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2022 Swift/Archaeopteryx World Championships »

Thu, Aug 4 2022, 6:11:48 pm GMT

Task 7, Thursday

Aériane E Swift Lite|Aériane Swift Lite|Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx|Swift/Archaeopteryx Worlds 2022

Blog: https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-world-hang-gliding-class-2-championship/blog

Well, the day turned out a little different from forecast. Rapid and very strong over-development right across the task area and isolated showers appearing almost anywhere has meant that the task has had to be stopped.

Results here: https://civlcomps.org/event/hgclass2worlds2022/results

Live tracking here: https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=4616

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Distance Altitude
(m)
Adj. Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Aériane Swift Lite 134.31 +1722 142.9 415.8
2 Jacques Bott FRA Aériane Swift Lite 128.72 +1598 136.7 403.1
3 Franz Pacheiner AUT Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 128.99 +1145 134.7 398.0
4 Günther Tschurnig AUT Aériane Swift Lite 114.65 +1914 124.1 367.0
5 Pascal Lanser FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 112.28 +1730 120.8 356.2
6 Philippe Harignordoquy FRA Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 111.52 +1379 118.4 346.8
7 Rob Van Der Poel LUX Aériane E Swift Lite 109.86 +1588 117.8 344.0
8 Brian Porter USA Aériane E Swift Lite 105.58 +1915 115.2 331.6
9 Patrick Chopard FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 106.30 +1484 113.5 322.6
10 Phil Schroder AUS Aériane Swift Lite 101.55 +1643 109.8 300.9
11 Michel Pate FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 40.58 0 40.6 78.7

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Aériane Swift Lite 6015.0
2 Franz Pacheiner AUT Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 5530.0
3 Jacques Bott FRA Aériane Swift Lite 5490.0
4 Patrick Chopard FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 5159.0
5 Brian Porter USA Aériane E Swift Lite 4800.0
6 Philippe Harignordoquy FRA Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 4391.0
7 Rob Van Der Poel LUX Aériane E Swift Lite 4371.0
8 Pascal Lanser FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 4083.0
9 Günther Tschurnig AUT Aériane Swift Lite 3469.0
10 Phil Schroder AUS Aériane Swift Lite 3396.0
11 Philippe Bernard CHE Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 1870.0
12 Michel Pate FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 1731.0

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2022 Swift/Archaeopteryx World Championships »

Wed, Aug 3 2022, 8:39:24 pm GMT

Task 6, Wednesday, a shorter task

Aériane E Swift Lite|Aériane Swift Lite|Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx|Swift/Archaeopteryx Worlds 2022

Blog: https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-world-hang-gliding-class-2-championship/blog

Results here: https://civlcomps.org/event/hgclass2worlds2022/results

Live tracking here: https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=4616

Only 250+ km. Nine in goal. Manfred in a little over three hours. They started launching at 11:15 am.

Brian Porter, Swift 3.

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Time Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Aériane Swift Lite 03:11:16 251.7 986.0
2 Jacques Bott FRA Aériane Swift Lite 03:27:23 251.7 859.7
3 Franz Pacheiner AUT Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 03:36:06 251.7 808.1
4 Brian Porter USA Aériane E Swift Lite 03:45:59 251.7 729.8
5 Patrick Chopard FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 03:48:49 251.7 713.6
6 Philippe Harignordoquy FRA Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 03:54:38 251.7 685.8
7 Günther Tschurnig AUT Aériane Swift Lite 03:59:46 251.7 655.3
8 Phil Schroder AUS Aériane Swift Lite 04:25:10 251.7 519.5
9 Rob Van Der Poel LUX Aériane E Swift Lite 04:33:43 249.4 482.3
10 Michel Pate FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 185.5 294.2
11 Pascal Lanser FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 90.0 158.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Aériane Swift Lite 5599.0
2 Franz Pacheiner AUT Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 5132.0
3 Jacques Bott FRA Aériane Swift Lite 5087.0
4 Patrick Chopard FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 4836.0
5 Brian Porter USA Aériane E Swift Lite 4469.0
6 Philippe Harignordoquy FRA Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 4044.0
7 Rob Van Der Poel LUX Aériane E Swift Lite 4027.0
8 Pascal Lanser FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 3727.0
9 Günther Tschurnig AUT Aériane Swift Lite 3102.0
10 Phil Schroder AUS Aériane Swift Lite 3095.0
11 Philippe Bernard CHE Ruppert Composite Archaeopteryx 1870.0
12 Michel Pate FRA Aériane E Swift Lite 1652.0

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2022 Swift World Championships »

Mon, Jul 25 2022, 9:05:31 pm GMT

Starts tomorrow, Jul 23 - Aug 6, 2022

Swift/Archaeopteryx Worlds 2022

Results here: https://civlcomps.org/event/hgclass2worlds2022

Live tracking here: https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=4616

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Vågå Open Hang Gliding Competition 2022 »

Tue, Jun 28 2022, 4:43:45 pm GMT

Results

Manfred Ruhmer|Olav Opsanger|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|picture|Vågå Open Competition 2022|video

https://airtribune.com/vaga-open-hanggliding-competition-2022/results

Jonny wins Class 1 and Manfred wins Sport. Everyone got something to drink.

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Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022 »

Tue, Jun 7 2022, 5:23:07 pm MDT

34th, Sport Class

Alexandre Ferreira|Manfred Ruhmer|Serge Mainente|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/xxxiv-valerio-albrizio-trophy-2022/results

1 Manfred Ruhmer
2 Alexandre Ferreira
3 Serge Mainente

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2022 British Hang Gliding Nationals

Thu, Jan 13 2022, 12:25:34 am GMT

Combined with the 2022 Chabre Open

Airtribune|British HG Championships 2022 & Chabre Open 2022|competition

https://airtribune.com/british-hang-gliding-championships-and-chabre-open/info

The Hang Gliding Competitions Panel is pleased to announce that all required permissions have now been granted, and the arrangements for the 2022 British Hang Gliding Nationals are confirmed. The competition will run in parallel with the 2022 Chabre Open. Details for the combined event are as follows:

Dates: 7th - 13th August 2022
Location: Laragne, France
Competition base: Camping de Montéglin, 26 Av. de Montéglin, 05300 Laragne-Montéglin

Entry fees can be paid by PayPal via Airtribune.

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British Hang Gliding Competition Panel Meeting

Mon, Nov 22 2021, 3:31:56 pm GMT

2022 Competition Season

Andrew "Andy" Hollidge|British HG Championships 2022 & Chabre Open 2022|British Open Series 2022|Carl Wallbank|competition|Darren Brown|Dave Matthews|French Nationals 2022|Gordon Rigg|Grant Crossingham|Jon Sacre|Kev Gay|Malcolm Brown|Ollie Moffatt|Simon White|Stephen "Steve" Penfold|Steven "Steve" Blackler

Darren Brown writes:

This weekend we held the annual British Hang-gliding Competition Panel meeting. This is where decisions are made regarding the next year's competitions, team selection etc.

The panel has several official positions, which have now been filled as follows:

- Chair: Darren Brown
- Vice Chair: Kev Gay
- Secretary: Simon White
- Treasurer: Steve Penfold

The British team for the 2022 European Championships was also selected:

- Grant Crossingham
- Gordon Rigg
- Andy Hollidge
- Carl Wallbank
- Dave Matthews
- Steve Penfold

Reserves:

- Darren Brown
- Steve Blackler
- Malcolm Brown

Additionally we decided what competitions we intend to hold in 2022 and set dates / locations. Please note all this information is PROVISIONAL and is based upon obtaining the relevant permissions and ensuring the necessary organisation is available and in place. I am posting this in order to keep you informed but be aware some of this information (including dates) could change. The panel are now working on putting everything in place in order that we can officially finalise and publish the dates and locations.

British National Championships:

- Local Organiser: Ollie Moffatt
- Location: Laragne, France
- Dates: Sunday 7th August to Saturday 13th August 2022
- The competition is aimed at backing directly onto the French Nationals, which will be held in Aspres, France from 31st July to 6th August 2021 (2022?). This will give pilots the opportunity to enter both competitions.

British Open Series Round 1:

- Local Organiser: Kev Gay
- Location: Yorkshire Dales
- Dates: Sunday 29th May to Saturday 4th June 2022.

British Open Series Round 2:

- Local Organiser: Jon Sacre
- Location: Builth Wells, Wales
- Dates: Sunday 4th September to Saturday 10th September 2022.

As new chair, I would like to thank all the panel members for their support and efforts over this weekend and in particular to the new panel members, Gordon, Ollie and Nick, who injected new ideas and enthusiasm.

We will keep you informed of any new developments and confirm dates/locations for the competitions as soon as we are able.

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Manfred Flew a Single Surface Glider

Wed, Jun 9 2021, 10:20:15 am MDT

For the Victory

Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer

The new PIUMA, light in the air, big in the sky.

It’s not just lightness that makes it special.

PIUMA was designed with the objective of creating a basic hang glider with even easier and reliable behaviour, while also giving more demanding pilots an improved performance.

PIUMA offers better characteristics at medium-low speeds.

PIUMA transmits piloting sensations that are appreciated from the first moments of flight.
Its excellent behaviour at low speeds guarantees an easier and safer launch, easier entry into a thermal, and stability both in turns and in straight flight.

PIUMA attains a greater maximum efficiency when compared to its predecessor, above all when fitted with the new wingtips (optional).

PIUMA is also distinctive for its lower weight (up to 1 kg lighter than the RX2) and speed of assembly.

PIUMA is ideal for all pilots who are looking for a hang glider that is easy to use, with zero complications.
It is also the ideal hang glider for learning at the practise slope.

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33rd Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2021, day 3

Sun, Jun 6 2021, 9:37:57 pm GMT

Task two

Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Tullio Gervasoni|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2021|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/xxxiii-valerio-albrizio-trophy-2021/results

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:07:31 1000.1
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:09:28 962.3
3 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 02:16:56 887.7
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 02:16:59 876.1
5 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 02:17:55 864.8
6 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 02:18:08 855.0
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:27:12 802.5
8 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12.7 02:29:03 780.5
9 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 02:33:32 756.4
10 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 03:00:35 624.9

Final:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 998.4 1000.1 1999
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 967.0 962.3 1929
3 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 917.3 756.4 1674
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 657.1 876.1 1533
5 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12.7 678.5 780.5 1459
6 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 469.5 887.7 1357
7 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 346.8 864.8 1212
8 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 0.0 855.0 855
9 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 0.0 802.5 803
10 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 0.0 624.9 625

Task 2 Sport:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Piuma 01:25:47 1000.0
2 Pawel Wierzbowski Vega Mx 01:47:56 776.5
3 Serge Mainente Wills Wing SPORT2 02:17:59 576.7
4 Francisco Munoz Garcia Wills Wing U2 02:24:52 513.0
5 Federico Romani Icaro 2000 Mastr 02:28:12 488.3

https://www.xcontest.org/world/fr/vols/details:tahiidelta/2021-06-6/12:01

Final Sport:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Piuma 887.7 1000.0 1888
2 Pawel Wierzbowski Vega Mx 646.5 776.5 1423
3 Francisco Munoz Garcia Wills Wing U2 557.4 513.0 1070
4 Serge Mainente Wills Wing SPORT2 479.2 576.7 1056
5 Federico Romani Icaro 2000 Mastr 461.1 488.3 949
6 Cesare Cristoforoni Icaro Mastr 281.6 271.7 553

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33rd Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2021, day 1

Sat, Jun 5 2021, 5:11:17 am GMT

Pilots making goal

Christian Ciech|competition|Manfred Ruhmer|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2021

https://airtribune.com/xxxiii-valerio-albrizio-trophy-2021/results

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 01:36:51 998.4
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:38:32 967.0
3 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:42:28 917.3
4 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12.7 02:16:14 678.5
5 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 02:15:20 657.1

Task 1 Sport:

Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Piuma 00:45:36 739.8
2 Pawel Wierzbowski Vega Mx 01:11:40 557.5
3 Francisco Munoz Garcia Wills Wing U2 01:23:45 490.1

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More Withdrawals

May 27, 2021, 3:20:23 pm MDT

Austria and apparently Australia

Manfred Ruhmer|PG

Herbert Siess <<herbert.siess>> sends:

Dear Mister Lukanov,

After intense internal evaluation of all known respectively unknown relevant issues, the Austrian Hang Gliding Team together with the Austrian Aero-Club had to decide not to participate in both Championships planned to be held in July in North Macedonia.

On one hand, we still face uncertainty as regards pandemic issues. Not only in the host country, but also in our country and the rest of the world.

On the other hand, we have major concern in sporting fairness, as many countries may not be able to participate and it would be a nice sign to all of them to postpone the championships to 2022.

We really appreciate and respect all your efforts to organize these championships, but at the same time we stand for fair play and really wish to participate in secure and fair games together with the rest of the world.

With best regards,

Herbert SIESS
Head of Hang and Paragliding

Manfred KUNSCHITZ
Secretary General

Martin Henry on Cloudbase Mayhem

December 17, 2020, 9:31:49 pm EST

Martin Henry on Cloudbase Mayhem

Funny stories from a rigid wing pilot

Barry Bateman|Charles "Charlie" Baughman|Cloudbase Mayhem|Davis Straub|Jeff Shapiro|Joe Bostik|Kari Castle|Larry Tudor|Manfred Ruhmer|Martin Henry|PG|record|sailplane|video

https://www.cloudbasemayhem.com/episode-134-martin-henry-and-a-lifelong-pursuit

Need a good laugh? Kick back and listen to Martin Henry, a Canadian Hang glider and paraglider who has been chasing free flight for almost 50 years tell some really fun stories. Get on board as we travel around the world, learn how to thermal, fly triangles, retrieve your significant other, fly competitions, compete in the Worlds, compete in the Worlds with your wife!, figure it out, crash, tumble, bomb out, send it, learn, and drink a nice cold beer with your friends after yet another wonderful day at cloudbase. This episode is pure joy and filled with tons of great advice and great learning thrown in regardless of where you are in the sport and what you hope to achieve. This show is an educational, entertaining BLAST- enjoy!

Check out this 1975 era hang gliding footage that Martin put together (this was off a VHS folks, so give the sound a break!).

The issues in the beginning. “This product can, may, and will fail under any and all circumstances.”
“These gliders were VERY efficient at killing people”
How Mansfield, WA came into the picture
The wow factor of the Washington flats
Open distance on a rigid wing spells “divorce”
Flying triangles
The golden age of hang gliding
What got folks back in the day and “survivor bias”
What the early pilots brought from sailplane knowledge
Competition flying
Flying in the Alps
Maintaining control- don’t give up
Is paragliding heading the same way as hang gliding?
“Flying? You should maybe think about taking up heroin!”
The early days of comps
Chasing records
Hard lessons
Fear injuries and how to recover
How relaxed should we be? You have to feel the wing
How does our relationship with risk change as we age?
“I’m a mediocre pilot who tries to fly safely”. Don’t ignore your own skills, or the reality of the day.
Transferable skills between different aircraft
Don’t be a passenger
Stories of Larry Tudor (1:23:00)
Be wary of distraction- getting away with it until you don’t

Mentioned in the Show:

Malin Lobb, Bastienne Wentzel, Nik Hawks, Miguel Gutierrez, Larry Tudor, Stewart Midwinter, Charlie Baughman, Kari Castle, Willi Mueller, Chris Mueller, Alex Raymont, Wills Wing, Moyes, Aeros, Barry Bateman, Davis Straub, Brad Gunnuscio, Nicole McLearn, Joe Bostik, Manfred Ruhmer, Chrigel Maurer, Jeff Shapiro, Russ Ogden, Jeff Farrell, Randy Campadore, Chris Santacroce

Radical Maneuvers

October 12, 2020, 10:22:06 MDT

Radical Maneuvers

Manfred's

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer

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Weed Whacker

November 18, 2019, 6:20:08 pm PST

Weed Whacker

Needs a little more power

Gerolf Heinrichs|Manfred Ruhmer

Petr Polách writes:

We have a guy in the Czech Republic that attached this to his Combat (with propeller) and has been flying with it like you do with Mosquito motorized harness. He attached it to his keeland the thing has been maintaining altitude after launching from the hill.

Gerolf Heinrichs does a calculation:

What a great idea. The problem is simply the power output. Here a simply calculation. If your takeoff weight on a hang glider is about 130kg~1300N and your sink rate is about 1 meters/second it means you would need thrust power of 1300N*1m/s=1300Watts. That would seem quite doable, even with a rather shitty motor arrangement, right?

The problem is the efficiency losses. If you need 1300Watts to eliminate sink, you will need about 3000Watts mechanical to battle the propeller efficiency, and about 4000Watts to make up for the electrical efficiency.

So with a motor controller battery arrangement that can output 4000Watts electric, you have a realistic chance to break even. If however you want to fly out of an airfield a common minimum climb rate of 2m/s is called for (otherwise you end up scratching out low over the unlandable for too long for comfort) and 3m/s is probably the better bet. But lets stay with 2m/s climb - that is 3 times what you need for holding the zero. Means in reality you would like to have 12kW of electric power.

Compare this to what Manfred puts on his electric trikes - I think he goes with 17kW for the single seater light weight trike which might have lift off weight of about 160-180kg.

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Electric Scooter Towing

October 16, 2019, 12:44:11 pm MDT

Electric Scooter Towing

Manfred teaching

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|scooter tow|video

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/videos/2409858059269457/UzpfSTEyNzQ0MzU0NjA4NDoxMDE1NzczMTc1MTU1NjA4NQ/

2020 Worlds - registration opens on Sunday »

August 30, 2019, 5:08:34 pm MDT

2020 Worlds - registration opens on Sunday

Individuals should start registering then.

CIVL|Manfred Ruhmer|Wilotree Park|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Worlds 2020

https://airtribune.com/2020-world-championships/info/details__info

Registration is open on Sunday, September 1st (probably around 9 AM Mountain Daylight Time or sooner - not Australian time and day but maybe Venice).

We are in discussions with CIVL (president and hang gliding committee) as to how fairly to distribute the slots among the Sport Class, Women's, ATOS (Class 5), and Swift (Class 2) Classes. It will depend on who signs up and the first allocation on January 19th. We expect that there will be lots of slots available for Sport Class pilots (as the biggest group).

Sport Class pilots will be restricted to those who have WPRS Sport Class points: http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=9&. At the moment that is 329 pilots. Also, open class pilots will not qualify. Here's the current rule in the local rules:

Sport Class Pilots must not have finished in the top 2/3rd's of a non- Sport Class Category 1 competition held since January 2014, for entry into sport class. Pilots must have WPRS sport class points.

We say current rule because we are in discussions with CIVL about the exact wording in the local rules. You can download the local rules from the link above. You'll find additional eligibility requirements there.

This is an aerotowing competition. If you do not have aerotowing skills you need to get them or come a week early and get signed off by our instructors.

We are especially encouraging women to come to this Women's Worlds. There hasn't been a Women's World Championship in a while and this is an opportunity to become the Women's World Champion.

We've held a Class 5 World Championship at Wilotree Park previously and pilots had a great time flying in Florida. We hope to see them return to a favorite venue.

Will Manfred and others from Europe show up in their Swifts? We have a good number of US pilots flying Swifts and we look forward to their participation.

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2019 Worlds »

July 26, 2019, 12:13:01 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the last task on Friday

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Flavio Tebaldi|Gary Wirdnam|John Simon|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Last task:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar GER 02:55:12 925
2 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 02:50:17 911
3 Christian Ciech ITA 02:52:04 883
4 Gerd Doenhuber GER 03:05:26 866
5 Gary Wirdnam GBR 03:10:29 833
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 03:16:45 785
7 Filippo Oppici ITA 03:16:03 781
8 Glauco Pinto BRA 03:16:40 775
9 Alessandro Ploner ITA 03:16:58 771
10 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 03:17:13 765

Final Results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 8156
2 Christian Ciech ITA 8073
3 Primoz Gricar GER 7951
4 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 7635
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 7586
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 7463
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 7351
8 Grant Crossingham GBR 7219
9 Filippo Oppici ITA 7150
10 Gerd Doenhuber GER 7134

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/26/trionfo-azzurro-ai-mondiali-di-deltaplano-doppietta-nellindividuale-con-ploner-e-ciech-vittoria-nella-classifica-a-squadre-la-sesta-consecutiva/

The last task of the XXII Hang Gliding World Championships, which saw the triumph of the Azzurra expedition led by team leader Flavio Tebaldi both in the individual and team rankings, has just ended.

On the eve of the last task, Italy came from a "control" day, as explained by Tebaldi himself: "We are excited about the result achieved, it was not at all easy to place this one-two - it was our team leader. National - The first few days went just fine and we confiscated important points in view of the final rush that we knew to be dangerous because the opponents would have become familiar with the skies of Friuli Venezia Giulia and consequently they would have given us a hard time. With the advantage accumulated, on Wednesday we preferred to stay in the group in order not to risk, considering also the weather conditions and so we managed to impose ourselves with Ploner and Ciech in general, while in the fundamental team ranking was the contribution of everyone, including the boys that did not bring points but gave us an immense hand in terms of communication: victory is also due to them. I allow myself to make the media aware, because this is an amazing team, perhaps the most medal in the Italian scene, with ten world titles and six consecutive teams, eight individuals (if we count the four earned in the rigid wings) and five Europeans: I believe that these numbers and these guys deserve more respect and consideration".

Today's last scheduled task saw the riders travel 101 km, launching from Mount Cuarnan and then landing at the San Mauro airfield in Premariacco, a town near the enchanting Cividale del Friuli. For statistics lovers, the organizers in this world have succeeded in proposing three different take-offs and landings, thus being able to prepare days of competition with the highest competitiveness, with a weather that has almost always kissed Friuli Venezia Giulia and with a virtually unanimous consensus regarding the quality of the work performed.

Considering the serious risk of thunderstorms that were spreading from Cadore towards Carnia with possible involvement of the high Friuli plain even before evening (among other things with winds coming from different directions), the day's buoys were placed towards Spilimbergo, Cividale del Friuli and Osoppo, with a final landing as mentioned in Premariacco. Immediately after the start, a group of pilots preferred to go into the mountains to avoid being in trouble then; a second one instead, has taken the shortest and fastest way on the plain, going however in difficulty after a few kilometers. Finally, a handful of deltaplanists have decided to take advantage of the second start gate and we talk about the Italians Selenati and Ciech, Majors (USA) and Oliveira (BRA): risky decision considering the day but by real bold, hoping to be able to repeat what happened in task 5 with the victory of John Simon (USA), which took place using this tactic.

After just over 30' of the race, the task immediately made it clear to everyone that it would not be a final catwalk, with several pilots closing their world prematurely and among them also the Colombian fort Velez, landed while he was in sixth position. The leaders of the day, flying at a very good altitude above 1600m on average, was formed among others by Smith, Ruhmer, Peter Neuenschwander, Doenhuber and Gricar (with Germany therefore in full fight for the podium), with the Swiss who in short he managed to amplify his advantage over his pursuers proceeding at a rapid pace. Ruhmer found himself in difficulty at an altitude of 400m, finding a thermal not easy to turn and being thus forced to a rather long stop. For Italy, Ciech and Ploner preferred the risk share in the early stages, unlike Kato who found himself in great difficulty. Good race also for Brazil with Rocha, Sandoli and Pinto, present in the top ten and decided to take home the silver in the team standings.

With more than thirty drivers out of goal, the remainder took the leap to shift their trajectory from the plains to the mountains and someone has even trespassed into Slovenia desperately searching for thermals near the buoy near Cividale: Throssell and Mckay have so quickly climbed over all the drivers further south of them, proceeding more than 70km/h towards Osoppo, with the leading group led by Neuenschwander (in front practically throughout the race), Gricar, Doenhuber and Wirdnam. In the meantime, our Ciech and Ploner have come to light and especially for the Folgaria athlete (among his other victories we remember eight times Italian champion), the possibility of climbing over to General Ploner, having exploited the second start window.

At 20km from the finish, Neuenschwander stopped to regain altitude, aware of the fact that a stop would probably have allowed him to close the goal in first position and quickly gaining altitude and speed; Gricar tried to close the gap, thus re-proposing the challenge already experienced at the end of task 9, but finding Doenhuber with breath on his neck. At 5km from the goal, the Swiss had to beat around having too low a altitude, with Gricar at his heels with more than 800m of difference, ready to anticipate him right on top. Neuenschwander continued undaunted but lowered to 150m at 1.8km from San Mauro, hitting the last cylinder but landing incredibly: it was the first big error in the evaluation of the champion that didn't stop him from finishing second anyway. The task was won by the German Gricar, delayed by a few kilometers, who succeeded in bringing home heavy points for Germany together with his teammate Doenhuber. Third is our Ciech, who, starting with the second window, flew very well, but was unable to overtake his fellow countryman Alessandro Ploner, who thus took home the third individual world title after those of 2009 and 2011, with Italy manages to place also the strong Filippo Oppici in the top ten.

The Italian team:

The WGS 84 earth model

July 24, 2019, 3:11:17 pm MDT

The WGS 84 earth model

Will be used at the 2019 Big Spring Nationals

Manfred Ruhmer

Along with the 0.1% error band around turnpoint (and start and goal) cylinders.

Don't make the same mistakes that Manfred just made. Make sure that you have the proper setting on your instrument.

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July 24, 2019, 1:26:35 pm MDT

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Results from the eighth task

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Task eight:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:00:09 977
2 Primoz Gricar GER 01:59:16 968
3 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 02:03:30 917
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:06:34 875
5 Roland Woehrle GER 02:06:43 870
6 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:07:16 864
7 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 02:06:55 857
8 Franz Herrmann SUI 02:07:34 847
8 Andrew Hollidge GBR 02:07:26 847
10 Daniel Velez COL 02:07:19 845

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Greet the Alps that yesterday served as the backdrop for the “infinite” flight of the protagonists of the XXII edition of the Hang Gliding World Championships, the ninth task returned completely to Italy, with a length of 95.5 km to travel from Monte Valinis to Bordon.

The race direction opted for a flight day in the south-western area of Friuli Venezia Giulia, with buoys in Montereale Valcellina, Malnisio and Pian del Cansiglio before the long return to Bordano, anticipated by the last turning point near Buja.

The pilots were able to follow - at least in the initial phase - a line on the mountain ridges, which allowed quite high speeds at the expense of not too generous quotas (in general it flew at 5-600m, much lower than yesterday due to the lack of good thermals).

The first to cross the buoy near Montereale were the Swiss Peter Neuenschwander (author of a very interesting World Championship so far and currently sixth in the individual classification with 5807 points), Franz Hermann and Zac Majors (also yesterday brought to light in the initial phases), however, having to stop before the Piancavallo to take altitude, finding one of the best thermals of the day of about 4m/s.

Ruhmer, the Canadian Smith and also our young Laurenzi, then carried on trying to escape to the Pian del Cansiglio, deviating on the fastest trajectory over the plain, gaining about 3km on the pursuers but having then to make height and consequently re-enter on the own steps. The group formed by the Italians Ciech, Ploner, Oppici, the Brazilians Sandoli and Pinto, Neuenschwander and Ruhmer, managed to climb up to 500m, finding a good current above Castello di Aviano, with Laurenzi having to beaten but managing to recover soon afterwards and turning the buoy near the Piancavallo in the first positions at a reasonable speed.

In the long return to Buja, the competitors have in fact alternated the plain with the mountain, to find the right compromise that would guarantee them adequate speed and altitude without losing too much time. Meanwhile, yesterday's splendid winner Eduardo Oliveira was reported in difficulty, perhaps tried by the fatigues of task 8, which required considerable energy expenditure for all; even worse it went to the Italian Selenati, who played it all for opting for the second start, pulling as much as he could, but unfortunately landing beforehand: a praise, however, due to his resourcefulness.

In the vicinity of Meduno, Ruhmer and Laurenzi have chosen two slightly different trajectories but for both of them the first real moment of difficulty occurred in this world, desperately forced to look for altitude above Clauzzetto. Ruhmer managed to climb the 600m while Laurenzi, after having seriously risked landing outside the goal, entered an appreciable thermal. It went better to the pursuer group formed by Ciech, Kato, Ploner, Pinto, Velez and Oppici, who over Travesio, opting for a line on the ridges, have reached a safety altitude of about 1000m of altitude guaranteeing the possibility of flying calmly until next turning point and then aim directly at landing.

The turning point came a few kilometers later: while most of the pilots, once they gained altitude, deviated towards the south, Neuenschwander and Gricar preferred to continue turning a thermal, which led them to lengthen the route a bit, but allowing them to launch later a few minutes at crazy speed towards Buja's last buoy. On the way to Bordano, a few kilometers away as the crow flies, Ruhmer (who in the meantime had taken the reins of the "paying" group but about 200m above sea level against the Swiss-Austrian duo) was overtaken at more than 80km/h from Gricar, who has thus flown in goal by touching the ground of the landing field first, anticipating the same Ruhmer and Neuenschwander. "Tactical" day for Italy, with Ploner and Ciech respectively sixteenth and seventeenth: waiting for the publication of the official rankings, we will have to watch our back in the last task from Gricar, Alonzi, Crossingham and Neunschwander (these last four fighting for at least for the last step of the podium). Instead, the situation in the team standings should be calmer, where our Azzurri had 1922 points ahead of Brazil and 2326 of Germany ahead of today's task, now winner with Gricar and fifth with Woehrle. Here too the battle for third place is on, with Germany at 16828 points, Japan at 16447 points and Austria at 16387 points, obviously after this task.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 7385
2 Christian Ciech ITA 7190
3 Primoz Gricar GER 7026
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 6852
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 6724
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 6678
7 Grant Crossingham GBR 6634
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 6586
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 6454
10 Filippo Oppici ITA 6369

No pussy tasks

July 24, 2019, 6:08:51 MDT

No pussy tasks

Petr on Tuesday's 200 km task

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Petr Polách writes:

The task worth the world championship!

With comparison of yesterdays task, the previous ones looked like a demo version! Pilots finally got what they came for. We used beautiful start Val Seca, started 13:15 and pushed with maximum altitude under 10,000ft limit north to Emberger Alm area.

The gaggle was tight, a combination of aggressive flying and turbulent thermals (5ms north wind) forced me to leave cores soon and push for the distance. I was using ridge lines a lot, not wasting time to reach cloudbase.

Before Lienz, in well known super turbulent washing machine place I climbed 3000+ meters and jumped to Silian ridge. The champions went for a rocky line, south from Lienz taking different approach - using main alpine ridge to reach TP.

The Silian ridge was blown over by valley winds and the north flow. I kept pushing to the place that allowed me to finally jump to north facing surfaces. There, just 6 km from TP I finally climbed close to cloudbase and tagged it.

90km was still ahead.

From Dan I quickly found that with my line I am in the lead in front of fastest gaggle! (While Eduardo was taking his own approach to win. Well done mate.)

I kept pushing alone but the late time and with 3/4 cloud cover the area wasn't working well!

The champions, like hunting dogs, caught me quickly and 36km before goal, they showed me how a proper finish is done. I tried to fight to the end, but my line, even though marked with best clouds around gave me no thermals. Under Weissensee ridge I was 200m AGL in valley wind, desperate for even zero climb.

It took me 30 minutes to climb up close to the trees and from there I pushed towards goal, gliding 22km straight.

For the first time during this competition I am satisfied with my performance, I ended up with 87 leading points.

This kind of task is what a world class comp should be about! (Not short, kind of random gaggle tasks where one mistake or balls decision puts you all around the results. This is not paragliding.

Said by Attila Bertok: "NO PUSSY TASKS!"

Manfred missed a turnpoint by 60 meters, due to the wrong Earth model setting in his instrument.

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July 23, 2019, 7:09:09 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the seventh task, day nine

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Malcolm Brown writes:

Goal field at the Hang Gliding World Championships in northern Italy. I'm feeling tired after 5 hours flying and a 201km flight to goal. This probably ranks as one of my most memorable flights in 30 years of flying hang gliders. The mountains we flew over today are absolutely stunning. I had my doubts about coming here but I was so wrong.

Matjaz Klemencic writes:

Big task was called today at 200 km taking us from Cercivento north to Austria, over Greifenburg, then to Sillian and back to a bit further from Hermagor. I got to the takeoff where at briefing I noticed my Oudie didn't charge yesterday. I must have mistakenly put the cable in and it was 50% battery was ready for 200km. I managed to charge it a bit with power bank from Evan, thank you so much for that.

Since I was running around making this all happen I somehow managed to make a bigger start cylinder which put me back already at start. I flew quite good after and was with Manfred and rest of the gang after Greifenburg. Here the decision of the day was made as we flew over the valley into shitty area with slow speed and horrifying place to fly over so low. I lost the group and had scratched the ridge to get to the Sillian turnpoint.

Then I flew back to Lienz where I got to 3000m and the direct line was tempting again. I crossed the ridge at about 20 m and found out the landing areas are quite further out then expected. Quite some struggle but I made it out of the trap and went ridge racing towards Hermagor. I was too happy with the nice lift on the way and flew to easily only to find that last part is in complete shade and without any lift. I decked in at about 10k short.

Pilots took other lines that were far better today so I am once again not really happy with my performance. Every day I start good, fly a part with good gaggle but somehow I lose the tempo and get myself somewhere in some shitty place. At least I got my wing to climb well today finally, did some strange settings on my wing with turning things the opposite way it should be. Cost me quite some climbing during the race. Now resting time as tomorrow is yet another task.

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Eduardo Oliveira BRA 04:17:20 986
2 Grant Crossingham GBR 04:20:13 956
3 Primoz Gricar GER 04:21:40 938
4 Alessandro Ploner ITA 04:36:04 868
5 Filippo Oppici ITA 04:36:15 864
6 Genki Tanaka JPN 04:36:57 854
7 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 04:35:52 846
8 Mario Alonzi FRA 04:37:38 845
9 Christian Ciech ITA 04:39:46 842
10 Gerd Doenhuber GER 04:40:12 836

Eduardo, Grant and Primoz got way ahead of everyone else. Manfred landed out, or so the scoring says so. U have him landing at goal. Maybe he missed a turnpoint?

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/23/il-brasile-nella-task-piu-lunga-del-mondiale-suona-la-carica-con-oliveira-secondo-in-goal-crossingham-terzo-gricar/

"When the going gets tough the tough begin to play." In the aftermath of the extraordinary feat of the Italian Alex Ploner, who in fact dominated task 7 with a masterpiece of wit and tactical wisdom seasoned with a clear knowledge of the Friulian skies, the race direction opted for a task not only incredibly long (well over 200km) but even with a landing outside the Italian borders, in neighboring Austria. The dress rehearsals had already been staged a few days ago, with the turning point of task 4 - won from the Alto Cassino di San Cassiano - in the area of Caporetto, in Slovenia. The pilots unanimously asked to be able to engage in even more demanding flights and, once the weather allowed safety on all fronts, they were satisfied with a real mission to the limit of the impossible.

Before moving on to the story of the day, one can not but spend words of praise for Flyve, AeroClub Italia and AeroClub Lega Piloti, who with so many efforts have succeeded in giving to protagonists and enthusiasts something never experienced before even in the maximum expression of this sport , or the world championship competition. Absolute novelty also that concerning the take-off: the nearly 120 remaining in the race have "tasted" today another characteristic mountain of Carnia and precisely the Monte Crostis, Valsecca, in the municipality of Ravascletto, taking flight already from a very high altitude at 1900m . Another wonderful place from which they were able to admire a breathtaking panorama, an appetizer of an epic challenge that surely wrote a page about the history of hang gliding.

The Czech Dan Vyhnalik was among the first to come out in the direction of the first mark; the Dutch Tanzer together with the American Zac Majors, opted instead for a different trajectory. Selenati, after about twenty minutes of the race, took the reins of the flight with speeds that reached almost 90km/h and over, taking advantage of the positive effects of the mountain ranges of the district, trying to imitate yesterday's exploits of compatriot Ploner.

The Colombian Daniel Velez together with the Czech Peter Polach (who delighted the public during the daily live broadcast with live images from his hang glider), closed the gap in a short time, as Selenati was forced to stop to gain overtaken share from the big group positioned higher than him. Having left to make the difference and seek redemption, the strong Friulian had to surrender after a few kilometers, landing unfortunately out of goal. At the turning point in the area of Emberg, where practically everyone arrived following the optimized line, the first to turn was the Swiss Neuenschwander, followed by the Japanese Nagusa, Velez, Smith, Polach and also by our Christian Ciech, second in general individual at 168 points from compatriot Ploner.

Another Japanese person came to light shortly after and we talk about Minoru Kato: taking advantage of one of the classic flying styles of gliders called in technical jargon "a dolphin" (which allows not having to search for thermals flying in fact directed towards the goal at variable speed), was the first to gain the third buoy, followed by Polach, Klemencic, Gricar, Ruhmer, Ploner and the young but enterprising Manuel Revelli, later forced to abandon hostilities even before so many others, a clear sign of the great difficulties today. On the long journey to the cylinder including the area of Sillian, a municipality in the Upper Val Pusteria in East Tyrol, the group fragmented and Neuenschwander also opted for a very different line than the head line which instead preferred the trajectory more short.

Ciech, Ruhmer, Klemencic, Ploner, Oppici and the German Gerd Doenhuber composed the head of the race, advancing more than 90 km/h along the crest of the mountains. The Swiss, with great intuition, has accumulated more than 1000m of difference compared to the others, flying sent to over 105km/h and soon rejoining at the head of the race. As happened to Revelli, in the vicinity of this buoy even the strong Brazilian Glauco Pinto had to land, as did Selenati (see above) and Tanzer who had to say goodbye practically at the same time to dreams of glory.

Meanwhile, the splendid day allowed Markel Neiderman of Sweden to reach 4049m of altitude on his Combat GT, practically a record in this World Championship. A few dozen kilometers from the finish, the head of the race - who chose the optimized trajectory - was formed by the Japanese Kato and among others by the Brazilian Oliveira, by the English Crossingham, by the Germans Woehrle and Gricar, by the French Pollet and Alonzi and from our Oppici and Ploner.

Before the final sprint, at Hermagor (minus 25km on arrival), Gricar and Oliviera opted for full altitude (with thermals of even 6m/s); Minoru Kato together with Pollet, authors of a superlative performance up to that point, instead found themselves in great difficulty losing altitude and for the Japanese there was nothing to do but land before their due, when there was very little to the goal. The Brazilian has thus concluded in first goal after more than four hours of flight (entirely covered by the live broadcast on the official FB page), followed by Crossingham and Gricar. First of the Italians in goal Ploner (fifth) followed by Oppici: Brazil plays the charge and warns our National team, called to defend the 1825 points that separated it from the South Americans at the end of yesterday's task. There will be fun and the last two days of competition (we remind you that from tomorrow to tomorrow the final day of rest will take place and for this reason we invite you to follow the updates on the official FB page) will announce themselves not suitable for the faint of heart.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 6554
2 Christian Ciech ITA 6360
3 Primoz Gricar GER 6058
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 5977
5 Grant Crossingham GBR 5827
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 5807
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 5785
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 5701
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 5673
10 Yuji Suzuki JPN 5553

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July 22, 2019, 10:39:20 MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the sixth task, day eight

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Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:41:51 982
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:45:14 942
3 Filippo Oppici ITA 02:51:42 887
4 Primoz Gricar GER 02:52:15 886
5 Christian Ciech ITA 02:52:51 876
6 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:54:19 873
7 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:54:22 860
8 Dan Vyhnalik CZE 02:56:45 857
9 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 02:54:55 854
10 Daniel Velez COL 02:58:16 853

Alex hung with Christian and Manfred but always 1000' or so higher as they approached the second to last turnpoint. When the three of them out in front of all the other pilots headed toward goal (and the last little turnpoint) Christian was a bit too low as was Manfred. Alex with his extra altitude just kept going and was able to get there three to 1 minutes earlier. Extra altitude helps.

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/22/imprendibile-ploner-solo-laustriaco-ruhmer-limita-i-danni-terzo-in-goal-un-ottimo-filippo-oppici/

Start from Mount Cuarnan and after a few kilometers, all the pilots have opted for the full altitude on the nearby and well-known Chiampon, an area that usually always gives very good thermals.

At the "ready to go" Peter Polach (Czech Republic), Mario Alonzi (Brazil), Daniel Velez (Colombia), Yuji Suzuki (Japan) and an Australian athlete, at important speeds already over 80 km/h. Selenati, as has often happened in these days from deep knowledge of the Friulian skies, has almost immediately set a different trajectory, followed also by other pilots.

Proceeding towards the first two buoys located in the area of Treppo Carnico and in that of Rigolato, a group including the Polish Przezdziak has managed to gain altitude, seizing a thermal with values higher than 7m/s able to lead them to almost 2800m of quote.

At the first turn point Arne Tanzer (the Dutch fort once again came to light) showed up; behind him, among others, Daniel Velez, John Smith (New Zealand), Galovec, Peternel and Klemencic for Slovenia and Gervasoni for Italy. Velez was able to immediately dig a discreet groove, taking the reins of the task in the direction of Rigolato, also flying over the "Kaiser" or the Monte Zoncolan, climbed yesterday by many indomitable cyclists participating in the Gran Fondo "Carnia Classic Fuji - Zoncolan".

In a real alpine flight, most of the pilots immediately understood how fundamental it was to continue to gain altitude: to confirm this, before flying over the Fella, several stopped to look for "breath" and at the top of the race the Austrian Ruhmer is brought along with Alonzi and Velez, with Ploner to lead the blue patrol.

In order to avoid unpleasant surprises, at Gemona, most have abandoned the shorter trajectory above the plain, thus flying over the Regional Natural Park of the Julian Prealps, following the ridge that develops for about 50km and that in favorable weather conditions such as those of today, allowed everyone to maintain a safety quota up to the cylinder placed near Slovenia. However, some of the men of the standings have tried to follow the low profile: among them the Slovenian Matjaz Klemencic, the Czech Peter Polach and the Polish Przezdziak, making it very difficult to continue.

In the skies between Nimis and Attimis, while some pilots were forced to land out of goal considering the very selective task (including Przezdziak himself), Italy took command of the flight thanks to Ciech and Ploner. The meteorological situation was fully captured by the leading group, which turned the last buoy a little further away than the optimized line but with stronger thermal guarantees and greater altitude. On the way back to Bordano, when there were only 20km to go, Ploner managed to get Ruhmer and Ciech off the ground by scoring first with a spectacular tack that sent shivers down the ground. Only the Austrian, detached by about 4 'resisted, because from the third onwards the detachments became heavy beyond 10', demonstrating the superlative task carried out by the South Tyrolean. Another Italian, Filippo Oppici, completed the podium with an excellent performance and the German Primoz Gricar came fourth, with Ciech delayed by the lack of "fuel" on the most beautiful but author of a splendid fifth place.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 5686
2 Christian Ciech ITA 5518
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 5511
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 5132
5 Primoz Gricar GER 5120
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 5034
7 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 4961
8 Suan Selenati ITA 4941
9 Grant Crossingham GBR 4871
10 Marco Laurenzi ITA 4837

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July 20, 2019, 10:34:21 MDT

2019 Worlds

A flatland task for the fifth task on the sixth day

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The task:

But most pilots used the hills to find lift then scoot across the flats and back to the hills, showing that the "optimized" course is not necessarily the best course.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 John Simon USA 02:12:57 885
2 Arne Tanzer NED 02:25:32 880
3 Gerd Doenhuber GER 02:25:53 859
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 02:25:31 851
5 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:25:38 848
6 Daniel Velez COL 02:25:44 845
7 Minoru Kato JPN 02:27:28 835
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:27:12 831
9 Primoz Gricar GER 02:26:27 828
9 Christian Ciech ITA 02:27:18 828

John Simon took the second clock twenty five minutes after the 1:45 PM clock. He was 21st into goal.

Nene and Georg Schweier landed in the river bed just outside the goal cylinder getting within 90 and 40 meters respectively. They both made the end of speed section. Their distance points were very slightly less than those who made goal, but their speed points were reduced by 20 percent.

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/20/cambia-lintruso-ma-non-la-sostanza-italia-ancora-protagonista-con-laurenzi-e-ploner-ottimo-lolandese-tanzer/

After the grueling day yesterday (much appreciated by all the pilots also for the encroachment in Slovenia that gave them unique scenarios), today's task has developed from the Valinis mountain to the by now tested Bordano landing, with a covered length of almost 100km, practically all on the plain.

Three buoys are planned, with a sort of "zig zag": after taking off from Valinis, the pilots headed towards the area between Povoletto and Cividale del Friuli (a very large cylinder) and then headed towards Rivoli di Osoppo, Tarcento and finally return to Bordano at the landing field.

The start of today's task has been of fundamental importance since it causes a very different weather situation from yesterday (damp air in the lower layers has led to a reduction in the cumulative base altitude of 1500-1700m against even 2300m yesterday, not allowing pilots to develop immediately a lot of altitude as pointed out by Damiano Zanocco weather manager), the pilots immediately had to choose between the way of the plain (faster but very risky today) and the one that skirted the hills (longer but more likely to find thermal).

A group of about ten pilots opted for the "low street", but the choice was rather risky because after a few kilometers more than someone, including the New Zealander Matthew Barlow, they were forced to land early in the Buja area. The most correct intuition turned out to be that of the group of the best in the standings, with - among others - the Austrian Ruhmer (yesterday penalized for an early start), the Italians Ploner, Laurenzi and Ciech, the Slovenian Klemencic, who proceeded towards the first target at about 1000m altitude with a speed of 55 km/h. Among them were the two Japanese Tanaka and Sunama and the Brazilian top pilot Glauco Pinto, who went on to form the leading group together with the German Woehrle and Ruhmer himself.

In the return to Rivoli di Osoppo, the Dutchman Arne Tanzer, who in a previous task had given a hard time to his opponents, who has opted to fly over the flat area not without risks, forced to stop before reach the second buoy in a desperate search for altitude to continue his adventure. Even the Italian Suan Selenati chose this strategy, managing to maintain an altitude of 500m but still struggling to find altitude.

Pinto, Woehrle and Selenati have won it by turning around the second turn with the best time and continuing the race, or rather the flight, towards Tarcento after about an hour and forty minutes.

In fact, a situation has emerged with three groups: the one farther north that managed to make a great deal, the central one that touched the second mark in the first position and the one further south, which instead took longer to tack towards the last turn point. On the way to Tarcento, once it has gained enough altitude, the small group of Ciech, Ruhmer, Tanzer and Laurenzi veered towards the route chosen by Pinto, Woehrle and Selenati, in the hope of being able to proceed without the last obstacle. Further stops towards Bordano. Between Artegna and Magnano many pilots have benefited from the so-called "service pump", that is a very strong thermal that usually develops in these areas and that allowed the Colombian Daniel Velez to take the lead allatask towards the final part of the race, followed by Tanzer and the Italian Marco Laurenzi, once again among the leaders albeit at his second experience in a world championship, a high hopeful driver for our national team. The Austrian Ruhmer, the Italian Ploner, the Germans Gricar and Doenhuber and the same Laurenzi have embarked on a thrilling pursuit of Velez, with Ruhmer who hired a great duel with the Colombian at around 15km from the finish overtaking and counter-passing, managing to win and quickly gaining precious seconds.

The most beautiful surprise for the public was the group that presented itself above Bordano fighting for the success of the day, made up of more than ten hang gliders that at speeds greater than 100 km/h gave great excitement to the fans: the Dutch Tanzer and the Italians Laurenzi and Ploner were the first three pilots to touch the ground, under the watchful eyes of the team leader Flavio Tebaldi who thus demonstrated, once again if there was any need, the great technical skills capable of getting the off to the Azzurri in the various rankings.

Cumulative:

Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 4704
2 Christian Ciech ITA 4642
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 4569
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 4411
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 4259
6 Primoz Gricar GER 4234
7 Suan Selenati ITA 4191
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 4180
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 4123
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 4075

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July 19, 2019, 11:19:34 MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the fourth task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|photo|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|video|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:45:45 995
2 Christian Ciech ITA 02:47:56 964
3 Primoz Gricar GER 02:48:47 952
4 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:48:14 944
5 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:49:19 939
6 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:50:39 920
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 02:52:40 903
8 Genki Tanaka JPN 03:02:04 847
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 03:02:06 846
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 03:02:14 842

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/19/manfred-ruhmer-ancora-stoico-ma-deve-cedere-al-nostro-alex-ploner-terzo-ciech-che-cosi-completa-la-splendida-doppietta-azzurra/

Tolmezzo, 19th July 2019

In the longest task of this world championship to date, Italy is still a team to beat. Great is the Brazilian Pinto who redeems the landing out of the third day.

After the stop imposed yesterday due to adverse weather that has actually anticipated the rest day (required by regulation after six consecutive tasks), the XXII World Championship of hang-gliding organized among others by Flyve, Aec Lega Piloti and AeroClub Italia is resumed today with the fourth task, which in the usual morning briefing saw the change of take-off location on Mount Cuarnan near Gemona del Friuli. For the landing instead, once again the Bordano airfield was confirmed, one of the many countries (together with Gemona of course) that on the evening of 6 May 1976 it was razed to the ground by the terrible earthquake, but like all Friuli knew be reborn in a short time and leave again.

Today's task was very demanding, at the moment the longest of the World Championship with almost 143km to go all in one go, with Italy called to defend first place in the team general with 8503 points (according to Brazil with 7746 and third Germany with 7367), as well as the individual where in the order Ploner, Ciech, Selenati and Laurenzi find themselves in the top five positions with a single “intruder” the never-Austrian Austrian Ruhmer, ninth in the FAI ranking and holder of ten world titles.

After the splendid departure from Cuarnan (admired by many people with the "upturned nose" from Gemona del Friuli), the first buoy a few kilometers away was that of Artegna, where our Ciech passed first and left behind the Slovenian Franc Peternel, the compatriot Ploner (second in the flight of debut and in that of the day before yesterday) and two other insidious pilots, like the German Gricar (winner of the second task) and the Swiss Neuenschwander (second Tuesday). The hang gliders continued to the turn point in Slovenia, near Kobarid: for the first time in the history of the World Championships, the race was partially carried out in a different state than the host one, surely due to the organization which it was well spent in order to reach this historic goal.

Polach (Czech Republic), Smith (New Zealand), Majors (USA) and another group managed to find an important thermal just a few kilometers from the turn point across the border; Cantesanu, the only Romanian in the race, has lost altitude instead by landing off goal. Behind this group, the excellent Italian (and Friulian) Suan Selenati quickly arrived; the choice of the group was instead to follow the mountain slope, a fitting decision because in a short time they were re-attached to the fugitives at an altitude of about 2000m of height and over 70km/h of speed.

In the return to Trasaghis, where the third buoy was placed, the leading trio was composed of Gricar, Ciech and Ploner, with Pinto, Ruhmer and Neuenschwander (very fast in the stretch in question) to chase. Most of the group even in this phase, preferred to follow the profile of the mountain, which guaranteed their quotas and speeds always worthy of respect.

Ruhmer first touched the third turn point; unlike the stretch carried out up to that moment along the mountain (continuous line with very high average speed), the path towards the last buoy located at 9km from Cividale del Friuli, flying over a hilly area, required an important mental strategy, where fundamental it was the evaluation of the lines: the development of the heaps and also the flight of the birds, were important references - as underlined by the "meteoman" Damiano Zanocco - transforming the competitive challenge into a real chess game.

Ruhmer continued taking altitude following a line able to make him bypass the plain, flying east and also Ciech, Ploner and Gricar, along with the Brazilian Pinto, opted for this choice. Neuenschwander instead chose the trajectory from Cuarnan (today's take-off site) towards the south, about 3 km from the other pilots, climbing well but not quickly and soon being overtaken by the first group just mentioned that in the meantime had reached almost more than 2000m.

Ciech, Ruhmer and Ploner once again composed the leading group flying at 2200m at about 85km/h "at full throttle" towards Cividale; in the Nimis area they found a thermal with good values (more than 4m/s) and took advantage of the full altitude. In the equally fast return to Bordano, Alex Ploner - thanks to a wonderful tactical choice that guaranteed him a stable speed towards landing more than 70 km/h without ever having to stop to resume altitude - he managed to take a good margin of advantage over Ciech and Ruhmer scoring first with a time of 02.45.46 anticipating the Austrian and his teammate, thus putting another important seal on both the individual journey and the Azzurri towards the final goal.

Petr Polach: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2582778105113987/

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 3856
2 Christian Ciech ITA 3814
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 3738
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 3560
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 3487
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 3473
7 Suan Selenati ITA 3448
8 Primoz Gricar GER 3406
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 3318
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 3260

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July 18, 2019, 8:09:35 MDT

2019 Worlds

The German version

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|PG|record|Suan Selenati|weather|Worlds 2019

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/weltmeisterschaften-tolmezzoita-2019/

Thursday, July 18, 2019 - rest day The weather forecast is against a flight day, so the day was already canceled on Wednesday evening!

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 3rd passage - 76 km with destination Bordano

Kajo reports: Flying is the best medicine This morning, no cock woke me, but my back pain. Damn, and I was hoping they would go away overnight. As the youngest member of the team, I feel very old now. But thanks to the loving care of Anna and Regina and with the support of various tablets, it has at least a little better.

Today the organizers wanted to see us on the mountain even earlier. After a surprisingly uneventful, already boring ride, we arrived more than punctual at the start. After the comfortable building a few umbrellas lulled low over the start. Well that did not look so outstanding. And why did we leave earlier? Over time, the conditions improved and it was a small 78 km task tender. You could either fly on direct route through the lowlands or took the detour via the supposedly faster mountains. Like almost everyone else, I opted for the direct route. The day got better with time and we were able to finish quickly.

After Primoz and Roland I came as the third German pilot to the finish and was thus able to make my contribution to the team ranking. To the delight of our driver, a short time later, the other three arrived. Every minute, almost 100 pilots flew to the finish and provided plenty of exciting landing approaches. Fortunately, the Landewiese is so big that you always find a gap between the other dragons.

Much to my relief, my back was much better after the flight. The mix of adrenaline and happiness hormones has probably worked wonders. At dinner (the Uli has conjured a delicious curry) we learn that tomorrow will not be flown. It is bad weather approaching and the organizers canceled the day tomorrow. So let's end the day with a glass of wine quite comfortably and make plans for our first rest day. Greetings from Tolmezzo Kajo.

All pilots are in the air. The time has been running since 14:15. We are just on a cappuccino to look at the live tracking, then go full throttle into the finish to Bordano. Yes, the distances to the starting place and back to the finish are not without!

Exciting finish: Alex Ploner ahead of Manfred Ruhmer and Marco Laurenzi. From us Primoz, Roland, Kajo, Jörg, Semo and Gerd are (in this order) in the finish. Today we were not among the fastest, but we'll see what's on the bottom of the list. Regina.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - Primoz wins the day's victory

Primoz reports: After the first task, I was not completely satisfied with my performance. It was clear, more determination was needed. Task 2 has brought better weather, base up to 2200m and good climbs. The route went back and forth along the hills, with a jump to the north and the goal in Bordano near Gemona.

My start this time was with the first group, although not the highest - homework !! With sparkling decisions, faster gliding and a little luck, I was able to gradually settle from the main pulp, but finally after the Gemona valley crossing. From there we had the lead with Christian. The turnaround behind Tolmezzo has proven to be quite complicated. But Christian seemed to know what he was doing, and in fact we were able to dig ourselves out of the vegetables. In addition, there was the Peter and has shown a great trail back. Straight to the lee of a rocky mountain.

The expected rodeo arrived, which I had survived best and was able to turn up with Peter. Christian stayed a bit deeper while searching for the thermals. At the penultimate turn, 15 km from the finish we met the Manfred, he flew his own route and has overtaken all. When he sees us, he is deep in the direction of the last turn, Peter and I have turned up at the point up to 1900 m, until the final approach calculator 8: 1 has shown. From there, gas was the best tactic. Greetings at home and keep your fingers crossed! Primoz.

3rd place in the team ranking, that's the result of today - yeahh! And thanks to Primoz, who won today's victory of the day ahead of Peter Neuenschwander and Manfred Ruhmer. Gerd flew in 9th place and Roland on rank 27. Kajo and Semo many at the end of the Talwind victim. Now the boys are going to eat pizza, they deserve it. Roland needs his daily Italian ice cream and kajo and I hold the position here at home. Kajo has to treat his lumbago, but he'll get it back tomorrow. I still have a lot to prepare for tomorrow.

Monday, July 15, 2019 - 86 km from Meduno to Bordano

Gerd reports: Airy Travel Day 1 Today the cock crowed early. The competition begins! Getting up at dawn and eating the meal so that we would not get hounded right at the beginning - at least that was the plan. Then we should make a little wrong decision regarding the route, we decided on the way over the highway. Already the driveway cost us the first minutes because of technical problems. This should have been against the time we wanted to leave the highway again, nor the lesser evil. After 25 minutes of waiting time and lane change in the back of our coach, the pilots were slowly nervous and showed, each in his own individual way, signs of mild restlessness. Our estimated time of arrival shifted noticeably in the direction of the planned race start. Arrived at the toll booth, this was then attached to his telephone set and not willing to grant us early passage. But this angered the driver of our coach a lot and he threw him unkind words to his ear. Since the latter was not able to speak the same language, luckily there were no further delays, and we were then able to continue our journey unmolested. The timetable should not turn out to be as strict as announced - despite globalization, Italy has fortunately been preserved. So we could start our intended hang glider flight as hoped with all others.

The weather conditions were not optimal, but despite shadows were updrafts available and you could work out with some initial effort a nice height, from which we began our breezy journey over 87km. The thermal conditions improved and our pack was on the journey at a considerable speed. That this should be better was clear in the further daily routine, as more and more showers poured in the area. Many dragons were able to master the way to the finish. Among them were Kajo, Semo (Georg), Roland, Primoz and myself from our German troupe. Brother Jörg, however, the rain played badly. The showers spread around him and prevented his further journey to the finish. Not only that, when folding his glider, the rain should anticipate the shower that was actually planned in our accommodation. Now that we have finished our supper and have taken our supper, we will lay down and wait for tomorrow's new day. Good night's sleep on all sides, Gerd.

Again we started this morning. First at 8:30 am Teamleaderbriefing, then briefly stopped by our landlady to pick up a modem and then quickly from the direction of Meduno. Our boys left before me, so I had to accelerate. Finally, we wanted to complete the sticker campaign for the leading edges today.

The organizers want to send us out early this morning, because it should overdevelop soon. Anna, Roland's partner drove me. Direct way is announced, which is 5 minutes faster than the highway, says the Navi. I hope I did not miss a speed camera and sometimes I looked aside to see if Anna still had color on her face. But she was brave. I gave gas. After 1:15 minutes arrived at the launch site, everyone was already there, but not our boys. Oh dear, which way have you taken the well? An hour later - finally, the bus turns the corner. It was probably an odyssey. The tolls on the highway did not work at all. Already at the ticket rent went nothing, then when paying at the toll booth… our so quiet driver Uli has probably been a little irritated and accused the quiet calling Mautstellenkassier as Grattler… Thank God he did not understand Bavarian Language, otherwise he would have kept the boys waiting longer.

But luckily the already started paragliders could only sink into the valley and the competition organizers were still waiting with the briefing. Everything in the time frame. At some point, the Meet Director finally called for the briefing: 86 km towards Aviano then the finish to Bordano. Everything was ratzfatz, our boys were fast in the air. This time I could not drive fast enough to get to the finish in time, then there were already about 30 pilots. Including Gerd, Roland, Semo and Primoz. Kajo hit hard and came soon afterwards and that with fancy Vario half way. Thankfully, there are the trackers that still record the track. Jörgi had to land in front of the finish. He took another involuntary shower in the pouring rain. Three Italians won the day today: Christian Ciech ahead of Alex Ploner and Suan Selenati. Greetings from Tolmezzo Regina.

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July 17, 2019, 10:23:51 MDT

2019 Worlds

Day three results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Facebook|Flavio Tebaldi|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|record|Suan Selenati|Tyler Borradaile|video|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Petr Polach: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2579299812128483/

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/live4gopro?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time km/h Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 01:45:52 39.3 993
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA 01:45:46 39.3 987
3 Marco Laurenzi ITA 01:46:46 38.9 953
4 Christian Ciech ITA 01:47:56 38.5 948
5 Suan Selenati ITA 01:48:14 38.4 942
6 Daniel Velez COL 01:48:45 38.2 928
7 David Brito Filho BRA 01:48:37 38.3 923
8 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 01:48:38 38.3 921
9 Arne Tanzer NED 01:50:29 37.6 898
10 Pedro L. Garcia USA 01:51:26 37.3 892

Italy, led by Flavio Tebaldi, is still confirmed as a team to beat, with four drivers scoring in the top five. Only the stainless Austrian Ruhmer resists.

Third task, particularly short, not easy due to the variable weather conditions that have caused difficulties for all the national teams, which have adopted various strategies to try to get by. A very different situation from yesterday, typical "pre frontal" with destabilization in the low strata and a cold disturbance coming from the Veneto region - as explained by the "meteoman" of the organization Damiano Zanocco - has meant that the plain is "awakened", allowing pilots at least partially to be able to risk even the fastest but also risky line.

Selenati immediately took altitude, moving after a few km from the start to more than 1000m, together with team-mate Ciech, Klemenich (SLO), Ruhmer (AUT), Garcia (ESP) and Polach (CZ), trying to exploit the plain towards the first of the two turning points of the day, located in the specific case near Cividale del Friuli, the splendid town founded by Giulio Cesare who became Lombard capital of Friuli in his time. The route then included the return flying over the hilly area of ??the middle Friuli also touching Mount Bernadia near Nimis (another place well known by local flight enthusiasts), before "touching" the second buoy near Gemona and landing as always in Bordano.

Few pilots chose the longest trajectory near the ridge, which allowed them to gain altitude faster but having to complete more kilometers to reach the first buoy in Cividale; only the Slovenian Stanislav Galovec dared to start from the third window made available by the organization, but found itself flying by itself without any reference.

At the first turning point came in the order Ruhmer (AUT), Ciech (ITA) and Sandoli (BRA), who anticipated Laurenzi (ITA), Glauco Pinto (the very strong reigning Brazilian champion with many records also on distance) and the Slovenian Matjaz Klemencic. Given the difficult weather conditions, some drivers had to "raise the white flag" landing well before reaching the goal: even Pinto himself had to surrender shortly after Cividale and this was the real coup of the day.

Misfortune also for the only woman in the race, the Japanese Sato, who suffered an accident "piercing" out of goal: immediate rescue operations taken from the operations center in Tolmezzo, where three people are constantly on the monitors and follow the pilots' tracks. In close collaboration with the Alpine Rescue Service, the athlete was reached and transported to the hospital for the necessary ritual checks; his condition does not cause concern and a good "good luck" prompt recovery has come from the whole movement.

Tanzer, class of '89, Dutch, then tried to escape while losing a bit of altitude; the "sail" was pursued by Ploner, Laurenzi, Ruhmer, Ciech and Selenati, who tried to fly as fast as possible to the second and final turning point, maintaining an average altitude of 1000 m which actually allowed them to reach Bordano in a short time. Not having to stop in search of thermals, on the landing field our Ploner champion, the Austrian Ruhmer, the excellent young promise of the flight (Flyve branded) Marco Laurenzi, Christian Ciech and the Suan Selenati from Friuli arrived which thus completed the masterpiece "made in Italy".

This is the ranking of the first drivers in goal. Once the scoring system has been developed that takes into account different variables, the final one will be published on this site: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results. On the official FB page of the event and on the website www.italy2019.com, the same will be done and specifically the evening will be published the provisional ranking of the day and the following morning instead, the general official one.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 2861
2 Christian Ciech ITA 2850
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 2794
4 Suan Selenati ITA 2781
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA 2714
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 2570
7 Mario Alonzi FRA 2567
8 Tyler Borradaile CAN 2548
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 2522
10 Primoz Gricar GER 2454

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July 16, 2019, 4:02:38 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Big river beds all around:

Malcolm Brown's LZ.

The results apparently aren't going to be published here: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Now, instead of HTML they are publishing in PDF, which totally sucks.

Task 2:

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Task_2_Unofficial.pdf

1. Primoz Gricar (GER) 03.08.23
2. Peter Neuenschwander (SWI) 03.08.29
3. Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) 03.09.06
4. Christian Ciech (ITA) 03.12.33
4. Suan Selenati (ITA) 3.00.05
6. Alex Ploner (ITA) 03.13.48
7. Glauco Pinto (BRA) 03.14.07
8. Marco Laurenzi (ITA) 03.18.11
9. Gerd Doenhuber (GER) 03.18.41
10. Mario Alonzi (FRA) 03.18.41

Cumulative:

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overall_Provisional_0716.pdf

I guess that they are just not interested in working with the press.

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/16/classifiche-aggiornamento-quotidiano/

Manfred took a course line all his own after the third turnpoint going far south of the optimized course line while almost everyone else went to the north of the line. This allowed him to jump into first place.

He was not high enough to sustain that position as Primoz and Peter got much higher behind him and we able to get to goal a little sooner.

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July 15, 2019, 2:20:51 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jeff Chipman|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019|Yoko Isomoto|Yoko Sano|Zac Majors

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

From the Italian team:

Christian Ciech 1, Alex Ploner 2, Suan Selenati 3, Marco Laurenzi 4, Filippo Oppici 6.

Felix Cantesanu at goal.

Apparently nearby storm cells and some rain on the course caused some pilots to land to be safe. Seventy five pilots in goal.

https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA 01:29:04 992
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA 01:29:46 977
3 Suan Selenati ITA 01:32:28 929
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 01:37:09 886
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 01:37:37 881
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 01:37:47 875
7 Filippo Oppici ITA 01:37:45 869
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 01:38:03 867
9 Glauco Pinto BRA 01:38:00 864
10 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 01:38:41 862

Penalties:

Jeff Chipman 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Zac Majors 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Yoko Sano 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Petr Polach 100% 0 Airspace Infringement

Christian Ciech Podcast

July 11, 2019, 7:06:23 MDT

Christian Ciech Podcast

Three times a World Champion

Christian Ciech|Manfred Ruhmer

https://www.cloudbasemayhem.com/episode-96-christian-ciech-and-a-life-of-hang-gliding/

Episode 96 is live with Christian Ciech! Christian has been flying Hang Gliders for over 30 years.

He remembers watching his dad fly when he was just four years old. He has an arsenal of trophies that showcase his legendary competition skills, including 3 World Championship wins.

Christian became a test pilot and designer for Icaro in 1991, a position he still holds. In this episode we discuss competition strategies and the art of winning, how to read the sky and flying the conditions you find, how Manfred Ruhmer has dominated the sport for so long, what to study when you’re not in the air, finding order in the chaos, learning how to fly fast, the importance of physical preparation to stay in the air, instinctive versus logical flying, how certain very high level pilots should and shouldn’t change how you fly, the most important lessons learned in three decades of flight, tumbling and recovering the mind and a lot more. A fascinating talk with one of the pioneers.

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Hessiche meisterchaft competition

June 16, 2019, 11:42:19 MDT

Hessiche meisterchaft competition

Final Results

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach|video

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|video

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|video

A rough day: https://www.facebook.com/corinna.schwiegershausen/videos/10156550628356314/

https://gleitfliegen.hlb-info.de/inhalt/hessenmeisterschaft-2019

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 02:24:32 1000
2 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 02:54:19 790
3 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 02:54:24 781
4 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 02:59:42 754
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 03:02:23 731
6 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 03:11:12 682
7 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 03:11:50 677
8 Jiri Nadvornik T2C 144 03:12:49 665
9 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 03:23:44 641
10 Carsten Muth T2C 154 03:23:35 614

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 2799
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 2410
3 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 2234
4 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 2198
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 2150
6 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 1908
7 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 1902
8 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 1899
9 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 1873
10 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 1803

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Hessiche meisterchaft competition

June 15, 2019, 4:45:41 pm MDT

Hessiche meisterchaft competition

Results so far

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

https://gleitfliegen.hlb-info.de/inhalt/hessenmeisterschaft-2019

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 01:25:15 993
2 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:26:27 949
3 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 01:27:49 925
4 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:27:50 914
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 01:30:05 880
6 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 01:30:38 874
7 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:33:25 853
8 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 01:41:38 769
9 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 01:44:11 729
10 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 01:44:15 727

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 01:21:10 806
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:26:59 715
3 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:34:47 654
4 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:43:09 586
5 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 01:46:01 570
6 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 01:50:25 555
7 Botjan Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:50:34 548
8 Jiri Gut T2C 144 01:50:39 539
9 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 01:52:19 533
10 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 01:58:32 519

Task 3:

Day cancelled. They are expected to fly on Sunday.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 1799
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 1629
3 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 1535
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 1507
5 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 1444
5 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 1444
7 Jiri Gut T2C 144 1419
8 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 1262
9 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 1231
10 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 1220

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Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

Fri, Jun 7 2019, 8:16:20 am MDT

They flew one more day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Gary Wirdnam|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Suan Selenati|Trofeo Valerio Albrizio 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Ubaldo Romano|Wills Wing T3

32nd Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

https://airtribune.com/xxxii-valerio-albrizio-trophy/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:22:23 103.4 989
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:22:22 89.9 987
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:22:48 97.7 964
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 02:36:28 93.8 846
5 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:40:24 92.8 811
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 02:41:40 90.4 794
7 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:39:32 57.9 787
8 Gary Wirdnam Icaro Laminar 02:40:58 74.8 786
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3C 144 C 02:52:46 67.9 717
10 Ubaldo Romano Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:52:51 67.7 714

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 2978
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 2915
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 2604
4 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 2548
5 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 2440
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 2261
7 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3C 144 C 2143
8 Gary Wirdnam Icaro Laminar 2139
9 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 2055
10 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 2018

Thanks to Tullio for this correction.

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32nd Valerio Albrizio Trophy

Sat, Jun 1 2019, 8:16:02 pm MDT

A two day competition

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Ubaldo Romano|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2019|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/xxxii-valerio-albrizio-trophy/results

Day 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:23:12 997
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:23:15 985
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:24:44 955
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:31:05 881
5 Konrad Baumgartner A-I-R Atos VQ 02:31:32 742
6 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:51:53 741
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:52:10 734
8 Ubaldo Romano Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:02:16 681
9 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 03:03:04 680
10 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 03:05:14 674

Day 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:00:18 992
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:03:29 943
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:12:18 843
4 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:11:27 838
5 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:12:22 823
6 Chrigel Kuepfer Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 T 02:16:11 801
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 02:16:12 787
8 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:18:06 772
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 02:19:31 752
10 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 02:21:09 747

Final results

# Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 1989
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1928
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 1793
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 1653
5 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 1584
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 1557
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 1467
8 Chrigel Kuepfer Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 T 1433
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 1426
10 Konrad Baumgartner A-I-R Atos VQ 1381

Why are the Italians always yelling on the internet? (All the pilot and glider names on their score pages are in all-caps.)

Who is coming to the 2019 Worlds?

April 8, 2019, 7:46:02 EDT

Who is coming to the 2019 Worlds?

112 registered, 125 slots available

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Steve Blenkinsop|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|USHPA

Countries may send up to 10 pilots. 6 pilots are counted for the national teams (https://airtribune-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/contest/files/2019/02/Tyjk2siZBLky.pdf). Registration ends on the 12th.

https://airtribune.com/hg-worlds-2019/pilots

Australia - ten pilots including Jonny Durand and Steve Blenkinsop.

Austria - just two pilots, Manfred Ruhmer and Thomas Weissenberger.

Brazil - three pilots.

Canada - two pilots.

Czech Republic - seven pilots, but not the world champion and world number 1 ranked pilot, Petr Benes.

France - three pilots.

Germany - four pilots.

Hungary - a different Attila.

Italy - twelve pilots, including Suan, Tullio, Christian, Alex, Fillippo, Marco, Davide, and Valentino.

Japan - seven pilots.

Norway - three pilots.

Switzerland - five pilots.

UK - 8 pilots, including Kathleen, Gary. Andrew, Grant, Darren, Gordon, Dave and Malcolm.

S - five pilots, including Zac (only two from the top ten - https://www.ushpa.org/page/ntss-class-1 ).

XXII Open de Canarias

December 18, 2018, 9:20:57 EST

XXII Open de Canarias

Manfred flying with actual ridge lift

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|video

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/posts/2201005433488055

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Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias

December 13, 2018, 8:10:46 EST

Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias

And landing with a drogue chute

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Phill Bloom|record|Thomas Weissenberger|video

Phill Bloom <<phillipbloom>> writes:

Kip Stone and I were the American team, with people from nine different countries, they also had a sport class, maybe 50 pilots total. It was great fun, and so nice to travel and rent a glider take your harness only. Tom Weissenberger rented to us both, RX 3.5 for me and RX 4 for Kip. Great gliders vary competitive, mine was like new. Also Jonny Nilssen has a variety of gliders to choose from beginner to intermediate. And a supper nice guy.

It was a relatively safe comp but it was a comp so you never know what you will get. One pilot had a little issue with full VG near the hill and actually flew into the mountain, ended up knocked out for a few minutes but is totally fine and back flying the next day. Also at least 2 other pilots flew under power lines, which seemed a little crazy to me, but looks like it happens quite often.

Everyone was complaining about the conditions (should have been here last week ) sort of thing, but I had a lot of fun getting to fly with top ranked pilots all week.

But the thing that really got me to write this was this. That both Manfred Ruhmer and Thomas Weissenberger were using there drogue chutes on a consistent basis. It totally surprised me, so I questioned them both about it. Manfred said that (every cross country pilot should have one and know how to use it). He was saying practice using it. Thomas said that (he uses the drag shoot about 50% of the time, it makes landings much easier and less stressful). Now just so you know this info is coming from two super talented pilots that have no problems landing a hang glider.

The discussion in the car recorded:

XXII Open de Canarias

December 8, 2018, 2:52:27 pm EST

XXII Open de Canarias

Finally, more than a few make goal

Christian Pollet|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger

Saturday, December 8th

Last task:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 00:38:01 715
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 00:38:37 694
3 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 00:38:39 693
4 Carlos Punet AIR ATOS VQ Race 00:36:46 633
5 Phill Bloom Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 00:48:17 599
6 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 00:49:06 581
7 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 00:56:04 535
8 Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) Moyes Litespeed RS 3 01:04:25 463
9 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154 01:07:18 449
10 Johnny Nilssen Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 01:07:18 443

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 1852
2 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 1762
3 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 1667
4 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1502
5 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 1360
6 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 1300
7 Phill Bloom Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 1218
8 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154 1162
9 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144 1150
10 Carlos Punet AIR ATOS VQ Race 1129

XXII Open de Canarias

December 7, 2018, 5:50:53 pm EST

XXII Open de Canarias

More tiny flights

Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger

Friday, December 7th

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 00:55:29 24.00 407
2 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 00:56:18 24.00 400
3 Carlos Punet AIR ATOS VQ Race 00:53:47 24.00 358
4 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5   23.92 337
5 Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez Wills Wing T2C 144   21.49 315
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C   20.45 305
7 Manuel Garcia Garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro   20.17 292
8 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154   18.70 275
9 Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza Aeros Combat GT 12.4   14.72 238
10 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144   14.62 237

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 1149
2 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 1037
3 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 965
4 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 959
5 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 876
6 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144 793
7 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 775
8 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154 706
9 Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez Wills Wing T2C 144 689
10 Phill Bloom Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 615

XXII Open de Canarias

Tiny flights

XXII Open de Canarias

December 6, 2018, 7:48:46 pm EST

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger

Thursday, December 6th

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 17.96 154
2 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 14.87 135
3 Carlos Punet AIR ATOS VQ Race 17.84 130
4 Wolfgang Brunner Moyes Litespeed RX 10.06 112
5 Phill Bloom Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 9.94 111
6 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 9.66 110
7 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 9.39 108
8 Tormod Helgesen Moyes Litespeed RX 4 9.03 105
9 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 8.92 104
9 Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez Wills Wing T2C 144 8.99 104

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 0 3 611 135 749
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 0 3 585 72 660
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 0 4 472 154 630
4 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 0 3 511 108 622
5 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 0 0 489 110 599
6 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 0 3 477 104 584
7 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144 0 3 481 72 556
8 Juan Antonio Molina Vera AIR Atos VR 0 3 368 94 465
9 Tormod Helgesen Moyes Litespeed RX 4 0 3 354 105 462

22nd Open de Canarias

Thu, Dec 6 2018, 3:32:18 am GMT

Task cancelled

Open de Canarias 2018

Wednesday, December 5th

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/blog__day_4

Things are not going well for this meet either.

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22nd Open de Canarias

Wed, Dec 5 2018, 12:36:50 am GMT

Two actual tasks

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger

Tuesday, December 4th

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results

The 3rd task (actually the second):

# Name Glider Time Distance Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 01:08:08 31.90 611
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 01:12:27 31.90 585
3 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 31.26 511
4 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 30.08 489
5 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144 29.37 481
6 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 29.46 477
7 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 27.98 472
8 Juan Antonio Molina Vera AIR Atos VR 19.50 368
9 Cyro Lopez Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 19.57 367
10 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154 18.53 356

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 0 3 611 614
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 0 3 585 588
3 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 0 3 511 514
4 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12.7 0 0 489 489
5 Gustavo Migliozzi Wills Wing T2C 144 0 3 481 484
6 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 0 3 477 480
7 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 0 4 472 476
8 Juan Antonio Molina Vera AIR Atos VR 0 3 368 371
9 Cyro Lopez Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 0 3 367 370
10 Joerg Bajewski Willls Wing T2C 154 0 3 356 359

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22nd Open de Canarias

Mon, Dec 3 2018, 11:13:41 pm GMT

1st task results

competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Konrad Heilmann|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom

Monday, December 3rd

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results

# Name Glider Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 12.00 10
2 Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero Wills Wing T2C 144 5.00 7
2 Kip Stone Moyes Litespeed RX4 5.00 7
2 Phill Bloom Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 5.00 7
2 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 5.00 7
2 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 5.00 7
2 Cyro Lopez Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5.00 7
2 Manuel Garcia garcia Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5.00 7
2 Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza Aeros Combat GT 12.4 5.00 7
2 Cedric Michelena Moyes Litespeed RX 5.00 7

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22nd Open de Canarias

Wed, Sep 26 2018, 4:28:18 pm GMT

Lanzarote

Open de Canarias 2018

https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/info/details__info

This year marks the 22nd edition of the traditional International Hang Gliding Open & the Canary Island's Championship. We would like to share with all of you this new edition to be celebrated from the 2nd to 89th of December (both inclusive) in the island of Lanzarote. Taking advantage of the excellent conditions for hang gliding that occur in this place. So enjoy the fantastic scenery and good climate that gives us the Canary Islands.

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2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 4, 2018, 4:41:00 pm CDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Final results

Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|John Smith|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results

2018 Pre-Worlds winners: 1<sup>st</sup> Manfred Ruhmer (AUT), 2<sup>nd</sup> Primoz Gricar (GER), 3rd Petr Benes (CZE), Dan Vyhnalik (CZE), Balazs Ujhelyi (HUN), Arne Tanzer (NLD), Tom Weissenberger (AUT), Peter Neuenschwander (CHE), Daniel Velez (COL), Christian Ciech (ITA)

1st Manfred Ruhmer (AUT)
2nd Primoz Gricar (GER)
3rd Petr Benes (CZE)

Left to right (with hands up): Dan Vyhnalik (CZE), Balazs Ujhelyi (HUN), Arne Tanzer (NLD), Tom Weissenberger (AUT), Peter Neuenschwander (CHE), Daniel Velez (COL), Christian Ciech (ITA).

6th task:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:56:41 998
2 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 02:57:45 978
3 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 02:57:38 969
4 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:01:59 916
5 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:01:56 913
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing 03:03:39 903
7 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 03:05:56 887
8 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 03:09:04 862
9 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 03:14:41 820
10 John Smith NZL Icaro 03:15:20 810

Final Results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 5640
2 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 5266
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 5131
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 4864
5 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 4602
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 4577
7 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 4530
8 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 4381
9 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 4310
10 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 4192

Teams:

Austria, Italy, Czech Republic

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 4, 2018, 4:26:30 pm CDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Saturday, last task

Christian Ciech|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018

https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=2422

Goal times for the last task:

1 Ruhmer, M 02:56:41
2 Ciech, C 02:57:38
3 Gricar, P 02:57:45
4 Weissenberger, T 03:01:57
5 Benes, P 03:02:00
6 Sandoli, A 03:03:39
7 Ujhelyi, B 03:05:56
8 Neuenschwander, P 03:09:05
9 Bravo, D 03:14:42
10 Smith, J 03:15:21

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 3, 2018, 7:14:35 pm CDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 5 after a rest day

Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|Tyler Borradaile

https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=2422

Goal times:

1 Vyhnalik, D 02:47:59
2 Gricar, P 02:49:44
3 Bravo, D 02:50:06
4 Neuenschwander, P 02:50:20
5 Ruhmer, M 02:50:21
6 Borradaile, T 02:50:32
7 Sandoli, A 02:50:43
8 Weissenberger, T 03:04:27
9 Ujhelyi, B 03:08:33
10 Garcia, P 03:09:21

Daniel lead much of the way.

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 3, 2018, 6:58:28 pm CDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 5 results

Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar|Tyler Borradaile

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results

Friday, Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 02:47:58 958
2 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 02:50:05 956
3 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 02:49:43 948
4 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:50:21 942
5 Tyler Borradaile CAN Moyes 02:50:31 931
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 02:50:19 929
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing 02:50:42 926
8 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:04:26 866
9 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:07:01 850
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 03:08:32 849

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 4642
2 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 4288
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 4215
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 3895
5 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 3782
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 3715
7 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 3660
8 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 3617
9 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 3423
10 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 3400

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 2, 2018, 8:43:26 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 4 Results

Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar

Rest day on Thursday.

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 02:41:46 966
2 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 02:52:28 887
3 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 02:52:16 874
4 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 02:55:56 859
5 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:56:04 853
6 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 02:59:59 838
7 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 03:04:32 803
8 Manfred Trimmel AUT Wills Wing 03:18:08 750
9 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:20:27 739
10 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 03:20:35 736

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 3700
2 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 3365
3 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 3340
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 3317
5 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 3080
6 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 2939
7 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 2826
8 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 2786
9 Günther Tschurnig AUT Icaro 2767
10 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 2761

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 1, 2018, 1:22:21 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 4

Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018

https://lt.flymaster.net/?grp=2422

1 Weissenberger, T 02:41:47
2 Gricar, P 02:52:17
3 Tanzer, A 02:52:29
4 Neuenschwander, P 02:55:56
5 Ruhmer, M 02:56:05
6 Ujhelyi, B 02:59:59
7 Bau, V 03:04:33
8 Trimmel, M 03:18:09
9 Benes, P 03:20:28
10 Vyhnalik, D 03:20:36

2018 Pre-Worlds »

August 1, 2018, 7:23:11 MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Results and Live videos with commentary in Italian each day (45 subscribers - probably all Italians)

Akiko Suzuki|Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar|video

The Youtube channel (sort of like the Tour de France, only nobody cares): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1o7qsiD-rI8JG6LwMKD9PQ/videos. Hey, but it's cool.

They stopped with the PDF file results and now point to here: https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results from here: http://www.italy2019.com/en/premondiali-2018/. Smart move.

Task stopped at 16:45 (scored back by 15 min.) Many were at the goal field, unfortunately.

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Distance Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:58:42 155.48 895
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 02:59:40 155.48 889
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 02:59:37 155.48 887
4 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 03:02:42 155.48 874
5 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro   153.33 851
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros   153.43 849
7 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros   150.08 848
8 Josh Woods AUS Moyes   149.08 844
9 Chrigel Kuepfer SUI Moyes   147.03 839
10 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing   146.88 837

Airspace violations:

Name % penalty Reason
Yon Barcena 100% AUT Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Hernan Cortes Pinones 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Jiri Gut 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Young don Lee 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Akira Nagusa 79% ITA Airspace Violation of 23 meters
Yuji Suzuki 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Tom Weissenberger 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Balazs Ujhelyi 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters
Marco Doppioni 100% ITA Airspace Violation greater than 30 meters

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 2840
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2745
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 2621
4 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 2469
5 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 2462
6 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 2299
7 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes 2251
8 Daniel Velez Bravo COL Wills Wing 2241
9 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 2191
10 Vlastimil Bartas CZE Aeros 2176

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 31, 2018, 8:49:59 MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 3, north to the Alps to Greifenburg

Christian Ciech|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018|video

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2422#

https://livetrack360.com/livetracking/3d/2422

1 Ruhmer, M 02:58:43
2 Benes, P 02:59:38
3 Weissenberger, T 02:59:40
4 Ciech, C 02:59:41
5 Vyhnalik, D 03:02:43
6 Tanzer, A 03:05:45
7 Neuenschwander, P 03:05:46
8 Gricar, P 03:08:06
9 Woods, J 03:09:04
10 Bravo, D 03:10:22

https://youtu.be/nWBSip-gdGc

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 29, 2018, 4:17:25 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 2 Results:

Christian Ciech|competition|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 02:51:21 991
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:54:19 952
3 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 02:57:52 909
4 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 02:58:12 899
5 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:02:41 852
6 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:02:50 841
7 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 03:03:54 829
8 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:04:56 826
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 03:06:08 814
10 Petr Polach CZE Aeros 03:07:19 808

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 1944
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 1856
3 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 1778
4 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 1734
5 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 1732
6 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 1650
7 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 1614
8 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 1492
9 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 1474
10 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 1452

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 29, 2018, 10:20:14 MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Manfred lead much of the way

Christian Ciech|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018

Task 2:

1 Ciech, C 03:51:22
2 Ruhmer, M 03:54:19
3 Ujhelyi, B 03:57:53
4 Tanzer, A 03:58:13
5 Weissenberger, T 04:02:42
6 Benes, P 04:02:51
7 Vyhnalik, D 04:03:55
8 Gricar, P 04:04:57
9 Neuenschwander, P 04:06:08
10 Bartas, V 04:07:15

Christian landing at goal:

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 28, 2018, 3:56:55 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

A lot of big fat zeros.

Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Davide Guiducci|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar|Tullio Gervasoni

http://www.italy2019.com/en/news/

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Task-1.pdf

Yes, a PDF file, which screws me when it comes to republishing the results.

1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 03:01:14 970
2 Tom Weissenberger AUT Moyes 03:10:45 909
3 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 03:19:38 865
4 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 03:18:49 851
5 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 03:32:56 805
6 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:40:03 780
7 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 03:45:13 774
8 Laszlo Okros HUN Moyes 03:52:33 760
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes 04:09:06 707
10 Pedro Garcia USA Wills Wing 04:10:08 702

Thirty two pilots got 100% penalty for airspace violations, including Christian Ciech, Petr Benes, Ollie Chitty, Tulio Gervasoni, Andrew Hollidge, Guy Hubbard, Matjaz Klemencic, Marco Laurenzi, Patrick Pannese, Eduardo Oliveira, Petr Polach, Daniel Velez Bravo, Dan Vyhnalik, Josh Woods, and Davide Guiducci.

The HTML version shows up later: https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results/task3529/day/class-1

The number of zeroed pilots is substantially reduced:

Penalties

Name % penalty Reason
Frederic Andre Bakken 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Christian Cid 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Hernan Cortes Pinones 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Jonghwan Kim 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Patrick Pannese 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Konsou Son 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Dan Vyhnalik 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Lukas Walcher 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Davide Guiducci 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 03:01:14 970
2 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:10:45 909
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:15:17 878
4 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 03:19:38 865
5 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 03:20:47 853
6 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 03:18:49 852
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing 03:33:12 813
8 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 03:32:56 806
9 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:40:03 781
10 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 03:45:13 775

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 28, 2018, 12:54:08 pm MDT GMT-0600

2018 Pre-Worlds

Manfred, of course

Christian Ciech|Manfred Ruhmer|Pre-Worlds 2018

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2422

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/blog

Looked like a tough day with no one getting high.

1 Ruhmer, M 03:01:15
2 Weissenberger, T 03:10:46
3 Benes, P 03:15:18
4 Accattoli, V 03:18:49
5 Pinto, G 03:19:39
6 Ciech, C 03:20:48
7 Bau, V 03:32:57
8 Sandoli, A 03:33:13
9 Kempen, H 03:40:03
10 Moikano, M 03:45:14

Where's the pitot tube?

June 13, 2018, 6:19:39 pm MDT

Where's the pitot tube?

Not installed yet

Manfred Ruhmer

Claudia at Digifly USA <<flydigifly>> writes:

The pitot tube itself is not on Manfred's new instrument. At that point it was still in the protective bag, but it is definitely an AIR BT with Pitot System. From that angle you could not tell a Pitot System AIR from a non-Pitot System, unless the tube was inserted. It is Italian design after all.

That picture was also a great example to show how the Digifly's display is superb in the sunlight, how bright and clear it is. You also like those big numbers, eh?

http://ozreport.com/22.116#1

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Three big numbers

June 8, 2018, 7:41:23 MDT

Three big numbers

Manfred appreciates the ability to have big numbers

Manfred Ruhmer

Last weekend, Digifly USA and Digifly Europe met during the last day of the 31st edition of the Valerio Albrizio Trophy that takes place every year in Laveno (Italy)!

Among the many nice things that day, one of the highlights of our meeting was getting together with Manfred Ruhmer and handing him his brand new Digifly AIR BT with Pitot System.

We are extremely happy and proud of having Manfred on board.

What, no pitot tube, at least in the picture?

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31st Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

Wed, Jun 6 2018, 7:27:03 am MDT

Three days in Italy

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Trofeo Valerio Albrizio 2018

Photos here.

Open class:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 973 577 962 2512
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro 2000 Laminar 981 418 968 2367
3 Tom Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 788 522 862 2172
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1000 292 777 2069
5 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 696 398 870 1964
6 Luca Comino A.I.R. Atos VQ 817 397 739 1953
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 688 398 812 1898
8 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 144 910 192 773 1875
9 Ferdinand Spindler Icaro Laminar 669 410 785 1864
10 Walter Mayer Moyes Litespeed RX Pro 670 410 780 1860

Sport class:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Paolo Merisio Icaro 2000 Orbiter 431 0 356 787
2 Fabio Caresi Icaro 2000 Mastr 199 0 384 583
3 Sergio Conte Icaro 2000 Master 217 0 229 446
4 Luca Belli Icaro 2000 Orbiter 212 0 104 316
5 Elvio Demattio Icaro Orbiter 180 0 104 284

Manfred at Lanzarote

December 14, 2017, 8:06:59 EST

Manfred at Lanzarote

Not so Swift

Christian Pollet|competition|Facebook|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger|video

https://airtribune.com/xxi-open-de-canarias/results/task2994/comp/clase1

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 1000 112 1000 855 2967
2 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 808 80 982 885 2755
3 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 949 75 840 851 2715
4 Blay Olmos Quesada (Jnr) ESP Wills Wing T2C 136 856 74 754 554 2238
5 Christian Pollet FRA Wills Wing T2 144 624 50 817 562 2053
6 Alexandre Menard CAN Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 664 81 593 683 2021
7 Johnny Nilssen NOR Wills Wing T2C 154 715 50 560 529 1854
8 Antonio Jose Leton Carrasco ESP Aeros Combat GT 543 81 587 634 1845
9 Günther Tschurnig AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar Z07 468 69 733 506 1776
10 Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) ESP Moyes Litespeed RS 3 925 74 325 393 1717

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/videos/1961242587464342/

Thanks to Thomas Weissenberger.

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

August 5, 2017, 1:17:12 pm MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Final results

dust devil|Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|weather|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/saturday-5th-august-task-8-three-pilots-in-goal.html

The final task is finished with three pilots in goal - in fact the same three pilots who will stand on the podium to collect their medals tomorrow. First into goal today was Jacques Bott (FRA) who will take the silver medal tomorrow. Second into goal was Franz Pacheiner (AUT), who will be presented with bronze tomorrow. And third into goal, taking it easy, is 2017 FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Champion, once again, Manfred Ruhmer (AUT). The fourth contender, Steve Cox (SUI) landed out today.

The weather conditions were tricky in places, starting with the launch. Thermal gusts and dust devils on the airfield, with the wind veering between north and west made take off very difficult. In fact the task for the Class 5 pilots was cancelled on the ground. In Class 2, half the field launched in increasingly turbulent conditions. Two pilots decided not to start. The remaining two pilots launched as conditions allowed. Once airborne, the thermals were strong and most were at a good height when the race started. Unfortunately, Guenther Obweger (SUI) suffered an instrument failure and landed soon after.

In the early part of the task, Steve and Manfred were together and a few kilometers ahead of Jacques and Franz. Then they came to the crux of the task: a windy section close to Ancel where the north wind was strong through the venturi formed by the valleys north of Gap and through the col Bayard. Manfred said: "That was hard core hang gliding! It was very interesting flying in the leeside against a 50kph wind. We had full-on turbulence and lots of lift." However, Manfred said he felt secure strapped into his Class 2 hang glider! Steve, however, felt differently.

"I came in low, I was in the lee, it was bumpy and there was a strong wind. I managed to get just above the top of the mountains, but it was still very bumpy. I chose to fly out from the hill, and then rather than go back in there in my 20 year old Swift, I decided it was Level 3 for me, so I went to land."

Jacques knew he needed height at this point: "Or I would be in the lee in a 50kph wind!" He said that last year he lost time on a task on the same route by taking a more round-about but safer course, but this year, in full competition mode, he chose to fly direct. "And today was not the day to do that!" He was grateful that on his more modern Swift Light he had rudder control in the turbulence.

Franz, meanwhile, only found it rough at the launch and the start. "I was lower than everyone at the start, so I started late. But I managed to catch up, and was surprised to come in second! My navigation skills have improved too," he added.

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Task 8 (271 km):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 04:02:06 928
2 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 04:04:10 867
3 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 04:02:48 866

Final results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 7253
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 6356
3 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 6027

It seems a bit of a poor decision to fly in conditions that allow the podium to be determined by who is the most willing to fly in severe turbulence. We do wish to encourage pilots to fly safely and this does not do that.

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

August 4, 2017, 11:22:04 MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Steve Cox first to goal again

Brian Porter|Facebook|Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|video|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/friday-4th-august-task-7-first-pilots-in-goal.html

Well! Conditions turned out much better than forecast. No sign of showers or indeed any over-development - a perfect looking cross country day! First into goal today was super speedy Steve Cox (SUI) on his 20 year old Swift Brightstar, in just under 4 hours 10 minutes. "Yes, it was faster today," he said. "But there was a huge amount of sink in the final stretch," he added, shaking his head. Today Steve was 15km ahead of Manfred Ruhmer (AUT). "I thought I was pretty fast, but this guy Steve has arrived in front of me again!" He jested. "Maybe I went a little too far west between the last two turnpoints, a little mistake maybe. But it was a very nice task in good conditions," he added.

Third to arrive in goal was Jacques Bott (FRA). "Extraordinary and very interesting," he declared. "I just couldn't find many good thermals, flying long stretches fast and low. I just couldn't seem to get high." He admitted that on the stretch between Dormillouse and the Cheval Blanc there are always thermals, and today was no different. "But I was at a decent altitude so I didn't take them, so as not to lose time!" Jacques was amazed that the sky looked so good but for him, it did not deliver strong thermals.

Fourth into goal, Franz Pacheiner (AUT), however, found conditions pretty good. "I got to 3700m a couple of times," he said. But he too found a dead area when overflying Aspres towards the last turnpoint. "Then I had to look for thermals because I was low, and it slowed me down." Franz also identified another reason for not flying the course as quickly as he should have. "I must pay more attention to the turnpoints and my instruments," he admitted. "I set the course, say 20km away, and then when I get there I find I've drifted off the line a couple of kilometers and have to go find the turnpoint again. The others obviously get it right the first time!"

The Class 5 gliders were arriving at goal at around the same time today, making it more interesting for spectators.

Stephen J. Morris writes:

Manfred Ruhmer landing his Swift today after crossing goal. You can see Manfred modulating the spoilers to adjust the glide path (Aerianne Swifts have spoilers!) Steve Cox is discussing the task with Brian Porter in the background audio. The scores aren't final yet and Steve is concerned he may have missed an altitude gate approaching goal, even though he finished the course first. We'll have to wait until the track logs are reviewed to see who won the day.

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.j.morris.50/videos/vb.1663401349/10212092173653956/?type=2&theater

Results: https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Results of the Class 5 competition are also found here.

Task 7 (281 km):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 04:07:02 994
2 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 04:18:13 889
3 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 04:39:11 751
4 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 04:40:59 746

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 6386
2 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 5430
3 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 5428
4 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 5161

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

August 3, 2017, 11:53:02 MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Steve Cox first

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|video|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/thursday-3rd-august-true-race-to-goal.html

Three pilots dominated the race today, and it truly was a race right around the course. Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) led from the start, closely followed by Steve Cox (SUI) and Jacques Bott (FRA). In fact, by keeping an eye on the Live Tracking, gave those of us on the ground a much better view of what was happening in the air than the competitors themselves could see! First into goal was Steve: "It was a very exciting race!" He said, looking around the airfield. "Where's Manfred?". On hearing the news that he was some kilometers behind, he smiled broadly. "I had Manfred in my sights for most of the course, but I lost him two turnpoints back at the lake Serre-Poncon." Conditions were very varied, Steve commented, with some ridge soaring with hardly any wind, and some very strong thermals.

Second into goal was Jacques. His broad smile evaporated when he found that Steve had arrived before him! He had beaten Manfred, but he was in second place. "I think I was lucky today," he said. "It was very shady over Gap." In third place came Manfred. "That was interesting" he said. "Conditions were good, except for the area around the last two turnpoints - very shady. I took the route into the higher mountains thinking it would work better, but clearly it didn't!"

The shady area around Gap has already caught out Philippe Bernard (SUI) who has landed out near the city.

And now the Class 5 pilots are on the return leg to goal over the same area, so we will see how they fare.

Videos: https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/videos/

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Task 6 (295 km):

1 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 04:25:50 995
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 04:35:25 894
3 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 04:39:42 860

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 5497
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 4677
3 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 4436
4 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 4415

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Is the ⁢20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships⁣ a real World Championship?

Thu, Aug 3 2017, 7:46:28 am MDT

Not enough countries represented

CIVL|Manfred Ruhmer|Worlds 2017 Class 2

I note that the results of the competition show that only three countries are represented:

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Austria, Switzerland, and France.

The CIVL Sporting Code, http://www.fai.org/downloads/civl/SC7, states:

2. 5.5 Minimum Representation

For World Championships a minimum of four countries with a total of eight competitors available to fly during the Championship is required for the title of Champion to be awarded;

I asked both the organizer and the CIVL President about this discrepancy. Stef wrote back:

You have sharp eyes.

There was a late cancellation from a Belgian pilot. That would have made four countries.

The CIVL Bureau had anticipated and when we saw that the number would be not as high as expected, with no US pilots, we decided to validate it if only three nations were present. Not to do so would have been a last-minute disaster for the organisers, for the pilots, for the sport.

We had two precedents: an Asian PG XC were there were only seven girls after a late defection. The Dubai World Air Game where in dirigible balloon they gave medals with only 3 or 4 contestants.

We feel that the Class 2 has to be supported as much as we can, even though it concerns very few people. This was a way to do it, as was sending only one jury president and choosing among people there other jurors. No protest yet, so it is working well!

But CIVL did not seem to feel that the Women's Worlds in Brasilia merited the same consideration. Nor did they make an effort to allow women flying in the Worlds in Brasilia to vie for the Women's World Championship.

Everyone was aware of the fact that putting on two World Championships at the same time would present a terrible dilemma for women already on national teams. This consideration alone should have brought forth some flexibility from the Bureau, but it was not to be (and Stef was very very adamant about this). Wouldn't want to disappoint Manfred. But throwing the women under the bus, not a problem.

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

August 2, 2017, 1:50:01 pm MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Five hour task

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/wednesday-3rd-august-pilots-arriving-in-goal.html

It took Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) just under 5 hours to complete this 319km task, the longest of the competition so far. "Oh, it was too easy," he teased. "But that's easy to say in hindsight, for sure. Under 5 hours is actually pretty good," he added modestly. He said conditions were good, a little windy in places but very good thermals. Arriving second in goal was Jacques Bott (FRA) with a big smile. "You normally only get climbs like we had today under cu nimbs," he said. "And the strongest climbs were the smoothest," he added. Today's skies saw some cumulus, but nothing towering, and some areas were completely blue. "I was very happy to make a 300+km task," Jacques concluded.

Meanwhile, Steve Cox (SUI) was not quite so happy. He prefers shorter tasks with more side by side racing and more pilots! "The start is always exciting as we are altogether," he said, "but then we are all spread out, and flying cross country on our own!"

Franz Pacheiner (AUT) came into goal with a different story: "I found it rather challenging today. I missed the start, and then could not get to the top of the climb on Pic du Bure, so I was too low to follow the main group east of Gap. I had to go to the west side. It was slower. Again, by the time I got to Malaup, the thermal was not so good. Then 20km before the Beynes turnpoint I saw Mandy, Jacques and Steve on their way back north, so I knew I was already 40km behind."

In Class 5, four pilots have already landed, and at least four pilots have landed out.

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 04:50:29 1000
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 05:13:41 820
3 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 05:27:15 741
4 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 05:26:56 728

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 4637
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 3783
3 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 3716
4 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 3441

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

July 31, 2017, 12:45:04 pm MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Windy day, Manfred wins

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/monday-31st-july-task-4-pilots-in-goal.html

Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) summed up today's task in a few words: "Holy Shit. You could have only done that on a Class 2 hang glider!" The course proved to be difficult and took longer than anticipated. The tracks show the widely differing and roundabout routes the pilots took. Manfred, for example, early on found himself on the wrong side of Pic de Bure and had to fly around the mountain to find a better route. Later he climbed the wave to around 3600m and made up a lot of time.

Second into goal today was fellow Austrian, Franz Pacheiner on his Archaeopteryx. At one time he was leading the race: "But I lost 40 minutes making the transition back over Aspres to the 4th turnpoint." He too, thought the task was quite special today.

3rd into goal was Jacques Bott (FRA). "It was terribly interesting," he said. "I would not normally have flown in these conditions, so it was a great experience for me. I'm really happy about it. It was always safe, but it was windy in places." Certainly the right decision was made for the Class 5 hang gliders. These wings would not have been so happy in the winds today.

Two pilots landed out today and one chose to land back at Aspres part way through the course. Steve Cox (SUI) and Pascal Lanser (FRA) landed close to each other on the south side of pic de Bure, while Ernst Ruppert ducked out early.

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 03:22:27 694
2 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 03:29:03 668
3 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 03:32:49 619

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 3637
2 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 2988
3 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 2963

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

July 30, 2017, 4:38:42 pm MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Manfred again on Sunday

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|video|weather|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/sunday-30th-july-task-3-successfully-completed.html

Setting a pattern for this competition, Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) arrives in goal first, followed some minutes later by Steve Cox (SUI). In third place today was local pilot, Jacques Bott (FRA). The weather was probably better than forecast, with some strong thermals in most areas. But the wind was strong too, in places. On today's task, Manfred commented: "It was good flying with Steve again today, we were together for the first half of the course. I should have some good video of Steve flying today!" Steve explained how Manfred got away from him on the course today: "We were approaching the turnpoint, and Manfred was about 200m higher than me. I saw him just barely touch the turnpoint cylinder and he was in a thermal. I arrived a little lower very shortly after and found just a windy 'hole'!" Manfred took the lead and accelerated away while Steve hunted for the next thermal.

The battle for third place is hotting up now, as Jacques flew well today, and Franz Pacheiner (AUT) was fourth to goal and the first Archaeopteryx. Jacques said: "It was a good task after I reached the first turnpoint." Jacques had a technical problem shortly after being released from the tow, and had to fly back to the airfield to correct it and then re-launch. Fortunately he was able to rejoin the other competitors waiting for the start gate to open.

Task 3 (211 km):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 03:23:22 997
2 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 03:33:37 872
3 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 03:37:15 824
4 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 03:41:45 780

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 946 1000 997 2943
2 Steve Cox Swift Brightstar 814 933 872 2619
3 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 826 734 780 2340
4 Franz Pacheiner Archaeopteryx 772 721 824 2317

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

July 29, 2017, 3:18:43 pm MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Real tasks - so what's new, Manfred is winning

Facebook|Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|video|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/pages/pilots-corner/results.html

Task 1 (182 km):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 02:59:41 946
2 Jacques Bott Swiftlight 03:08:25 826
3 Steve Cox Swiftlight 03:07:50 814

Task 2 (236 km):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 04:36:11 1000
2 Steve Cox Swiftlight 04:36:43 936
3 Ernst Ruppert Archaeopteryx 05:05:33 786

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Swiftlight 1946
2 Steve Cox Swiftlight 1750
3 Ernst Ruppert Archaeopteryx 1575

https://www.facebook.com/ADPUL/videos/469366980100630/

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20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

July 28, 2017, 7:18:29 MST -0600

20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 2 Championships

Practice task

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer|weather|Worlds 2017 Class 2

https://www.mondialdepul2017.com/en/blog/practice-task-successfully-completed.html

All pilots are safely landed, with 7 in goal. Franz Pacheiner (SUI) arrived at the goal cylinder first on his Archeopteryx, followed closely by Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) and Jacques Bott (FRA).

The live tracking showed that Franz took a slightly different route to the two leading Swift pilots, which clearly paid off. Franz explained: “It was hard to start due to the conditions, but then it got very good. I saw the good clouds, I was high and so I took the direct route.”

Local pilot, Jacques said: “It was a good task, and the weather conditions were as forecast. I arrived at the second turnpoint a little early, and it was still in shade. Half an hour later it was in sunshine and was working really well.”

The results will be out shortly, but of course, this is a Practice Task, so they don’t get counted!

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Ultralight Glider World Championship

July 10, 2017, 8:04:42 MST -0600

Ultralight Glider World Championship

July the 24th till August the 6th 2017

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|video

http://www.ultralight-glider.fr/en/fai-2-ultralight-glider-world-championship/

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/posts/1885205715068030

Another Class 2 Worlds will start soon (Jul.24-Aug.6) at Aspres Airfiel, France. Check it out for some serious cross country racing with the highest performing hang gliders, the Swift-Light and Archaeopteryx.

This video was from just a later afternoon fun flight after finishing a 360 km task. That day we could have flown another 100 km without big problems. At the same time and same place will be also a Class 5 competition.

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Austria and its insurance

May 5, 2017, 9:35:30 EST -0400

Austria and its insurance

Costs a bunch to fly there

CIVL|Manfred Ruhmer|PG

JM - Cloudbase Paragliding <<jan.minnaar>> writes:

We have taken a paragliding group to the Alps every summer for the past twenty three years. Our first stop being Stubai in Austria, and we will be there once again in July, and so this issue is very relevant to us.

Our national organisation (South Africa) was also one of those that wrote to the relevant parties to be included in the list of "Legal Countries" that are allowed to fly in Austria and received no response and have now therefore been excluded from this special list.

As we are taking a group again this year, we wrote to Manfred to ask him for further information , and were told to contact a local school.

We have done this, and we contacted Parafly in Stubai and have been sent the below, after they had to spend a number of weeks finding out the relevant info:

I finally managed to find out what is necessary to fly officially insured in Austria. The people will need:

- an IPPI Card rating 4

- AXA insurance

- Austrian Guest Flying Permit

Prices:

• Group: Guest Flying Permit per person normally 40€, + AXA insurance depending on which Premium from 60 € to 90 €

• Per person total insured ca. 100€

Payment:

• Guest Flying Permit directly at the school when you are here.

• AXA insurance directly at the school or by bank transfer directly to AXA (http://www.flugschulen.at/axa/english/index.html)

So it is going to cost EURO100 per person to fly in Austria regardless of period of time, for South Africans this is a lot of money !!

We do not think that it is fair to force this extra cost on our pilots when we have a very good licensing system, in fact in our first level of license we require a far higher skill level than the Austrian equivalent.

We appreciate the law exists, and we have our own issues here with a “licensing law” but it only cost R200 ie Euro 13 and is not restricted to IPPI 4 and above. This fee also gets paid directly to SAHPA (South African HG and PG Assoc.) who pay the site insurance policies, third party insurance etc.

In our opinion, this Euro100 fee is grossly unfair and we would like to ask that the FAI and CIVL and Austrian Aeroclub review this issue, as we are all members via our Aero clubs and comply to the IPPI system.

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Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition

December 8, 2016, 6:37:26 pm CST

Canary Open 2016 and 20th edition

Task 4

Christian Pollet|competition|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger

https://airtribune.com/xx-open-de-canarias/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora 01:02:20 126
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat GT 01:41:44 111

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 Technora 1811
2 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat GT 1720
3 Jose Antonio Abollado Aeros Combat 12,7 1714
4 Joseph Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 1709
5 Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet Moyes Litespeed RX· 1651
6 Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez Wills Wing T2C 144 1633
7 Jonas Blecher Moyes Litespeed RS 1614
8 Georg Schweier Wills Wing T2C 144 1477
8 David Ferreiro Matos Wills Wing T2C 144 1477
10 Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero Wills Wing T2C 144 1456

Canary Open, task 4, Macher/La Asomada: 24 km cat's craddle in super light easterly conditions scratching the hills, glide out for the turnpoint to the left, come back again, scratching the hills, glide out to the right, back again. Funny nap-of-the-earth-flying and a lot of VG-work! After 1 hr and 7 turnpoints I made goal with nobody else in and it looked like kinda Manfred Ruhmer style, but then Christian appeared on the horizon from the last turnpoint gliding into goal to complete a happy duet. He now jumped to 2nd place overall, well done my friend.

Class 2 Pre-Worlds

August 8, 2016, 0:01:56 CST -0500

Class 2 Pre-Worlds

Sunday, after two days cancelled

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer

Live Tracking: http://www.livetrack24.com/events/Class2

http://flylaragne.com/club/results.htm

Fourth Task:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Swiftlight 04:22:10 996
2 Roger Ruppert SUI Archeopteryx 04:32:51 892
3 Franz Pacheiner AUT Archeopteryx 04:52:57 750
4 Philippe Bernard SUI Archeoptéryx 04:53:51 729
5 Jacques Bott FRA Swiftlight 04:58:58 693

Cumulative results:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Swiftlight 931 1000 577 996 3504
2 Roger Ruppert SUI Archeopteryx 982 506 543 892 2923
3 Jacques Bott FRA Swiftlight 812 840 439 693 2784
4 Philippe Bernard SUI Archeoptéryx 671 751 490 729 2641
5 Franz Pacheiner AUT Archeopteryx 636 795 379 750 2560

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Class 2 Pre-Worlds

August 4, 2016, 9:01:02 pm MST -0600

Class 2 Pre-Worlds

Task 3, day 3

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer

Live Tracking: http://www.livetrack24.com/events/Class2

Stronger winds are forecast for this afternoon, so a shorter task (134km) has been set to keep pilots away from the mountains

Results: http://flylaragne.com/club/results.htm

# Name Nat Glider Time km/h Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Swiftlight 03:02:13 42.6 577
2 Roger Ruppert SUI Archeopteryx 03:05:47 41.7 543
3 Philippe Bernard SUI Archeoptéryx 03:09:31 40.9 490
4 Jacques Bott FRA Swiftlight 03:20:10 38.7 439
5 Franz Pacheiner AUT Archeopteryx 03:42:53 34.8 379

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Swiftlight 2508
2 Jacques Bott FRA Swiftlight 2091
3 Roger Ruppert SUI Archeopteryx 2031
4 Philippe Bernard SUI Archeoptéryx 1912
5 Franz Pacheiner AUT Archeopteryx 1810

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Class 2 Pre-Worlds

August 3, 2016, 6:56:17 pm MST -0600

Class 2 Pre-Worlds

Swift and Archeopteryx

Jacques Bott|Manfred Ruhmer

http://flylaragne.com/club/results.htm

Manfred wins task two in five hours. 289 kilometers. Jacques Bott second twenty minutes later. Last pilot into goal takes over seven hours. Manfred leads overall after two tasks.

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Zac third at two day Austrian Open

July 10, 2016, 9:49:39 pm MST -0600

Zac third at two day Austrian Open

Manfred first and Alex second

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Blue Sky|Christian Ciech|competition|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/austrianopen2016/results

Final:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 835 917 1752
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 890 848 1738
3 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 0 879 771 1650
4 Anton Moroder ITA icaro 2000 laminar 13 0 737 878 1615
5 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed Rx 0 735 839 1574
6 Joerg Bajewski DEU Wills Wing T2C 154 0 658 882 1540
7 Karl Reichegger ITA zero 9 14,1m² 0 613 883 1496
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 588 901 1489
9 Tschurnig Guenther AUT Icaro blue Sky 0 546 840 1386
10 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 0 495 887 1382

Manfred goes flying

March 30, 2016, 8:51:25 EST -0400

Manfred goes flying

In so many different ways

Christian Schelb|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/posts/1679287548993182

Thanks to Christian Schelb.

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March Fund Raising

March 21, 2016, 8:24:22 EST -0400

March Fund Raising

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Davis Straub|Manfred Ruhmer|video

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Aeros Winter Race 2016 - second task »

Sat, Mar 19 2016, 1:02:50 pm MDT

Aeros Winter Race

Primoz wins the competition

Aeros Winter Race 2016|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Wills Wing T2C

http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show

Second task:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros 13,5 C 01:38:55 1000
2 Peter Neuenschwander Sui Aeros Combat 13.5 01:39:08 981
3 Franc Peternel Slo Wills Wing T2C-144 01:45:17 900
4 Matjaz Klemencic Slo Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:45:47 892
5 Balázs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RS4 01:45:50 887
6 Endre Kovács Hun Aeros Combat GT 13,5 01:45:52 879
7 Manfred Ruhmer Aut Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:45:57 861
8 Luke Nicol Gbr Moyes RX4 01:47:30 850
9 Tom Weissenberger Aut Moyes RX 3.5 Technora 01:47:03 847
10 Gerd Doenhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 01:51:36 810

Final:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros 13,5 C 984 1000 1984
2 Franc Peternel Slo Wills Wing T2C-144 985 900 1885
3 Matjaz Klemencic Slo Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 973 892 1865
4 Manfred Ruhmer Aut Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 999 861 1860
5 Tom Weissenberger Aut Moyes RX 3.5 Technora 929 847 1776
6 Gerd Doenhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 915 810 1725
7 Günther Tschurnig Aut Icaro Z9 14.1 913 673 1586
8 Pfanzelter Günther Ita Icaro Laminar 09 859 719 1578
9 Peter Neuenschwander Sui Aeros Combat 13.5 564 981 1545
10 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 644 807 1451

Four gliders from four different manufacturers in the first four spots.

The competition ended in the best possible way - with a lot of pilots in goal. The winner today was Primo· Gricar followed by Peter Neuenschwander and Franc Peternel. Overall winner is Primo· Gricar second is Franc Peternel and Matja· Klemencic on third. Great success for Slovenian pilots and of course the "German Slovenian" Primo· Gricar!

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Aeros Winter Race 2016 »

Sat, Mar 19 2016, 9:52:31 am MDT

Manfred wins the first day

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Wills Wing T2C

http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Aut Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 03:05:50 999
2 Franc Peternel Slo Wills Wing T2C-144 03:05:54 985
3 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros 13,5 C 03:05:55 984
4 Matjaz Klemencic Slo Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:06:05 973
5 Tom Weissenberger Aut Moyes RX 3.5 Technora 03:15:38 929
6 Gerd Doenhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 03:16:24 915
7 Günther Tschurnig Aut Icaro Z9 14.1 03:16:17 913
8 Andy Hollidge Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 03:22:47 890
9 Pfanzelter Günther Ita Icaro Laminar 09 03:38:14 859

On the second task on Saturday:

https://www.facebook.com/British-Hang-Gliding-Team-1024182677610087/?fref=nf

That's all three Brits round the course and in Goal, Andy Hollidge just landing a few minutes ago. Ollie's glider in the foreground. We think from a later start than most. Scores will be published in 3-4 hours time.

Manfred on the Swift Light

February 25, 2016, 7:58:14 EST

Manfred on the Swift Light

Upside down and sideways

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer

https://www.facebook.com/manfred.ruhmer.5/posts/1667063190215618

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Beer delivery

December 10, 2015, 8:18:10 EST

Beer delivery

Manfred's son to Flavio

Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|video

https://www.facebook.com/flavio.tebaldi/videos/vb.1654449395/10207218737420798/?type=2&theater

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Dustin's challenge

October 14, 2015, 1:11:26 pm MST -0600

Dustin's challenge

Aeros pilots come on down and try to beat Dustin at Canoa

Dustin Martin|Manfred Ruhmer

Dustin writes:

I will be totally stoked if Tom shows up flying any glider at all. Unfortunately Christian isn't coming anymore, and the stories of Manfred, Attila, and other Moyes and Icaro secret weapons appear to be fantasies. Or are they?? I hope not!

This race is a pure test of glider and harness performance, where even 1/4 of 1% advantage on the typical 48 km course means approximately 5 seconds lead at the finish. There is no circling, and besides three 180 degree turns, it is a flat out straight line race for over half an hour. There are extended portions of the course which are run at min sink speed, best glide speed, and at increments up way way past VNE. All our assumptions about which glider has the best sink rate, best glide, and best glide at higher speed, from our experience at thermal comps, are put to the test and ultimately answered here.

Beyond that, we can test the effects of ballast, glider settings, and blending and fairing things that are typically left in the breeze in a thermal comp. It is a breeding ground for performance developments that trickle down to production, because there is no doubt about whether something worked -- independent of the pilot or the air. No other event allows us this honest view of raw performance, where pilots become just glider jockeys. Which is why the escalation of threats of bigger and bigger guns (world champions) being sent to Canoa is so entertaining. Of course the course must be run very efficiently and turnpoints tagged perfectly, so a solid comp pilot is probably the best bet.

But I really came here to taunt the AEROS pilots. After all, I've never seen one down there and from what I always hear, they must be the fastest, slipperiest thing to ever exist. There are about half a dozen spots left in the race, and I would love for someone to put their glider where their mouth is.

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2016 Canoa Ridge Race »

October 14, 2015, 11:43:42 MST -0600

2016 Canoa Ridge Race

Crowded skies

Canoa Ridge Race 2016|Dustin Martin|Manfred Ruhmer|Wills Wing T2C

It looks like there are forty pilots coming to fly in the Canoa Ridge Race. That would be a bit too crowded on this small area. I hope that they can split up the sport and open classes.

https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/pilots

Looks like Tom was pulling our leg when it came to flying a Litesport. He's registered to fly a Litespeed and Attila is not registered, so that was just a faint, also.

Dustin is flying a Wills Wing T2Cx 144. I'm sure that he added the lower case x on his own.

No word yet on whether Manfred will get Christian's plane ticket and come to the competition. Raul is trying to work that out.

Ridge Racing at Canoa, 2015

October 8, 2015, 9:03:17 MST -0600

Ridge Racing at Canoa, 2015

A real test of glider performance

Christian Ciech|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Dustin Martin|Fausto Arcos|Manfred Ruhmer|Raul Guerra|video

Fausto Arcos <<faustoa>> writes:

From October 31st until November 2nd top pilots from Austria, Italy, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, USA and Ecuador will be racing the famous Canoa Ridges to claim the King of The Ridge title. Christian Ciech, Tom Weissenberger (current King of the Ridge), Daniel Velez, Rudy Gotes, Raul Guerra and all the Ecuadorian gang will be there. Competition is FAI 2 with two classes: open and sport.

This a fun, relaxed but serious race for expert and intermediate pilots. Watch: https://youtu.be/S8jp8_zSW58

Competition, registration and useful info: https://airtribune.com/canoaopen2015/info/details__info

Additional info: <faustoarcos>

Dustin Martin <<flydustin>> writes:

It will have live tracking according to Raul. Plus I'm taunting Weissenberger and Manfred, who are both apparently coming, which is probably a lot like taunting a bear. So it should be pretty entertaining.

Also as you know the Canoa race is the only pure glider performance comp that pretty much isolates pilot skill from the result. Assuming everyone is capable of flying efficiently and tagging turns well. So I figured a true comparison would interest your readers. Christian was confirmed but has a detached retina and imminent surgery. Manfred may take his place according to Raul. Will Moyes be sending someone to back up Tom?

Not quite right

August 5, 2015, 8:02:10 CDT

Not quite right

A claim that wasn't quite true

Manfred Ruhmer

ADPUL claims:

http://www.ultralight-glider.fr/en/biggest-competition-task-launched/

The biggest competition task ever launched.

The biggest Free Flight task* ever launched in the world Despite medium flying conditions: a 306km task, with 83% pilots at goal. Arrival order: Manfred, Jacques, Philippe, Ernst, Roger; Pavel landed out in Dévoluy. * closed circuit competition task.

The headline is misleading. Of course, the longest hang gliding task ever called and made was called an made right here in Big Spring, Texas. Goal 215 miles (346 km) to the north. And we are not taking Swifts here.

http://ozreport.com/12.154#0

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Batten clips open to create spiral dive

April 27, 2015, 7:56:23 PDT

Batten clips open to create spiral dive

DHV testing

Battens|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|USHPA|video|William "Billo" Olive

http://ozreport.com/19.069#1

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32806

Icaro MastR: Spiral dive w/o recovery - batten clips opened

The plastic batten clips (produced by Airborne and used by many other hang gliding manufacturers) of an Icaro 2000 MastR (size M) hang glider with Dacron sail cloth opened after the pilot steered into a steep banked downward turn. The glider then entered a stable steep spiral dive with the inside wing billowing considerably more than the outer wing. The experienced pilot could not end the spiral dive.

The pilot was lucky to survive, although with serious injuries.

The incident happened one and a half years ago in southern Germany (Rauschberg) on October 26th, 2013.

Recently the German DHV asked a test pilot (Tim Grabowski, employed by the rigid wing manufacturer A.I.R.) to perform a test flight in a MastR. Tim also didn’t succeed in recovering from the spiral dive after the inboard clips (1-5) opened. He was lucky to deploy his reserve just in time close to the ground.

Two accident investigation reports issued by the DHV (Klaus Tänzler) blaming solely the pilot have been silently withdrawn from the DHV website.

The DHV then issued a warning urging pilots to inspect their plastic batten clips, but so far it is reluctant to publish the video of the DHV test flight (from what I heard though, things get out of control very rapidly with an even worse spiral dive).

I asked Icaro 2000 (Manfred Ruhmer) for an official statement on these incidents, but so far only received answers not meant to be made publicly available.

Video of the original accident: https://vimeo.com/106099298

DHV-warning (March 12, 2015): http://www.dhv.de/db1/source/technicdatareportnotes.php?lang=de&item=233

Questions:

Have any similar incidents been reported elsewhere? Can failing batten clips lead to a severe or even catastrophic loss of controllability? Is the USHPA familiar with the problem and have they been informed by the German DHV? Does the design of the MastR differ from other hang gliding designs making them more susceptible for batten clips to fail with subsequent severe loss of controllability?

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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 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 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, 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, 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, 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

2015 World Championships

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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Not so many leading points after all

March 3, 2015, 6:29:49 pm EST

Not so many leading points after all

Rudy is now second

Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C

Day 1, task 1: http://www.faihgworldmex.com/xxresults/2015/overall t1.html

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian CIECH ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:17:55 990
2 Rodolfo GOTÉS MEX Wills Wing T2C 02:18:19 980
3 Manfred RUHMER AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:18:08 976
3 Gerd DÖNHUBER GER Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:18:06 976
5 Joseph Salvenhoser AUT ? ? 02:20:43 930
6 Attila BERTOK HUN Moyes Litespeed 02:21:55 921
7 Suan SELENATI ITA Wills Wing T2C 02:23:31 896
8 Daniel VELEZ COL Wills Wing T2C 02:28:10 865
9 Pedro L GARCIA ESP Wills Wing T2C 02:31:12 847
10 Carl WALLBANK GBR Moyes Litespeed RX Tec 02:34:13 827

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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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Manfred's aluminum foil leading edges

February 27, 2015, 11:25:43 EST

Manfred's aluminum foil leading edges

Reflective. Blinding the opposition?

Manfred Ruhmer

Thanks to J. Gibson.

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