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Owen's Records
Owen's Records
In Owen's Valley (little joke there)
Owen Morse|record|Thomas Weissenberger
North American:
Claim number : 19294
Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Category : General
Group : Not applicable
Type of record : Out-and-return distance
Course/location : Bartlett, CA (USA)
Performance : 357,6 km
Pilot : Owen Morse (USA)
Aircraft : T3 / Wills Wing
Date : 20.06.2020
Previous record : no record set yet
Claim number : 19295
Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Category : General
Group : Not applicable
Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Bartlett, CA (USA)
Performance : 357,7 km
Pilot : Owen Morse (USA)
Aircraft : T3 / Wills Wing
Date : 20.06.2020
Previous record : no record set yet
World:
Claim number : 19296
Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Category : General
Group : Not applicable
Type of record : Out-and-return distance
Course/location : Bartlett, CA (USA)
Performance : 357,6 km
Pilot : Owen Morse (USA)
Aircraft : T3 / Wills Wing
Date : 20.06.2020
Previous record : 353 km (03.11.2013 - Thomas Weissenberger, Austria)
Claim number : 19297
Sub-class : O-1 / HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift
Category : General
Group : Not applicable
Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Bartlett, CA (USA)
Performance : 357,7 km
Pilot : Owen Morse (USA)
Aircraft : T3 / Wills Wing
Date : 20.06.2020
Previous record : 339,9 km (27.10.2013 - Thomas Weissenberger, Austria)
3 topics in this article: Owen Morse, record, Thomas Weissenberger
The top ten in the World
The top ten in the World
As of May 5th.
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Quest Air|Steve Blenkinsop|Thomas Weissenberger
9 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Attila Bertok, Christian Ciech, CIVL, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Quest Air, Steve Blenkinsop, Thomas Weissenberger
Who is coming to the 2019 Worlds?
Who is coming to the 2019 Worlds?
112 registered, 125 slots available
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Steve Blenkinsop|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|USHPA
Countries may send up to 10 pilots. 6 pilots are counted for the national teams (https://airtribune-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/contest/files/2019/02/Tyjk2siZBLky.pdf). Registration ends on the 12th.
https://airtribune.com/hg-worlds-2019/pilots
Australia - ten pilots including Jonny Durand and Steve Blenkinsop.
Austria - just two pilots, Manfred Ruhmer and Thomas Weissenberger.
Brazil - three pilots.
Canada - two pilots.
Czech Republic - seven pilots, but not the world champion and world number 1 ranked pilot, Petr Benes.
France - three pilots.
Germany - four pilots.
Hungary - a different Attila.
Italy - twelve pilots, including Suan, Tullio, Christian, Alex, Fillippo, Marco, Davide, and Valentino.
Japan - seven pilots.
Norway - three pilots.
Switzerland - five pilots.
UK - 8 pilots, including Kathleen, Gary. Andrew, Grant, Darren, Gordon, Dave and Malcolm.
S - five pilots, including Zac (only two from the top ten - https://www.ushpa.org/page/ntss-class-1 ).
7 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Manfred Ruhmer, Steve Blenkinsop, Suan Selenati, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni, USHPA
Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias
Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias
And landing with a drogue chute
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Phill Bloom|record|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Phill Bloom <<phillipbloom>> writes:
Kip Stone and I were the American team, with people from nine different countries, they also had a sport class, maybe 50 pilots total. It was great fun, and so nice to travel and rent a glider take your harness only. Tom Weissenberger rented to us both, RX 3.5 for me and RX 4 for Kip. Great gliders vary competitive, mine was like new. Also Jonny Nilssen has a variety of gliders to choose from beginner to intermediate. And a supper nice guy.
It was a relatively safe comp but it was a comp so you never know what you will get. One pilot had a little issue with full VG near the hill and actually flew into the mountain, ended up knocked out for a few minutes but is totally fine and back flying the next day. Also at least 2 other pilots flew under power lines, which seemed a little crazy to me, but looks like it happens quite often.
Everyone was complaining about the conditions (should have been here last week ) sort of thing, but I had a lot of fun getting to fly with top ranked pilots all week.
But the thing that really got me to write this was this. That both Manfred Ruhmer and Thomas Weissenberger were using there drogue chutes on a consistent basis. It totally surprised me, so I questioned them both about it. Manfred said that (every cross country pilot should have one and know how to use it). He was saying practice using it. Thomas said that (he uses the drag shoot about 50% of the time, it makes landings much easier and less stressful). Now just so you know this info is coming from two super talented pilots that have no problems landing a hang glider.
The discussion in the car recorded:
6 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Manfred Ruhmer, Phill Bloom, record, Thomas Weissenberger, video
XXII Open de Canarias
XXII Open de Canarias
Finally, more than a few make goal
Christian Pollet|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Saturday, December 8th
Last task:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:38:01 | 715 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 00:38:37 | 694 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:38:39 | 693 |
4 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 00:36:46 | 633 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 00:48:17 | 599 |
6 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 00:49:06 | 581 |
7 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 00:56:04 | 535 |
8 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | Moyes Litespeed RS 3 | 01:04:25 | 463 |
9 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 01:07:18 | 449 |
10 | Johnny Nilssen | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 01:07:18 | 443 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1852 |
2 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1762 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 1667 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1502 |
5 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 1360 |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 1300 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1218 |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 1162 |
9 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1150 |
10 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 1129 |
7 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
XXII Open de Canarias
XXII Open de Canarias
More tiny flights
Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Friday, December 7th
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:55:29 | 24.00 | 407 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:56:18 | 24.00 | 400 |
3 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 00:53:47 | 24.00 | 358 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 23.92 | 337 | |
5 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 21.49 | 315 | |
6 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 20.45 | 305 | |
7 | Manuel Garcia Garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 20.17 | 292 | |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 18.70 | 275 | |
9 | Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza | Aeros Combat GT 12.4 | 14.72 | 238 | |
10 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14.62 | 237 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1149 |
2 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1037 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 965 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 959 |
5 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 876 |
6 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 793 |
7 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 775 |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 706 |
9 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 689 |
10 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 615 |
8 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
XXII Open de Canarias
Tiny flights
XXII Open de Canarias
December 6, 2018, 7:48:46 pm ESTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Thursday, December 6th
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 17.96 | 154 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 14.87 | 135 |
3 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 17.84 | 130 |
4 | Wolfgang Brunner | Moyes Litespeed RX | 10.06 | 112 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 9.94 | 111 |
6 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 9.66 | 110 |
7 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 9.39 | 108 |
8 | Tormod Helgesen | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 9.03 | 105 |
9 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 8.92 | 104 |
9 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 8.99 | 104 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 3 | 611 | 135 | 749 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 0 | 3 | 585 | 72 | 660 |
3 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 4 | 472 | 154 | 630 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 0 | 3 | 511 | 108 | 622 |
5 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 0 | 0 | 489 | 110 | 599 |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 0 | 3 | 477 | 104 | 584 |
7 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 0 | 3 | 481 | 72 | 556 |
8 | Juan Antonio Molina Vera | AIR Atos VR | 0 | 3 | 368 | 94 | 465 |
9 | Tormod Helgesen | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 0 | 3 | 354 | 105 | 462 |
9 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Christian Pollet, competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
22nd Open de Canarias
Two actual tasks
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
Tuesday, December 4th
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
The 3rd task (actually the second):
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 01:08:08 | 31.90 | 611 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 01:12:27 | 31.90 | 585 |
3 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 31.26 | 511 | |
4 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 30.08 | 489 | |
5 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 29.37 | 481 | |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 29.46 | 477 | |
7 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 27.98 | 472 | |
8 | Juan Antonio Molina Vera | AIR Atos VR | 19.50 | 368 | |
9 | Cyro Lopez | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 19.57 | 367 | |
10 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 18.53 | 356 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 3 | 611 | 614 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 0 | 3 | 585 | 588 |
3 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 0 | 3 | 511 | 514 |
4 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 0 | 0 | 489 | 489 |
5 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 0 | 3 | 481 | 484 |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 0 | 3 | 477 | 480 |
7 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 4 | 472 | 476 |
8 | Juan Antonio Molina Vera | AIR Atos VR | 0 | 3 | 368 | 371 |
9 | Cyro Lopez | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 0 | 3 | 367 | 370 |
10 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 0 | 3 | 356 | 359 |
Discuss "22nd Open de Canarias" at the Oz Report forum link»
8 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Christian Pollet, competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
Austria's Magic Alps
Austria's Magic Alps
Tom's Quest
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
This is the next episode across Austria's Magic Alps and another extreme flying adventure right into the wild part IV.
The idea is based on a list of Austria's ten highest summits like a mountaineers to-do-list but instead of hiking up with high alpine equipment I want to conquer these summits with my high performance hang glider.
Großglockner (1), Wildspitze (2) and now Weißkugel as 3rd highest peak. These super mountains are covered in ice close to 4,000 meters at the main Alpen ridge. Normally you would avoid these obstacles when flying cross country. Here the motto is not far and fast but high and exposed.
The tracklog is found here: https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/10.9.2018/11:02
Discuss "Austria's Magic Alps" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Thomas Weissenberger, video
2018 British Nationals »
2018 British Nationals
Task 4
British Nationals 2018|Flemming Lauridsen|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Icaro 2000|Kathleen Rigg|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
http://www.nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2018-results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wayne Thompson | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 56.81 | 720 |
2 | Igor Zhukovin | Aeros Combat L | 56.55 | 718 |
3 | Manuel Revelli | Icaro Laminar | 54.31 | 698 |
4 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 54.17 | 697 |
5 | Grant Crossingham | Moyer, RX3.5 pro | 54.12 | 696 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000, Laminar 14.1 | 54.18 | 692 |
7 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 53.91 | 691 |
8 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 53.84 | 690 |
9 | Brad Porter | Moyes Rx3 pro | 53.78 | 689 |
10 | Kathleen Rigg | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T | 53.76 | 688 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Grant Crossingham | Moyer, RX3.5 pro | 2873 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 2714 |
3 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 2632 |
4 | Gary Wirdnam | Icaro Laminar | 2534 |
5 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 PRO | 2488 |
6 | Yevgen Bublyk | Aeros Combat GT | 2430 |
7 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2289 |
8 | Evgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat L12 | 2270 |
9 | Valentino Bau | Laminar 14.1 | 2073 |
10 | Flemming Lauridsen | Litespeed S 4,5 | 2037 |
8 topics in this article: British Nationals 2018, Flemming Lauridsen, Gary Wirdnam, Gordon Rigg, Icaro 2000, Kathleen Rigg, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
2018 British Nationals »
2018 British Nationals
Task 2
British Nationals 2018|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
http://www.nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2018-results
http://www.nats.bhgcomps.uk/sites/default/files/Class 1 Task 2.html
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Grant Crossingham | Moyer, RX3.5 pro | 02:24:43 | 1000 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 02:25:35 | 974 |
3 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 02:39:03 | 877 |
4 | Evgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat L12 | 02:51:39 | 814 |
5 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:49:56 | 809 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000, Laminar 14.1 | 02:40:00 | 805 |
7 | Gary Wirdnam | Icaro Laminar | 02:53:50 | 803 |
8 | Yevgen Bublyk | Aeros Combat GT | 02:53:33 | 785 |
9 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 PRO | 02:56:30 | 780 |
10 | Johnny Carr | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 03:09:28 | 724 |
How did Tom manage to get scored with zero leading points?
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Grant Crossingham | Moyer, RX3.5 pro | 1676 |
2 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 PRO | 1408 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000, Laminar 14.1 | 1391 |
4 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 1383 |
5 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes RX5 Pro | 1372 |
6 | Yevgen Bublyk | Aeros Combat GT | 1288 |
7 | Gary Wirdnam | Icaro Laminar | 1278 |
8 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 1227 |
9 | Evgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat L12 | 1224 |
10 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX5 Pro | 1138 |
The third place guy today:
6 topics in this article: British Nationals 2018, Gary Wirdnam, Gordon Rigg, Icaro 2000, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
2018 British Nationals »
2018 British Nationals
Despite a miscalled task
British Nationals 2018|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
http://www.nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2018-results
http://www.nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/task-1
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Grant Crossingham | Moyer, RX3.5 pro | 02:21:15 | 676 |
2 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 PRO | 02:32:20 | 628 |
3 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX5 Pro | 02:32:34 | 626 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000, Laminar 14.1 | 02:38:25 | 586 |
5 | Valentino Bau | Laminar 14.1 | 03:09:12 | 522 |
6 | Manuel Revelli | Icaro Laminar | 03:15:54 | 508 |
7 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 03:17:12 | 506 |
8 | Yevgen Bublyk | Aeros Combat GT | 03:17:23 | 503 |
9 | Gary Wirdnam | Icaro Laminar | 03:40:10 | 475 |
6 topics in this article: British Nationals 2018, Gary Wirdnam, Gordon Rigg, Icaro 2000, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »
I guess they are not flying tomorrow or until next year
Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018
August 13, 2018, 1:24:22 pm CDTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php/it/competitions/classifiche-results
https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_class1.html
https://airtribune.com/hang-gliding-russian-cup-2018/blog
Class 1:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alex Ploner | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 2792 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 2759 |
3 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 2455 |
4 | Karl Reichegger | Icaro Laminar | 2320 |
5 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 C | 2260 |
6 | Evgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat 12.4C | 2196 |
7 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 2014 |
8 | Guenther Pfanzelter | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 1718 |
9 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13 | 1709 |
10 | Valentino Bau | Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 | 1705 |
https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_sport.html
Sport Class:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sergio Conte | Icaro 2000 MasteR | 1994 |
2 | Luca Belli | Icaro 2000 Orbiter | 1782 |
3 | Wierzbowski Pawel | Bautek FIZZ SE | 1283 |
4 | Andrea Fusi | Icaro 2000 Orbiter | 937 |
5 | Fabio Caresi | Icaro 2000 MastR | 896 |
https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_class5.html
Air ATOS class:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Federico Baratto | Air Atos vq race | 2793 |
2 | Daniele Bindi | Air Atos VX | 1840 |
3 | Konrad Baumgartner | Air Atos VQ | 1293 |
4 | Gorio Mandozzi | Air Atos VR | 591 |
Marco Laurenzi coming into goal on the last day. Looks like he got a new glider.
8 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Marco Laurenzi, photo, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni
Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »
Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018
It runs through the 16th, so after two tasks
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php/it/competitions/classifiche-results
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alex Ploner | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 969 | 965 | 1934 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 928 | 977 | 1905 |
3 | Karl Reichegger | Icaro Laminar | 864 | 886 | 1750 |
4 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 856 | 858 | 1714 |
5 | Evgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat 12.4C | 900 | 764 | 1664 |
6 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 C | 845 | 800 | 1645 |
7 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 883 | 545 | 1428 |
8 | Lorenzo De Grandis | Icaro z9 | 542 | 615 | 1157 |
9 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13 | 265 | 861 | 1126 |
10 | Guenther Pfanzelter | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 676 | 433 | 1109 |
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Volo-Libero-Monte-Cucco-295306540593918/
7 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Marco Laurenzi, photo, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni
2018 European Hang Gliding Championships
The last task
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Corinna Schwiegershausen|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Flavio Tebaldi|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Thomas Weissenberger
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
The last task:
1 | Durand Jnr, J | 02:24:24 |
2 | Ciech, C | 02:31:24 |
3 | Vyhnalik, D | 02:32:03 |
4 | Peternel, F | 02:33:40 |
5 | Woods, J | 02:33:44 |
6 | Hubbard, G | 02:33:59 |
7 | Moroder, A | 02:34:07 |
8 | Dönhuber, G | 02:34:08 |
9 | Wallbank, C | 02:34:10 |
10 | Pollet, C | 02:34:12 |
Flavio Tebaldi writes:
After five worlds titles in a row, the Italian hang gliding team wins the fourth European title in a row. The Italian team has won all the category 1 competitions since 2008. Alex Ploner wins his second European Championship, after Kayseri 2012.
http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res
Task 8:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Aus | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:24:23 | 1000 |
2 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 02:31:23 | 898 |
3 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 02:32:02 | 888 |
4 | Franc Peternel | Slo | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:33:40 | 866 |
5 | Gerd Dönhuber | Ger | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:34:08 | 859 |
6 | Anton Moroder | Ita | Laminar | 02:34:06 | 858 |
7 | Guy Hubbard | Aus | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:33:58 | 857 |
8 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:34:09 | 854 |
9 | Anton Struganov | Rus | Moyes RX4 | 02:34:12 | 851 |
10 | Josh Woods | Aus | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:33:43 | 850 |
10 | Christian Pollet | Fra | 02:34:12 | 850 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 6871 |
2 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 6716 |
3 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 6563 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 6388 |
5 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 6208 |
6 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 6107 |
7 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 5956 |
8 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro 2000 Laminar 2018 | 5899 |
9 | Oliver Chitty | Gbr | Moyes RX5 Pro | 5880 |
10 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 5872 |
Team standing remains the same.
Corinna was the top female in 23rd.
Wolfgang Kothgasser was the top rigid wing pilot with Austria the top team.
2018 European Hang Gliding Championships
Grant got his points
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Thomas Weissenberger
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
Two Flymaster trackers quit broadcasting so those pilots weren't scoring originally, but now they have been. Grant Crossingham is now in second place:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 6052 |
2 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5917 |
3 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5714 |
4 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 5683 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 5592 |
6 | Oliver Chitty | Gbr | Moyes RX5 Pro | 5425 |
7 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5354 |
8 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 5209 |
9 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 5117 |
10 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 4984 |
Task for Thursday cancelled due to strong wing and cloud cover. Here is Jörg Bajewski earning a few dollars on a day off so that he can pay for his ride home:
7 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, European Championships 2018, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Icaro 2000, Thomas Weissenberger
2018 European Hang Gliding Championships
Tuesday, a different kind of task
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|PG|Thomas Weissenberger|Yoko Isomoto|Yoko Sano
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
Petr Benes down early. Alex Ploner out in the lead with Tom Weissenberger at 3:30 PM.
Alex out in front landed just before goal after a valiant effort. Tom Weissenberger wisely stayed back in the hills and worked slowly to get high enough to make it in way ahead of everyone else.
Carl Wallbank, and the two Czech's, Petr and Dan, came close to goal together, but Dan found a little something over the field that Carl and Petr landed in, and came in second.
Christian Ciech, after apparently flying a paraglider all day, just hung and hung in nothing getting further and further away from goal as Grant Crossingham, who was earlier with but below Christian, worked back in the hills even further downwind.
Then came four pilots who had been much further behind, Jonny, Corinna, Malcolm and Dave Mathews. Christian down 6.5 km out. Grant down. Dave down. Malcolm down. Jonny down a few feet from goal.
Corinna climbing near goal. Yoko climbing three kilometers further back. Corinna third into goal. Yoko lands near Jonny.
Petr Polách writes:
One of the worst conditions I have ever flown in. For the first time I am gonna fill in the task report with negative attitude. And I am not gonna fly in similar condition again.
At several places I had severe problems to keep the wing barely level. I couldn't even control my speed properly. It's only luck nobody got hurt. Peeople climbing severely, then falling five meters down in the gaggles. I only used full VG few times.
Can anyone explain how Thomas Weissenberger did the task so quickly?
So final thought: I like to push myself, but this was even beyond my personal limits.
1 | Weissenberger, T | 02:48:23 |
2 | Vyhnalik, D | 03:04:21 |
3 | Schwiegershausen, C | 03:37:11 |
http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res
Task 7:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 02:48:22 | 888 |
2 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 03:04:20 | 839 |
3 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Ger | Moyes RX 3 | 03:37:11 | 796 |
4 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Aus | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 763 | |
5 | Christian Preininger | Aut | Moyes Litespeed S3,5 | 756 | |
6 | Yoko Sano | Jpn | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 755 | |
7 | Petr Polách | Cze | Aeros Combat 13,5 GT | 750 | |
8 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 748 | |
9 | Malcolm Brown | Gbr | Wills Wing T2C | 746 | |
10 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 745 |
Two pilots are missing from this scoring, Grant Crossingham and Alexander Barvinskiy, both of whom were near goal. Since the scoring is being done mostly through the use of Flymaster trackers, there appears to be some issue with GPS coordinates. These lack of published results also affect the other standings.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 7 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 745 | 6045 |
2 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 641 | 5715 |
3 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 462 | 5688 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 683 | 5588 |
5 | Oliver Chitty | Gbr | Moyes RX5 Pro | 651 | 5425 |
6 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 748 | 5349 |
7 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 0 | 5229 |
8 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 710 | 5203 |
9 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 888 | 5095 |
10 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 839 | 4967 |
The team standings remain the same.
Nine rigid wing pilots in goal. Austria barely leads Germany in the rigid wing team standings, Wolfgang Kothgasser is the overall leader after winning the seventh task, and four out of seven tasks.
11 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, Corinna Schwiegershausen, European Championships 2018, Filippo Oppici, Icaro 2000, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, PG, Thomas Weissenberger, Yoko Isomoto, Yoko Sano
2018 European Hang Gliding Championships
Sunday, not a rest day
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|video
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
1 | GRICAR, P | 03:43:03 |
2 | JNR, Jonny | 03:35:42 |
3 | WEISSENBERGER, T | 03:56:09 |
4 | Benes, P | 03:56:12 |
5 | CROSSINGHAM, G | 03:56:28 |
6 | DöNHUBER, G | 03:56:58 |
7 | PLONER, A | 03:57:06 |
8 | CIECH, C | 03:57:07 |
9 | UJHELYI, B | 03:57:10 |
10 | GARCIA, P | 03:57:41 |
11 | OPPICI, F | 03:58:08 |
12 | PETERNEL, F | 03:58:19 |
13 | GERVASONI, T | 03:59:03 |
Primoz got out in front before the last turnpoint and found better lift a few kilometers in front of the main gaggle. Twenty seven in goal.
http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res
Task 6 (Jonny took the second clock 25 minutes later):
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Primoz Gricar | Ger | Aeros Combat GT 13.5 | 03:43:02 | 942 |
2 | Jonny Durand Jnr | Aus | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:35:41 | 928 |
3 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 03:56:11 | 879 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 03:56:08 | 878 |
5 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:56:27 | 874 |
6 | Gerd Dönhuber | Ger | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:56:57 | 861 |
7 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 03:57:06 | 860 |
8 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 03:57:06 | 859 |
9 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:57:09 | 852 |
10 | Pedro L. garcia | Usa | T2C 144 | 03:57:40 | 848 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 5298 |
2 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5228 |
3 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 5225 |
4 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 5072 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4904 |
6 | Oliver Chitty | Gbr | Moyes RX5 Pro | 4773 |
7 | Arne Tänzer | Ned | Icaro 2000 - Laminar | 4758 |
8 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4597 |
9 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Laminar Icaro 2000 | 4491 |
10 | Gerd Dönhuber | Ger | Moyes RX 3.5 | 4468 |
Italians in first place 500 points ahead of the Czech team with the Brits still in third.
There is a report of a tumble today. Initially thought to be Marco Laurenzi on the Italian team. Results show him getting only 18.33 km. I could not get the Flymaster Live Tracking web site to playback Marco's flight.
Jonny at goal: https://www.facebook.com/Maverick1186/videos/10156492642984450/
12 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, European Championships 2018, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Icaro 2000, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Primoz Gricar, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni, video
2018 European Hang Gliding Championships
Thursday, day 3 results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Thomas Weissenberger
Results: http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res
A tie for first place.
Task 3:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 04:28:14 | 990 |
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 04:28:32 | 990 |
3 | Arne Tänzer | Ned | Icaro 2000 - Laminar | 04:28:35 | 971 |
4 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 04:28:43 | 962 |
5 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:29:24 | 960 |
6 | Carl Wallbank | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:29:31 | 954 |
7 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 04:29:33 | 951 |
8 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 04:29:34 | 948 |
9 | Jochen Zeischka | Bel | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 04:29:46 | 946 |
10 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 04:29:47 | 943 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Petr Benes | Cze | Aeros Combat | 2856 |
2 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 2716 |
3 | Oliver Chitty | Gbr | Moyes RX5 Pro | 2672 |
4 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hun | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2671 |
5 | Grant Crossingham | Gbr | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2625 |
6 | Arne Tänzer | Ned | Icaro 2000 - Laminar | 2623 |
7 | Alessandro Ploner | Ita | Icaro Laminar 2018 | 2618 |
8 | Jochen Zeischka | Bel | Moyes RX 5 Pro | 2534 |
9 | Vlastimil Bartas | Cze | 2510 | |
10 | Filippo Oppici | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2502 |
The Czech team continues to lead. Italy is second. Christian went down early
4 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, European Championships 2018, Filippo Oppici, Thomas Weissenberger
Manfred at Lanzarote
Manfred at Lanzarote
Not so Swift
Christian Pollet|competition|Facebook|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger|video
https://airtribune.com/xxi-open-de-canarias/results/task2994/comp/clase1
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | AUT | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1000 | 112 | 1000 | 855 | 2967 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 808 | 80 | 982 | 885 | 2755 |
3 | Suan Selenati | ITA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 949 | 75 | 840 | 851 | 2715 |
4 | Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 856 | 74 | 754 | 554 | 2238 |
5 | Christian Pollet | FRA | Wills Wing T2 144 | 624 | 50 | 817 | 562 | 2053 |
6 | Alexandre Menard | CAN | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 664 | 81 | 593 | 683 | 2021 |
7 | Johnny Nilssen | NOR | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 715 | 50 | 560 | 529 | 1854 |
8 | Antonio Jose Leton Carrasco | ESP | Aeros Combat GT | 543 | 81 | 587 | 634 | 1845 |
9 | Günther Tschurnig | AUT | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z07 | 468 | 69 | 733 | 506 | 1776 |
10 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | ESP | Moyes Litespeed RS 3 | 925 | 74 | 325 | 393 | 1717 |
https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/videos/1961242587464342/
Thanks to Thomas Weissenberger.
9 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Facebook, Icaro 2000, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Suan Selenati, Thomas Weissenberger, video
2018 Quest Air Nationals Series
The meet is over-subscribed
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Attila Bertok|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Davide Guiducci|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Derrick Turner|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Glen Volk|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Marco Laurenzi|Pete Lehmann|Primoz Gricar|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Robin Hamilton|Steve Blenkinsop|Thomas Weissenberger|USHPA|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
The meet filled up in three days. We have 82 pilots registered. We are currently looking at expanding the number of pilots who can attend. Frankly we had no idea that this would happen so quickly. We have to follow the following USHPA rule:
All competitors should be registered on a first-come, first-served basis except during the first 30 days of registration, where 30% of the available places may be held for the top 20 NTSS and top 30 WPRS ranked pilots.
We'll use NTSS and WPRS rankings as of November 1st, 2017.
Pos | Name |
---|---|
1 | Zac Majors |
2 | Robin Hamilton |
3 | Bruce Barmakian |
4 | John Simon |
5 | Kraig Coomber |
6 | Dustin Martin |
7 | Larry Bunner |
8 | Derrick Turner |
9 | James Stinnet |
10 | Jd Guillemette |
11 | Davis Straub |
12 | Bill Soderquist |
13 | Kevin Carter |
14 | Patrick Pannese |
15 | David Gibson |
16 | Glen Volk |
17 | Kevin Dutt |
18 | Mick Howard |
19 | Krzysztof Grzyb |
20 | Pete Lehmann |
WPRS
Rank | Name | CIVL ID |
---|---|---|
1 | JONNY Durand | 2231 |
2 | ALESSANDRO Ploner | 5724 |
3 | FILIPPO Oppici | 6295 |
4 | THOMAS Weissenberger | 7819 |
5 | CHRISTIAN Ciech | 6034 |
6 | ALVARO Figueiredo Sandoli | 5760 |
7 | MARIO Alonzi | 7043 |
8 | ANDRE Wolf | 5783 |
9 | PETR Benes | 9764 |
10 | DAVIDE Guiducci | 6142 |
11 | MARCO Laurenzi | 25161 |
12 | DAN Vyhnalik | 6089 |
13 | DAVID Brito Filho | 13846 |
14 | CARLOS Niemeyer | 6001 |
15 | PETER Neuenschwander | 398 |
16 | GLEN Mcfarlane | 17641 |
17 | VALENTINO Bau | 7889 |
18 | GRANT Crossingham | 6440 |
19 | STEVE Blenkinsop | 7701 |
20 | PRIMOZ Gricar | 7437 |
21 | BALAZS Ujhelyi | 5893 |
22 | ATTILA Bertok | 5885 |
23 | ROLAND Wöhrle | 7547 |
24 | JOSH Woods | 42097 |
25 | RODOLFO Gotes | 12376 |
26 | ANTON Moroder | 5842 |
27 | TAKASHI Sunama | 7755 |
28 | ROBIN Hamilton | 7536 |
29 | GUY Hubbard | 6467 |
30 | OLAV Opsanger | 7271 |
To secure a higher place in the order that pilots are chosen to participate in the competition, we need pilots to be confirmed. To be confirmed you need to register, fill out on-line and send in your correct waivers and medical form (use Adobe Acrobat DC - the free version, https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/faq.html), and pay the entry fee. See:
https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/info/details__info
https://OzReport.com/waivers.php
https://OzReport.com/2018QuestAirpay.php
We will keep track of the order in which pilots are confirmed (everything is time and date stamped), check any forms for errors, and notify pilots if they are allowed entry into the meet.
Discuss "2018 Quest Air Nationals Series" at the Oz Report forum link»
32 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, André Wolfe, Attila Bertok, Bill Soderquist, Bruce Barmakian, Christian Ciech, CIVL, Davide Guiducci, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Derrick Turner, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Glen Volk, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Larry Bunner, Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann, Marco Laurenzi, Pete Lehmann, Primoz Gricar, Quest Air, Quest Air Nationals 2018, Robin Hamilton, Steve Blenkinsop, Thomas Weissenberger, USHPA, World Pilot Ranking Scheme, Zac Majors
LanzaXCamp 2017/2018
September 12, 2017, 9:29:00 MST -0600
LanzaXCamp 2017/2018
Lanzarote Island, Spain
Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
The LanzaXCamp is happening again. The hang gliding clinics include personal coaching, glider gear, car transport, retrieve and one of the most consistent and scenic flying sites in Europe on Lanzarote Island, Spain. Customers just need to bring their harness in the airplane to make this flying area accessible for hang glider pilots from all over the world.
Dates: 11th of December 2017 till 24th of February 2018, each week Monday till Saturday (six days schedule).
The LanzaXCamp should be seen as an effective winter training camp for advanced pilots including personal coaching and the latest topless glider gear to improve flying skills, glider control and average speed. But mainly to increase and push the personal comfort zone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByatOCmt7hbEX3BRSWgxeWU5R0U/view
Discuss "LanzaXCamp 2017/2018" at the Oz Report forum link»
1 topic in this article: Thomas Weissenberger
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
August 18, 2017, 6:19:03 pm MST -0600
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
Day 10, task 9 final results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117
Everyone at goal.
Task 9:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2c | 01:53:15 | 933 |
2 | Grant J Crossingham | Moyes Rx3.5 | 01:53:23 | 927 |
3 | Daniel Velez | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 01:53:24 | 922 |
4 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 01:53:31 | 919 |
5 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Rs 3.5 | 01:53:36 | 915 |
6 | Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha | Aeros Combat Gt 13.2 | 01:55:57 | 867 |
7 | Fredy Bircher | Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro | 02:04:14 | 852 |
8 | Steven Blackler | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 02:07:49 | 846 |
9 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Rx3.5 | 01:58:12 | 838 |
10 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 01:58:45 | 836 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Petr Beneš | Aeros Combat 14 | 7750 |
2 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar Z9 | 7700 |
3 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 7682 |
4 | Dan Vyhnalik | Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt | 7628 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2c | 7430 |
6 | Mario Alonzi | Aeros 12.7 Gt | 7408 |
7 | Jon Durand | Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro | 7315 |
8 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T2c-144 | 7312 |
9 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 7084 |
10 | Petr Polach | Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt | 6894 |
USA fourth by six points.
Zac Majors:
Penalized for dangerous approach and landing on the Esplanada north field. Left E,S,S, probably with no margin to reach the goal field, seen that since his glide from P55, and also when crossing the lake towards E.S.S., he had encountered unstable air, so after reaching E.S.S. he could either find lift or sink on his way to goal, and at that point he would have to perform an improbable 14.8 L/D to clear obstacles at the entrance of the goal field. Pilot proceeded on this dire situation and arrived at the goal area with no height to clear the power lines. Dived under them on high risk maneuver and crash landed.
11 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, Daniel Vé, Daniel Vélez Bravo, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Petr Polach, Robin Hamilton, Thomas Weissenberger, Worlds 2017 Class 1, Zac Majors
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
August 16, 2017, 7:07:41 pm MST -0600
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
Day 8, task 7 results
Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1
http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117
Thirty eight in goal. Mario lands short. Francoise only women at goal. Zac twelfth, Bruce fourteenth, Robin twenty first, three Americans at goal.
Task 7:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 02:46:48 | 975 |
2 | Rodolfo Gotes Navarro | Wills Wing T2c 144 | 02:48:34 | 969 |
3 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar Z9 | 02:48:23 | 951 |
4 | Petr Beneš | Aeros Combat 14 | 02:48:27 | 947 |
5 | Dan Vyhnalik | Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt | 02:51:54 | 922 |
6 | Attila Bertok | Moyes Rx 5 Pro | 02:49:42 | 912 |
7 | Hiroshi Suzuki | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 02:53:02 | 879 |
7 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Rs 3.5 | 02:59:30 | 879 |
9 | Gerd Dönhuber | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 03:04:43 | 846 |
10 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 03:05:31 | 843 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar Z9 | 6121 |
2 | Petr Beneš | Aeros Combat 14 | 6108 |
3 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 6096 |
4 | Dan Vyhnalik | Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt | 6054 |
5 | Mario Alonzi | Aeros 12.7 Gt | 5749 |
6 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2c | 5745 |
7 | Nene Rotor | Wills Wing T2c-144 | 5720 |
8 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Rx 3.5 | 5671 |
9 | Jon Durand | Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro | 5598 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Rs 3.5 | 5486 |
Team USA in third place overall.
8 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Attila Bertok, Christian Ciech, Filippo Oppici, Robin Hamilton, Thomas Weissenberger, Worlds 2017 Class 1
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
August 13, 2017, 6:16:32 pm MST -0600
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
Day 5, a slow day, results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
The inversion took a long time to break so pilots didn't go until the third clock. The days end between 5 PM and 5:30 PM when the sun is very low on the horizon. Zac complains that pilot leave the early thermals too early when the lift decreases apparently forgetting about how they will soon be faced with much weaker thermals as they get near goal.
It took a little under 3:30 hours to do the task today for 132 km. Yesterday a task of about the same length took 2:20 hours. A very weak day.
I notice that there was a small penalty for not making goal (you get only 80% of your speed points, which in this case were very few). As long as you make the end of speed section. The penalty is the slight difference in your distance flown plus the 20% reduction in speed points.
There were very few leading point today, few speed points, and very few arrival position points. Distance was heavily counted. Thirty two pilots got to the end of the speed section.
One more day, then a rest day.
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 03:22:40 | 39.3 | 227.5 | 40.6 | 982 |
2 | ZAC MAJORS | WILLSWING - T2C | 03:22:47 | 37.3 | 225.1 | 37.9 | 975 |
3 | NENE ROTOR | WILLSWING - T2C-144 | 03:23:46 | 34.0 | 216.9 | 33.0 | 959 |
4 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 03:24:16 | 36.0 | 213.9 | 28.6 | 954 |
5 | ANDRE LUIZ WOLF | MOYES - RX 3,5 PRO | 03:24:53 | 44.5 | 210.6 | 20.0 | 950 |
6 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 03:24:18 | 31.9 | 213.7 | 26.6 | 947 |
7 | DAN VYHNALIK | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 03:24:41 | 35.9 | 211.7 | 23.1 | 946 |
8 | DAIMON KOJI | AEROS - COMBAT C 12.7 | 03:24:42 | 34.8 | 211.6 | 21.5 | 943 |
9 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 03:25:00 | 35.1 | 210.1 | 17.4 | 938 |
10 | CARLOS ROBERTO SALLES | AEROS COMBAT GT 12.7 | 03:24:58 | 32.7 | 210.2 | 18.7 | 937 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 4716 |
2 | MARIO ALONZI | AEROS - 12.7 GT | 4694 |
3 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 4668 |
4 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 4657 |
5 | FILIPPO OPPICI | WILLSWING - T2C | 4619 |
6 | DAN VYHNALIK | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 4572 |
7 | Nene Rotor | WILLSWING - T2C-144 | 4550 |
8 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 4539 |
9 | JON DURAND | MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO | 4483 |
10 | THOMAS WEISSENBERGER | MOYES RS 3.5 | 4469 |
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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
August 12, 2017, 5:25:50 pm MST -0600
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
Day 4, Results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gordon Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | JON DURAND | MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO | 13:45:00 | 02:20:48 | 1000 |
2 | MARIO ALONZI | AEROS - 12.7 GT | 13:45:00 | 02:23:50 | 928 |
3 | ATTILA BERTOK | MOYES RX 5 PRO | 13:45:00 | 02:26:03 | 920 |
4 | TONY ARMSTRONG | MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO | 13:45:00 | 02:26:23 | 919 |
5 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 13:45:00 | 02:26:29 | 908 |
6 | ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI | WILLSWING - T2C-144 | 13:45:00 | 02:25:56 | 905 |
7 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 13:45:00 | 02:26:00 | 904 |
8 | DAN VYHNALIK | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 13:45:00 | 02:27:03 | 899 |
9 | THOMAS WEISSENBERGER | MOYES RS 3.5 | 13:45:00 | 02:28:10 | 895 |
10 | ROBIN HAMILTON | MOYES - RX 3.5 | 13:45:00 | 02:26:46 | 894 |
11 | FILIPPO OPPICI | WILLSWING - T2C | 13:45:00 | 02:26:55 | 893 |
12 | ZAC MAJORS | WILLSWING - T2C | 13:45:00 | 02:28:17 | 886 |
13 | GORDON RIGG | MOYES - RX3.5 PRO | 13:45:00 | 02:28:49 | 867 |
14 | PETR POLACH | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 13:45:00 | 02:32:59 | 842 |
14 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 14:00:00 | 02:26:02 | 842 |
16 | PETER NEUENSCHWANDER | AEROS - COMBAT 12.7C | 13:45:00 | 02:33:18 | 840 |
17 | PRIMOZ GRICAR | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 14:00:00 | 02:28:05 | 825 |
18 | GRANT J CROSSINGHAM | MOYES - RX3.5 | 13:45:00 | 02:36:20 | 815 |
19 | GLEN MCFARLANE | WILLSWING - T2C 144 | 13:45:00 | 02:36:40 | 814 |
20 | CARLOS ROBERTO DE NIEMEYER SALLES | AEROS COMBAT GT 12.7 | 13:45:00 | 02:36:26 | 811 |
21 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 14:00:00 | 02:29:31 | 809 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | MARIO ALONZI | AEROS - 12.7 GT | 3789 |
2 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 3778 |
3 | FILIPPO OPPICI | WILLSWING - T2C | 3717 |
4 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 3714 |
5 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 3675 |
6 | DAN VYHNALIK | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 3626 |
7 | ROBIN HAMILTON | MOYES - RX 3.5 | 3598 |
8 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 3592 |
9 | ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI | WILLSWING - T2C-144 | 3591 |
10 | JON DURAND | MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO | 3584 |
Looks like the Italians (other than Filippo) made a big mistake going on the second clock. Maybe they were low at the start of the first clock.
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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
August 11, 2017, 7:32:28 pm MST -0600
21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
Results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1
http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117
Task 3:
Name | Glider | Time | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 02:48:24 | 996 |
2 | ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI | WILLSWING - T2C-144 | 02:48:29 | 990 |
3 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 02:48:41 | 982 |
4 | MARIO ALONZI | AEROS - 12.7 GT | 02:48:38 | 980 |
5 | CHRISTIAN POLLET | AEROS - 12.7 | 02:48:43 | 973 |
6 | THOMAS WEISSENBERGER | MOYES RS 3.5 | 02:49:22 | 968 |
7 | FILIPPO OPPICI | WILLSWING - T2C | 02:49:18 | 966 |
8 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 02:50:46 | 952 |
9 | SERGIO GALVAS | WILLSWING - T2C | 02:51:18 | 933 |
10 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 02:52:33 | 929 |
Zac was twelfth, Robin thirteenth, Derreck 26th, Bruce 32nd.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ALESSANDRO PLONER | ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 | 2936 |
2 | CHRISTIAN CIECH | ICARO - LAMINAR | 2905 |
3 | MARIO ALONZI | AEROS - 12.7 GT | 2861 |
4 | FILIPPO OPPICI | WILLSWING - T2C | 2824 |
5 | Petr Beneš | AEROS - COMBAT 14 | 2767 |
6 | DAN VYHNALIK | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 2727 |
7 | ROBIN HAMILTON | MOYES - RX 3.5 | 2704 |
8 | PRIMOZ GRICAR | AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT | 2693 |
8 | RODOLFO GOTES NAVARRO | WILLSWING - T2C 144 | 2693 |
10 | MARCO LAURENZI | ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 | 2688 |
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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship is open
Track the competition
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
Elena at CIVL «Elena at CIVL» writes:
CIVL of FAI is glad to announce that Brasilia has opened the World Championship of 21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship. From August 6 till 19, 142 pilots from 29 countries will be competing in the skies of Brazil with flights between Formosa (GO) and the Federal District.
One of the favorites is current world champion Christian Ciech, winner of the Worlds at Valle de Bravo in Mexico in 2015. Other pilots also contenders for the title, are the top five in the ranking: Australian Jonny Durand, number one Pre-World Cup winner in 2016 in Brasilia, Brazilian André Wolf, Italians Filippo Oppici and Davide Guiducci, and Austrian Thomas Weissenberger.
Read the story and see photos of the opening ceremony here:
http://www.fai.org/civl-news/43341-event10516-brazil-hg2017-open
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The would add other contenders at the very least, former World Champions, Alex Ploner and Attila Bertok, as well as Zac Majors, who just beat Christian in similar conditions at Dinosaur. Other USA team members, for sure. Perhaps Corinna, who just won the German Open.
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2017 UK Nationals »
July 1, 2017, 2:07:03 pm MST -0600
2017 UK Nationals
The last day, they score
Davide Guiducci|Gordon Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|UK Nationals 2017
After three canned days.
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 02:13:14 | 985 |
2 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 02:13:33 | 969 |
3 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar Z9 | 02:19:15 | 908 |
4 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T | 02:20:10 | 852 |
5 | Grant Crossingham | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:24:05 | 850 |
6 | Steve Penfold | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 02:24:50 | 823 |
7 | Malcolm Brown | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 02:26:11 | 810 |
8 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes RX3.5 pro edge skylite | 02:25:10 | 803 |
9 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 02:29:12 | 791 |
10 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 02:30:39 | 776 |
Final results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar Z9 | 3030 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 2990 |
3 | Grant Crossingham | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2947 |
4 | Gordon Rigg | Moyes RX3.5 pro edge skylite | 2755 |
5 | Dave Matthews | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T | 2725 |
6 | Vanni Accattoli | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 2663 |
7 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 2561 |
8 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 2522 |
9 | Darren Brown | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 2489 |
10 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 2441 |
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Oudie 4
April 26, 2017, 9:26:43 EST -0400
Oudie 4
On a stick
Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
Here is my Naviter backup instrument, an Oudie 4 with hang gliding mount, carbon tube, 34 cm long. The naked Oudie comes without pitot tube.
In the meantime they are working on the final version of the hang gliding droplet with a redesigned, super aerodynamic pod, precise working ASI (air speed indicator), integrated box with good acoustics and all the other features already there like colored moving map, touch screen, thermal assistant, huge battery power, and so on.
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Into the wild part two »
April 5, 2017, 8:01:33 EST -0400
Into the wild part two
High in the Alps
Facebook|Into the Wild|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
Into the wild: the odyssey goes on! Part b is starting where part a has ended: in the clouds.
With 4,200 m cloudbase (13,800 ft) it was possible to cross Alpenhauptkamm, the main alpine ridge, and to fly over to Italy. Like Ötzi the glacier mummy was using the lowest gap 'Niederjoch' ('low gap') hiking from south to north 5,200 years ago, I was following the same geographic route to make my crossing quite low over terrain (3,017m / 9,900ft).
After managing this important part of the task and flying along Schnalstal I had one of my most exciting flying incidents. I mean meeting a golden eagle is quite common when flying in the alps but this young fellow was checking me out just 2m next to me flying under my right wing! And he even was not alone.
Video: https://vimeo.com/211195878
Track: https://www.xcontest.org/2016/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/14.9.2016/12:09#fd=comment
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2017 Aeros Winter Race »
Final results
Aeros Winter Race 2017|Icaro 2000|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:26:17 | 991 |
2 | Arne Tänzer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 | 01:26:26 | 976 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 01:26:35 | 976 |
4 | Philipp Hofmann | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 01:26:43 | 961 |
5 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 01:27:12 | 956 |
6 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 01:27:48 | 942 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2CC | 01:29:47 | 908 |
8 | Marco Laurenzi | Moyes Laminar | 01:30:46 | 882 |
9 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 01:35:45 | 835 |
10 | Walter Mayer | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:35:28 | 832 |
Final Reults:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 3668 |
2 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 3633 |
3 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 3488 |
4 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3361 |
5 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3315 |
6 | Endre Kovács | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 3308 |
7 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 3299 |
8 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 3295 |
9 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 3212 |
10 | Stanislav Galovec | Moyes RS4 | 2972 |
http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/basics
Strong SW winds were predicted this morning, so we left to Kovk launch earlier. We decided on task only on the east half of the valley - we prepared kind off two lap task, 93 km in length. Right now pilots are somwere at the end of lap one, we expect many pilots in goal in short time.
Task 4 has just finished, with most of the pilots in goal. It was a strong racing day with high average speed of the winner, Matja· Klemencic 65 km/h. Second was Arne Tanzer and Tom Weissenberger third.
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2017 Aeros Winter Race »
A tight race
Aeros Winter Race 2017|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|weather
http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 03:06:00 | 1000 |
2 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 03:13:22 | 933 |
3 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 03:25:32 | 873 |
4 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 03:26:02 | 860 |
5 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 03:25:53 | 859 |
6 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 03:26:57 | 846 |
7 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 03:35:34 | 819 |
8 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:35:35 | 816 |
9 | Endre Kovács | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 03:45:18 | 784 |
10 | Walter Mayer | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:41:32 | 783 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 2756 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 2692 |
3 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 2677 |
4 | Endre Kovács | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 2584 |
5 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2561 |
6 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2505 |
7 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 2460 |
8 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 2431 |
9 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2308 |
10 | Stanislav Galovec | Moyes RS4 | 2145 |
http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/basics
We had an encouraging weather forecast today, so we set rather challenging task using the complete length of the Vipava valley, with a leg out to the flats. The pilots are now on the way to the third turnpoint and we will soon see if the task is doable.
Today's task was obviously doable! 14 pilots made to the goal, regardless of really tough conditions. Tom Weissenberger won the day by 6 minutes ahead of Franc Peternel, followed by Matja· Klemencic by 12 minutes. Overall Franc Peternel is in the lead ahead of Tom Weissenberger and Balazs Ujhelyi. Tomorrow is last day of the competition, we are expecting another good day to finish the event in style.
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2017 Aeros Winter Race »
Looks like summer
Aeros Winter Race 2017|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Oleg Bondarchuk|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show
Oleg Bondarchuk absent on day 2.
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 02:50:54 | 1000 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 02:51:16 | 971 |
3 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:53:36 | 936 |
4 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 02:54:06 | 922 |
5 | Endre Kovács | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 02:59:05 | 904 |
6 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 02:59:13 | 902 |
7 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:59:26 | 897 |
8 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 03:00:44 | 888 |
9 | Christian Tiefenbacher | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 03:10:44 | 842 |
10 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T2C | 03:08:02 | 818 |
Cumulative for two days:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 1823 |
2 | Balázs Ujhelyi | Moyes RX4 | 1817 |
3 | Endre Kovács | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 1800 |
4 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1745 |
5 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes RX3.5 Technora | 1692 |
6 | Tullio Gervasoni | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1686 |
7 | Anton Moroder | Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 | 1649 |
8 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat 12.7 GT | 1614 |
9 | Raimund Kaiser | Icaro Laminar 13.7 | 1597 |
10 | Ievgen Lysenko | Aeros Combat L12 | 1548 |
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Wildspitze - Into the Wild
March 28, 2017, 7:48:15 EST -0400
Wildspitze - Into the Wild
High flying
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
Wildspitze with 3,770m is the 2nd highest peak of Austria located to the west around Ötztaler Alpen. With a cloudbase beyond 4,000m and calm winds it was possible to sneak 'into the wild' and fly over that special peak and icy region. One the most incredible, scenic and exposed high alpine flying adventure I have explored so far!
tracklog: https://www.xcontest.org/2016/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/14.9.2016/12:09#fd=flight
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Xcamp conclusion
Xcamp conclusion
LanzaXCamp
Thomas Weissenberger|video|weather
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
The 1st year of the LanzaXCamp has just ended with Kip Stone as happy ending. Here my conclusion:
I am happy and relieved too that all nine clinic weeks have worked out fine liked planned without any incidents! It was a great new experience to make these island flying adventures not just by myself but together as a gaggle with good team spirits.
In fact the XC flying here was always challenging with all kind of conditions and very consistent weather conditions: ridge racing, wave flying, thermal flying, flatland flying, top landings, ground handling (hands on speed bar) flight- and video analyses.
Statistics logbook Tom: 9 weeks of Xcamp, 58 flights, 60 hrs airtime, 840 km, 9 different sites with pilots from 6 different nations like Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, England, Germany and USA.
After all I can say that the first year of the LanzaXCamp was a success with very motivated, cooperative, skilled and thankful pilots. Not one of them got hurt neither one single upright was broken. At this point many thanks to all of them, the good flying together and shared moments!
All three Moyes Litespeed gliders (RX3.5, RX4 and personal RS3.5 full carbon) will stay on the island waiting for next year's LanzaXCamp happening from 4th of December 2017 till 3rd of march 2018. More information out soon...
Pilots are welcome to join from all over the world to fly this unique place located in the Atlantic Ocean - the volcanic island in the wind.
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Inter Island Flying
Inter Island Flying
Lanzarote
Kathleen Rigg|photo|Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
The task was to fly from the NW coast of Lanzarote downwind to the southerly end with Playa Blanca as goal (LanzaXCamp). We, Kathleen Rigg, Damien Zahn and I, all made goal but all at different places.
Damien landed at the wrong one of two roundabouts, Kathleen just lost the magic thermal and landed at the other but correct roundabout, and I just on another canary island. Three times I was in perfect position to go on final glide 15 km over open water to wait for the others to join. The third time then and after having watched everybody land I could not resist anymore! With 1,200 msl and right over the coastal edge of Playa Blanca I topped out with 30 kph tailwind from the north.
It was a cracking day even with cu's on final and over the ocean. I could even make two 360° turns right in the middle of the sea street to lengthen this joyride!
I have never seen such a good flying day with such crystal clear views on Lanzarote island! But the next LanzaXCamp will come for sure.
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/22.01.2017/13:58#fd=photos
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3 topics in this article: Kathleen Rigg, photo, Thomas Weissenberger
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Task 5
Christian Pollet|competition|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Joseph Salvenmoser|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 00:56:04 | 977 |
2 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 00:57:17 | 955 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 00:57:38 | 926 |
4 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:11:22 | 785 |
5 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:12:17 | 782 |
6 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 01:11:34 | 760 |
7 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:17:37 | 736 |
8 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:23:58 | 681 |
9 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:25:02 | 668 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 01:38:08 | 617 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 2683 |
2 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 2656 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 2639 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 2420 |
5 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 2366 |
6 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2306 |
7 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2257 |
8 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2235 |
9 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2207 |
10 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX | 2072 |
6 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Joseph Salvenmoser, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Task 4
Christian Pollet|competition|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 01:02:20 | 126 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 01:41:44 | 111 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 1811 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 1720 |
3 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 1714 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 1709 |
5 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX· | 1651 |
6 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1633 |
7 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 1614 |
8 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1477 |
8 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1477 |
10 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1456 |
Canary Open, task 4, Macher/La Asomada: 24 km cat's craddle in super light easterly conditions scratching the hills, glide out for the turnpoint to the left, come back again, scratching the hills, glide out to the right, back again. Funny nap-of-the-earth-flying and a lot of VG-work! After 1 hr and 7 turnpoints I made goal with nobody else in and it looked like kinda Manfred Ruhmer style, but then Christian appeared on the horizon from the last turnpoint gliding into goal to complete a happy duet. He now jumped to 2nd place overall, well done my friend.
7 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Task 3
Christian Pollet|competition|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Joseph Salvenmoser|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger
https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 26.92 | 461 |
2 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 27.01 | 457 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 26.53 | 456 |
4 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX· | 26.86 | 455 |
5 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 26.53 | 450 |
6 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 26.33 | 444 |
7 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 24.51 | 417 |
8 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 23.12 | 389 |
9 | Jose Manuel Daza Martin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 15.24 | 315 |
10 | Yon Bárcena Ortiz de Urbina | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 15.13 | 314 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora | 1685 |
2 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 1655 |
3 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 1650 |
4 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 1609 |
5 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1574 |
6 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX· | 1564 |
7 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 1555 |
8 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1418 |
8 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1418 |
10 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1369 |
Canary Open task three in Mala: weak NE-winds, weak thermals and low cloudbase up to 600m. 32 km task with goal in San Bartolome, nobody made it in, still cool flying.
6 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Joseph Salvenmoser, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Second task, eleven turnpoints
Christian Pollet|competition|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Joseph Salvenmoser|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Thomas Weissenberger
https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results
Task 2, day 3 (23 km):
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 00:42:27 | 313 |
2 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 00:45:41 | 298 |
3 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 00:59:40 | 290 |
4 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 00:58:21 | 268 |
5 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX· | 01:19:54 | 237 |
6 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:42:19 | 227 |
7 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:38:45 | 224 |
8 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:11:53 | 219 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 1216 |
2 | Jose Antonio Abollado | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 1182 |
2 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 1182 |
4 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 1181 |
5 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1129 |
6 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1115 |
7 | Georg Schweier | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1110 |
8 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 1103 |
9 | Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet | Moyes Litespeed RX· | 1100 |
10 | Rosendo Gonzalez Tavio | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1052 |
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/6.12.2016/13:31#fd=photos
7 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Joseph Salvenmoser, Moyes Litespeed RX, photo, Thomas Weissenberger
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition
One task so far
Christian Pollet|competition|Joseph Salvenmoser|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tom Weissenberger
https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results
Day 1:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat GT | 60.78 | 913 |
2 | Carlos Lamas Graziani | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 61.00 | 906 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 59.94 | 903 |
4 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 60.17 | 902 |
5 | David Ferreiro Matos | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 59.92 | 898 |
5 | Alberto Moreno Fernandez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 60.73 | 898 |
7 | Jonas Blecher | Moyes Litespeed RS | 59.89 | 895 |
8 | Ramón Fernández López | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 59.88 | 892 |
8 | Jorge Kuzmanich | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 59.88 | 892 |
8 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 59.78 | 892 |
Day 2, task 2 cancelled due to low clouds.
Thanks to Tom Weissenberger.
6 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Joseph Salvenmoser, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger, Tom Weissenberger
Wildspitze
October 31, 2016, 11:13:59 PST -0700
Wildspitze
Flying over the second highest peak in Austria
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
Peak Wildspitze at 3,770 meters is the second highest summit in the Austrian Alps. In mid September I managed to fly over it two days in a row. The second time I extended this special adventure crossing the main alpine ridge into Italy through a gap called Tisenjoch, the lowest elevation there was 3,000 meters and exactly where Ötzi, the iceman, was found.
Video premiere of this full equipped GoPro flight will be available in two weeks at my next presentation, but the teaser you can watch now: https://vimeo.com/189220493
Tracklog here: http://www.xcontest.org/2016/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/14.9.2016/12:09#fd=flight
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LanzaXCamp »
October 6, 2016, 2:24:48 pm MST -0600
LanzaXCamp
12th of December 2016 till 27th of January 2017, each week Monday till Saturday.
Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> sends:
The brochure here.
Come and fly sunny Lanzarote Island, one of the most unique and consistent flying sites in southern Europe!
Two Moyes gliders ready to testfly: RX3.5 and RX4 full carbon perfectly tuned. Transport, personal coaching and retrieve included. All you need to bring is your harness, sunnies and speedsleeves.
The LanzaXCamp should be seen as an effective winter training camp with personal coaching including the latest glider gear to improve your flying skills, glider control or average speed for upcoming season. Also to testfly and practise on the latest Moyes RX Gliders. But mainly to increase and push your personal comfort zone! The courses are recommended for advanced hang glider pilots flying with 'topless' gliders since two years minimum with good launch and landing skills!
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1 topic in this article: Thomas Weissenberger
Tom's altitudes on the Oudie
September 8, 2016, 8:03:22 pm MST -0600
Tom's altitudes on the Oudie 3
Adjustments
Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
The only instrument to be considered for maximum altitude is the Oudie 3 itself. With this instrument now being compared and adapted to air pressure changes to adjust the right QNH altitude.
My highest altitude shown by Oudie 3 is 2,791 meters QNH. Subtracting 26 m gives 2,765 meters msl and therefore 10 meters below the maximum height limit.
Let's see what we can calculate given the Oudie 3 and not the SensBox.
At goal SeeYou with QNH set at 1022.1 in Flight Properties, goal pressure altitude is 3,663' or 1,116.5 meters. The GPS altitude is 3,560' or 1,085 meters. So the pressure altitude at goal is 31.5 meters above the GPS altitude displayed on the Oudie 3 track log. The actual goal altitude at the position shown on the Oudie 3 is 1,084.6 meters.
SeeYou displays Tom's highest pressure altitude at 9,218' or 2,809.6 meters. This is 34.6 meters higher than the maximum altitude. Subtract 31.5 meters and he is 3.1 meters over the limit.
We're getting to the width of cat whiskers here.
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Tom's altitudes
September 8, 2016, 2:46:32 pm MST -0600
Tom's altitudes
From his SensBox
Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
I have analyzed the altitudes at goal from my tracklog that I uploaded to XContest (SensBox backup IGC file). I landed at 15:54:47 PM (GPS, QNH and given heights on task board):
- official map altitude in goal 1020 msl.
- GPS alt. In goal 1084 msl.
- QNH alt. In goal 1059 msl.
- ground alt. 1088 msl.
- AGL: 0m.
This means GPS and QNH altitudes both showing higher numbers than map altitudes by 64 m (GPS) and 39 m (QNH), 24 minutes after my maximum altitude, which is closer than counted after launch.
Launch and goal height:
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2016 Pre-Worlds »
September 6, 2016, 8:09:08 MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
GPS or pressure altitude?
Akiko Suzuki|Blue Sky|Jamie Shelden|Pre-Worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
At task four, which I was leading until the last turnpoint, I left for final glide at 2,650 meters MSL. With full VG I kept gliding more upwind to the right while other gliders to my left hit big sink. There was a blue sky ahead of us so there were no clouds that could tell us anything about what would happen next.
On my line I hit good lift and I started to glide faster so as to not go over the altitude limit. I was already close to 2,775 meters MSL (30 meters extra included as briefed at the pilot meeting).
But instead of diving out and away from it, the lift it got stronger, so I pulled the bar in as far as possible for the fastest speed. Then the nose went up vertically and the glider wanted to go into a loop. I put all my weight to the right to make a wingover instead.
When coming out of my acrobatic maneuver I was still in major thermal lift. As soon my nose dive got from vertical to a slightly positive wing position the glider recovered immediately to horizontal. With a massive G-force I was pressed into my harness, the speed bar still at my belly was pushed forward and hit my throat very hard. Eight batten clips broke immediately with a huge crack and four battens, two each side, slid out their batten pockets about 30 cm (Nr. 5 and 6). Two of them were bent.
I could continue gliding but with pain in my throat. My speed bar pressure felt very loose so I checked my wings each side to see the damage. With four battens pushed back you cannot imagine how the glide performance decreased still with full VG! My numbers for reaching goal went down and after crossing the lake low I had to thermal again together with Yuiji Suzuki to make it.
In goal Tony Armstrong and both sons of Nene told me that they have seen my loop just flying behind me. Also Jamie Shelden took pictures of my trailing edge battens after I had landed.
Well, I just could download my backup GPS (Sensbox by Flytec) of task 4 which is telling me that I had a maximum GPS altitude of 2,906 meters or 2,752 meters barometric altitude QNH (23 meters below airspace) calibrated on take off at takeoff altitude. This would mean that I was not over the limit of 2,775 m QNH at all!
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/1.9.2016/14:24
Of course, my back-up was downloaded but the scoring program just showed the GPS altitude of 2,906 meters and not the 2,752 meter QNH (below the limit of 2,775 meters) but I did not realize that at that moment This would also mean that the main mistake was done by the score keeper by not getting the QNH numbers from my instrument Also the FS scoring program was installed just before the comp and the scorer did not have any experience with it.
The same evening I wrote a complaint about what had happened before the scoring as a pilot's report. The main statement was that I have tried all I could to prevent getting higher than 2,775 meters MSL without any chance to avoid that as detailed above. Furthermore the loop pushed me and my glider into a dangerous maneuver in turbulent air. I just could get out safely without any serious injuries. My voice is slowly coming back now and I have started to be able to swallow food and water again.
They also did not ask me if I am ok or if I would need medical treatment, friends and flying mates did though. Only what matters to them was airspace and the numbers shown by the program. Not any health or safety issues! Looks like one tumble was not enough...
I asked that they should check QNH altitudes of my back-up instrument, which was downloaded, but they did not. They just gave me zero points for the day. But at briefings it was said that always the lower numbers in favor of the pilot would be considered. This was not done in my case as I understand it now.
Same thing happened to Pedro Garcia at task 3 but the other way around by taking the back-up altitudes and not the right data out of his Digifly instrument. They just do whatever they feel like. This is a misuse of power going against pilots who paid a 250 € entry
They did the same thing at the Brasilia Open the week before with Olav Opsanger from Norway on task 4 by taking GPS altitudes instead QNH. At this competition only the 1st task QNH altitudes were considered after certain protests when all of a sudden all penalized pilots got their points back with me as the day winner. Then for the following tasks they changed it again - during the same comp - back to GPS altitudes by saying at briefings: 'GPS altitudes must be taken by FAI rules' - seriously. But for task 1 they took QNH altitudes.
Anyway, I arrived on 7th place on the fourth task, happily save and sound, with plenty of leading bonus points, which would have given me about over 940 points. This would have made a huge difference on the final results of these Pre-World Championships if they would have been run correctly.
I looked at Thomas' track log. The GPS altitude (not the pressure altitude) showed him very slightly above the 9000' level for a few seconds before he hit the turbulence. He then lost about 500 feet in eight seconds.
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5 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Blue Sky, Jamie Shelden, Pre-Worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-Worlds »
September 2, 2016, 5:33:49 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Results
André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger
Results: https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/:
Task 5:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andre Wolf | BRA | moyes-litespeed rx 3,5 | 01:29:02 | 999 |
2 | Suan Selenati | ITA | WW T2C 144 | 01:31:41 | 936 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 01:32:08 | 929 |
4 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes Ls Rx 3.5 | 01:34:21 | 903 |
5 | Primoz Gricar | GER | AEROS COMBAT 12,7 | 01:36:18 | 864 |
6 | Valentino Bau | ITA | ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 | 01:37:29 | 862 |
7 | Fábio Thomaz | BRA | moyes-litespeedS5 | 01:37:04 | 850 |
8 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 01:37:29 | 845 | |
9 | David brito Filho | BRA | WILLSWING-T2CX | 01:37:42 | 843 |
10 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C 144 | 01:39:22 | 840 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES RX 3.5 | 990 | 828 | 824 | 968 | 747 | 4357 |
2 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 | 831 | 802 | 923 | 941 | 779 | 4276 |
3 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 908 | 787 | 836 | 898 | 845 | 4274 | |
4 | Primoz Gricar | GER | AEROS COMBAT 12,7 | 630 | 834 | 1000 | 936 | 864 | 4264 |
5 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 911 | 845 | 856 | 953 | 690 | 4255 |
6 | Valentino Bau | ITA | ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 | 525 | 809 | 960 | 941 | 862 | 4097 |
7 | Rodolfo Gotes | MEX | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 899 | 717 | 798 | 910 | 758 | 4082 |
8 | Michel Louzada | BRA | WILLS WING-T2C144 | 622 | 830 | 908 | 906 | 732 | 3998 |
9 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | MOYES RX 3.5 | 972 | 758 | 406 | 984 | 772 | 3892 |
10 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat | 833 | 788 | 731 | 701 | 825 | 3878 |
The top five all within 100 points. One more task?
Photo by Wolfi
11 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Moyes Litespeed RX, Pre-Worlds 2016, Primoz Gricar, Suan Selenati, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-Worlds »
September 2, 2016, 2:52:31 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Preliminary results
André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger
Results: https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740
1 | Andre Wolf | 04:29:00 |
2 | Suan Selenati | 04:31:38 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | 04:32:05 |
4 | Josh Woods | 04:34:18 |
5 | Primoz Gricar | 04:36:16 |
6 | Davide Guiducci | 04:37:26 |
7 | Valentino Bau | 04:37:27 |
8 | David brito Filho | 04:37:40 |
9 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | 04:39:20 |
10 | Filippo Oppici | 04:39:20 |
11 | Mario Alonzi | 04:39:29 |
12 | Sergio Galvas | 04:40:53 |
13 | Tony Armstrong | 04:40:55 |
14 | Anton Moroder | 04:41:49 |
15 | Chrigel Küpfer | 04:42:12 |
16 | Elmar Christl | 04:42:23 |
17 | Carlos Niemeyer | 04:44:53 |
18 | Olav Opsanger | 04:45:30 |
19 | Guy Hubbard | 04:45:31 |
20 | Lionel Cristian Ezequiel | 04:45:46 |
At least forty one in goal. Jonny in twenty sixth. Subtract three hours from the times above.
Finally made goal at Esplanada- was worth it! Andre Wolf won the day after I fixed his arm with some magic tape.
http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.br/2016/09/task-5-80km-around-2-tp.html
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2016 Pre-Worlds »
August 31, 2016, 6:52:22 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Pedro restored
Akiko Suzuki|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|record|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
Pedro writes:
The issue was that they tried to score the task using the data from the trackers and, at least in my case, the record had the wrong altitude. They then scored me with the data from my primary instrument and everything was correct.
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/
Task 3:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Primoz Gricar | GER | AEROS COMBAT 12,7 | 01:56:19 | 1000 |
2 | Valentino Bau | ITA | ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 | 01:57:50 | 960 |
3 | Anton Moroder | ITA | laminar Z913.2 | 01:57:54 | 954 |
4 | Christian Tiefenbacher | AUT | MOYES RX 3.5 | 01:59:29 | 936 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 | 01:59:43 | 922 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 02:00:26 | 914 |
7 | GLAUCO PINTO | BRA | Icaro 2000-LAMINAR | 02:00:50 | 909 |
8 | Michel Louzada | BRA | WILLS WING-T2C144 | 02:00:50 | 907 |
9 | Yuji Suzuki | JPN | MOYES LS RX 3.5 | 02:03:38 | 886 |
10 | Olav Lien Olsen | NOR | WW T2C 144 | 02:05:12 | 865 |
11 | pedro l garcia | ESP | T2C 144 | 02:07:25 | 857 |
12 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 02:07:18 | 855 |
13 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 02:07:44 | 834 | |
14 | Filippo Oppici | ITA | WW T2C 144 | 02:07:49 | 832 |
15 | Tullio Gervasoni | ITA | WILLS WING-T2C 144 | 02:08:05 | 831 |
16 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES RX 3.5 | 02:09:00 | 823 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 2718 |
2 | GLAUCO PINTO | BRA | Icaro 2000-LAMINAR | 2660 |
3 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES RX 3.5 | 2640 |
4 | pedro l garcia | ESP | T2C 144 | 2616 |
5 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 2611 |
6 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 | 2554 |
7 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 2528 | |
8 | Tullio Gervasoni | ITA | WILLS WING-T2C 144 | 2488 |
9 | Primoz Gricar | GER | AEROS COMBAT 12,7 | 2463 |
10 | Rodolfo Gotes | MEX | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2411 |
12 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Davide Guiducci, Filippo Oppici, Icaro 2000, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Moyes Litespeed RX, Pre-Worlds 2016, Primoz Gricar, record, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni
2016 Pre-Worlds »
August 30, 2016, 8:20:09 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Results
Akiko Suzuki|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740
Tulio at goal here. The big picture (surrounding).
There was a 9,000' ceiling. I would not appreciate having to stay below a given height. I see the point of keeping folks out of clouds. Pedro won yesterday and exceeded the height limit today to get a zero.
The best day by far compared to the last 10 days of flying here! Big air with 5-7 meters/second up, beautiful cloud streets, less wind and a cloudbase not much higher than our 2,700 meter ceiling - thank god!
Primoz won the day with our Austrian fellow Christian 5th, Tom Weissenberger around 7th place. Nene tumbled but stays unhurt which is most important! Next days are looking promising as well with a dying cold front passing tonight bringing some humid air masses, like today.
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/30.8.2016/15:39
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/
Task 3:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Primoz Gricar | GER | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 01:56:19 | 1000 |
2 | Valentino Bau | ITA | Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 | 01:57:50 | 959 |
3 | Anton Moroder | ITA | Laminar Z913.2 | 01:57:54 | 953 |
4 | Christian Tiefenbacher | AUT | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:59:29 | 935 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:59:43 | 920 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 02:00:26 | 912 |
7 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 02:00:50 | 908 |
8 | Michel Louzada | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:00:50 | 905 |
9 | Yuji Suzuki | JPN | Moyes LS RX 3.5 | 02:03:38 | 883 |
10 | Olav Lien Olsen | NOR | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:05:12 | 862 |
11 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 02:07:18 | 852 |
12 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 02:07:44 | 831 | |
13 | Filippo Oppici | ITA | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 02:07:49 | 829 |
14 | Tullio Gervasoni | ITA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:08:05 | 828 |
15 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:09:00 | 819 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 2716 |
2 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 2659 |
3 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2636 |
4 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 2608 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2552 |
6 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 2525 | |
7 | Tullio Gervasoni | ITA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2485 |
8 | Primoz Gricar | GER | Aeros Combat 12,7 | 2463 |
9 | Rodolfo Gotes | MEX | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2407 |
10 | Michel Louzada | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2357 |
Jamie Shelden is reporting here: http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-3/ and http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pilot-number-17-is-pushing/
13 topics in this article: Akiko Suzuki, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Jamie Shelden, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Moyes Litespeed RX, photo, Pre-Worlds 2016, Primoz Gricar, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni
2016 Pre-Worlds »
August 29, 2016, 11:43:11 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Pedro wins the day
Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|record|Thomas Weissenberger
Live Tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740
Has anyone had Playback work for them? Please tell me how.
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/
Task 2:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | SS | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro L Garcia | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:40:00 | 02:02:03 | 953 |
2 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 13:20:00 | 02:21:56 | 845 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 13:20:00 | 02:21:45 | 843 |
4 | Primoz Gricar | GER | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:07 | 834 |
5 | Michel Louzada | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:18 | 830 |
6 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:33 | 828 |
7 | David Brito Filho | BRA | Wills Wing T2C X | 13:20:00 | 02:22:13 | 827 |
8 | Sergio Galvas | BRA | Wills Wing T2C | 13:20:00 | 02:22:19 | 824 |
9 | Fábio Thomaz | BRA | Moyes Litespeed S5 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:37 | 815 |
9 | Filippo Oppici | ITA | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:38 | 815 |
11 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:20:00 | 02:22:54 | 810 |
Pedro took the second start time and went much faster. Forty or so leading points for Jonny and others did not make up for Pedro's 150 point lead in speed points.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 | 990 | 828 | 1818 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 962 | 843 | 1805 |
3 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 954 | 810 | 1764 |
4 | Pedro L Garcia | ESP | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 806 | 953 | 1759 |
5 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 911 | 845 | 1756 |
6 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 960 | 793 | 1753 |
7 | David Brito Filho | BRA | Wills Wing T2C X | 905 | 827 | 1732 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | Moyes RX 3.5 | 972 | 760 | 1732 |
9 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 908 | 788 | 1696 | |
10 | Sergio Galvas | BRA | Wills Wing T2C | 839 | 824 | 1663 |
Jonny, Tom, Nene and Pedro in the first four places.
Tom Weissenberger writes at Wings on Tour:
Brasilia day 2, task 2: tricky and blue 100 km with many pilots in goal joined by just one single girl - and the only right one, yeah! :)
Conditions at the start gate at 1:20pm were not favorable with broken lift up to 2.000-2.300 m, still everybody left as together we are strong!
First TP 30 km down SW on the plateau kept us first along the ridge where ENE winds pushed up good lift but also with big sink in between! After jumping onto the plateau thermals got better and the main gaggle bigger. It was not the day for pushing out in front alone and into the blue, so I forced myself to play that game. To my big surprise I played it well trying to be always on top of the gaggle and leaving when everybody else did, oh boy, nerve killing!
Anyway, TP2 was a tricky one 30 km back into wind but also situated on the edge of the ridge close to launch. Once I hit a strong rocket thermal but as soon I started to enjoy the consistent 5m up I already had to dive out again not to get over the vertical limit of 2.745m, damn! Also we could not get high enough to make it back to the ridge again but winds died down so this ridge's dead zone on its lee side was starting to work! So we managed to fly just behind the ridge and right on course to TP2 where all of a sudden Pedro could catch up and join us after taking the 2nd clock, damn damn!
As soon this piece of hard work was done a 35 km downwind leg into goal was the final reward. I could go on final glide first - after playing the gaggle game well - together with Pedro and Marco.
So Pedro should win the day with me and Marco first in goal pending on leading bonus. But the best part of the day was to welcome Kathleen in goal, abraco, record lady!
The 30-40 leading points were so so much smaller than the 150 speed points that Pedro was able to gather by going second.
http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-2/
As it turns out, Pedro wasn’t in position to take the first start and was forced into the second. It worked for him because he caught the lead gaggle near the last turnpoint and came in together with them.
11 topics in this article: Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Moyes Litespeed RX, photo, Pre-Worlds 2016, Primoz Gricar, record, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-Worlds »
August 28, 2016, 10:35:12 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Results
André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/
Task 1:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES RX 3.5 | 02:26:39 | 990 |
2 | Andre Wolf | BRA | moyes-litespeed rx 3,5 | 02:27:00 | 983 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | MOYES RX 3.5 | 02:27:23 | 972 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 02:28:11 | 962 |
5 | GLAUCO PINTO | BRA | Icaro 2000-LAMINAR | 02:28:07 | 960 |
6 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C 144 | 02:28:18 | 954 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | AUT | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:29:31 | 934 |
8 | Lionel Cristian Ezequiel | ARG | WILLS WING-T2C | 02:30:39 | 921 |
9 | Marco Laurenzi | ITA | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 02:33:51 | 911 |
10 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | 02:33:57 | 908 |
Tom's six points of leading points did put him ever so slightly ahead of Glauco (2 points). Leading points amount to so very little unless you take an earlier start clock.
8 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Davide Guiducci, Icaro 2000, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Marco Laurenzi, Moyes Litespeed RX, Pre-Worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-Worlds »
August 28, 2016, 5:29:04 pm MST -0600
2016 Pre-Worlds
Thirty in goal
André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Mario Campanella|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|video
http://www.brasilia2017.com.br/brasilia-sedia-pre-mundial-de-voo-livre/
No results yet. Can't get the Replay to work on Live Tracking here: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740# Looks like Jonny won with Andre second. 109 km task.
1 | Jonny Durand | 02:26:39 |
2 | Andre Wolf | 02:26:59 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | 02:27:23 |
4 | Glauco Pinto | 02:28:08 |
5 | Thomas Weissenberger | 02:28:12 |
6 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | 02:28:18 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | 02:29:30 |
8 | David brito Filho | 02:33:47 |
9 | Davide Guiducci | 02:33:57 |
10 | Rodolfo Gotes | 02:34:02 |
11 | Tullio Gervasoni | 02:34:19 |
12 | Guy Hubbard | 02:34:38 |
13 | Chrigel Küpfer | 02:34:47 |
14 | Mario Campanella | 02:41:57 |
15 | Sergio Galvas | 02:45:31 |
Tom Weissenberger describes the flight: https://www.facebook.com/wingsontour/posts/723408957797988
Photos of the first day: https://www.facebook.com/alex.farias.712/media_set?set=a.1148775738494744.1073742615.100000869853844&type=3
Jonny at goal: https://www.facebook.com/brasilia2017/videos/319686548381909/
Discuss "2016 Pre-Worlds" at the Oz Report forum link»
10 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Mario Campanella, photo, Pre-Worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger, Tullio Gervasoni, video
2016 Pre-pre-worlds »
Windy on launch
2016 Pre-pre-worlds
August 24, 2016, 6:51:40 pm MST -0600
André Wolfe|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Pre-worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-42/#
Task 5:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Laminar | 51.59 | 801 |
2 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 51.35 | 800 |
3 | Andre Wolf | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 51.28 | 796 |
4 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 48.50 | 754 |
5 | Tony Armstrong | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 48.29 | 751 |
6 | Wolfgang Siess | AUT | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 48.17 | 748 |
7 | Rafael s. Mello | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 48.10 | 744 |
8 | Jose guilherme Lopes lessa | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 47.69 | 733 |
9 | Olav Opsanger | NOR | Moyes RX3.5 | 47.67 | 732 |
10 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | GER | Moyes Litespeed 3,5s | 44.47 | 655 |
Final results:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 3529 |
2 | Andre Wolf | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 3395 |
3 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | Wills Wing T2C | 3382 |
4 | Rafael s. Mello | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 3306 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | Aeros Combat | 3178 |
6 | Marcio Rosadas | BRA | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 3174 |
7 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 3095 |
8 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Laminar | 2998 |
9 | David Brito Filho | BRA | Wills Wing T2Cx 144 | 2953 |
10 | Fábio Thomaz | BRA | Moyes LS RX5 | 2919 |
6 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Pre-Pre-worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-pre-worlds »
Results after day four
2016 Pre-pre-worlds
August 23, 2016, 9:05:21 pm MST -0600
André Wolfe|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Pre-Pre-worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-42/#
Task 4:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes-Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:48:36 | 979 |
2 | Andre Wolf | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 01:48:45 | 962 |
3 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C | 01:49:20 | 944 |
4 | Fábio Thomaz | BRA | MOYES LS RX5 | 01:54:42 | 866 |
5 | Rafael s. Mello | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 01:55:47 | 860 |
6 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Laminar | 01:56:50 | 843 |
7 | Marcelo andrei Rocha | BRA | WW T2C | 01:57:12 | 836 |
8 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 01:57:18 | 827 |
9 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | Aeros Combat | 01:58:58 | 812 |
10 | Marcio Rosadas | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 01:59:36 | 811 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C | 2782 |
2 | Jonny Durand | AUS | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 2726 |
3 | Andre Wolf | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 2597 |
4 | Marcio Rosadas | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 2569 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | Aeros Combat | 2565 |
6 | Rafael s. Mello | BRA | MOYES LS RX3.5 | 2560 |
7 | David brito Filho | BRA | WILLS WING T2Cx 144 | 2542 |
8 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes-Litespeed RX3.5 | 2481 |
9 | Fábio Thomaz | BRA | MOYES LS RX5 | 2305 |
10 | Glauco Pinto | BRA | Laminar | 2194 |
4 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Pre-Pre-worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Pre-pre-worlds »
New results from day one
2016 Pre-pre-worlds
August 21, 2016, 2:57:11 pm MST -0600
André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Pre-worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger
https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-42/#
Yes, indeed. Tom Weissenberger wins the day!
Task 1:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:00:55 | 875 |
2 | Max Turiaco | BRA | Aeros Combat | 01:03:16 | 830 |
3 | David brito Filho | BRA | WW T2Cx 144 | 01:03:19 | 807 |
3 | Eduardo Oliveira | BRA | WW T2C | 01:03:28 | 807 |
5 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C | 01:03:54 | 792 |
6 | Marcelo andrei Rocha | BRA | WW T2C | 01:04:28 | 788 |
7 | Tony Armstrong | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:05:07 | 774 |
8 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 01:05:06 | 772 |
9 | Andre Wolf | BRA | 01:05:24 | 754 | |
10 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:06:34 | 747 |
After two tasks and three days:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | AUS | Moyes LS RX3.5 | 1762 |
2 | Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli | BRA | WW T2C | 1718 |
3 | David brito Filho | BRA | WW T2Cx 144 | 1687 |
4 | Marcio Rosadas | BRA | 1645 | |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | BRA | 1627 | |
6 | Rafael s. Mello | BRA | 1572 | |
7 | Andre Wolf | BRA | 1503 | |
8 | Tony Armstrong | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1424 |
9 | Josh Woods | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 1404 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 1378 |
Corinna Schwiegershause writes:
The first task will be scored! They applied the actual QNH of the day and found that no pilot surpassed the given height corridor, so all pilots get their score on day 1.
Day four, not looking so good. Task Cancelled.
7 topics in this article: André Wolfe, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Facebook, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Pre-Pre-worlds 2016, Thomas Weissenberger
2016 Governador Valadares »
2016 Governador Valadares
Day 7
competition|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Governador Valadares 2016|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/blog__day_7
Task 7 results: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1246/day/elite
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T2c | 01:19:32 | 915 |
2 | Andre Luiz Wolf | Moyes Litespeed Rx 3,5 | 01:20:22 | 891 |
3 | Marcelo Andrei Moikano | 01:35:54 | 837 | |
4 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 01:35:21 | 833 |
5 | Fabio Thomaz | Moyes Litespeed Rx 5 | 01:25:32 | 828 |
6 | Rafael Strohschoen De Mello | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 01:26:06 | 819 |
7 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 01:26:16 | 811 |
8 | Eduardo Oliveira | Icaro Laminar | 01:41:05 | 776 |
9 | Glauco Pinto | 01:34:25 | 746 | |
10 | Michel Fernandes Louzada | 01:46:24 | 729 | |
11 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed Rx 3,5 | 01:38:52 | 726 |
Total: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1246/comp/elite
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Andre Luiz Wolf | Moyes Litespeed Rx 3,5 | 5940 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed Rx 3,5 | 5709 |
3 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T2c | 5528 |
4 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 5415 |
5 | Rafael Strohschoen De Mello | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 5406 |
6 | Eduardo Oliveira | Icaro Laminar | 5357 |
7 | Sergio Galvas | Wills Wing T2c | 5336 |
8 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 5250 |
9 | Mario Andre Felske | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 5246 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3,5 | 4928 |
8 topics in this article: competition, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Governador Valadares 2016, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
2016 Governador Valadares »
2016 Governador Valadares
Day 5
competition|Davide Guiducci|Governador Valadares 2016|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/blog__day_5
Results from day 5: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1242/day/elite
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Lsrx 3,5 | 02:06:54 | 1000 |
2 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | 02:29:29 | 794 | |
3 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 02:29:38 | 789 |
4 | Max Turiaco | 02:29:45 | 783 | |
5 | Andre Luiz Wolf | 02:29:48 | 781 | |
6 | Sergio Galvas | Wills Wing T2c | 02:29:45 | 780 |
7 | Alexandre Machado Marchesini | 02:29:50 | 764 | |
8 | Carlos Niemeyer | Aeros Combat | 02:30:17 | 760 |
9 | Mario Andre Felske | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 02:34:23 | 730 |
10 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 02:34:39 | 728 |
Cumulative: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1242/comp/elite
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Lsrx 3,5 | 834 | 990 | 702 | 812 | 1000 | 4338 |
2 | Andre Luiz Wolf | 881 | 972 | 685 | 907 | 781 | 4226 | |
3 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 821 | 818 | 675 | 996 | 728 | 4038 |
4 | Sergio Galvas | Wills Wing T2c | 728 | 939 | 763 | 803 | 780 | 4013 |
5 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 498 | 970 | 701 | 926 | 789 | 3884 |
6 | Rafael Strohschoen De Mello | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 725 | 829 | 681 | 916 | 717 | 3868 |
7 | Carlos Niemeyer | Aeros Combat | 416 | 911 | 989 | 764 | 760 | 3840 |
8 | Mario Andre Felske | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 733 | 883 | 683 | 807 | 730 | 3836 |
9 | Eduardo Oliveira | Icaro Laminar | 762 | 813 | 715 | 822 | 701 | 3813 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3,5 | 891 | 924 | 861 | 931 | 157 | 3764 |
7 topics in this article: competition, Davide Guiducci, Governador Valadares 2016, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
2016 Governador Valadares »
2016 Governador Valadares
Day 4
competition|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Governador Valadares 2016|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/blog__day_4
Results from day 4: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1241/day/elite
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 02:00:21 | 996 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3,5 | 02:04:51 | 931 |
3 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 02:04:02 | 926 |
4 | Rafael Strohschoen De Mello | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 02:04:52 | 916 |
5 | Marcio Rosadas | Wills Wings T2c | 02:04:52 | 915 |
6 | Andre Luiz Wolf | 02:05:07 | 907 | |
7 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | 02:05:09 | 902 | |
8 | Marcio Freire Fernandes | 02:06:39 | 880 | |
9 | Geraldo Magela Da Silva | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 02:06:31 | 868 |
10 | Jose Guilherme Lopes Lessa | 02:07:18 | 867 |
Cumulative: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1241/comp/elite
Too many errors to publish the results. Or they are giving zeros for previous days to the foreign pilots (but not all) to show just the Brazilian results.
Pilots at goal:
7 topics in this article: competition, Davide Guiducci, Facebook, Governador Valadares 2016, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
2016 Governador Valadares »
2016 Governador Valadares
Day 3
competition|Davide Guiducci|Governador Valadares 2016|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/blog__day_3
Results from day 3: https://airtribune.com/brazil-hg2016-1/results/task1236/day/elite
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carlos Niemeyer | Aeros Combat | 02:28:20 | 77.20 | 989 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3,5 | 72.35 | 859 | |
3 | Sergio Galvas | Wills Wing T2c | 58.87 | 760 | |
4 | Jose Guilherme Lopes Lessa | 57.74 | 752 | ||
5 | Eduardo Oliveira | Icaro Laminar | 53.70 | 712 | |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Lsrx 3,5 | 52.31 | 698 | |
6 | David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho | Wills Wing T2cx | 52.39 | 698 | |
8 | Geraldo Magela Da Silva | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 51.81 | 687 | |
9 | Andre Luiz Wolf | 51.08 | 681 | ||
10 | Mario Andre Felske | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 51.12 | 679 |
Cumulative:
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Andre Luiz Wolf | 2526 | |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Lsrx 3,5 | 2515 |
3 | Glauco Pinto | 2422 | |
4 | Sergio Galvas | Wills Wing T2c | 2421 |
5 | Carlos Niemeyer | Aeros Combat | 2319 |
6 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 2310 |
7 | Mario Andre Felske | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 2293 |
8 | Eduardo Oliveira | Icaro Laminar | 2286 |
9 | Rafael Strohschoen De Mello | Moyes Litespeed Rx | 2231 |
10 | Jose Guilherme Lopes Lessa | 2167 |
7 topics in this article: competition, Davide Guiducci, Governador Valadares 2016, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Moyes Litespeed RX, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
Canoa Open Day 2 »
Canoa Open Day 2
Dustin wins again
Canoa Open 2015|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Dustin Martin|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
Dustin writes:
I won by approx 25 seconds. Just a couple mph less wind but the sun came out on our first leg and that means the thermals and sink take over so it was a little more variable than yesterday. Tom second, Rudy third, and Daniel fourth
Slightly less wind:
https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/results/task1127/day/speed
Task 2:
Name | Glider | Time | km/h | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Willswing T2Cx 144 | 00:40:49 | 64.3 | 1000 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | RX3.5 Technora | 00:41:21 | 63.5 | 969 |
3 | Rodolfo Gotes | T2C 144 Window | 00:42:57 | 61.1 | 923 |
4 | Daniel Velez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 00:43:38 | 60.1 | 907 |
5 | Alejandro Trujillo | Aeros Combat 09 | 00:47:34 | 55.2 | 834 |
Looks like Raul landed 20 meters short. Watch it in 3D.
Dustin just out performs Tom once again.
https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/results/task1127/comp/speed
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Willswing T2Cx 144 | 2000 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | RX3.5 Technora | 1919 |
3 | Rodolfo Gotes | T2C 144 Window | 1841 |
4 | Daniel Velez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1821 |
5 | Alejandro Trujillo | Aeros Combat 09 | 1623 |
Sport: https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/blog__day_2
Replay in 3d: https://airtribune.com/play/1127/3d
7 topics in this article: Canoa Open 2015, competition, Daniel Vé, Daniel Vélez Bravo, Dustin Martin, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
Canoa Open Day 1 »
October 31, 2015, 9:08:47 pm PST -0700
Canoa Open Day 1
Dustin wins by over a minute
Canoa Open 2015|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Dustin Martin|Raul Guerra|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
Looked like a very strong day.
https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/blog__day_1
2D replay: https://airtribune.com/play/1125/2
Open: https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/results/task1125/day/speed
# | Name | Glider | Time | km/h | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Willswing T2Cx 144 | 00:39:11 | 68.8 | 1000 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | RX3.5 Technora | 00:40:14 | 67.0 | 950 |
3 | Rodolfo Gotes | T2C 144 Window | 00:41:26 | 65.1 | 918 |
4 | Daniel Velez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 00:41:35 | 64.9 | 914 |
5 | Raul Guerra | MOYES LITESPEED RS 3,5 | 00:44:55 | 60.0 | 846 |
Sport: https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/results/task1126/day/speed
8 topics in this article: Canoa Open 2015, competition, Daniel Vé, Daniel Vélez Bravo, Dustin Martin, Raul Guerra, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
Regarding Kathleen's record flights
Regarding Kathleen's record flights
Tom responds to Corinna
Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|record|Thomas Weissenberger|weather
Thomas Weissenberger <<thomas.weissenberger01>> writes:
To all our fun we are having here I did not expect that it is getting that funny!
Well, I cannot remember being ever hired for some cross country flying – especially with a friend and Moyes colleague – but I do know that I followed Kathleen's record attempts in Oz last winter. Due to bad weather luck it did not come to a happy ending, sadly!
I also know how much effort, pre-preparation, time and energy you have to invest in such a project. I also know how it feels when it does not work out first time. Hard to express but let's call it disappointment.
Having a high appreciation for pilots like this who try to push their personal limits I also have deepest respect to Kathleen as a mother, hard working woman and a competition and cross country-pilot as well as even taking the energy to fly world records – WOW!
So after giving these facts in a quite simple way which are actually way more complex than just writing them up in a few lines, I invited Kathleen to get some big cross country flying here at my place in Austria which is not that much effort as going to Oz from Europe. And as a cool flying adventure my intentions were to show her this exciting flying over alpine peaks, lakes and glaciers. Everything else like FAI records, which are just a written paper in black and white, will be just a bonus then.
Anyway, these paper lists can never keep up to such a beautiful life experience shining in all colours when your own dreams suddenly come true! After all it comes back to the real meanings in life: good friendship, good teamwork and last but not least sharing a good time together! Thank you all who joined our joy of cross country flying and all your congratulations worldwide!
Good flying to you Corinna and all you motivated female pilots out there! I hope to hear about further cross country flights and to see great pictures to support our beautiful and privileged sport!
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5 topics in this article: Corinna Schwiegershausen, Facebook, record, Thomas Weissenberger, weather
Loser Open 2015
Loser Open 2015
Four days
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Matthias Kurzthaler <<m.kurzthaler>> sends:
Video: https://vimeo.com/130638481
1 Gerd Dönhuber 960 727 962 1000 3649
2 Ferdinand Spindler 859 666 750 883 3158
3 Günther Tschurnig 994 703 620 716 3033
4 Thomas Weissenberger 598 1000 1000 320 2918
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2 topics in this article: Thomas Weissenberger, video
Canoa Ridge Race 2014 »
Canoa Ridge Race 2014
Day 2
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Here the true story and authentic history of Canoa Open, task 2: http://vimeo.com/112488804
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2014 Canoa Ridge Race »
2014 Canoa Ridge Race
Over the weekend
Canoa Ridge Race 2014|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Thomas Weissenberger
Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Ecuador is a very welcoming country with amazing beaches and ridges. Conditions very consistent every day with winds from SW, covered sky in the morning and sunshine afternoon. Very similar to Chile.
For Task 1 the conditions died down, but it was still good, predictable with less white caps and gusts on the ocean. Pilots who didn't slow down had to land. One guy had a hard landing at the street right beneath the ridge. But it has four lines with less traffic, just a power line to the beach side to get over.
Conditions during Task 2 were better with consistent wind the whole run until sunset. It was a close race with 2-time winner Daniel Velez. My lowest altitude was 21 m AGL. Too bad the ridge isn't longer.
Tracklog here: http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/1.11.2014/20:50#fd=comment
Final results: three tasks, 3000 points and two Moyes on the podium
1. Tom, AUT, RX3.5 Technora
2. Rudy Gotes, MEX, Moyes RX3.5
3. Jelko loor, ECU, WW T2C
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4 topics in this article: Canoa Ridge Race 2014, Daniel Vé, Daniel Vélez Bravo, Thomas Weissenberger
Tom's records ratified
Tom's records ratified
Out and return
(Iquique,+Iquique+Province,+Tarapac%C3%A1+Region,+Chile)
George Stebbins|record|Thomas Weissenberger
Type of record : Out-and-return distance
Course/location : Cerro Ballena - Caleta Paquica - Cerro Ballena (Chile)
Performance : 353 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date :03.11.2013
Previous record : 332.5 km (05.07.2007 - George Stebbins, USA)
Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Punta Blanca - Caleta Paquica - Punta Blanca (Chile)
Performance : 339.9 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders operated by
Date :27.10.2013
Previous record : no record set yet
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3 topics in this article: George Stebbins, record, Thomas Weissenberger
It's the new sail cloth on the new glider
It's the new sail cloth on the new glider
Tom wins Ludesch Open 2014
Thomas Weissenberger|video
Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Results are found here.
Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Well, the first flights with the RX Tecnora - new generation - turned out better than expected. It handles like a toy, climbs with extra turbo booster and glides as sexy as it looks! Now I know what Gerolf meant after his own first test flying: 'Tom, you are a lucky bastard!'
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tom Weissenberger | Moyes RX TECNORA | 1000 | 1000 | 2000 |
2 | Hermann Franz | Aeros | 969 | 943 | 1912 |
3 | Fredy Bircher | Moyes Litespeed RX3,5 | 813 | 754 | 1567 |
4 | Walter Mayer | Moyes RX 4 | 645 | 921 | 1566 |
5 | Dietmar Tschabrun | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 639 | 700 | 1339 |
6 | Uli Eysel | Moyes rs 3.5 | 610 | 658 | 1268 |
7 | Elmar Vonblon | Laminar | 633 | 487 | 1120 |
8 | Matthias Kurzhaler | Aeros Combat GT | 364 | 722 | 1086 |
9 | Jürgen Buchert | Moyes RS4 | 367 | 484 | 851 |
10 | Konrad Schwab | Laminar Z9 | 366 | 467 | 833 |
Matthias Kurzthaler <<m.kurzthaler>> sends:
http://www.matzeski.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/ludesch-open-2014.html
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2 topics in this article: Thomas Weissenberger, video
Aeros Winter Race 2014
Task 3
Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing
Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing
Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
http://www.aerosrace.blogspot.com/
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 01:32:10 | 524 |
2 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:35:55 | 471 |
3 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:36:27 | 463 |
4 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:36:53 | 456 |
5 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes RX 3,5 | 01:38:41 | 440 |
6 | Vanni Accattoli | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:39:26 | 435 |
7 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C | 01:38:03 | 417 |
8 | Manfred Trimmel | Wills Wing T2C | 01:43:37 | 403 |
9 | Roman Colner | Airborne Rev 13.4 | 01:46:36 | 399 |
10 | Robert Reisinger | Wills Wing T2C | 01:47:29 | 390 |
11 | Iztok Jarc | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 black Pearl | 01:50:59 | 384 |
12 | Günther Tschurnig | Icaro Z9 14.1 | 01:59:30 | 342 |
13 | Endre Kovács | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 | 02:17:37 | 287 |
14 | Evangelos Papakostas | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:40:24 | 216 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1406 |
2 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 1372 |
3 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes RX 3,5 | 1356 |
4 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1335 |
5 | Vanni Accattoli | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1327 |
6 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C | 1310 |
7 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 1239 |
8 | Iztok Jarc | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 black Pearl | 1172 |
9 | Roman Colner | Airborne Rev 13.4 | 1147 |
10 | Manfred Trimmel | Wills Wing T2C | 1062 |
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6 topics in this article: Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Oleg Bondarchuk, Robert Reisinger, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing
Aeros Winter Race 2014
Day 2
Joseph Salvenmoser|Oleg Bondarchuk|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing
Joseph Salvenmoser|Oleg Bondarchuk|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Joseph Salvenmoser|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Joseph Salvenmoser|Oleg Bondarchuk|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
http://www.aerosrace.blogspot.com/
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes RX 3,5 | 00:52:37 | 590 |
2 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 00:53:04 | 577 |
3 | Vanni Accattoli | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 00:53:24 | 570 |
4 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C | 00:54:01 | 566 |
5 | Iztok Jarc | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 black Pearl | 00:51:11 | 560 |
5 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Moyes RS4 | 00:54:10 | 560 |
7 | Mattia Gasparini | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 00:54:27 | 558 |
8 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 00:54:14 | 557 |
9 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 00:55:11 | 546 |
10 | Andre Djamarani | Aeros Combat1409 GT | 00:54:46 | 545 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes RX 3,5 | 916 |
1 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 916 |
3 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Moyes RS4 | 905 |
4 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C | 893 |
5 | Vanni Accattoli | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 892 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 882 |
7 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 872 |
8 | Andre Djamarani | Aeros Combat1409 GT | 843 |
9 | Mattia Gasparini | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 796 |
10 | Iztok Jarc | Aeros Combat GT 13,5 | 788 |
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4 topics in this article: Joseph Salvenmoser, Oleg Bondarchuk, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing
Aeros Winter Race 2014
Oleg Bondarchuck returns
Joseph Salvenmoser|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C
Aeros Winter Race 2014
http://www.aerosrace.blogspot.com/
Weissenberger Thomas «Weissenberger Thomas» writes:
I sorted things out with the organisation in advance. Oleg apologized for the mess, so did I. The situation in Ukraine was and is not pleasant, he reported also. Everybody should understand.
Oleg Bondarchuck is also taking part in the comp as a kinda revival. He won the first task with Robert Reisinger 2nd. Glad to have these guys back and to fly with them! So it is all about flying now and that is how it should be!
Task 1 results:
# | Name | Glider | Dist. | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 33,69 | 359 |
2 | Robert Reisinger | Wills Wing T2C | 31,71 | 345 |
2 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Moyes RS4 | 31,54 | 345 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 30,75 | 336 |
5 | Franc Peternel | Wills Wing T2C | 29,80 | 327 |
6 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes RX 3,5 | 29,66 | 326 |
7 | Vanni Accattoli | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 29,40 | 322 |
8 | Andre Djamarani | Aeros Combat1409 GT | 27,50 | 298 |
9 | Hans Kiefinger | Aeros Combat GT | 27,22 | 295 |
9 | Roland Wöhrle | Moyes RX 3.5 | 27,21 | 295 |
6 topics in this article: Joseph Salvenmoser, Oleg Bondarchuk, Robert Reisinger, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing, Wills Wing T2C
Aeros Winter Race 2014
Aeros Winter Race 2014
Problems
Thomas Weissenberger|weather
Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Today the Aeros Winter Race should have started like confirmed by the Slovenian organization. Also good weather forecasts are predicted for all four flying days this week. 55 pilots have registered and pre-paid 30 € since November, booked their holidays and made room reservations. On the 6th of march the comp dates were confirmed for this week: 'We will start with the competition on the first set of dates, the registration will start on Tuesday, march 11!' Then 6 hours later the information was that the comp is postponed to one week later. Official statement: 'Aeros asked to move the competition start on the SECOND set of dates, so the registration will start on Tuesday, march 18! The main reason is pre-worlds in Mexico and lack of time for some pilots who fly there, to come to Slovenia in really short time between the comps.'
As the technical delegate of the Austrian Hang Gliding League and international comp pilot this procedure is ridiculous and simply unacceptable! It is showing how unprofessional Aeros and the organization are taking this sport, even asking for money in advance!
A) The dates of the pre-worlds were well known long before.
B) There are just three pilots registered out of 55 who were in Valle: Gerd, Achim and Sasha.
C) The decision favors now three pilots to a kinda privileged status to postpone a whole comp which dates were known far before!
D) The so called lack of time is just a logistic issue and even manageable, like Sasha would have been ready to be there today. Even these two German pilots left Mexico one day earlier than her. It is just a matter of doing the planning right and in time. Like Aeros should do!
E) The weather this week looks great, so this decision is totally incorrect sportive wise!
F) It is likely impossible and unfair to make people change their holidays + room reservations in that short time of just five days, even seeing good weather on the screens. How should they justify it?
G) Now other pilots can take their places from pilots who already pre paid! This is the so called sportsmanlike treatment of Aeros!
H) Pilot's statements:
- 'pre-worlds date has been known for a long time..'
- 'how many pilots do you expect coming from pre-worlds? 2?'
- 'Your decision is totally disrespectful. First of all: Mexico PreWorlds date was organized prior Aeros Winter Race date. I expect that reservation dates ought to be chose in case of force majeure. Secondly you are not sure about the weather on second date. We paid reservation cost. Many participants already booked their vacation, and some pilots should not be better than others who want to participate in this race. Everybody can choose their priorities. My proposal for you, think twice about this decision. If race will be moved to another week, due to facts ( that are not force majeure) I will ask my reservation back....'
- 'Uf, thanks to Aeros from pilot, who will take my place. Anyway in this sport I’m “nobody”, but there is a question bothering me, how can organizer realize the change in last 2 hours for the race in Mexico planned so long ago, also I don’t remember any more when I did my application for this AWR? Since Aeros team decided this and explained the reason, could you please share to me “nobody audience” the list of the pilots arriving from Mexico so I can emphasize my complex... Only hope for me is if anybody can join me next week in Vipava valey for some flying company and my entrance fee will be spend for a beer to anyone.'
- 'you loose more pilots than you win. And you risk the whole comp weather wise!? Pretty high gambling here...'
- 'Can't understand the decision.... I am off for the second date.'
Well, pilot's reaction tells it all. Now I just can recommend not to attend this comp next week to condemn this suspect behavior by teaching them a lesson they don't forget. Pilots should also claim back their pre paid money, this organization is not worth one single cent! Also the high pressure is fading and the upcoming rainy weather next week does not look promising at all. Well, this is actually just a light version of my wishful thinking for hail, pouring rain and Bora on this organization down till Ukraine!
2 topics in this article: Thomas Weissenberger, weather
One record per flight
Except on distance to goal
PG|record|Thomas Weissenberger
records «records» sends:
FAI has cancelled the following Class O (Hang Gliding and Paragliding) World record:
Claim number : 16970
Sub-class : O-1 (HG with a rigid primary structure / controlled by weight shift)
Category : General
Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Cerro Ballena - Caleta Paquica - Cerro Ballena (Chile)
Performance : 353 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date : 03.11.2013
Current record : no record set yet
Reason for cancellation: Withdrawn by NAC
I wrote to Tom to ask him why they withdrew the record claim (although I already knew what the answer would be). He wrote:
On the 353 km flight I put two claims (declared + free out-return) as you could see, thinking you can catch two records with one flight. When making the proper claim, we were told you cannot make two claims on one flight. So we went for 353 km declared and 339 km free The 343 km free out-return was messed up by our national aero-club and my claim wasn't sent in during the first week.
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3 topics in this article: PG, record, Thomas Weissenberger
Video from Chile
Video from Chile
Tom's Teaser
(Iquique,+Iquique+Province,+Tarapacá+Region,+Chile)
CIVL|George Stebbins|record|Thomas Weissenberger|video
CIVL sends:
Type of record : Out-and-return distance
Course/location : Cerro Ballena - Caleta Paquica - Cerro Ballena (Chile)
Performance : 353 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date : 03.11.2013
Current record : 332.5 km (05.07.2007 - George Stebbins, USA)
Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Cerro Ballena - Caleta Paquica - Cerro Ballena (Chile)
Performance : 353 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date : 03.11.2013
Current record : 339.5 km (27.10.2013 - Thomas Weissenberger, Austria)
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5 topics in this article: CIVL, George Stebbins, record, Thomas Weissenberger, video
Tom's new record
Tom's new record
He's a happy boy
(Iquique,+Iquique+Province,+Tarapacá+Region,+Chile)
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
We came to Chile to fly 350 km declared out-and-return world record, and yesterday, Sunday we did it! 365 km total and Tom's personal best.
It was an extraordinary day with high cloud base at 900m, slow at the beginning but with increasing SW breeze and good ridge lift with 40km/h average speed. Already at 3pm I could make the turnpoint after 175km in four hours.
The way back was a hell of a race with 20km/h SW winds flying with 60km/h average speed! At 5:45pm I could reach my highest altitude of the day over 1.000msl just before the ridge was getting low to 400m. But I was also gliding into the shade of fog at higher level that drifted in from the pacific ocean and its cold Humboldt stream.
Condition died and the fight started just to stay airborn to finish the last 20 km! Now my fast run paid off being kinda early back for a hot final. Clock was showing 6pm, just 20' after my highest altitude - conditions do change very quick here!
Scratching the hills 10m agl, 350msl that is, in overcast sky the warm sand still offered catabatic lift 0.5-1.0m/s but just to the top of the ridge: first 500, then 600, then 700msl at 7pm!
For the last 10km I had two options: just making the start cylinder or landing at the golf court as the very last landing option before Iquique city. Going around the very last corner the final glide was showing -350m to arrive take off at 550m. So these last 200m would have been left to find a place to land. I still don't know how my decision would have looked like but on my way I hit the very last thermal with 1m/s consistent climb to cloud base at 800m for making the last 6km - that was it!
Easily my RS 3.5 was flying over take off again with a joyfull 15km final glide over Iquique city and landing at the beach 7:20pm.
After 347km, 352km and now 365km I could set up three world records in out-and-return distance. But it is not just about records, it is more about the whole project 'record weeks Chile', all its efforts, four years of planning and finally working out fine. What an odyssey!
From an earlier flight:
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Tom's record claim
Tom's record claim
Free out and return
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Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Punta Blanca - Caleta Paquica - Punta Blanca (Chile)
Performance : 339.5 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date : 27.10.2013
Current record : no record set yet
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Not Going for Records in Chile
Not Going for Records in Chile
Filming instead
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Part I is over: it was an extraordinary time, extraordinary flying - but the ridge is not easy to conquer at once! Last week it was flyable but not taskable. So we focused on filming to catch these incredible scenery here in full HD.
During our trip I could fly mostly every day, spent 34 hours in the air and flew 1.150 km in all. For good XC weather the main facts are: altitude of the inversion layer, direction of sea breeze and its strength later the day. The ridge has a winding line with many lee corners, not a straight face to race. It offers thermal flying first, then with increasing sea breeze dynamic lift later the day. Flying altitude is between 300 to 900m asl pending on the inversion layer. This low inversion is effected by cold pacific water around 16 degrees Celsius. Therefore sea breeze is a 'cold' wind.
XC preparation: without proper flying forecasts you actually have to get ready every day and each day has different flying conditions. It's a never ending game and you must start playing this game every day! No timing possible for choosing the right days in advance. The only tactic is go and try...
Conclusion: after three years of planning it is already cool being here ready to fly with my Moyes gear and my supporter Geri. We explored 300 km of the 500 km long ridge - a great adventure itself - I made maiden flights in out-and-return distance - an even better adventure! A record is just a bonus then... Many thanks to my family, my supporter Geri, my sponsors, the film crew AND for all YOUR support making us feel not as lonely out there as we really were! Now I just can say: ' I' ll be back / Hasta la vista baby'
Part II will happen next year. We will decide when later pending on logistics and timetables. The goals are record flights in out-and-return distance. As I experienced now the ridge is not as speedy as expected but adventure and challenge higher than expected!
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Going for Records in Chile
Going for Records in Chile
324 km one way only
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
324 km one way:
I launched at 1,100 m at 12 am then glided into the inversion. After five climbs in blue thermals I could assess conditions: broken lift, best climbs between 500-800m, no ridge lift and my harness full with 10 kg of lead - Not the best options!
Wind from south was weak, but should increase later the day, but didn't!? The first 100km was just thermal flying. Over Tocopilla I got low and that place isn't the 1st choice for low saves! Just one soccer field in the city would have been landable.
Making it up and over the big spine conditions changed and the ridge started to work also dynamically: its top got lower for venturi effect and the sun was more to the west shining into the ridge now. The race was on! Geri could follow the whole flight by car right beneath me.
After 240 km at 5:30pm the sea breeze dropped. I had to change again to weak thermal flying, passing the airport and making it to Ikike. My first landing option was the beach of Cavancha, but when I was just on final Geri told me that the beach was full with people. Had to glide 3km further making it low over Ikike and landed at the next beach before sunset.
One of my most challenging flights but I played it right: http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Weissenberger/2.12.2012/14:58
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Two extra hours
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
Today I launched later, flew further (Tocopilla) and had a stunning race back! This is ridge racing PURE-PURE-PURE! Just the high peaks at Tocopilla slowed me down which get too high for dynamic lift, also thermals sucked there.
Overcast in the south made me turn around, too early! I have two more hours to use at the end of the day. Tomorrow looks similar again with westerly - cant wait surfing this endless wave again: http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:Weissenberger/28.11.2012/14:18
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Going for Records in Chile
Tom Weissenberger getting ready
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
The last three days have been stable here. While driving down south on Friday observing the ridge, the sea breeze was strong from SSW, a bit too cross at some parts. Also not landable all the way. It is an impressive drive all the way on the bottom of this beauty! Of course there is a super tricky part at km 100 with a long land nose coming out which will be hard to get by with lot of head wind and rotors first.
Saturday and Sunday I wanted to fly all the way back but a strong inversion kept the wind weak with broken thermals and tailwind at launch. On Sunday I even didn't rig up the glider. We decided to drive back launching at half way in the afternoon when the sea breeze picked up. But no wind at all. Seems like no good flying conditions on weekends, as we know.
Geri and I are now back in our base camp in Iquique waiting until the good flying weather returns. Local weather forecasts are not very precisely showing wind strength. They says that it always comes from the same south westerly directions, with sunny skies, sometimes cloudy. Thermal activity and strength of sea breeze vary a lot and days can suddenly explode.
On Monday conditions got better again, thermals up to 4m/s, cloud base 800m, winds still southerly picking up at 2 pm. So the plan is first flying south when headwinds still not too strong, then back with tailwind. I have to try now every day to see how conditions will develop and testing its possibilities. We start Tuesday. Track logs then.
Don has been monitoring this area for years, wondering if long coastal cross country is possible. Here is the wind tracker, tracking wind every 15 minutes since 2007: http://donburns.net/~don/WindTracker/index.php. .
First flight here.
Tom writes:
Launched 10 am finding myself soon on final at 80 meter above then ground with an open harness. Then I found week lift and it was worth giving a try. I got back up! The wind was weak so the ridge just worked with thermals and here was no dynamic lift. Later the weather got worse with cirrus coming in. A big lee rotor brought me to a landing place like this:
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Tom Weissenberger in the desert
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> writes:
We are very busy at the moment getting ready for some world record attempts. I am here in Iquique, northern Chile with my mate Geri who is my supporter, driver, camera man and authorized witness all in one person. A film team and photographer will catch up with us later.
It's flyable every day with a mixture of dynamic lift, thermals and a local sea breeze. It never rains here in one of the driest deserts in the world, so the ridge has a clean, sandy surface going up from 300 meters to 1300 meters After eleven years flying the Famara ridge on Lanzarote (twenty five kilometer length) I was looking to a new challenge and found a twenty times longer ridge here in Chile, an untouched cross country hang gliding spot which is more an experiment for my maiden flights.
In the last four days I got familiar with flying and the local weather conditions. I had to change my RS3.5 completely from alpine climbing to a ridge run set up. Furthermore I carry twice as much ballast in my harness than I usually would for competition.
Today the glider is ready, our camera equipment is ready too and tomorrow we will start exploring this huge ridge by car driving 300 km south. On Saturday I want to fly all the way back getting my first impressions of the first leg.
In the morning we drove south to find a suitable launch place to avoid the airport's control zone. I mean how often can you go out searching for your private launch place? With our 4WD we made it through this tiger land and up to 800 meters to find a perfect spot on top of the ridge. I called my launch Masito.
Back to our base we got ready to fly and doing some night shots over the city again with a tandem paraglider (Many thanks to Chris). It's soarable till 10 pm and we landed at the beach floated by street lights - awesome!
I got permission to pass by the airport and fly through the CTR. Nice people here!
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Aeros Winter Race 2012
Three days of what used to be winter racing
Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
Official blog of the race: http://www.aerosrace.blogspot.com/
The Aeros Winter Race 2012 is finished. We had three tasks and the winner, Christian Ciech ITA, showed the best performace. We had more or less racing tasks showing the amazing average speeds, especially on last task with 61 km/h by Tom Weissenberger AUT, who finished second overall. Christian Zehetmaier GER showed very constant performance on all three tasks, which was enough to get on to the winners podium, on third place. Every day we got a lot of pilots in goal, 38 on the last day.
Official web page with results: http://hg.sffa.org/aeros_wr/
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
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1 | Christian Ciech | Ita | Icaro 2000 Laminar | 997 | 1000 | 957 | 2954 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1000 | 903 | 1000 | 2903 |
3 | Christian Zehetmair | Ger | Aeros Combat 13,5 GT | 967 | 988 | 905 | 2860 |
4 | Davide Guiducci | Ita | Moyes RS3.5 | 973 | 975 | 891 | 2839 |
5 | Primoz Gricar | Slo | Aeros Combat 13,5 GT | 838 | 967 | 959 | 2764 |
6 | Andre Djamarani | Ger | Aeros 14 09 GT | 847 | 990 | 822 | 2659 |
7 | Stanislav Galovec | Slo | Moyes RS4 | 947 | 803 | 885 | 2635 |
8 | Gerd Donhuber | Ger | Moyes Rs 3.5 | 794 | 909 | 901 | 2604 |
9 | Franc Peternel | Slo | Wills Wing T2C | 940 | 748 | 895 | 2583 |
10 | Matjaz Klemencic | Slo | Moyes Litespeed Rs | 964 | 898 | 719 | 2581 |
11 | Roland Woehrle | Ger | Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 | 883 | 817 | 815 | 2515 |
12 | Jochen Zeischka | Bel | Aeros Combat 13.5 GT | 709 | 796 | 879 | 2384 |
13 | Dan Vyhnalik | Cze | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 | 858 | 858 | 655 | 2371 |
14 | Anton Moroder | Ita | Icaro 2000 Z9 13.2 | 878 | 774 | 690 | 2342 |
15 | Manfred Trimmel | Aut | Wills Wing T2C | 793 | 789 | 704 | 2286 |
16 | Edoardo Giudiceandrea | Ita | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 874 | 708 | 664 | 2246 |
17 | Joerg Bajewski | Ger | Moyes Gliders Litespeed S4.5 | 326 | 746 | 778 | 1850 |
18 | Endre Kovacs | Hun | Aeros Combat 09 14.2 | 763 | 889 | 163 | 1815 |
19 | Alan Sattler | Slo | Aeros Combat L 07 | 322 | 773 | 675 | 1770 |
20 | Iztok Jarc | Slo | Aeros Combat L 09 - 15 | 81 | 869 | 817 | 1767 |
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Crossing the lake
Crossing the lake
Just above it without an engine
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Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>> sends:
It's winter wonder land in Austria, and time to work on some new video stuff! These moving pictures are the result when people like a graphic designer, photographer, geologist and architect get together in Austria: http://vimeo.com/35370386.
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Julia at 26th is the new "unofficial" European women's champion
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Martin Harri|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
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1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 8153 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 8012 |
3 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 7847 |
4 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.2 | 7842 |
5 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 7803 |
6 | Primoz Gricar | SLO | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 7528 |
7 | Grant Crossingham | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 7449 |
8 | Christian Voiblet | SUI | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 7430 |
9 | Martin Harri | SUI | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 7386 |
10 | Balazs Ujhelyi | HUN | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 7380 |
11 | Alessandro Ploner | ITA | Laminar Z9 (Icaro) | 7073 |
12 | Elio Cataldi | ITA | Wills Wing T2C | 6999 |
13 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 6852 |
14 | Filippo Oppici | ITA | Moyes LITESPEED RS4 | 6850 |
15 | Davide Guiducci | ITA | LITESPEED S3,5 (Moyes) | 6712 |
16 | Gordon Rigg | GBR | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 6689 |
17 | Jon Durand Jnr | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 | 6535 |
18 | Marc Utrillo | ESP | Aeros Combat L09 | 6283 |
19 | Christian Ciech | ITA | Laminar Z9 (Icaro) | 5879 |
20 | Luis Rizo Salom | FRA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 5864 |
Teams:
# | Name | Total |
---|---|---|
1 | ITA | 22803 |
2 | AUT | 22642 |
3 | SUI | 22351 |
4 | GBR | 22254 |
5 | FRA | 20764 |
6 | HUN | 20735 |
7 | CZE | 20234 |
8 | GER | 19030 |
9 | SLO | 18033 |
10 | RUS | 16858 |
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Gerolf is the new European Champion
Attila Bertok|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Thomas Weissenberger
Results
Scorer's blog
Jamie Shelden blog /task tweets here
Jamie's tweets
Jonny Durand's blog here.
DHV reports here
Corinna's Sky here
Matjaz Klemencic blog here
Daphne Schelker's blog here
German Team live tracking on Leonardo Live here
Jamie writes:
37 in goal so far and a few on final still.
Scorekeeper writes:
Team Results (Provisional) 1st Italy 22800 pts. 2nd Austria 22636 pts. 3rd Switzerland 22348 pts.
Overall (Provisional) Gerolf Heinrichs (AUT) Thomas Weissenberger (AUT) Attila Bertok (HUN)
Mario Alonzi (FRA) won the Task 9 50 pilots at Goal in Calaf
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Rough conditions on launch
Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Julia Kucherenko|Martin Harri|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Thomas Weissenberger
Results
Scorer's blog
Jamie Shelden blog /task tweets here
Jamie's twitters
Jonny Durand's blog here.
DHV reports here
Corinna's Sky here
Matjaz Klemencic blog here
Daphne Schelker's blog here
German Team live tracking on Leonardo Live here
Scorer writes:
Pilots at goals by 7 PM for task eight:
Jon Durand (AUS), Primoz (SLO), Thomas Weissenberger (AUT), Zin (FRA), Martin Harri (SUI), Gerolf Heinrichs (AUT), Mario Alonzi (FRA), Cataldi (ITA), Ciech (ITA), Balazs (HUN), Attila Bertok (HUN), Hermann (SUI), Kavanagh (GBR), Voiblet (SUI), Gordon (GBR), Guiducci (ITA), Moroder (ITA), Blay Snr (ESP), Peternel (SLO), Corinna (GER), Wolfgang (AUT), Struganov (RUS), Dave Matthews (GBR), Barthelmes (GER), Dan Vyhnalik (CZE), Filippo Oppici (ITA), Grant (GBR), Kathleen (GBR), Klemencic (SLO), Cejka (CZE), Tom (BEL), Jochen (BEL), Rob In T'Groen (NED), Julia Kucherenko (RUS), Marc Utrillo (ESP), Rizo (FRA), Pedro Garcia (ESP), Trimmel (AUT), Balog (HUN)...
Jamie http://twitter.com/naughtylawyer writes:
Tom first, Christian second and Pippo third. Many here, but many didn't make the whole course.
Scorekeeper writes:
TASK 8 ( Provisional 21:15)
Christian Ciech (ITA) 1:33:56 956 points
Thomas Weissenberger (AUT) 1:33:54 989 points
Filippo Opicci (ITA) 1:34:17 970 points
Elio Cataldi (ITA) 1:34:31 968 points
Martin Harri (SUI) 1:34:57 949 points
OVERALL (Provisional 21:15)
Gerolf Heinrichs (AUT) 7251 points
Thomas Weisenberger (AUT) 7123 points
Attila Bertok (HUN) 6890 points
The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Gerolf is patient as no one flies.
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
Results
Scorer's blog
Jamie Shelden's blog /task tweets here
Jamie's twitters
Jonny Durand's blog here.
DHV reports here
Corinna's Sky here
Matjaz Klemencic blog here
Daphne Schelker's blog here
German Team live tracking on Leonardo Live here
Jamie writes:
Going into the last three days of the competition, Gerolf has a solid lead – about 200 points on Tom Weissenberger in second. I had a chance to chat with Gerolf on launch yesterday and get a little insight into what is driving him these days. His last major win was in Croatia at the Pre-Euros in 2005. Right around that same time he won the French Nationals in Laragne (2005) and the British Nationals also in Laragne (2006). But, he’s not had a great run since then.
So I asked what he thought it was that was giving him such a good run this time around. Not only is he leading overall, but he has won three out of seven tasks here. At 50, what suddenly starts to kick in, I wondered? Patience, I was told, is that answer. I have to say, that made me laugh more than a little bit. I don’t think anyone would say Gerolf is known for his patience. But Gerolf recons that is exactly what it is. For perhaps the first time in his flying career, he has learned to slow down. Maybe that comes with age? He thinks so. Between this new-found patience and having a solid start on the first tasks, he’s in a great spot mentally. He went on to explain that winning a few in the beginning certainly puts you in the right state of mind for backing off and letting the others rush themselves into the ground. Blay, for example, is a fantastic new young pilot. But all of his energy and enthusiasm has translated – this week at least - into pushing much too hard and ending up on the deck.
Gerolf sounds rather surprised with his success this week, adding “Is this serious? It’s like magic!” Maybe it's all the recognition he's getting from all the "freaking bloggers" here ;-)
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 6425 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 6134 |
3 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 6079 |
4 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 5966 |
5 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.2 | 5945 |
6 | Primoz Gricar | SLO | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 5754 |
7 | Alessandro Ploner | ITA | Laminar Z9 (Icaro) | 5739 |
8 | Grant Crossingham | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 5678 |
9 | Christian Voiblet | SUI | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 5675 |
10 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 5594 |
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Looks like a good day today, Monday July 19th
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Martin Harri|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
Results
Scorer's blog
Jamie Shelden blog /task tweets here
Jamie's twitters
Jonny Durand's blog here.
DHV reports here
Corinna's Sky here
Matjaz Klemencic blog here
Daphne Schelker's blog here
German Team live tracking on Leonardo Live here
Results after six tasks:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 5603 |
2 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 5294 |
3 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.2 | 5240 |
4 | Martin Harri | SUI | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 5236 |
5 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 5170 |
6 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 5054 |
7 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4959 |
8 | Franz Herrmann | SUI | Aeros Combat 09 GT 14 | 4930 |
9 | Alessandro Ploner | ITA | Laminar Z9 (Icaro) | 4901 |
10 | Primoz Gricar | SLO | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 4887 |
They are out on their seventh task of the competition.
Jamie http://twitter.com/naughtylawyer writes:
Everyone quick to take off today and all looking high. It's gonna be a nice fast one I think. 127 km sort of out a return with a turnpoint to the NNW and goal in Balaguer in the flats.
OVERALL
Gerolf Heinrichs 6425 points
Thomas Weissenberger 6134 points
Attila Bertok 6079 points
TEAMS
AUT 17322 points
ITA 17099 points
GBR 17069 points
TASK 7
Thomas Weissenberger 964 points
Laurent Thevenot 950 points
Dan Vyhnalik 912 points
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Task five
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Martin Harri|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
Scorer's blog
Jamie's twitters
Alex Ploner wins the day with Gerolf second. Jamie didn't see Jonny (who was in second) at goal.
Photo by Jamie Shelden.
Jamie writes:
New day, new forecast calling for near 90% cloud cover between the cirrus and cumulous. But, still expecting very strong lift...strange.
138km of zigging and zagging with goal out in the flats to the south.
Alex first across! Gerolf a few seconds behind. Carl third in.
Jonny knocked out on landing. Smashed instruments. Says he's okay. Says glider is okay.
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
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1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 4650 |
2 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.2 | 4427 |
3 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 4368 |
4 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 4362 |
5 | Martin Harri | SUI | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4319 |
6 | Elio Cataldi | ITA | Wills Wing T2C | 4225 |
7 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 4122 |
8 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4106 |
9 | Primoz Gricar | SLO | Aeros Combat 09 GT 13,2 | 4094 |
10 | Jon Durand Jnr | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 | 4064 |
9 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Attila Bertok, Gerolf Heinrichs, Jamie Shelden, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Martin Harri, Primoz Gricar, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
European Record Claim
European Record Claim
Tom's big triangle
record|Thomas Weissenberger
FAI sends:
Type of record : Distance over a triangular course
Course/location : Hochfelln / Kellerkopf (Austria)
Performance : 345.4 km
Pilot : Thomas WEISSENBERGER (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date :03.07.2010
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The 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Championships
Gerolf wins again, still in the overall lead
Attila Bertok|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Martin Harri|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C
Results
Scorer's blog
Jamie Shelden blog /task tweets here
Jamie's twitters
DHV reports here
Corinna's Sky here
Matjaz Klemencic blog here
Jonny Durand's blog here.
Daphne Schelker's blog here
From the scorer's blog (see above):
1st Gerolf Heinrichs 02:39:01
2nd Mario Alonzi 02:39:08
3th Manfred Trimmel 02:39:27
Final results are not ready yet, but approximately 45 pilots in goal!!! A couple landed very very short (5 to 15mts) and some other were some kms short.... They had to fly with head wind the last leg, WELL DONE everyone!!!
Gerolf Heinrichs (AUT) came in first; the question is: Will he win the day? When asked how was the flight, he said: "It was easy for me (wink)! Those that I cannot catch on the climb, I catch on glide; and those that I don't catch on glide, I catch on climb!! You've got to have the package (smiling)!"
Third task:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 02:39:01 | 970 |
2 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 13.2 | 02:39:08 | 954 |
3 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 02:39:20 | 949 |
4 | Manfred Trimmel | AUT | Aeros Combat | 02:39:27 | 948 |
5 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 02:39:28 | 942 |
6 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 02:39:30 | 938 |
7 | Franz Herrmann | SUI | Aeros Combat L14 | 02:39:37 | 933 |
8 | Jon Durand Jnr | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 | 02:39:47 | 927 |
9 | Martin Harri | SUI | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 02:40:07 | 924 |
10 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 02:41:12 | 908 |
Overall:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed Litespeed RS-3.5 | 2771 |
2 | Balazs Ujhelyi | HUN | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 2616 |
3 | Jon Durand Jnr | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 | 2576 |
4 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed | 2541 |
5 | Elio Cataldi | ITA | Wills Wing T2C | 2514 |
5 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat 09 13.2 | 2514 |
7 | Martin Harri | SUI | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 2500 |
8 | Franz Herrmann | SUI | Aeros Combat L14 | 2483 |
8 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat 09 14L | 2483 |
10 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 2458 |
10 topics in this article: Attila Bertok, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Gerolf Heinrichs, Jamie Shelden, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, Manfred Ruhmer, Martin Harri, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C
Aeros Winter Race 2010 Results
Oleg is back
Aeros Winter Race 2010|Davide Guiducci|Oleg Bondarchuk|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
Aeros Winter Race 2010|Davide Guiducci|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
Aeros Winter Race 2010|Davide Guiducci|Oleg Bondarchuk|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Aut | Moyes RS4 | 2917 |
2 | Primoz Gricar | Slo | Aeros Combat 09 13,2 | 2867 |
3 | Elio Cataldi | Ita | Tba Tba | 2679 |
4 | Mario Alonzi | Fra | Aeros 13.5L | 2577 |
5 | Davide Guiducci | Ita | Moyes RS13.5 | 2546 |
6 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Ukr | Aeros Combat | 2472 |
7 | Stanislav Galovec | Slo | Aeros Combat L | 2368 |
8 | Matjaz Klemencic | Slo | Aeros Combat L | 2346 |
9 | Roland Wöhrle | Ger | Moyes RS4 | 2310 |
10 | Günther Tschurnig | Aut | Moyes RS-4 | 2214 |
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Aeros Winter Race 2010 »
The northern hemisphere season starts early
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Manfred Ruhmer|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Matjaz Klemencic «Matjaz Klemencic» writes:
We will have an AEROS winter race here in Slovenia in February.
In February from 24th to 28h we will have a FAI 2 competition here in Slovenia (Kovk, Ajdovscina), the first one in Europe in season 2010. The AEROS winter race is of course sponsored by AEROS and they provided those special prices for the best pilots:
1st price: 1000 EUR cash or credit note for 30% discount when ordering a new Combat
2nd price: 500 EUR cash or credit note for new Viper S harness
3rd price: 300 EUR cash or tailplane
4th-10th place: small prices
We have some major pilots on the list like Manfred Ruhmer, Alex Ploner, Primoz Gricar, Thomas Weissenberger and so on. The competition will be covered with blog and twittering. You can find more info on the home page of the competition at
The area is flyable even now in January. You can see the videos of the area at www.klemencicmatjaz.blogspot.com
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Slovenian Open
Slovenian Open
Primoz in first, so far
Flemming Lauridsen|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jamie Shelden|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger
http://slovenianopen2009.blogspot.com/
http://hg.sffa.org/open2009/index.php?id=6&rezfile=results/Overall.html
http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Primoz Gricar | SLO | Aeros Combat L 13 | 3890 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 3616 |
3 | Gerd Doenhuber | GER | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 3606 |
4 | Peter Kejzar | SLO | Aeros Combat L | 3436 |
5 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 3422 |
6 | Franc Peternel | SLO | Aeros Combat | 3285 |
7 | David Shields | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 2780 |
8 | Stanislav Galovec | SLO | Aeros Combat | 2771 |
9 | Flemming Lauridsen | DEN | Litespeed S 4.5 | 2741 |
10 | Matjaz Cater | SLO | Icaro Laminar MC | 2327 |
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5 topics in this article: Flemming Lauridsen, Gerolf Heinrichs, Jamie Shelden, Primoz Gricar, Thomas Weissenberger
The 2009 Hang Gliding Worlds, comparison
The Worlds
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Bruce Kavanagh|Christian Ciech|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Gary Wirdnam|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Icaro 2000|Jeff O'Brien|Jeff Shapiro|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Julia Kucherenko|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Thomas Weissenberger|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2009|Zac Majors
"Comparison is the source of all unhappiness." ~Soren Kierkegaard.
The 2008 pre-Worlds:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
10 | Jeff O'Brien | USA | Wills Wing T2 154 | 2883 |
17 | Davis Straub | USA | Wills Wing T2 - 144 | 2623 |
21 | Gordon Rigg | GBR | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 2492 |
23 | Attila Bertok | HUN | Moyes Litespeed 5 | 2422 |
48 | Jeff Shapiro | USA | Wills Wing T2 144 | 1955 |
51 | Zac Majors | USA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1916 |
88 | Derreck Turner | USA | Moyes Litespeed S5 | 1231 |
I built a lot of expectation into my head having accomplished this result compared to 117 other pilots flying in the pre-Worlds. I felt good about flying in Laragne and was quite happy with my result (sixteenth in the line of losers). Scott Barrett won the pre-Worlds and was obviously elated.
Gordon Rigg felt that the earth was some how kicked off its axis that I had finished ahead of him at the pre-Worlds. He was completely incensed and let me know about it. Attila, the World Champion fell down when he should have stayed up.
The 2009 Worlds:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alessandro Ploner | ITA | Icaro 2000 Z9 | 5046 |
2 | Jon Durand | AUS | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4935 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 4695 |
4 | Zac Majors | USA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4594 |
5 | Gordon Rigg | GBR | Moyes Litespeed S 4 | 4581 |
6 | Antoine Boisselier | FRA | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 4568 |
7 | Dustin Martin | USA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4558 |
8 | Nene Rotor | BRA | Wills Wing T2 C -144 | 4556 |
9 | Dan Vyhnalik | CZE | Aeros Combat L 14 | 4547 |
10 | Manfred Ruhmer | AUT | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 | 4535 |
11 | Christian Ciech | ITA | Icaro 2000 Laminar 14 Z9 | 4534 |
15 | Carl Wallbank | GBR | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4294 |
20 | Mario Alonzi | FRA | Aeros Combat L 13.5 | 4213 |
23 | Attila Bertók | HUN | Moyes Litespeed S 5 | 4165 |
26 | Bruce Kavanagh | GBR | Wills Wing T2C | 4040 |
28 | Jeff O'Brien | USA | Wills Wing Tee Two See | 3946 |
28 | Gerolf Heinrichs | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 3946 |
38 | Robert Reisinger | AUT | Moyes Litespeed RS 4 | 3620 |
46 | Scott Barrett | AUS | Airborne C4 13.5 | 3334 |
50 | Christian Voiblet | SUI | Aeros Combat 12L | 3282 |
56 | Blay Jr Olmos | ESP | Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 | 3022 |
67 | Gary Wirdnam | GBR | Wills Wing T2C | 2684 |
74 | Jeff Shapiro | USA | Wills Wing T-2C 144 | 2389 |
80 | Julia Kucherenko | RUS | Aeros Combat-L | 2261 |
82 | Davis Straub | USA | Wills Wing T2C - 144 | 2140 |
89 | Oleg Bondarchuk | UKR | Aeros Combat | 1847 |
Jonny was very close to Alex and won a day. Zac could have easily come in third and I feel partially responsible for him losing a hundred points on the second to last day. When we were all together (with Jonny also) on the ridge southwest of Aspres climbing slowly five minutes before the second start window almost at cloud base, I mentioned on the radio that if we ran out of time and lift before the start we should go west to the clouds and mountain over there. This suggestion was perhaps too influential because that is what Zippy did right after I made the suggestion. It really wasn't time to make this move, and he lost 500' to 1000' on us at the start which was a handicap that kept him behind the whole way.
Zac, who was added to the team as the fifth member when registration was again opened, turned in the best performance by an American only missing goal on the two days when the task was stopped.
Gordon Rigg was restored to his rightful place and the world got back on its axis. You might remember that Gordon was denied a place on the British team then got back on with Robin Hamilton couldn't make it to the Worlds. He then out performed all his teammates as well as being on the task committee. I'm sure that he feels quite vindicated.
Dustin Martin flew well and consistently and was rewarded with a seventh place finish. Two Americans in the top ten, which hasn't happened since the Worlds at the Owens Valley. The US team had its best finish since then also.
Manfred was so far ahead in points to most of the field that when he bombed out on the last day, he only dropped to tenth.
Christian Ciech was at one point in the lead having captured the lead from Manfred. Then he made a crucial error going back to restart on a day that was stopped before the task was ended. This cost him big time. He was likewise not near goal on the second to last day when the task was stopped. He looked quite crestfallen after these events but tried to be supportive in his actions if not his expression for his former student and friend Alex Ploner, and for the whole Italian team.
Carl Wallbank, after a poor landing near me on the second to last day when we were all just trying to make it over the ridge at Mison, had forty stitches in his leg and a broken pinky. He then flew the last day and made goal. He was able to launch off the steep north side. He before and later said that he likely wouldn't have launched at all from the shallow south side.
Mario Alonzi was ranked number one quite a few times in the last year, but in his home country against the best in the World he was twentieth.
Attila Bertok landed short a few times, and was unable to defend his crown as World Champion, to the disappointment of the Hungarian team. He finished about like he did last year.
Bruce Kavanaugh placed third on the British team after being added as the fifth pilot. The British team won the last World Championship in Big Spring, Texas but finished behind the US here in France.
Jeff O'Brien won the first day and was the early leader, but didn't keep up the pace and dropped back after taking later start times on days that he should have gone with the big gaggle, then hitting the no fly zone, and not making it to goal on the last day. He also just missed getting to goal on the previous day to be in ahead of the stop time.
Gerolf Heinrichs and Robert Reisinger, perpetual top finishers (but not quite right at the top) were way down below their and our expectations. Gerolf got not too far on the last two days, but finished well on others, except for getting stuck on one day and coming to goal fortieth.
Scott Barrett finished well off the pace of his previous year's efforts, in spite of using smart tactics (going around the turnpoint when we went west of Pic de Bure) which won him the pre-Worlds.
Christian Voiblet finished second on one day behind Christian Ciech when he took the lead from Manfred, but didn't get far on other days and landed short on the final day.
Blay, inspite of doing very well in Australia and often doing better than Jonny apparently didn't fly one day (I don't know the reason) and in general did not do as well as expected after beating Jonny in the Spanish nationals.
Gary Wirdham landed early at Camping Montéglin on the last day after feeling that the air conditions were too rough.
Jeff Shapiro did not do as well as he expected getting some poor late starts and dropping out in weak conditions on a couple of days and being held up on launch one day. He didn't improve his relative performance over his efforts at the pre-Worlds. I'm quite sure that he feels he has no one to blame but himself.
Julia was the top placing women. She destroyed her first glider and then flew another one. She could use help with landing technique, although it may also be associated with the problem of being relatively short and light in hang gliders that are not made for such people if they wish to pass the DHV certification.
Me, I dropped like a stone, essentially due to very poor decision making related to strong emotions that nudge me in the wrong direction. The emotions overcome any of my limited abilities to cogitate in stressful situations. Deep breathing might help. I might go into more details later if I think that they will be of any use to the reader in dealing with their own situations. We'll see.
Oleg Bondarchuck was suffering from back problems.
23 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Attila Bertok, Bruce Kavanagh, Christian Ciech, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Gary Wirdnam, Gerolf Heinrichs, Gordon Rigg, Icaro 2000, Jeff O'Brien, Jeff Shapiro, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Julia Kucherenko, Manfred Ruhmer, Oleg Bondarchuk, Robert Reisinger, Robin Hamilton, Scott Barrett, Thomas Weissenberger, Wills Wing T2C, Worlds 2009, Zac Majors
Death on the mountain
June 16, 2008, 2:30:51 pm +0200
Death
Too little room between the glider and the mountain.
Gerolf Heinrichs|Thomas Weissenberger
Gerolf Heinrichs «Gerolfontour» writes:
Task two here at the Europeans, and yes, the Litespeeds are still winning (Elio Cataldi took the day), but I am not leading anymore :-(
However, this seems all a little insignificant right now, as Swiss Top Aeros Pilot Richi Meier unfortunately died today, crashing onto a mountain plateau, after tumbling and not having enough altitude to successfully deploy his chute. We are still collecting all available information from potential eye witnesses, so at this stage it would be too early for conclusions.
As you can imagine everyone here is quite sad. Richi was a fun guy and despite only around for a few years already quite popular among the pilots.
Official notice here.
Provisional task results of the 101.3km task saw 25 pilots in goal at Annenheim.
1. Thomas Weissenberger (AUT) – 1.58:29
2. Michael Friesenbichler (AUT) – 1.58:43
3. Elio Cataldi (ITA) – 1.59:15
Find results here. They weren't fully updated as of 2 PM Monday (local time UTC + 1).
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Attila number 1
Ranking
It's Australia if you want to be at the top
Adam Parer|Andreas Olsson|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Chris Jones|CIVL|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Joseph Salvenmoser|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Robert Reisinger|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Thomas Weissenberger
http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1
rank | name | nation | points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Attila Bertok | Hungary | 302 |
2 | Jon jnr Durand | Australia | 300 |
3 | Gerolf Heinrichs | Austria | 285 |
4 | Oleg Bondarchuk | Ukraine | 282 |
5 | Mario Alonzi | France | 269 |
6 | Michael Friesenbichler | Austria | 262 |
7 | Bruno Guillen | France | 260 |
8 | Andreas Olsson | Sweden | 255 |
9 | Balazs Ujhelyi | Hungary | 246 |
10 | David Seib | Australia | 238 |
11 | Robert Reisinger | Austria | 230 |
12 | Lukas Bader | Germany | 213 |
13 | Adam Parer | Australia | 211 |
13 | Steve Moyes | Australia | 211 |
15 | Brett Hazlett | Canada | 202 |
16 | Oliver Barthelmes | Germany | 200 |
17 | Kraig Coomber | Australia | 191 |
18 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Austria | 184 |
19 | Fabien Agenes | France | 183 |
20 | Rohan Holtkamp | Australia | 182 |
20 | Scott Barrett | Australia | 182 |
22 | Raymond Caux | France | 180 |
23 | Chris Smith | USA | 174 |
24 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Germany | 173 |
25 | Carl Wallbank | UK | 172 |
26 | Chris Jones | Australia | 171 |
27 | Jon Gjerde | Norway | 168 |
28 | Thomas Weissenberger | Austria | 164 |
29 | Olav Opsanger | Norway | 161 |
30 | Len Paton | Australia | 157 |
69 | Antoine Boisselier | France | 96 |
69 | Davis Straub | USA | 96 |
19 topics in this article: Adam Parer, Andreas Olsson, Attila Bertok, Brett Hazlett, Chris Jones, CIVL, Corinna Schwiegershausen, David Seib, Davis Straub, Gerolf Heinrichs, Joseph Salvenmoser, Kraig Coomber, Oleg Bondarchuk, Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes, Robert Reisinger, Rohan Holtkamp, Rohan Taylor, Scott Barrett, Thomas Weissenberger
Flytec Championship »
Mon, Jan 29 2001, 11:00:02 pm EST
Thomas Weissenberger
Steve Kroop|Thomas Weissenberger
Steve Kroop|Thomas Weissenberger
Steve Kroop USAFlytec@aol.com writes:
Betinho is registered by Moyes as was Thomas Weissenberger, Gerolf and Attila. We have plenty of tugs secured so we may go over the original 90 competitors.
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