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Volume 10, Number 246
Friday, December 8 2006
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"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

to Table of Contentsto next topic Jonny flies 500 km in Australia

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:23:18 am PST
500 km
Starting a little after 8 AM.

Vicki Cain

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Vicki Cain

Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Vicki Cain

Vicki Cain «vicki» writes:

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

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

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to Table of Contentsto next topic CIVL Jury sent to re-education camp

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:28:21 am PST
Jury
They were bad

CIVL|Noel Whittall|PG

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

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

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

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

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

See posts here re the steward.

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to Table of Contentsto next topic The 2007 pre-European Flex Wing Championships

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:28:45 am PST
pre-Europeans
Early in the year in spectacular surroundings.

pre-European Flex Wing Championships 2007

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

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

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

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to Table of Contentsto next topic Jamie Shelden⁣ puff piece

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:29:12 am PST
Jamie
Naughty lawyer turns into hang glider pilot

Jamie Shelden|Quest Air

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

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to Table of Contentsto next topic SkyCar - It's back

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:29:29 am PST
SkyCar
And you can own it.

Jesse Benson|toy

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

Thanks Jesse Benson

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to Table of Contentsto next topic Whooping Cranes

Thu, Dec 7 2006, 7:29:48 am PST
Cranes
They keep following trikes

Peter Batey

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

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