http://www.paraglidingworldcup.org/node/2005/398

http://www.fastretrieve.com/worldcup/download/

http://www.paraglidingworldcup.org/node/10817

http://vimeo.com/36065307

http://andre-comps.blogspot.com/

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Eighty-three-year-old Dodson was a pioneer when he started hang gliding almost 40 years ago. He tried paragliding, but on one of his maiden flights he went into an unexpected spiral dive after launching from 3,500-foot Kagel Mountain, about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. "If I'd hit the side of the hill then, I would've been mush," he said.

In his late 60s at the time, he decided to stick with the wing he knew. He doesn't fly as often as he'd like these days because of back and respiratory trouble. So he gets his fix accompanying fellow members of what he calls the "Sylmar Senile Senior Soaring Society" to the top of the mountain in a 1988 Dodge van with 381,000 miles on it.

His last flight was on his birthday in October. "I got pretty winded getting into the harness, and winded again walking over to the launch," he said, standing at the edge of the cliff with the San Fernando Valley spread out more than a thousand feet below and the downtown skyline peeking over ridges to the south.

"But once I was in the air, and the weight was gone, I could do it," he said. "I was fine."

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Yes, there was at least one reserve if not two thrown yet again today. Jack Brown, USA, I think.

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An effort using ultralight planes to coax essentially orphaned whooping cranes all the way from Wisconsin to their wintering grounds in Florida has ended for the season. The problem this time isn’t a possible violation of Federal Aviation Administration rules, but rather the birds themselves.

"The birds haven’t been cooperative," said Liz Conde, a spokeswoman for Operation Migration, the group that organizes the flights. "The birds are refusing to follow the ultralights any further."

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Here is a beta version of XC Planner version 2: http://xcplanner.appspot.com/

What's new:

- it should work on your mobile phone (iPhone/Android)
- you draw your flight, and XC Planner calculates the maximum score
- support for all XC leagues, and auto-detects your country's league
- speed and duration calculations
- airspace (thanks to Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange)
- thermals (thanks to ParaglidingNet, Switzerland only, but more countries coming)
- waypoint downloads include precise altitudes
- more download formats
- transfer your flight to your mobile phone by clicking on "Share" and then scanning the QR code
- much more...

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Among our 23 pilots, 10 claimed their flights on OLC; they achieved 14 of more than 300km tasks (max 421km), 32 of more than 250km, 42 of more than 200km: an average of 6 OLC claimed flights per pilot, average distance per flight 244km, average duration per flight 6h10 (max 8h48)! Flights' log.

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