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Thu, Jul 21 2022, 6:20:25 pm GMT

Eighth task - 167 km

European HG Championships 2022

(Monte Cucco, Sigillo, PG, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Longer but faster. 2:47 vs. 3:30 yesterday. 73 in goal. Everyone home before 6 PM.

Task 8:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Jochen Zeischka	AUT	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:46:45	1000.0
2	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:47:48	980.2
3	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:47:58	976.7
4	Peter Neuenschwander	CHE	Aeros Combat C	02:49:10	963.7
5	Franz Herrmann	CHE	Aeros Combat C	02:49:46	958.7
6	Arne Tanzer	NLD	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:52:09	940.3
7	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:53:21	930.7
8	Joost Eertman	NLD	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:54:06	920.8
9	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	02:55:35	907.7
10	Roland Wöhrle	DEU	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:55:27	905.3

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	7697.0
2	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	7456.0
3	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	7150.0
4	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	7117.0
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	7037.0
6	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	6921.0
7	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	6802.0
8	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	6689.0
9	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	6631.0
10	Olav Opsanger	NOR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	6595.0

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Wed, Jul 20 2022, 6:14:06 pm GMT

Seventh task - 152 km

European HG Championships 2022

(Monte Cucco, PG, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Again another incremental (20 km) increase in the task length from the preceding day. 55 pilots in goal with Mario Alonzi last into goal at 5:47 over two hours later than Christian.. Christian and Alex were on final glide with Christian higher and going faster when Alex stopped to work some lift thinking perhaps that he wasn't going to make it after all.

Pedro 6^th, with pilots clumped together. Petr Polach was out in front but had to find some lift in the last cylinder to be able to make it in fourth ten minutes behind Christian.

Task 7:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Lead. Points	Total
1	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:29:32	81.2	975.3
2	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:39:06	105.9	936.5
3	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:35:48	83.7	936.4
4	Franz Herrmann	CHE	Aeros Combat C	03:38:21	85.8	922.9
5	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	03:39:51	79.6	903.8
6	PEDRO L. GARCIA	USA	Wills Wing T3	03:40:22	79.6	898.7
7	Roland Wöhrle	DEU	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	03:55:57	83.7	833.6
8	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	03:56:29	83.5	828.8
9	Jiri Gut	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:56:46	71.8	813.5
10	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	03:56:58	72.2	810.8

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	6717.0
2	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	6479.0
3	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	6275.0
4	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	6263.0
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	6130.0
6	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	6047.0
7	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5931.0
8	Olav Opsanger	NOR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	5770.0
9	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5758.0
10	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	5757.0

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Tue, Jul 19 2022, 7:03:11 pm GMT

Sixth task - 135 km

European HG Championships 2022

(Matelica, MC, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Tasks getting a bit longer. 58 pilots in goal. Pilots back after 6 pm. Jocken was in first place 22 km out, but on his own and didn't get the last thermal that he needed, while those just behind him stuck together.

Task 6:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Lead. Points	Total
1	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:09:15	106.2	989.4
2	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:08:56	92.0	984.2
3	Walter Mayer	AUT	Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro	03:08:58	86.8	975.6
4	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:09:24	94.7	971.4
5	Pedro L. Garcia	USA	Wills Wing T3	03:09:16	87.7	968.1
6	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:09:32	94.7	967.7
7	Juri Bressanello	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:09:49	90.7	959.1
8	Franz Herrmann	CHE	Aeros Combat C	03:09:53	90.2	955.8
9	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	03:10:01	85.5	947.8
10	David Gregoire	FRA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:10:25	90.6	945.8

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5781.0
2	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5524.0
3	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5504.0
4	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	5447.0
5	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	5359.0
6	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	5319.0
7	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	5285.0
8	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Aeros Combat C 12.7	5226.0
9	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	5173.0
10	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	5062.0

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Mon, Jul 18 2022, 6:34:43 pm GMT

Fifth task - 110 km

European HG Championships 2022

(Matelica, MC, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Shorter task. 80 pilots in goal. Corinna and Gordon didn't fly. Pilots back before 6 pm.

Task 5:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:11:27	1000.0
2	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:11:56	982.4
3	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:12:13	971.3
4	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	02:12:50	962.2
5	Olav Opsanger	NOR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:13:00	961.1
6	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:12:54	957.8
7	Jochen Zeischka	AUT	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:13:31	955.1
8	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:14:10	940.0
9	Franz Herrmann	CHE	Aeros Combat C	02:15:36	931.8
10	Akira Nagusa	JPN	Wills Wing T3	02:16:32	931.2

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	4810.0
2	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	4670.0
3	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	4534.0
4	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	4520.0
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	4456.0
6	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	4419.0
7	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	4383.0
8	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	4337.0
9	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Aeros Combat C 12.7	4320.0
10	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	4205.0

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Sat, Jul 16 2022, 7:04:05 pm GMT

Fourth task - 200 km

European HG Championships 2022

(Grotta, Monte Cucco, PG, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Task 4:

21 in goal. Jonny Durand, the second to last pilot in goal at 6:53 PM. Pedro Garcia, the closest pilot to goal to not make it in. Launch open at noon. Pilots in the air for over 6 hours.

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	04:42:21	1000.0
2	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	04:47:10	974.3
3	Franz Herrmann	CHE	Aeros Combat C	04:52:33	949.3
4	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	04:53:14	944.7
5	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	04:56:32	934.3
6	Peter Siess	AUT	Wills Wing T3	04:59:43	914.3
7	Joost Eertman	NLD	Icaro 2000 Laminar	05:01:43	901.9
8	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Icaro 2000 Laminar	05:03:25	900.5
8	Arne Tanzer	NLD	Icaro 2000 Laminar	05:02:47	900.5
10	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	05:16:41	871.2

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	3844.0
2	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	3811.0
3	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	3589.0
4	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	3566.0
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	3534.0
6	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	3530.0
7	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	3520.0
8	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Icaro 2000 Laminar	3491.0
9	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	3440.0
10	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	3405.0

From Regina Glas. Tomorrow a rest day with strong winds in the forecast.

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Sat, Jul 16 2022, 12:24:06 am GMT

Third task

European HG Championships 2022

(Monte Cucco, PG, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

Task 3:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Peter Neuenschwander	CHE	Aeros Combat C	03:04:34	1000.0
2	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:06:11	981.7
3	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	03:06:45	975.9
4	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:07:14	970.2
5	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	03:08:24	955.3
6	Jochen Zeischka	AUT	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:12:58	931.0
7	Roland Wöhrle	DEU	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	03:19:34	885.7
8	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	03:25:25	854.2
9	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:27:12	848.4
10	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Icaro 2000 Laminar	03:28:36	836.4

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	2869.0
2	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	2811.0
3	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	2717.0
4	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	2698.0
5	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	2695.0
6	Filippo Oppici	ITA	Wills Wing T3	2694.0
7	Jochen Zeischka	AUT	Icaro 2000 Laminar	2676.0
8	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	2655.0
9	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	2654.0
10	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	2648.0

170 km task, 74 pilots in goal. Task deadline is now moved to 8 PM. Last pilot in goal at 6:29 PM.

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Thu, Jul 14 2022, 6:20:29 pm GMT

Second task

European HG Championships 2022

(Monte Cucco, PG, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

Task 2:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Lead. Points	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:49:11	96.7	995.6
2	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	02:50:06	92.0	979.5
3	Vanni Accattoli	ITA	Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro	02:50:59	101.1	979.3
4	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:53:23	91.8	946.5
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	02:53:58	94.3	943.0
6	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:52:44	77.9	942.3
7	Christian Ciech	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:52:48	78.3	939.3
8	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:54:07	82.9	928.2
9	Steve Docherty	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:56:44	99.8	919.9
10	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:55:07	77.0	914.4

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	T1	T2	Total
1	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	948.3	942.3	1891.0
2	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	892.0	995.6	1888.0
3	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	923.7	943.0	1867.0
4	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	930.3	928.2	1859.0
5	Primoz Gricar	DEU	Aeros Combat GT	855.6	979.5	1835.0
6	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	906.8	914.4	1821.0
7	Vanni Accattoli	ITA	Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro	832.4	979.3	1812.0
8	Petr Polach	CZE	Icaro 2000 Laminar	859.4	946.5	1806.0
9	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	957.3	836.2	1794.0
10	Steve Docherty	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	872.8	919.9	1793.0

Steve Blenkinsop last into goal at 6:44 PM, 16 minutes before the close.

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Wed, Jul 13 2022, 5:33:33 pm GMT

First task

European HG Championships 2022

(Matelica, MC, Italy)

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Lead. Points	Time Points	Arr. Pos. Points	Total
1	David Gregoire	FRA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	01:57:47	83.9	446.0	79.6	970.6
2	Jon Durand	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:00:27	100.1	420.8	75.3	957.3
3	Grant Crossingham	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:00:15	87.4	422.4	77.4	948.3
4	Lorenzo De Grandis	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:01:57	86.6	409.5	73.1	930.3
5	Dan Vyhnalik	CZE	Aeros Combat C	02:02:48	88.1	403.4	71.1	923.7
6	Marco Laurenzi	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:05:28	91.4	385.2	69.1	906.8
7	Alessandro Ploner	ITA	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:07:56	96.3	369.4	65.2	892.0
8	Gerd Dönhuber	DEU	Icaro 2000 Laminar	02:07:02	87.3	375.1	67.1	890.6
9	Pedro L. Garcia	USA	Wills Wing T3	02:08:39	93.5	364.9	59.8	879.3
10	Trent Brown	AUS	Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro	02:08:05	80.9	368.4	63.3	873.7

Australian team is first in the European Championships.

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Thu, Jul 7 2022, 8:35:46 pm GMT

July 10^th through 23^rd

European HG Championships 2022

(Monte Cucco, Sigillo, PG, Italy)

https://www.italy2020.eu/en/

The maximum number of pilots in the championship is 130 (125 European pilots + 5 non-European wild cards pilots).

The maximum number of pilots constituting a national team is 6.

The maximum number of pilots that may be entered by a NAC is unlimited.

https://civlcomps.org/event/21^st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship

Pedro Garcia is the only US pilot flying in the competition.

The Australian team:

Twenty one Italians. No indications yet of who is on the various teams and who is flying as individuals.

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Thu, Sep 1 2016, 9:34:53 pm MDT

Results

Øyvind Ellefsen|Akiko Suzuki|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Pollet|Claudia Mejia|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Mario Campanella|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Ubaldo Romano

http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-5-task-4/

The most special thing about flying in Brasilia is the Esplanade goal field. A perfect 118km task finally brought us back here to the city today. There’s nothing more exciting that watching the lead gaggle come across the tops of the tall buildings and set up an approach in what is basically a park between the two directions of traffic – four lanes each on both sides. The field seems pretty big when you see it empty. But with twelve gliders setting up to land, especially in light and variable conditions, it quickly shrinks.

Olav Opsanger and Jonny Durand came in pretty close (with Olav first), even setting up and landing together. Another ten or so came in one after the other behind them in the first gaggle.

Tom, who is in first overall as of yesterday arrived with half of his battens tips broken and sticking 4 or 5 inches out of their pockets. Apparently he inadvertently did what he called a “½ loop” in air so strong and turbulent that he thought he would tumble. He pulled out of it at high speed and his carbon basebar slammed him in the throat while the batten tips were busy breaking off. All that fun, and he believes he may have unintentionally violated the airspace as well, in a climb late in the task that he just couldn’t get out of in time. It’s really going to mix things up if he gets a zero for the day.

Wolfi high 15 minutes before the start.

Rory Duncan writes:

Had a bit of bummer today. Was sitting in 13^th place in the pre worlds here in Brazil, but I think I might drop quiet a few positions after I accidentally breached the 9000ft ceiling. (Which can be very hard to stay under while flying in such strong conditions!) And then I miss judged the final glide into the city and had to land in someone's backyard on the lake 3km short of goal. At least I got to have swim while waiting for a ride.

Results: https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 4:

Jonny and Olaf Opsanger.

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Olav Opsanger	Nor	Moyes RX 3.5	02:04:37	984
2	Jonny Durand	Aus	Moyes RX 3.5	02:05:06	968
3	Marco Laurenzi	Ita	Icaro Laminar 14.1	02:07:11	953
4	Valentino Bau	Ita	Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1	02:07:15	941
4	Carlos Niemeyer	Bra	Aeros Combat C 12.7	02:07:12	941
6	Primoz Gricar	Ger	Aeros Combat 12,7	02:07:48	936
7	Koji Daimon	Jpn	Aeros	02:07:49	933
8	Yuji Suzuki	Jpn	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	02:09:44	911
9	Rodolfo Gotes	Mex	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:09:29	910
10	Sergio Galvas	Bra	Wills Wing-T2C	02:09:41	907

Name	Note
Francois Isoard	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thalis Pacheco	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thomas Halter	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thomas Hylander	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Nilsson Tommy	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Tony Armstrong	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Valentino Bau	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Walter Mayer	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Yuji Suzuki	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Anton Moroder	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Claudia Mejia De La Pava	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Juan Tawil	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Laurent Thevenot	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Manuel Nieto	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Pedro L Garcia	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Wolfgang Siess	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Patrick Collin	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Jonny Durand	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Rafael S. Mello	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Alipio Loyola	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Niemeyer	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Billy Miller-Macleod	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Bjørn Joakimsen	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Gomes Luiz	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Alberto Correa Ruiz	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Chisato Nojiri	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Chrigel Küpfer	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Greussing	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Pollet	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Tiefenbacher	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Corinna Schwiegershausen	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Davide Guiducci	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Euclides Robert Neto	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Eduard Meusburger	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Eitan Koren	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Elmar Christl	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Emmanuel Felix-Faure	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Fábio Thomaz	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Filippo Oppici	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Gerardo Perez	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Guy Hubbard	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Guenther Pfanzelter	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Günther Tschurnig	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Haroldo Assumpção Neto	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hugo Avila	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hugo Manuel Rodrìguez	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hakan Andersson	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Jean Marc Laporte	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Joakim Hindemith	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Josh Woods	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Kathleen Rigg	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Koji Daimon	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Abe Kozo	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Luciano Dos Santos Danni	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Lionel Cristian Ezequiel	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Nagusa Akira	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcelo Araujo Dos Santos	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcelo Silva	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
márcio Freire Fernandes	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcos Rodrigues De Oliveira	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Michel Louzada	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marco Laurenzi	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mario Alonzi	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mario Campanella	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Markus Riezler	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mauricio Tovar Nieto	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Olav Lien Olsen	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Olav Opsanger	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Oyvind Ellefsen	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Primoz Gricar	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Rodolfo Gotes	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Romano Ubaldo	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Suan Selenati	Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	T 1	T 2	T 3	T 4	Total
1	Jonny Durand	Aus	Moyes RX 3.5	990	827	825	968	3610
2	Marco Laurenzi	Ita	Icaro Laminar 14.1	911	845	857	953	3566
3	Carlos Niemeyer	Bra	Aeros Combat C 12.7	831	801	923	941	3496
4	Davide Guiducci	Ita		908	786	837	898	3429
5	Primoz Gricar	Ger	Aeros Combat 12,7	630	833	1000	936	3399
6	Rodolfo Gotes	Mex	Wills Wing T2C 144	899	716	799	910	3324
7	Michel Louzada	Bra	Wills Wing-T2C144	622	830	908	906	3266
8	Valentino Bau	Ita	Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1	525	809	960	941	3235
9	Koji Daimon	Jpn	Aeros	807	683	785	933	3208
10	Olav Opsanger	Nor	Moyes RX 3.5	972	757	409	984	3122

August 28, 2016, 5:29:04 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Thirty in goal

André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Mario Campanella|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|video

http://www.brasilia2017.com.br/brasilia-sedia-pre-mundial-de-voo-livre/

No results yet. Can't get the Replay to work on Live Tracking here: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740# Looks like Jonny won with Andre second. 109 km task.

1	Jonny Durand	02:26:39
2	Andre Wolf	02:26:59
3	Olav Opsanger	02:27:23
4	Glauco Pinto	02:28:08
5	Thomas Weissenberger	02:28:12
6	Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli	02:28:18
7	Wolfgang Siess	02:29:30
8	David brito Filho	02:33:47
9	Davide Guiducci	02:33:57
10	Rodolfo Gotes	02:34:02
11	Tullio Gervasoni	02:34:19
12	Guy Hubbard	02:34:38
13	Chrigel Küpfer	02:34:47
14	Mario Campanella	02:41:57
15	Sergio Galvas	02:45:31

Tom Weissenberger describes the flight: https://www.facebook.com/wingsontour/posts/723408957797988

Photos of the first day: https://www.facebook.com/alex.farias.712/media_set?set=a.1148775738494744.1073742615.100000869853844&type=3

Jonny at goal: https://www.facebook.com/brasilia2017/videos/319686548381909/

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August 24, 2016, 9:25:11 MST -0600

Dutch Open / German Flatlands

Three tasks

Mario Campanella

Sander van Schaik <<sander>> writes:

Last weekend the Dutch Open / German Flatlands at Altes Lager in Germany finished. We had three fantastic tasks. One of them the longest task ever set at Altes Lager, 170km straight into Poland.

See also: http://www.dcb.org/wettbewerbe/flatlands-hg/2016/

Top 10:

1	Miroslav Cap	M	CZE	2675
2	Detlef Meier	M	GER	2429
3	Gijs Wanders	M	NED	2389
4	Lukas Bader	M	GER	2278
5	Koos de Keijzer	M	NED	2080
6	Bernd Otterpohl	M	GER	2040
7	Jiri Nadvornik	M	CZE	2012
8	Jiri Gut	M	CZE	1842
9	Martin Helden	M	NED	1830
10	Caroline Greiser	F	GER	1755

Top 10 Dutch Nationals:

1	Gijs Wanders	T2C 154	901	488	1000	2389
2	Koos de Keijzer	Laminar Z9 14.8	904	564	612	2080
3	Martin Helden	Laminar Z9 14.8	318	895	617	1830
4	Frank Cox	T2C 154	0	876	661	1537
5	Sander van Schaik	Laminar Z9 14.8	640	490	376	1506
6	Tanno Rutten	T2C 154	892	313	191	1396
7	André Disselhorst	Combat L 13	276	1000	44	1320
8	Emiel Jansen	Laminar Z9 14.8	297	317	680	1294
9	Joost Eertman	Laminar Z9 14.8	181	852	156	1189
10	Mario Campanella	T2C 144	598	230	306	1134

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Thu, Feb 13 2014, 4:20:23 am PST

David Brito takes first place by one second

(Governador Valadares, MG, Brazil)

André Wolfe|Brazilian Nationals 2014|Mario Campanella

http://www.abvl.net/resultados-brasileiro-de-asa-gv-2014/

Andre Wolfe is still in first place after four tasks. He came in fifth on task number four losing a couple of hundred points on second and third.

Task 4:

#	Name	Glider	Time	Total
1	David Brito Filho	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:10:23	978
2	Eduardo Fernandes	Wills Wing T2C	02:10:24	956
3	Glauco Pinto	Icaro Laminar Z9	02:10:54	943
4	Marcelo Moikano Andrei Gomes	Wiils Wing T2C	02:11:35	927
5	André Wolf	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	02:26:41	777
6	Eduardo Oliveira	Wills Wing T2C 154	02:31:21	775
7	Fabio Thomaz	Moyes Ls S5	02:40:54	691
8	Marcio Rosadas	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	02:42:07	670
9	Carlos Alberto De Oliveira Bebé	Wills Wing T2	02:44:20	656
10	Mario Campanella	Wills Wing T2C	02:48:26	643

Cumulative:

#	Name	Glider	Total
1	André Wolf	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	3627
2	Eduardo Fernandes	Wills Wing T2C	3296
3	Glauco Pinto	Icaro Laminar Z9	3291
4	David Brito Filho	Wills Wing T2C 144	3232
5	Eduardo Oliveira	Wills Wing T2C 154	3050
6	Marcelo Moikano Andrei Gomes	Wiils Wing T2C	2952
7	Marcio Rosadas	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	2854
8	Fabio Thomaz	Moyes Ls S5	2773
9	Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli	Wills Wing T2C144	2678
10	Konrad Heilman	Moyes Ls RX 3.5	2643

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August 31, 2012, 10:42:38 MDT

Super Race in Brasilia

Day six

(Federal+District,+Brazil)

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

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

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

Day six:

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

Totals:

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

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Tue, Sep 20 2011, 10:23:36 am MDT

The possible causes

(Brasilia, DF, Brazil)

Mario Campanella

The following was discussed here: https://OzReport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24924

Mario Campanella «Mario Campanella» writes:

We finished the analysis on Enio’s accident and produced an English translation for the international community.

Some of you may know that there was a tragic accident in the last day of the Brazilian Nationals and Open competition in Brasilia. Three of us took upon the task of trying to understand what happened with Enio's accident. Our only hope after this tragic loss is to add something to the safety of our sport. It was never our intention to conduct a witch hunt, accusing the manufacturers of the equipment or the glider. On the contrary, we respect a lot these manufacturers and we hope that this document serves to improve the safety of free flight equipment in general and in particular of those involved in this accident. This document also advises pilots in learning more about your safety equipment because we can not explain why the parachute did not open.

We do not have a hypothesis that explains beyond doubt what caused the accident (actually four hypotheses are described in the document). What we are almost sure about, is that two of the most common causes of accidents: material failure and turbulence played a part in this accident. Enio was flying in high standards of safety in the moment of the accident and we almost can exclude human error from the factors of the accident. He did not cause the "tumble" as he was flying fast at the time of the accident (66km/h), he had a wing in good condition (the wing and the equipment were quite new including the parachute) and the "sprogs" were probably in a safe position because there were reports of substantial bar pressure prior to the last flight. The details you can read the document hosted here:

http://www.decolar.org.br/Enio-Analysis-Accident-English.pdf (English version)

http://www.decolar.org.br/Enio-Analise-Acidente-Portugues.pdf (Portuguese version)

We encourage the discussion of the accident using the facts uncovered in our analysis and we sincerely hope that through the community feedback we can get closer to the truth behind this tragic accident.

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Tue, Mar 5 2002, 12:00:07 pm EST

Mario Campanella

Mario Campanella «mario.campanella» at Flight Design writes:

Subject: A-Frame corners

Case: Broken inner sleeve of the Finsterwalder corner and loss the rear cable. Fortunately it was in the landing and nothing worse then broken uprights happened. Glider has had several hard landings and crash.

Analysis: Cracks can originate from the milled holes in the inner sleeve after a very bad crash.

Advise: After experiencing heavy landings or crashes the pilot should inspect the integrity of the complete A-Frame including the inner sleeve that is not visible due to the plastic cover. The pilot should inspect the complete A-Frame at least once a year even if he didn't report any crash.

Sat, Sep 1 2001, 6:00:01 pm EDT

Chris Arai|Ghostbuster|Jim Lee|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Martin Harri

Encouraged by Jerz Rossignol and Dave Seaburg, I decided to extend and further refine the analysis that I carried out on the Nationals data originally started by Dean Williams. I went back and looked at similar data for the 2001 Flytec Championship and the 2001 Wallaby Open.

I'm not doing a statistical analysis of the data, but rather using the data and what I know about what happened on various days that might effect the average values, I'm looking to see what the data suggests.

What you see, depends on what you are looking for, i.e. what questions you are asking. We would love to be able to answer the question, what is the best flex wing glider, i.e. what flex wing gets to goal the quickest in a contest. This is a difficult question to answer, as the pilot has a lot to do with it. Still if we had equally skilled pilots, with equally slick gear, we would be able to approach answering this question.

The contest answers the question, who is the best pilot, but our analysis will give us a better idea of what it means to be the best pilot.

I won't go through everything in this article, but publish a series of articles that will look at these contests in depth and perhaps give us a better idea about the current state of hang gliding development.

First, let's look at the results of the 2001 Flytec Championship. Pilots only made goal on four days, so we have a lot less data than we do for the Nationals. Here's what a massaged version of the data looks like:

 

The average speed of the fastest two pilots to goal on each glider type.

The Laminar and the Litespeed pilots are the fastest. You may remember that the Talon pilots were right up there with them at the Nationals. Well, this is the prototype Talon in the spring of this year. A few of the pilots flying the Talon (Jim Lee and Chris Arai) hadn't ever flown one and all Talon pilots were flying the latest prototype which had been only out for a couple of weeks. This would suggest that the Talon has improved since the spring and that the Talon pilots are better able to fly it.

Manfred is flying the Laminar and he is the world's best hang glider pilot. Gerolf is right behind him, and so are the two fastest Litespeed pilots. In fact, they are within 1% and essentially indistinguishable using the speed data for four days. Of course, Manfred distinguished himself by winning the competition.

The ATOS pilots showed themselves again to be just slightly better in terms of speed to goal than the fastest pilot on a top flex wing. The difference is quite small.

Brian, in the Swift, does significantly better than the ATOS pilots, but not nearly so much better as Robin (or Robin and Brian combined) did in the Nationals. This shows that when two Swifts are flying and not being held back by the hang gliders that they can do much better. At the Nationals Robin continually flew his Swift at a level commensurate with its superior performance and thereby pushed Brian to do likewise.

I looked at the data in a number of ways and finally came up with this picture as the best view when it came to answering our questions. But, I had to do a little massaging to get there. First, you'll notice that I left out the Stealth pilots. Well, that was because on one day no Stealth pilots made it to goal. As you can imagine on a difficult day it was a slow slog and on that day the average times were much slower than on the other three days. If I had included in the analysis the Stealth pilot's average for three days, and everyone else's average for four, then the Stealth pilot's average would have been biased unfairly high.

If I looked at just two days that all four flex wings made it to goal, I found that the two fastest Stealth pilots were just 3/10^th of a mile an hour slower than the fastest two Talon pilots. The fastest Stealth pilots were also slower at the Nationals.

Overall the fastest two Litespeed pilots flew faster than the fastest two Laminar pilots, but I decided to not count Tomas and Martin Harri's flights on one day (but took the next two fastest Litespeed pilots). The reason was they were very smart and took a different direction and better line and flew much faster than the lead gaggle and almost all rest of the field. They basically flew a different task.

I would have kept these flights in the analysis if I wanted to answer the question who were the smartest and fastest pilots, but I'm trying to answer the question, which gliders are the best. I would hope to have the same pilots flying the different gliders in the same way, but I can't have this, so the closest I can come is eliminating obvious "tricks" like this.

You'll also notice that the Ghostbuster pilots seemed really slow. They really aren't this slow. This is due to a very slow time on the last day when Mario Campanella is the only GB to make it into goal and he is an hour behind anyone else. If I look at the data without this last day, the Ghostbuster pilots are just about as fast as the Talon pilots.

Given that Manfred is a superior pilot, and that Gerolf is very close to him in skill level, etc. I think that this data and the Nationals data published earlier suggest the following:

The Laminar and the Litespeed are very similar in performance. We can't tell from this data if one is better than the other.

The Talon at this point in the spring has a ways to go, as do Talon pilots.

Either the Stealth isn't quite as good at the Litespeed or Laminar or the Stealth pilots are just not up to Gerolf's and Manfred's skill level (or maybe they have draggy gear).

Given the likely level of ATOS pilot skill, the ATOS is a few percent better glider than the very best flex wing, likely in the neighborhood of 5%.

Brian is being held back by the lack of real competition for the Swift.

Next time I'll look at the 2001 Wallaby Open.

Sat, Apr 21 2001, 5:30:00 pm EDT

Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|John "Ole" Olson|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

(?-i)John "Ole" Olson|Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|John "Ole" Olson|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|John "Ole" Olson|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

Brian Porter|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships|Hansjoerg Truttmann|John "Ole" Olson|Manfred Ruhmer|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|record|Richard Walbec|Robert Reisinger|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins

The forecast is for winds at 15-17 mph out of the east. The tug goes up for a sounding and records about 12 mph, but this will prove to be a false indicator.

Lift is expected to be strong (and again it will get 4 degrees warmer than forecast) and the cu's are popping early. In fact the sky looks like it might over develop. The sound shows that the top of the clouds won't go that high, so I reassure everyone that it won't OD.

We want to come back to Quest for the party, so we call a 66-mile task south to Winter Haven airport and back. We will have a strong crosswind all the way. Separates the men from the boys.

With cumulus clouds everywhere the strong winds prove to be much less of a launch problem. Funny how that is.

With the clouds covering the ground there are lots of down cycles with many pilots having to relaunch. But plenty get up right away to cloud base over 5,000'. I'm one of those who have to try again.

The winds are as strong as predicted and stronger than the report from the tug pilot. Some pilots get blown so far back that they never make it back to the east to get back in the start circle. A bunch of us climb out northwest of the field losing two miles getting to 5,400'.

It is already late and I won't be able to get to the circumference of the start circle until 15 minutes after the last start gate. Oh well, I won't be flying with the lead gaggle, if there is such a thing today.

Strong winds and strong lift combine to add a lot of excitement to the flight especially on the first run to highway 474 where we get in the smoke from a fire and the lift smoothes out. Pilots are continually punching up wind because the thermals are drifting quickly to the west and taking pilots to the Green Swamp.

I'm trailing way behind so I can't report much about what went on. I hear later that Gerolf and Manfred are flying together. Gerolf is 100 points behind Manfred so it will be hard for him to beat Manfred if he flies with him. Tomas has gone off on his own trying to move from 5^th into 1^st.

Hansjoerg is flying the last day of the meet as a tourist. He's got Felix's new development glider. No front wires, great faired control frame. Calculated to add 1.2 points of glider to the ATOS. Hansjoerg is on course in front and alone.

Dave Sharp is not too far behind him and they hook up at the turnpoint. I've made up a lot of miles on Dave, but I'm still 3 behind him.

I run to the deck (1,600') just north of I4 and hit a strong one under a cloud. Almost all the clouds are working and this takes me to 6,000'. Still the thermal took me down wind, and it is now a big push to go upwind to get the turnpoint. When I get there Dave Sharp and Steve Elkins (in an ATOS) are low but booming up in the thermal just downwind of the airport. A few flex wings have made it to the turnpoint and are getting up. It is a bit of a hole right at the airport.

I drive upwind from the turnpoint to get under a set of clouds and they are working again. There are cloud streets setting up perpendicular to the east wind and back toward goal. I head as much upwind as possible to get on the east side of highway 33. There is strong lift over Fantasy of Flight and I get up with another rigid as one lands on the grass strip below.

A fast run through a bit of blue gets me down to 600' at Dean Still Road. I'm fortunate to find 1,000 fpm off the deck to 5,600'. Oleg Bondarchuck joins me in the smoke as I get back to 474.

We climb well but Oleg just doesn’t seem to care about getting a good climb. He appears to be just floating around and not concentrating. I gain 1,000' on him and this turns out to be the last thermal ten miles out from Quest.

With a fifteen mph quartering head wind it is going to be hard to get into goal. I find patches of light lift along the way, but nothing worth turning in. I'm lucky to make it with 300 feet.

I find out later that Manfred left for goal a little early and then found that he had to find some lift. He and Paris (who gets down to 300 feet) are stuck 3 miles out from goal. Gerolf could win the meet if Manfred doesn't get up. Fortunately for him and Paris they both get up and make goal.

Only twelve pilots make goal:

Class II:

Brian Porter (1/2 hour before anyone else)
Dave Sharp (Hansjoerg came in before him) - ATOS
Steve Elkins – ATOS
Davis Straub – ATOS (quite a bit later)
Mario Campanella – GB (much later)

Class I (not sure of the order):

Richard Walbec – WW Talon
Gerolf - Litespeed
Betinho – Litespeed
Manfred – Laminar
Paris Williams – WW Talon
Robert Reisinger - Laminar

Complete results at www.flytec.com.

Sat, Apr 29 2000, 2:00:01 pm EDT

Bo Hagewood|David Glover|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Quest|Quest Air|Wills Wing

Bo Hagewood|David Glover|Mario Campanella|Quest|Quest Air|Wills Wing

Bo Hagewood|David Glover|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Oleg Bondarchuk|Quest|Quest Air|Wills Wing

Bo Hagewood|David Glover|Mario Campanella|Oleg Bondarchuck|Oleg Bondarchuk|Quest|Quest Air|Wills Wing

The folks at Quest Air did a great job running the Atlantic Coast Championships. All the pilots appreciated the wonderful efforts of all the volunteers and staff. We got great service on the flight deck. Thanks to David Glover for personally hand tying 500 weaklinks.

We did have a festive time at the closing ceremonies. Mario Campanella from Flight Design (you might remember my response to his letter in https://OzReport.com/Ozv4n56.htm) and I display good fellowship at the awards presentation:

Andre, who won the flex wing division, personally thanked Oleg Bondarchuck. All of us really love Oleg and were quite sorry that he was unable to be here. I see that he did get to fly at Bassano.

I found out from Bo Hagewood, that he did an out of control landing on the last called day, so it probably was a good thing calling the day yesterday, and even if I feel that way, maybe I wasn't a big, fat idiot.

Bo also said that he was quite grateful for the publicity that he has received in the Oz Report (thanks to David Glover for the close-ups). He says it was responsible for the sponsorship that he received from Wills Wing. Given that he lives on a tandem pilot's "wages," he really appreciates the support and the chance to fly the Fusion.

Sat, Mar 11 2000, 2:30:00 am GMT

Christof Kratzner|Flight Design|Flight Design Ghostbuster|Mario Campanella|Mark "Gibbo" Gibson|spin

Mario Campanella, <flightdesign@t-online.de>, Flight Design Rigid Wing Manager, writes:

We in Flight Design have a professional attitude of work; we take our responsibilities seriously and don't make false promises or fool anybody. We take opinions and criticism as a natural and necessary part of our relationship with the pilots. The Ghostbuster pilots will confirm how we really establish a dialog extracting and giving information from field experience to improve our gliders and the way they are flown. We know that a great glider like those that set up industry standards mature with time and are rarely perfectly born. Flight Design is not in a race disputing with any particularly manufacturer, we have a tradition in building sport aviation machines and we pay respect to the traditional hang glider manufacturers that are busy building their beautiful machines. We are anaeronautical company that produces a long range of flying machines, from paragliders, rigid wings and microlights (http://www.flightdesign.com). This cannot be done without knowledge and experience. Our R&D Staff is composed by several persons and every machine we built without exception is the result of intense collaboration.

The Ghostbuster was conceived to push the rigid wings borders further. We designed a glider with the same safety standards and pleasure to fly as the Exxtacy but with a substantially better performance both in the low and high speed range. The Ghostbuster introduces several innovative features like an asymmetric spanwise cord distribution, stall step wing tip fairing, retractable flaps and a new profile.

(editor's note: I've asked Mario to explain - which axis it is asymmetric about. What asymmetric spanwise cord distribution means. What is stall step wing fairing?

We put a lot of attention at the low speed characteristics off the glider, especially the stall and spin characteristics. The planform and the twist of the Ghostbuster were optimized via extensive computer analysis to provide a close elliptical lift distribution with the necessary trimming forces. The result was a planform that has a small taper (around 1.3) in the ribs between the keel and the wing tip (ribs 4-7), that means that the cord length from the first rib (inboard) and the eight rib (outboard) are the same. It is known in airplane design that wings with small or no taper combined with the right amount of twist have favorable stall and spin characteristics. On top of that we designed a tip fairing that after several tests in the DHV test car is able to diminish the influence of the wing tip vortices in the upper wing surface reducing the induced drag and preventing tip stall.

(editor's note: Two of Mario's gliders have stalled and spun big time on me. I certainly didn't do it on purpose. I was under the "guidance" of a factory pilot in one case, and a factory sponsored pilot in another. I went to fly these GB's with the greatest of goodwill and got royally burned.

I did nothing other than fly the GB like I flew the Exxtacy. This worked fine on Campbell's, which I was quite willing to fly after the initial bad experience. I wanted to give the Ghostbuster another chance.

There are some big problems with the GB in some configurations. I suggest that a real report on the bad spin characteristics of the GB is in order. Pilots need to know how not to configure their GB so they can avoid these. Flight Design needs to make sure they know what Gibbo did and then make sure that other pilots don't do this.

I ask Mario to please tell us explicitly what the difference was between the gliders that I flew and spun inadvertently, and the regular factory set GB.)

It seems to me that you are not being impartial with your judgment of the stalling or spinning characteristics of the Ghostbuster. After having a good impression with the Campbell Ghostbuster you started to focus on the flight with Gibbo's glider and the prototype you flew before the Worlds. His glider has some modifications especially a very rearward position of the hang loop. This certainly causes the spin recovery more difficult for a light pilot.

(editor's note: First, let the reader decide if I am being impartial. I report what has happened. These two flights didn't happen Am I supposed to ignore these two flights? If the reader were to go back and look at my reporting on my first Ghostbuster flight, they will find that I wrote it as though it were all my problem. Apparently it wasn't.

I have presented plenty of material on the spins – after all this was a much more important result of a flight than the fact that I had a really great flight on Campbell's GB - which I did report in full for three days (or was it four). Before I flew Gibbo's GB.

I would suggest that Flight Design has much more reason to be partial than I. Again, I suggest a real report on why the GB is very bad spin characteristics.

Speaking of the prototype. I understand that these were the gliders flown at the Worlds. I also understand that they were rejected by a potential customer prior to the Worlds. I also am given to understand that you made no changes in twist from these prototypes to the present gliders.

Can you tell us just what the difference between these prototypes and the present GB's are?

The stall characteristics of the GhostBuster are very good as stated by Christof Kratzner in his test report http://www.dhv.de/deutsch/testberichte/index.html and all the Ghostbuster pilots. The DHV is a serious institute that would never certify a glider that does not show proper flying behavior. It is very destructive to start alarming the flying community without the necessary collections of knowledge about a fact. We appreciate very much the use of the Internet through the OZ report as a global forum of discussion but we think that some care must be taken before spreading a hype.

(editor's note: The English version of this URL has no information re stalls on the GB. The DHV site needs to publish pitch curves (which I have repeatedly asked for).

I hope very much to be alarming the flying community re the very bad stall and spin characteristics of the GB, which I have witnessed first hand.

It has been reported that Christof does not try to do spins in rigids under test at the DHV anymore. It looks like this policy needs to be reviewed.)

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS: (editor's note: The key here is fact that the Ghostbuster has a breaking stall, i.e. very quick and without any mushing.)

(editor's note: Well, I hate to have to be the bearer of bad news, but there is indeed something like this.)

Just for comparison reasons here are the reproduction of the DHV reports for the ATOS in English and the English translation from the GHOSTBUSTER. Both where made by the same pilot and please note how they are quite similar, with only some small differences for both sides:

ATOS:

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0in 0in 0in;height:14.25pt"> STALL BEHAVIOUR	Flaps 0 degrees	Flaps 70 degrees
Straight flight, control bar slowly forward	stable deep-stall	stable deep-stall
Straight flight, control bar quickly forward	pitches down strongly	pitches down softly
In turn, control bar slowly forward	mush-turn	pitches down softly, mush-turn
In turn, control bar quickly forward	dives distinctly in direction of turn	pitches down softly, mush-turn
Provoked spin	no tendency to spin	no tendency to spin

GHOSTBUSTER:

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0in 0in 0in;height:14.25pt"> STALL BEHAVIOUR	Flaps 0 degrees	Flaps 55 degrees
Straight flight, control bar slowly forward	stable deep-stall	stable deep-stall
Straight flight, control bar quickly forward	pitches down softly	pitches down softly
In turn, control bar slowly forward	mush-turn	mush-turn
In turn, control bar quickly forward	dives distinctly in direction of turn	dives distinctly in direction of turn
Provoked spin	no tendency to spin	no tendency to spin

About spin possibilities with rigid wings the footnote that follows all the certified DHV rigid wings is clear: "Spinning might be provocable in the extreme case and must be avoided". Our gliders like ALL certified rigid wings were tested until the limits that DHV found that are safe for an average pilot.

(editor's note: You've got to wonder how this is possible since rigid wing gliders aren't tested for spins anymore.

There are many dozens of Ghostbuster flying around the globe and any record of spin tendency. Thepilots migrating from the flex wings should know that the rigid wings introduced a series of handling and safety improvements with no compromise in performance but they are not totally fool proof. Our border is the possibility of spinning or spiral dive (remote to standard certified gliders).

(editor's note: I must say that I never came close to spinning any of the many Flight Design Exxtacies that I have flown. The only stalls I could get them to do were so mild as to not be noticeable. I have never experienced on any of the ATOSes that I have flownanything like what I experienced on two out of three GB's that I flew.

To paint all rigid wings as the same is to paint over all the differences. There are obvious problems with the GB in some configurations, and I suggest a full report on what to avoid is in order.

By the way, we have a report today, which I'm checking, that another pilot spun his Ghostbuster inadvertently yesterday at Quest Air. This appears to be a regular standard Ghostbuster.)

All rigid pilots should be aware that they cannot push out too much or too fast in a curve especially if he is flying slow and encounters sinking air. This is not a threat if the pilot flies consciously about this possibility. This is a similar case as with the flex wings where the gliders were designed and tested as to minimize the possibility of tumbling. As every pilot knows they still can tumble in extreme cases if they push to hard when they encounter a sharp change in the vertical movement of air (strong sink after strong lift).

(editor's note: Just to be clear here. I was flying in the light smooth stuff they call Florida air. It was overcast. It was light. I was entering smooth rising air. I pushed out slightly. What happened was inexcusable.)

We would like to invite you and any pilot (please the Europeans ones can contact us directly at <flightdesign@t-online.de>) for more flights with a standard Ghostbuster so that you can have a fair experience and be delighted with it in all speed ranges. I am sure that the guys at Quest Air will happily lend you one (if they are not far away breaking another distance record :-).

(editor's note: I reported that I had a delightful time flying Campbell's GB. I doubt if QA would be all that happy to have me back (just kidding). I know that after all the grief that Mario personally gave Gibbo, he won't be letting me fly his any time soon (good thing, too). Probably won't be picking me up on his way back from the next flight to Georgia, either. :-)

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Fri, Mar 3 2000, 3:30:02 pm GMT

Dave Carr|Flight Design Ghostbuster|Johnny Carr|Mario Campanella|Mark "Gibbo" Gibson|Mike Eberle

Mike Eberle, North American Flight Design, <napi@fun2fly.com>, is putting on a Ghostbuster clinic at Quest Air on the rest day between the Wallaby Open and the Atlantic Coast Championships, April 23^rd. He says that Gibbo will be there along with Johnny Carr, Mario Campanella and Josef Stellbauer.

Old time Exxtacy pilots will remember when Josef and Felix came to the US to show off the Exxtacy. Johhny Carr was last seen flying a Swift at the Worlds in Italy.

In a change of approach, the clinic comes at no cost, and the rental fee for flying a Ghostbuster will be minimal (I wonder how long you can fly it for. ☺)

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