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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020
25 Apr, 2020 - 01 May, 2020, Travesio/Meduno, Italy
Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/info/details__info
The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy, at its 4th edition, is a FAI 2 competition (Hang Gliding class 1, class 5, Sport class) which takes place in a flight zone well known by European pilots. It is also part of the big flying area which have hosted the XXII Hang Gliding World Championship.
The flight area is mainly in the foothill but, depending on weather conditions, it is possible to fly also in the Alps and in the flatland. There are different takeoffs; two of them are in Slovenia and can be chosen in case of changeable weather.
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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019
Results for the final day
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 03:02:25 | 995 |
2 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar | 03:02:34 | 988 |
3 | Peter Neuenschwander | Aeros Combat | 03:03:17 | 951 |
4 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T3 | 03:08:05 | 936 |
5 | Benedikt Braun | Aeros Combat | 03:19:13 | 853 |
6 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 | 03:20:58 | 839 |
7 | Arturo Dal Mas | Wills Wing T2C | 03:23:02 | 829 |
8 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed | 03:27:16 | 810 |
9 | Roland Woehrle | Moyes Litespeed | 03:39:21 | 769 |
10 | Andrew Hollidge | Wills Wing T2C | 03:42:04 | 757 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 1982 |
2 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar | 1925 |
3 | Peter Neuenschwander | Aeros Combat | 1920 |
4 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T3 | 1841 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 | 1767 |
6 | Arturo Dal Mas | Wills Wing T2C | 1556 |
7 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 1506 |
8 | Roland Woehrle | Moyes Litespeed | 1465 |
9 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat | 1428 |
10 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed | 1416 |
8 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, competition, Filippo Oppici, Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019, Marco Laurenzi, Suan Selenati, Wills Wing T3
Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019
The weather turns
competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_5
Pilots are already on takeoff. Weather seems perfect today, so we expect to go in the air early in the afternoon for a consistent task.
Because pilots weren't assigned Flymaster trackers through Airtribune, live tracking on Airtribune doesn't work for this competition. Follow the pilots on the Flymaster web site.
The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636
You can see the Replay from yesterday here: https://airtribune.com/play/4032/2d at the two times faster speed (compared to the Flymaster web site). The Airtribune replay uses the IGC files found here: https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results. The Airtribune Replay user interface is vastly superior to the Flymaster Playback user interface. It does have a problem with screen clutter on cell phones.
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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019
Results
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results
Task 2 (a 40 kilometer task starting at almost 4 PM):
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Primoz Gricar | Aeros Combat | 01:11:30 | 389 |
2 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 01:13:12 | 370 |
3 | Anton Moroder | Icaro Laminar | 01:13:40 | 367 |
4 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T2C | 01:16:06 | 362 |
5 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar | 01:16:17 | 352 |
6 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C | 01:16:27 | 350 |
7 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 01:19:07 | 342 |
8 | Peter Neuenschwander | Aeros Combat | 01:24:04 | 328 |
9 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat | 01:27:09 | 317 |
10 | Joost Eertman | Icaro Laminar | 01:27:58 | 315 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 982 |
2 | Peter Neuenschwander | Aeros Combat | 965 |
3 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar | 932 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C | 923 |
5 | Anton Moroder | Icaro Laminar | 920 |
6 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T2C | 900 |
7 | Marco Laurenzi | Icaro Laminar | 853 |
8 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat | 817 |
9 | Joost Eertman | Icaro Laminar | 786 |
10 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed | 770 |
8 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, competition, Filippo Oppici, Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019, Marco Laurenzi, Primoz Gricar, Suan Selenati
Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019
Mostly canceled tasks
Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|video|weather
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_4
Wednesday is a possible recovery day due to all the bad weather.
Pilots are on the takeoff, we had rain during the morning but we plan a late task in the afternoon, when weather should improve enough for a go.
Pilots will have a briefing at 13:00
The first flying day: https://youtu.be/VPP3_Cdnou0
The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636
Task has started for all classes. It's a 40 km task for class 1 and 5, and 15 km for Sport class.
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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019
One task so far
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Suan Selenati
https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_2
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peter Neuenschwander | Aeros Combat | 01:22:01 | 637 |
2 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 01:23:18 | 612 |
3 | Alessandro Ploner | Icaro Laminar | 01:27:53 | 580 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C | 01:28:20 | 573 |
5 | Matjaz Klemencic | Moyes Litespeed | 01:28:29 | 569 |
6 | Davide Guiducci | Icaro Laminar | 01:29:21 | 565 |
7 | Anton Moroder | Icaro Laminar | 01:31:12 | 553 |
8 | Andrew Hollidge | Wills Wing T2C | 01:32:22 | 546 |
9 | Arturo Dal Mas | Wills Wing T2C | 01:34:44 | 539 |
10 | Suan Selenati | Wills Wing T2C | 01:33:55 | 538 |
6 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, Christian Ciech, Davide Guiducci, Filippo Oppici, Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019, Suan Selenati
Florida Report
Andreas "Ernst" Becker|Australia|Bill Bennett|Chris Wills|communication|Florida|Oz Report|sailplane|technology|towing|trike|Ulrich Schneider|Wills Wing|Worlds
http://www.davisstraub.com/Glide/questair.htm
A little gust front, clouds, a little rain.
No flying at either park that we saw.
There are four Ecuadorian hang glider pilots at the Wills Wing Demo Days (round trip is $345) and it great to see them here lending an international flavor to the events. The Oz Report has inspired them to put up a forum for Ecuadorian pilots and they have a local version of the Oz Report. I sure hope that I can inspire more communication both locally and internationally between pilots.
We also got to see Ernst Schneider, who was the head of the German flex wing team, at the Worlds in Australia in 1998. We knew that he had moved up to Invermere in the Columbia Basin in British Columbia (Canada) and set up a sailplane port. He was flying a hang glider for the first time in a number of years (towing right behind me) and was looking forward to getting a rigid wing hang glider and was purchasing a trike at Sun ‘n Fun.
There were Israeli pilots (one, a physics professor), and Canadian pilots and even pilots from the northeast of the US at the Wills Wing Demo days.
They put on a great dinner and party on Saturday to show all their appreciation for their customers and their customers (and everyone else also) showed how much they appreciated them. On Friday Chris Wills showed his films from their early southern California flights in 1972.
What I got from Chris’s talk was how much meeting Bill Bennett changed everything for the Wills boys and their friends, as getting a hold of Bill’s kites changed their technology completely. I wasn’t there, but that’s what the pictures and his narration told me. No more hanging from your arm pits, for example. Pilots were actually soaring after that.
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14 topics in this article: Andreas "Ernst" Becker, Australia, Bill Bennett, Chris Wills, communication, Florida, Oz Report, sailplane, technology, towing, trike, Ulrich Schneider, Wills Wing, Worlds
Rigid Performance
Andreas "Ernst" Becker|Christof Kratzner|DHV|Felix Rühle|Flight Design Exxtacy|Mike Eberle|Ulrich Schneider
Christof Kratzner, who, I am given to understand, is the (or a) DHV (http://www.dhv.de/) pilot writes:
When Ernst Schneider was measuring the Exxtacy against the Pegasus, I was the tug pilot only. I wasn’t there in any official DHV capacity. Both gliders where flown by the manufacturer pilots. The DHV never does any performance tests on any hang glider, and the performance is not an issue for certifying process. (The gliders have to have an L/D better 5/1, which I assume without testing.)
I always try to stay out of any performance quotations and luckily it is not necessary in my job. So if the DHV, or my person is quoted like the above it gives me a headache.
(Christof is referencing my statement - (the pilots at DHV found the Exxtacy to be 17.5/1, and I measured it at 17/1) - https://OzReport.com/Ozv3n16.htm.
Where did this information came from?
Felix Ruhle and Mike Eberle (the US Exxtacy distributor).
Anyway, not a big problem, nice of you to do all this work, and provide us with this newsletter. To take part in the performance spiral: My new ragwing has an L/D that is better than the curvature of the earth, so I only can fly it with an opened drogue chute all the time to avoid ending up in outer space, but don’t tell anybody.
OK, I won’t. J
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7 topics in this article: Andreas "Ernst" Becker, Christof Kratzner, DHV, Felix Rühle, Flight Design Exxtacy, Mike Eberle, Ulrich Schneider