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Jonny flies 500 km in Australia

Starting a little after 8 AM. (Canungra, Australia)

Vicki Cain <vicki> writes:

Wednesday 6th December, 2006, Jon Durand Jnr.  Foot launched from his home site at Beechmont, Queensland.  At 8.10 am, with 4 weet bix in his belly, in a 10 kph Southerly he flew for just over 10 hours landing at 6.15 pm, 70 km north of a town called Roma.  A distance of 500 km + some metres, maybe .05

His car and driver Anthony made a round trip of 1650 kms, they arrived back home at 5.30 am Thursday morning.  Jonny will give a full report in the next few days.  And oh he was flying his Moyes Litespeed S 4.

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CIVL Jury sent to re-education camp

They were bad (Morzine, France)

http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/meetings/bureau/2006_nov

At the first Team Leader meeting in the 2006 Paragliding European Championships it was agreed that the penalty for cloud flying would be to receive a zero score for the day.  On one day a complaint was made that pilots had flown in cloud.  Six pilots were scored zero, twelve were given the benefit of the doubt.  The team leaders protested so the pilots were instead penalised 50% of their day score.

However the jury agreed the pilots were guilty of the offence.  FFVL and the BHPA subsequently each sent a complaint.  One question is whether the Jury is allowed to change rules.  Flip spoke with Noel Whittall (Jury President) and it was discussed within the Bureau.  It was decided that the Jury does not have the power to change approved rules and Jury members and trainee members will be reminded of this.

This is a meet where there were apparently fourteen accidents out of 140 competitors.  There were significant complaints about how CIVL handled the local regulations, specifically team size.  Apparently one  of the CIVL folks who will be at the Paragliding Worlds in 2007 was the steward for the test meet for the European Paragliding Championships and therefore heavily involved in those local regulations.  Who might that be?  It would appear to be Leonard Grigorescu.

It sure would be nice to see the steward's report on the 2006 European Paragliding Championships and any replies to it.  I bet that they would make for some interesting reading.

See posts here re the steward.

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The 2007 pre-European Flex Wing Championships

(This topic is in: Dec.11 Dec.8 )

Early in the year in spectacular surroundings. (Greifenburg, Austria)

http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/meetings/bureau/2006_nov

16th – 24th June 2007, Greifenburg (Austria)

http://events.fai.org/hgpg/details.asp?id=4171

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Jamie Shelden puff piece

Naughty lawyer turns into hang glider pilot (Quest Air)

This article has been showing up on the Oz Report web page from the Orlando Sentinel.

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SkyCar - It's back

And you can own it. (Moller International)

http://yummyworks.com/Yummy/ToyDetails.aspx?t=7

Thanks Jesse Benson

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Whooping Cranes

They keep following trikes (Hiwassee Refuge near Chattanooga)

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1021&thread=21140800 Thanks to Peter Batey.

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