Oz Report
topic: Rohan Taylor
Dalby Big Air 2022 »
Day 6
Dalby Big Air 2022|Vicki Cain
Task 5:
1 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:55:02 | 83.67 | 1000 |
2 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2:06:09 | 83.67 | 956 |
3 | Peter Burkitt | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 79.65 | 744 | |
4 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 67.37 | 636 | |
5 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro Skylite | 67.00 | 634 | |
6 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 64.91 | 625 | |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 63.08 | 617 | |
8 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 62.46 | 614 | |
9 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 60.00 | 603 | |
10 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 58.15 | 563 |
Cumulative:
1 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4487 | 952 | 877 | 792 | 910 | 956 |
2 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4389 | 741 | 898 | 857 | 893 | 1000 |
3 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4126 | 926 | 697 | 878 | 1000 | 625 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4066 | 968 | 921 | 989 | 571 | 617 |
5 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4044 | 860 | 865 | 797 | 919 | 603 |
6 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3965 | 968 | 832 | 998 | 553 | 614 |
7 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3931 | 925 | 827 | 788 | 757 | 634 |
8 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3.0 Pro | 3754 | 1000 | 752 | 929 | 569 | 504 |
9 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3613 | 926 | 846 | 770 | 568 | 503 |
10 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3578 | 957 | 883 | 810 | 568 | 360 |
Last day cancelled. Vicki writes:
Day 7 task 6 is canned with high winds and rain on course so we have our podium at the Dalby Big Air 2022!
Jonas Lobitz
Tony Cross
@jonnydurand
Top ten: Rohan Taylor 10th, Craig Taylor, 9th. Rory Duncan, 8th. Steve Docherty 7th. Olie Chitty 6th. Steve Blenkinsop, 5th. Olav Opsanger 4th.
The entire top 10 flying Litespeed RX Pro's!
After a challenging week of weather with rising floods and many closed roads we managed 5 solid tasks!
Colin Rushtom wins sports class flying his Gecko 155.
Thanks to @peakpictures for the photo!
Discuss "Dalby Big Air 2022" at the Oz Report forum link» »
2 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2022, Vicki Cain
Dalby Big Air 2022 »
Day four
Dalby Big Air 2022
Task 4:
1 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:34:21 | 85.91 | 1000 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:44:35 | 85.91 | 919 |
3 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:45:58 | 85.91 | 910 |
4 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 1:48:34 | 85.91 | 893 |
5 | Steve Docherty | 2:12:26 | 85.91 | 757 | |
6 | Jason Kath | WW T2C 144 | 2:17:13 | 85.91 | 732 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 85.59 | 571 | |
8 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 85.22 | 569 | |
9 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 84.74 | 568 | |
9 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 84.64 | 568 |
Cumulative:
1 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3531 | 952 | 877 | 792 | 910 |
2 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3501 | 926 | 697 | 878 | 1000 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3449 | 968 | 921 | 989 | 571 |
4 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3441 | 860 | 865 | 797 | 919 |
5 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3389 | 741 | 898 | 857 | 893 |
6 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3351 | 968 | 832 | 998 | 553 |
7 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3297 | 925 | 827 | 788 | 757 |
8 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3.0 Pro | 3250 | 1000 | 752 | 929 | 569 |
9 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3218 | 957 | 883 | 810 | 568 |
10 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3110 | 926 | 846 | 770 | 568 |
Discuss "Dalby Big Air 2022" at the Oz Report forum link» »
Dalby Big Air Photos
Zupy
Dalby Big Air 2022|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc
Link here on Facebook.
Discuss "Dalby Big Air Photos" at the Oz Report forum link» »
2 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2022, Michael "Zupy" Zupanc
Dalby Big Air 2022 »
It's on
Dalby Big Air 2022
Task 3:
1 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 1:37:22 | 998 |
2 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:37:23 | 989 |
3 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 1:41:18 | 939 |
4 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 1:41:28 | 929 |
5 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:40:22 | 878 |
6 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:40:55 | 857 |
7 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:55:11 | 810 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:54:54 | 797 |
9 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:55:49 | 792 |
10 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:55:35 | 788 |
Cumulative:
1 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2878 | 968 | 921 | 989 |
2 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2798 | 968 | 832 | 998 |
3 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3.0 Pro | 2681 | 1000 | 752 | 929 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2650 | 957 | 883 | 810 |
5 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2621 | 952 | 877 | 792 |
6 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2542 | 926 | 846 | 770 |
7 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2540 | 925 | 827 | 788 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2522 | 860 | 865 | 797 |
9 | Jon Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2501 | 926 | 697 | 878 |
10 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2496 | 741 | 898 | 857 |
Discuss "Dalby Big Air 2022" at the Oz Report forum link» »
Go Long In Texas, Full Up »
FOMO
Glen Volk|Go Long In Texas 2021|Greg Chastain|Jim Yocom|Larry Bunner|Makbule Baldik Le Fay|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor|Sara Weaver
https://cuhanggliding.com/golongintexas/
Confirmed Pilot List | |
---|---|
Jonathan Irlbec | Read Bixby |
Tavo Gutierrez | Doug Hale |
Rick Maddy | Sujata Sen |
Charles Cozean | Carl Boddie |
Makbule Baldik | Matt Mccleskey |
Robin Hamilton | Larry Bunner |
Eduardo Fonseca | Sara Weaver |
Michael Williams | Greg Chastain |
Bob Fisher | Soham Mehta |
Glen Volk | Tyson Taylor |
Majo Majors | Ron Berry |
Rich Reinauer | James Race |
Nate Wreford | Mitch Sorby |
Richard Hiegel | German Boliviar |
Mick Howard | Jim Yocum |
9 topics in this article: Glen Volk, Go Long In Texas 2021, Greg Chastain, Jim Yocom, Larry Bunner, Makbule Baldik Le Fay, Robin Hamilton, Rohan Taylor, Sara Weaver
2021 Dalby Big Air »
2021 Dalby Big Air
Final Results
Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 963.6 | 873.0 | 36.8 | 937.6 | 958.1 | 3769 |
2 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 1000.0 | 892.5 | 36.3 | 860.0 | 974.5 | 3763 |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 879.1 | 904.1 | 16.5 | 862.0 | 920.6 | 3582 |
4 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 774.9 | 877.1 | 22.8 | 901.4 | 921.1 | 3497 |
5 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 875.6 | 588.9 | 36.2 | 878.7 | 935.0 | 3314 |
6 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 870.3 | 863.7 | 36.2 | 637.9 | 825.9 | 3234 |
7 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 283.5 | 762.2 | 32.1 | 945.1 | 851.6 | 2875 |
8 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX3 Pro | 37.7 | 936.1 | 43.0 | 912.7 | 900.3 | 2830 |
9 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 978.0 | 39.0 | 36.1 | 864.1 | 900.9 | 2818 |
10 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 588.3 | 826.6 | 16.5 | 961.9 | 307.3 | 2701 |
5 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2021, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Steve Blenkinsop
2021 Dalby Big Air »
Task 3, 4, and 5
Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html
Results from task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Distance (km) | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX3 Pro | 14.26 | 43.0 |
2 | Peter Burkitt | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 11.56 | 38.3 |
3 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 10.76 | 36.8 |
4 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 10.52 | 36.3 |
5 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 10.46 | 36.2 |
5 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 10.47 | 36.2 |
7 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 10.42 | 36.1 |
8 | Hossain Tefaili | Moyes RX 4 | 10.37 | 36.0 |
9 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 10.27 | 35.6 |
10 | Peter Adriaans | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 10.13 | 35.2 |
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:14:41 | 961.9 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:14:46 | 945.1 |
3 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:14:46 | 937.6 |
4 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 01:15:07 | 926.5 |
5 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX3 Pro | 01:15:14 | 912.7 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:15:37 | 901.4 |
7 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:17:44 | 878.7 |
8 | Vic Hare | Ww T2C 136 | 01:18:12 | 865.9 |
9 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:19:04 | 864.1 |
10 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:18:40 | 862.0 |
Task 5
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 02:14:31 | 974.5 |
2 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:15:16 | 958.1 |
3 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:17:23 | 935.0 |
4 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:17:54 | 921.1 |
5 | Steve Crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 02:17:36 | 920.7 |
6 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:18:13 | 920.6 |
7 | Nick Purcell | Moyes Rs 4 | 02:11:59 | 912.8 |
8 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:20:11 | 900.9 |
9 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX3 Pro | 02:20:12 | 900.3 |
10 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:26:04 | 851.6 |
7 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2021, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2021 Dalby Big Air »
2021 Dalby Big Air
Task 2
Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html
Results from task 2:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX3 Pro | 13:15:00 | 15:47:54 | 02:32:54 | 936.1 |
2 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:15:00 | 15:51:32 | 02:36:32 | 910.2 |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:00:00 | 15:46:57 | 02:46:57 | 904.1 |
4 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 13:00:00 | 15:51:32 | 02:51:32 | 892.5 |
5 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:15:00 | 15:56:06 | 02:41:06 | 877.1 |
6 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:15:00 | 15:56:38 | 02:41:38 | 873.0 |
7 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 12:45:00 | 15:47:40 | 03:02:40 | 863.7 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 13:00:00 | 15:59:17 | 02:59:17 | 826.6 |
9 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 12:30:00 | 15:54:11 | 03:24:11 | 762.2 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 1000.0 | 892.5 | 1893 |
2 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 962.9 | 873.0 | 1836 |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 876.9 | 904.1 | 1781 |
4 | Tony Cross | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 868.0 | 863.7 | 1732 |
5 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 771.0 | 877.1 | 1648 |
6 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 873.4 | 588.9 | 1462 |
7 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 521.9 | 910.2 | 1432 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 581.3 | 826.6 | 1408 |
9 | Rick Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 735.5 | 530.2 | 1266 |
10 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 277.2 | 762.2 | 1039 |
Day 4 canceled due to high winds.
6 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2021, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2021 Dalby Big Air »
2021 Dalby Big Air
Scot Barrett
Dalby Big Air 2021|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/comp results.html
Results from task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance (km) | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scott Barrett | Aeros GT | 01:56:05 | 66.32 | 1000.0 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:58:34 | 66.32 | 979.2 |
3 | Jonny Durand Jnr | 02:00:38 | 66.32 | 965.6 | |
4 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:15:18 | 66.32 | 885.8 |
5 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:15:58 | 66.32 | 882.5 |
6 | Tony Cross | Airborne REV 13.5 | 02:16:59 | 66.32 | 877.5 |
7 | Rick Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:44:13 | 66.32 | 754.5 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 66.24 | 611.3 | |
9 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 55.50 | 549.3 |
Don't know if Jonny is flying a Gecko or not. Looks like he caught up to three other pilots after taking a clock fifteen minutes later. Steve Blenkinsop is back flying after injuries from his bicycle incident. Missing goal by 80 meters must have been a let down for Jason.
Sport Class flew a shorter version of the open task but pilots didn't make it back to Dalby. Interesting to see a U2 in the lead over the Geckos.
5 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2021, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Trent Brown
Harrison Rountree wins the⁢ 2021 Corryong Cup »
After not flying for 10 months
Corryong Cup 2021|Harrison Rountree|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor
Harrison writes:
I'm incredibly stoked to be the winner of the Corryong Cup and to be sharing the podium with my instructor, Rohan Holtkamp. The points would have been much closer between Rohan and I if it wasn't for an instrument mistake on day one. It is the first time I've ever shared the sky with Rohan since I learned with him in December 2012.
It was good to see Adam Stevens flying again and flying well for second place.
I came to the competition just to have some fun flying around the mountains and after a few days I was in the lead. I flew each day trying only to fly the course as fast as I could and I'm very happy with the overall result.
http://xc.highcloud.net/comp_overall.html?comPk=305
1 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3708 |
2 | Adam Stevens | 3407 | |
3 | Rohan Holtkamp | 3275 | |
4 | Tony Cross | RX Pro 3.5 | 2942 |
5 | Hughbert Alexander | Kombat | 2839 |
6 | Peter Adriaans | RX5 | 2616 |
7 | Todd Wisewould | Wills Wing T2C | 2577 |
8 | Neale Halsall | RX3.5 | 2411 |
9 | Andy Schmidt | RX3.5PRO | 2291 |
10 | Mitch Butler | Moyes Rs | 2245 |
5 topics in this article: Corryong Cup 2021, Harrison Rountree, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor
2021 Corryong Cup »
2021 Corryong Cup
Harrison Rountree in the lead so far
Corryong Cup 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
How can Corryong go on with the interstate travel under restrictions?
Harrison writes:
Most pilots come from Victoria. South Australian SA pilots can still enter Victoria. Queensland pilots can travel through New South Wales into Victoria.
Forbes was cancelled as most of Sydney was restricted in movement, including the organisers and Victoria and South Australia were enforcing mandatory isolation on returning if you visited New SOuth Wales (Forbes, for example). It pretty much meant that only rural New South Wales pilots and Queensland pilots could participate (without the organizers, of course).
The results are here: http://xc.highcloud.net/comp_overall.html?comPk=305. All future Australian competitions will be scored using airscore.
1 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3019 | 788 | 927 | 780 | 524 |
2 | Adam Stevens | 2734 | 818 | 702 | 871 | 343 | |
3 | Tony Cross | RX Pro 3.5 | 2683 | 833 | 414 | 857 | 579 |
4 | Rohan Holtkamp | 2600 | 210 | 732 | 974 | 684 | |
5 | Hughbert Alexander | Kombat | 2236 | 644 | 807 | 495 | 290 |
6 | Todd Wisewould | Wills Wing T2C | 2207 | 978 | 312 | 736 | 181 |
7 | Steve Blenkinsop | LSRX3.5 | 2187 | 814 | 579 | 626 | 168 |
8 | Peter Adriaans | Rx5 | 2047 | 919 | 533 | 360 | 235 |
9 | Neale Halsall | Rx3.5 | 2008 | 397 | 568 | 585 | 458 |
9 | Mitch Butler | moyes rs | 2008 | 690 | 556 | 594 | 168 |
5 topics in this article: Corryong Cup 2021, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
Attila on the 2020 Forbes Flatlands
Attila on the 2020 Forbes Flatlands
Finally
Attila Bertok|dust devil|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Rohan Taylor
Attila Bertok writes:
After I think 28 years coming to Forbes (except a few years when it wasn’t held) and losing at least 5 un-losable Flatlands, I finally can put this in the collection, too. Josh came 2nd with brilliant flying and Jonny came 3rd.
It all started as doom and gloom. The country was on fire and the smoke was delivered to us via the varying winds. Visibility was occasionally nil either due to smoke or dust or both. The first 3 days were cancelled. It surely looked like that we are going to see the worst Forbes Flatlands ever. A few pilots decided to pull out of the competition and head somewhere smoke free. I don’t blame them, time off work is quite precious for most of us. I guess any flying seems more attractive than no flying at all.
The Queensland vs NSW golf tournament was shaping up well. Some rumors mentioned cheating, but it was just some fake news.
The 4th day our fortune turned and we woke up for a much better day, at least for a taskable one. I was one of the task setters and I must say that we’ve never faced such a challenging forecast on any previous Forbes comps, but we did our best considering the circumstances. So, on day 4 we set a task down south to Old Junee partly because the fires were burning in the mountains and a SW wind change was anticipated. Finally it turned out to be a distance task, largely due to the 1 hour delay initiated by the safety committee. I strongly disagreed with both of the half hour delays, because it didn’t improve safety, but I respected their decision. Contrary to popular belief, I didn’t call them wimps. Trent took the crown for the day pushing ahead as usual followed by Josh then Pedro. I’ve felt the day was quite turbulent, but it was partly due to the upcoming SW wind which created some convergence at first and later stopped us from completing the task. But we’ve had a day in the bank. Lukas also encountered a large brown snake which made his waiting for the retrieve car in the dark a lot less boring.
The 5th day promised better conditions. Again, we had winds from the west, so we’ve decided on a cross wind flat triangle down south and back via a short final leg to the Bogan Gate goal which is not at all in Bogan Gate. The safety committee has obviously learned something from the day before, so we just got on with preparing instead of spreading pessimism on the ground way before setting up. On course, we encountered strong lift, most thermals were marked with dust devils. Due to the wind there was some ‘interesting’ climbs for me and this made me quite restless pushing ahead. I’ve learned from my previous day’s mistake and didn’t push too aggressively into the cross wind, but everybody did which gave me an early 10 km advantage which I’ve managed to hold the whole way and winning 1000 points for the day. Jonny came 2nd and Filippo 3rd. The air was very good on the final glide and despite the strong headwind everybody came in very high.
6th day. Similar weather but the Skysight forecast seem to get it wrong every day. Cloudbase prediction usually way off, but not bad. Winds are turning out to be stronger. Windy gets it quite right. This is hindsight of course. So again, we went for a flat triangle, this time up to the north turning at Peak Hill, then back to Forbes via a turn point at the corner of the state forest east of Forbes. We had the best conditions on this day, big thermals both in size and strength. It was nice to fly with some people for a change, but it only lasted up to the 1st turn point, after that was lonely flying again. It is my Hungarian accent, I think.
So I was flying fairly upwind and things were working out nicely until I didn’t find a strong high climb before turning at the forest. So I was quasi-ahead, but it was just that I had a longer fruitless glide. I was quite desperate to find lift turning into the strong head wind and being low, when I noticed a ninety degree wind direction change on the surface of the small ponds which told me which way to go. As soon as I hooked into the 3-4 meter lift I saw the dust picking up.
A little while later I was climbing right over the eye of our micro tornado. The dust tube of the dust devil was so perfectly formed that it was mesmerizing as well as beautiful to look straight down the pipe while going up. By this time everybody was all over me below and above, but I was happy to see that the ones above didn’t have the turn point yet, so I still had a chance to place well. I ended up winning the final glide giving me another 1000 point day, Josh came 2nd and Rohan 3rd. A lot of happy people arrived in goal shortly after.
7th day. A weather change was happening. It complicated matters even further. The temperature diagram looks bad, showing a max climb to 1000m at the beginning of our flight but slightly improving later, however a blue day, for sure.
I even make a little joke about how bad the day looked like. We settled on a short 90km task to Tomigley, fearing bad conditions if we go any further north. I know it is a “pussy” task but we could only make a decision on the information we had.
Anyway, we got going and the prediction was spot on at the beginning of the task, however it was rapidly improving. I climbed out with Jonny quite well and he made a perfectly good decision by going for a large dust devil. This made it obvious to me that he wanted to go early, but I didn’t follow because I wanted to minimize risk by having people ahead of me, about which I usually don’t care. I was on the lead by ~170 points and I didn’t want to lose yet another Flatlands comp, so I hung back. I almost overdid the waiting game, because I wanted to do a better start, but finally I went with about 5 minutes deficit, but with people in front of me. Thankfully I had Lukas with me, so I wasn’t too worried.
As the task progressed I got closer and closer to the gliders in front. It was very obvious, that it is a very short task, so it was much more than just a matter of finishing, the time had to be good, too. Finally I made goal being quite sure that I had done enough. Rohan took the day by completing the task in 1:11 followed by Josh and Trent. I did 1:15 which was already 100 points less than first place, but the plan wasn’t trying to win the task today anyway.
Fun fact: 350 km to north east in Lake Keepit the Womens World Gliding Championship was going on. The very same day the task setters got it so wrong that everybody from all the 3 classes out landed. The closest pilot was 70kms from home in case someone thinks that task setting is easy!
While I am writing this it is raining outside and my mind still keeps looking down to that perfectly formed dust devil.
7 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, dust devil, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, photo, Rohan Taylor
2020 Forbes Flatlands »
Day 8 results
Øyvind Ellefsen|Attila Bertok|Facebook|Forbes Flatlands 2020|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|photo|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown
Live Tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3171
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2020
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:11:05 | 945 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:14:09 | 870 |
3 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:15:02 | 857 |
4 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 01:15:46 | 846 |
4 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:15:44 | 846 |
6 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:15:52 | 845 |
7 | Vic Hare | Ww T3 144 | 01:16:46 | 832 |
8 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:16:52 | 831 |
9 | Oyvind Ellefsen | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:23:21 | 757 |
10 | Filippo Oppici | Ww T3 144 | 01:26:09 | 729 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3501 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3355 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3215 |
4 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3071 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Ww T3 144 | 3071 |
6 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2975 |
7 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2915 |
8 | Vic Hare | Ww T3 144 | 2716 |
9 | Oyvind Ellefsen | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2604 |
10 | Yasuhiro Noma | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2471 |
Discuss "2020 Forbes Flatlands" at the Oz Report forum link»
9 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, Attila Bertok, Facebook, Forbes Flatlands 2020, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Michael "Zupy" Zupanc, photo, Rohan Taylor, Trent Brown
2020 Forbes Flatlands »
Day 6, Task 3 results
Øyvind Ellefsen|Attila Bertok|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Forbes Flatlands 2020|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Vicki Cain
Vicki Cain writes:
We’re getting ready for task 3 today launch starts a little early at 12:45 you can watch the action live at Flymaster. The Open Class are coming back to the airfield so we will all be at goal with bells and whistles and cold beer and watermelon.
Live Tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3171
Attila, the day winner.
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:24:53 | 1000 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:25:23 | 973 |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:26:28 | 946 |
4 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:26:39 | 944 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Ww T3 144 | 03:30:25 | 914 |
6 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:30:28 | 907 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:30:31 | 902 |
8 | Philippe Michaud | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:31:00 | 895 |
9 | Steve Blackler | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:43:26 | 838 |
10 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:55:32 | 764 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2655 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2485 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2384 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Ww T3 144 | 2342 |
5 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2214 |
6 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2130 |
7 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2069 |
8 | Vic Hare | Ww T3 144 | 1884 |
9 | Oyvind Ellefsen | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1847 |
10 | Lukas Bader | Moyes Rs 4 | 1846 |
Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:
Our pilots had a 157km flat triangle task, mostly with a cross wind and a final short leg with the head wind. The launch was open at 12:45. The towing was rather rough from what pilots said, but this just meant that the weather is great. Our tug pilots are amazing, by the way, towing and saving hang glider pilots in such extreme conditions.
Andrey said he had ceilings of 3000+ meters (~10,000 ft), thermals at times up to 5m/s (1000 fpm, sinks were strong, too), and winds from 8 to 25 km/h. Andrey ended up 41 km short, but time-wise (not distance-wise) he had the longest flight of his life: he was in the air 6 h 23 min. He was fighting hard, having two low-saves from 350 meters and one from 249 meters, which was already at half past six in the sunset light, and it turned into +5m/s.
Aleksei was flying faster but his harness’ zipper broke at some point and, after flying for 70 more km with open harness, he landed on course. Michael decked it after the first turnpoint. Konstantin made it further than the other Russians, but also didn’t make it to goal. Yes, the conditions were challenging!
Fifteen amazing pilots made goal with Attila leading again.
Discuss "2020 Forbes Flatlands" at the Oz Report forum link»
9 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, Attila Bertok, Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya, Facebook, Forbes Flatlands 2020, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Trent Brown, Vicki Cain
2020 Forbes Flatlands »
2020 Forbes Flatlands
Extreme weather
Facebook|Forbes Flatlands 2020|Rohan Taylor|weather
Vicki writes:
The first day of the Forbes Flatlands 2020 has been cancelled due to extreme weather conditions with strong winds and temperatures in the mid 40's. We were able to get some late practice day flights in yesterday when the winds eased late afternoon about 30 pilots braved the heat and flew.
We finalized registration last night before our welcome party at the Vandenberg Hotel. We have 52 pilots from 16 countries, 7 Sport Class pilots and 45 Open Class pilots. A big welcome to the 20 new pilots to Forbes this year.
Rohan Taylor kindly got us started on the local farmers help appeal where we can donate food/clothes/money via Nel's Pantry. Our very generous pilots raised over $800 in a matter of minutes after the briefing. Thank you all so much. We have set up a shopping trolley in head quarters for further donations during the week.
Discuss "2020 Forbes Flatlands" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Facebook, Forbes Flatlands 2020, Rohan Taylor, weather
2019 XC Contest - USA »
2019 XC Contest - USA
A repeat winner
Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Rohan Taylor|XC Contest 2019
Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Rohan Taylor|Sara Weaver|XC Contest 2019
Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Rohan Taylor|Sara Weaver|XC Contest 2019
https://www.xcontest.org/2019/usa/ranking-hg-open/
Davis Straub 1153.11
Kevin Carter 1108.96
Tyson Taylor 769.40
Cory Barnwell 753.79
Mike Bomstad 381.37
Erik Grabowski 306.32
Jon Irlbeck 242.16
Tavo Gutierrez 234.99
Nathan Wreyford 207.35
Sara Weaver 193.14
Leo Siqueira 87.58
Ric Caylor 70.60
Discuss "2019 XC Contest - USA" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Davis Straub, Kevin Carter, Rohan Taylor, XC Contest 2019
2019 Canungra Classic »
2019 Canungra Classic
Friday Results
Canungra Classic 2019|Facebook|photo|Rohan Taylor
Task stopped.
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=276
Task 6:
# | Pilot | Glider | Kms | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 23.42 | 195 |
2 | Robert DeGroot | RX 3.5 pro | 22.73 | 193 |
3 | tony cross | rev | 21.22 | 191 |
4 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 20.43 | 187 |
4 | geoff christophers | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 19.69 | 187 |
6 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 11.99 | 148 |
7 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 pro | 10.53 | 147 |
7 | Craig Taylor | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 10.32 | 147 |
9 | Brodrick Osborne | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 10.31 | 146 |
10 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 9.35 | 123 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven Crosby | Moyes rx 5 pro | 3136 |
2 | Glen Macleod | Moyesrx 3.5 pro | 3099 |
3 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 3077 |
4 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3039 |
5 | Craig Taylor | moyes rx 3.5 pro | 3035 |
6 | Robert DeGroot | Moyes rx 3.5 pro | 3012 |
7 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3004 |
8 | tony cross | Rev | 3001 |
9 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 2980 |
10 | geoff christophers | Moyes rx 3.5 pro | 2909 |
Discuss "2019 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2019, Facebook, photo, Rohan Taylor
2019 Canungra Classic »
2019 Canungra Classic
Thursday Results
Canungra Classic 2019|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Rohan Taylor|Tim Cummings
Jonny out of the hospital.
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=276
Task 5:
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jon Durand | moyes rx 4 pro | 2:08:21 | 967 |
2 | Robert DeGroot | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:43:47 | 808 |
3 | Brodrick Osborne | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:43:49 | 805 |
4 | tony cross | rev | 2:46:00 | 784 |
5 | Craig Taylor | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:59:15 | 714 |
6 | Peter Adriaans | Moyes rx 5 pro | 3:01:45 | 686 |
7 | Richard Martin | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:57:51 | 669 |
8 | Steven Crosby | Moyes 5 rx pro | 3:08:56 | 667 |
9 | geoff christophers | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 3:19:52 | 592 |
10 | Hagen Bruggemann | moyes rx 4pro | 3:43:14 | 537 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven Crosby | Moyes | 2989 |
2 | Glen Macleod | Moyes | 2977 |
3 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 2954 |
4 | Craig Taylor | moyes | 2888 |
5 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2856 |
6 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2852 |
7 | Robert DeGroot | Moyes | 2819 |
8 | tony cross | Moyes | 2810 |
9 | Jon Durand | RX 3.5 PRO | 2785 |
Tim Cummings writes:
Jonny required strong antibiotics for an infection in digestive tract. If it got worse he would need surgery. Anyway he drove straight from hospital to launch, took off after everyone had left and was first into goal.
Later he writes:
Day 7 has just been cancelled due to rain on course and forecast for so much rain tomorrow we have decided to have presentation tonight.
Lots of rain near first turnpoint so day 7 of Canungra Classic was stopped while we were in the air. I turned around and flew back to this big dry paddock with Keith, Peter and Hagan.
6 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2019, Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, photo, Rohan Taylor, Tim Cummings
2019 Canungra Classic »
2019 Canungra Classic
Thursday Results
Canungra Classic 2019|Rohan Taylor
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=276
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Craig Taylor | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:12:31 | 902 |
2 | Brad Porter | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:24:21 | 841 |
3 | Glen Macleod | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:41:26 | 809 |
4 | Robert DeGroot | RX 3.5 pro | 2:43:37 | 794 |
5 | geoff christophers | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:52:23 | 736 |
6 | Peter Burkitt | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2:43:24 | 688 |
7 | tony cross | rev | 3:07:22 | 652 |
8 | Richard Martin | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 2:53:36 | 645 |
8 | Steve Docherty | moyes rx 4pro | 2:53:45 | 645 |
10 | Neale Halsall | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 3:10:50 | 586 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Glen Macleod | Moyes | 2591 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 2552 |
3 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2421 |
4 | Steven Crosby | Moyes | 2349 |
5 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2204 |
6 | geoff christophers | Moyes | 2140 |
7 | Craig Taylor | moyes | 2114 |
8 | tony cross | Moyes | 2046 |
9 | Robert DeGroot | Moyes | 2015 |
10 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes | 1922 |
Discuss "2019 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2019, Rohan Taylor
2019 Canungra Classic »
2019 Canungra Classic
Monday Results
Canungra Classic 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=276
Day Quality = 0.29
Jonny Durand didn't fly.
Task 3:
# | Pilot | Glider | Kms | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 39.24 | 258 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes rx 4 | 38.95 | 257 |
3 | Hagen Bruggemann | moyes rx 4pro | 34.46 | 233 |
4 | abe kemp | Moyes 3.5 pro | 19.85 | 179 |
5 | Robert DeGroot | RX 3.5 pro | 19.29 | 177 |
6 | Craig Taylor | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 12.31 | 145 |
7 | hugh glenn | rx4 moyes | 9.44 | 135 |
8 | Brad Porter | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 7.99 | 126 |
9 | Richard Martin | Moyes 3.5 rx pro | 6.37 | 120 |
9 | Peter Burkitt | Moyes RX 5 | 6.24 | 120 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven Crosby | Moyes | 1914 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 1907 |
3 | Jon Durand | RX 3.5 PRO | 1818 |
4 | Glen Macleod | Moyes | 1782 |
5 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes | 1694 |
6 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1580 |
7 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1559 |
8 | geoff christophers | Moyes | 1404 |
9 | tony cross | Moyes | 1394 |
10 | Robert DeGroot | Moyes | 1221 |
3 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor
2019 Canungra Classic »
2019 Canungra Classic
Sunday Results
Canungra Classic 2019|Rohan Taylor
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=276&tasPk=1187
Task 2:
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2:21:38 | 1000 |
2 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 2:21:57 | 991 |
3 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 2:29:11 | 912 |
4 | Glen Macleod | Moyes 3.5 pro | 2:29:33 | 909 |
5 | tony cross | Moyes 3.5 pro | 2:30:35 | 901 |
6 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2:32:07 | 889 |
7 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes rx 4 | 2:38:34 | 843 |
8 | Jon Durand | Moyes 3.5 pro | 2:42:35 | 818 |
9 | geoff christophers | Moyes 3.5 pro | 2:44:17 | 808 |
Tasks: http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=276
http://xc.highcloud.net/comp_overall.html?comPk=276&tasPk=1187
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jon Durand | RX 3.5 PRO | 1818 |
2 | Glen Macleod | Moyes | 1667 |
3 | Steven Crosby | Moyes | 1656 |
4 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX4 Pro Skylite | 1650 |
5 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes | 1461 |
6 | Brad Porter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1454 |
7 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1439 |
8 | geoff christophers | Moyes | 1293 |
9 | tony cross | Moyes | 1283 |
10 | Craig Taylor | moyes | 1067 |
Discuss "2019 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2019, Rohan Taylor
The big flights in Texas
The big flights in Texas
Four pilots
PG|Rohan Taylor
PG|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor
Rich Reinauer <<richreinauer>> writes:
Four hang glider pilots, one retrieve vehicle. Each of us flew about 200 miles over six hours Sunday, from Cowboy Up Hang Gliding, south of Houston to south of Dallas (my home town). Not one poor bastard had to endure the shame of bombing out and sitting in the car all day chasing the other lucky bastards, as is usually the case. We all won Sunday. Epic conditions. Personal best for Tyson Taylor, I think 208 miles. Previously 186, I believe. Personal best for me, 193 miles / 310 km. Previous PB was 119 last year at Big Spring. Robin Hamilton killed it with a 230 mile flight, and Mick Howard flew 197 miles.
We planned on launching two hours earlier, and ended up wishing we had. The sky looked great at 0930. I didn’t get up until 1230. Two extra hours could have potentially meant another 60 plus miles. At launch, Mick told me to put Caddo Mills airport (just east of Dallas) in as a waypoint. I chuckled like a kid who had seen something really silly. Only a 420 km task? Ludicrous. But, sure, why not? Lol. Never dreamed I’d get even close. I hoped to get 100 miles. Maybe 120 for a new PB if I was lucky.
It was a day of overcoming obstacles. My flight started with discovering a cracked carbon base bar seconds before launch, which had to be removed and replaced. Only 800 bucks. During replacement, I destroyed my pod that holds my primary flight instrument (XC soar). Luckily I fly with a backup instrument, a Digifly, which I have no idea how to use, but it beeps when I go up, so that’s nice. lol. It was missing a Velcro strap, so it was attached precariously at best. No worries.
I launched and got towed right to Mick. Within 30 minutes my microphone had disappeared somehow, and I couldn’t find it, rendering me receive only on the radio. I could hear everyone. For six hours I tried to find it and listened in frustration, not able to communicate that I was receiving them. I had them in sight (occasionally), but could not dispel the rumors that I had landed, or defend myself against all of the slights about my flying abilities, the size of my anatomy, etc. Of course when I took my helmet off after landing, there it was, just like I imagined it was. It was right behind my helmet. Frustrating.
Not as frustrating as when my Digifly (my only instrument keeping me airborne) battery died 90 miles into what would be a 193 mile flight though. Luckily I was in a thermal with Ty at 6500 feet. I somehow managed to stay in the lift while I fished out a spare battery and cable, Velcroed it to my glider and plugged it in. Thankfully it started back up, and I continued. A couple of times I managed to get my tethered phone out to verify I'd clear the airspace at College Station and Waco. It came at a cost though. I was losing the thermal and gliding like crap messing with that, but it worked. So, I guess I need that backup vario after all.
My first thermal with Mick was in zero lift. I pushed out to the next cloud from 2500 ft wondering if I’d deck it. I found it, took it to 4500 cloud base and left for the next cloud. Never saw Mick again.
Each climb was a little higher. The clouds were all working, and only 2.5 miles apart. I was not getting below five thousand feet. It was too easy, unlike yesterday where I fought hard for three hours to make 55 miles. Today was gonna be a good one. I could already tell.
Almost three hours in, and 80 miles down the road, I could hear everyone’s position on the radio. I knew Mick and Ty were very near by, but despite my best efforts, I couldn't get a visual. Robin was just a few miles to my east over Somerville lake. Finally, while thermaling, I could see Ty speeding toward me from below like a bullet. We went on multiple climbs and glides together until the battery fiasco, where he got ahead and I stayed back playing it safe to try to stay high.
I found a banging climb to about 8K a little while later, went on an awesome 10 mile glide at 50:1 and 60 mph ground speed and finally ended up on top of Ty again at Bremond, Tx. I don’t think he ever saw me above him there. I got to cloud base fast and decided to lead out. Looked back at the next thermal and no sign of Ty. I was alone for the last 60 miles.
It got hard after we split up. The clouds were dying and the air was getting very stable and smooth. I went on glide to 2400 feet, thinking this was probably it. Sun getting low, no signs of lift. Finally, at Prarie Hill I found a scrap of inconsistent lift and decided to take my last stand. The thermals were really spread out now, and the chances of another one were slim to none. I was in and out of it, but barely maintaining, even gaining a bit. Each circle I cautiously rolled out for a couple of seconds to the stronger side of the thermal and was rewarded with a better and better climb until it turned into a nice 800 fpm climb to 7200 ft. That was my last climb. I glided for 17 miles to the 193 mile mark and a beautiful landing next to a paved road with the easiest gate for retrieval.
That last glide had me going toward a lake which I could clear, but not by a lot. I was worried about sink over the water. In retrospect, turning away from my downwind heading a bit to avoid it may have taken me out of the lift line and made me avoid a thermal which was probably straight down wind. Maybe the lake could have even triggered a thermal. I’ll never know, but I wish I’d tried that in retrospect.
At the end of the day, it was obviously the most epic flight I’ve ever had and one I’ll remember for a lifetime. I even had a buddy give me a ride to my house in Dallas rather than drive four hours back to Houston with the others. Epic. Lots of life lessons in hang gliding. You’ve got to be in it to win it. Half of being in the right place at the right time is just making the effort to show up. Everyone has a plan till the get punched in the face. Adapt, improvise, overcome. (Semper Fidelis) You’re never out of the fight. (Ooh-rah). Stay positive. Don’t give up. Luck counts. You make your own. Friends are everything. Tiki (Cowboy Up Hang Gliding), Ty, Robin, Mick, Mak all helped me, some in huge ways. Thanks guys.
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/2385513
Discuss "The big flights in Texas" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: PG, Rohan Taylor
Going long in Texas
Going long in Texas
200 miles from Cowboy Up in Wharton to Italy, Texas.
Facebook|Rohan Taylor
Facebook|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor
Robin Hamilton and Tyson Taylor go over 200 miles.
Discuss "Going long in Texas" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Facebook, Rohan Taylor
2019 Spanish Nationals »
2019 Spanish Nationals
Guy Hubbard jumps into the lead at the Spanish Nationals
competition|Facebook|Icaro 2000|Konrad Heilmann|Moura Morrison|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Spanish Nationals 2019|Steve Blenkinsop
https://airtribune.com/42-nacional-ala-delta-zujar-jabalcon/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Konrad Heilmann | BRA | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 57.50 | 672 |
2 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 57.14 | 671 |
3 | Paulo Frade | POR | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 55.93 | 654 |
4 | Alvaro Idigoras molina | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 53.67 | 623 |
5 | Manuel Gomez de Pablos Moya | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 45.85 | 564 |
6 | Domingo (txomin) Gallego Escribano | ESP | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 45.59 | 563 |
7 | Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza | ESP | Aeros Combat C 12.4 | 45.33 | 560 |
7 | David Errea | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 45.35 | 560 |
9 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 45.21 | 559 |
10 | Eduardo Fatou gutierrez | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 43.97 | 539 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 3861 |
2 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3476 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 3409 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 3373 |
5 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 3098 |
6 | Daniel Martin Mota | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3019 |
7 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3012 |
8 | Alan de Moura Morrison | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2924 |
9 | Antonio Jose Leton Carrasco | ESP | Aeros Combat C | 2912 |
10 | Konrad Heilmann | BRA | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 2710 |
The Spanish Nationals web site, https://airtribune.com/42-nacional-ala-delta-zujar-jabalcon/info/details__info, says that Saturday is a competition day, but I also read on Facebook that Friday was the last day. If true that would make Guy the winner overall.
9 topics in this article: competition, Facebook, Icaro 2000, Konrad Heilmann, Moura Morrison, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Taylor, Spanish Nationals 2019, Steve Blenkinsop
2019 Spanish Nationals »
2019 Spanish Nationals
Penalties come, penalties go, without much or any explanation
competition|Konstantin Lukyanov|Moura Morrison|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Spanish Nationals 2019|Steve Blenkinsop
https://airtribune.com/42-nacional-ala-delta-zujar-jabalcon/results
First Rory won the first day, then he got a zero, then he won the day again. It's pretty strange, and lots of penalties on the fourth task.
Task 4:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Konstantin Lukyanov | RUS | Moyes Litespeed RX | 02:59:17 | 110.49 | 939 |
2 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:51:27 | 110.35 | 926 |
3 | Antonio Jose Leton Carrasco | ESP | Aeros Combat C | 03:50:07 | 110.49 | 878 |
4 | Daniel Martin Mota | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 109.08 | 831 | |
5 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 105.54 | 827 | |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 102.18 | 783 | |
7 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 99.83 | 765 | |
8 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 100.51 | 763 | |
9 | David Ferreiro Matos | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 98.20 | 727 | |
10 | Alan de Moura Morrison | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 99.02 | 726 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 894 | 747 | 867 | 765 | 3273 |
2 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 878 | 875 | 686 | 763 | 3202 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 897 | 883 | 527 | 783 | 3090 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 944 | 406 | 879 | 827 | 3056 |
5 | Alan de Moura Morrison | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 548 | 858 | 676 | 726 | 2808 |
6 | Daniel Martin Mota | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 861 | 833 | 218 | 831 | 2743 |
7 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 404 | 1000 | 382 | 926 | 2712 |
8 | Antonio Jose Leton Carrasco | ESP | Aeros Combat C | 422 | 607 | 633 | 878 | 2540 |
9 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 785 | 546 | 580 | 627 | 2538 |
10 | Rory Duncan | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 989 | 428 | 861 | 136 | 2414 |
7 topics in this article: competition, Konstantin Lukyanov, Moura Morrison, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Taylor, Spanish Nationals 2019, Steve Blenkinsop
2019 Spanish Nationals »
2019 Spanish Nationals
Second Task
competition|Konrad Heilmann|Moura Morrison|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Spanish Nationals 2019
https://airtribune.com/42-nacional-ala-delta-zujar-jabalcon/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jose Manuel (juaki) Sanchez Garcia | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 5 Pro | 02:13:10 | 917 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:26:19 | 879 |
3 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Aeros Combat C | 02:29:45 | 867 |
4 | Rory Duncan | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:26:40 | 861 |
5 | Konrad Heilmann | BRA | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:31:16 | 825 |
6 | Inaki Arrizabalaga | ESP | Aeros Combat C | 02:38:20 | 787 |
7 | Yon Bárcena Ortiz de Urbina | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:35:55 | 742 |
8 | Jesus maria Hernando | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:46:11 | 696 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:46:40 | 679 |
10 | Alan de Moura Morrison | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:37:08 | 676 |
A few small penalties for airspace infringements.
6 topics in this article: competition, Konrad Heilmann, Moura Morrison, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Taylor, Spanish Nationals 2019
Aus team in Spain
Aus team in Spain
It's sorta like Australia
competition|Facebook|Konstantin Lukyanov|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
https://airtribune.com/42-nacional-ala-delta-zujar-jabalcon/results
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rory Duncan | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:06:13 | 989 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:07:34 | 944 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:13:42 | 897 |
4 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:08:05 | 894 |
5 | Guy Hubbard | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:15:25 | 878 |
6 | Daniel Martin Mota | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:09:24 | 861 |
7 | Trent Brown | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 02:26:27 | 805 |
8 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 02:31:29 | 785 |
9 | David Errea | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:23:00 | 780 |
10 | Manuel Gomez de Pablos Moya | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro | 02:31:03 | 778 |
Wow, I bet the Spanish pilots aren't real happy about this. It's their Nationals:
42º Nacional Ala Delta Zujar Jabalcon
And it's all in Spanish, which would be a bit of a handicap for Australian pilots.
In little early and a long ways away for the Australian Team to practice for the Worlds (which begin July 13th). I guess they are serious.
I see that our friend, Konstantin Lukyanov, violated airspace and got a 100% penalty. Many others got warnings, including Rory and Rohan, but not Steve.
8 topics in this article: competition, Facebook, Konstantin Lukyanov, Moyes Litespeed RX, photo, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Day 6 and final Results:
Andrey Solomykin|Dalby Big Air 2019|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather
Andrey Solomykin|Dalby Big Air 2019|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather
Andrey Solomykin|Dalby Big Air 2019|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/index.html
Task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:28:24 | 992 |
2 | Glen Mcfarlane | WW T2C 144 | 03:35:04 | 908 |
3 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:38:47 | 876 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:34:51 | 859 |
5 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 03:55:28 | 838 |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:54:53 | 834 |
7 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 04:01:21 | 776 |
8 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 04:13:20 | 770 |
9 | Brodrick Osborne | Moyes RS 4 | 04:05:45 | 760 |
10 | Neale Halsall | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 04:23:36 | 731 |
Task 7:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:32:42 | 939 |
2 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:29:06 | 908 |
3 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:36:25 | 905 |
4 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 01:37:25 | 883 |
5 | Rick Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:37:27 | 873 |
6 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:37:35 | 871 |
7 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:37:42 | 862 |
8 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:38:15 | 854 |
9 | Howard Jones | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:37:40 | 851 |
10 | Mikhail Karmazin | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:38:26 | 839 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 6127 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5780 |
3 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 5772 |
4 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 5160 |
5 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 5111 |
6 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 5101 |
7 | Glen Mcfarlane | WW T2C 144 | 4909 |
8 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 4810 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4664 |
10 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 4428 |
Andrey Solomykin again won the day and all days and was the overall winner in Sport Class.
Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:
Dalby Big Air, day 6. Groundhog Day, as our task committee called it. Sport class had the same task as their previous one - 51 kilometer to Brigalow, almost perfectly in line with the wind. Open class flew the same direction as before but much further - 217 kilometers this time.
The weather was truly fantastic - just look at the photo of the clouds from my retrieve drive. The cloudbase was around 2100 meters MSL and the clouds were easily reachable. The wind was pushing pilots pretty strong (~25 km/h) along the course, but it didn’t affect their take off safety. Thermals were 2-3 m/s on average, but I heard reports of 5-6 m/s even.
Looks like the sport class pilots undercalled their task: many of them had already made goal by 1 pm! They could have flown a much longer task! But at least there were so many happy faces at goal!
Andrey and Hugh (first and second place in the current sport class scoring) were mostly flying together. Their results are very close again, but Andrey managed to be one minute faster. Peter Garrone was first at the goal field and earned the most leading points, but was three minutes slower than Hugh! Four more kingposted guys made goal and Richard Hughes landed in the adjacent field and ended up one kilometer short.
Eleven open class pilots made this long task, and Guy Hubbard was only 180 meters short! Matthew Barlow won the task (for the second time at this comp. Look at their speeds, by the way: nearly 60 km/h. I could see on their Spot trackers page that they were flying really fast today. It was hard to keep up down on the road.
Sport class podium:
Open class podium:
Discuss "2019 Dalby Big Air" at the Oz Report forum link»
8 topics in this article: Andrey Solomykin, Dalby Big Air 2019, Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya, Facebook, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown, weather
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Day 5 Results:
Dalby Big Air 2019|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/index.html
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:59:22 | 957 |
2 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:15:21 | 921 |
3 | Glen Mcfarlane | WW T2C 144 | 03:18:16 | 910 |
4 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 03:09:33 | 904 |
5 | Mikhail Karmazin | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:13:30 | 880 |
6 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:15:16 | 874 |
7 | Shane Mckay | Moyes RS 4 | 03:29:05 | 856 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:44:23 | 790 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4426 |
2 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 4048 |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3977 |
4 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3675 |
5 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3524 |
6 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3508 |
7 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3442 |
8 | Glen Mcfarlane | WW T2C 144 | 3215 |
9 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 3198 |
10 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3161 |
Discuss "2019 Dalby Big Air" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2019, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Launch potatoes
(Zupy|Dalby Big Air 2019|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|photo|Rohan Taylor|weather|Zupanc)
Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:
Dalby Big Air, day 4. An even harder day than yesterday. It started with a pretty strong inversion, so pilots were playing “launch potatoes” and waiting for the weather to improve for quite some time. Open class had a 106 km long Big Dipper shaped task with five turnpoints; sport class had a 51 kilometer straight line task; both tasks to the north-west.
“Kingposted” pilots reported flying over a blue hole area with the thermals all broken between 2300 and 2500 meters. “Topless” pilots reported their furthest leg being under a shaded area with very light thermals and they all experienced cross winds. All this together allowed only five open class pilots to make goal, and the first one was Craig Taylor on his RX3.5. Sport goal was again made by Andrey and Hugh on Geckos, and Andrey was only five minutes faster. Andrey, Hugh and Alastair (currently scored third) are flying together for the last couple days and enjoying it very much.
Special mentions for Peter Garrone who after storming the course with an earlier start landed just 550m short of the goal radius! Keep it up Peter.
Huge thanks to Michael Zupanc for taking me up in the trike, so I could take a few aerial photos of our “launch potatoes."
Michael Karmazin was testing a new instrument prototype, which measures electricity in the air to spot thermals better.
8 topics in this article: (Zupy, Dalby Big Air 2019, Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya, Michael "Zupy" Zupanc, photo, Rohan Taylor, weather, Zupanc)
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Results day 4
Andrey Solomykin|Dalby Big Air 2019|Facebook|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/index.html
Day 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:37:07 | 991 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:40:24 | 963 |
3 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 03:41:07 | 952 |
4 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:43:51 | 939 |
5 | Brodrick Osborne | Moyes RS 4 | 03:44:49 | 933 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3636 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3317 |
3 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3161 |
4 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 3144 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3103 |
6 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3091 |
7 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3027 |
8 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 3002 |
9 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2754 |
10 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes RS 4 | 2525 |
Andrey Solomykin won the day for the fourth time and is in the lead in Sport Class.
Discuss "2019 Dalby Big Air" at the Oz Report forum link»
5 topics in this article: Andrey Solomykin, Dalby Big Air 2019, Facebook, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Results day 3
Andrey Solomykin|Dalby Big Air 2019|Facebook|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/index.html
Day 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:37:27 | 962 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:33:52 | 949 |
3 | Howard Jones | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:39:07 | 933 |
4 | Steve Docherty | 03:52:47 | 893 | |
5 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 04:07:49 | 843 |
6 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 04:06:53 | 821 |
7 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 04:14:43 | 812 |
8 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes RS 4 | 04:50:25 | 742 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2673 |
2 | Steve Docherty | 2577 | |
3 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2490 |
4 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2427 |
5 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2404 |
6 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 2395 |
7 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2088 |
8 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 2050 |
9 | Hagen Bruggemann | Moyes RS 4 | 1996 |
10 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1940 |
Steve Blenkinsop writes:
Tough flying today. Goal with about 8 others. High cloud slowing things down at the end. Feel a bit 2nd hand after a 5 hour slog. Good lift and 9k at times.
Andrey Solomykin was first in Sport Class and leads overall.
Discuss "2019 Dalby Big Air" at the Oz Report forum link»
6 topics in this article: Andrey Solomykin, Dalby Big Air 2019, Facebook, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2019 Dalby Big Air »
2019 Dalby Big Air
Results day 2
Dalby Big Air 2019|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://williamolive.com/comps/dalby/index.html
Day 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 02:03:11 | 887 |
2 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:18:23 | 879 |
3 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:18:44 | 854 |
4 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 02:18:57 | 852 |
5 | Steve Docherty | 02:18:56 | 842 | |
6 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 02:35:14 | 778 |
7 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:34:45 | 747 |
8 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:42:46 | 740 |
9 | Tony Giammichele | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:46:59 | 713 |
10 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:49:27 | 699 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1728 |
2 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1702 |
3 | steve crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 1698 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1672 |
5 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1659 |
6 | Steve Docherty | 1649 | |
7 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1574 |
8 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1548 |
9 | Adam Stevens | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 1515 |
10 | Matthew Barlow | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 1409 |
Discuss "2019 Dalby Big Air" at the Oz Report forum link»
6 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2019, Konrad Heilmann, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2019 Forbes Flatlands »
2019 Forbes Flatlands
The podiums
Attila Bertok|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Vicki Cain
Vicki Cain <<Vicki>> writes:
Keeping the dream alive... Hang gliding competitions in Australia have always had the reputation of the being more than herculean, Forbes Flatlands 2019 held true to that reputation.
This year we were able to set 6 tasks from 8, one of which was stopped because of a storm on course. The 5 completed tasks totalled 853.4 km averaging over 170 km per task! We had lots of pilots in goal most days.
With super consistent flying Jonny Durand took the competition win, his 8th Forbes Flatlands win! Attila Bertok in 2nd and Olav Opsanger in 3rd.
L – R Back Petr Benes, Rohan Taylor, Filippo Oppici, Steve Blenkinsop, Ollie Chitty, Guy Hubbard, Josh Woods
L-R Front: Attila Bertok, Jonny Durand, Olav Opsanger
Our Emma Martin Memorial award went to Yadi Wu from China. Yadi came to the Sport Class competition with only 5 hours airtime and no cross country experience. On her first flight she managed 35 kms and on her 2nd 61 kms!
We had 8 contestants in Sport Class this year with 2 new pilots to Forbes from Indonesia. Bin Duan from China took the win with local pilot Alisdair Bramwell-Davis only 2 points behind, in 2nd place and Peter Garrone another local pilot in 3rd.
L – R Peter Garrone, Bin Duan, Alaisdair Bramwell-Davis
Huge congratulations to all the winners!
Thank you to our major sponsors, Forbes Council, NSWHGPGA and Moyes Delta Gliders and of course Bill and Molly Moyes, you’d have to say our Patrons of the Forbes Flatlands Competition.
To all our crew, I can’t thank you enough. Everyone goes above and beyond, travelling from afar to come to Forbes and to get all the pilots in the air as quickly and as safely as possible. And having as much fun as we can! The camaraderie is amazing!
Thank you to all the pilots coming from all over the world and all over Australia. We hope you had the time of your lives!
Vicki Cain
On behalf of the Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships and the Sydney Hang Gliding Club.
Photos credit to Peak Pictures.
8 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Filippo Oppici, Forbes Flatlands 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, photo, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Vicki Cain
2019 Forbes Flatlands »
2019 Forbes Flatlands
Final results from day 7, task 5
Attila Bertok|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2019
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:15:04 | 922 |
2 | Petr Polach | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:26:42 | 901 |
3 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:17:38 | 896 |
4 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:18:08 | 887 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:20:47 | 847 |
6 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:32:16 | 845 |
7 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:23:01 | 777 |
8 | Lukas Bader | Moyes RS 4 | 03:43:16 | 773 |
9 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:31:11 | 762 |
10 | Tyler Borrdaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:31:14 | 757 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 4547 |
2 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 4480 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4155 |
4 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 4133 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3936 |
6 | Filippo Oppici | WW T2C 144 | 3851 |
7 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3823 |
8 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3821 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3819 |
10 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3797 |
8 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Filippo Oppici, Forbes Flatlands 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Petr Polach, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2019 Forbes Flatlands »
2019 Forbes Flatlands
Results from day 6, task 4
Attila Bertok|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2019
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 04:07:48 | 952 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 04:22:20 | 900 |
3 | Filippo Oppici | WW T2C 144 | 04:10:13 | 893 |
4 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 04:28:29 | 862 |
5 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:29:16 | 833 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:29:14 | 832 |
7 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 04:30:09 | 817 |
8 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:33:45 | 793 |
9 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:39:43 | 769 |
10 | Tyler Borrdaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:39:49 | 765 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3785 |
2 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 3593 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3402 |
4 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3288 |
5 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3235 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3212 |
7 | Filippo Oppici | WW T2C 144 | 3106 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3099 |
9 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3089 |
10 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2925 |
From Petr Polach:
7 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Filippo Oppici, Forbes Flatlands 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Petr Polach, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2019 Forbes Flatlands »
2019 Forbes Flatlands
Results from day 4, task 3
Attila Bertok|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|video
https://www.facebook.com/flymoyes/posts/2371934836211659
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tyler Borrdaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:55:16 | 995 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | WW T2C 144 | 03:55:57 | 972 |
3 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:56:31 | 964 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:57:16 | 955 |
5 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:01:10 | 908 |
6 | Gijs Wanders | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:02:30 | 894 |
7 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 04:03:25 | 892 |
8 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 04:05:29 | 830 |
9 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:20:29 | 791 |
10 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:24:09 | 776 |
11 | Petr Polach | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 04:30:52 | 756 |
Cumulative:
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2885 |
2 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2640 |
3 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2621 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2609 |
5 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2401 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2379 |
7 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2364 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2329 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2233 |
10 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 2231 |
9 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Forbes Flatlands 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Petr Polach, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, video
2019 Forbes Flatlands »
2019 Forbes Flatlands
Results from day 2, task 2
Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:28:37 | 992 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:30:17 | 948 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:31:04 | 927 |
3 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:30:27 | 927 |
5 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:33:06 | 919 |
6 | Lukas Bader | Moyes RS 4 | 03:31:58 | 911 |
7 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:33:05 | 895 |
8 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:33:05 | 891 |
9 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:33:13 | 883 |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:34:22 | 876 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 1930 |
2 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 1810 |
3 | Petr Benes | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 1729 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1701 |
5 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1691 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1636 |
7 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 1627 |
8 | Minoru Kato | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1626 |
9 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1574 |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1573 |
Petr Polách writes:
Task 2, no goal for me. If you pick up all bad luck around, at least do it in one day.
Rory Duncan's VG broke, on the ground, just when the first pilot towed up! So with a great teamwork, with Jonny, Ollie, me and Tyler we helped to repair it. Amazing, it was like a pit stop in formula 1.
After my tow I bombed out, missed cycle and had to refly.
The shadow that came by that time let me down and desperate for thermals, while pilots few km in front had strong climbs, and 9000 ft.
I did my best to race the sun in very narrow, hard to find thermals and landed after all just 15km short to goal.
5 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Forbes Flatlands 2019, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2018 Canungra Classic »
2018 Canungra Classic
Results from task 7
Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Facebook|photo|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather
Day 7 was a rest day.
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104
Task 7:
Point | Type | Size | Dist | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
LBEECH | start | 5000 | 0 | BEECHMONT LAUNCH |
20MARN | waypoint | 1000 | 46.1 | MAROON INTERSECTION |
29LNSR | waypoint | 1000 | 67 | LIONS ROAD |
70LRVL | goal | 1000 | 87.3 | LARAVALE |
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | attila bertok | Moyes Rx 5 Pro | 2:11:03 | 969 |
2 | Jon Durand | Moyes Rx 4 Pro | 2:11:45 | 955 |
3 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2:08:13 | 924 |
4 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 2:21:22 | 864 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2:23:18 | 855 |
6 | Trent Brown | Moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:19:01 | 818 |
7 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX3.5 pro | 2:19:54 | 811 |
8 | Craig Taylor | Moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:22:38 | 785 |
9 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:33:03 | 779 |
10 | Richard Martin | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:33:59 | 774 |
11 | Rory Duncan | Moyes Rx 3 pro | 2:33:51 | 772 |
Day 7 - After overnight storms day 7 was cancelled due to marginally strong wind. After flying every day prior, a decision was made to err on the side of caution and leave it for a big finale tomorrow. Weather looks pumping for an epic finish tomorrow! So come check it out.
At this stage tomorrow looks like a Beechmont start so get yourself up to the Flying Bean Cafe to see the pilots launch! Or in the evening come for a drink at the Canungra Hotel to see who the winners are.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 5582 |
2 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 5519 |
3 | attila bertok | Moyes RX 5 pro | 5327 |
4 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 4963 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4885 |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 4572 |
7 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 pro | 4473 |
8 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 3855 |
9 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 3730 |
10 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 3649 |
Discuss "2018 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
8 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Facebook, photo, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown, weather
2018 Canungra Classic »
2018 Canungra Classic
Results from day 6
Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Facebook|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|photo|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104
Task 6:
Point | Type | Size | Dist | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
LBEECH | start | 400 | 0 | BEECHMONT LAUNCH |
LBEECH | speed | 5000 | 5 | BEECHMONT LAUNCH |
15PALE | waypoint | 1000 | 47.1 | PALEN CREEK GOAL |
13RATH | goal | 2000 | 59.4 | RATHDOWNEY GOAL |
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jon Durand | moyes Rx 4 Pro | 1:21:25 | 997 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1:26:54 | 914 |
3 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 1:27:52 | 906 |
4 | Trent Brown | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 1:30:38 | 875 |
5 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX3.5 pro | 1:40:13 | 804 |
6 | attila bertok | moyes Rx 5 Pro | 1:51:00 | 769 |
7 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 pro | 1:53:34 | 752 |
8 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 2:03:20 | 703 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX3.5 pro | 1:56:23 | 689 |
10 | Steven Crosby | Moyes RX 5 | 2:04:44 | 603 |
11 | Josh Woods | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:14:09 | 549 |
12 | Richard Martin | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 2:45:08 | 502 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 4658 |
2 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 4564 |
3 | attila bertok | Moyes RX 5 pro | 4358 |
4 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 4152 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4030 |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3793 |
7 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 pro | 3701 |
8 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 3295 |
9 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 3037 |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 2990 |
Discuss "2018 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
8 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Facebook, Michael "Zupy" Zupanc, photo, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2018 Canungra Classic »
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 |
7 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Facebook, John Urlich, Jon Durand snr, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2018 Canungra Classic »
2018 Canungra Classic
Results from day 4
Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104
Task 4:
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jon Durand | moyes Rx 4 pro | 3:08:14 | 997 |
2 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 | 3:29:23 | 840 |
3 | Richard Martin | moyes Rx 3.5 | 3:36:52 | 773 |
4 | Tony Cross | rev 13.5 | 3:50:41 | 722 |
5 | Hugh Glenn | moyes geko 155 | 3:40:45 | 717 |
6 | Viv Clements | Laminar | 3:36:47 | 711 |
7 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX3.5 Pro | 3:38:23 | 707 |
8 | Ollver Chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 4:06:35 | 639 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX3.5 | 4:25:25 | 595 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2802 |
2 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 2600 |
3 | attila bertok | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2587 |
4 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 2443 |
5 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2352 |
6 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 pro | 2319 |
7 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 2246 |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2213 |
9 | tony cross | REV 13.5 | 2110 |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 2022 |
Discuss "2018 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2018 Canungra Classic »
2018 Canungra Classic
Results from day 3
Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2018|Facebook|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://xc.highcloud.net/task_overview.html?comPk=249&tasPk=1104
Task 3:
# | Pilot | Glider | Time | Tot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2:06:21 | 843 |
2 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX3.5 pro | 2:24:51 | 784 |
3 | attila bertok | moyes Rx 5 pro | 2:26:41 | 780 |
4 | tony cross | rev 13.5 | 2:26:01 | 747 |
5 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2:47:30 | 702 |
6 | Rory Duncan | moyes Rx 3 pro | 557 | |
7 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 532 | |
8 | Richard Martin | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 479 | |
9 | Josh Woods | moyes Rx 3.5 pro | 421 | |
10 | Trent Brown | moyes Rx 3.5 | 280 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ollver chitty | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2163 |
2 | attila bertok | Moyes RX 5 pro | 2059 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1960 |
4 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1895 |
5 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 1736 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 1606 |
7 | Jon Durand | Moyes rx 4 pro | 1603 |
8 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 1508 |
9 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 pro | 1479 |
10 | Richard Martin | Moyes RX 3.5 pro | 1473 |
Discuss "2018 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
6 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Facebook, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2018 Canungra Classic »
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 |
6 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2018, Jon Durand snr, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
Reminder for XC Bohl
Reminder for XC Bohl
This weekend in Wharton, Texas
Rohan Taylor|video
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Rohan Taylor|video
Tiki writes:
The XC BOHL - Remember Jeff Fly-In is scheduled for this weekend October 6-8.
Some of you cannot make it but wanted a way to be here in spirit. Jeff’s loss still cuts deep for our community. I think it would be great if you could send a video message by text to Cowboy Up (832-740-2004) of yourself saying a few words about Jeff Bohl. We will play them at the evening dinner.
This year’s Honoree is Tyson Taylor for all he has done for Hang Gliding in Houston. If you have a good roasting story or words of praise for Tyson we’d love to get those messages too.
Discuss "Reminder for XC Bohl" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Rohan Taylor, video
Refugio day one
Refugio day one
Cross Country Camp in Texas
Greg Dinauer|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Refugio 2018|Rohan Taylor|video
Gregg Ludwig <<gregg.ludwig.cfi>> writes:
Day one of the Refugio Cross Country camp scheduled for Monday June 25, was rescheduled to Wednesday, the 27th. It’s been dry for several days but last week this area received about 10” of rain so we delayed arrival a couple of days. Lots of mosquitoes which may be a problem that we have to evaluate. Don’t want to land out after a nice flight only to be eaten alive. Hopeful the mosquitoes will not be as active during the afternoon.
Aerotowed between 11 AM and 1 PM.. Everybody got away. Larry Bunner, Greg Dinauer, Tyson, Mick Howard, Nate x2, Rich, and Jonny Durand. Thick mosquitoes all day. Kimberly got hit hard by mosquitoes working the flight line. Southeast winds about 15 mph.
If anyone lands out but nearby the mosquitoes will get them. Mick thinks it will get better further down the course line, mosquitoes that is. Rich popped a weak link when I gave it the gas, he may have been ill advised.
John Durand video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BkixEUYBweP/?igshid=15ghdxnssgkgd&utm_source=fb_www_attr
Larry Bunner writes:
We had a good practice day. Refugio is very wet after the tropical depression from last week. As a result it is mosquito haven at the airport. Copious amounts of chemical are needed just to set up your glider. Just 15 miles to the north it is much drier with little standing water.
We all got off under good streets in moderate south winds 10-15 mph and stuck. Interestingly there were no clouds in Zapata today because of the south winds. Base was initially 2700’ and rose through the day as we headed north to 5400’+ and climbs over 700fpm.
I towed first and had a pleasant connect the dots flight to New Braunfels. Nathan Wreyford wound it down at San Marcos and Tyson Taylor did the same near Bastrop all well over 100 miles.
I’m not sure where Jonny (Gecko) and Mick ended up but they were keen on getting back early to be ready for tomorrow. Robin and Mick are here to fly tomorrow. We expect more wind as the week progresses and better conditions as things dry out.
7 topics in this article: Greg Dinauer, Gregg "Kim" Ludwig, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Larry Bunner, Refugio 2018, Rohan Taylor, video
2018 Dalby Big Air »
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 |
6 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Dalby Big Air 2018, Grant Heaney, Jon Durand snr, Rohan Taylor, Trent Brown
2018 Dalby Big Air »
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 |
4 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Dalby Big Air 2018, Jon Durand snr, Rohan Taylor
2018 Dalby Big Air »
2018 Dalby Big Air
They fix the scoring system
Attila Bertok|Dalby Big Air 2018|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Quest Air|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
Apparently they caught the scoring error from the first day and got rid of the goal arrival position points. So just distance and time used for scoring on this first day. They also used elapsed time instead of a bunch of start gates. I've not seen that before, but have proposed it for our first day of the 2018 Quest Air Nationals. I'll have to ask Jonny Durand exactly why they don't go with the default scoring system on the first day of their competitions.
http://williamolive.com/dalby/2018/comp results.html
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 13:00:00 | 15:11:29 | 02:11:29 | 405.1 | 60.7 | 416.4 | 68.7 | 951 |
2 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 12:45:00 | 15:11:25 | 02:26:25 | 405.1 | 96.2 | 289.6 | 74.4 | 865 |
3 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 12:45:00 | 15:12:06 | 02:27:06 | 405.1 | 104.1 | 285.7 | 58.5 | 853 |
4 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 12:45:00 | 15:12:02 | 02:27:02 | 405.1 | 95.4 | 286.1 | 63.5 | 850 |
5 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5 | 12:45:00 | 15:12:07 | 02:27:07 | 405.1 | 96.0 | 285.7 | 54.0 | 841 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 12:45:00 | 15:12:14 | 02:27:14 | 405.1 | 95.0 | 285.0 | 49.7 | 835 |
7 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 12:45:00 | 15:12:31 | 02:27:31 | 405.1 | 94.5 | 283.4 | 45.8 | 829 |
8 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 13:00:00 | 15:21:32 | 02:21:32 | 405.1 | 50.1 | 319.0 | 38.9 | 813 |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS 4 | 12:45:00 | 15:14:17 | 02:29:17 | 405.1 | 92.3 | 273.8 | 42.2 | 813 |
10 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 13:00:00 | 15:23:09 | 02:23:09 | 405.1 | 48.1 | 308.8 | 26.4 | 788 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 802 | 951 | 1753 |
2 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 854 | 865 | 1719 |
3 | Rory Duncan | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 882 | 788 | 1670 |
4 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 839 | 813 | 1652 |
5 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5 | 804 | 841 | 1645 |
6 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 775 | 850 | 1625 |
7 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 853 | 749 | 1602 |
8 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 759 | 829 | 1588 |
9 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 812 | 755 | 1567 |
10 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS 4 | 739 | 813 | 1552 |
7 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Dalby Big Air 2018, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Quest Air, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2018 Dalby Big Air »
An unusual variation on GAP 2016
Øyvind Ellefsen|Dalby Big Air 2018|Facebook|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|video
Start when you want as there is no start clock, therefore your elapsed time. No leading point, but arrival position points. I've never seen those two used separately. Trent, who starts after everyone who scored in the top ten, gets to use over 50 pilots as thermal markers along a 140 km course. Those pilots in the lead don't get any compensation for providing Trent with this service except goal arrival position points, a mere pittance.
Looks like there was a good breeze and strong conditions with 26 pilots in goal.
http://williamolive.com/dalby/2018/comp results.html
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Dist. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Trent Brown | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 13:23:51 | 16:02:40 | 02:38:49 | 441.2 | 488.9 | 29.3 | 959 |
2 | Rory Duncan | Airborne Rev 13.5 | 12:47:04 | 15:35:10 | 02:48:06 | 441.2 | 387.1 | 58.9 | 887 |
3 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 12:40:02 | 15:31:20 | 02:51:18 | 441.2 | 364.8 | 69.8 | 876 |
4 | Nils Vesk | 12:40:18 | 15:34:09 | 02:53:51 | 441.2 | 348.4 | 64.2 | 854 | |
5 | Glen Mcfarlane | 13:06:13 | 15:57:49 | 02:51:36 | 441.2 | 362.8 | 38.0 | 842 | |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX3.5 | 13:06:22 | 15:58:02 | 02:51:40 | 441.2 | 362.4 | 34.8 | 838 |
7 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 12:46:20 | 15:43:52 | 02:57:32 | 441.2 | 326.4 | 49.4 | 817 |
8 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 13:29:19 | 16:22:52 | 02:53:33 | 441.2 | 350.3 | 17.8 | 809 |
9 | Oyvind Ellefsen | Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 | 12:40:38 | 15:42:00 | 03:01:22 | 441.2 | 304.9 | 54.0 | 800 |
10 | Tony Giammichele | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:11:11 | 16:07:47 | 02:56:36 | 441.2 | 331.8 | 21.4 | 794 |
8 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, Dalby Big Air 2018, Facebook, Moyes Litespeed RX, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown, video
Rohan flies the South Australia Coast
Rohan flies the South Australia Coast
180 km, 6.5 hours
Facebook|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor
Rohan Holtkamp writes:
Finally, did one of my bucket-list flights Tuesday, Bells Beach to Apollo Bay and back. I launched at Bells, flew to Jan Juc then to Apollo Bay and back to Jan Juc. It's a 180km coastal soaring flight that has never done before. A mix of dune soaring, mountain soaring, thermaling, orographic cloud surfing and standing wave lift has to be worked to complete this flight.
https://www.facebook.com/rohan.holtkamp/posts/435664463533812
https://www.facebook.com/rohan.holtkamp/posts/435672476866344
https://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=06NihiOi1m9mXMe3jzcHzK3oNe3ilFt9y
Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and create clouds and, under the right conditions, precipitation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orographic_lift
Discuss "Rohan flies the South Australia Coast" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Facebook, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor
2018 Forbes Flatlands »
2018 Forbes Flatlands
Friday, Task 7 results
Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2018|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results
Task 7:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:32:01 | 990 |
2 | Tyler Borrdaile | CAN | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:38:48 | 910 |
3 | Rory Duncan | AUS | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 03:39:14 | 896 |
4 | Jason Kath | AUS | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 03:45:03 | 870 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | AUS | Moyes RS 4 | 03:44:08 | 864 |
6 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:42:46 | 863 |
7 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:45:11 | 837 |
8 | Trent Brown | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:47:32 | 820 |
9 | Nick Purcell | AUS | Moyes RS 4 | 03:49:38 | 811 |
10 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:49:57 | 810 |
7 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Forbes Flatlands 2018, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2018 Forbes Flatlands »
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 |
8 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Forbes Flatlands 2018, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand snr, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Yoko Isomoto
2018 Forbes Flatlands »
2018 Forbes Flatlands
Monday, Task 3, Results
Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2018|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Yoko Isomoto|Yoko Sano
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results
Jonny doesn't get credit for landing with Niki.
Task 3:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 03:08:44 | 948 |
2 | Tyler Borrdaile | CAN | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:09:41 | 915 |
3 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:10:07 | 906 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:10:52 | 899 |
5 | Nick Purcell | AUS | Moyes RS 4 | 03:11:13 | 891 |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:11:18 | 881 |
7 | Craig Taylor | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:13:07 | 855 |
8 | Gordon Rigg | GBR | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:14:35 | 848 |
9 | Brad Porter | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:13:54 | 847 |
10 | Yoko Sano | JPN | Wills Wing T2C | 03:27:04 | 783 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 1000 | 970 | 948 | 2918 |
2 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 794 | 988 | 906 | 2688 |
3 | Tyler Borrdaile | CAN | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 758 | 887 | 915 | 2560 |
4 | Steve Blenkinsop | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 793 | 808 | 881 | 2482 |
5 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 666 | 879 | 899 | 2444 |
6 | Rory Duncan | AUS | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 776 | 934 | 698 | 2408 |
7 | Gordon Rigg | GBR | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 714 | 817 | 848 | 2379 |
8 | Nils Vesk | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 755 | 735 | 736 | 2226 |
9 | Jason Kath | AUS | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 747 | 569 | 782 | 2098 |
10 | Oliver Chitty | GBR | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 960 | 905 | 133 | 1998 |
10 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Forbes Flatlands 2018, Gordon Rigg, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Yoko Isomoto, Yoko Sano
Rohan goes at least 520 km for the Australian record
Rohan goes 520 km for the Australian record
Big flight in Australia, the flight from Beaufort area to Parkes region.
Facebook|photo|record|Rob Hibberd|Rohan Taylor
Dynamic Flight Hang Gliding School Facebook post
Dynamic Flight Hang Gliding School photos
Rob Hibberd <<RobH>> writes:
The day: Friday 8th Dec 2017 launch 9:30
Launch Site: Ben More, (just over the back of Ben Nevis) Victoria. Google Map of Ben More
Distance: 532.4 kms (to be confirmed)
Take off 9:30 Landed 20:00
Airtime approx 10 hours 19 minutes
He landed 26kms short of his nominated goal which was Milby, NSW which is west of Parkes between Parkes and Lake Cargelligo:
The glider Rohan flew was the Airborne C4 13. He flew with only a VHF radio to get around the airspace.
Sandra his wife drove 1500 kms to make the retrieve navigating around flooded areas. Sandra used a Spot Tracker and arrived before Rohan had packed up. They arrived back home 18:00 the next day!
Rohan a well known comp pilot from earlier days runs Dynamic Flight http://www.dynamicflight.com.au/. A big part of Dynamic these days is making hang gliding harnesses. Rohan also still teaches hang gliding.
Dynamic Flight products:
Scorpion Comp Harness: http://www.dynamicflight.com.au/for-sale/harnesses/scorpion/
Manta Harness: http://www.dynamicflight.com.au/for-sale/harnesses/manta/
Discuss "Rohan goes 520 km for the Australian record" at the Oz Report forum link»
5 topics in this article: Facebook, photo, record, Rob Hibberd, Rohan Taylor
2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic
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.
8 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Jon Durand snr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Nick Purcell, photo, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic
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.
8 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Facebook, Jon Durand snr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown
2017 Canungra Hang Gliding Classic
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 |
6 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Jon Durand snr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
Niki at Refugio
July 23, 2017, 10:57:11 MST -0600
Niki at Refugio
What's wrong with 200 miles?
Niki Longshore|record|Rohan Taylor
Niki writes:
I came to Refugio, Texas with one goal in mind: 300 miles.
Here is what happened:
Day 1: It was not a 300 mile day, so I decided to conserve my energy.
Day 2: I got impatient and charged off for a dying cloud, and landed very quickly. I should have known better, but sometimes I punish myself even though I go against my instincts. I have learned my instincts are usually right! Everyone had great flights, and it was nice to see their smiling faces the next morning. Kelly knocked out his first 100 mile flight and also flew farther than my Gecko flight last year. Ty Taylor flew 185 miles on his kingpost landing in Leakey. Everyone else had stellar flights. Congrats guys!
Day 3: The third day overdeveloped quite quickly in the morning which left the sky all funky. Some tried to get away, but it didn't work out.
Day 4: I was the first to launch at 1010 am. I thought I was in lift, but I wasn't. Cloud base was just at 2,000 feet, so making the right decision quickly was critical. I had a low save at 500 at the north end of the runway. Yep, Texas is awesome, even in the morning. Just about everyone flew 100 miles, but it was exhausting. The southerly winds made a course east of San Antonio airspace more favorable, however the winds and lift aren't as desirable as the hill country. (In Refugio, we need to hop streets almost immediately to the west so we can clear San Antonio airspace and make it to the hill country). Anyway, talk about slow-going! I had decided to land north of Schulenberg at 105 miles after 6 hours. It was not a record day, so saving energy was important.
Day 5: Almost everyone decided to hop west even though the southerly winds would make it a challenge. I was a bit later to launch hoping the winds would shift more SE as forecast, but they didn't. I took off at 11 and had to reflight. It was almost noon by the time I had left on course. I fought like crazy to hop cloud streets, but when I reached the blue hole north of Beeville, I had to follow the clouds north. The southerly winds had picked up which made it even more challenging. I was 50 miles SE from San Antonio on a collision course for airspace if I kept trying to fly west. I decided to land. The hard part was trying to get down. Lift everywhere.
Day 6: The last day. Just do it. Fly as far as possible. The southerly winds were quite strong, so planning a route to Dallas was the best idea. Clouds had formed early, as they always do, but the sky was still pretty dry. I launched around 1030. It was a struggle from the start. I had a hard time connecting with the thermals, and I couldn't make sense of where they were feeding the cloud.
By the time I was able to top out the lift and go to the next cloud, it was dying. This pattern continued to happen for over an hour. I even flew backwards on course to try to get the timing right. The thermals were punchy and not well organized, and I was trying to be patient. I crossed I-10 an hour after everyone else.
Then the tactics came in. Then high cirrus clouds had completely shaded the next 20 miles. I made it through after carefully topping up, picking the right cloud street, and watching the sunshine peek through over certain areas. By this time I had gone 100 miles.
The day was more than halfway over, so 300 miles was out of the question. But, could I still do 200? The winds were good, there were still clouds ahead, and with a bit of encouragement from George, I kept going. Finally, the climbs were nice and relaxing.
Around 5pm the sky started to dry out. I had gotten myself right in front of a blue hole with the streets on either side and too far away. I was concerned the end was near. I couldn't believe I didn't see this coming, but I had to keep going. What do you know… beep beep beep. I looked up and there was a little cloud forming. It didn't last long, but the good news was another one forming ahead. And then another. They were all very short-lived climbs, but it kept me up and kept me bumbling along between 4500' and 5500'. My favorite climb of the day was at 7pm. I found 500 fpm that took me back to cloud base (over 7 grand now). Wow!
When it was time to leave my last climb, it was a very memorable final glide. I looked around and soaked in the beauty of Texas. It didn't matter how far I flew; I was in heaven. I love it here.
I landed at 7:30 after 8.5 hours in the air, and 200 miles away. I'm a happy girl.
Discuss "Niki at Refugio" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Niki Longshore, record, Rohan Taylor
Big Flights from Refugio, Texas
A Texas cross country encampment
Facebook|record|Rohan Taylor|Tiki Mashy
Kelly Myrkle writes:
I woke up this morning feeling pretty good about flying today. The conditions were not going to be epic for this location, but they were predicted to be better than yesterday. The task I set was for Utopia, Texas 255 km/158mi northwest of Refugio, Texas where we are aerotowing. I didn't know if I was going to make it that far, but I needed a waypoint to fly towards to stay on track.
I launched 4th for the day around 11:30-12. I had been told that conditions were a little rowdy getting out of the field, which made me happy because there would be lift around us. I pinned off around 2,000 ft in what I thought was weak lift. Once off tow I realized that what I was in was a bunch of trash that I couldn't do anything with. So I went downwind searching for something to get me up.
I wasn't finding anything and the lower I got the more I thought about relaunching. I know I'm at 1,000 ft trying to make it back to the airport. While gliding to the airport I was trying to judge if I had enough altitude to make it over the fence or I would have to land short and breakdown.
I had a feeling I was going to be short when I felt a little surge and my vario went off. I quickly analyzed the air and made a decision that it was good enough to turn in. I checked my altitude so could verify if I was indeed climbing. I was at 380ft.
Each turn I gained a little and then a little more until I was able to center the thermal. Next thing I know I'm at cloudbase looking at the Texas sky in awe of the all the cloud streets. Up ahead it literally looked like sky highways that would take you any direction you want to go.
In the distance I saw Nate climbing under a nice cloud and decided to head his way. Tyson Taylor joined up with us shortly after and the three of us flew together for a bit. Soon after the three of us all decided to go separate ways and there I was flying alone.
It was slow going for the first 50km/31mi taking me nearly two hours to cover that distance. At 190km/118mi from goal the lift started getting stronger with climbs around 500-600ftpm. I felt like the day was turning on and decided to pick up the pace a bit to make up for the slow flying earlier on.
The next 80km/49mi were pretty much a blur with good climbs and high cloudbase. I was slowly going to the right of course line during the flight to avoid a big blue hole. At one point I found myself 15km/9mi off track. Going too far right would put me into San Antonio airspace, which is not good.
I decided to dive out into the blue hole in hopes of finding a climb that would give me enough altitude to reach the next cloud street. While gliding in the blue hole I watched Mick blaze under the cloud streets I just left.
The blue hole almost decked me, but I managed another low save over some dried corn fields. From that point on I got high and I thought I was going to land multiple times. I managed to make it 228km/141mi landing in a nice field next to a paved road for easy retrieve. New personal best and new distance record for the Gecko. Wow Texas what a place to fly.
Tiki Mashy reported that Tyson Taylor flying a Wills Wing U2 landed in Leaky, Texas, 185miles.
Discuss "Big Flights from Refugio, Texas" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Facebook, record, Rohan Taylor, Tiki Mashy
2017 Midwest, day 5, task 4 »
June 8, 2017, 7:56:05 pm CST -0500
2017 Midwest, day 5, task 4
Many Brazilian pilots here
Bruce Barmakian|cart|Derrick Turner|Fabiano Nahoum|Glen Volk|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Mark Dowsett|Midwest Championships 2017|Mike Degtoff|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Pete Lehmann|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor|Sara Weaver|Steve Rewolinski|Zac Majors
Photo by Mike Degtoff.
The forecast for the day:
NWS forecast: Increasing clouds, with a high near 79. Light west wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Hourly forecast is for a 9 mph west southwest wind
There is a front to our west.
NAM 3 forecast:
1 PM:
Lift: 600 fpm
TOL: 6,000’
Cloudbase: No cu’s
Surface wind: southwest 10 mph
TOL wind: southwest 12 mph
4 PM:
Lift: 300 fpm
TOL: 5,000’
Cloudbase: No cu’s
Surface wind: southwest 11 mph
TOL wind: southwest 15 mph
With the approaching front, cirrus clouds could shut down the lift early.
OP40:
1 PM:
TOL: 5,000’
53 degrees
Southwest wind 7 - 8 mph
No cu’s
Four models show no lift at 5 PM, 2 (RAP 3 and HRRR 3) show good lift then.
The major feature is an approaching front. I have the task committee move the task up an hour so that we can have a better chance of flying before the front gets here. That proves to be an important change.
The cloud from the front are already encroaching upon us as we start launching at 12:20. I get towed up into no lift and only find a little before landing. A few pilots find the lift and a few more land for reflights.
Despite the nearby mid level clouds associated with the front pilots find lift and get up over 6,000'. Niki and I launch again and climb up to 3,000' AGL. Our thermal stops there and I go west to find more lift. Just as I leave the pilots upo wind of us circling low find lift and Niki heads for them Her radio doesn't work so she can't tell me what's up. I land soon. She gets up and goes on to take the second clock.
With the weak lift the pilots who take the second clock are able to quickly catch the pilots who took the first clock twenty minutes before them. Pilots are just working hard to stay up and drift to the northeast toward the turnpoint 39 kilometers away.
Only David Brito Filho is able to make goal at the East Troy airfield.
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | David Brito Filho | Willswing T2Cx 144 | 02:12:20 | 76.15 | 991 |
2 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes Rx5 PRO | 72.73 | 873 | |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 68.42 | 832 | |
4 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | WW T2C144c | 65.99 | 813 | |
5 | Fabiano Nahoum | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 65.00 | 803 | |
6 | Niki Longshore | Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO | 63.60 | 784 | |
7 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 60.53 | 753 | |
8 | Krzysztof Grzyb | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 56.45 | 725 | |
9 | Pete Lehmann | Wills Wing T2-154 | 56.45 | 708 | |
10 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 53.64 | 691 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes Rx5 PRO | 3072 |
2 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | WW T2C144c | 2970 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2933 |
4 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2888 |
5 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 2884 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 2786 |
7 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2721 |
8 | Jonny Durand | Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO | 2670 |
8 | Steve Rewolinski | Icaro Z9 | 2670 |
10 | Krzysztof Grzyb | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2638 |
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing Sport 2 135 | 00:51:17 | 971 |
2 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 00:51:33 | 954 |
3 | Rick Maddy | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:02:03 | 772 |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:03:48 | 751 |
5 | Matt Pruett | WW U2 145 | 01:03:52 | 750 |
6 | Dan Lukaszewicz | Wills Wing U2 | 01:06:06 | 724 |
7 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 01:12:26 | 659 |
8 | Mark Dowsett | Moyes Techno-Gecko | 01:20:33 | 583 |
9 | Greg Sessa | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:21:14 | 577 |
10 | Ty Taylor | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:26:48 | 530 |
11 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 01:47:55 | 377 |
The pilots at the Sport Class goal:
Your editor coming out of the cart:
Photo by Mike Degtoff
Derrick Turner coming out of the cart:
Photo by Mike Degtoff.
20 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, cart, Derrick Turner, Fabiano Nahoum, Glen Volk, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann, Mark Dowsett, Midwest Championships 2017, Mike Degtoff, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Pete Lehmann, Robin Hamilton, Rohan Taylor, Sara Weaver, Steve Rewolinski, Zac Majors
2017 Midwest, day 3, task 2 »
June 6, 2017, 10:32:59 pm CST -0500
2017 Midwest, day 3, task 2
The results
André Wolfe|competition|James Stinnett|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Mark Dowsett|Midwest Championships 2017|Moyes Litespeed RX|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor|Sara Weaver|Steve Rewolinski|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/midwest-2017/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:04:27 | 916 |
2 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:17:56 | 857 |
3 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T2C144 | 02:20:39 | 851 |
4 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 02:20:35 | 850 |
5 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 02:13:44 | 839 |
6 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:20:49 | 827 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 02:14:16 | 822 |
8 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes RX 5 | 02:23:38 | 803 |
9 | JD Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:18:19 | 783 |
10 | Andre Wolf | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 PRO | 02:24:00 | 779 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 1460 |
2 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | WW T2C144c | 1449 |
3 | Steve Rewolinski | Icaro Z9 | 1448 |
4 | Andre Wolf | Moyes litespeed RX 3,5 PRO | 1442 |
5 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 1407 |
6 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 1362 |
7 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1353 |
8 | Jonny Durand | Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO | 1324 |
9 | Ollie Chitty | Moyes Rx5 | 1304 |
10 | Krzysztof Grzyb | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1206 |
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Greg Sessa | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:39:42 | 1000 |
2 | Erik Grabowski | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:40:17 | 978 |
3 | Ty Taylor | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:43:18 | 927 |
4 | Rick Maddy | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:43:39 | 922 |
5 | Ricardo Vassmer | Bautek Fizz | 01:51:05 | 842 |
6 | Mark Dowsett | Moyes Techno-Gecko | 01:55:31 | 803 |
7 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 01:56:17 | 797 |
8 | Charles Cozean | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 02:01:48 | 754 |
9 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing Sport2 155 | 02:07:58 | 710 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Greg Sessa | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1405 |
2 | Mark Dowsett | Moyes Techno-Gecko | 1141 |
3 | Erik Grabowski | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1102 |
4 | Charles Cozean | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 1074 |
5 | Rick Maddy | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1064 |
6 | Ty Taylor | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1045 |
7 | Ricardo Vassmer | Bautek Fizz | 960 |
8 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing Sport2 155 | 937 |
9 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 915 |
10 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing Sport 2 135 | 524 |
No need to register your drone
May 25, 2017, 7:36:08 CST -0500
No need to register your drone
Save $5
Rohan Taylor
The US court of appeals in Washington, DC, ruled today that the Federal Aviation Administration’s rule forcing registration of drones under 55 lbs is unlawful. In the eyes of the court, it seems these are really just model aircraft.
John Taylor, a lawyer and drone hobbyist based in the DC area brought the lawsuit against the FAA. His argument hinged on a clause in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by president Barack Obama in 2012, which in part provided the impetus for the FAA’s recent initiatives to regulate commercial drone operations and create an air-traffic management system for autonomous drones.
Section 336 of that act says that the FAA “may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft,” essentially suggesting that whatever new rules it created couldn’t affect radio-controlled hobby aircraft. This meant that model aircraft were exempt from the FAA’s hobby-drone registration push, a push the FAA maintained even though, ostensibly, a drone controlled by a smart phone or radio controller doesn’t act much differently from a model helicopter controlled by a radio controller. It seems that the appellate court agreed with this logic, and ruled that if model aircraft are exempt from registration regulations, small hobby drones should be as well.
Discuss "No need to register your drone" at the Oz Report forum link»
1 topic in this article: Rohan Taylor
Still a girl - as of Monday at 1:05 PM
May 15, 2017, 1:07:05 pm EST -0400
Still a girl - as of Monday at 1:05 PM
Rohan Taylor
Akiko Suzuki|Chisato Nojiri|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Kathleen Rigg|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Yoko Isomoto
http://eventos.cbvl.esp.br/en/mundial-feminino-de-asa-delta-brasilia-2017#pilots
# | Piloto | País |
1 | KATHLEEN RIGG | GBR - United Kingdom |
2 | CORINNA SCHWIEGERSHAUSEN | DEU - Germany |
3 | CHISATO NOJIRI | JPN - Japan |
4 | YOKO ISOMOTO | JPN - Japan |
5 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | FRA - France |
6 | AKIKO SUZUKI | JPN - Japan |
7 | NIKI LONGSHORE | USA - United States |
8 | ROHAN TAYLOR | AUS - Australia |
And the 2017 Worlds are still for men only.
8 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Chisato Nojiri, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Kathleen Rigg, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Yoko Isomoto
2017 Women's Worlds »
Four pilots, two countries
Akiko Suzuki|Chisato Nojiri|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Kathleen Rigg|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Women's Worlds 2017|Yoko Isomoto
Confusion reigns in Brasilia as the Brazilians can't figure out pilots' gender or intentions. The list of entrants into the women's worlds includes Rohan Taylor, which I'm sure that he is not happy about, as well as three women who are registered for the Worlds, which the Brazilians appear to think are for men only.
http://eventos.cbvl.esp.br/en/mundial-feminino-de-asa-delta-brasilia-2017#pilots
# | Piloto | País |
1 | Kathleen Rigg | Gbr - United Kingdom |
2 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Deu - Germany |
3 | Chisato Nojiri | Jpn - Japan |
4 | Yoko Isomoto | Jpn - Japan |
5 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Fra - France |
6 | Akiko Suzuki | Jpn - Japan |
7 | Niki Longshore | Usa - United States |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Aus - Australia |
So instead of seven pilots from five countries, which is what they thought that they had yesterday when they wrote to me and assumed that they would get an eighth very soon to make the women's worlds valid (did they just throw in Rohan?), they actually have four pilots (three from Japan) and two countries represented.
# | Piloto | País |
1 | Kathleen Rigg | Gbr - United Kingdom |
2 | Chisato Nojiri | Jpn - Japan |
3 | Yoko Isomoto | Jpn - Japan |
4 | Akiko Suzuki | Jpn - Japan |
Discuss "2017 Women's Worlds" at the Oz Report forum link»
9 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Chisato Nojiri, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Kathleen Rigg, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Women's Worlds 2017, Yoko Isomoto
The 2017 Dalby Big Air
April 13, 2017, 11:28:48 EST -0400
The 2017 Dalby Big Air
Day 5, task 3, Scott Barrett wins the day
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/comp results.html
After just missing goal on task 2, Scott wins the day:
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scott Barrett | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:07:26 | 1000 |
2 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 02:14:15 | 910 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX3.5 | 02:14:24 | 908 |
4 | Rory Duncan | Airborne Rev 13.5 | 02:14:50 | 893 |
5 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:15:00 | 880 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 02:15:35 | 876 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 02:14:44 | 814 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:28:22 | 811 |
9 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:28:26 | 799 |
10 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:35:29 | 737 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX3.5 | 863 | 956 | 908 | 2727 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 851 | 920 | 876 | 2647 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 1000 | 764 | 814 | 2578 |
4 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 871 | 664 | 811 | 2346 |
5 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 | 839 | 729 | 737 | 2305 |
5 | Scott Barrett | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 858 | 447 | 1000 | 2305 |
7 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 366 | 943 | 910 | 2219 |
8 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 384 | 920 | 724 | 2028 |
9 | Rory Duncan | Airborne Rev 13.5 | 341 | 732 | 893 | 1966 |
10 | Andrew Barnes | Moyes RX 3.5 | 745 | 680 | 533 | 1958 |
Niki Longshore writes:
One of the many faces of competition. Final glide is always a tense moment and such a frustration when it doesn't work out. Had to stop for a climb 8km out and never got back up.
6 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Steve Blenkinsop
The 2017 Dalby Big Air
April 12, 2017, 8:13:09 EST -0400
The 2017 Dalby Big Air
Many in goal, Niki in early
Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2017/index.html
Task 2, day 4:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time | Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 13:20:00 | 02:23:30 | 61.1 | 428.0 | 76.4 | 954 |
2 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:23:36 | 58.9 | 423.5 | 70.0 | 941 |
3 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:23:59 | 59.9 | 415.1 | 64.0 | 928 |
4 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:24:18 | 59.8 | 410.0 | 58.4 | 917 |
5 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 13:20:00 | 02:24:18 | 59.3 | 410.0 | 58.4 | 916 |
6 | Niki Longshore | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:36:27 | 59.3 | 312.8 | 40.5 | 801 |
7 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:00:00 | 02:48:45 | 107.0 | 248.3 | 48.7 | 793 |
8 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:00:00 | 02:54:32 | 100.9 | 221.8 | 44.4 | 756 |
8 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 13:40:00 | 02:34:51 | 18.6 | 322.5 | 26.2 | 756 |
10 | rob degroot | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:43:36 | 49.3 | 273.6 | 33.8 | 745 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 863 | 954 | 1817 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 851 | 917 | 1768 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 1000 | 756 | 1756 |
4 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes RX 3.5 | 810 | 793 | 1603 |
5 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 | 839 | 721 | 1560 |
6 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C | 871 | 654 | 1525 |
7 | Niki Longshore | Moyes RX PRO 3.5 | 652 | 801 | 1453 |
8 | rob degroot | Moyes RX 3.5 | 680 | 745 | 1425 |
9 | Andrew Barnes | Moyes RX 3.5 | 745 | 670 | 1415 |
10 | Viv Clements | Laminar 14.8 | 733 | 645 | 1378 |
Niki Longshore writes:
Un zigzag day to goal. My personal goal is to be faster. Faster faster faster. It's not a matter of making goal anymore; have to be fast and charge ahead.
I did really well up until TP 3 at Warra where I slowed down. Caught up under the lead gaggle at the last turnpoint, but it wasn't the ticket to stay with them to goal.
Left for goal 25k away at 8 grand ASL in a cross wind under a beautiful cloud. I was trying to catch up to the boys ahead but couldn't. Eventually I had to stop 2km away from goal cylinder to get up because I wasn't going to make it. I put on the conservative brakes (probably too conservative) to ensure I'd make it.
8 topics in this article: Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Konrad Heilmann, Moyes Litespeed RX, Nick Purcell, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
Taking the cart with you
November 1, 2016, 8:43:28 PST -0700
Taking the cart with you
Using your harness zipper line
Facebook|photo|Rohan Taylor
cart|Facebook|photo|Rohan Taylor
Photos here. You can find high resolution versions of them there also.
Discuss "Taking the cart with you" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Facebook, photo, Rohan Taylor
2017 Canungra Classic »
Final results
Canungra Classic 2017|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.au/
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 |
Discuss "2017 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
6 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Facebook, Jon Durand snr, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2017 Canungra Classic »
Canungra Classic 2017|Craig Taylor|Guy Hubbard|Jason Kath|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Josh Woods|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Tony Armstrong
http://highcloud.net/xc/task_result.php?comPk=200&tasPk=909
Task 4:
1 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2:16:05 | 996 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes LiteSpeed RS4 | 2:16:53 | 975 |
3 | Adam Stevens | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:18:44 | 945 |
4 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5.0 | 2:18:44 | 941 |
5 | corinna schwiegershausen | moyes RX 3 | 2:19:01 | 934 |
6 | Glen Macleod | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:21:30 | 911 |
7 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2:25:10 | 900 |
8 | Jon Durand Sr | Moyes LSRX 4 | 2:25:39 | 880 |
Craig Taylor | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:18:52 | 880 | |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:25:09 | 879 |
http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=200
Cumulative:
1 | Jon Durand | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 3572 | 814 | 959 | 983 | 816 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3517 | 768 | 970 | 979 | 800 |
3 | mic jackson | Moyes LS 5 | 3464 | 852 | 856 | 938 | 818 |
4 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3268 | 697 | 962 | 834 | 775 |
5 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX3.5 | 3237 | 688 | 973 | 761 | 815 |
6 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3235 | 798 | 862 | 579 | 996 |
7 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3171 | 738 | 849 | 705 | 879 |
8 | Adam Stevens | Moyes RX3.5 | 3032 | 678 | 754 | 655 | 945 |
9 | Glen Macleod | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2953 | 673 | 873 | 496 | 911 |
10 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2885 | 810 | 858 | 317 | 900 |
http://highcloud.net/xc/task_result.php?comPk=200&tasPk=909
Task 4:
1 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2:16:05 | 996 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes LiteSpeed RS4 | 2:16:53 | 975 |
3 | Adam Stevens | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:18:44 | 945 |
4 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5.0 | 2:18:44 | 941 |
5 | corinna schwiegershausen | moyes RX 3 | 2:19:01 | 934 |
6 | Glen Macleod | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:21:30 | 911 |
7 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2:25:10 | 900 |
8 | Jon Durand Sr | Moyes LSRX 4 | 2:25:39 | 880 |
Craig Taylor | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:18:52 | 880 | |
10 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2:25:09 | 879 |
http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=200
Cumulative:
1 | Jon Durand | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 3572 | 814 | 959 | 983 | 816 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3517 | 768 | 970 | 979 | 800 |
3 | mic jackson | Moyes LS 5 | 3464 | 852 | 856 | 938 | 818 |
4 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3268 | 697 | 962 | 834 | 775 |
5 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX3.5 | 3237 | 688 | 973 | 761 | 815 |
6 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3235 | 798 | 862 | 579 | 996 |
7 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3171 | 738 | 849 | 705 | 879 |
8 | Adam Stevens | Moyes RX3.5 | 3032 | 678 | 754 | 655 | 945 |
9 | Glen Macleod | Moyes LSRX 3.5 | 2953 | 673 | 873 | 496 | 911 |
10 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2885 | 810 | 858 | 317 | 900 |
Discuss "2017 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
9 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Craig Taylor, Guy Hubbard, Jason Kath, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Josh Woods, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Tony Armstrong
Gliding events in Florida and Georgia in 2017 »
Ron Gleason
Ron Gleason «Ron Gleason» sends:
Seniors – Old guys flying around FL after winter hibernation, Seminole Lake Gliderport, 3/11-17/2017, maximum 65 gliders
Grand Prix – Gliders racing around a course, 3 hour tasks, maximum 20 gliders, Seminole Lake Gliderport, 3/19-25/2017
Standard class, 15M and Open Class – Cordelle, GA 6/3 – 14 /2017, maximum 65 gliders
Ron Gleason «Ron Gleason» sends:
Seniors – Old guys flying around FL after winter hibernation, Seminole Lake Gliderport, 3/11-17/2017, maximum 65 gliders
Grand Prix – Gliders racing around a course, 3 hour tasks, maximum 20 gliders, Seminole Lake Gliderport, 3/19-25/2017
Standard class, 15M and Open Class – Cordelle, GA 6/3 – 14 /2017, maximum 65 gliders
Discuss "Gliding events in Florida and Georgia in 2017" at the Oz Report forum link»
1 topic in this article: Ron Gleason
2017 Canungra Classic »
Day 3
Canungra Classic 2017|Nick Purcell|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
https://airtribune.com/canungraclassic/blog__day_3
http://highcloud.net/xc/task_result.php?comPk=200&tasPk=904
Task 2:
Place | Pilot | Glider | Time | Total |
1 | JOSH Woods | Moyes RX3.5 (open) | 1:59:44 | 973 |
2 | STEVE Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 (open) | 1:59:50 | 971 |
3 | GLEN Mcfarlane | WW144 (open) | 1:59:56 | 963 |
4 | JON Durand | Moyes Lsrx 3.5 (open) | 2:00:14 | 959 |
5 | HARRISON Rowntree | Moyes Lsrx 3.5 (open) | 2:00:10 | 958 |
6 | ROD Flockhart | Moyes Lsrx 3.5 (open) | 2:00:26 | 954 |
7 | GAVIN Myers | Moyes RX 5.0 (open) | 2:01:35 | 941 |
8 | GLEN Macleod | Moyes Lsrx 3.5 (open) | 2:06:31 | 873 |
9 | JASON Kath | WW144 (open) | 2:15:02 | 862 |
10 | TONY Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 (open) | 2:15:49 | 858 |
http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=200
Cumulative:
1 | Jon Durand | RX3.5 | 1787 | 828 | 959 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1739 | 768 | 971 |
3 | Mic Jackson | L | 1723 | 866 | 857 |
4 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1676 | 818 | 858 |
5 | Jason Kath | WW144 | 1665 | 803 | 862 |
6 | Glen Mcfarlane | WW144 | 1653 | 690 | 963 |
7 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX3.5 | 1650 | 677 | 973 |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 1641 | 791 | 850 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | RX3.5 | 1588 | 738 | 850 |
10 | Nick Purcell | RS4 | 1559 | 709 | 850 |
Discuss "2017 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, Nick Purcell, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2017 Canungra Classic »
The first days
Canungra Classic 2017|John Smith|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.hgoutlanders.com/canungra-classic-days-2-3/
A 73km task was set taking us to the SW toward the beautiful Mt Lindsey. We then turn around and head back NE to a small country town of Rathdowney.
Takeoff conditions were light but it seemed most pilots were doing a good job of getting off the hill and up into the sky.
Once airborn we saw a NW wind of around 15-20kmph which swung a little more west and dropped off a bit as the day went on. Nearly all the pilots took the first start gate and headed off around 7,000ft towards the Kerry valley.
http://highcloud.net/xc/comp_result.php?comPk=200
1 | John Smith | RX4 | 1000 |
2 | Mic Jackson | L | 866 |
3 | Jon Durand | RX3.5 | 828 |
4 | Tony Armstrong | Litespeed RX 3.5 | 818 |
5 | Jason Kath | WW144 | 803 |
6 | Nils Vesk | RX3.5 | 797 |
7 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 791 |
8 | Tony Giammichele | More RX 3.5 | 773 |
9 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX 3.5 | 768 |
10 | Guy Hubbard | RX3.5 | 738 |
Niki Longshore is leading in the sport class.
Discuss "2017 Canungra Classic" at the Oz Report forum link»
5 topics in this article: Canungra Classic 2017, John Smith, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
2016 Pre-pre-worlds »
Flat and empty half way to goal
2016 Pre-pre-worlds
August 19, 2016, 2:40:02 pm MST -0600
Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Pre-Pre-worlds 2016|Rohan Taylor
Corinna Schwiegershausen writes:
Landed only half way to the 109km goal, but thanks to Nils Vesk and Craig Taylor, I'm quite comfortable with strong wind take offs and landings. It was a howling 30km/h (and maybe in gusts even more where I landed) on launch today, not easy to fly for a light girl, but I'm thankful for great support from my team mates Eduardo Jacintho W Oliveira and Marcelinho. So much to learn here! It just looks like Forbes with more hills, but it isn't quite the same. Still spectacular, beautiful country and lovely people!
4 topics in this article: Corinna Schwiegershausen, Facebook, Pre-Pre-worlds 2016, Rohan Taylor
Texas On Fire
July 19, 2016, 7:47:28 MST -0600
Texas On Fire
Hot there
Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Niki Longshore|Rohan Taylor
Cowboy Up <fly> writes:
It is hot as Hades in Texas and you can bet Texas has been on fire these past weeks. We have been burning up the skies.
Our own Texas hometown Gecko Girl Niki Longshore has been blazing a trail in search of that elusive Moyes Gecko Challenge win, but she had to come back to her grassroots of Texas to win that Challenge, surpassing Jonny Durand's 188km to fly a whooping 210 kilometers. Yes I said whooping!! She did great that day.
Mick Howard flying, yes I'll say it again, a whooping 175 miles (MILES) to land in Palestine, Texas. I'm still hearing the beat.
Our own new guy - Falcon Fella Tyson Taylor (a Cowboy Up student) just flew his longest cross country, 33.5 miles today - and yes, on his Falcon - AMAZING!
You gotta tune into the Cowboy Up Flying Club (League) or the HHPA facebook page and follow these flights.
https://airtribune.com/cowboyupflyingclub/blog
https://www.facebook.com/groups/818952661513536/
If these past weeks are any indication, the flying at the 2016 Big Spring Nationals is going to be freakin' off-the-hook. Texas is on fire.
Discuss "Texas On Fire" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Niki Longshore, Rohan Taylor
2016 Dalby Big Air - last task »
Paris wins, Curt second
Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2016|Facebook|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Paris Williams|Rohan Taylor|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing T2C
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2016/comp results.html
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 01:56:51 | 994 |
2 | Curt Warren | Moyes RX 4 | 01:58:39 | 964 |
3 | John Smith | Moyes Rs 4 | 01:58:47 | 948 |
4 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5 | 01:59:50 | 932 |
5 | Craig Taylor | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:00:18 | 922 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:02:54 | 893 |
7 | Paris Williams | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:03:01 | 890 |
8 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:04:00 | 885 |
9 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:04:25 | 878 |
10 | Chris Lawry | Moyes Lss 4 | 02:09:50 | 838 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Paris Williams | Moyes RX 3.5 | 988 | 829 | 1000 | 796 | 890 | 4503 |
2 | Curt Warren | Moyes RX 4 | 866 | 754 | 819 | 1000 | 964 | 4403 |
3 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 715 | 915 | 777 | 856 | 994 | 4257 |
4 | Gavin Myers | Moyes RX 5 | 864 | 835 | 803 | 785 | 932 | 4219 |
5 | John Smith | Moyes Rs 4 | 727 | 782 | 907 | 837 | 948 | 4201 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 | 658 | 915 | 833 | 751 | 705 | 3862 |
7 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C | 716 | 913 | 865 | 707 | 625 | 3826 |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Rs 4 | 653 | 916 | 754 | 791 | 651 | 3765 |
9 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 | 832 | 898 | 351 | 759 | 893 | 3733 |
10 | Tyler Borrdaile | Wills Wing T2C | 828 | 811 | 818 | 709 | 493 | 3659 |
The women of Dalby including the Flying Fish:
Discuss "2016 Dalby Big Air - last task" at the Oz Report forum link»
11 topics in this article: Curt Warren, Dalby Big Air 2016, Facebook, John Smith, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Konrad Heilmann, Paris Williams, Rohan Taylor, Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan, Tove Heaney, Wills Wing T2C
2016 Dalby Big Air task four
April 15, 2016, 8:51:13 EST -0400
2016 Dalby Big Air task four
Curt wins the day.
Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2016|Facebook|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing T2C
American pilots are dominating the Dalby Big Air (even if they live in New Zealand and Australia).
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Curt Warren | Moyes RX 4 | 01:57:38 | 1000 |
2 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 02:09:33 | 856 |
3 | John Smith | Moyes RS 4 | 02:12:21 | 837 |
4 | Paris Williams | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:08:04 | 795 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS 4 | 02:18:12 | 790 |
6 | Gavin Myers | MoyesRX5 | 02:18:01 | 784 |
7 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:18:39 | 780 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C | 02:19:15 | 779 |
9 | Rory Duncan | Airborne Rev 13.5 | 02:18:28 | 765 |
10 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:20:49 | 758 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Paris Williams | Moyes RX 3.5 | 988 | 829 | 1000 | 795 | 3612 |
2 | Curt Warren | Moyes RX 4 | 866 | 754 | 819 | 1000 | 3439 |
3 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RX 3.5 | 851 | 896 | 849 | 725 | 3321 |
4 | Gavin Myers | MoyesRX5 | 864 | 835 | 803 | 784 | 3286 |
5 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 715 | 915 | 777 | 856 | 3263 |
6 | John Smith | Moyes RS 4 | 727 | 782 | 907 | 837 | 3253 |
7 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C | 716 | 913 | 865 | 706 | 3200 |
8 | Tyler Borrdaile | Wills Wing T2C | 828 | 811 | 818 | 707 | 3164 |
9 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 | 658 | 915 | 833 | 750 | 3156 |
10 | Nick Purcell | Moyes RS 4 | 860 | 753 | 833 | 703 | 3149 |
9 topics in this article: Curt Warren, Dalby Big Air 2016, Facebook, John Smith, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Nick Purcell, Paris Williams, Rohan Taylor, Wills Wing T2C
2016 Dalby Big Air task two
April 12, 2016, 8:25:09 EST -0400
2016 Dalby Big Air task two
The task stopped.
Dalby Big Air 2016|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing T2C
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2016/comp results.html
Wolfgang Seiss.
Day 2 results:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Altitude | Adj. Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS 4 | 37.61 | +1557 | 53.18 | 896 |
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 | 37.99 | +1677 | 53.22 | 896 |
3 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 35.11 | +1890 | 53.34 | 895 |
4 | Vic Hare | Wills Wing T2C | 33.57 | +1982 | 53.29 | 894 |
5 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C | 35.21 | +1853 | 52.96 | 890 |
6 | Sam Prest | Moyes RX 3.5 | 34.44 | +1830 | 52.70 | 885 |
7 | Harrison Rowntree | Moyes RX 3.5 | 33.94 | +1910 | 52.68 | 883 |
8 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 | 38.01 | +1804 | 52.44 | 879 |
8 | Adam Stevens | Moyes RX 3.5 | 34.88 | +1833 | 52.48 | 879 |
10 | Rory Duncan | Airborne Rev 13.5 | 33.24 | +1932 | 52.48 | 878 |
The FS scoring system allows the scorekeeper to calculate about how much further a pilot would have flown after a task is stopped based on their altitude at the time the task was stopped (minus an interval, in this case 15 minutes).
5 topics in this article: Dalby Big Air 2016, Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Rohan Taylor, Wills Wing T2C
A cross country virgin
March 30, 2016, 8:52:58 EST -0400
A cross country virgin
His first time
Facebook|Flytec 4005|Larry Bunner|photo|Rohan Taylor
Tyson Taylor writes in this edited version to the Houston Yahoo Group:
Previously I was the first one to launch and I was a bit too early to make it stick so I definitely didn't want to go first again. Radio check, Jeff K is probably too busy coring a thermal to get on the horn right now. Oh well, time to launch.
Tiki and I had a smooth tow and she dropped me off upwind about a mile south of the airport. But somehow I didn't find what it was that Tiki dropped me off in and I decided to glide upwind a bit more and try the cloud directly to the south. There was nothing! I looked over my shoulder to the north and there is Ted way up at cloud base and I'm starting to panic down at 1700'.
Radio check, nothing. So I did my best glide downwind to Ted's thermal and thankfully it provided me with a lift back up to 2500'. Yet Ted was even higher than I, easily at 3000', but the light SE wind had carried us towards the highway and Ted booked it back to Wharton Regional. Off to the North I catch a glimpse of Jeff K's wing making a turn off, Rich 2 and Jeff B had launched. Radio check, silence. The cirrus clouds had us covered up completely.
At 2500' what was left of Teds' thermal was starting to fizzle out and I glided parallel with the highway going north finding little bumps to keep me afloat. There seemed to be a bit of wind that was smooth at altitude and I was taking stock of the situation.
As a pilot who has only flown in Wharton, TX., thanks to Cowboy Up. I knew that (with the wind the way it was) I was only going to be able to drift a little bit further if I was going to be able to make it back to the airport safely. Safely, what I mean by that, "making it back safely" is not landing in the "no landing zone" that Cowboy Up has. There is a line from the windsocks that is a no landing zone. If you land before it you have to buy a case of beer or land in the adjacent field to the east which is rough and lets just say I don't like that field either.
It was the the line in the sand moment. I glanced back at the airport knowing that I'd be gliding upwind losing a bunch of altitude, and maybe, just maybe find another climb out if I was lucky or there was a gaggle of fifteen or so falcons (the birds, not the Wills Wing single surface hang gliders) downwind perfectly illustrating the presence of a well defined thermal.
Jeff K at this point was no where to be seen, the radio has transformed into extra weight, but, with the promise of lift just a skip away I broke the leash that was Wharton Regional Airport, alone, or at least I thought I was alone.
Right away it felt liberating and I was rewarded with a fantastic thermal of the 200-300fpm variety. The falcons were all over the place! Marking lift all around and we gleefully drifted downwind circling, listening to the vario sing her song.
I have believed for a long time that the birds are very smart creatures with very good memories. It's amazing really and from time to time you see in the news a researcher makes astonishing discoveries about birds and their ability to remember. The way I see it, the birds are always watching us, with their ability to spot a rabbit two miles away, they are watching us easily, specked out up in the clouds, watching how we go about our lives, there is always birds watching us. As I drifted away from Wharton airport, I was met with a full escort of birds. It was as if they knew I was going out of the nest for the first time, and by escort I mean it was as if every bird that I saw flying around my "nest" came out to come visit me on my flight. They wouldn't let me go fly alone, not on my first cross country, it was the warmest welcome I've ever had.
As I topped out with the falcons, our local bald eagles came out to visit me and gave me a solid lead out on some mighty fine thermals. There were three of them mom, dad, and Jr. bald eagles and we glided beautifully downwind together in formation. Never have I been so close to nature at this point, literally eight foot away from a full grown bald eagle and family. We locked eyes.. It was an absolutely incredible feeling, majestic, spiritual. At this point I pretty much morphed into a bird myself and we soared together all the while my vario sang one of my favorite songs, 400fpm.
And just like that, the eagles were nowhere to be seen. More than likely they went way above me, to keep an eye on me. Anyway by this time I am approaching the Colorado River and I set a course over a town where there was either a cloud forming up or dissipating. Surprisingly I hit a nice thermal on glide over a forested area and I went back to make a turn in it. I was at 1800' and was kinda nervous. There were LZ's everywhere and I had to tell myself to just relax and stay focused. So I did and I realized I was getting thrown off because the wind had died down and I had a nice climb up to 2500' again. A buzzard came up to visit me, and we climbed out together.
I decided to head towards better formed cloud and I glided with what was left of my south east breeze. I had a beautiful glide and I was going places and it was neat to see these little towns from my point of view. After a while I began to miss the sound of my vario. I was below 2000' again and I had plenty of options for landing in fields that were way bigger than my "nest" field so I mellowed out.
I kept on gliding, looking out for anything, but I was just sinking out and I did everything I could to block out the LZ blues that was starting to play in my head. Then, I spotted a group of about ten buzzards and a lone falcon. They were doing what I was doing just trying to stay buoyant. Soon enough I was down at their level of 600'. We weren't sinking but we weren't gaining. All of us doing lazy turns in this corner of a field.
It was lore passed down to me that sometimes you have to wait for thermals to trigger. If you find yourself in zero sink, just be patient. So I waited with my mob of buzzards. I was thinking that this must have been a good show for the people living in the trailer across the way. "Hey honey grab me a beer, we got one of these kite dudes bout to land in our yard!" I thought.
Before too long, like tuning the dial on an old am/fm radio, I started to hear my favorite station. My trusty Flytec 4005 vario started to pick up on the pulses of the brand new thermal. A gap opened up in the oppressive cirrus blanket, and the sun shined through to warm up our wings.
Next thing I knew I was banked over as far as I had ever banked and I was wing tip to wing tip with my gang of buzzards. The vario was singing as loud as she had sung for the whole day, 600fpm. My left shoulder was killing me since I tend to favor left turns in thermals for some reason, and I switched to a right turn once I was a bit more up. I relaxed and listened to my favorite jams on my 4005 all the way up to 3000'. It was chilly up there and I was smiling with my gang of buzzards. I went on another tasty glide along with a couple of my buzzard buddies as the gap in the cirrus filled back in.
There I was setting up my approach, still one buzzard stayed with me, and I couldn't believe that this amazing journey was about to come to and end. There was what seemed to be a tailwind on every part of my approach and it just turned out to be no wind at all. I skimmed along the ground half a second too long and missed my flare window and landed on my knees. Oh well, it was kinda disappointing because I had a perfect no wind landing on the Sport 2 155 last week, but that's all I was doing, focused on landing practice.
I just had a remarkable flight that drained me mentally and I waited to the last minute to get my head out of the "thermal game" and on the task at hand, a no wind landing, which is very demanding. After that low save I couldn't give up on the day and thus I paid the price for not being completely on point for my landing.
All I could do was laugh out loud at how incredible the adventure I had just experienced. Michael and Jeff K came and picked me up. Cold beer never tasted so good.
As always, thanks so much to everyone for helping me get to this point in flying. It is very special to me. Thank you thank you thank you know who you are.
Thanks to Larry Bunner.
5 topics in this article: Facebook, Flytec 4005, Larry Bunner, photo, Rohan Taylor
2016 Forbes Flatlands, day 6 »
The results.
Øyvind Ellefsen|Forbes Flatlands 2016|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Phil Schroder|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing T2C
Results here: http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:09:46 | 18:51:20 | 05:41:34 | 1000 |
2 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Rs 4 | 13:07:52 | 18:55:18 | 05:47:26 | 935 |
3 | Michael Jackson | Moyes RX 5 | 13:07:09 | 18:55:47 | 05:48:38 | 926 |
4 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 12:42:20 | 18:35:43 | 05:53:23 | 896 |
5 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:08:14 | 19:03:39 | 05:55:25 | 884 |
6 | Phil Schroder | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:10:09 | 19:05:43 | 05:55:34 | 883 |
7 | Simon Braithwaite | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:08:09 | 19:03:57 | 05:55:48 | 882 |
8 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:07:02 | 19:03:43 | 05:56:41 | 877 |
9 | Yasuhiro Noma | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:50:58 | 19:48:35 | 05:57:37 | 872 |
10 | Gerolf Heinrichs | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:08:10 | 19:06:09 | 05:57:59 | 870 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 | 33 | 1000 | 949 | 1000 | 2982 |
2 | Michael Jackson | Moyes RX 5 | 28 | 909 | 889 | 924 | 2750 |
3 | Simon Braithwaite | Moyes RX 3.5 | 26 | 903 | 816 | 879 | 2624 |
4 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes RX 3.5 | 34 | 840 | 804 | 874 | 2552 |
5 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 18 | 712 | 911 | 882 | 2523 |
6 | Lukas Bader | Moyes Rs 4 | 16 | 801 | 850 | 845 | 2512 |
7 | Fredy Bircher | Moyes RX 3.5 | 25 | 887 | 780 | 747 | 2439 |
8 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16 | 746 | 764 | 843 | 2369 |
9 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX 3.5 | 20 | 759 | 824 | 757 | 2360 |
10 | Len Paton | Moyes RX 4 | 26 | 680 | 755 | 893 | 2354 |
Twenty six in goal. Oyvind 0.19 km short.
7 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, Forbes Flatlands 2016, Gerolf Heinrichs, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Phil Schroder, Rohan Taylor, Wills Wing T2C
2015 Canungra Classic - day 4 »
2015 Canungra Classic
Attila wins the day and takes the lead
Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2015|Corinna Schwiegershausen|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Wills Wing T2C
http://chgc.asn.au.143us.blankserver.com/CanungraClassic.aspx
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Time Points |
Arr. Time Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 01:41:08 | 211.0 | 70.3 | 960 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:51:09 | 157.2 | 49.4 | 886 |
3 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 02:10:59 | 99.7 | 40.9 | 820 |
4 | Craig Taylor | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:08:46 | 105.3 | 23.4 | 808 |
5 | John Smith | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 02:14:45 | 90.5 | 35.1 | 805 |
6 | Jon Durand Jnr | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:22:39 | 72.3 | 11.0 | 762 |
Only six make it to goal.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 2704 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2644 |
3 | Jon Durand Jnr | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2593 |
4 | John Smith | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 2494 |
5 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2412 |
6 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 2397 |
7 | Nils Vesk | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2281 |
8 | Paris Williams | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2224 |
9 | Jason Kath | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2157 |
10 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Moyes Litespeed RX3 | 2126 |
The average distance flown was 35 kilometers. With a nominal distance of 40 kilometers this is still long enough to make the distance validity 100%. Launch validity was 96% given that so many people who didn't fly. Only 45 of the 51 pilots on launch flew, 88%. Nominal launch validity was defaulted at 96%, i.e. if 96% of the pilots launched the launch validity would be 100%. Hang glider pilots have not used this variable before.
Discuss "2015 Canungra Classic - day 4" at the Oz Report forum link»
10 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Canungra Classic 2015, Corinna Schwiegershausen, John Smith, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paris Williams, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Wills Wing T2C
2015 Dalby Big Air - Day 7 »
Dalby Big Air - Day
And the winner is...
(Dalby, Queensland, Australia)
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.
10 topics in this article: Conrad Loten, Dalby Big Air 2015, Facebook, John Smith, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand snr, Konrad Heilmann, Nick Purcell, Phil Schroder, Rohan Taylor
Wing comes off sailplane
Wing comes off sailplane
Pilot bails and lands at hospital
Rohan Taylor|Ron Gleason|sailplane
Ron Gleason <<xcflying>> sends:
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/04/incident-occurred-april-05-2015-in.html
A pilot has suffered just minor injuries, after parachuting from a malfunctioning glider and landing on the roof of a Downtown Reno parking garage Sunday afternoon.
Reno Fire says a man took off from Mammoth, California in his glider earlier on Sunday.
Officials say as he was flying through windy conditions over Reno, when one of his wings snapped off.
The debris landed in Dick Taylor Park.
The pilot then evacuated the glider by parachute, landing on the 5-story parking structure of St. Mary's hospital, near Circus Circus.
Here is a link to live tracking for the Minden flights http://glideport.aero/map?p=GlidePort:472
Discuss "Wing comes off sailplane" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Rohan Taylor, Ron Gleason, sailplane
2015 Forbes Flatlands »
Recent winners
Forbes Flatlands 2015|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/past-results.html
2015 | Australian National Hg Championships | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 |
2014 | Australian National Hg Championships | Paris Williams | Aeros Combat GT |
2013 | 19th FAI World HG Class 1 Championship, Forbes, Australia |
Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro Laminar Z9 |
2012 | FAI HG Pre-World | Rohan Holtkamp | Airborne Rev 13.5 |
In January 2014 Vicki mentioned to me in a joking fashion that she was slightly upset that the Moyes gliders hadn't recently won the Forbes Flatlands.
7 topics in this article: Forbes Flatlands 2015, Manfred Ruhmer, Paris Williams, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
New ATOS distance to goal record
New ATOS distance to goal record
Scott Barrett goes out into the outback, 581 km (361 miles)
record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett
Scott Barrett <<scottbarrettc4>> writes:
Goal:
The task was designed to be a class 5, distance to declared goal of around 570k with start and goal cylinders of 400m, great circle distance is a bit more. Start is a road intersection perhaps 1 k SE of Boort airfield in Central Victoria, the flight goes through NSW and into South Australia.
There were good climbs and a good pace, but the day had many challenges and changes of pace, it was a blue day, but I had to go through the trough that had recently dumped rain along the course, there was water laying on the ground in many places and the high level cloud shaded out sections making some slow going. There were forest crossings, lake systems to negotiate without getting into the thermal shadows of the lakes. I got low once, it was turbulent and it was the first time I had flown in turbulence in a rigid.
I had less than ten hours experience on the VQ and I was impressed with how it felt in turbulence, it did as it was told with light control pressures even if the air got bumpy. I could tell it was turbulent because of the negative g, but the pitch was really stable, damped and felt secure. On this day I had the choice to fly a VQ rigid or an RX flexi. I was very pleased that I did not choose to borrow the Moyes RX which just sat on the car roof for the trip, the RX just doesn’t feel as secure in rough air and it takes a lot more energy out of the pilot.
There are beautiful, sparse remote areas that I overflew, the roads came and went underneath me (very occasionally), but I was just linking the thermals and did not ever follow roads. The later the day got, the more enjoyable it was, I was slowing down and going higher as the lift got more gentle and the ground underneath became more desolate. I flew under more high cloud associated with the trough and patiently drifted along with the “1:1 map” moving underneath me.
Now the dry sand turned into shaded out scrub and grass land. There were hills in the distance, at Broken Hill to my East, the Flinders ranges silhouetted the Western skyline and there were some hills poking out of the Flatland ahead of me. As I made my way up onto final glide, the clouds allowed sunbeams to pass through hitting the floor of the otherwise shaded desert. I made long slow glides. There was lift in the shade and my final glide was improving, I was going to make it in for sure. Up until going onto final glide slope it had been a race against the sun going down, only when reaching final glide did the urgency disappear, already having the feeling of having made it and there is no longer any rush. So when the lift continued to be provided to me, I was happy to circle around and over cook the final, I would go no further than goal, but there was no reason not to just hang out, watch, enjoy.
During the day, I had vowed to stay high and await the thermals to stop, the wind to die down, for a nice landing time and the longer I can just hang out, the better it will get. Goal was intended to be Mooleulooloo airstrip, but when I got there, the coords were past the airstrip, lee side of the first hill I would have to overfly. So I flew into the lee side goal cylinder happy to have the height to fly back to land beside the windsock on the strip. Conditions were gentle and smooth for a beautiful landing.
Mooleulooloo airstrip was carefully chosen, it is on the last sheep station on the last road, it is two wheel drive access and easy to get to, it just takes a lot of drive time, about two hours from Broken Hill. It was physically possible to go further, but the chosen goal is a sensible place to stop, as after that there are no more roads and it would be rather inconvenient. Anyway the aim was achieved; a class 5 world record distance to a declared goal, it extended the record by approximately another 190km and that was enough.
I was advised to delay the retrieve making access the station at night because of the huge numbers of kangaroos on the road and you don't want to take the wrong turn in the dark, otherwise someone would have to look for you. The last phone reception is around 70km away. So I stayed the night and thank the Treloars of Mooleulooloo Station for a shower, bed three good meals, welcoming social company. The next day I was treated to a very interesting tour of the place before my retrieve arrived. Thanks to the Treloars my hosts at goal; all of the team, including tug driver Peter Eicher, dolly runner Marlice Eicher and team mate task setter Rohan Holtkamp. Special thanks to Virpi for a successful five day round trip drive and job well done.
The previous record was 379 km (235 miles) set by Benjamin Herring in Zapata in 2008.
http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=15125
Discuss "New ATOS distance to goal record" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: record, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett
2014 Canungra Classic »
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.
11 topics in this article: 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
Dealing with turbulence
Dealing with turbulence
Birds tuck their wings
Rohan Taylor|video
NY Times article and video.
When an aircraft hits turbulence, bad things can happen. At the very least, passengers may feel an unpleasant lurch in their stomachs.
But soaring birds, however they may feel, seem better able to deal with sudden gusts, said Graham K. Taylor, a mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford.
And the way they do it, he and his colleagues Kate V. Reynolds and Adrian L.R. Thomas have found, is by momentarily pulling in their wings — a maneuver called a wing tuck.
The behavior has long been observed in big soaring birds like eagles and vultures. But the three scientists recently reported in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface that they have documented the maneuver in “a level of detail that’s completely unprecedented” and shown that the tuck is different from regular wing flapping.
Discuss "Dealing with turbulence" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Rohan Taylor, video
Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014
Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014
Last day
Conrad Loten|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wills Wing
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andrew Luton | Airborne Fun 190 | 01:06:52 | 832 |
2 | Conrad Loten | Moyes Malibu 188 | 01:20:55 | 819 |
3 | Nils Vesk | Moyes Malibu 188 | 01:21:05 | 813 |
4 | Micheal Tomlinson | Airborne Fun 190 | 01:26:21 | 766 |
5 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 01:44:38 | 717 |
6 | Bruce Wynne | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 01:27:11 | 711 |
7 | Luke Browne | Moyes Malibu 188 | 01:54:03 | 652 |
8 | Alastair Bramwell-Davies | Wills Wing Falcon | 01:38:28 | 647 |
9 | Chris Rolfe | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 01:48:58 | 614 |
10 | Steve Docherty | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 01:50:38 | 596 |
11 | Gabriel Toniolo | Seedwing Funky 17 | 01:51:15 | 593 |
Final Score:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Andrew Luton | Airborne Fun 190 | 2362 |
2 | Steve Docherty | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 2302 |
3 | Trent Brown | Moyes Malibu 188 | 2071 |
4 | Conrad Loten | Moyes Malibu 188 | 1976 |
5 | Alastair Bramwell-Davies | Wills Wing Falcon | 1702 |
6 | Micheal Tomlinson | Airborne Fun 190 | 1698 |
7 | Nils Vesk | Moyes Malibu 188 | 1586 |
8 | Howard Jones | Northwing Freedom 170 | 1581 |
9 | Bruce Wynne | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 1579 |
10 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Malibu 2 188 | 1550 |
Discuss "Forbes 'Big Spring' Floater Comp October 2014" at the Oz Report forum link»
4 topics in this article: Conrad Loten, Rohan Taylor, Trent Brown, Wills Wing
Jonny's records affirmed
Jonny's records affirmed
Nullabar out and return
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tomas Suchanek
Type of record : Speed over an out-and-return course of 300 km
Course/location : Nullabor National Park (Australia)
Performance : 71.28 km/h
Pilot : Jonny Durand (Australia)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RX 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date :28.01.2014
Previous record : 56.59 km/h (12.02.1998 - Rohan Holtkamp, Australia)
Type of record : Speed over an out-and-return course of 100 km
Course/location : Nullabor National Park (Australia)
Performance : 90.41 km/h
Pilot : Jonny Durand (Australia)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RX 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date :28.01.2014
Previous record : 75.73 km/h (09.01.1998 - Tomas Suchanek, Czech Rep.)
Discuss "Jonny's records affirmed" at the Oz Report forum link»
5 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, record, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Tomas Suchanek
BoneYardies
Gooning in Sydney
Rohan Taylor|video
A nice afternoon with Paulie Maggot having a bit of fun, Dick zooms, Gar works on his ground handling and Rohan does shtylin'.
Discuss "BoneYardies" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Rohan Taylor, video
Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014
Dalby Big Air HG 2014
Curt wins again (after falling down yesterday)
(Dalby, Queensland, Australia)
Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Curt Warren | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 01:57:35 | 985 |
2 | John Smith | Moyes Litespeed S 5 | 01:57:58 | 970 |
3 | Conrad Loten | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:58:01 | 968 |
4 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:02:52 | 885 |
5 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 02:07:34 | 845 |
6 | Grant Heaney | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:11:28 | 813 |
7 | Rod Flockhart | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 02:13:56 | 789 |
8 | Glen Mcfarlane | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:15:39 | 713 |
9 | Dave May | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:15:36 | 705 |
10 | Adam Parer | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:26:00 | 689 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | John Smith | Moyes Litespeed S 5 | 3285 |
2 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3270 |
3 | Conrad Loten | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3220 |
4 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 3192 |
5 | adam stevens | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2974 |
6 | Grant Heaney | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2737 |
7 | Curt Warren | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 2676 |
8 | Len Paton | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 2634 |
9 | Glen Mcfarlane | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2631 |
10 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 2582 |
Blinky at goal:
http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/competitions/dalby-big-air-2014
Discuss "Dalby Big Air HG 2014" at the Oz Report forum link»
7 topics in this article: Adam Parer, Conrad Loten, Curt Warren, Grant Heaney, John Smith, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop
Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014
Dalby Big Air HG 2014
Lenny wins
(Dalby, Queensland, Australia)
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 |
11 topics in this article: 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
Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014
Dalby Big Air HG 2014
Curt wins task 2
(Dalby, Queensland, Australia)
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.
13 topics in this article: 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
2014 New South Wales State Titles »
Finally after essentially no flying, they get a day on the sixth day
New South Wales State Titles 2014
(Mt. Borah, Manilla, Australia)
Facebook page here.
Photo by Dustan.
Carl Wallbank is the only one at goal, with Jonny a few meters short apparently. The day is worth only 368 points and Carl is in the lead. Task was 89.73 km straight north to Bingara.
Day 6, task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Dist. | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carl Wallbank | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 02:48:19 | 89.73 | 368 |
2 | Jon Durand Jnr | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 89.66 | 336 | |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 78.54 | 308 | |
4 | Paul Kelley | Airborne Rev 14.5 | 63.40 | 272 | |
5 | Don Gardner | Moyes LS RS 4 | 14.70 | 168 | |
5 | Bruce Wynne | Moyes LS RX 4 | 14.86 | 168 | |
7 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS4 | 13.73 | 165 | |
8 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX3.5 | 12.58 | 160 | |
9 | Tony Masters | Moyes RX 3 | 11.54 | 156 | |
10 | Rod Flockhart | Moyes RX 3.5 | 11.48 | 155 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Carl Wallbank | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 387 |
2 | Jon Durand Jnr | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 355 |
3 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 326 |
4 | Paul Kelley | Airborne Rev 14.5 | 284 |
5 | Bruce Wynne | Moyes LS RX 4 | 189 |
6 | Don Gardner | Moyes LS RS 4 | 180 |
7 | Rod Flockhart | Moyes RX 3.5 | 179 |
8 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS4 | 177 |
9 | Nils Vesk | Moyes RX3.5 | 172 |
10 | Jerry Furnell | Airborne REV 13.5 | 159 |
10 | Shannon Black | Moyes RS 3.5 | 159 |
10 | Simon West | Sting 3 168 | 159 |
Discuss "2014 New South Wales State Titles" at the Oz Report forum link»
1 topic in this article: New South Wales State Titles 2014
Thanks so much to my Australian friends
Thanks so much to my Australian friends
My trip would not have been possible without them
(Moyes factory in Botany, Australia)
Belinda Boulter|Cameron Tunbridge|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Judy Durand|record|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Vicki Cain|weather
I traveled in December, January and February with the help of many wonderful people. My wife, Belinda stayed home in the US to help care for her mother and step father, so I really needed the support of others. Without their help I wouldn't have been able to come to Australia and fly in the 2014 Australian Nationals/Forbes Flatlands. Here's the list:
Vicki Cain: I stayed with her and Greg for a few days at their house when I first got to Australia. She also appointed me as the unofficial assistant meet director and weatherman for the Forbes Flatlands, and among much else provided a place to stay with good folks (Bruce, Alan, and Bobby) in Forbes. Thanks to Alan and Bruce for help with the bike.
Jonny Durand, Jnr.: He brought me on as the Official Observer for his World Record attempts, which made it so I could come to Australia. Shuttled my gear and bike to Eucla and back to Sydney (1000's of kilometers).
Steve Blenkinsop: Got me another place to stay in Forbes for a couple of days. He shuttled me to the Victorian Alps and rode with me over the mountains then shuttled me to Port Elliot so that I could continue push bike riding south of Adelaide (the first day with him). I also stayed at his house in Adelaide after riding until heading to Eucla. A great riding companion around Adelaide and to the Tour Down Under also.
Scott and Virpi Barrett: They let me stay at their house over Christmas and before I headed back to the US. I store my Australian bicycle there. Scott took me mountain biking (on his best bike) through the Wallarah National Park.
Curt and Louise Warren: I had a lovely stay at their home with their kids Wiley and Gala and got to fly Curt's Moyes Malibu.
Phil Shroder: Steve and I got to stay at his house in Beechmont before the three of us tackled the ride up to Falls Creek.
Paul Kelley: Long time Oz Report reader. Stayed with him when riding on the Fleurieu peninsula.
Cameron Tunbridge : He gave Paris and I a ride to Forbes.
Hadewych Van Kempen: She gave Paris and I a ride from Newcastle to Cameron's house.
Michelle Taylor and Judy Durand: Retrieving me from the outback north of Eucla when I took out a tire and a tube.
Discuss "Thanks so much to my Australian friends" at the Oz Report forum link»
10 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Cameron Tunbridge, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, Judy Durand, record, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Vicki Cain, weather
Jonny, boomeranging
Red Bull releases the announcement of Jonny's world records
(Nullarbor National Park, SA, Australia)
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|photo|record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tomas Suchanek|video
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/21273287/hang-glider-sets-two-records-in-a-day/
FAI announces it also:
100 km out and return record:
Performance: 90.41 km/h
Date: 2014-01-28
Course/Location: Nullarbor National Park (Australia)
Claimant: Jonny Durand Jr (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders Litespeed RX 3.5
300 km out and return record:
Performance: 71.28 km/h
Date: 2014-01-28
Course/Location: Nullarbor National Park (Australia)
Claimant: Jonny Durand Jr (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders Litespeed RX 3.5
Previous 100 km out and return speed record: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=5264
Performance: 75.73 km/h
Date: 1998-01-09
Course/Location: Eucla (Australia)
Claimant Tomas Suchanek (CZE)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders CSX-5
Previous 300 km out and return record: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=5288
Performance: 56.59 km/h
Date: 1998-02-12
Course/Location: Eucla (Australia)
Claimant Rohan Holtkamp (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders CSX-5
The Red Bull story and video here.
Additional video here.
Photos from Red Bull. Photographed by Mark.
Discuss "Jonny, boomeranging" at the Oz Report forum link»
8 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, photo, record, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Tomas Suchanek, video
Two new world records
Two new world records
Jonny goes fast here at the Nullarbor National Park
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|record|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tomas Suchanek
I've been under embargo for a couple of months on this story and I'm still not able to release the whole story until next week, working in conjunction with communications at Red Bull, the sponsors. But I'll be sending in the record claims today to the HGFA and the FAI.
Here's the nub of it:
100 km out and return record:
Performance: 90.41 km/h
Date: 2014-01-28
Course/Location: Nullarbor National Park (Australia)
Claimant: Jonny Durand Jr (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders Litespeed RX 3.5
300 km out and return record:
Performance: 71.28 km/h
Date: 2014-01-28
Course/Location: Nullarbor National Park (Australia)
Claimant: Jonny Durand Jr (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders Litespeed RX 3.5
Previous 100 km out and return speed record: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=5264
Performance: 75.73 km/h
Date: 1998-01-09
Course/Location: Eucla (Australia)
Claimant Tomas Suchanek (CZE)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders CSX-5
Previous 300 km out and return record: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=5288
Performance: 56.59 km/h
Date: 1998-02-12
Course/Location: Eucla (Australia)
Claimant Rohan Holtkamp (AUS)
Hang glider: Moyes Delta Gliders CSX-5
Discuss "Two new world records" at the Oz Report forum link»
6 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, record, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Tomas Suchanek
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 |
21 topics in this article: 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
Forbes Flatlands, Task 5, day 5 »
Wed, Jan 1 2014, 7:05:22 am EST
Forbes Flatlands, Task 5, day 5
Flying under an overcast sky
Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2014|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Paris Williams|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Attila, Lukas, and Glen (with input from Steve Blenkisop) formed the task committee today. After changing their task based on my weather forecast they called a dogleg to Stockinbingal with the turnpoint a thirteen kilometer cylinder centered at Crow:
Unfortunately my forecast included this:
The cyclone in Western Australia sent out a long tail that covered the sky today (with a few minor breaks). It was gray, gray, gray whenever you looked up. But we've flown in Australia in these conditions before and had great soaring.
The wind was out of the north northwest at 13 mph on launch and we were all looking up at the sky which had turned from blue overhead to gray every where within an hour. Some were wondering if it was worth towing up.
I was the second one off in my line and it turned out the lift was a little less than 200 fpm, sometimes more. Jonny launched early got up and went on course early, which you can do under the Oz GAP 2005 scoring system. Steve Blenkisop, and others also went early.
I stayed around with many others and climbed to 6,700' a couple of times before the start window opened at 2 PM. It was nothing but shade down the course line.
A bunch of us left together and spread out to find the lift. It turned out to be quite robust. After a couple of thermals I was happy to lead out and stumbled into 550 fpm. We kept getting higher (and colder) with each thermal getting to 8,100' before Grenfell. We were running into a quartering head wind at eleven mph.
Just before the hills north of Grenfell the highest eight guys took off over the rest of us. I decided it was pointless to go under them in the next thermal as that would just keep me behind and below them. Of course, using them to spot the next thermal is always useful, but I wanted to go out ahead.
I just kept on flying past the lead gaggle trying to get out in the lead (what, are you nuts on a overcast day?) and find the next thermal before they caught on. Unfortunately, things got quite weak not just for me apparently right at this point in the flight.
I found 200 fpm on the hills sides east of Grenfell and that got me high enough to go searching again on my own. It looked quite bleak ahead. No obvious sources of lift.
I went to a small hillside with a line of trees and worked 60 fpm from 1,500' AGL. Moving around I found better, 170 fpm and a drift from the west. After I got up a bit Filippo and Attila joined me and we climbed to 5,200'. I left when it got too weak for me to feel good about staying in the gaggle.
After a thirteen kilometer glide it looked like I was going to be landing. I saw a pilot on the ground by a main road. I noticed that there was a small break on the clouds and there were shadows from the trees on the ground. When I came over the field that the pilot landed in I felt a little bit of lift.
It was only 100 fpm but that got me high enough to get to the 200 fpm thermal a little closer to the turnpoint. I twirling into the turnpoint cylinder and then found 300 fpm as Conrad flew by and out into the shade as the sun had quickly gone away. Climbing to 5,500' I went on glide when the thermal gave out.
It was a thirteen kilometer glide to the ground.
It doesn't look like anyone got close to the goal.
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html
Task 5:
1 | Carl Wallbank | Moyes RX | 111.8 | 900 |
2 | Paris Williams | Aeros Combat GT | 110.2 | 892 |
3 | Michael Bilyk | Moyes RX | 110.1 | 891 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX | 110.0 | 890 |
5 | Anton Struganov | Moyes RX | 108.7 | 878 |
6 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX | 108.5 | 876 |
7 | Adam Stevens | Moyes RX | 108.1 | 871 |
8 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C | 107.6 | 865 |
9 | Lukas Bader | Moyes RS | 107.4 | 861 |
9 | Conrad Loten | Moyes RX | 107.3 | 861 |
11 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX | 107.0 | 855 |
12 | Geoff Robertson | Moyes RX | 104.6 | 809 |
13 | Davis Straub | Moyes RX | 102.8 | 779 |
14 | Jamie Shelden | Wills Wing T2C | 97.2 | 724 |
15 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS | 95.3 | 712 |
16 | Len Paton | Moyes RS | 92.0 | 690 |
16 | Rod Flockhart | Moyes RX | 92.0 | 690 |
18 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX | 90.4 | 675 |
19 | Christian Voiblet | Wills Wing T2C | 88.4 | 657 |
20 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RS | 88.2 | 655 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Michael Bilyk | Moyes RX | 4529 |
2 | Paris Williams | Aeros Combat GT | 4498 |
3 | Lukas Bader | Moyes RS | 4454 |
4 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RX | 4355 |
5 | Adam Stevens | Moyes RX | 4219 |
6 | Steve Blenkinsop | Moyes RX | 4138 |
7 | Glen Mcfarlane | Moyes RX | 4027 |
8 | Trent Brown | Moyes RX | 4015 |
9 | Guy Hubbard | Moyes RS | 3969 |
10 | Conrad Loten | Moyes RX | 3929 |
11 | Anton Struganov | Moyes RX | 3909 |
12 | Yasuhiro Noma | Moyes RX | 3893 |
13 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX | 3810 |
14 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C | 3615 |
15 | Attila Bertok | Moyes RX | 3569 |
16 | Geoff Robertson | Moyes RX | 3445 |
17 | Davis Straub | Moyes RX | 3431 |
18 | Gavin Myers | Moyes LSS | 3113 |
19 | Rohan Taylor | Moyes RS | 3029 |
20 | Christian Voiblet | Wills Wing T2C | 2967 |
15 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Conrad Loten, Davis Straub, Filippo Oppici, Forbes Flatlands 2014, Jamie Shelden, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, Paris Williams, Rohan Taylor, Steve Blenkinsop, Trent Brown, weather, Wills Wing, Wills Wing T2C