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2015 World Championships »

March 16, 2015, 9:01:46 EDT

2015 World Championships

The Austrian team's view

video|World Championships 2015

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March 14, 2015, 11:16:40 pm EDT

2015 World Championships

The podium

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php


Photo by Jörg Bajewski

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March 12, 2015, 9:40:58 pm EDT

2015 World Championships

Last two tasks canceled

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Final results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7298
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7185
3 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 6563
4 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 6521
5 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 6436
6 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 6358
7 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 6273
8 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 6165
9 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes RS 4 6132
10 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 6130

Italy first, France second, Australia third, Austria fourth, the USA fifth.

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March 12, 2015, 11:11:52 EDT

2015 World Championships

Antoine and Christian

Christian Ciech|Facebook|World Championships 2015

Rain yesterday.

Antoine coming into goal at the Worlds.

Christian Ciech VS Antoine Boisselier

Antoine writes:

I couldn't catch up with this guy!

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March 12, 2015, 7:37:11 EDT

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

The French team's blog (in French, of course):  http://equipe-france.deltaplane.org/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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Accident at the ⁢2015 World Championships »

Wed, Mar 11 2015, 9:16:02 am EDT

At the goal field

Accident

Jamie Shelden|Steve Blenkinsop|World Championships 2015

The British team writes:

All pilots were instructed not to fly to goal due to an accident in the goal field needing a helicopter. However we are now told that the task was not stopped. So pilots ignoring the very effectively distributed instructions not to fly to goal, were able to score more points than those sensibly obeying!

The radio message did not say that this was a temporary thing and when questioned the radio operator told me the task must have been stopped given the instructions he was as giving out. Then I told Wayne the task was stopped. I was wrong to do that. I should have let Wayne interpret this seemingly unambiguous message himself. Prior to that I had texted and tried to call the meet director but got no reply. Probably busy getting that radio message wording 'right' talking to someone else eh? Most pilots had landed at 80-90 k due to conditions. Only the slow pilots or late start and slow (Zac) could be in a position to obey or ignore the instructions given. Only Wayne was still airborne for us. Zac gained a huge and unfair advantage from this. Wayne and others were disadvantaged. Only the team with their team leader in goal could find out the true situation. Now it seems the radio message was completely misleading and it is the wording of that that all the arguments will be about.

However the task was stopped due to an accident in goal after about ten had finished. Christian Vioblet broke his shoulder landing. Steve Blenkinsop was also slightly injured there.

Jamie Shelden writes:

The task wasn't stopped… goal was closed for a few minutes to get the helicopter in and out for Christian, but there was no one anywhere near landing there anyway, so it didn't effect anything.

British Hang Gliding Team writes:

In many ways the organization has been great here. But in many ways it is the most sadly compromised event I have so far witnessed. Due to the way this incident was handled the stop procedure was not correctly followed. Therefore the only thing that can happen if the rules are correctly applied is that the task is zero' d. However the successful publicity side is what is driving everything here so following the rules will be too much of an embarrassment in front of too many people. Unless a team wants so much to be hated that they make a protest.

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March 11, 2015, 8:58:31 EDT

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

The French team's blog (in French, of course):  http://equipe-france.deltaplane.org/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 10, 2015, 10:59:13 pm EDT

2015 World Championships

Results from Task 8.

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Steve Blenkinsop|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015|Zac Majors

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 8:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Gerd DÖNHUBER GER Moyes RX 3.5 02:13:41 990
2 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:14:52 966
3 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes RS 4 02:16:02 958
4 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:18:04 944
5 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:18:07 937
6 Franz HERRMANN SUI Aeros Combat 02:19:42 928
7 Alonzi MARIO FRA Aeros Combat C 02:23:04 911
8 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:26:36 908
9 André DJAMARANI GER Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:24:24 902
10 Steve BLENKINSOP AUS Moyes RX 3.5 02:25:09 900
11 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 02:29:10 884
12 Aldo ROHLFS MEX Moyes RS 4 02:43:38 835
13 Zac MAJORS USA Wills Wing T2C 03:49:20 696
14 Christian PREININGER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:43:27 685

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7298
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7186
3 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 6564
4 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 6523
5 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 6441
6 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 6359
7 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 6274
8 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 6165
9 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes RS 4 6133
10 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 6132

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March 10, 2015, 10:58:32 pm EDT

2015 World Championships

Leader board for task 8.

Christian Ciech|Manfred Ruhmer|World Championships 2015

Fifteen in goal today.

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

So many landed in one spot about 86 kilometers into the task.

Pos Name Time/Dist
1 DNHUBER 02:13:41
2 VYHNALIK 02:14:53
3 UJHELYI 02:16:02
4 ANTOINE 02:18:04
5 CIECH 02:18:07
6 HERRMANN 02:19:43
7 MARIO 02:23:04
8 DJAMARANI 02:24:24
9 BLENKINSOP 02:25:10
10 RUHMER 02:26:37
11 VOIBLET 02:29:10
12 ROHLFS 02:43:39
13 PREININGER 03:43:27
14 MAJORS 03:49:21

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March 10, 2015, 8:33:40 EDT

2015 World Championships

Results from Task 7.

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:30:42 929
2 Roland WOEHRLE GER Moyes RX 3.5 01:32:46 879
3 Jonas LOBITZ NZL Moyes RS 4 01:32:50 872
4 Glen MCFARLANE AUS Wills Wing T2C 01:33:04 865
5 Grant CROSSINGHAM GBR Moyes RX 3.5 01:33:24 857
6 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:34:18 850
7 Filippo OPPICI ITA Wills Wing T2C 01:34:27 844
7 Zin PIERO FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 14.1 01:34:32 844
9 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 01:37:28 815
10 Carl WALLBANK GBR Moyes RX 3.5 01:37:38 802

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6361
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6242
3 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 5872
4 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 5866
5 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 5680
6 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 5618
7 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 5496
8 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 5393
9 Filippo OPPICI ITA Wills Wing T2C 5378
10 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes RX 3.5 5277

Carl Wallbank launching yesterday:

USA team drops to fifth.

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March 10, 2015, 8:33:13 EDT

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

The French team's blog (in French, of course):  http://equipe-france.deltaplane.org/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 9, 2015, 7:02:02 pm EDT

2015 World Championships

Leader board for task 7.

Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|World Championships 2015

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Pos ID Name Time/Dist
1 141 CIECH 01:30:42
2 122 WOEHRLE 01:32:47
3 182 LOBITZ-J 01:32:51
4 183 MCFARLANE 01:33:02
5 136 CROSSINGHAM 01:33:23
6 167 ANTOINE 01:34:18
7 137 OPPICI 01:34:28
8 171 PIERO 01:34:31
9 159 VOIBLET 01:37:27
10 144 WALLBANK 01:37:36

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March 9, 2015, 9:09:25 EDT

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

The French team's blog (in French, of course):  http://equipe-france.deltaplane.org/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 8, 2015, 8:17:03 EDT

2015 World Championships

Results from Task 6.

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Manfred Ruhmer|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:59:59 1000
2 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 02:14:44 836
3 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 02:21:11 814
4 Reisinger ROBERT AUT Wills Wing T2C 02:21:05 808
5 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:22:54 798
6 Takashi SUNAMA JPN Aeros Combat GT 02:23:16 779
7 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:22:57 777
8 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes RX 3.5 02:25:21 758
9 Daniel VELEZ COL Wills Wing T2C 02:25:19 752
10 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes RS 4 02:25:47 739

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5432
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5392
3 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 5189
4 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 5117
5 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4915
6 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 4872
7 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 4865
8 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 4763
9 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 4744
10 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4658

Larry Bunner writes:

I communicated with Manfred tonight about his decision to go right of course line before heading to the last turnpoint and then goal. He stated that it didn't look good ahead so he flew perpendicular to the course line to climb again in the convergence while the others continued into the wind in worse conditions. He climbed to over 4000 meters before heading out and was able to easily make goal.

The USA hung in there at fourth place three points out of 13,318 ahead of Austria.

UPDATE: Krzysztof GRZYB actually made goal. This hasn't shown up in the scoring so far.

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March 7, 2015, 10:36:52 pm EST

2015 World Championships

The leader board for Task 6.

Manfred Ruhmer|World Championships 2015

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Pos ID Name Time/Dist
1 176 RUHMER 01:59:59
2 189 BENEŠ 02:14:44
3 135 ROBERT 02:21:05
4 198 BERTOK 02:21:11
5 167 ANTOINE 02:22:55
6 114 PINTO 02:22:57
7 57 SUNAMA 02:23:16
8 45 VELEZ 02:25:20
9 53 Salvenmoser 02:25:22
10 148 UJHELYI 02:25:47

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March 6, 2015, 10:45:55 pm EST

2015 World Championships

Results from Task 5.

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015|Zac Majors

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:39:43 1000
2 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:39:44 993
3 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes RS 4 02:47:04 908
4 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 02:48:46 898
4 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 02:48:38 898
6 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 02:49:37 876
7 Zac MAJORS USA Wills Wing T2C 02:50:25 875
8 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes RX 3.5 02:50:19 872
9 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 02:51:17 856
10 Roland WOEHRLE GER Moyes RX 3.5 02:52:32 844

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4730
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4594
3 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes RX5 4375
4 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 4281
5 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 4265
6 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 4191
7 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4138
8 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 4115
9 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 4035
10 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3924

The USA has moved into fourth place.

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March 6, 2015, 9:31:25 pm EST

2015 World Championships

The corrected leader board results

Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|World Championships 2015

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Pos ID Name Time/Dist
1 167 ANTOINE 02:39:43
2 141 CIECH 02:39:44
3 148 UJHELYI 02:47:04
4 198 BERTOK 02:48:39
5 159 VOIBLET 02:48:44
6 106 DURAND-J 02:49:37
7 53 Salvenmoser 02:50:20
8 105 MAJORS 02:50:25
9 122 WOEHRLE 02:52:30
10 187 VYHNALIK 02:53:54

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March 6, 2015, 7:24:55 EST

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|Suan Selenati|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Suan.

Christian coming into goal on Day 4:

136 km/hour. Thanks to Urs.

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March 6, 2015, 6:49:44 EST

2015 World Championships

The results after four days

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:17:23 995
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:19:20 963
3 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 02:20:19 944
4 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:20:43 929
5 Alonzi MARIO FRA Aeros Combat C 02:21:51 921
6 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:21:28 919
7 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 02:25:06 887
8 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:25:20 878
9 Davide GUIDUCCI ITA Wills Wing T2C 02:25:27 875
10 Suan SELENATI ITA Wills Wing T2C 02:25:32 873

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3737
2 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3593
3 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 3526
4 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3476
5 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes RX 3.5 3389
6 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 3363
7 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3333
8 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 3315
9 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 3292
10 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 3257

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March 5, 2015, 8:25:44 pm EST

2015 World Championships

Why are these leader boards so different?

http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/1943

This is what I saw as I watched Flymaster live tracking as these pilots came into goal:

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

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March 5, 2015, 6:24:36 pm EST

2015 World Championships

Christian Ciech wins the day again

Christian Ciech|Manfred Ruhmer|World Championships 2015

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Followed by Antoine, Petr, Manfred, Mario and then the hoards

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March 5, 2015, 7:25:26 EST

2015 World Championships

Where to find stuff

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

British team Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Hang-Gliding-Team/1024182677610087

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 5, 2015, 0:04:51 EST

2015 World Championships

The results after three days

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015|Zac Majors

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:20:52 1000
2 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 02:23:50 945
3 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Tec 02:23:55 941
4 Zac MAJORS USA Wills Wing T2C 02:31:31 877
5 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:33:38 863
6 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:34:44 858
7 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 02:34:16 857
8 Carl WALLBANK GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:35:34 848
9 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:36:31 824
10 Grant CROSSINGHAM GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:38:13 823

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2742
2 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 2688
3 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2632
4 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2601
5 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 2598
6 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 2583
7 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Tec 2534
8 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 2408
9 Glauco PINTO BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2407
10 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 2399

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March 4, 2015, 9:18:12 pm EST

2015 World Championships

Things return to normal

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|World Championships 2015

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Leader board as of 8:19 PM EST, sort of shows Christian winning, Jonny third, Zac fourth, Manfred fifth, Pedro sixth, Antoine seventh, Wallbank, eighth. Twenty eight in goal.

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March 4, 2015, 10:05:12 EST

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The results after two days

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C|World Championships 2015

http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:36:46 1000
2 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 02:37:11 984
3 Suan SELENATI ITA Wills Wing T2C 02:55:19 877
4 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:57:01 871
5 Dan VYHNALIK CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:57:12 865
6 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 02:57:17 864
7 Peter NEUENSCHWANDER SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 03:00:56 848
8 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 03:01:37 842
9 Balazs UJHELYI HUN Moyes Litespeed RS 4 03:01:40 838
10 Steven BLACKLER GBR Moyes Litespeed RS 03:06:43 815

Cumulative:

Pedro first, then Attila, and Rudy.

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 1831
2 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1792
3 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 1785
4 Boisselier ANTOINE FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 1774
5 Suan SELENATI ITA Wills Wing T2C 1773
6 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 1739
7 Peter NEUENSCHWANDER SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 1668
8 Petr BENEŠ CZE Aeros Combat 09 1636
9 Christian VOIBLET SUI Aeros Combat C 1617
10 Jonny DURAND AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Tec 1590

Rudy launching.

Gerd in 13th and Manfred in 15th.

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March 4, 2015, 8:17:43 EST

2015 World Championships

Day two, task 2

Manfred Ruhmer|World Championships 2015

Vicki reports Manfred and Christian with broken VG ropes, getting up into their control frame to attempt to fix the situation.

See the links to the results (preliminary available now) above.

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March 4, 2015, 8:16:10 EST

2015 World Championships

Day three, task three

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, twitter: https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

Jamie Shelden, US team leader, blog: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

Corinna's blog: http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html (source of more links)

Best live tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Organizer's updates: https://www.facebook.com/alas.del.hombre

Facebook event updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/669719349768361

Preliminary results: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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Bad parameters

Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

https://twitter.com/naughtylawyer

In the team leader briefing now- results will change - they were apparently using some PG parameters and that's being fixed.

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March 3, 2015, 11:11:34 EST

2015 World Championships

Rumors

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|World Championships 2015

The rumors are:

1) LAURENT THEVENOT is rumored to have thrown his chute (Jonny apparently saw it and saw that he was okay) after tumbling.

2) The scores are not correct (how incorrect is not clear to me), which is why they haven't been put on line yet.

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March 3, 2015, 8:38:06 EST

2015 World Championships

The results from day one

Belinda Boulter|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|photo|Suan Selenati|World Championships 2015

Maybe the results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

Picture of results.

Rudy Gotes wins the first day. Leading points made the difference.

Rudy, Christian, Manfred, Gerd, Seppi, Attila, Suan.

They all started at 2 PM.

Belinda says that this is revenge for all the European competitions where the local pilots know where all the secret sites of lift are. Rudy got twenty leading points on Manfred and Christian and thirty on Gerd. Time and arrival points (and, of course, distance points) very similar.

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March 3, 2015, 8:34:22 EST

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Tumble confirmed

Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

The biggest scare of the day was Laurent Thevenot's tumble near the Pinon right around the time of the first start. He got his chute out and landed with only very minor injuries according to the official reports. We're all happy for that - there's no sweeter pilot out there. What's really strange is that he's flying with a tail, so it's hard to imagine how that could have happened...hoping to hear more details tomorrow.

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March 3, 2015, 7:37:47 EST

2015 World Championships

Day two, task 2

Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

Jamie Shelden, US team leader: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html

Best tracking: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 2, 2015, 11:52:28 EST

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No delay

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

A review of the delayed feed was carried out this morning at the team leader briefing. The result is that all data will be live from now on in this competition.

The pilots are now on the way to takeoff and we expect provisional task details quite soon.

Yesterday's practice highlighted a few technical issues, mainly caused by the systems we were using to delay the data. These have now been fixed and we expect today's tracking and scoring to run smoothly. Also there was a problem in the communication of the task details which resulted in an incorrect task being set for a large part of the day - this has been addressed and extra checks have been put in place to prevent a repeat of this problem. The FAI Hang Gliding World Championship 2015 begins today - we hope you enjoy the competition.

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March 2, 2015, 8:43:55 EST

2015 World Championships

The first day, task 1.

Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

British team blog: http://www.flycloud9.co.uk/index.php?id=6

Jamie Shelden, US team leader: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

Live Tracking: http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html

Organizer's news: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/news_detail.php

Results: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/results.php

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March 1, 2015, 6:00:04 pm EST

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Tracking and more

Jamie Shelden|World Championships 2015

http://www.fastretrieve.com/FAI/liveupdate.html

Fly master: http://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=518

Jamie, US team leader, is on the case: http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/

Sunday was the official practice day and apparently it showed that things are disorganized.

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Estados Unidos in Valle

Sat, Feb 28 2015, 10:31:41 am MST

The 2015 US National team at the World Championships

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Mon, Dec 1 2014, 8:20:53 am PST

Eight pilots from the US

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Robin Hamilton|USHPA|World Championships 2015|Zac Majors

http://www.faihgworldmex.com/pilotlistmai_2015.php

pilot US NTSS ranking
Zac Majors 1
Mike Bilyk 2
Robin Hamilton 4
Bruce Barmakian 5
Krzysztof Grzyb 7
Matt Barker 9
Bill Soderquist 16
Derreck Turner 17

http://www.ushpa.aero/competition/ntss1/index.php

No Alex Ploner.