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Venues at the World Air Games

(Lago Grande, Italy)

CIVL|Marc Badan

Jean-Marc BADAN «jmb», FAI World Air Games Coordinator, sends two documents taken from the original bid book:

http://ozreport.com/docs/CIVL3.pdf

http://ozreport.com/docs/CIVL4.pdf

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Pre-Europeans in Greifenburg - task four, day five

(Emberger Alm, Austria)

Pre-Europeans 2007

The Results

Daily News:

Day 5 results (task 4): The task was stopped 1hr 55 minutes after the first start gate opened due to the heavy storms on course near Lienz which had developed extremely quickly.  There were reports of pilots going to land being hit by hail and seeing lightning in the vicinity after the task was stopped.

Robert (meteorologist) was watching the radar for developing storms and Wolfgang communicated with air marshals in the vicinity to make a swift decision and then telephoned team leaders to let them know.  Surprisingly, no pilots bicycled their legs in the air as is common when a task is stopped, and which Wolfgang announced for pilots to do at the initial briefing.  Consequently some pilots did not hear of the task being stopped and six pilots who were lucky enough to be ahead of the storm actually flew the 188km to goal.

Official complaints from the Austrian team and some German members were received about the task being scored when the task was stopped and a mandatory start gate had been used.  No results for the task were published and the complaint was upheld, so the task for the day was not valid.

The results I posted in the last issue have been rescinded.

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Pre-Europeans in Greifenburg - day six cancelled

(Emberger Alm, Austria)

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Pre-Europeans 2007|weather

The Results

Corinna writes:

The weatherman predicted a strong south wester and also huge storms ahead of the cold front.  At the moment, we have changing wind directions at the landing field, a clear sign of the foehn.  Lucky that we didn't have to test the day today.

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Curt on a paraglider

(Bear Lake, Utah)

Curt Warren|PG

Curt Warren «curt» writes:

I just spent five days of my USA vacation paragliding in Bear Lake, Utah with Chris Santacroce of Superfly.  If you're ever considering flying a paraglider on a trip (they pack up small), then the over-the-water safety/maneuvers course is a must.

During the week, I witnessed paraglider pilots of all types and levels uploading lots of skills.  Of course, hang gliding couldn't copy this instruction concept entirely, but there is surely room to parallel some of the ideas behind it.

I was thoroughly impressed, had a ton of fun, and felt it was money ($1000) well spent.  After some thought and planning, I'll definitely use a similar version of it with my hang gliding students in Oz.

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Bailey-Moyes Dragonfly Deal

(Big Spring, Texas)

Bill Moyes|Bobby Bailey|David Glover|Dragonfly

David Glover «davidhglover» writes:

Bill Moyes called this evening and would like to know if anyone would like to get a tug or tugs at a discount.  These tugs would be built Bobby Bailey and would get their shakedown flights at the Worlds in Texas this August.  Interested parties should call Bill in Australia in the next two days.  Bill is trying to help support the pilots and at the same time provide a good deal.  Bill Moyes phone number +61 43 398 5722.

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