bruce Carera and Canungra instructor Leroy Patterson. Billo flew his Airborne trike. We had hundreds of launches during the comp period all without incident.

Some of my photos from the week are posted as an html album at;

http://www.williamolive.com/nhgc/gallery/dalbybigair2007/index.html

Results: http://ozreport.com/2007dalby.php

Although it's run somewhat late in the Oz competition season the timing is perfect for the area and I commend this comp to you. Dalby is a great place to fly, hats off to the Dalby club for another well run event. I'm looking forward to next year's comp already

The NSW Titles - Day 6/Task 5

February 9, 2007, 10:20:18 pm AEDT

NSW Day 6

We come back a ways but not too close to the cu-nimbs

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|New South Wales State Titles 2007|PG

The fifth task and flight

Again showers and thunderstorms are in the regional and local forecast. They are most likely to occur to our east on the ranges, but they have been hitting here for the last few days.

The day dawns cloudy, but the layer of clouds slowly disappear and is gone by 11 AM. Little cu's start forming over Mt. Borah. The winds are out of the east so we trudge on up to the east launch. This will be our first encounter with the "morning" launch, and the tricky winds and shallow launch conditions.

The task committee calls a 104 kilometer task keeping in mind the chance of thunderstorms. The winds are light and supposed to change direction during the day, so they feel good about bringing us part of the way back to an intersection west of launch. The task is 63 km straight west to Bogabri through the gap, then southeast to an intersection through the southern gap, than northeast to another intersection about fifteen kilometers west of Mt. Borah.

The goal altitudes are not in the GPS file that the organizers downloaded to us so we have to put these altitudes in ourselves every day for each new goal. We are not given the goal altitudes, so we have to make them up from whatever we can. Seems like a weak point to me. Especially on this day as it turns out.

With the east launch pilots are much more anxious to get going as soon as possible. They don't want launch conditions to change (which is very likely) before they launch. The paragliders have a carpeted launch quite a ways up the hill but the hill there and further east of there is very shallow and hang glider pilots prefer to launch further down the slope where in falls off a bit more.

I'm not the first off on this day and in fact it is good to have pilots launching in front of me so I have some markers. But the lift is good on the south side (the direction that the flags are showing even as we launch east), and it is easy to climb out quickly.

We have launched long before the first start time, but you can start whenever you like, there are just no fifteen minute intervals until 1:30 PM. Pilots are drifting to the north and west and climbing under wispy cu's.

I'm thinking maybe it is a good idea to get going early again, but this time I will obviously have a lot of company. No going out on my own. The lift isn't strong yet, and I'm only climbing to 5,100' AGL. Still there is a good chance of over development.

It looks like Jonny has gone out in front, but in fact he doubles back and goes back inside the start cylinder. I also do this after I get up outside the start cylinder, but still I take off 18 minutes before the 1:30 start time. Jonny will wait for the 1:30 start time.

I spend the next twenty five minutes low and scratching north of the course line on the hill sides under the clouds, trying to stay up and just doing that, but not getting up. Jeez this is terrible. I couldn't find a solid core if my life depended on it.

Finally, I spot a paraglider a couple of kilometers to the south going up, although going straight. He going up better than anything else I've seen. I chase after him. He keeps going straight.

I encounter a little bit of lift, but keep following him as he heads straight under a dark cloud. Wait, wait a minute, this is 900 fpm down. I'm down to 1,200' AGL and I run back to near where I felt that lift and to where I think I will find lift.

Bam! It's 750 fpm average to 6,400' AGL and cloud base. Half a dozen pilots join me in this baby. Finally, the day has begun, with me deep in a hole.

The bunch of us head west toward Bogabri over the ranges to the north of the gap that contains the road from Manilla to Bogabri. In spite of the dark clouds over the hill sides I don't find much there and keep going so that fifteen minutes later I'm down to 2,000' AGL and working 220 fpm up.

I climb to 3,200' AGL slide over to a cloud and find 550 fpm. We're back in the race. I climb out to 6,400' AGL with a few pilots. I'm thinking that things are good, better even, but how will I get out of this hole? I want to do well today to move up from fifth into third so I've got to make up for my mistake of going too early.

I race toward the turnpoint and two kilometers out find 700 fpm under the forming clouds. I'm watching the clouds and going to them as they build. Jonny comes over right over me and we climb out to 6,200' AGL. Unfortunately he has already taken the turnpoint, so I'm four kilometers behind him.

After getting the turnpoint at Bogabri I head back to the same thermal and get high quickly again, now north of the second leg of the course. There are plenty of cu's ahead and no sign of over development.

Nine kilometers further along I join in with Jon Durand Sr and Len Paton, who is just below us. We'll fly the rest of the course pretty much together.

There is a ridge just before the next turnpoint at Kelvin with a dark cloud over it and a pilot (Alex?) under the cloud turning. I join up with Alex as Len and Jon come in behind and over me taking a better line after they saw mine. I'll climb to just 5,700' AGL before heading out to get the turnpoint and go on final glide. The 5030 is saying that I've got goal, but then it isn't by much.

Fifteen kilometers out from goal I'm down to 3,000' AGL but I see a few pilots high (Len and Jon) circling at thirteen kilometers out. Alex continues straight under them and keeps on heading for goal. I stop and gain 600' with 12.5 kilometers yet to go.

The ground is looking awfully close and when I look ahead I see Alex turning close to the ground then landing two or three kilometers short of goal. I'm holding on tight.

At 3.5 km out I'm at 1,100' AGL but I'm only losing 220 fpm. There is no big sink,  I've got a 7 mph cross wind, and it looks like I will make it. I come in to goal at 300' AGL. I'm the third pilot to land at goal after Jonny and Lukas. Lenny may have beaten me into goal as he was much higher. It turns out that the goal altitude was 1,500' and I had put it at 1,000' as the best guess that we have been using every day. Alex had it set for 900'.

Pilots will slowly trickle into goal as the afternoon passes. Some may have tried to make it back to Manilla, as Jon Sr almost did. There are plenty of cu-nimb clouds but they are way east of us on the ranges. We had puffy cu's all day. We hear later that pilots will still be flying to almost 7 PM. I'm at goal a little before 4 PM.

So three black Moyes Litespeed RS's at goal first, the only black ones in the competition. I'm enjoying flying mine. I get tossed and turned a bit, but it doesn't bother me. This is the glider that I am flying: http://www.black-attack.at/sport-race.php.

Canungra Classic »

October 26, 2006, 7:40:00 pm PDT

Canungra

Jonny builds his lead

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Chris Jones|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Scott Barrett

http://www.zupy.net/Canungra06/

Overall results:

PlaceNameGliderTotal
1JON JNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 43762
2DAVID SeibMoyes Litespeed S 53619
3RICK DuncanAirborne Climax C4 13.53223
4STEVE MoyesMoyes Litespeed S 43219
5ATTILA BertokMoyes Litespeed S 53130
6SCOTT BarrettAirborne Climax C4 13.53103
7CORINNA SchwiegershausenMoyes Litespeed S 3.53069
8CHRIS JonesMoyes Litespeed S 42942
9ADAM ParerAirborne Climax C4 142927
10JON SNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 4.52751

Fifth task:

PlaceNameGliderTimekmTotal
1JON JNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 401:22:0142.3914
2DAVID SeibMoyes Litespeed S 501:24:2442.3890
3ATTILA BertokMoyes Litespeed S 501:26:1142.3854
4JON SNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 4.501:29:5342.3835
5CHRIS JonesMoyes Litespeed S 401:43:3742.3795
6STEVE MoyesMoyes Litespeed S 401:48:2842.3778
7GLEN MacLeodMoyes Litespeed S 4.501:50:1042.3772
8ADAM ParerAirborne Climax C4 1401:59:0542.3745
9RICK DuncanAirborne Climax C4 13.541.3660
9SCOTT BarrettAirborne Climax C4 13.541.3660

Replaying the Bogong Cup

Sun, Jan 8 2006, 8:05:48 pm AEDT

Replay

View the pilots as they fly at the Bogong Cup

Andreas Olsson|Ashley Wilmott|Attila Bertok|Cameron McNeill|Chris Jones|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Mart Bosman|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Paul Allen|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Rolf Schatzmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Gerry writes:

You can set how many seconds apart your screen will be refreshed. If it can't keep up it just does it as often as it can. Default=5. You can set how many times real time you want the replay played at with the " speed="parameter. Default=20 but I may up that, it's pretty slow. You can list the names of the pilot(s) you want to display, capitalized like in the list (Andreas Olsson, Andy Schmidt, Ashley Wilmott, Atsushi Hasegawa, Attila Bertok, Balazs Ujhelyi, Birgit Svens, Cameron Mcneill, Cameron Turnbridge, Carole Tobler, Chris Jones, Chris Smith, Conrad Loten, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Craig Dorich, David Seib, Davis Straub, Dick Heffer, Eduardo Oliveira, Ferenc Gruber, Fumihiro Sato, Gabor Sipos, Geoff Ward, Gerolf Heinrichs, Gunther Tschurnig, Guy Hubbard, Imre Balko, Jack Simmons, Jim Prahl, Joerg Bajewski, John Blain, Jon Gjerde, Jon Jnr Durand, Jon Snr Durand, Karl Ruckriegel, Kevin Carter, Len Paton, Lisa Miller, Lukas Bader, Mark Stokoe, Mart Bosman, Michael Friesenbichler, Nic Pallett, nozumu, Oliver Barthelmes, Paul Allen, Peter Aitken, Peter Leach, Phil Pritchard, Phil Schroder, Regan Kowald, Richard Breyley, Richard Olbrich, Rohan Holtkamp, Rolf Schatzmann, Sam Prest, Scott Barret, Shigeto Ishizaka, Siggi Schitzler, Steve Blenkinsop, Steve Moyes, Stuart Coad, Tony Kenney, Trent Brown, Warren Simonsen, Wesley Hill), with"+" signs instead of spaces, separated by commas.

https://OzReport.com/KML_track.php?data=2006+Bogong+Cup+day+1&names=Davis+Straub,Kevin+Carter&refresh=1&speed=80

Leave off the "names=…" and it'll display ALL of the tracks.

You can also start at a particular time (in GMT since that's what the track logs are in). Otherwise the replay starts at the time of the first listed person's track log, probably a while before they even get their butt off the ground.

You can get rid of the displayed names by adding "label=0". Default=displayed.

https://OzReport.com/KML_track.php?data=2006+Bogong+Cup+day+1&refresh=1&speed=50&label=0&time=2006-01-07+02:00:00

It would take too long to refresh the tracks each time, so if you want to see the tracks during the replay just have them loaded & displayed first. Yeah, all the gliders just point north, making them point sort of in the average direction they had been traveling in will happen later. And yeah, they're all the same color.

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New South Wales State Titles

Sun, Feb 27 2005, 3:00:00 pm EST

Tied, once again.

Barry Bateman|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Dustin Martin|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|William "Billo" Olive

Billo «william.olive» writes:

Round five was the final round. First place is a tie between Conrad Loten and Jon Jnr with Rick Duncan third. The conspiracy theorists may care to note that Dave Seib was the scorer, and Dave also scored Gulgong 2004 which also gave a tied result for Jnr.

B grade result is Cameron Tunbridge 1st, Dustin Hansen second and Don Gardner third.

Place Name Glider Total
1 LOTEN Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 4000
2 DURAND JNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 4000
3 DUNCAN Rick Airborne C2 14 3925
4 SEIB David Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 3813
5 HOLTKAMP Rohan Airborne C2 13 3674
6 STAVER Dave Moyes Litespeed S 4 3347
7 BARRETT Scott Airborne C2 13 3214
8 PRITCHARD Phil Moyes Litespeed S 4 3100
9 BARTHELMES Ollie Moyes Litespeed S 4 3093
10 JONES Chris Moyes Litespeed S 4 3014
11 SCHRODER Phil Airborne C2 13 2888
12 PARER Adam Moyes Litespeed 4 2872
13 PATON Len Moyes Litespeed S 4 2781
14 DURAND SNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2776
15 TUNBRIDGE Cameron Airborne C2 14 2633
16 DANIELS Al Airborne C2 13 2569
17 WYNNE Bruce Moyes Litespeed S 4 2549
18 HANSEN Dustin Airborne Climax 14 2481
19 DUNCAN Shane Airborne C2 13 2428
20 STEAD Rod Moyes Litespeed 4 2422

(editor's note: It's great to see Ricky Duncan doing so well. He's been a long time competitor, but hasn't attended that many competitions over the last decade, just getting back into it with the Gulgong Classic as few years ago.

Also great to see Conrad Lotten do so well against the very strong Jonny Durand Jnr, the new Australian Red Bull athlete. I remember Conrad feeling bad about competitions, and maybe this will help him overcome those feelings.

Dave Seib continues his strong growth as a competition pilot as does Chris Jones. Great to see all the other competitors also, Both Airborne and Moyes were well represented in this almost all Australian competitions - Ollie is a half time Australian, as is Barry Bateman, almost.)

New South Wales State Titles

Fri, Feb 25 2005, 12:00:00 pm EST

A tight competition.

Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|weather|William "Billo" Olive

Billo «william.olive» writes:

Round four weather was almost a repeat of the previous flying day. Luckily some high cirrus kept the development at bay for a while. The task committee called a 108 KM  four turnpoint task out in the valley towards the Kelvin ranges and that area did not OD until very late.

The pilots coming into goal were treated to dumping CuNims and lightning shows all around but the course line stayed in sunshine and safe. Luck was on our side for once.

The lead pilots are all within striking distance of the top, so this last round is going to be interesting indeed.

Task 4:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 LOTEN Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 02:54:38 1000
2 DUNCAN Rick Airborne C2 14 02:56:17 975
3 PRITCHARD Phil Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:56:19 967
4 HOLTKAMP Rohan Airborne C2 13 03:08:58 898
5 STAVER Dave Moyes Litespeed S 4 03:08:41 892
6 DURAND JNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 03:20:36 856
7 DURAND SNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 03:26:34 832
8 SEIB David Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 03:32:26 809
9 WYNNE Bruce Moyes Litespeed S 4 03:30:34 805
10 STEAD Rod Moyes Litespeed 4 03:22:16 794

The top three: Jonny, Ricky, and Conrad are within 89 points after four tasks.

New South Wales State Titles

Tue, Feb 22 2005, 3:00:03 pm EST

The report from Manilla.

Barry Bateman|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|William "Billo" Olive

Billo writes:

The NSW HG state titles comp in Manilla got underway on Saturday. We have had two days off due to the trough hovering over our heads, which has brought strong winds. Task one was something of a struggle, but today we had the conditions for which Manilla is known, with every pilot getting some airtime and plenty of happy faces tonight.

BTW, we are using the WGS84 datum

Place Name Glider Total
1 SEIB David Moyes Litespeed S 4,5 1348
2 LOTEN Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 1313
3 DUNCAN Rick Airborne C2 14 1289
4 DURAND JNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 1260
5 HOLTKAMP Rohan Airborne C2 13 1198
6 PATON Len Moyes Litespeed S 4 1180
7 BARRETT Scott Airborne C2 13 1047
8 BARTHELMES Ollie Moyes Litespeed S 4 1028
9 PARER Adam Moyes Litespeed 4 999
10 STAVERS Dave Moyes Litespeed S 4 990
11 DURAND SNR Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4,5 947
11 SCHRODER Phil Airborne C2 13 947
13 JONES Chris Moyes Litespeed S 4 922
14 DANIELS Al Airborne C2 13 868
15 BATEMAN Barry Moyes Litespeed 4 848
16 DUNCAN Shane Airborne C2 13 846
17 DOCKING Harry Airborne C2 13 801
18 KEE Trevor Moyes Litespeed 5 795
19 HEFFER Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 779
20 FLOCKHART Rod Moyes Litespeed S 4 771

Bogong Cup, Day Eight, Task Five »

Sat, Jan 31 2004, 2:00:00 pm EST

the Bogong Cup

Akiko Suzuki|Attila Bertok|Belinda Boulter|Bogong Cup 2004|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|PG

http://bogongcup.dustydemons.com/results/index.html

Saturday is the last day of the Bogong Cup. After we get scared off the Buckland Gap hillside by the approaching lightening on Friday, we are back at the same hillside with lots of dark clouds threatening overhead and to the west. The clouds are building but not as rapidly as the day before.

The forecast is for strong southerly winds 20 to 30 kph so this appears to be the only site that we can go to. With the chance of flying appearing to be slim we set up just in case we can fly.

I've been drafted to be on the task committee by Gerolf who can't take the emotional turmoil that comes with the conflicts between task committee members. It's hard to name a task and get setup in time, and the other members call for a more cross wind task than I'm in favor of after I leave the meeting to finish setting up.

It's all dark overhead and on the ground as the open launch window opens up. Amazingly seven pilots take off and after catching a small thermal low out in front they all land in the bomb out field. I was next in line and couldn't figure out the attraction of launching in such marginal conditions.

The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom. I put my glider near the launch and get out of my harness to check the conditions.

After about fifteen minutes a few small patches of sunlight appear out in front and proceed to make it to the paddocks just below this 800 foot launch. It looks like we might have a break in the liftless conditions.

Bo's on launch and as soon as the wind appears to be coming up the face with sunlight established below he's off and soaring just at launch level. Before long he's able to get a little above launch and the sun light continues on the ground. After five minutes Kraig, Diego and I follow Bo off the hill and find just enough lift to stay thirty feet over the launch altitude. No one wants to come after us just yet.

I venture forward a hundred feet further from the launch and hook into the main thermal. Kraig and Diego come in under me and we start to climb out to 2,000' over. I'm just happy to be able to stay maybe thirty feet over them for a few minutes trying my best to be as smooth in the thermal as I possibly can in order to not let them climb through me.

I'm still not able to push out on the flex wings (too much ATOS training) so I have to rely on the Litespeed's control bar position, which goes out as I take off the VG, to set the thermaling speed. Still, with Kraig and Diego right below and the lift scratchy, I'm doing my very best to fly like a flex wing pilot.

A few more pilots launch when they see us going up and we find nice bits of thermals as the sunlight increases to our east. Bo has run to the east down the ridge and found strong lift at the end of it. Unfortunately our start cylinder is twenty five kilometers to the west northwest.

The launch is quite dark again and it looks like maybe only ten or so pilots will get off the hill and up high with us. Then after ten minutes it clears again and another group launches. I'm bobbling around at 2,000' over catching various thermals and wondering whether to join Bo to the east at cloudbase. Jon Durand Sr has joined him and a paraglider pilot and they are all up at cloud base.

I come in over Oleg and about five other pilots and proceed to feel bad as Oleg smoothly climbs through me. I head over to where Bo is, to get better lift and it really is there as a group of us climb to cloud base.

Oleg and a few other pilots are now over my head as I climb up the cloudbase and they go back over launch and get back to cloudbase and I come in 500' under them. It's time to head toward the start cylinder at Bowser, twenty five kilometers away near Wangaratta.

My mental attitude is not as great as I would like as I feel that I'm not climbing as well as the other pilots and now they are two minutes ahead of me. I had done so well at first getting up while almost everyone was stuck on launch and I wanted to stay with the top pilots, but now I'm behind.

I climb up to cloudbase again over launch and follow the leaders west down the ridge toward Everton into the dark clouds and dark ground which seems to me to be quite a bit off our course line. I'm losing track of the first guys, but I keep drifting to the right to the northwest to get more back toward Bowser, the start point. Suddenly I spy the lead gaggle to my right and come in under them. Unfortunately, way under them.

It turns out that when we spread out going down the ridge one pilot on the right side found the lift first and all the leaders took a right turn to join the pilot in 700 fpm. I find 100 fpm down low.

Now, I'm feeling quite done in at 2,000' AGL and bouncing around in poor lift. The sky and the ground at dark and there is little promise of lift beyond the poor stuff that I've got here. On the other hand the sunlight is approaching from the south and I hang around long enough in the weak stuff (while the lead guys get way ahead of me) to find better lift.

After a short glide toward the start point, I come into more sunlight at Tarrawingee, and with a couple of other pilots start climbing from 1,700' AGL. This lift really does get better and soon I'm a lot happier with a strong thermal and a number of pilots in the vicinity. It isn't long before I'm back at cloud base and looking at the gloom and rain over by the start circle eleven kilometers to my northwest.

I'm with five Japanese pilots and Dave Seib. I'm still wondering if the lead gaggle has taken the 3 PM or 3:15 start time, what they did about all the gloom by the start point, and what I can do to get the 3:30 start time. Dave with the Japanese pilots in tow heads straight for the dark start circle four minutes too early. I'll find out later that Dave had blown off the start time and so do the guys following him.

I hold back losing my contact with other pilots, but get the 3:30 PM start time. This proves to be not such a great decision.

I glide into the gloom to get the Bowser turnpoint at 2,500' AGL and glide northeast downwind toward some small patches of sunlight but don't find any lift. Dave, meanwhile, has enough altitude, as he didn't wait for the start time, to glide around the turnpoint, and make it back to the larger patches of sunlight further to the east. He'll get an extra nine kilometers.

Only a few of the top guys really got out on the course at all. Many went down before the getting the turnpoint at the center of the start circle at Bowser. Oleg and Jonny got the furthest just past the second turnpoint at Springhurst.

While I felt that I was doing very poorly, it wasn't as bad as I thought. Again the tension of being where you are and doing your best there and worrying about what the other guys were doing caused undue anxiety.

Bo was up there with the lead gaggle, dove into the gloom first with Oleg around 3:15, but Oleg went back to cover Jonny. Bo got into the start circle, then turned around to go back to the sunlight and never made it back to the start circle.

Kevin Carter was struggling and came in low near the start circle. Having heard the story in the morning at the pilot briefing about how a farmer was claiming that he had sighted a car with a hang glider pilot near his paddock where a foal had run into a fence, broken its leg and had to be shot, Kevin at the last minute changed landing fields trying to avoid a field where he thought he saw horses. On landing he hit a fence and smacked in hard.

He broke his leg just above his ankle and the farmer came out to help him. The ambulance was there when Belinda and Bo got to him and packed up the glider. He went into surgery (the theater) that night in Wangaratta and is still in the hospital. He won't be able to fly home until a few days (or perhaps a week) later than originally planned. He'll be in the hospital for a few days yet.

On his way out of the paddock he looked out and saw only cows and no horses in the field that he had originally planned to land in.

Last day results:

1

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat L 13

Ukr

59

618

2

Durand Jon Jnr

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

58

606

3

Mengelt Rolf

Moyes Litespeed

Che

45

535

4

Paton Len

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

43

518

5

Noma Yasuhiro

Moyes Litespeed S3.5

Jpn

42

516

6

Seib David

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

42

514

7

Ando Masao

Moyes Litespeed S4

Jpn

40

485

8

Bertok Attila

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Hun

39

483

9

Suzuki Yuji

Moyes Litespeed S3.5

Jpn

37

461

10

Matsumura Takahiro

Moyes Litespeed 4

Jpn

36

454

11

Heinrichs Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aut

35

448

12

Crapanzano Angelo

Moyes Litespeed S4

Ita

34

431

13

Straub Davis

Airborne C2 14

Usa

34

425

14

Kato Minoru

Icaro Laminar Mr 14

Jpn

33

417

15

Bader Lucas

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

33

415

Totals:

1

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat L 13

Ukr

4429

2

Durand Jon Jnr

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

4338

3

Bader Lucas

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

4090

4

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

4010

5

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

4008

6

Bertok Attila

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Hun

3767

7

Heinrichs Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aut

3749

8

Seib David

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

3735

9

Paton Len

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

3635

10

Hideaki Nagamitsu

Moyes Litespeed 4

Jpn

3466

11

Matsumura Takahiro

Moyes Litespeed 4

Jpn

3273

12

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

3145

13

Pritchard Phil

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

3035

14

Schroder Phil

Airborne Climax C2 14

Aus

2920

15

Carter Kevin

Aeros Combat L 13

Usa

2918

Both days after the Bogong Cup were spectacular with over development late on the second day, but it should have been fine on that day out in the flats. I'll write a series of round up articles on the flex wing gliders, and the competition in Oz or the next week.

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The 15th Annual Pre-Worlds 2004 - day seven, task four

Wed, Jan 21 2004, 5:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros|Aeros Combat|aerotow|Airborne Climax|Dave Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Moyes Litespeed S|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Pre-Worlds 2004|Rohan Holtkamp|safety|Steve Moyes|Tove Heaney|tow|weaklink

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/preworlds2004/

Like I reported yesterday the day was forecast to be windy and with thunderstorms, and it is blowing 40 kph when we get to the paddock. But, unlike yesterday, the safety committee now is committed to waiting to see if it calms down, even if we have to wait until 3 PM. The lift is predicted to stop at 4,000'.

There are some cu's forming in the distant east which look like the precursors of a little over development. It doesn't look nearly as bad as it did the day that we canceled the task in mid flight, but it could be a bother.

The task committee has set a task 137 kilometers to the east down the Sturt highway. We will stick to that task the whole day in spite of arguments for the different directions (not possible given the 40 kph winds), the coming change (slowly coming), and the line of towering cu's (fly under them) in our way.

The safety committee is unfortunately split between two car towing guys and Martin at the aerotowing place. This is a bad idea. In the Hay Open we had all the safety committee at the car towing end, so that they don't get scared by the wind noise in the trees at the aerotowing spot. Also you need to have the safety committee all in one place to make a decision. The task committee doesn't even hear from the two other safety committee members until way late.

No one is setting up their gliders as we wait out the strong surface winds with the thought that it looks like they should calm down. Attila gives us the same report on the upper winds as the day before, with 35-40 kph strengths and bumpy.

Finally, at 2 PM the surface winds die down to reasonable strengths. I don't know if the safety committee at the car towing area is set up all ready or not, but the aerotow folks get their gliders off the cars and begin to setup. We call a three o'clock launch window and a four o'clock start clock.

The launch gets delayed at 3 PM when the surface winds come up again for a few minutes. The clouds are building quite nicely to the east and that is freaking out some people. Paul, Martin, Jonny and I are flaying about trying to get the task going, when I finally realize that we haven't heard from the other two safety committee guys. Paul calls them up and sure enough they are keen to go (Dave Seib, one safety committee member, relies on the other, Phil Schroeder, to make the call). Well, that's a majority, so I say, let's go, it's decided.

The launch reopens at 3:30 and the start time starts at 4 PM. I insist on starting a half hour after the launch window opens because: Everyone was ready for 3 PM, there is no need to wait and we want to encourage pilots to start launching right away and not wait because they thin that they will be blown out of the 20 km start circle before the first start time, in fact, there is no way anyone is going to get to the start circle circumference by 4 PM because it is 20 km away, so I want the start time opened so that pilots can start whenever they get to the edge of the start circle, and finally we set 10 minute start intervals given all the winds.

Bo is off first in our line and I'm right behind him. Unfortunately at 600' the tow rope breaks (I've got a stronger weaklink) under only minimal pressure. This puts me to the back of the line. Not good.

No gaggles form over the paddock as most pilots are blown down wind in light lift. Bo gets to 7,000' over the tow paddock and Jon Durand, Sr. gets to over 7,500'. They are the exceptions.

I don't launch until 4:30 and there are still five or six guys yet to tow. I drift out of the paddock at 2,500' with the wind west at 40 kph.

I'm down to 900' AGL before I find some good lift that gets me to 5,000' at the edge of the start circle at 5 PM. This is a late day, and for the most part the lift is quite weak although on the first two thermals both inside the start circle it averages 300 fpm. It will average 150 fpm after that.

Even with the strong winds and gentle lift I'm really liking flying the Moyes Litespeed S 4.5. It seems very responsive in this air and I'm pushed out circling up in the lift when I find it. I'm relaxed, the glider feels stable, and I'm zooming fast over the ground. My average L/D will be 25:1, so you know the wind is blowing.

About forty kilometers out from the tow paddock I'll come in under three pilots including Steve Moyes. Tove will come and join me low and we'll work from 1,200' to 3,000' AGL in 200 fpm. The guys above us will just continue to stick in the thermal even when it gets very very light.

We'll go on glide from low without the other higher pilots and look for lift along the Sturt highway trying to stay away from the large rice operations with their wet fields. I zig zag about and finally find lift at 900' AGL again while Tove misses it to the right and lands. Steve Moyes is right near me and watches as I dig out from this hole. He and I are going up.

The cu nimbs have formed in a line off to our northeast. It looks like it is possible to make it to goal without getting in under the over development. I can see lightening under the area where it is raining, and a wall of dust stretching about 30 kilometers. The wind has switched with west northwest to southwest as we approach the storm. It feels like the cloud of dust is far enough away and stationary so that it won't bother us. The wind is so strong out here away from the storm that it is hard to imagine the storm doing anything but calming the winds.

I'll circle while drifting almost twelve kilometers getting to 3,400' AGL. Then it is an eighteen kilometer glide toward the wall of dust without a low save at the end, even though I find zero sink at 800' for about five kilometers.

I'll end up 48 kilometers out at sixteenth for the day. Steve Moyes who was just above me will get to within 41 kilometers. Kevin Carter will make goal (among the few) and Bo will go down 89 kilometers out from goal. Bo doesn't find any lift after getting high at the tow paddock. The same will happen to Diego Bussinger.

Some of the pilots who make goal well get nearer the storm cell and ride the air above the wall of dust. The winds die down in this area, but the air gets bumpy. Rohan Holtkamp will fly until 7:45 and get to within 25 kilometers of goal. Kraig Coomber will land 53 kilometers out.

Results from task four:

1

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

1:36:05

892

2

Pritchard Phil

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

1:51:47

846

3

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

1:43:14

834

4

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

Ukr

1:52:15

825

5

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

1:52:20

820

6

Durand Jon Snr

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Aus

1:49:06

808

7

Carter Kevin

Aeros Combat 2 13

Usa

2:08:36

761

Overall Results:

1

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

3602

2

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

Ukr

3474

3

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

3423

4

Holtkamp Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

Aus

3120

5

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

3089

6

Durand Jon Snr

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Aus

3087

7

Coomber Kraig

Moyes Litespeed S

Aus

3039

8

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

3018

9

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

2875

10

Pritchard Phil

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

2847

Oliver Barthelmes «oliverbarthelmes» sends this picture of Belinda and I (that I think Carol took) in from of the Airborne Climax:

Big Jon's Big Day

Fri, Nov 28 2003, 12:00:00 pm EST

flying in Queensland

Bernard "Speedy" Gonsalves|Brian Hansen|Derek Wagner|Jason Reid|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|record|Roderick Stead|Ronnie van Raalte|Scott Tucker|Steve McMahon|Tony Knight|Trevor Purcell

Roderick Stead «rodstead» writes:

We had a big day in Canungra yesterday (Saturday 29th). Jon Durand snr flew 372 km from Beechmont to beat Jonny junior's recent site record. In the process he broke our state record of 362 km set by Macca (Steve McMahon) a couple of years ago from a car tow site up North. Jon flew for about 8½ hours after launching into a 10-15 knot ESE wind at 10:00am, it looked like a big day and we were all hyped up for it (unfortunately the author made about 15km) and most people got up and away at launch quickly.

Jon was not the only one with a good flight, Derek Wagner and Ronnie van Raalte landed just over "The Gap" (Cunningham's Gap on the Great Divide 80-90km's). "The Gap" is a big milestone for most local pilots and a fairly daunting task the first time over. It has a dubious glide back the into wind East from the top, limited landing options (steep sided hills covered in ring barked trees) and a 7km glide over rainforest to the first landing option on the lee side. After that the route opens up into beautiful open black soil farming country until Warick then some big tree crossings to Inglewood (209kms). Inglewood to Goondiwindi (286kms) has plenty of landing options with one tree crossing. (The author hasn't even driven past that point but I assume it's a mixture of trees and paddocks.)

Also out there was Jason Reid landing at the Warick Gliding Club, 123 kms. Tony Knight, the only pilot with a kingposted glider (not a new generation Litesport but a 164 Moyes Xtralite) landed very close to the 100mile mark at Karara (158kms), which is just after the big tree crossing. Scott Tucker, Brian Hansen and Trevor Purcell all wound it down in Inglewood (209km's) after getting 10,000 bases. All pilots were in Litespeeds except Tony in the 164 Xtralite and Jason in an Aeros Stealth.

For those of you who do not know our area, Beechmont is only 25kms from the coast, after launch we get great views of the coast (Pacific Ocean) then head West over various foothills to "The Great Dividing Range". The Canungra Hang Gliding Club runs the 'St Bernard's Canungra Classic' each spring, if you are in the area come and fly with us. Last year's event was a full house of 75 pilots and we gave away $5500 dollars in prize money (cash) plus $5000-$6000 in goods.

It is Sunday afternoon now and most of the crew is just getting back into town. Trev's Toyota van, which has retrieved hundreds of grateful pilots, broke down in Inglewood last night (better than the side of the road in the middle of nowhere). The tow truck looked good carrying a Toyota van with six gliders on the roof through Canungra this afternoon. I am sure all the pilots are grateful to Speedy (Bernard Gonsalves) who after landing volunteered to drive (the breakdown cost him a Sunday flight) and to Shirley Lake for picking them all up today.

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New site record

Sat, Oct 18 2003, 6:00:01 am EDT

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Judy Durand|PG|record

Judy Durand <durand@ausinfo.com.au> writes:

Jonny Durand Jr set a new Beechmont site record yesterday. Beechmont is located on a hill behind the Gold Coast and is 20 kilometres from the ocean. On the last day of the Canungra Cup Paragliding comp here in South East Queensland Jonny set a task for the hang glider pilots on launch.

The first turnpoint was Inglewood, (at 210 kilometres), and goal at Gooniwindi (another 80 kilometres). Jonny arrived at Gooniwindi and continued flying towards Moree for another 80 kilometres. There were good clouds, but very little wind and the flight took him 8½ hours. This was a new site record of 340 kilometres , straight line from launch.

The previous record was held by Jon Durand Snr and was 297 kilometres.

I am pretty attached to the "site record trophy" so I am happy it will stay at our home.

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Jon Durand Jr. on final glide

Sun, Jun 22 2003, 2:03:03 pm EDT

altitude|Florida|Flytec 4005|Flytec USA|Jon Durand snr|Kraig Coomber|Paris Williams

Jon Durand writes:

Well after nearly 1000 hours of flying with the Flytec 4005, I was told I needed to get the 4030 as well as an airspeed indicator so I could use speeds to fly and have a final glide computer. I did this, however I found it to hard to operate in the air and never had confidence in the final glide as many others would land short and say ‘well my instruments told me that I could make it but I guess they were wrong’. I eventually broke my airspeed indicator about one year later and never thought it was worth replacing, as my results kept getting better. I figured I could fly just as well without all that information.

Over the last two years Kraig Coomber has been trying really hard to get me using these functions again. It was not until the Australian comps last season, when Paris, Kraig and Curt were using the new 4030 Race and kept beating me on the finals, that I thought I should upgrade to the new 4030Race. I thought I would let them figure out the little problems and see if any of them would land short of goal by using this new instrument. At the end of the season I was very impressed with the accuracy of the instrument.

Now after 2000 hours I finally got hooked up with the new 4030Race after the Quest air meet in Florida. My first flight with this instrument was on day one of the Wallaby meet. I liked knowing, when I was gliding, whether it was tailwind or headwind and how strong it was and I was also using the final glide part for turnpoints as well. This way I could see how high I would arrive at the turnpoint.

Before I knew it I was 15kms out from goal and climbing with Manfred watching my numbers to see when they got to the positive height. As soon as it reached 0 height for goal Manfred did one more circle and left, I was not convinced as this was my first ever attempt at using the new final glide computer, I thought that I had better just make sure I got there. I ended up leaving when it said I could make it with 300 feet.

As I was on final, I watched the numbers and they were very solid telling me I could make it and never once saying that I couldn’t. Though in my mind, I was looking as I would normally do, thinking oohh I'm not sure but the vario kept me confident and I arrived at goal with the exact altitude it told me I would. I was very impressed not only to place 2nd for the day behind Manfred but to know that we finally could all have a instrument so accurate for this important part of every flight.

I would like to thank the pilots that helped Flytec USA design this instrument as I believe it is the best on offer these days.

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Brauninger upgrade for final glide

Tue, Apr 29 2003, 12:00:03 pm EDT

altitude|Chris Arai|Flytec 4030|Jon Durand snr|Kraig Coomber|radio|safety|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Wills Wing

https://OzReport.com/toc.php?Ozv7n106.shtml

I had a few (perhaps too few) opportunities to try out the new Brauninger upgraded final glide calculations and display at the Wallaby Open. I fly with a Brauninger IQ/Comp and this new version is supposed to give (among other features) a more stable display of the altitude that you will come in above goal (I set my safety margin to zero).

Steve Pearson at Wills Wing sent me an upgraded IQ/Comp loaner to try out and I sent mine in to Brauninger for an update. I appreciate the opportunity to give this new version a try.

Before I get into what I experienced let’s look a little more closely at the issue of final glide calculations. I and others (including Peter Brauninger and Chris Arai) have written extensively on this issue (https://OzReport.com/toc.php?Ozv6n38.shtml, https://OzReport.com/toc.php?Ozv6n44.shtml, and https://OzReport.com/toc.php?Ozv6n203.shtml#3).

Part of the Brauninger final glide upgrade is an attempt to reduce the fluctuation in the height above goal display by reducing the fluctuation in the calculated wind speed (if any) by averaging the wind speed over a longer time interval. The Tangent and the new Flytec 4030 Race get around the problem of fluctuating wind speed calculations by requiring that the pilot input the wind speed (calculated and displayed by the vario) and therefore the wind speed going into goal figure is fixed.

The question is first, does this averaging of the wind speed help with this fluctuation problem, and second, is this really the source of the problem?

In my experience it was hard to tell if there was any difference in the fluctuation of the displayed height above goal with the upgraded IQ/Comp compared to the previous version. It still appears to be the case that if you are in lift or light sink the height above goal figure increases, and if you are in more than light sink it decreases (much more than the amount that you are rising or sinking at the time).

It would appear that the issues that Chris Arai raised in the above articles are still true with respect to the Brauninger IQ/Comp. The fluctuations have little to do with the calculated wind speed, and everything to do with how the final glide calculation is (incorrectly) made. Perhaps Brauninger will now more seriously consider Chris’ critique.

Given that Flytec has apparently solved this problem with their new 4030 Race, perhaps there will be some competitive pressure to match Flytec’s success. I heard from Jon Durand, Jr. (a pilot who was very much disinterested in final glide calculations – he’d just radio Kraig Coomber and ask him if it was time to go to goal) how much he liked the 4030 Race. Apparently there are a number of other pilots who are appreciating the new final glide features of the 4030 Race also.

Of course, for most pilots, final glide calculations are not a major issue. They may purchase a Brauninger IQ/Comp because they like the tones, or the dial or the total energy, or for other features. I like the IQ/Comp and will continue flying with it. I just know that I won’t get the same reassurance on final glide that my competitors who fly with the 4030 Race will get.

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The 2003 Wallaby Open

Fri, Apr 25 2003, 8:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Australia|Betinho Schmitz|competition|Florida|Flytec Championships 2003|game|harness|Icaro Laminar MR|Jim Lee|Jon Durand snr|Kari Castle|maps|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|Paris Williams|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon|Worlds

http://www.wallaby.com/wallabyopen/2003/

The FSL MAPS modeled data for Kissimmee:

Shows winds predicted to be up to 29 mph at 3,000’. The top of the lift is forecast to be 3,200’, with the lift predicted to be 400 fpm (subtract your sink rate). By five o’clock the top of the lift is forecast to be 2,600’ with the lift at 200 fpm.

There is a warm front to the northwest in Panama City in the Florida panhandle where there are presently (around noon) thunderstorms. With the strong winds we would have to call a task to the northwest toward the area of likely thunderstorms this afternoon.

Malcolm calls the day at the 10:30 AM pilot meeting, based on wind strength in the field itself. The forecasted wind conditions for tomorrow are for similar strengths with more of a west component.

Results so far:

Rigids who made goal on day five:

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 PLONER Alex Air Atos C ITA 2:06:49 988
2 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 2:06:51 973
3 CHAUMET David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 2:09:17 915
4 BARMAKIAN Bruce Air Atos USA 2:13:00 863
5 POSCH Johann Air Atos C AUT 2:13:49 848
6 POUSTINCHIAN Mark Air Atos C USA 2:14:16 837
7 STRAUB Davis Air Atos C USA 2:14:48 827
8 GLEASON Ron Air Atos USA 2:15:03 821
9 YOCOM Jim Air Atos C USA 2:15:26 814
10 ENDTER Vince Icaro Stratos USA 2:17:41 792
11 BOWEN Campbell Flight Design Axxes USA 2:25:03 733
12 PAQUETTE Eric Air Atos CAN 2:29:04 704
13 LAMB Jim Air Atos C USA 3:06:31 497
14 VAYDA Tom Air Atos USA 3:13:23 464

We averaged 27 mph, which is pretty slow, given the fact that we averaged 36 mph on the last and longest leg.

Rigids after five days (and likely the final results):

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 PLONER Alex Air Atos C ITA 4515
2 CHAUMET David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 4144
3 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 3988
4 POSCH Johann Air Atos C AUT 3424
5 BARMAKIAN Bruce Air Atos USA 3391

As at the 2002 Worlds, Alex, Christian, and David are in a separate class from the rest of us duffers. Christian just missed goal one day or he would be in a tight contest with his friend Alex for first place.

Flex wings:

On day five:

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 2:14:44 947
2 BOISSELIER Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:12:09 939
3 HAZLETT Brett Moyes Litespeed 4 CAN 2:16:48 920
4 WOLF Andre Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2:17:16 911
5 SCHMIDT Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2:13:17 907
6 ROTOR Nene Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:13:18 903
7 BONDARCHUK Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 2:13:19 900
8 WALBEC Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:13:36 893
9 BESSA Carlos Wills Wing Talon USA 2:15:35 862
10 LEE Jim Wills Wing Talon 150 USA 2:15:51 857

The pilots that started at 2:15 PM were the quickest into goal, not being held back by the lollygagging rigid wing pilots, but Manfred was first to goal, so that counted for something.

Yesterday, before the task, Manfred was in twelfth. Today after winning the fifth (and likely last) task:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 BONDARCHUK Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 4159
2 BOISSELIER Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3898
3 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 3765
4 DURAND Jon Jr. Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 3754
5 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3684
6 BESSA Carlos Wills Wing Talon USA 3620
7 SCHMIDT Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 3554
8 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 3548
9 WALBEC Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3488
10 OHLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 5 SWE 3468

Oleg benefited immensely when Manfred didn’t make goal two days in a row and he then kept the competition far away from him. Oleg ended up only 100 points behind Manfred at the Flytec Championships and when Manfred didn’t make goal at the Wallaby Open the first time, Oleg jumped ahead of him by enough points to make it very difficult for Manfred to catch him. Perhaps that was his consideration when he raced to goal and landed 1 mile short of Wauchula on day four.

Antoine, after not even registering on the applause-o-meter in Australia (but doing well enough to come in at 11th at the Flytec Championship), did very well at Wallaby. He was able to gain a few extra points on the fifth day by racing ahead and getting a minute on everyone else at goal. Funny how things change so rapidly.

After Paris and Mikey took themselves out of the competition, Curt flew well and was the first American. He was 10th at the Flytec Championship just behind Paris and ahead of Mike, so he definitely improved. Too bad he landed after gliding with me on the third day or he could easily have been in second place at the Wallaby Open. All he had to do was keep gliding over the Bok Tower. I would have appreciated his help at that point.

Carlos has yet to decide whether to fly for the Brazilians or on the American National team (if he makes it). He beat his fellow Brazilian Betinho after finishing at 16th at the Flytec Championship behind Betinho at 11th there.

Jon Durand Jr. finished very well again doing a little better overall in this competition than the last one where he was sixth. Jon is a strong pilot who is willing to take risks, and came out the top Australian in the Wallaby Open.

There were two Aeros Combats in the top ten at the Wallaby Open with Paris out and three at the Flytec Championship. This is certainly a jump in their top numbers.

Only Manfred is representing the Icaro 2000 Laminar in the top ten. Kari Castle on the Laminar did very well at the Flytec Championship to come in 14th (and perhaps hold her place on the US National team). At the Wallaby Open she dropped down a little to 16th, behind Jim Lee at 14th. She is still looking for a harness that works for her and doesn’t cause such pain in her chest (maybe I can get her to try my harness).

Moyes continues to win the numbers game with six Litespeeds in the top ten. Lots of pilots fly the Litespeed and many of them do well (right after Manfred and Oleg). Wills Wing had Carlos on the Talon, so that rounds out the top ten pilots.

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The 2003 Flytec Championship

Thu, Apr 17 2003, 7:00:02 pm GMT

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|cloud|Curt Warren|David Chaumet|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships 2003|gaggle|Jerz Rossignol|Jim Lee|Johann Posch|Jon Durand snr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Marcus Hoffmann|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuck|photo|Terry Presley

The scores, when they are done, will be at:

http://www.flytec.com/flytec_champ_03/scores.html

Photo of Mike Barber and Oleg Bondarchuck by Luis Pérez

The task committee calls separate tasks for rigids and flex wings with a few shared turnpoints. The task is basically a race around the Green Swamp going from around the north east side, west, south, east and then back to Quest. The rigid wings have to go an extra six miles.

We open the start time at 1:15 PM 45 minutes earlier as pilots are starting earlier anyway and it looks like the days are getting better earlier. The start circles are a few miles to the northwest and we all drift that way. There will definitely be a group of earlier starting flex wings as they quickly get out to the west side of their start circle by Mascote.

At first there is one cloud that we know is working on the north side of Quest and its only providing 100 fpm. A few of us hang there until enough scouts have checked out the area to the north so that we can feel good about venturing out. There have been good cu’s all morning, but some were dying and bringing some pilots grief.

At 1:15 Johann Posch and I go on glide to the west with another rigid wing over the northern end of the Green Swamp. The flexies are to our right and five miles out they are circling, so Johann goes to join them. Like I said, there are cu’s every where so I keep going straight, but the clouds are lying.

I see a few flexies turning downwind and come in under them at 800’. Soon there are twenty gliders holding on and hoping to get back up as the day starts off weak. Now we are wondering if we should have taken the first start time.

We do finally find the good part of this thermal and get back to 4,000’ cloud base for the first part of the flight. We’ve got a total of four rigid wings out here and half a dozen flex wings in the lead gaggle and we’ll help each other out for the next couple of turnpoints before the rigids have to go their own way.

We’ve got Kurt Warren, Jim Lee, Terry Presley, and Jerz Rossignol. At least those are the ones I can identify. Kurt is leading and pushing the whole way. It’s great to have a guy who wants to go fast in the group.

We fly the clouds and continually go off the course line to get to the clouds. After the first bad experience with getting low going to the first turnpoint (Koke- a grass airstrip to the northwest of the Green Swamp), we want to be sure to hit the lift.

The clouds are now working and we hurtle right along trying to make sure that no one catches us from behind. With Kurt and Johann pushing, we are moving quickly.

Kurt takes a line off to our right and keeps going to the second turnpoint to the south at Clinton where he hits a strong thermal. We join him and this is where we will split up. An ATOS comes in under us, looks like someone is close to catching us.

There are two lines of clouds going to the south east. They are set up perfectly for the two task lines, one for the flexies and one for the rigids. We four rigid guys, including Marcus from Switzerland head southeast while the new rigid wing guy waffles around low below us.

It’s a good run to Rockridge and highway 98 where Johann finds another thermal just past the turnpoint. I’m slowly climbing away from Marcus and Johann and I keep in touch. The low rigid wing guy almost lands but we see him getting up slowly and still low behind us.

There is a lot of vertical development over by Dean Still Road going to our next turnpoint at Dean Still and highway 33. When I get there it is going up at 700 fpm to 5,300’. I dive in under the cloud and keep the bar pulled in so as I don’t go up making the turnpoint. Johann is already on his way home.

As we approach the highway 33 and 474 intersection, we are joined again by the flexies who’ve taken their short cut. There is a strong thermal at this intersection 11 miles out from Quest and I take it to 4,300’ which should be just enough to get me to goal.

I can barely see Quest but my Brauninger says that I can make it and there doesn’t seem to be a head wind. Johann reports that he doesn’t find any lift on the glide in.

I do the final glide without turning and come in with 500 feet to spare. No worries. Thank goodness sink was only 240 fpm over that 11 miles.

Results:

Rigids:

Pilot Start time Elapsed time

Christian Ciech 2:15 PM 2:57
David Chaumet 2:15 PM 3:09
Johann Posch 1:15 PM 3:21
Davis Straub 1:15 PM 3:29
Alex Ploner 2:15 PM 3:31

The pilots that started and finished earlier will get additional points. Thirteen pilots made goal. The race for the top spot is very tight in rigids (the results before today):

1 CIECH Christian ITA 4081
2 CHAUMET David FRA 4072

Christian picked up a few points today, but not a lot.

Flexies:

Jon Durand Jr. 2 PM 2:39
Manfred Ruhmer 1:45 PM 2:50
Brett Hazlett 1:45 PM 2:53
Kraig Coomber 1:45 PM 2:53
Oleg Bondarchuck 1:45 PM 2:53
Curt Warren 1:15 PM 2:54

Given his start time, Kurt could be in second or even first for the day. More than 25 flex wing pilots made it to goal.

The race for the top spot in the flex wing category is very tight with Manfred not running away with the contest. Three pilots before today’s results are very close. Oleg and Kraig are still very close after today. Tomorrow decides it.

1 RUHMER Manfred AUT 3983
2 COOMBER Kraig AUS 3927
3 BONDARCHUCK Oleg UKR 3910

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The 2003 Flytec Championship

Sun, Apr 13 2003, 7:00:02 pm GMT

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Betinho Schmitz|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|CompeGPS|David "Dave" Glover|David Chaumet|David Glover|Flytec Championships 2003|gaggle|harness|Jon Durand snr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Richard Walbec|sailplane|scoring|Worlds

The scores when they are done will be at:

http://www.flytec.com/flytec_champ_03/scores.html

On the first day David Glover arrives on a camel:

With another blue day predicted, and with the one forecast for weak lift (we don’t get Gary’s forecast until after the task is called), we choose a 40 mile task, that gets the fast guys home in less than an hour and fifteen minutes. We’ll have to make that a bit longer tomorrow.

We keep pilots nearby, but screw up and put them back through the start circle which makes it hard for CompeGPS to know when they really started. Also the start circle gaggle and the gaggle from the guys coming back from the first turnpoint gets a little too crowded.

With a 2 PM start time we open the launch at noon and most people wait around till almost 1 PM to start launching. I’m off at 12:45 as the first rigid wing, and the lift is light to the visible inversion at 4,700’. We’ll all bob up and down for the next two and half hours hitting the top of the inversion and finding lots of light lift.

The first leg is a short one up to Gator field to the northeast. The flex wings and rigids are separated into their own start circles which cuts down on the mayhem a bit. Some pilots take the 2 PM start window, but many hold back for 2:15 for the fastest flex wings and 2:30 for the fastest rigid wing pilots. We actually are low at 2:15, so we have to wait until 2:30 to start.

The lift is much better out on the course than in the start circle and it is a quick flight to Gators and back to Quest with lots of thermal markers from the earlier time slots. We are headed for Bay Lake to the southwest by the Green Swamp and there seems to be a bit of a hold up there as a lot of pilots are milling about. We jump in and out and find strong lift just to the south to get us up and near Seminole Lake glider port.

A turning sailplane does us no good and we have to find lift at the south end of the grass strip to get high enough to get around the turnpoint at highway 474 and 33 and then to the northeast toward Lake Live Oak. A good thermal greets us on the way and a lot of folks bunch up getting high enough to make the last turnpoint and hopefully get to goal.

I’m registering 14 mph out of the northwest, so we proceed cautiously toward goal working a few bits until it looks good to go. The field is crowded with faster guys and pilots who started earlier.

With too short a task, the day is over too soon. All (27) the rigid pilots make goal.

Rigids:
Pilot Elapsed time
David Chaumet 1:14:28
Alex Ploner 1:14:52
Christian Ciech 1:16:07
Bruce Barmakian 1:35:50
Flexies:
Manfred Ruhmer 1:24:08
Kraig Coomber 1:26:19
Richard Walbec 1:26:53
Betinho 1:29:26
Jon Durand, Jr. 1:29:41

I have to type these in myself, so sorry about not putting in the glider make. It’s in the scoring.

David conquers again on his La Mouette Tsunami, but this time Alex with his old harness (his new one was stolen) is close (today his harness didn’t fail like it did yesterday). Apparently David was a mile behind Alex on the final glide and came over the top of his head. That glider has some glide.

The top three rigid pilots at the Worlds in Chelan last summer are the top three pilots today.

The top three flex wing pilot today were the top three yesterday, in the same order. Four Litespeeds after the Icaro 2000 Laminar MR. Paris on the Aeros was next. Oleg was 13th.

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WPRS »

Tue, Jul 23 2002, 5:00:01 pm GMT

Sarah Bowyer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Andreas Olsson|Antoine Boisselier|Anton Raumauf|Attila Bertok|Betinho Schmitz|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|David Chaumet|Davis Straub|Francois Isoard|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Guido Gehrmann|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Alonzi|Michael Huppert|Naoki Itagaki|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Paris Williams|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Rohan Holtkamp|Steve Elkins|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/rankings/class1/
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/rankings/class5/

Sarah Bowyer at CIVL got right on the case and got the new world rankings out right after the Worlds:

Class 1:

Position Name
1 Ruhmer Manfred
2 Heinrichs Gerolf
3 Boisselier Antoine
4 Rigg Gordon
5 Bondarchuk Oleg
6 Gerard Jean-Francois
7 Alonzi Mario
8 Reisinger Robert
9 Gehrmann Guido
9 Olsson Andreas
11 Williams Paris
12 Holtkamp Rohan
13 Walbec Richard
14 Richardson Ron
15 Palmarini Jean-Francois
16 Schmitz Betinho (Carlos)
17 Durand Jon Jnr
18 Zweckmayr Josef
19 Baier Bob
20 Barthelmes Oliver
20 Bertok Attila

The 2001 Australian Meets were dropped, so the Australian pilots suffered a bit.

Class 5:

Position Name Country
1 Ciech Christian Italy
2 Ploner Alessandro Italy
3 Posch Johann Austria
4 Straub Davis USA
5 Raumauf Toni Austria
6 Chaumet David France
6 Huppert Michael Switzerland
8 Barmakian Bruce USA
9 Elkins Steve UK
10 Itagaki Naoki Japan

The Worlds, the Europeans, the Floridameets, and the Australian meets count big time for WPRS points. The top rigid pilots didn’t fly in the Europeans, and too few flew in the Australian meets, but they did fly in Floridaand at the Worlds in Chelan and Spain. It is clear that the Floridameets and the Australian meets should be as valued by CIVL as the Europeans. They are international meets.

The pre-Worlds in Brazilshould be well attended and that will affect the Class 1 ranking. Again the Brazilian pre-Worlds should be considered as valuable as the Europeans.

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2002 Australian Nationals – Round 4 »

Tue, Jan 15 2002, 8:00:00 am GMT

Australian Nationals 2002|Bruno Metz|James Stinnett|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kraig Coomber|Mike Barber|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan

The winds are light in the morning but a trough is approaching bringing mid level scuddy clouds. By the time we are set up in the paddock around noon, it looks pretty iffy. Those of us with experience at Hay are not too worried though, as we've had great flights in these conditions here even with no sun on the ground (well, of course, there is in fact heavily filtered sunlight on the ground).

The longest task of the meet is called and it is crosswind at that. It's 186 kilometers to the east up the mid Western Highway to Weethalle with the turnpoint to the northeast at Merriwagga. This is definitely not going to be a three-hour task. I guess they want to make up for the shorter task that they'll call on the last day.

I'm thinking that it would be a good idea to hang with the gaggle today given the likely weak conditions and maybe not start so early. Wait around a bit over the tow paddock until everyone gathers up and we can go as a group.

We get an extra fifteen minutes before the launch time at 12:45 PM, so at least we are ready to go although I'm in no hurray. I let Conrad, Jean-Francois Gerard and Antione Boisselier launch before me thinking that that will take a while.

Well surprise surprise, it doesn't. I get up to launch and all three of them are walking right back to me. Oh, well, looks like I'll get an early launch after all, a half-hour before the start window opens at 2:45 PM.

I pull the pin at 700' as I get a bit out of whack on tow and stick in the 50 fpm that I find there. There's no one else up over the tow paddock so I'm going to stick with what I've got. The wind is blowing 15 mph out of the south and I'm drifting quickly out of the paddock low.

Pilots are dropping like flies and for a while the towing shuts down as few are getting up. I've got a couple of pilots nearby including Jerz Rossignol and James Stinnett. We're all huddling together hoping that somebody finds something.

At 2,000' I'm 3 kilometers down wind and running out of lift. Scooting back toward the tow paddock hoping to find something, anything, with the ground quite dark, I get down to 500' and I'm not even going to make it back. I have to find something if I want to stay in the race. There's a little bit down there and I hang on to it.

The Jerz and James come over me and the three of us slowly climb out to 2,500'. I can see half a dozen pilots over the tow paddock and from my perspective they look like they are getting up pretty good. I'm hoping to get up enough to get back over to the tow paddock, maybe at say 4,000' and then hang out waiting for the gaggle to form.

As we climb up over 2,000' most of the pilots over the paddock fly down wind to join us. Oh, no, what are you guys doing? I want you to stay in the supposedly nice lift over the tow paddock and be there to show us where to get high in relative comfort and safety. Now you've all joined us losers who have just scratched up from the deck. Looks like trouble.

We can only climb to 2,500' and there are now about a dozen pilots milling about in 50 fpm or less of broken lift. We are drifting quickly down wind and thankfully the start circle has been enlarged to 10 kilometers or we would be crossing it before the start time.

We can't get up, the lift is weak, there's only a few pilots over the tow paddock, the ground is often dark below us, the sky is full of scud, it looks like a very poor day and we're in a poor way just trying to stay up.

We keep drifting hoping to stay up and at first hoping to stay away from the 10-kilometer start circle until 2 PM. The need to stay up overrides the need to get a reasonable start time though and we pass through the circumference at 1:55 PM ten minutes after the start window opens. So immediately we've all got a ten-minute handicap. I've got Jerz, Conrad, Jon Durand Snr, Tish, Roberto, James Stinnett ad three or four other pilots with me, so maybe we can hang together as we get near the highway.

Jerz goes out in front while the rest of the gaggle stays in the 30 to 50 fpm. We hang in this even if it is zero as the prospects are dim out front. Finally we see Jerz turning but he is way too low and offers only faint hope. We have run out of lift anyway so we had down the course line and in his general direction.

Jerz is too low to be of any help to any but the lowest pilots in the gaggle. I go on to check out a pond a few kilometers down the course line (anything to mark a spot) and find 100 fpm. Many pilots are down on the deck with Jerz back up the course line and our hang on gaggle is beginning to break up.

We continue in this fashion for the next twenty kilometers, with various parts of the gaggle hanging together. No one is racing, but we are starting to get a bit higher to 3,500'. The lift is starting to improve and we see a bit more sunlight.

Back at the tow paddock things are beginning to improve. Pilots are staying up and getting to almost 4,000'. The gaggle that will come behind us, starting at 2:15 PM, is beginning to form up. The day is improving.

Len Patton, Roberto and I get out alone and in front and with a bit of height we are willing to speed up and not just hang on. We race toward the turnpoint and start finding reasonable lift. At 60 kilometers from the start and 30 kilometers from the turnpoint, I'm on my own having raced ahead from the last joint thermal. We're getting to 4,500' so it looks safe enough.

Kari, Gerolf, Paris, Antoine, Curt Warn, Mike Barber, Ron Richardson, Kraig Coomber, and Gordon among others will take the 2:15 PM start time voluntarily. Some other pilots (maybe Bruno Metz?) will take the 2 PM.

I find strong lift before the turnpoint so it is easy to stay high and make the turn from quartering tail to a quartering head wind. The texture of the air is beginning to change and from weak soft air, it is becoming turbulent and bumpy. The glider is rocking and rolling, and only thermals smooth out the air at all. I'm looking for thermals just to get out of the unpleasant air.

I hit over 1000 fpm 10 kilometers past the turnpoint and climb to 7,000'. The day is definitely changed although I can see thick clouds to the west. There are half a dozen small fires off to the south, but they look like farmer's fires. I thought that there was a total fight ban in New South Wales.

I'm fighting to stay just upwind of the course line. Whenever I take a thermal I'm drifting quite quickly to the north. There is little sink and every now and then a real thermal to 5,500' in the mixed up air so it is easy to go fast, stay high, and not worry about turning.

I'm able to stay to the south of the line until leave the bumpy air and get down to 1,800'. I have to work a light thermal had drifts me into a forested ridgeline and improves. I drift over Rankin Springs, catch a very strong thermal 35 kilometers out from the goal and climb to 7,000'. It looks like final glide time.

I'm fighting the strong cross wind component and heading into goal with the thick clouds to the west beginning to obscure the sun. It looks like it is going to rain, well maybe sprinkle out here in this arid land. I'm just on the front edge of the shadow.

I find lots of lift going toward goal and even starting from so far out I can't get down. The lift in the last thermal was just too strong. I'm into goal first at 5:35:49 (elapsed time – 3:51), but with early start time and a poor start 10 minutes after the start time.

Two minutes later Bruno Metz comes across in the Swift Lite. I don't know his start time. Twenty minutes after I come across, and only a few minutes after I land because of all the lift near goal, Antoine (5:55:40) beats in Gerolf (5:55:55). Curt is right behind at 5:56:41 and Mike at 5:57:33.

Jerz hooked up with these later pilots and got 5:58:24, but they had 30 minutes on him. Kraig and Paris with 5:59:04 and 5:59:07.

About thirty-five pilots will make goal. The dark clouds come over goal soon after I land and we do get a very few sprinkles. The later pilots come in over dark ground and under thick clouds.

It looks like Paris is still in the lead (Gerolf is quite a ways down after missing goal on the second round) and Mike Barber may be in second. Jon Durand Jnr didn't make goal. It is quite something to see two Americans in first and second given the strong competition from the French and the Australians.

Still things are very much up in the air and with a close race for Class I. It should make for interesting strategy today on a shorter race.

Results should be up at http://www.dynamicflight.com.au.

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New South Wales results

Thu, Mar 1 2001, 5:00:01 pm EST

Conrad Loten|Jason Reid|Jon Durand Snr|Neva Bull

Vicki at Moyes Gliders «moyes» writes:

The 2001 NSW Hang Gliding State Titles at Manilla has just finished. Sounds like they had a great comp with 8 straight flying days, tasks ranging from 80 - 180 kms with 80 entries.

Little Jon did us proud!

1 Jon Durand Jr . Moyes Litespeed 5545
2 Stefan Hertling (Ger) Moyes Litespeed 5523
3 Len Paton LaMouette Topless 5368
4 Phil Pritchard Moyes Litespeed 5318
5 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed 5317
6 Jason Reid Aeros Stealth 4974
7 Rick Duncan Airborne Climax 4700
8 Jon Durand Sr. Moyes Litespeed 4567
9 Neva Bull Airborne Climax 4411
10 Glen McLeod Moyes Litespeed 4252

(editor's note: Notice how many pilots are showing up for competitions! It looks to me like there is plenty of excitement about going to competitions. Congrats to Little Jon.)

The Canungra Classic »

Tue, Oct 31 2000, 2:00:03 pm EST

Jamie Shelden|Jason Reid|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tove Heaney

Tex «TEXDOC» writes:

The competition was a big success. The first day was overcast with high cloud but cu's were building on the lower levels. Most were not impressed by the look of things, but when a 60 k task was called everyone saw the potential for a nice flight. It was pretty East so it would be a straight tail wind task. Soaring the ridge got crowded for the some but most managed to get away.

18 made goal with Steve Moyes winning the day Japanese pilot Noma (NOMA, Yasuhiro) second on a Litespeed followed by local Pilot and Comp Organiser Dave Staver and then Atilla Bertok, both in Litespeeds. Next was World record holder Rohan Holtkamp on the new Airborne "Climax" topless glider.

The next three days saw rain and lots of it. When the day was cancelled early on Wednesday the Meet Head was not surprised when it cleared to be flyable in the afternoon. So most had a practice at the Westerly site as the trough causing the rain moved off the coast.

Thursday saw strong headwinds pushing in from the West and South West. A task 50 k East to Maroon was called. The Kingposts found it hard punching the Head Winds. Steve Moyes again won the day, and so was again wearer of the prestigious "Red Shorts". Like the yellow jersey in the Tour De France. Rick Duncan in his factory's creation the 'Climax'. Then Glen Macleod and Jon Durand JNR from the local fraternity. World distance Record holder Tove Heaney then Atilla.

Friday was epic. Post frontal conditions at there finest, but headwind again none the less. Moogerah Dam via Coulson Intersection 64.5 k. People were averaging climbs of 1300' feet regularly, to some big heights for this area. Some road the sea breeze convergence. Some just pushed in hard into the wind. Glen Macleod made it five from goal in a couple of hours and spent the next hour ridge soaring waiting for a ticket to goal only to watch others come gliding in high from afar. He ended up 50m short when he finally had a go at getting in. Jamie Cannon won with Atilla then Jonny third. Steve Moyes flew but considering he had trouble picking things up after a nasty skateboarding accident, that was an effort in itself. Lloyd Pennicuik and Jason 'Yoda' Reid were 'o so short after a battle royal by both to get so far.

The last day was again headwind but not as strong and the sea breeze kicked in hard and fast. Jon Durand SNR not finding much promise ahead of the convergence turned and went back to surf it in from between 8 and 9 grand from about 20 out. Scott Tucker, similarly, in the only Kingpost glider at goal, had some nice cloud forming under him during some of the flight but may have had a bit more trouble maintaining separation with out a broader speed range. Some just were over run by the see breeze. getting BAMMED!! hard as it crawled past them. Jason Reid commenting on how strong Moyes Xtralites are after being kicked way past ninety a couple of times amongst the turbulence. Jerry Furnell's flight intersected the convergence as it mage goal. He was trying to glide in and also spiraling in from 7 thousand trying to lose height but as soon as he neared two grand and tried to glide some of it off he was sucked back to seven again. Everything was being dredged up by the convergence. So he made sure the goalie had him crossing goal and turned back down course to land in the sea breeze behind the convergence.

This competition is surely one of the best organised in Australia with a friendly and well catered atmosphere. The rain, while putting a dampening on things in earlier days was soon forgotten after a nice finish to the comp. People actually started to believe the fact that a week earlier the Durand's flew 200k across the Great Dividing Range.

Check out the Photo Journal at the site. Some nice pics.

Pre-worlds »

Thu, Jun 29 2000, 8:00:04 pm EDT

André Wolfe|CIVL|dust devil|Gordon Rigg|Jim Page|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Judy Durand|Oleg Bondarchuk|Sarah Fenwick|video|weather|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

Vicki, «moyes», writes:

Just heard from Judy Durand (Jon's mum) results of the first day of the Pre-World's. Betinho 1st Litespeed 4, Gerolf 2nd Litespeed 4, Gordon Rigg 3rd Litespeed 4, Little Jon came in 10th, half a km short of goal. Seven pilots in goal. Oleg crash landed and bruised his hip, he's ok, but don't know if he's flying day 2.

Jon Durand Jr. Young 19 year old Jon Durand Jr traded down his Litespeed 5 to a Litespeed 4 just in time for the NSW State Titles at Manilla. Jonny took out 1st place after 6 days of competition flying. This kid's just getting better and better.

Last year he was flying an SX4, then for the first comp of the season at Canungra he slipped straight into a Litespeed (his first kingpostless glider) and placed 6th. That was the first comp where he beat his dad, Jon Durand Sr.

Since then Jon Jr. has gone from strength to strength with a 10th place at the Nationals at Hay and 5th place at the Bogong Cup. Both Jon and Jon Jr. have just left for Spain together to compete at the Spanish Nationals and Pre-World's. We've just heard that they will be the first Father-Son to compete on a National Team in a World event! And both flying Litespeeds!

Jim Page, «jimp», writes:

Sorry to hear you're having a crap time at Chelan - you're not shy of ruffling a few feathers are you Davis? :) Well, I guess we already knew that! Not sure how I would feel about being referred to as a stuck pig though ... But it still sounds like paradise compared to the Uk - you don't get many dust devils under fat Cus in this part of the world.

(editor's note: Actually I'm having a great time here in Chelan. This is a wonderful resort town, and my god, the first day I get here we have an epic day and I scream out in front of some of my best competition in the upcoming Chelan Cross Country Classic. I'm just interested in making sure that my world-wide audience has the most definitive information needed to make a decision about coming here. It is a paradise, but it ain't a perfect paradise.)

Just got back from the Spanish Open at Zujar. Though the first 3 days were blown out by a strong Levanter, conditions improved, and were epic on a couple of days (9000+ AGL), and the competition was challenging and well-organised, though informal. I had a superb time, though my 2 companions (Neil Hammerton and Simon Castleman) put themselves out of the comp due to nasty crashes. (both pilots Ok though). I was impressed by the way John Durand Jr was flying during his first flying trip outside Australia.

(editor's note: Looks like Jon Jr. continues to do well at the pre-Worlds. I wonder what is up with Andre Wolf, and the other in the top ten. Please, if anyone has a web site for the pre-Worlds, please send the URL to me.)

Remember him from Bogong 97, aged 14? World champion material in a year or 2 I reckon. It'll be interesting to see how he gets on in the pre-worlds.

Any chance of some coverage of the pre-worlds?? The comp site seems a bit slack about posting results. Sounds like they have a bit of the stable, nasty weather we had on the last day of the Spanish Open.

(editor's note: Was the Spanish Open this year at the same site as the pre-Worlds, like last year? I don't know where Zujar is? Please help me with pre-World coverage.)

Finally, are you aware that entry is being refused into the Europeans to the likes of Andre Wolf, due to his non-European origin? Apparently the answer he got from the committee is that he can go to the Pan-Americans, which is fine, but GW Meadows is allowing Europeans to enter. Doesn't this mean that top euro pilots are getting opportunities to score world ranking points over non-euros? Seems a more than somewhat unfair to me. (Shock horror! English person not seeking to boost his compatriot's ranking via devious means!! Just kidding Davis ...)

(editor's note: Actually they can't do this. To get CIVL WPRS points, the Europeans have to be open to everyone. If this is not the case, then the CIVL-sanction will be pulled. Please follow up on this, make sure the Sarah Fenwick knows about this. This is terrible.)

Durands – father and son set site record

Sun, Dec 26 1999, 6:00:00 pm EST

Beechmont|Jon Durand Snr|Judy Durand|record

I sent off a post to the Durands to tell us more about their flights from Beechmont in Queensland in mid December. The two men are not that much "into the Internet," but wife and mother is. And you thought technology was a man's game?

Judy Durand, «durand», wrote back that:

"Jon Sr. flew from Beechmont to Warra (between Dalby and Chinchilla) a distance of 265 kilometres on Tuesday the 14th of December. Jon Jnr flew 225 km that day landing just outside of Dalby.

Then the next day Jon Jr. went flying hoping to take the record off of his old man. He flew to Yelarbon which is about 50 km's west of Inglewood for a distance of about 260 km's, (not quite far enough but a great effort). Of course I am his Mother!

Both of these flights broke the current site records for our area, which was set by Drew Cooper at a distance of 245 km's a few years ago. These are not Queensland records. I am not sure what it is, but it is a bit further than these. Beechmont is a coastal influenced site, about 20 km's from the ocean plus we have the Great Dividing Range to cross and lots of tree's, so these are great flights which took about 6 hours."

The first flights went west by northwest along the Warrego highway. Jon Jr., on the second day, went west by southwest and landed near the NWS/Queensland border.

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