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Displayed in the main stream media

Thu, Sep 4 2014, 9:46:23 pm MDT

They got it from the Oz Report

Adam Parer|fatality|news

Adam Parer

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-01/adamparerjpg/5709874

www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-01/hang-glider-pilot-dies-after-crashing-into-a-house/5709204

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Adam Parer, video »

Mon, Sep 1 2014, 9:00:13 am MDT

Avoiding another glider

Adam Parer|Foundation for Free Flight|video

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/24863896/tragic-twist-video-shows-the-shocking-moment-hang-glider-adam-parer-crashed/

It's the first video at this news site.

A tribute to Adam:

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2528604/tributes-for-adam-parer-a-man-born-half-bird-pics-video/?cs=303

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Our friend Adam Parer dies in Newcastle

Sun, Aug 31 2014, 7:38:44 am MDT

Spinning

Adam Parer|fatality

Adam Parer

Adam Parer, who could often be seen looping his glider off the Merewether launch and over Bar Beach near Newcastle, NSW, died yesterday afternoon crashing into a house.

Adam on the left competing at Gulgong in 2005.

Adam was a good friend and we had great times with him. He often competed and caused quite a stir when he demonstrated just how strong a harness needed to be when he deployed near Gulgong. You can read the stories in the back issues of the Oz Report (see links below). He worked as a fireman in Newcastle.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hangglider-dies-after-crashing-into-house-20140831-10aok3.html

Witnesses say a hang-glider who died when he crashed into the front of a house opposite a Newcastle beach on Sunday afternoon had been undertaking advanced aerobatics in the moments before the crash.

The man, 46, was killed instantly when he crashed into the front of a house at Bar Beach about 3pm, after earlier clipping power lines.

One witness was filming the man as he performed the maneuvers and captured the subsequent crash. The footage has been handed over to police.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2525455/fatal-hang-glider-crash-at-bar-beach-adam-parer-killed/?cs=303

"There were a lot of hang-gliders out, (Mr Parer) was doing some amazing moves, stuff I’ve never seen before, he was doing 360s, so I got my iPhone out and I started filming it," Mr Ravel said.

"I was filming him going into a 360 and he looked like he was about to hit another hang-glider.

"He has pulled up from that – it looked like he pulled up to save the collision – and then he went vertical and it looked like the wind got him and it was taking him away from the beach and towards the houses.

"Then he started flipping over and over again pretty quickly and the bar went out of his hands and as soon as that happened he lost all control, he was free falling essentially. He hit the power line on the way through before he went into the property."

"To me he looked like he was saving somebody else’s life," Mr Ravel said. "It could have been a mid-air collision between two hang-gliders and it could have been twice as bad, but I think he probably put himself in a situation like that to try and save someone else’s life."

The previous accident:

https://OzReport.com/1262308339

https://OzReport.com/docs/AdamParerAccidentReport.pdf

https://OzReport.com/1271859231

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Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 12, 2014, 8:02:26 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Final day stopped

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Kathryn's photo:

Last task:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 19,39 132
2 nick purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 19,25 131
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 18,92 130
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 18,02 126
4 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 18,05 126
6 Sam Prest Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 16,81 118
7 Hugh Glenn Moyes Litespeed RX 4 16,57 116
8 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 15,97 112
9 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 15,32 108
10 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 14,91 106

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4360
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed RS 4 4173
3 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3998
4 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3791
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3763
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3731
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3498
8 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 3465
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RX4 3247
10 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 3124

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 10, 2014, 8:20:45 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Curt wins again (after falling down yesterday)

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:57:35 985
2 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:57:58 970
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:58:01 968
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:02:52 885
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:07:34 845
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:11:28 813
7 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:13:56 789
8 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:15:39 713
9 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:15:36 705
10 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:26:00 689

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 3285
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3270
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3220
4 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3192
5 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2974
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2737
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2676
8 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2634
9 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2631
10 Rohan Taylor Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2582

Blinky at goal:

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/competitions/dalby-big-air-2014

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Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 7, 2014, 10:09:02 pm EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Billo re rescores day one

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

After a protest about using altitude to determine virtual distance and pulling out the king posted pilots (for their own sport class) Billo produces:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 40,58 460
2 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RX 4 37,77 441
3 cameron tunbridge airborne rev 14.5 37,79 440
3 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,73 440
3 adam stevens Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,78 440
6 Tim Osborn Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,72 439
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,76 439
6 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,69 439
6 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,72 439
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 37,47 435

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Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding 2014

April 7, 2014, 8:40:47 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Billo rescores day one

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|John Smith|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

Original scoring: http://ozreport.com/18.66#9

# Name Glider Last
Dist.1
Alt.2 Dist.3 Total
1 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,66 1081 48,47 480
2 cameron tunbridge airborne rev 14.5 37,79 1039 48,18 478
3 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,71 972 47,43 472
4 Tim Osborne wills wing u2 37,68 955 47,23 470
5 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 37,75 926 47,01 469
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 35,51 1093 46,44 461
6 adam stevens airbone rev 13.5 37,78 874 46,52 461
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 37,74 878 46,52 461
9 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 37,69 746 45,15 438
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 37,47 753 45,00 436

The new version of the FS scoring program allows one to score a distance based on your altitude when the task was stopped.

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Dalby Big Air HG 2014

April 6, 2014, 8:15:25 EDT

Dalby Big Air HG 2014

Day one, a thunderstorm

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Kathryn O'Riordan|Konrad Heilmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Kathryn O'Riordan|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|Wills Wing

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Curt Warren|John Smith|Kathryn O'Riordan|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|Wills Wing

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/2014/

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 23,76 121
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 21,12 113
2 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 21,13 113
2 cameron tunbridge airborne rev 14.5 21,14 113
2 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Litespeed S 5 21,08 113
2 adam stevens airbone rev 13.5 21,14 113
2 Tim Osborne wills wing u2 21,07 113
8 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 21,07 112
8 John Smith Moyes Litespeed S 5 21,04 112
10 Frank Chetcuti Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 20,82 111

Task stopped due to a thunderstorm.

Kathryn O'Riordan took this shot after landing:

Adam Stevens gets this shot:

Day two, the ground is too wet for aerotowing.

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2013 Gulgong Classic »

November 29, 2013, 10:38:03 pm PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

274 km task

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams

Konrado writes:

Gulgong Hang Gliding Classic day 7 - Big day called, a 274km dog leg with 129km cross wind. As some big guy says around here "No pussy tasks!" Conditions look accordingly awesome.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes LS RX 5 04:27:12 979
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 04:53:46 780
3 Curt Warren Moyes LS RX 4 05:07:56 772
4 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 04:54:56 757
5 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 05:09:46 745
6 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 4 05:04:41 724
7 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 05:22:05 683
8 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 05:25:33 636
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes LS RX 3.75 05:26:37 627
10 Dave May moyes LS RX 3.5 05:38:09 622
11 Geoffrey Robertson Moyes LS RX 3.5 05:40:39 613
12 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 05:40:40 601
13 Andrew Barnes Moyes LS RS 3.5 06:03:04 543
14 Rory Duncan WW T2C 136 06:26:34 478

Final results :

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes LS RX 5 4625
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 4480
3 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 4458
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 4 4272
5 Curt Warren Moyes LS RX 4 4151
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 3942
7 Rod Flockhart Moyes LS RX 3.75 3576
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 3557
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 3364
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 3231

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

Jonny's photo from goal:

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November 27, 2013, 8:19:55 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Paris takes the lead

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Trent Brown

The "Americans" finish first and second. Paris gets comfortable with Gulgong.

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:04:26 941
2 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 03:03:50 922
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 03:15:54 907
4 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 03:18:18 879
5 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:20:19 819
6 Rod Flockhart   03:50:50 722
7 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:52:23 704
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 04:00:47 689
9 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 04:02:03 664
10 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 04:02:00 652
11 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 04:14:15 624
12 Dave May moyes LS RX 3.5 04:18:44 588
13 Mark Russell moyes litespeed RS4 05:03:04 508

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Paris Williams aeros combat GT 13.2 3700
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 3698
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 3641
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 3545
5 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 3377
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 3253
7 Rod Flockhart   2939
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 2803
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 2754
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 2586

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

Konrado writes:

Gulgong Hang Gliding Classic 2013 day 4: Another big day, five hors in the air, 146km triangle, with a 50+ km upwind leg on a blue but consistent day. Goal back at the Gulgong airfield glider set up in the hangar ready for day 5.

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2013 Gulgong Classic »

November 26, 2013, 7:53:17 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task three

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Paris Williams   03:47:16 990
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 03:48:18 972
3 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:48:43 955
4 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:49:11 941
5 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:53:44 896
6 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 04:01:45 793
7 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 04:09:25 780
8 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 04:15:46 726
9 Andrew Luton   04:38:37 657
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 04:34:46 649
11 Rod Flockhart   04:50:41 605
12 Richard Heffer   04:54:03 588

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 2818
2 Paris Williams   2778
3 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 2726
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 2722
5 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 2547
6 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 2434
7 Rod Flockhart   2202
8 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 2171
9 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 2092
10 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 1908

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

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2013 Gulgong Classic »

November 25, 2013, 8:52:38 PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task two:

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Enda Murphy|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder|William "Billo" Olive

Billo's photo of the Gulgong airfield:

His refurbished trike.

Task two:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 02:15:22 939
2 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 02:08:38 937
3 Paris Williams   02:18:31 901
4 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 02:22:17 870
5 Enda Murphy moyes LS RX 3.5 02:36:33 793
6 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 02:36:50 773
7 Rod Flockhart   02:39:46 762
8 Andrew Luton   02:45:59 733
9 Phil Schroder airborne REV 02:53:53 705
10 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:04:44 638
11 Jamie Oorschot   03:17:21 584

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 1920
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 1840
3 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 1819
4 Paris Williams   1785
5 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 1596
6 Rod Flockhart   1569
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 1467
8 Phil Schroder airborne REV 1396
9 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 1368
10 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 1338

http://www.williamolive.com/gulgong classic/2013 competition/

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2013 Gulgong Classic »

November 23, 2013, 6:34:38 pm PST

2013 Gulgong Classic

Task for the first day

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Gulgong Classic 2013|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|Paris Williams|Phil Schroder

Jonny's picture from the first day:

Task is 143 km to the north.

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Jonny writes:

Day 1 turned out good with climbs to over 9,000ft and mostly blue. We had a 25 kph cross wind most of the 140 Kms but conditions allowed about 15 pilots to make goal. Atilla won the day in under 3 hrs with me hot on heels then Paris about 10 minutes later. Today is looking good as is most of the week!

Task 1 Results:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok moyes LS 5 02:54:14 980
2 Jon Durand Jnr moyes LS RX 3.5 02:54:43 969
3 Paris Williams 03:04:01 880
4 Jonas Lobitz moyes LS RX 3.5 03:04:01 878
5 Konrad Heilmann moyes LS RX 3.5 03:06:08 849
6 Nick Purcell Moyes LS RS 4 03:09:41 829
7 Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:10:01 824
8 Adam Parer moyes LS RX 3.5 03:11:53 817
9 Rod Flockhart 03:12:50 801
10 Conrad Loten moyes LS RX 3.5 03:15:30 786
11 Rory Duncan airborne sting III 03:25:11 724
12 Geoffrey Robertson 03:36:26 685
13 Phil Schroder airborne REV 03:36:17 682

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2013 Canungra Classic »

October 5, 2013, 3:52:45 pm MDT

2013 Canungra Classic

Last day, only Adam Stevens in goal

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2013|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop

Results: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/

Photo by Jonny Durand (trying for 3D?).

Last day:

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/task5_final.html

Cumulative:

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/comp_result_T5.html

1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 4344
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX4 3826
3 Adam Parer Moyes RX3.5 3680
4 Adam Stevens Moyes LS RX 3.5 3674
5 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 3488
6 Tony Giammichele Moyes LS 3.5 3306
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 3263
8 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes LS RX3.5 3257
9 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 3185
10 John Smith Moyes LS RX 3087

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2013 Canungra Classic »

October 2, 2013, 8:11:05 MDT

2013 Canungra Classic

Folks at goal, Jonny in the lead

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2013|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Enda Murphy|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn

Panorama at goal: http://t.co/Mo3mpJCFaj from Jonny Durand.

Results: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/

Task 3:

1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 01:54:46 989
2 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 01:59:34 919
3 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 01:59:38 910
4 Adam Parer Moyes RX3.5 01:59:42 905
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 02:04:47 848
6 Tony Giammichele Moyes LS 3.5 02:15:47 803
7 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes RX 3.5 02:19:15 801
8 Dave Stevens Moyes RX 02:18:39 785
9 Tim Osborn Moyes LS5 02:29:59 758
10 David Staver Moyes LS S 3.5 02:24:25 751

Cumulative:

1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX 3.5 2716
2 Adam Parer Moyes RX3.5 2645
3 Jonas Lobitz Moyes RX4 2379
4 Conrad Loten Moyes RX 3.5 2218
5 Enda Murphy Moyes RX 2155
6 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 2152
7 Nick Purcell Moyes RS4 2123
8 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes LS RX3.5 2099
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes LS RX 3.5 2098
10 John Smith Moyes LS RX 2077

http://t.co/Q5Gj7Ezv0D

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/task-4-74km-around-2-turnpoints-goal.html

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2013 Canungra Classic »

September 30, 2013, 8:10:24 MDT

2013 Canungra Classic

Jonny first on the first day

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2013|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr

The Beechmont launch. Photo by Jonny Durand.

Adam Parer after coming to second on the second day.

Results: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2013/

Jonny writes:

Another challenging flight today from Flying Fox to Woodenbong via 2 turn points. Glen Mcfarlene wins the day ahead of Adam Parer and Conrad Loten. Jonas Lobitz and I got stuck low before crossing the scenic Mt Lyndsey. Many pilots including myself had some very interesting glides over trees but everyone seemed to survive.

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com.au/

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The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 20, 2013, 6:57:06 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Final results

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:41:28 999
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 01:45:24 945
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:50:51 906
4 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:50:59 900
5 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 01:51:21 892
6 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:51:31 888
7 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 01:51:48 887
8 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:20:43 767

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 5159
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 5123
3 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4933
4 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4811
5 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 4371
6 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 4159
7 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 4123
8 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 4024
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3982
10 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3768

Looks like Attila almost lost it on the last day. He didn't make goal and if he had gone 5 km less he would have lost it.

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 18, 2013, 9:36:41 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 4

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 01:32:26 949
2 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 01:43:08 892
3 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:37:10 873
4 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:44:39 872
5 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:43:37 781
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:43:37 779
7 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:39:22 775
8 Gavin Myers Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:44:41 760
9 Len Paton Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:58:03 749
10 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 01:52:02 708

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 3650
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3428
3 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3102
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3071
5 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 3067
6 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2992
7 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 2982
8 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2904
9 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2856
10 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2787

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 17, 2013, 7:40:36 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 3

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Facebook|Grant Heaney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes litespeed S5 01:55:16 979
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:03:22 877
3 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:13:53 871
4 Adam Stevens Airbone Rev 13.5 02:16:05 839
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:09:27 831
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:21:26 804
7 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:24:53 782
8 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 02:25:59 777
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 02:25:31 776
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 02:29:30 752

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed RX 4 2701
2 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2555
3 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2503
4 Nick Purcell Moyes Litespeed RS 4 2467
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2394
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2374
7 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 14.5 2304
8 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2213
9 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed S5 2175
10 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 13.5 2136

The Dalby airfield:

The Dalby Big Air 2013

April 14, 2013, 8:14:08 EDT

The Dalby Big Air 2013

Results from day 1

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|William "Billo" Olive

William Olive <<William.Olive>> sends:

http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html

1 Attila Bertok Moyes Litespeed 02:08:56 933
2 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:16:23 930
3 Adam Parer Moyes Litespeed RX 02:16:34 913
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:17:12 902
5 Simon Braithwaite Moyes Litesport 4 02:11:33 888
6 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 02:20:14 885
7 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:12:28 884
8 nick purcell Moyes Litespeed 4 02:20:20 859
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed 3.5 02:25:22 827
10 Gavin Mye Moyes Litespeed 5 02:28:24 801

NSW State Titles at Manilla

February 19, 2013, 9:23:06 pm MST

NSW State Titles at Manilla

Jonas and Jonny only at goal

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Tim Osborn

Dave May reporting here.

After three days:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2811
2 Jonas Lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2663
3 Rohan Taylor moyes litespeed rs 4 2258
4 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2224
5 Bruce Wynne moyes litespeed rs 4 2186
6 Yasuhiro Noma moyes litespeed rx 3.5 2106
7 John Smith moyes litespeed rs 4 2099
8 Len Paton moyes litespeed rs 4 2093
9 Tim Osborne moyes litespeed 5 2031
10 Adam Parer moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1998

Fourth task canceled due to windy conditions on the course.

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NSW State Titles at Manilla

February 18, 2013, 5:13:46 pm PST

NSW State Titles at Manilla

Wednesday supposed to be windy.

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Dave May reporting here.

Third day, only four on the west launch. Pilots on all launches it appears.

After two days:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1835
2 Conrad Loten moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1734
3 Jonas Lobitz moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1686
4 John Smith moyes litespeed rs 4 1618
5 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 1532
6 Adam Parer moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1506
7 Rohan Taylor moyes litespeed rs 4 1500
8 Bruce Wynne moyes litespeed rs 4 1474
9 Jon snr Durand moyes litespeed rx 4 1451
10 Yasuhiro Noma moyes litespeed rx 3.5 1448

Conrad won last year and is in second place.

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Mon, Dec 3 2012, 7:58:04 am PST

Billo's report

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Jamie Shelden|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Lisa Bradley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Trent Brown|William "Billo" Olive|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

William Olive «William Olive» writes:

The scores on the web site are the final scores: Junior first, Atilla second and Trent Brown third (they were the task committee… hmmmm). Rory Duncan was first in sport class with a very good performance overall.

For the last day the task committee called an approximately 190km task to Jerrys Plains via Cassilis, almost the same task that was cancelled the day before due to a restricted military airspace being activated. The surface winds were 15 knts gusting and it was over 38C on the strip when towing commenced, and it was obvious the winds aloft were even stronger.

We were using an ordered launch, so as to ensure that pilots didn't have to wait on the field fully kitted up in the heat, and we had only launched about nine of the alternates before the safety committee suggested that it may be prudent to call a halt.

Most of the pilots made it back to the strip for interesting landings, Attila was the last back. Lisa Bradley and Mark Russell landed in paddocks down wind of the strip. We had a moment on concern for Mark, but he was found OK.

In the wash up, we flew on every one of the eight days (including the practice day). Two days were not taskable and one task was cancelled due to the wind. We got four valid comp rounds with some very challenging tasks and one spot landing comp on a non taskable day (won by James McKirdy). The tugs burnt more fuel on that day than any other.

We had hundreds of tows in, at times, very challenging conditions with no incidents. The standard of towing was pleasingly high. It was great to see all the international pilots show up for the event, in particularly the Kiwis who support all our comps (and also make a great effort for the presentation too, Jamie Shelden should have some good pics on her blog I think).

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com.au/

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3528
2 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 3513
3 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3323
4 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 3316
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3301
6 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 3129
7 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3107
8 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 2936
9 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2901
10 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2741

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Fri, Nov 30 2012, 7:56:04 am PST

Gliding into the rain to goal on the fourth task

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Facebook|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/gulgong-classic-2012-task-1-2-3-4

The 200km task to the East was changed because of a problem with airspace and a 126km task south with four turnpoints was set instead. I was late to the launch line and got a tow about 15 minutes before the last start. After climbing out to the cloud base at 10,000ft I crossed the start line with two minutes left. It was catch up time and I had a fast run to heavily shaded in 2nd turn point where I climbed with Jonny who left on final from 34km's out.

After grabbing the last two turnpoints I did a long glide to the hills 20km from goal. I found lift and climbed until I had 11/1 glide and knew I could make it easy. Thing was the there was a storm cell raining on course between me and goal and after a while of waiting I thought it wasn't worth the risk and so I flew back and landed by a road away from the rain and gust fronts.

Seven made goal and Trent won the day and with Jonny in 2nd. Big news is Attila landed about 15 km short so the overall scores got a shake up and Jonny will now be in the lead. One day to go and the weather looks iffy.

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time km/h Dist. Total
1 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 01:55:13 59,1 113,48 955
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:04:56 54,5 113,48 938
3 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:05:24 54,3 113,48 922
4 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 02:01:56 55,8 113,48 910
5 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:06:38 53,8 113,48 909
6 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:07:36 53,4 113,48 907
7 Grant Heaney Moyes Ls RX 3.5 110,69 689
8 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 101,35 664
9 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 98,15 636
10 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 96,28 611

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3541
2 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 3521
3 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 3319
4 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3310
5 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 3141
6 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 3111
7 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2902
8 Jonas Lobitz Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2747
9 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 2570
10 Nick Purcell Moyes Ls Rs 4 2445

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Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 4:21:32 pm PST

Updated scores

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 03:01:04 1000
2 Nick Purcell Moyes Ls Rs 4 03:04:47 945
3 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 03:04:57 933
4 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 03:07:11 915
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Ls RX 3.5 03:11:55 885
6 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 03:12:08 881
7 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 03:15:27 877
8 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 03:17:10 849
9 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 03:22:32 810
10 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 03:24:36 800

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 2855
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2600
3 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 2504
4 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 2406
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2383
6 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2334
7 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 2268
8 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2199
9 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 1956
10 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 1933

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Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 7:54:41 am PST

Task 3

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Conrad Loten|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Jonny Durand writes:

What another great day in Gulgong, a 140km task was set and it started off very slowly with many pilots having reflights. Just as the start gate came to a close the day started to turn on and we were off and racing. Trent Brown and Conrad Loten had the best starts and the rest of were late to the gate.

I eventually caught Trent after about 40 kms and took the lead. I stayed in the lead for nearly the rest of the task before I got low in the rain front. Trent came over me about 20kms from goal at cloudbase along with others trailing behind him. I had to take a light climb and finished about 15 minutes after Trent. Nick Purcell will take out 2nd place with John smith in 3rd. I think about 10-12 pilots made goal in the end with Matt Barlow just squeezing in late. Tomorrow looks like another good day so stay tuned.

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:00:51 1000
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:09:53 902
3 Nick Purcell Moyes Ls Rs 4 02:11:13 875
4 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 02:11:35 865
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:12:07 854
6 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 02:13:43 838
7 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 02:19:41 811
8 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 02:27:42 760
9 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:32:31 698
10 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:33:29 690
11 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 02:32:37 689

Totals:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes Ls 5 2751
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2723
3 John Smith Moyes Ls Rs 4 2409
4 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2C 154 2317
5 Glen Mcfarlane Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2273
6 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2236
7 Matthew Barlow Moyes Ls Rs 3.5 2201
8 Adam Parer Moyes Ls RX 3.5 2087
9 Adam Stevens Airborne Rev 1940
10 Konrad Heilmann Moyes Ls RX 3.5 1886

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Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Mon, Nov 26 2012, 4:27:17 pm PST

Results updated

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Gulgong Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Trent Brown

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Results here.

Day one:

# Name Nat Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Hun 02:25:22 940
2 Adam Parer Aus 02:35:12 915
3 Jonas Lobitz Nzl 02:53:57 790
4 Jon Durand Jnr Aus 02:40:25 784
5 Konrad Heilmann Bra 02:55:21 777
6 Glen Mcfarlane Aus 02:44:12 756
7 John Smith Nzl 02:57:40 741
8 Wolfgang Siess Aut 02:49:26 739
9 Dave Stevens Aus 02:57:14 737
10 Matthew Barlow Nzl 02:52:08 709

Day Two:

# Name Nat Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Hun 02:49:19 1000
2 Jon Durand Jnr Aus 02:53:57 939
3 Konrad Heilmann Bra 03:08:44 863
4 Trent Brown Aus 03:05:33 853
5 John Smith Nzl 03:12:54 830
6 Glen Mcfarlane Aus 03:16:57 827
7 Wolfgang Siess Aut 03:16:48 818
8 Matthew Barlow Nzl 03:20:19 803
9 Dave May Aus 03:33:03 755
10 Cameron Tunbridge Aus 03:41:20 734

Totals:

# Name Total
1 Attila Bertok 1940
2 Jon Durand Jnr 1723
3 Konrad Heilmann 1640
4 Glen Mcfarlane 1583
5 John Smith 1571
6 Wolfgang Siess 1557
7 Matthew Barlow 1512
8 Adam Parer 1389
9 Trent Brown 1334
10 Jonas Lobitz 1291

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Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Mon, Nov 26 2012, 2:10:03 pm PST

Partials Results from the first day

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Gulgong Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konrad Heilmann|Nick Purcell|William "Billo" Olive

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Results here.

William Olive «William Olive» writes:

FS is great, until things go wrong. The manual scoring options are fairly limited. The first day is up. These results are wrong, as Jason Kth, Jonas Lobitz and Peter Ebeling all made goal. I am still working to correct this.

# Name Nat Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Hun 02:25:22 945
2 Adam Parer Aus 02:35:12 922
3 Jon Durand Jnr Aus 02:40:25 805
4 Konrad Heilmann Bra 02:55:21 801
5 Glen Mcfarlane Aus 02:44:12 778
6 John Smith Nzl 02:57:40 767
7 Wolfgang Siess Aut 02:49:26 763
8 Dave Stevens Aus 02:57:14 762
9 Matthew Barlow Nzl 02:52:08 735
10 Nick Purcell Aus 02:56:16 723

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2012 »

Sat, Nov 24 2012, 11:11:20 pm PST

First day, Sunday

Adam Parer|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Real time update: http://j.mp/U4vtwi

Jonny Durand: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0iqLmibiOlUkdQgJhoW8RusZrzxqSthGM >

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/gulgong-classic-2012 (Dave May)

The forecast is a Hang gliders fantasy! It's got all the ingredients of fast racing: High base, strong climbs, clouds, and good pilots! I got here a few days before the start of the comp and had a couple of fun flights. Towing behind Jonny and Bruce in the dragon fly. It was just awesome to be aerotowing again, and flying around the area with Enda. But the real excitment was started on Sunday!

I was Looking at XC skies forecast for the first few days of the comp and it was eye candy!! Day 1. Was a 125km triangle in a cumulus filled sky. Base was 10,000ft and there was climbs as strong as 1000ft/min. I had a great start and was having a absolute ball but I decked it charging to the 3rd TP. The day will be won by Attila, second should be Adam Parer, and 3rd Jonny.

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2012 Canungra Classic »

September 27, 2012, 8:45:45 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Many at goal

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Canungra Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

http://www.kathrynoriordan.com/

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 02:33:21 999
2 Scott Barrett Airborne REV13.5 02:35:34 945
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 02:35:43 936
4 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:52:15 793
5 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 02:52:22 792
6 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:50:28 791
7 David Stevens Moyes Litespeed 02:44:13 790
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:47:40 781
9 Rod Flockhart Moyes RS3.5 02:47:59 773
10 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 02:49:24 766

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 3347
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 3072
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 2924
4 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 2836
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 2800
6 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 2784
7 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 2780
8 John Smith Moyes RS4 2778
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2753
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 2752

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2012 Canungra Classic »

September 26, 2012, 8:26:04 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Senior wins the day

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2012|Grant Heaney|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

Task four:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Jon snr Durand Moyes Litespeed RS 4 77,96 343
2 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 62,07 301
3 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 43,56 257
4 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 42,75 256
5 Grant Heaney Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 41,70 251
6 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 38,29 237
7 Jason Kath Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 37,81 234
8 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 36,86 230
9 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 34,64 221
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne REV 14.5 28,03 199

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 2348
2 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2291
3 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 2077
4 Yasuhiro Noma Moyes Litespeed RX 3 2047
5 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 2034
6 John Smith Moyes RS4 2023
7 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 1988
8 Adam Parer Moyes LS RX 3.5 1987
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 1962
10 Guy Hubbard Moyes RS4 1960

2012 Canungra Classic »

September 25, 2012, 9:02:52 MDT

2012 Canungra Classic

Vying for places on the Australian team

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2012|John Smith|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Nick Purcell|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown

Results so far here: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2012/CompResults.html

# Name Glider Total
1 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 2191
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RS4 2111
3 Yasuhiro Noma   1867
4 Adam Stevens Airborne REV 1856
5 John Smith Moyes RS4 1854
6 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne REV13.5 1817
7 Nick Purcell Moyes RX4 1806
8 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes LS RX3.5 1804
9 Adam Parer Moyes RS3.5 1730
10 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne REV 14.5 1729

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Adam Parer »

April 20, 2012, 2:27:15 pm EDT

Adam Parer

A reprise of his tumble for a few years ago.

Adam Parer

The Newcastle Herald article here.

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Forbes Flatlands - day two »

Forbes Flatlands 2012

Actual results

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Forbes Flatlands|Gerolf Heinrichs|Primoz Gricar|Roberto Nichele|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C


http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Eye witnesses had difficulty determining who was actually first into goal yesterday as there was a 400 meter cylinder instead of a line. Also pilots get their individual start times:

# Name Nat Glider SS Time Total
1 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:35:33 03:12:05 991
2 Roberto Nichele SUI WillsWing T2C 144 14:33:00 03:14:25 969
3 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:35:38 03:13:15 966
4 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:31:29 03:17:03 946
5 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:33:39 03:16:18 932
6 Adam Parer AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:06 03:18:39 921
7 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:30:50 03:19:38 914
8 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 14:30:55 03:19:14 909
9 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:15 03:20:17 904
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 14:30:38 03:21:57 890

Total after two days:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 1497
2 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 1458
3 Edoardo Giudiceandrea ITA WW T2C 154 1455
4 Jean Souviron FRA Moyes RS 3.5 1394
5 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 1385
6 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros CombatL 13,7 09 1310
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 1305
8 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 1297
9 Cameron Tunbridge AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 1278
10 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 1271

Dealing with the press

May 12, 2010, 9:06:37 EDT

Dealing with the press

Yes, I know that you don't like the fact that they show up when accidents occur

Adam Parer|Dragonfly|Dustin Martin|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Mitch Shipley|Paul Tjaden|Quest Air|video

Last Sunday we had Dan Criswell (camera man) and Drew Petrimoulx (reporter) from WFTV in Orlando show up at Quest Air after the accident. They came from Orlando so they arrived long after everyone had left, the hang glider pilot in a medical helicopter. There was nothing to see by that time. Dan and Drew had been listening on the scanner and we were the most interesting thing on it. Apparently that was true for most of the day as they spent a couple of hours with us.

Both Dan and Drew were personable, friendly and interested in what was going on at Quest Air in general. I went over and talked to them after I saw that their van was here. I saw Dan doing a bit of filming, but what was there to see?

I spoke on camera about the accident and about hang gliding at Quest and in general. Later Mitch Shipley did a longer interview in the control frame of the tandem glider (hey, with his shirt off). Since WFTV didn't put the video of Drew's report up on their web site, I have no idea of what Dan presented on camera or whether they used any of the video that I sent to them. Lauren and Paul Tjaden got to see it and Paul told me that basically it was very positive.

I got the bright idea of offering Dan a tandem flight or taking a flight up in a Dragonfly to get a bird's eye view of Quest Air. Dan called his production manager who said that he couldn't go. Something about insurance. Dan was up for it.

Mitch was at first reluctant to be interviewed or speak with Dan and Drew but then saw it as an opportunity to get some good news out. We both later agreed that what are you going to do, they are here, there is going to be a story about the accident, how could you make it any worse?

I see the presence of the TV press (and newspaper people, if they exist any more) as an opportunity. They are likely not coming out to visit when not much is happening (say, just a competition). So get over the fact that they are out there now and see this as an opportunity (if the press is friendly and open).

It is not going to help our cause if you act resentful and unhelpful. Your feelings are not the fault of the press people who are there now. You are not dealing with an institution, you are dealing with the people in front of you. Treat them in the manner that you would wish to be treated. Maybe you'll be surprised.

The press is every where these days. There are millions of "citizen reporters." If you don't get the story right, they'll get it wrong. For example, http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=17092 . This story was almost completely false.

The story reported (in text) here: http://www.wftv.com/news/23501281/detail.html was also incorrect (even after we spoke over a two hour period), but because I had a bit a rapport with the reporters, and their business cards with their email addresses, I was able to quickly get the report rewritten and corrected. Drew wrote to me that he didn't report the incorrect information on air.

I also had a video file from the pilot's helmet cam (GoPro Hero HD) view of her flight. It would have shown what she saw as the accident happened, confirming what the witnesses saw. It would not show the pilot, of course. Unfortunately, the camera turned off when the helmet hit the ground (I presume). This causes corruption of the file and I was not able to view it.

Dan, who has a GoPro and is a big fan of the camera, offered to use his software to try to recover the file. He stated that if I gave him the file, he would not use it unless he got explicit permission from the pilot's family (again, the video wouldn't show the pilot, or their injury) so I trusted him and gave him the video. He was not able to recover it. He received permission from the pilot's husband to use the video, but again, he was not able to recover it.

I spoke with Scare, and he said that it would be possible to recover some of the file, but not the last bits of it, which really were the only interesting parts. So at the moment I am not working on it.

I hope to see Dan and Drew back at Quest Air for a tandem flight from Mitch or Dustin.

It is the policy of the Oz Report (well, it's my approach) to report accidents as soon as possible. Accidents make up a very small part of the "news" as reported in the Oz Report. I'm not out there listening to the scanner.

I am not interested in reporting the pilot's name. The pilot's name is only reported if it is germane (say Adam Parer's reports on his tuck and tumble). I am only interested in making a report that helps the hang gliding community by reporting on the reasons for the accident, so that pilots can learn from others' mistakes. I'm not here to gloat over others' mistakes.

In this case we were able to quickly determine the cause of the accident because we had very experienced eye witnesses. The cause of the accident was something that pilots have total control over and have the opportunity to deal with.

The Oz Report is the premier hang gliding press. I have been reporting on hang gliding for fourteen years now. I do a lot of thinking about my responsibilities and take them very seriously. Everyone should be aware by now of the fact that the press landscape has changed greatly over the last fifteen years. I am aware that many people haven't figured that out yet.

There is now a lot of self reporting in blogs. I link to them so that you can have easy access to many different points of view. I hope that the Oz Report will continue to evolve as technology and society changes.

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Adam Parer is back flying

Wed, Apr 21 2010, 10:13:51 am EDT

After that little deployment thingy

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer|video

http://www.vimeo.com/11020352

Adam Parer's back from Adriaan Mulder on Vimeo.

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Looking for parachutes?

February 15, 2010, 9:30:56 PST

Looking for parachutes?

Check the Oz Report classifieds and...

Adam Parer

http://ozreport.com/freeClassifieds.php

http://willswing.com/prod2.asp?theClass=parachutes&theModel=LARA

http://www.highenergysports.com/hg_eparachutes.htm

As pointed out in the earlier Oz Report articles from Adam Parer, High Energy chutes are rated for free fall.

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More luck from Adam Parer

More luck from Adam Parer

Lucky to survive his wounds

Adam Parer|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Monica Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

We stayed at Scott and Monica Barrett's in North Belmont (near Newcastle) for three days after Christmas while they were visiting family in Victoria. We had the opportunity to have dinners with Conrad Loten (and Annucia and Myra), Billo (and Julia) and Adam Parer (who is now living at his mother's house in Newcastle). I took the opportunity to teach Billo additional aspects of the Davis' Scoring Program which he will use to also score the NSW State Titles (Jonny's favorite competition) and the Dalby Big Air. A little time with the program's author always helps. He also got an updated version.

Discussions with Conrad and Adam, who, by the way, is doing very well, revealed the extent of Adam's peril from his injuries in the few hours after he sustained them. Adam has already detailed how fortunate he was to survive his tuck, tumble and subsequent high speed spin in articles here in the Oz Report and on his blog. What was not quite so clear was how lucky he was to survive the wounds sustained from his deployment in free fall.

Adam had massive injuries to his chest, six broken ribs on the right side (Conrad described this side as flailed), two (not found at first) on the left. A collapsed lung and cracked sternum.  Because of the collapsed lung and internal bleeding there he had trouble breathing. But he could have easily had two collapsed lungs which would have suffocated him.

Because Adam is healthy and fit (and still is) he was able to able to reinflate the right lung within twenty four hours when it is usual to have to do much more invasive measures to deal with the damage. The fact that he was helicoptered out of the field to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle brought its own peril as reduced pressure on the lungs could have caused further damage. The pilot flew 200' off the trees and skimmed over the Great Dividing Range into the Hunter valley.

Adam is well on his road to a much greater recovery than was expected. Conrad was initially skeptical that the upper right ribs would ever go back into place but now it looks like that is already a possibility. Adam is swimming a kilometer every day, running hard and feels that his lung capacity (six weeks after the accident) is back to normal or close to it. His lung capacity will be tested soon.

He is being careful. Not flying and not riding a bike. He doesn't want to endanger his recovery progress. He will return to work at the fire department next Monday, but at a desk job for now. He has six months of accrued sick leave, but doesn't want to use it up.

He looks thin (he lost a lot of weight after his wife died) but healthy. His eyes (you may have seen the pictures) have whites instead of reds. I could see him favoring his right side, but not extensively.

We were very happy to visit with Adam and see that he is doing so well. He is enjoying staying with his mother and she is happy to have him there. Adam is particularly happy to see the huge interest in High Energy parachutes which can sustain freefall. Many pilots are ordering them to replace their existing chutes.

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Adam Parer follows up

Wed, Dec 30 2009, 7:15:58 am AEDT

A very very lucky pilot

Adam Parer|James-Donald "Don" "Plummet" Carslaw

http://adam-parer.blogspot.com/2009/12/survival.html

Then the equipment broke apart and instantly there was no more ‘G’. I could reach for the parachute but it was jammed.

Free-falling was almost surreal. The vision of earth all that way below moving up at such a rate and the eventual deafening sound of airflow confirmed I was plummeting with nothing more than a damaged harness and virgin parachute, the bare essentials and my only chance of survival.

It could have been a lot worse.

On more than one occasion I’ve heard others criticize my decision to connect parachute to harness instead of to the mains carabineer. If I had taken their advice the glider would have had a very soft landing under canopy that day.

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Adam Parer on his tuck and tumble

Fri, Nov 27 2009, 5:31:16 am PST

Wow! Take a deep breath before you read this

Adam Parer|Chris Jones|Conrad Loten|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Phil Schroder|video|weather

Adam Parer «Adam Parer» writes:

I got out of hospital 3 days ago and tried to put something together about the accident last night. It’s a scary incident but the outcome has nothing but positive implications for all of us. We can survive a parachute deployment at terminal velocity after separating from our glider. Best to avoid such an event but if it does happen it need not be a death sentence. I am very lucky to be alive, and extremely grateful to still be here. Hoping what follows covers all questions but have also attached a more formal report too.

Adam's Formal Report.

It was the 2nd task of the Gulgong Classic and just like the day before the wind gusts and turbulence in the tow paddock were moderate to heavy. It was about 30-35 degrees Celsius at ground level and the conditions seemed stable although the weather report had predicted good instability. Due to the rough conditions weak links were breaking just about every other tow and the two tugs worked hard to eventually get everyone off the ground successfully. The task was 209km, north, to Manilla Airstrip.

I towed out of the airstrip around 1:30pm and went to release height behind Pete Marhiene. During the first thermal I noticed several light inversion layers. Eventually I drifted downwind and met up with Chris Jones, Phil Schroder, Oliver Barthelmes and Dave May and we topped out at 6500' before heading NW in a cross-tail direction to get on the upwind side of the course line.

Chris was ahead by 200m and after a 5km glide I watched him complete two turns in what looked like solid lift. Eventually Dave, Oli and Phil would also head for Chris. Before I got there he had already straightened up and was back into a search pattern. This was typical of the conditions for the day; very short lived 'bubble' climbs, mild to moderate turbulence and generally a stable type of feel to the weather. Way off to the north great looking clouds filled the sky along the Liverpool Range and beyond, we needed to get there but for now we continued to hunt for a core that may be lurking around in the stable conditions of Gulgong.

While Chris, Oli, Phil and Dave tended to search upwind I turned downwind for about 100m and noticed the air felt much better there, still bumpy and stable but at least it was more buoyant I fully expected to only gain a few turns out of any climb I may find before it too petered out. Soon I felt some lift ahead and more to the left so I began a shallow turn in that direction and the vario started to chirp at about 200-300'/min. VG was off except for about 1 arms length of rope. I was flying at about 50kph with a bar position faster than best glide speed.

As I climbed for about a ¼ of the first turn the 'G' began to lighten and the nose started to ease over. For that first split second I expected a 'wire slapper' to precede a return into normal flight. This did not happen. The 'G' went to zero and the nose continued over. I braced onto the basebar and attempted to pull in and maintain hang position. This however could not be maintained. The 'G' went negative and the nose went over. I maintained some grip on the basebar and kept the torso as close to it as possible but the leg/boot end of the harness could not and continued to move toward the undersurface and my upper body would eventually follow. The nose-over motion accelerated and then I lost contact with the basebar.

As I fell weightless through the air the glider proceeded to tumble and I clear the wing without making contact as it passed underneath inverted. Just as the glider came around upright I bottomed out with a thud when the hang strap went tight and for a split second I thought the glider may stabilize however it had more than enough momentum to enter the 2nd tumble. Again I don't recall hitting any part of the glider as it went over a second time. Once again I fell with another thud when the hang straps went tight but this time the tension lasted for a much shorter period of time. I went weightless as if falling straight down for several meters before feeling the beginning of a rotation/spin in the horizontal plane (like a sycamore seed). We suspect the side wire had broken at this point and the wings began to fold together.

The first spin finished quickly but I entered the 2nd spin with much more speed. I tried to go for the parachute handle but the 'G' force had already built up significantly. Soon my arms (and eventually my head) were forced and held out away from the center of rotation preventing me from reaching the parachute handle. I realized I was in a bad way but my life depended on getting to the parachute. Hard as I tried and with all of my strength my arms remained straight pointing away from the harness.

What followed is something I could never have imagined, a force developed by these rotations, an incredible rapid acceleration in speed and the rapidly increasing 'G'. I have watched video of similar motion when a glider folds its wings but on those occasions the rotation seems to reach a maximum after a number of rotations. Not in this case. The 'G' force continued to increase and was transverse to my prone position, pooling blood ventrally in the front half of my body. The eyes sustained advanced hematoma from this force. By the 5th and 6th rotation the load was so severe I knew the equipment would have to fail soon and hopefully before I sustained serious injury. Then in a split second the 'G' force went to zero and I was being thrown through space. At least I could move my arms and hold my head up. I reached for the parachute handle.

I was aware of moving horizontally with a lot of velocity and could also hear the airspeed accelerating very quickly. Motion through the air was like a projectile but soon turned into a freefall. I realized then I had definitely separated from the glider. I located the parachute handle and pulled with my right hand but it didn't budge, and after a few more heaves I was convinced the parachute was going to need a lot more persuasion to come out. (We would discover the back plate had failed catastrophically and the opening of the parachute port was deformed as a result).

As I fought to remove the parachute I was aware of free-falling straight down in a boot-first/head-up/'pencil' position. This would later be confirmed by eye witnesses. Over the next 5 seconds while I continued to struggle with the parachute the sound of the airflow achieved a maximum and I realized I was at terminal velocity.

One arm was not enough so I reached down with the left and with both hands heaved on the handle. After another couple of seconds I felt the parachute finally come loose. I threw it sideways, let go and waited.

What came next was the most painful and violent impact I have ever felt in my life, like I had been torn in half. Extreme pain instantly filled the body with the worst of it concentrated in chest and upper back. I knew I had sustained serious injury and immediately suspected my back was broken. I looked up just enough to see one of the most beautiful things, a clean circular shape of the front 1/3 of the parachute, taut, inflated and in tact. The airflow was quiet now and the earth was no longer hurtling towards me. In less than 15 seconds I had fallen 4000', the parachute and harness survived the deployment and so had I but not without injury, and the pain suggested I was in a real bad way.

The thought of paralysis filled my mind and I needed to know. I tried to wriggle my fingers and they moved. I thought with some dread, 'My legs?' I wriggled my feet and they moved too. Relief mixed with the pain but concern remained that my back was probably broken despite the spinal cord being intact. I needed a soft landing to protect what wasn't damaged. I looked down and the remaining 2000' came up very slowly. I could only just breathe. I needed to get down as soon as possible and get help.

After a minute of trying to get more air into my lungs my color vision started to fade, I was graying out. I remained conscious but gradually blacked out and feared I may have sustained fatal internal injuries.

My thoughts immediately went to my wife who passed away earlier this year. I hoped that if this was what was happening to me then I would be with her soon and I felt content for the first time in 4 months. My soul mate, taken away so early in our life with whom I had shared so much… Pain was no longer on my mind and I felt calm. A few moments passed before awareness came over me, I was not dying, I would survive, and this was not my time. The peace gave way to the pain which returned with a vengeance. Shock set-in and I passed out.

When I came too I was on my back looking up at the sky. I looked around and suddenly the realization of what had just happened came back all at once. I said out loud in astonishment and relief, "I survived!" Then I started to get dragged backwards at a waking pace for a few feet before coming to a stop. I looked over my shoulder and there was that beautiful red colored parachute again, right behind me on the ground and still inflated. A gust came through and again I slowly got dragged along the ground a few more feet.

The pain was worse than ever now and I had to get out of the harness. I rechecked arm and leg movement and all were still working. I unclipped the leg loops and the waist belt. As I struggled in vain to undo the chest buckle I heard a voice from behind, a farmer who had seen my parachute from a distance sitting inflated on the ground drove over to check it out. "Can I give you a hand son?" He asked as he walked into my field of view where I lay on my back. "Yes, undo this buckle and call an ambulance", was my reply.

He too struggled with the chest strap and I thought it may be jammed from the deployment. I had one more go and it released. I rolled out of the harness, stood up, walked over to the shade of a nearby tree and carefully crouched in the least painful position. There I stayed for the next 90minutes until I could be evacuated.

Three things I saw that day will stay with me for the rest of my life. First, a glimpse of that High Energy parachute sitting high above and taking me safely to earth after the wildest and most painful ride of my life. And again as I lay unconscious in that field then waking up, looking over my shoulder to see it there once again, that big red parachute on the ground and still inflated as if it continued to watch over me.

Second was the sight of Oli, Dave, Phil and Chris all coming into land only meters away from where I crouched in absolute searing pain. I watched them get out of their harnesses one by one and I felt much better straight away. They rallied around me in relative silence but their concern was obvious. It took 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive but the pilots urged the paramedics on and tried to hurry them to do what ever was necessary to get me out of there and into hospital. I heard Oli pleading with the Ambulance Officer, "You need to get the helicopter, just send the helicopter right now". "Dave sat next to me and relayed my answers as I could hardly speak. I can't describe how good it was to have them there.

Photo by Tim Ettridge

Then the red and yellow Westpac helicopter arrived! The crew was on the ball and once airborne I finally realised I was safe. We lifted off and headed straight for The John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.

As I was wheeled in through the hospital doors a familiar face in a green medical gown stood there waiting, Conrad Loten, fellow hang glider pilot and head of the Emergency Department took over my treatment and directed his staff calmly but with obvious authority and competence. After the CAT scan Conrad came over to my bed and confirmed the damage; 6 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, broken sternum and a flail fracture of the chest. "What about my back?" I asked. With the slight smile he assured me the back was in perfect condition, no damage to the spine whatsoever.

Quietly but with apparent concern Conrad kept in touch of my progress and treatment over the next week. I was very lucky indeed to have him looking after me. Friends visited everyday and thankfully I made a quick recovery in that first week. My family came with real food to spare me and my recovering body what wasn't offered on the hospital 'menu'. While the prognosis is still uncertain it seems as though I could expect to make something close to a full recovery. Everyday I am feeling much stronger.

I was very lucky to have survived this accident and many things were in my favor including a lot of luck. The specialists believe health and fitness gave me a big advantage not only aiding in the healing but also preventing more serious injury. Since my wife passed away some months ago I have lost a bit of weight and I suspect the less momentum I had when the parachute inflated the better. She always looked out for me in the most unusual and often in the least obvious of ways and it feels she continues to.

In hindsight I began preparation for this accident 18 months ago. At Forbes in 2007 I watched Austrian pilot, Andreas Orgler, experience an almost identical accident. While his incident did not involve the violent sycamore rotation he did tumble twice and then separated from his glider. His pilotless wing then descended straight at me, head-on, and only just cleared mine with a closing speed that would have certainly brought me down too. Meanwhile Andreas quickly deployed his parachute during his freefall and well before achieving terminal velocity. Despite his much lower speed the inflation was explosively and the parachute failed. He continued to freefall right before my eyes.

Witnessing such a traumatic event left me deeply affected for a long time but it was the motivation to understand why it happened and then reequip with the most advanced skyline harness and a new High Energy parachute. This equipment that could and did survive this rare and 'unlikely' event where pilot and glider are separated in flight. The accident in Forbes helped prepare me to survive mine at Gulgong. This may be small consolation to those who have never met me and knew Andreas, but the fact is there are many people here now who are very relieved and very happy because I am alive. He helped save my life.

I am very happy to be alive.

My understanding of flying has not changed in any way and I am not left with any doubt about the safety and risks of hang gliding. I hope to fly again but that depends on the ribs, and if I get to fly for another 15yrs I would be surprised if I ever come across the same air that lead to my accident last Monday. Nothing I could have done and no sort of equipment would have behaved differently. The air was tipping me over no matter what.

The Rev is the most stable and beautiful glider I have flown in and when I eventually reequip it will be with the same gear.

Check your equipment and update to the best, the extra few $100 is worth it!

Adam has a lot more to say here.

Pictures of the damage here.

Airborne Gulgong Classic 2009 »

Mon, Nov 16 2009, 9:56:56 pm PST

Adam Parer tumbles

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/

Cameron Tunbridge writes:

209km task, difficult and strong cross wind 64k first leg then to goal, 5hrs flight (1 hour in 38 deg's start cylinder) a glider tumble's the pilot parachute's to safety. Adam Parer a top Oz pilot, landed under his reserve. It's not clearly apparent exactly why. He's in a stable in condition in hospital. Maybe a few broken ribs.

Jonny Durand writes:

My thoughts are with Adam after he broke his Aiborne Rev in flight and separated from his glider. He free fell for maybe 10 seconds before his chute opened. He is in hospital with a separated rib cage but seems no spinal damage or other major injuries. I believe he was flying with a High energy chute which is one of the only chutes designed to withstand free fall.

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AirBorne REV »

November 4, 2009, 9:28:24 GMT-0500

AirBorne REV

A new competition hang glider from AirBorne

Adam Parer|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Ricky Duncan <<Ricky>> writes:

When Airborne decided to work on a new topless glider we were aiming to increase high-speed performance, reduce weight and retain the great handling, which has been a characteristic of AirBorne gliders. We had the luxury of starting from the ground up, with only the basic control frame hardware to remain unchanged. This article will fill you in on the new REV, and highlight some of the features that make it our best high performance wing to date.

Let's jump forward to the first real test for the wing at the Canungra Classic 2009. We took the new REV 13.5 to Canungra for final testing prior to certification. I'd called Rohan Holtkamp and asked if he wanted to come up and fly the Canungra meet on the new glider. I was very satisfied with the final prototype REV and indicated to Rohan that I felt that the glider was going really well. We would find out how good it was during the comp.

Day one of the classic and my national ranking was stated on the pilot list as 1044, which meant I was 4th last on the launch order. I elected to go the alternate launch route and was moved to 4th on the start. With a 10:30am launch and the first start gate at 11:45am I figured that at least I can get some airtime before the race begins. Although I am flying frequently prototyping and production test flying my hours are much lower than in the past so I was quite rusty from a competition point of view.

The first round was a race to goal with Rohan winning the day and me placing second, 10 seconds behind. Our impressions of the glider were all positive and we couldn't wait until the next day to prove that it wasn't just a "lucky day". The following round saw the REV in 2nd and 3rd with high placings continuing for the rest of the meet. The overall placing at the end of the classic saw the REV taking 1st and 3rd. Johnny Durand, who had won the Classic the previous 7 or 8 years, was just in front of Rohan in second place.

The completion has proven that the glider has world-class performance and is a significant improvement over the C4.

So what makes the REV so special?

The first time you see a REV, you'll notice some obvious changes from the C4. The planform has a slightly deeper mid span chord, the tip wands exit the LE with a more tangential sweep and the percentage of double surface is greater. When you look at the sail you'll see it's cleaner than ever. With the VG on it is twang tight and wrinkle free. The top surface layout is the now the common "rim and fill" style with load bearing heavier cloth used where needed. Lighter, more flexible laminates "fill" in the remainder allowing minor stretching to make the skin slick and tight. The under surface carries much more tension than previous wings but still allows for blow-down outboard to optimise the airfoil for higher speeds. The sail also includes as standard, a fairing for the pullback hardware. After you tension the cross bars you can just pull the zip and the rear keel hardware is enclosed as an extension to the keel pocket.

Looking inside the sail you'll see the engine room of the wing. The Camber Control System (CCS) is the most obvious change with a tensioning system used to control the airfoil from distorting upwards at high speeds. The CCS is activated when the VG approaches the full on setting and maintains a precise airfoil shape. The control of the airfoil results in a reduction in profile drag. The distortion of the upper surface at high speeds has been well documented on other gliders and the drag penalty is obvious. In combination with the new airfoil section, with increased double surface and improved pitch characteristics, the REV gives the pilot smooth positive pitch feedback throughout an extremely wide speed range.

The Frame

The standard control frame has new airfoil uprights (55mm x 26mm) with the Microdrag Downtubes (76mm x 21mm) available as an option.

The round base bar is the standard configuration with a faired alloy speed bar or carbon speed bar as options. All base bars are interchangeable for both down tube configurations.

All sprog junctions are now alloy and have a two way joint to allow adequate movement with simple adjustment available.

Tip angle adjustment is easily achieved by rotating a bolt and is an excellent tuning mechanism if required. The main sail tension strap is located at the rear of the leading edge and allows adjustment.

We have developed a new keel stand which is more complex than prior designs but is much more practical than any others available. The keel tube has a 19mm extension, which is inserted into the rear of the keel tube. The result is a much more user friendly system that remains stable as you assemble the wing.

Weight

When you pick the glider up you will notice a reduction in weight. A large portion of the weight has been removed from the outer leading edge area, which results in less tip inertia and therefore a further improvement in handling. The weight reduction has been achieved by using: Standard Configuration " Carbon / Sglass tip wands " Carbon rear leading edges " Carbon Transverse Battens " Wills Wing crossbar leading edge junction, which is very light and minimises leading edge torsion thereby allowing lower sprogs " Al Daniels sail has shed over 10% of its weight compared to the C4. " The VG system has been changed to a traditional moving cross bar system resulting in significant simplification and therefore reduction in parts and weight. The VG pulley system is within the double surface and requires very low activation loads. Options " Optional light weight battens " Carbon leading edge inserts " Carbon fibre sprogs will be available in early 2010.

Flight Characteristics (The following is an extract from a review by Adam Parer)

Favourable comparisons and outstanding competition results are one thing, but how does the REV fly? For those of us who own or have flown a C4 you will be impressed and probably surprised (and maybe even a little dubious) to hear the REV has even tamer and more obedient handling characteristics than its forerunner. The transition from minimum sink to stall is longer and the stall is indicated well before arrival. In fact the stall speed feels a knot or two slower than in the C4, which was actually one of the nicer characteristics of the earlier mark. The roll response remains benign but is perhaps even gentler in the REV and there is less tendency and a later onset to drop a tip if you try to slow it down too much in a turn. The roll/yaw coordination is excellent and notably a little better than the C4.

The pitch pressure transitions smoothly throughout the speed range with any abrupt peaks seemingly dampened or 'dialed down' and I suspect this adds significantly to the very pleasant feel of the REV. As a result turbulence feels less likely to throw you around. We've all flown gliders that are either scarily light or like a barge in pitch, even if only for a particular VG setting so it was nice to find the REV exhibits a nicely weighted pitch pressure at all times. Naturally the pitch lightens with higher VG settings but it never fades completely or gets too light. And even with full rope the glider still responds relatively well in roll.

How is it to tow?

There is little to say about towing the REV other than it is 'on rails' and well mannered. It tracks 'in-line' as good as anything perhaps as a function of its predictable and very docile handling. Again, compared to the C4 the REV is nicer under tow. Even with too much VG it remains manageable without oscillation or 'walking'. No vices at all were experienced behind the tug.

Thermalling is where comparison to the C4 reveals the REV to be a total departure in design rather than a direct descendant of the Climax family. It has its own distinct feel when thermalling and is very comfortable sitting on a tip with little high siding needed to stabilize it in climb. The REV resists knifing-in when you ease-out in a surge, the turn radius and bank angle just tighten up slightly and the glider proceeds to soak up the lift. It is easy to thermal and literally requires less physical effort to do so. How does the REV climb compare to the best pilots flying the best equipment? Many of the competitors attending The Canungra Classic will confirm the REV possesses a superior climb rate, by any standard.

When on a fast glide or at max speed you can still feel lift. Here the bar pressure maintains a mild but noticeable feedback and the nose will want to rise a little. No more charging through lift during fast glides because you can't see or hear the instruments or more importantly because you can't feel the air. This is an unexpected and very nice characteristic that potentially offers a huge advantage. Combined with the REVs low sink rate this should make for very long glides.

It appears the partnership between chief designer (Airborne) and sail maker (Wingtech) along with many long hours and hard work in the loft, and some inspired designing have combined to produce a very high quality glider with exceptional performance and superior handling. The REV has already proven its competitiveness amongst the finest equipment currently available but performance aside, most of us want the best handling glider first and foremost and the REV is definitely that.

Production

The first production run of the glider will be the end of November 2009 with Certification testing currently under way in Germany.

Final specifications and prices will be available shortly.

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2009 Canungra Classic »

2009 Canungra Classic

Ricky Duncan wins the 2009 Canungra Classic, fair and square

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor


Jonny, second; Rohan, third; Big John, fourth; wow! See more below.

The final results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 4852
2 Jon Durand jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 4643
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 4594
4 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 4130
5 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 4105
6 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 3809
7 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 3721
8 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 3523
9 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed RS 4 3457
10 Dave May Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3394

2009 Canungra Classic »

Fri, Oct 9 2009, 8:08:13 am PDT

Ricky Duncan in first place overall

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2009|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Nick Purcell|Phil Schroder|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tim Osborn|Trent Brown

It looks like a lot of pilots got penalties of 100%. I assume for airspace violations.

Task 5:

# Id Name Glider Time Total
1 4 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:34:14 845
2 20 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:35:37 829
3 25 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:36:31 818
4 16 Keiran Brown Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 01:39:15 787
5 11 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 01:49:50 681
6 22 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 01:52:55 654
7 10 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 01:56:37 589
8 54 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:02:53 574
9 40 Andrew Carswell 02:01:45 540
10 17 Dave May 02:09:02 531

Penalties:
Note: % penalty is used to calc penalty as a % of total score. Both types can be combined. None affect the scoring of other pilots.

Id Name Penalty Reason
45 Peter Smart 100% W4500
46 Adam Stevens 100% N7500
42 Daniel Shaw 100% N7500 W4500
29 Tim Hannah 100% N7500
48 David Leeming 100% No Altitude
51 Tim Osborn 100% E6500
55 Bodie Heyward 100% E6500 N7500
49 Mark Gilbert 100% E6500
57 Scott Ireland 100% E6500
3 Cameron Tunbridge 100% E6500 W4500
18 Neil Petersen 100% N7500 W4500
14 Andrew Barnes 100% N7500
21 Tony Giammichele 100% N7500 W4500
15 Rohan Holtkamp 100% W4500
13 Trent Brown 100% N7500
6 Phil Schroder 100% E6500
19 Conrad Loten 100% E6500 N7500
23 Andy Schmidt 100% E6500 W4500
9 Nick Purcell 100% N7500
36 Joel Mckay 100% E6500 N7500 W4500 8500
8 Warren Simonsen 100% E6500 N7500 W4500 W2500
38 John Blain 100% E6500 N7500 8500
26 Sam Prest 100% W4500
24 Derek Wagner 100% W4500
35 Glen Mcfarlane 100% W4500
7 Trevor Purcell 100% N7500

Overall:

# Name Glider Total
1 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 3779
2 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 3609
3 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 3308
4 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 3247
5 Jon Durand Snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 3187
6 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 3137
7 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 2940
8 Keiran Brown Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2839
9 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 2663
10 Regan Kowald Moyes Litespeed S 5 2660

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2009 Canungra Classic »

October 7, 2009, 8:47:55 PDT

2009 Canungra Classic

A stopped task due to cu-nimbs

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2009|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown

Task 4:

# Name Glider Dist. Total
1 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 61,74 699
2 Adam Stevens Airborne Climax C4 13.5 58,12 671
3 Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4 57,14 664
4 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 51,28 619
5 Andrew Carswell 45,56 580
6 Dave Stevens Moyes Litespeed RS 4 41,92 552
7 Bruce Wynne Moyes Litespeed 5 40,97 545
8 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 39,99 536
9 Sam Prest Airborne Climax C4 13.5 39,46 530
10 Tim Hannah Airborne Climax C4 14 39,40 529

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand jnr Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 3330
2 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 3205
3 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 3137
4 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 2719
5 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 2429
6 Adam Stevens Airborne Climax C4 13.5 2375
7 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed S 4 2369
8 Jon Durand snr Moyes Litespeed S 5 2342
9 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 13.5 2317
10 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 2272

2009 Canungra Classic »

Tue, Oct 6 2009, 8:13:55 am PDT

Jonny goes early by himself

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Canungra Classic 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tim Osborn|Trent Brown

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 02:00:22 1000
2 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 02:10:43 801
3 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 02:15:44 767
4 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 02:16:14 764
5 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 02:18:01 753
6 Phil Schroder Airborne Rev 13.5 02:19:47 743
7 Tim Osborn Aeros Combat L 14 02:20:42 738
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 02:20:54 736
9 Adam Stevens Airborne Climax C4 13.5 02:23:04 724
10 Neil Petersen Aeros Combat L13 02:38:02 677

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Jnr Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2854
2 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Rev 13.5 2601
3 Rick Duncan Airborne Rev 13.5 2586
4 Adam Parer Airborne Climax C4 2250
5 Richard Heffer Moyes Litespeed RS4 2129
6 Tony Giammichele Moyes Litespeed S 4 1998
7 Cameron Tunbridge Airborne Rev 13.5 1912
8 Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 1902
9 Trevor Purcell Moyes Litespeed 5 1890
10 Gabor Sipos Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 1833

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2009 Canungra Classic »

October 5, 2009, 9:51:25 PDT

2009 Canungra Classic

Jonny wins the second task and goes into the lead

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2009/results_page.htm

http://jonnydurand.blogspot.com/2009/10/canungra-classic-day-3.html

Task 1 & 2 in Google Earth

Jonny with the Redbull girls getting excited.

Task 2:

#NameGliderTimeTotal
1Jon Durand jnrMoyes Litespeed RS 3.501:36:491000
2Rick DuncanAirborne Rev 13.501:51:30825
3Rohan HoltkampAirborne Rev 13.501:54:33800
4Jon Durand snrMoyes Litespeed S 502:09:08732
5Gabor SiposMoyes Litespeed RS 402:09:57726
6Dave StevensMoyes Litespeed RS 402:10:26723
7Adam ParerAirborne Climax C402:05:43721
8Andrew BarnesMoyes Litespeed RS 3.502:13:39702
9Tony GiammicheleMoyes Litespeed S 402:16:31683
10Keiran BrownMoyes Litespeed S 4.502:17:15679

Totals:

#NameGliderTotal
1Jon Durand jnrMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51854
2Rick DuncanAirborne Rev 13.51819
3Rohan HoltkampAirborne Rev 13.51800
4Tony GiammicheleMoyes Litespeed S 41567
5Richard HefferMoyes Litespeed RS41521
6Rod FlockhartMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51506
7Adam ParerAirborne Climax C41486
8Andrew BarnesMoyes Litespeed RS 3.51428
9Trevor PurcellMoyes Litespeed 51397
10Regan KowaldMoyes Litespeed S 51391

2009 Canungra Classic »

Sun, Oct 4 2009, 4:26:42 pm MDT

The second day, first task - Monday

Adam Parer|Canungra Classic 2009|Enda Murphy|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|video

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2009/results_page.htm
Task 1 in Google Earth

# Name Time Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp 02:12:27 1000
2 Rick Duncan 02:12:36 994
3 Tony Giammichele 02:13:22 884
4 Richard Heffer 02:14:43 866
5 Enda Murphy 02:15:25 858
6 Jon Durand Jnr 02:18:59 854
7 Rod Flockhart 02:19:23 850
8 Adam Parer 02:34:27 765
9 Trevor Purcell 02:33:55 738
10 Andrew Barnes 02:39:56 726

Two pilots on Airborne Gliders in the lead.

http://jonnydurand.blogspot.com/2009/10/2009-canungra-classic-day-2.html

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Laurence Deckel-Parer

August 7, 2009, 8:28:38 CDT

Laurence Deckel-Parer

Adam's wife

Adam Parer

Adam Parer <<adamparer>> writes:

It is with unbelievable regret to tell you that Laurence passed away last weekend.

Many people will remember Laurence from her travels through Florida when learning to fly hang gliders. Her beauty, charm, charisma and wit captivated everyone and she is going to be missed by so many for so long.

We were just about to buy a house closer to Newcastle. Laurence had recently started a new career and as usual was impressing everyone there with her phenomenal work ethic and infectious positivity.

I have never seen her so genuinely happy than over this last year and she had all but beaten her battle with chrones disease. She was on top of the world and it was hers for the taking.

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Dalby Big Air - Curt Warren wins

Sat, Mar 14 2009, 9:49:06 pm EDT

Jonny Durand, Jr., second

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Dalby Big Air 2009|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

Total results.

# Pilot Glider Total
1. Curt Warren Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 3201.62
2. Jonny Durand Moyes Litesport 4 2883.97
3. Steve Blenkinsop Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 2843.65
4. Adam Parer Airborne C4 13.5 2520.18
5. Cameron Tunbridge Airborne C4 13.5 2398.50
6. Conrad Loten Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2381.66
7. Olli Barthelmes Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 2281.76
8. Trent Brown Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 2208.32
9. Dave May Airborne C4 14 2000.15

They got four tasks in spite of the cyclone (hurricane). Curt won the last day by a large margin.

Big Flights in Dalby

March 9, 2009, 9:39:05 EDT

Big Flights in Dalby

338 km (but not 346 km)

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|weather

Cameron Tunbridge has reported flying 338 km, for the second longest task called and made in a hang gliding competition (longest in Australia). The longest was last August in Big Spring at 215 miles (346 km) and Cameron's task was 338 km (210 miles). Fourteen pilots made it to goal. Curt Warren is first, Conrad Loten is second, Adam Parer third, Cameron fourth, and Jonny thirteenth. The wind was 20 mph. Speed over the ground greater than 40 mph.

On Monday the weather wasn't so good.

Results here: http://soaringspot.com/dba2009/

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The Newcastle Video Production company

May 21, 2008, 8:20:16 EDT

Newcastle

Staring Adam Parer

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer|video

Adam at Strezi, Dixon Park and the Monument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7134W_G7Tpg

The production values continue to climb and loop. Thanks to Kiero.

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Adam Parer at Strezleki

Fri, Jan 4 2008, 2:38:53 pm MST

Adam

Loop de loop

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer|video

The Google Map/Earth link is to the launch/top landing next to the Scenic/Strezleki launch (and top landing for very experienced pilots).

Adam Parer sends the link (which has already been linked to a couple of times in the Oz Report forum) to the video of his looping in front of the cliffs just north of Bar Beach in Merewether Australia. Here.

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The usual suspects at the beach

Wed, Dec 5 2007, 3:18:48 pm MST

Newcastle

On a Wednesday morning a crowd shows up

Adam Parer|Armand Acchione|PG

The winds were just enough to sustain soarable flight when Armand Acchione and I made it out to Merewether on Wednesday morning. The wind was out of the south at this southeast facing site.

The winds had picked up by the time that Adam Parer showed up half an hour later and we were all setting up. Clouds filled the southwest quadrant of the sky with cu's streaming past us just a little too far to the west. Soon the launch was alive with the activity of pilots putting their gliders together and getting off the hill.

While there were few whitecaps on the ocean the wind lines were obvious and we were getting a few hundred feet over launch. The pilots flying Airborne C4's were able to to dive along the beach and make it upwind to Glenrock Lagoon and work the hillside there. I was in an Airborne Fun 190 and I felt like a paraglider in this wind. I guess that I shouldn't have been so quick to not take the C4 to the beach.

With over a dozen pilots in the air we had spread out, some now down by Newcastle and Adam upwind at the knob by Dudley. The wind had rotated twenty degrees around to the SSE and the white caps were visible.

After many attempts to go upwind I jumped over the back following Bar beach and just getting to the car park at the end of the beach where the lift started again. This got me back up on the high cliffs at Newcastle. Pilots were spread out everywhere.

I wasn't sure that I could make it back upwind to the Dixon Park landing area but I saw a paraglider playing just above the slope there and figured if he could find lift there, I could. I came in just above him and was able to get high enough to make it to the park LZ.

The LZ filled up and pilots were happy with another day at the beach.

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Flying the coast

November 28, 2007, 6:24:49 GMT+1100

Newcastle

It's on at Merewether and Redhead

Adam Parer|Curt Warren|Ricky Duncan|Rob Hibberd|Rohan Taylor|scooter tow|Scott Barrett

We're here at Scott and Monica's in Belmont, just south of the Airborne factory in Redhead which is just south of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. It's been on at the beach for a few weeks and for sure Monday and Tuesday this week after Gulgong.

Early Monday afternoon I drove for Ricky Duncan who test flew a prototype Airborne glider (more on that very soon) at Redhead, a very short distance from the factory. The wind was straight in (easterly) and there were two whales jumping out of the ocean a hundred yards off shore (no Japanese experimental whaling vessels any where around).

I went back later in the afternoon and flew the prototype with Scott Barrett at Redhead over the Awabakal Nature Area (forested area in the picture below). Take a look at the cliff line to the north on the satellite version of Google Maps where we were soaring. Here's a shot from Rob Hibberd out in an Airborne trike looking at the cliff line that we were soaring from the upper left hand (south) side (the launch area) to the lower right hand side.

For a higher resolution version click above.

Scott points out that Redhead can be tricky and has cost lives. You have to know what you are doing with respect to the soaring and wind conditions. There are flat rocks below launch to land on in an emergency (but it looks difficult) and the real landing area is off to the south (right of launch around the corner) on the beach in the picture (or just above it depending on the wind direction and strength).

I wouldn't go there without Scott to assure me that the conditions are right. We were actually going to go to the beach (the one that you see above) across from Scott and Monica's place to go dune soaring, but the winds were too light.

On Tuesday after work, we went out and flew Merewether. The winds were southeast, which is the right direction for that launch. Stewie and Adam Parer were there. Adam had been flying there all day. He would do a loop, get real low, put the tip of his Airborne C4 next to the cliff just above the beach, and work his way back up again.

The launch is in the upper left hand corner. The landing is out of the picture to the right (although you can land at the beach when it isn't full of beach goers). Click above for a higher resolution version.

Saw Tony Barton on Monday. He and Stewie are getting ready for an overflow class of new hang glider pilot students on Monday. They wanted Curt Warren to come up and help out, but Curt had his hands full with three students. Isn't it something that two of the major hang gliding instructors (three instructors - Tony, Rohan, Lee - in Australia produce 80% of the new pilots) in Australia are Americans?

Curt has a Wills Wing Condor and with Rohan's help is getting together a "scooter" towing operation. More on that later.

2007 Gulgong Classic - Day 5 »

November 22, 2007, 1:18:52 pm GMT+1100

Gulgong

After a night of hard rain

Adam Parer|Gulgong Classic 2007|Ricky Duncan|Scott Barrett

Adam Parer|Flytec 6030|Gulgong Classic 2007|Ricky Duncan|Scott Barrett

The central table lands of New South Wales west of the Great Divide are bathed in purple, the flowering of Patterson's Curse. It's a noxious weed as far as the grazers are concerned but to those of us touring through the country side it is a beautiful sight. I presume that those purple paddocks are those that haven't been sprayed with some obnoxious poison and are not under active management.

I've been very much enjoying flying the Airborne C4-13.5 here at the Gulgong Classic. The first one I flew had a left turn in it. It is presumed that Adam Parer did a top landing at Merewhether with it (it is Ricky Duncan's glider) and caused the trouble (maybe just an apocryphal story). I mentioned the turn to Scott Barrett who promptly adjusted and test flew the glider. Afterwards he made a further adjustment on the glider and it flew straight after that for Shane.

Shane Duncan said that I should fly the C4-13.5 that he is flying and he would take over Ricky's. Shane's glider didn't have a turn in it, but it was set to his preferences, which were to wind in and require a bit more high siding than I am comfortable with.

I flew it for two days just to see if I would be okay with that setting (which makes for easier turn initiation), but decided that that was not my preference. Scott quickly adjusted the eccentrics on the leading edges near the tips while I set up his glider. That did the trick and now it is a little harder to get a turn going, but doesn't wind up as much. Gliders can be custom tuned and it is very easy to do so. Airborne publishes the instructions for their gliders in their user manual.

I went back and checked my track log for the sixteen km final glide from Wednesday, the fourth day/task of the Gulgong Classic. It turns out that I crossed the goal cylinder with twenty six feet, and I was flying at best glide the whole distance. No stuffing the bar.

I had come across a set of power lines a few hundred meters before the goal cylinder and saw those at the last minute. They were low enough not to be a great bother. I had to come in between a few trees, but I could see that the field was open on the appropriate side of the air strip. Nice that it turned out that way, or I would have had to stop earlier and land.

The air mass on the final glide averaged 122 fpm down. That was why the Flytec 6030's prediction of 1000' above goal turned out to be incorrect. It assumes an average of zero up and down movement in the air mass. Fortunately I had a 10 mph tail wind, which I knew and so did the 6030 when it calculated my height above goal.

As I came in the altitude numbers at goal as shown on my 6030 were always positive which is why I kept going (that and it looked clear ahead). The landing area was actually thirty feet higher than the value that I had placed in the 6030 (and taken from the SeeYou vector maps). So I was cutting it pretty close.

The winds on the ground were light as I could see from the wind sock at the airstrip, so I could have landed down wind. But I was able to make a 90 degree turn to land side wind, given the twenty six feet of altitude that I had after crossing the line.

With the threat of more rain, cu-nimbs not too far away, and low clouds every where, the day was called early. I send these reports off from the Prince of Darkness (Wales actually) pub (whose kitchen has been burnt up) with $10/24 hours (continuous time) wifi hotspot (apparently the only one in town). So report may not be as fully prepared as when I have internet access in the caravan at the caravan park. Please bear with me as the real world intrudes on our cyber reality.

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The birds

September 28, 2007, 8:18:31 PDT

Birds

A friendly little magpie

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer|video

adam parer «adamparer» sends another short video of fly, this time with a pesky little creature:

This little guy hounded me for about 20 minutes 3 days ago. What a hoot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAlDoyCrteE

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Great little Newcastle videos from ⁢Adam Parer »

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 7:55:23 am PDT

Newcastle

Adam Parer loops and lands

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer|video

This first video at sixteen seconds is Adam top landing at Strzeleki:


View Larger Map

Now Strzeleki is just a tiny little launch area with fences and bushes, oh, and a cliff, as you can see from the above Google Maps view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCf7dtH5x8

Next, Adam goes for a loop and does it three times from three difference vantage points (most likely at Merewether) in fifty one seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6CbM87Zg7c

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Australian Record Encampment

September 11, 2007, 9:31:34 MDT

ARE

We're going for world records in Oz

Adam Parer|record

Adam Parer «adamparer», Kieran Brown «pittsnightspot», and I davis@davisstraub.com are organizing a world record encampment in Dalby, Queensland, Australia, December 1st through 15th, a few days after the Gulgong Classic (plenty of time to drive up there). The idea is to catch the strong northern winds and fly over the flats south, southwesterly toward Forbes, Hay and even in our wildest dreams 1000 km to Deniliquin.

We have made arrangements with the Dalby Hang Gliding Club to use their facilities to get ourselves towed up as soon as it is soarable (if not earlier). Kieran is working on arranging for retrieval (two vans, one goes long and one picks up the closest pilots).

The hope is for 40 knot winds (up high, not on the ground) and cloud streets from horizon to horizon. We'll see.

Kieran is figuring the costs at $1,600 AUD per pilot for the fifteen days. This means two full time drivers for that period, two rented vans, trailers, tug pilots and tows, as well as DHGC membership.

If you are seriously interested in setting records and want to join us, please contact me or Adam or Kieran. Space will be limited. We have up to three trikes/tugs to get us in the air (up to a maximum of 1 km AGL).

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Newcastle pilots head for the 2007 Worlds

July 24, 2007, 9:53:53 EDT

Newcastle

Flying trams

Adam Parer|Scott Barrett|Simon Plint|William "Billo" Olive

Simon Plint «simon.plint» writes:

Two of our pilots, Scott Barrett and Adam Parer, from the Newcastle Hang Gliding Club (NHGC) are in the Australian team for the Worlds so I just thought I'd put a little encouragement up on our forum in the form of an animated GIF. You can see it here:

http://williamolive.com/phpbb/ or download the file here: http://www.williamolive.com/splint/uploads/AusInBigSpring_Big.gif  or http://www.williamolive.com/splint/uploads/AusInBigSpring_Small.gif

We have a thing about Trams at NHGC. It stems back to a pilot making a low save whilst being read a passage from a Tram maintenance book.

The pilot was getting low and made it back up and credited the reading for it. It doesn't sound right but maybe he was concentrating too hard on his flying and that's why he got low. The fact that his mind was distracted by something totally out of left field may have actually helped him fly better. At least that's the way I interpret the story.

I think it may have happened at a NSW State Titles and the team was called Team Bodge. I think the members were Alan Daniels, Dustan Hansen, Don Gardner and Alaric Giles (Dr Death). Billo would have been running the comp that year.

We now have a section on our forum called Trams and it seems to have become some sort of repository for silliness. A relief valve if you like.

The 2007 Worlds

July 16, 2007, 1:14:37 pm EDT

Worlds

The latest developments

Adam Parer|Belinda Boulter|David Glover|Quest Air|Russell "Russ" Brown|Steve Kroop|weather

http://2007Worlds.com

We have about 120 pilots signed up and paid for the Worlds starting August 7th in Big Spring. The pilots are coming from, well, all over the World. We have pilots from Guatemala flying in Columbia right now trying to qualify for the Worlds (they aren't counted in the 120 pilots). 

Pilots will be coming from Ecuador, Hungary, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Canada, Brazil, Netherlands, Austria, Australia, Mexico, Slovenia, Switzerland, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Germany, USA, Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Columbia, New Zealand and hopefully Guatemala.

Big Spring is very excited about the upcoming Worlds. This is the biggest thing for them all year.

We will have fifteen tugs (at least that's what it looks like so far). David Glover has been gathering tug resources from around the World and Russell Brown at Quest Air and Steve Kroop and Flytec are sending their tugs. Russell has to bring multiple trailer loads full of them to Texas. This means that we will have more than enough tugs to get pilots in the air.

Belinda Boulter is whipping everyone into shape making sure that everything is coordinated. She is working closely with the local committee and everything is in order.

We've heard recently the pre-registered pilots Olli Barthelems won't be able to make it, and that missing his first Worlds ever will be Steve Moyes. In his place Adam Parer is coming from Australia. Roland Wohrle will take Olli's place.

The local committee reports that all the bad weather in Texas has not bothered Big Spring and that today it is hot and humid.

Newcastle - new soaring sites

June 8, 2007, 7:48:35 EDT

Newcastle

The bet is on who is first to soar the wrecks

Adam Parer|fatality|Rob Hibberd|weather|William "Billo" Olive

Billo writes:

http://www.williamolive.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=102

The bet's on for the 1st pilot to launch from Merewether and soar down to the wreck, soar the wreck and land on the beach. Bonus points apply if you can get back to Fort Scratchley.

adam parer «adamparer» writes:

I just drove into the city of Newcastle with Laurence. WOW!!!!

The ship you have pictured in the Oz Report is the first and may have company soon. Right at this moment there is another fighting a battle to not run aground on Dixon park. Its funnel is pouring smoke obviously the engines are at 110%. It may only be 300 meters off shore. The waves are massive and we fear the ship might be fighting a losing battle. The coastline is chock-a-block with people watching and hoping for a good outcome.

There is another one in the same situation off Stockton Beach and another is copping a hammering at Blacksmiths beach 8km south of Newcastle.

What is most ominous is five minutes ago the sky opened up into a blue hole, the wind dropped right off for a while then started rotating around from the NE-NW and now the wind is blowing rain horizontal from the SW.

Rob Hibberd «RobH» sends:

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We are getting some severe weather conditions. This 40,000 ton coal ship broke anchor and is very close to Nobbies beach.

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Attila number 1

February 9, 2007, 10:39:07 AEDT

Ranking

It's Australia if you want to be at the top

Adam Parer|Andreas Olsson|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Chris Jones|CIVL|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Joseph Salvenmoser|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Robert Reisinger|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Thomas Weissenberger

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1

rank name nation points
1 Attila Bertok Hungary 302
2 Jon jnr Durand Australia 300
3 Gerolf Heinrichs Austria 285
4 Oleg Bondarchuk Ukraine 282
5 Mario Alonzi France 269
6 Michael Friesenbichler Austria 262
7 Bruno Guillen France 260
8 Andreas Olsson Sweden 255
9 Balazs Ujhelyi Hungary 246
10 David Seib Australia 238
11 Robert Reisinger Austria 230
12 Lukas Bader Germany 213
13 Adam Parer Australia 211
13 Steve Moyes Australia 211
15 Brett Hazlett Canada 202
16 Oliver Barthelmes Germany 200
17 Kraig Coomber Australia 191
18 Joseph Salvenmoser Austria 184
19 Fabien Agenes France 183
20 Rohan Holtkamp Australia 182
20 Scott Barrett Australia 182
22 Raymond Caux France 180
23 Chris Smith USA 174
24 Corinna Schwiegershausen Germany 173
25 Carl Wallbank UK 172
26 Chris Jones Australia 171
27 Jon Gjerde Norway 168
28 Thomas Weissenberger Austria 164
29 Olav Opsanger Norway 161
30 Len Paton Australia 157
69 Antoine Boisselier France 96
69 Davis Straub USA 96

It's on at the coast, and I'm flying a Sting

February 1, 2007, 0:39:04 AEDT

Merewether and Newcastle

Cross country at the coast

Adam Parer|Belinda Boulter|Scott Barrett

Wednesday it turned on with a consistent 17 to 19 knot south southeast wind. We head on out after work (yes, I also spent the day working) around 4 PM. It is so easy here to leave work and go flying, just like that. Like you imagine if you live on the coast in Australia and want to go surfing, which a lot of folks are doing, or running, which a lot of folks are also doing.

I spoke with a pilot here and he didn't seem to realize how special it is to be able to get to your flying site in fifteen minutes and fly for up to three hours after work.

Scott brought me an Airborne Sting 154 to test fly from the factory and we headed off with Belinda in tow.

The parking areas was packed and there were gliders in the air as we arrived at Merewether. As I setup a pilot flying a C4 top landed just behind me, showing that indeed the high performance gliders could be top landed here.

It basically took a hop to launch to get over the bushes. The wind was too strong for a run, as it would be a bit difficult to keep your wings straight during the run. So go to the edge of the flat slope, and hop up into the wind and get above the bushes.

There were pilots launching and flying every where. Adam Parer was scraping the deck down below us looping his C4 and whizzing around low as fast as he could.  Scott Barrett had his camera out:

He captures the sting over Merwether. Click to see the higher resolution version.

We soon headed down the coast to fly the next point to the south. The back to the north jumping over first to Dixon Park, then climbing up just above the light poles to get to Monument launch (where Scott landed momentarily) then over Sceneic, and further into the city of Newcastle.

Adam motioned for me to go with him and we continued around past the last buildings, out a thin peninsula with minimal relief, and back over to a cut in the road. Didn't stay there long and it was exciting coming back into the wind over the pool, and just staying high enough to make it back around the last building and out in front where the wind was hitting them. I got high right away again:

Flying over Newcastle. Photo by Scott Barrett.

The Sting was almost as easy and as fun to fly at the Fun. And I could go back behind the last building and still make it back around into the wind like the topless C4. The other Fun over by Newcastle wasn't willing to come back there with us.

The Sting has a VG and I was using that. Hard to tell in this wind if it made a difference. It pulled back the cross bar. It comes with airfoil downtubes and a round speed bar. http://www.airborne.com.au/pages/hg_sting.html. It appears to be roughly comparable to the Wills Wing Sport 2 without the sprogs or perhaps the discontinues WW Eagle.

Two undersurface battens, square tips, flip tip batten ends, six luft lines. A glider that on those stronger wind days can get you upwind a bit.

Thermal hunting in the Hunter Valley

January 30, 2007, 0:15:08 AEDT

Hunter

Flying over green fields in multiple small valleys

Adam Parer|Belinda Boulter|cart|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Quest Air|sailplane|Scott Barrett|William "Billo" Olive

Friday was Australia day and the beginning of a three day weekend. The plan was to go out to Pete's place north of Denman in the Upper Hunter Valley a couple of hours' drive from Newcastle. Pete has a grass strip on his property and an Airborne XT-582 trike. It sure is great having a local trike company selling trikes that then can be used to tow you up. The connection gets made early.

Here is a shot of Pete's place: http://www.williamolive.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=43&pos=3

We headed out around 10 AM with heavy overcast skies in Newcastle and these persisted until we were almost half way there, when they broke up into puffy little cu's every where. The Upper Hunter was gorgeous with treed hill sides and green pastures. It turns out that it had rained 50 mm a week earlier and all the brown areas turned green. I had never seen it so lush.

Like the rest of southern Australia the Hunter is suffering from a drought. There is no water in the river and stream beds and no water to irrigate the grapes in this wine grape growing area. There are a few leaves on each vine, and for the most part no grapes. There hasn't been much water for the last 18 months. But the pastures are presently beautiful and it was great fun driving through them to Pete's place.

As we drove up we passed a Wedge-Tail Eagle sitting on the wooden fence not twenty feet from the road. He was not perturbed by us driving by. He was a big bird. I turned around a few hundred yards up the road and came by him again, more slowly, but now he took notice, but didn't fly off.

I turned around again a few hundred yards off and came by again, at maybe 30 kmh, but he decided that he had had enough of us. Had he followed us turning around? Was it just our slower speed or had he figured out that we were actually checking him out and represented a threat?

Pete has a lovely setup and Billo had flown in his trike from Newcastle also, anticipating a crowd of pilots from the local club. But there were just six or seven of us with a couple of pilots already in the air.

I set up an Airborne C4-13.5 quickly, but saw that the wind was coming from the wrong direction down the strip, so I hauled the glider on the cart to the other end. Billo was flying the trike, so off we went with out a problem. It's a nice long wide grass strip, with lots of open area.

At about three hundred feet I got rolled as we entered a thermal, and not waiting to break the weaklink or get further rolled, I pulled the release on the Quest Air special  small barrel release and got off quickly. The edge of the thermal was sharp and I was falling fast, but it was no problem to get it back into the wind and near enough to the cart for a second try.

The second time I didn't hit a thermal until I was at about 1,000' AGL (ground is about 500') and I released immediately to find 100 fpm. Plenty enough to survive. After I gained 500' I lost the thermal and had to make a semi-low save at 500' AGL over the runway back to 3,500' AGL.

The air was nasty. Turns out that all the pilots (other than perhaps Scott) thought so. I get being knocked around by the air and not having as much control of the glider as I would have appreciated. Adam Parer tried to fly back to Newcastle but quit after 30 km because the air was too rough.

The Airborne C4-13.5 feels about as big as the Moyes Litespeed RS 4, the glider I'm flying in the competitions. Which to me means that it feels a little bit bigger than I would like, at least in the air I was flying in. I'll perhaps have another chance to fly it on Sunday.

The air was turbulent and the glider would want to do the flying for me at times. I have found that I'm a lot more comfortable in the air in a competition than when I am free flying, so that is part of the equation when I'm gauging my feelings and their relationship to reality.

I also revert to cross controlling if I don't consciously remember that I'm flying a flex wing. I forget to concentrate on moving my butt around. This means I put too much stress on my shoulder muscles, when all I have to do is just swing my butt to the side I want to turn toward.

In general the C4-13.5 felt a lot like the Litespeed RS 4. The control frame is a lot bigger which I noticed once again on the ground, but not in the air. I was hanging at the right height, just above the control bar. The glider also was a bit more in control on landing (rather than the pilot) than was the case with the Fun 190, for example. This, of course, is also true for the Litespeed RS 4. It sure would be great if you could get high performance gliders to land like single surface gliders.

The glider was easy to set up on its stinger and the VG seemed easy to pull. I didn't have a chance to give it a full test yet, not like I did with the Litespeed in competition.

On Saturday I measured the wind at 40 kmh gusting to 50 kmh out of the northwest so no one was flying. Rolf went down to the nearby sailplane port to get a flight and none of the tug pilots were willing to tow any sailplanes up, it was that bad. There was plenty of wave action happening from the nearby hills.

The Upper Hunter valley is made up of many very small valleys that are broken up by small ridge lines. You can easily jump from one valley to another and follow various ridge lines in all sorts of different directions. There are numerous foot launch sites sprinkled throughout the Hunter, which cuts down a bit on the interest in towing at Pete's place, otherwise it would be crowded on every weekend. Right now it is hard to get pilots to come out and fly there.

Around 4:30 PM on Saturday the winds began to die down a little, but you could see the sea breeze coming in from the south east (cu's and hazy air). About 5:45 PM the winds died to zero for a minute, then turned 180 degrees and within five minutes the wind was 33 kmh gusting to 43 kmh in the opposite direction. We went to dinner.

BTW, dinner at the pub in Denman is equivalent to the best restaurants in Melbourne or Newcastle (which has a block of really nice restaurants). Denman has a population of 1,500, and a main street one block long. It is the base of tourist for the Upper Hunter Valley wineries. Denman's business district, such as it is, looks like all it has received in the last fifty years is a coat of paint. But it is completely charming.

The Newcastle hang gliding club forum: http://williamolive.com/phpbb/index.php. It should have the stories from the weekend.

On Sunday the forecast was for light winds, but I was the first one up and found 14 mph out of the west. This stopped the task that had been called and sent me on my way toward Newcastle. Of course, I pinned off early, which we Americans have a knack for doing apparently and had to perform two low saves (one at 270'), just to give the folks at Pete's a thrill.

Then it was off to the races downwind down the Hunter Valley. The sky was blue because the inversion was at about 5,000'. Scott Barrett launched, found the rough air over the hill sides, and decided to land at Pete's, but found nice lift in the middle of the valley and went with it.



Click on photo for higher resolution. Scott Barrett launching. Photo by Belinda Boulter.

I was able to get 45 km to the sailplane port after finding 1,100 fpm down over the coal fields. The sailplane pilots were very friendly. They were complaining about the air, the big sink, and how rough it was. One of them in a Duo Discus had checked out Scott at Pete's.

Scott made it back to his house at Belmont on the coast south of Newcastle. A few other pilots, including Jonny Durand made it from Brokenback mountain to the park near the Scenic launch (see the Oz Report world wide site guide).

The Airborne C4-13.5 was better behaved in the less turbulent air. Still a bit of a handful, but reasonable. I was better at moving my bum, instead of yanking around the control bar. It was a handful landing in the rough conditions at the sailplane port.

I liked the glider over all. It was a lot less of a hand full that the C2-14 which I flew two years ago. At 180 pounds I'm at the high end of the recommended weight for the 13.5 and way over the hook-in weight for the 13 ( http://www.airborne.com.au/pages/hg_c4_specs.html).

The VG did seem easier than the Litespeed's VG, but that one I had to take on and off a hundred times a day during competition, and I only used the VG on the C4-13.5 over a less than two hour period. Of course, the C4 uses a VG cam system instead of pulling back the cross bar (http://www.airborne.com.au/pages/hg_c2.html).

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The 2007 Gulgong Classic

December 4, 2006, 7:56:03 PST

Gulgong

The story, not just the results

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Chris Jones|Gerolf Heinrichs|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|sailplane

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Chris Jones|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|sailplane

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Chris Jones|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|sailplane

http://ozreport.com/10.238#1

Adam Parer «adamparer» writes:

The Airborne Gulgong Classic runs through the last week of November and this small NSW town becomes home to a field of hang glider pilots hoping to sample its world class flying. Gulgong is out west, but it's not strictly flatlands. It's less than 1000ft AMSL, there are small hills in most directions with spectacular terrain to the southeast and seabreeze convergence can also kick-in late in the day. The Gulgong sailplane operation boasts a long, wide grass strip, big hangar space and all the amenities of a camping site, and just for our benefit the club puts on a top feed every night. Anyone who was here for the inaugural event in 2002 scored phenomenal flying with huge climbs, long glides and 14,000' cloud bases and this year saw a return to those incredible conditions. As usual the caliber of the competition was red-hot. Five out of the world top ten, the European Champion, the Pre-world champion, German team pilot Jorge Bajewski, US number seven, Chris Smith, past Oz National champions and the bulk of the Oz top ten were all here.

Day one, 10am and the briefing started with Gerolf Heinrichs presenting a compelling argument about FTV and it soon became clear he was preaching to the converted. But when a vote was taken, it was decided that OzGAP 2005 would be used instead. Then the task committee set a triangle of 110km. The four tugs fired up and within an hour had the whole field airborne. The day started out well with climbs averaging between 200-700ft/min getting us to altitudes of 8000ft but early into the first leg high cloud moved in from the south and threatened to sour the day. Shadow overtook the pilots and the course line. The thermals slowed down and extended glides ate into the altitude. Patient pilots who dropped down a gear were rewarded when the cloud opened up, let some light in and eventually half the field made it to goal. Timing was everything on the last leg: some flew the last 28km straight directly to goal, while others found it a huge area of sink and struggled to make it home. Gerolf made goal first but Michael Freisenbichler won the day.

Day two saw the task committee set a cat's cradle covering over 161km with six waypoints. The local pilots assured us it was a good day and they weren't wrong! Cloudbase looked to be around 14,500' and we soon found standard climb rates of 1000ft/min with many pilots finding much stronger averages. During the race the lead pack dropped some big names towards the end of the course. At 500' and 10Km short of the last turnpoint Jon Durand drifted in zeros while Chris Smith and Jorge circled above him in sink. As they met up with Jon they flew off in search of something better but landed instead. Jon hung with the zeros, eventually drifted leeside behind a small hill and was rewarded with an average of 1300ft/min. Jonny got 6th and Attila won the day.

Day three didn't look as good as day two so a 132km task was called with goal at Glen Alice via Mudgee and Coolyal. But the locals assured us we were in for another good day and once again they were right. Again the cloudbase looked above the 14,000ft mark and climb rates averaged 900-1100ft/min. The last leg provided an incredible vantage point to watch the bush fires raging in the Bylong valley to the east. As a change approached from the south the last leg of the course thickened-up with powerful looking cumuli that quickly developed into a cloud street 20km long, pointing along the course line and into goal. ten made the distance with Jorge Bajewski making it in at 6pm after ridge soaring, below hill height, for ninety minutes. Michael Freisenbichler won another day.
 
On day four we woke to high winds and most pilots admitted they could do with the rest so by day five they were ready for a cracker of a task: 211km with two turn points. But when we got on course it was a surprise to struggle under a solid inversion at 7000ft. After the previous two tasks 7000ft felt low, but the guns pushed hard, with mixed results. Gerolf and Dave Seib bombed out as did many other pilots who had a hard time with the elusive thermals, but those who made the first turnpoint enjoyed better climbs and a higher ceiling for the rest of the way. But the first leg was slow and time was now the problem. Johnny and Attila managed to make goal and enjoyed final glides of better than 16:1 in the buoyant evening air. Some pilots landed after 7pm. Jon won the day.

Task five was a short 81km with a turnpoint at the half way mark. The conditions were inverted again but most pilots pushed hard and were rewarded with improving conditions around the turnpoint with smoother climbs, nicer air and higher altitudes. Gerolf took the turnpoint with the lead gaggle and pointed towards goal with a required glide of 22:1, and made it! The others thought this a bit aggressive and were at least 5 minutes slower after stopping for a top-up along the way. Twenty four pilots made it to goal. Gerolf won the day with Chris Jones in 2nd and Len Paton in 3rd. Overall Attila was ahead of Johnny by over 200 points but when someone suggested this lead was good enough Attila replied in his strong Hungarian accent, "Jonny never gives up".

Task six was another 'spaghetti on the map page' affair: 119km with four turnpoint's that intersected throughout the course. The conditions were great and big climbs averaging 1000ft/min were common. The air was constantly changing and depending at what time you flew the course determined whether you flew directly to turnpoint or sank like a stone. Some big names went down including Rohan Holtkamp, Joerg Bajewski and Cameron Tunbridge. Just as Attila predicted Jonny didn't give up, on the contrary, he won the day with Gerolf in 2nd and Michael Freisenbichler in 3rd. Overall Attila had just four points up his sleeve to stay ahead and win overall.

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Canungra Classic »

October 26, 2006, 7:40:00 pm PDT

Canungra

Jonny builds his lead

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Chris Jones|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Scott Barrett

http://www.zupy.net/Canungra06/

Overall results:

PlaceNameGliderTotal
1JON JNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 43762
2DAVID SeibMoyes Litespeed S 53619
3RICK DuncanAirborne Climax C4 13.53223
4STEVE MoyesMoyes Litespeed S 43219
5ATTILA BertokMoyes Litespeed S 53130
6SCOTT BarrettAirborne Climax C4 13.53103
7CORINNA SchwiegershausenMoyes Litespeed S 3.53069
8CHRIS JonesMoyes Litespeed S 42942
9ADAM ParerAirborne Climax C4 142927
10JON SNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 4.52751

Fifth task:

PlaceNameGliderTimekmTotal
1JON JNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 401:22:0142.3914
2DAVID SeibMoyes Litespeed S 501:24:2442.3890
3ATTILA BertokMoyes Litespeed S 501:26:1142.3854
4JON SNR DurandMoyes Litespeed S 4.501:29:5342.3835
5CHRIS JonesMoyes Litespeed S 401:43:3742.3795
6STEVE MoyesMoyes Litespeed S 401:48:2842.3778
7GLEN MacLeodMoyes Litespeed S 4.501:50:1042.3772
8ADAM ParerAirborne Climax C4 1401:59:0542.3745
9RICK DuncanAirborne Climax C4 13.541.3660
9SCOTT BarrettAirborne Climax C4 13.541.3660

Airborne »

July 5, 2006, 8:46:03 EDT

Airborne

The latest news from the factory.

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Rob Hibberd|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Rob Hibberd «RobH» writes:

The C4 13.5 development is progressing well. The 3rd prototype has been built with some significant improvements made through sail modifications by Al Daniels at Wingtech. We had the performance right up there but found that handling wasn't quite where we wanted it.

We plan to have the glider on the test rig over winter and available mid spring (October). More soon.

Leading edge and top surface cloth on the C4 has been upgraded to Titanium Oxide coated PX10 and 20. The new cloth is resistant to discoloring from UV exposure.

The Australian National Ladder to date shows 4 Climax pilots in the top 10. These include, Rohan Holtkamp, Scott Barrat, Cameron Tunbridge and Adam Parer. Interestingly in the floater class there are 17 Airborne gliders in the top 20, in fact the whole field is dominated by the Fun and Sting models.

Hang glider wings can now be coloured sampled using the colour picker on the Airborne web site. Click here to try it out!

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Tony Barton »

February 23, 2006, 8:50:13 pm EST

Barton

Alive and well in Australia

Adam Parer|video

Adam Parer

Ever wondered what happens to ex-US national champions? If Tony Barton is any indication then they are alive and well because he has been keeping busy down here in Newcastle, on the East Coast of Australia.

Four years ago he created Airsports and since then it has become the most productive hang gliding training facility in Australia. I had the opportunity to work for him for two of those years and like many others I quickly came to the opinion he is one of the safest and most capable instructors (and pilots) around.

This video clip was shot last Monday at Strezlecki lookout, just south of the city. Tony was testing one of his tandem gliders and waiting for the winds to swing so he can ‘solo’ three more students off nearby Merewether launch.

Http://www.williamolive.com/videos/tonystrez.wmv

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2005 Gulgong Classic⁣ videos »

Sun, Dec 4 2005, 9:07:18 pm PST

Trikes and hang gliders.

Adam Parer|Dave Carr|Dragonfly|Gulgong Classic 2005|video|weather|William "Billo" Olive

Billo writes:

On a beautiful Saturday morning two weeks ago I flew up the Hunter and Bylong valleys to Gulgong, for the start of the 2005 Airborne Gulgong classic HG aerotow comp. Nice 15 to 20 knot headwind gave me a four hour flight up, the last hour with plenty of ups and downs as the thermals kicked in, I always like to fly low enough to enjoy the scenery, particularly in such a beautiful area as this. Looked like a great day, and it is always good to kick off a comp on good weather.

I called in to Pete Marheine's place about halfway up, but he'd left fifteen minutes before. Pete was one of my tug pilots, the first time he's towed at a major comp. He was at the hangar door when I landed, he beat me in by a couple of minutes.

From the next seven days we got six flying days, but unfortunately, only three comp rounds plus two practice days, but all good flying days.

I left my hang glider and aeroplane in the hangars there, planning to fly back this weekend with Julie, but the weather is blowing a gale. Should have flown home last weekend while it was good, now I get to drive a 600 km retrieve. Bugger.

Foxy, as well as being a launch marshal, took some time to cut a couple of video clips. One of the general launch action can be got from here and the bit torrent version here.

and the other is of the cloudy day action. If we can't fly a comp, then you just have to do a few formation aerobatics. Disclaimer – I do not endorse aerobatics in weight shift aircraft (but they look so cool, and one of the pilots is my son, so what can you do) You can get this clip here and the bit torrent version here.

Trike pilots are, Pete Wilson, Pete Marheine, Dave Carr and Matt Olive. Dragonfly pilots are Bob `Smokey' Keen and Kiero. HG aero pilots are Jon jnr, Adam Parer and Matt Olive.

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2005 Gulgong

Tue, Nov 29 2005, 4:10:57 am GMT

Three days, then rain

Adam Parer|Carol Binder|Gulgong Classic 2005|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes

Carol Binder writes:

The last few days of Gulgong were cancelled due to bad weather but the area still rewarded us with three tasks total. It was a fun and relaxed competition with a comfortable 55 pilots. The team/locals at the airfield worked hard to feed, entertain and get to know each pilot which made the trip worth it. We're looking forward to going back next year.

Unfortunately I don't the overall scores but here are top three. I will pass them on as soon as I receive them.

1. Attila Bertock
2. Oliver Barthelmes
3. Adam Parer

Click photo for bigger image

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2005 Gulgong

Mon, Nov 28 2005, 7:59:54 pm EST

Weak day three.

Gulgong

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Carol Binder|Conrad Loten|David Seib|Gulgong Classic 2005|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|photo|weather|William "Billo" Olive

Carol Binder «info» writes:

Day 3 Task 3

After very heavy rain and thunderstorm activity overnight the ground was saturated. A short task of 56.5km was called for day three with most pilots away before the 1st window at 2pm. Bases of 1600m with weak and patchy lift over a undulating landscape saw pilots scattered evenly over the course. It was one of those days that some good pilots didn't make it, and some made goal for the first time.

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Hosing down the road

Attila with Moyes Tempest

Billo, meet director as rag head.

Around fifteen pilots made goal. The weather looks like it maybe influenced by the trough hanging around with showers and NE/SE winds.

Day 3 Task 3

1. Attila Bertok 804
2. Davis Seib 766
3. Oliver Barthelmes 756
4. Jon Durand Jnr 745
5. Conrad Loten 719

After three days:

1. Attila Bertok 2005
2. Oliver Barthelmes 1973
3. Adam Parer 1971
4. David Seib 1863
5. Lukas Bader 1816

Day 4. Canned due to strong winds and turbulence close to the ground.

Day 5. Friday 25 November Over night once again thunder and lightning surrounded us. Even Conrad Loten crawled into our cabin out of fear. The ground is very wet. Not hopeful for a flyable day but lets see.

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Canungra Classic »

Mon, Sep 26 2005, 2:00:00 pm EDT

After three days.

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Chris Jones|David Seib|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Michael Zupanc «mike» sends:

http://www.hgfa.asn.au/Competition/results/2005/results.htm

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2005/index.html

1 Attila BERTOK Moyes Litespeed 5 2046
2 Jon Jnr DURAND Moyes Litespeed 4 2018
3 Rohan HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax C4 14 1681
4 Phil SCHRODER Airborne Climax C2 14 1612
5 David SEIB Moyes Litespeed S 5 1610
6 Dave STAVER Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 1577
7 John STRICKLAND Moyes Litespeed 5 1476
8 Adam PARER Airborne Climax C2 14 1467
9 Chris JONES Moyes Litespeed S 4 1435
10 Glen MACLEOD Moyes Litespeed S 4 1387

Canugra Classic »

Fri, Sep 23 2005, 5:00:00 pm EDT

The Durand's backyard

Adam Parer|Attila Bertok|Chris Jones|David Seib|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Michael Zupanc «mike» sends:

http://www.hgfa.asn.au/Competition/results/2005/results.htm

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2005/index.html

Place Name Glider Total
1 Attila BERTOK Moyes Litespeed 5 1977
2 Jon Jnr DURAND Moyes Litespeed 4 1934
3 Rohan HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax C4 14 1639
4 Phil SCHRODER Airborne Climax C2 14 1584
5 Dave STAVER Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 1535
6 John STRICKLAND Moyes Litespeed 5 1449
7 David SEIB Moyes Litespeed S 5 1420
8 Chris JONES Moyes Litespeed S 4 1399
9 Adam PARER Airborne Climax C2 14 1386
10 Glen MACLEOD Moyes Litespeed S 4 1370

Dalby, and the new Airborne C4

Mon, May 2 2005, 5:00:01 pm EDT

Filling in the gaps.

Adam Parer|Dragonfly|Phil Schroder|record|Ricky Duncan|weather

Ricky Duncan «Ricky» writes:

I have just returned from our last comp of the season at Dalby in Queensland. This area is exceptional and the local club is a really well organised outfit.

The Dalby comp was AirBorne's first with the new C4 and the flying we had confirmed that the glider is right on the mark from a performance point of view. Adam Parer has made a return to competition and was flying exceptionally well. We received a lot of positive comments from the look of the new glider. A notable performance improvement over our last glider the C2 was also obvious to the other pilots.

We will be releasing the glider next month following certification testing with Wills Wing this week. Following is a summary of an exceptional week of flying.

Dalby Big Air Hang Gliding Competition

Day 1

With a steady ESE breeze and a stunning array of cloud streets it came as no surprise when the task committee called an open distance course that included one TP. This flight would cover the same ground Jon Jnr used recently to set the new Oz distance record of 497km.

In the air it was surprising to find the lift not what the magnificent looking clouds suggested. The 77km to the TP was a fast leg but from there on it slowed. While base stayed at 8000ft the clouds thinned and were less frequent and pilots were soon working the haze domes before it was totally ‘blue’ flying conditions. Many pilots touched down at sunset and packed up under the light of a spectacular full moon.

Results

1. Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed 257.1km
2. Adam Parer Airborne C4 242.7km
3. Al Daniels Airborne C2 203.3km
4. Pete Ebling Airborne C2 183.0km
5. Phil Schroder Airborne C4 181.4km

Day 2

With very similar conditions to day 1 the task was a 180km course that included three TP’s with goal opposite the town pub. Again the task started out fast along some great looking Cu’s with 600-800ft/min climbs but once passed the first led of 44.2km it started to blue-up.

The glides became longer between thermals and successive climb rates got less and less. The odd 500ft/min climb was still to be had and with the 20km ESE tailwind the task was still possible.

Dave Seib set a blistering pace to win the day with Adam Parer and Rick Duncan the other two competitors to make goal.

Results

1. Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed 03:10:49
2. Adam Parer Airborne C4 04:13:33
3. Rick Duncan Airborne C4 04:07:32
4. Phil Shroder Airborne C4
5. Trevor Kee Moyes Litespeed

Day 3

Today a 95.9km triangle is called. The clouds look superb and promised great climbs that should set a fast pace even with the 30km headwind on the last leg. The clouds lived up to expectations and some 1000ft/min climbs were enjoyed on the 1st and early in the 2nd leg. Many Cu’s cycled through to overdevelop and square km’s of shade had pilots diving for sunny ground way off course.

As competitors progressed through the course the ESE drift picked up and it was obvious the last leg to Dalby Airport was not going to be easy. Here the last TP claimed some big names such as Al Daniel, Peter Aitken, Rick Duncan and eventually Dave Seib.

Adam drifted km’s downwind at a few hundred feet to eventually climb back to cloud base in 600 up. He finally made goal against a 40km headwind.

Dalby HG Club President Daron Hodder used local knowledge and left ahead of the first start to get around before the final headwind picked up. Adam and Daron were to be the only ones in goal and got to leave their gliders set up in Dalby’s carpet lined hangar.

Results

1. Adam Parer Airborne C4 03:19:51
2. Daron Hodder Airborne C2 03:42:01
3. Gabor Sippos Moyes Litespeed
4. Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed
5. Rick Duncan Airborne C4

Day 4

Does the weather ever change here in Dalby? ESE wind, by 10am a deck of phenomenal looking cloud streets lined up from horizon to horizon and this is one month before winter!

The task is called, a 121km dogleg that seems too easy as we watch the clouds going off, and it’s only 10:30. We are all keen to get in the air as we wait for the trike and dragonfly to fire up.

Once on course the clouds cycle to over develop and proceed to dump rain. It is now a flight of avoiding the rain cells and working the shower fronts or the small patches of sun light. Many competitors succumb to this early leg of the course.

Dave Seib gets very low with Dalby Snr Safety Officer Rod Fockhart and they spend the first 30 odd km’s under 2000ft, drifting in the strong quartering tailwind. Eventually they will start to push harder as they move away from the rain and into much better air. Unfortunately they land 25km short of goal with Rick Duncan only 3km short.

18km out Adam and Phil Schroder begin their race into goal after climbing in their last thermal with a huge wedge tailed eagle. They cross the goal to see one other glider landing. They will be the ones who make goal.

Results

1. Phil Schroder Airborne C4 02:07:35
2. Adam Parer Airborne C4 02:10:38
3. Peter Aitken Airborne C2 02:15:08
4. Rick Duncan Airborne C4
5. Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed

Day 5

Ground hog day, ESE, Cu’s streeting…… The task committee wants more competitors in goal and calls a shorter 77km straight line to goal at Chinchilla airstrip.

The clouds don’t get any better than this and it becomes a mad zigzag flight crossing to upwind streets that provide many competitors with up to 2000ft/min averages. Columns of crop waste from the wheat fields 8000ft below paint the thermals much to the appreciation of the pilots.

Rick, Rod and Dave fly the whole course together while Adam and Al Daniel set a fast pace starting at the first clock. Unfortunately for Al he accepts Adams decision to take one more upwind street before a screaming charge into goal. Alas they wallow in light lift, low, 23km out until they drift close enough to make it in.

Dave needs a very good score to reign-in Adams 300 point lead and accordingly he sets a blistering pace.

Results

1. Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed 1:00:46
2. Trevor Kee Moyes Litespeed 1:15:40
3. Rick Duncan Airborne C4 1:02:51
4. Adam Parer Airborne C4 1:19:39
5. Rod Flockhart Moyes Litespeed 1:03:46

Day 6

Last day and a triangle will almost certainly be called to take advantage of the very light drift. A 92.9km triangle should have us home in time for the presentation dinner.

Dave is less than 300 points from winning the lead back from Adam which means the Newcastle Airborne pilot probably has to land out.

Dave is off early as is Rick, Al, Phil, Rod and Adam. The climbs are few and far between and Adam and Phil land for a re-light and watch the others position themselves for the valuable first start. Adam gets away late and Phil will take a third tow after a weak link break. The day turns on and climbs of 800-1200ft/min are found everywhere on the first and second leg. Dave, Rick and Al are smoking around the course while Adam flies by himself and gets low after the 1st TP.

Adam finds a boomer and screams back to cloud base then catches Dave halfway along the 2nd leg where they glide neck and neck for 3km. The next TP has claimed many during the week and Adam hangs back as Dave barrels out along course. Rick is already in goal when Dave crosses the line. Even though Dave is into goal 5min earlier Adam flies at 45.71 kph to win the day and the competition.

Results day 6

1. Adam Parer Airborne C4 02:01:57
2. Rick Duncan Airborne C4 02:08:36
3. Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed 02:15:00
4. Daron Hodder Airborne C2 02:23:22
5. Phil Schroder Airborne C4 02:29:59

Overall Results

1st Adam Parer Airborne C4 4858
2nd Dave Seib Moyes Litespeed 4493
3rd Rick Duncan Airborne C4 3832
4th Pete Aitkin Airborne C2 3346
5th Trevor Kee Moyes Litespeed 3295

(editor's note: Just when was the last time that an Airborne glider won in an Australian competition? Looks like the new C4 is doing well. It's great to see another competition in Australia. First Gulgong, now Dalby as the latest new competitions. That's six or seven big time competitions there.)

Dalby

Wed, Apr 27 2005, 5:00:01 pm EDT

Big kilometers

Adam Parer|David Seib|Moyes Litespeed

Adam Parer|David Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed

Adam Parer|David Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed

David Seib «david» sent this originally, but I didn;t get it for some reason:

We’re currently in Dalby Queensland for the Dalby Big Air Carnival 2005. Dalby is located 200kms northwest of Brisbane and is part of the route that Jonny takes when he does his big flights from Beechmont.

The competition is currently living up to its name with some fantastic flying conditions, especially for this late in the season. The competition started on Sunday and there were a few pilots who flew the two days before the comp. On the Friday, a couple of guys flew 160kms to Dulacca, and on the Saturday Peter Aitken and myself also flew the 160km straight line to Dulacca. The cloud base turned raised from 2000m at the start of the day, to 2700m at the end of the day. We had a 20km easterly tailwind at the start of the day, with a more southerly influence towards the end.

On Sunday, the first day of competition, we set an open distance task with one turnpoint 77kms to the west to keep everyone on the same track. The 23 pilots started launching at about 12.00pm for the first and only start gate at 12.30pm. We once again had a 20km easterly tailwind which turned into a 90 degree crosswind about 120kms out.

I won the day flying to Roma (257kms), Adam Parer (242kms), and Al Daniels (203kms). Everyone was happy with the day. A total of seven pilots achieved personal bests from the 23 pilots - a very pleasing result.

Task one:

Place Name Glider km
1 SEIB, David Moyes Litespeed S 4,5 257.1
2 PARER, Adam Airborne C2 13 242.7
3 DANIELS, Al Airborne C2 13 203.3
4 EBLING, Peter     183.0
5 SCHRODER, Phil Airborne C2 13 181.4

Task three:

A 99km triangle was set for the third task at Dalby. The first leg was a downwind 45km leg and provided awesome race conditions. The second and third legs had a difficult headwind component which was exacerbated by large dark clouds covering the surface with shadow. Timing was everything, having to find lift and get high in the right spots to make the 10-15 headwind glides over the shadow. The majority of the field landed on the second leg with the early starters having an advantage.

Adam Parer is flying really well given his break from the sport and Daron “Boof” Hodder was very happy with making goal, despite an unfortunately heavy landing which will remove him from the rest of the comp. Boof also uses an E-trex which starts wrapping after four hours, therefore his elapsed time is inflated due to a unknown start time.

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 PARER, Adam Airborne C2 13 03:19:51 994
2 HODDER, Daron Airborne C2 14 03:42:01 915
3 SIPPOS, Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 78.8 685
4 SEIB, David Moyes Litespeed S 4,5 77.2 676
5 DUNCAN, Rick Airborne C2 13 76.5 672

Cumulative:

Place Name Glider Total
1 PARER, Adam,   Airborne C2 13 2672
2 SEIB, David,   Moyes Litespeed S 4,5 2570
3 DANIELS, Al,   Airborne C2 13 1947
4 KEE, Trevor,   Moyes Litespeed 5 1886
5 DUNCAN, Rick,   Airborne C2 13 1837
6 BROWN, Keiren,   Moyes Litespeed 4,5 1708
7 AITKEN, Peter,   Airborne C2 13 1642
8 HODDER, Daron,   Airborne C2 14 1570
9 SIPPOS, Gabor,   Moyes Litespeed 4 1553
10 SCHRODER, Phil,   Airborne C2 13 1454

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2004 Gulgong

Thu, Nov 25 2004, 7:00:00 am EST

Curt chasing Jonny.

Gulgong

Adam Parer|Cameron Tunbridge|Conrad Loten|Dragonfly|Gulgong Classic 2004|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|weather|William "Billo" Olive

www.gulgongclassic.com

billo «william.olive» writes:

We had a good day yesterday. The task committee called what I thought was a slightly short task , which was confirmed by Jnr and Kraig completing in less the 90 minutes. But, we got fifty percent of the pilots back to the airfield and lots of smiling pilots.

Last night they were racing a land yacht over the aerodrome until nearly midnight and Kraig was out on the quad racer until I came and spoiled his fun (must hide those keys). This morning curt and Scott were doing circuits in the XTS912 tug (it's a beauty).

Pilots; a mob of hedonistic children. Would we have it any other way.

Round/day three:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 Durand Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:27:00 943
2 Warren Curt Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:29:21 906
3 Coomber Kraig Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:24:18 890
4 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:32:41 860
5 Schroder Phil Airborne C2 01:45:48 786
6 Friesenbichler Micheal Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 01:47:42 766
7 Wynne Bruce Moyes Litespeed 4 01:51:34 737
8 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:58:21 732
9 Loten Conrad Moyes Litesport 02:03:03 683
10 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S 5 01:41:45 679

If round four was too short then round four wasn't going the same way. Exited by the weather forecast the task committee (Jon jnr, Dave Seib and Cameron Tunbridge) called a 169 km dogleg. It was slightly too long as the day did not develop quite as predicted, but still had many happy pilots. They were back in late though, and we only finished the scoring this morning.

We are in the middle of a locust plague. Grasshoppers are making it interesting on takeoff and giving the tug driver some thing extra to cope with.

Round/day four:

Place Name Glider km Total
1 Coomber Kraig Moyes Litespeed S 4 159.2 898
2 Durand Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 156.1 887
2 Warren Curt Moyes Litespeed S 4 156.1 887
4 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C2 155.7 884
5 Parer Adam Airborne C2 14 149.3 841
6 Schroder Phil Airborne C2 149.1 840
7 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S 5 146.5 817
8 Dall Peter Air Atos 144.9 803
8 Friesenbichler Micheal Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 144.9 803
10 Loten Conrad Moyes Litesport 143.0 783

We are coming into an exiting finish, with Jnr only 25 points in front of Curt. Yesterday's task was a 88 km triangle. The weather has been getting better every day and today holds promise of being a beauty.

Yesterday afternoon Pete Wilson and I towed Jnr and Adam Parer up to 3000' and they did formation aerobatics. Said by some to have been the best aeros seen. The Flocky put on a show with the Dragonfly. You can't buy a day like this.

Round/day five:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 Coomber Kraig Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:51:18 998
2 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C2 02:06:50 869
3 Warren Curt Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:08:46 852
4 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:18:26 756
5 Durand Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:27:54 684
6 Parer Adam Airborne C2 14 02:50:00 677
7 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S 4 02:50:25 671
8 Reid Jason Airborne C2 Lite 02:53:34 652
9 Wynne Bruce Moyes Litespeed 4 02:47:24 627
10 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S 5 02:42:20 598

After six days of intense competition it came down to 25 points between Jnr and Curt yesterday. Curt beat Jnr today, but not enough to win outright. What a finish. The boys will have to settle the score in Rio next week at the Red Bull. Kraig was next placed not far behind.

The final comp day turned on fantastic conditions and almost all the field made goal. Matt and Pete thermaled the trikes to over 9000' and the competitors were getting well over 10,000'.

The comp philosophy was well met, with over 300 tows incident free, half the field in goal almost every day and plenty of all kinds of flying happening every day.

If you were not here this year, you should plan to be here next year for sure.

Round/day six:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 Warren Curt Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:29:11 916
2 Durand Jon Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:31:14 891
3 Loten Conrad Moyes Litesport 01:32:05 878
4 Coomber Kraig Moyes Litespeed S 4 01:24:45 838
5 Barton Tony Airborne C2 14 01:37:49 818
6 Friesenbichler Micheal Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 01:31:23 743
7 Parer Adam Airborne C2 14 01:45:10 742
8 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C2 01:32:19 731
9 Daniel Alan Airborne C2 01:53:08 729
10 Schroder Phil Airborne C2 01:46:56 719

Total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 Durand JonMoyes Litespeed S 4 5365
2 Warren CurtMoyes Litespeed S 4 5365
3 Coomber KraigMoyes Litespeed S 4 5003
4 Holtkamp RohanAirborne C2 4590
5 Wynne BruceMoyes Litespeed 4 4354
6 Seib DavidMoyes Litespeed S 5 4206
7 Loten ConradMoyes Litesport 4004
8 Schroder PhilAirborne C2 4004
9 Lawry CrisAirborne C2 3911
10 Reid JasonAirborne C2 Lite 3873

They sure look tied to me! How about Conrad on the Moyes LiteSport! Lots of Airborne gliders in the top ten also. Dave Seib on a Moyes Litespeed S 5? Everyone else went for the Moyes Litespeed 4 instead of the Litespeed 4.5. Gerolf must have stayed at the Moyes factory and kept working on the latest tweaks.

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Thu, Sep 5 2002, 11:00:00 am EDT

Adam Parer|Aeros Combat|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

http://www.brasilia2003.com/resultados/us_results.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso «joseluiz» sends the results:

The task today has 136.1 km. The task was stopped at4:22 pm, because there was a big CB developing near the goal. At that time there were 36 pilots at goal, with 2 more coming in 10 minutes later, and landing in strong winds. The pilots’ position was calculated at the time the task was stopped. Manfred was first today, climbing into 2nd in competition

Task 9:

Check out the track log maps at the web site above.

1 MANFRED, Ruhmer 14:00:00 15:45:42 1:45:42 914
2 OLEG BONDARCHUK 13:45:00 15:42:48 1:57:48 833
2 Betinho Schmidt 13:45:00 15:42:48 1:57:48 833
4 KRAIG COOMBER 13:45:00 15:42:53 1:57:53 824
5 FRANZ HERMANN 13:45:00 15:44:28 1:59:28 808
6 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS 13:45:00 15:46:44 2:01:44 783
7 GUILLEN BRUNO 13:45:00 15:46:45 2:01:45 780
7 MASSIMO TURIACO 13:45:00 15:46:45 2:01:45 780
9 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI 13:45:00 15:47:05 2:02:05 772
10 PARIS WILLIAMS 14:15:00 16:06:07 1:51:07 771
11 ALDO SANCHEZ 13:45:00 15:47:14 2:02:14 768
12 BAUSONE, Federico 13:45:00 15:47:39 2:02:39 762
13 HEINRICHS GEROLF 13:45:00 15:47:53 2:02:53 758
14 BOISSELIER ANTOINE 14:00:00 15:56:49 1:56:49 756
15 WALBEC RICHARD 13:45:00 15:48:05 2:03:05 755
16 MATHURIN DIDIE 13:45:00 15:48:07 2:03:07 752
17 JON DURAND JNR 14:00:00 15:57:32 1:57:32 750
18 KARI CASTLE 13:45:00 15:48:24 2:03:24 748
19 ATTILA, Bertok 14:00:00 15:58:04 1:58:04 745
20 WEISSENBERGER, Tom 14:00:00 15:58:08 1:58:08 743
21 CURT WARREN 14:00:00 15:58:29 1:58:29 739
22 Nene Rotor 14:00:00 15:58:30 1:58:30 738
22 MARIO ALONZI 13:45:00 15:49:36 2:04:36 738
24 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE 13:45:00 15:49:56 2:04:56 734
25 REISINGER ROBERT 13:45:00 15:54:58 2:09:58 700
26 MIKE BARBER 14:00:00 16:04:30 2:04:30 697
27 ROHAN HOLTKAMP 14:00:00 16:04:35 2:04:35 696
28 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE 14:00:00 16:04:39 2:04:39 695
29 CARLOS BESSA 14:00:00 16:05:11 2:05:11 691
30 RICARDO ORTEGA DE SOUZA 13:45:00 15:58:28 2:13:28 672

The results after 9 tasks:

1 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 7583
2 MANFRED, Ruhmer Icaro Mr 700 AUT 7482
3 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 7445
4 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 7145
5 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 7091
6 KRAIG COOMBER Moyes Litespeed AUS 7020
7 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 6943
8 HEINRICHS GEROLF Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 6864
9 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 6809
10 MIKE BARBER Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 6634
11 PARIS WILLIAMS Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 6595
12 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE Moyes Litespeed ITA 6448
13 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 6438
14 ROHAN HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax AUS 6258
15 ATTILA, Bertok Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 6197
16 CURT WARREN Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 6158
17 CARLOS BESSA Wills Wing Talon BRA 6133
18 ANDRE WOLF Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 6032
19 FRANZ HERMANN Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 6023
20 JON DURAND JNR Moyes Litespeed AUS 5959
21 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 5814
22 ALDO SANCHEZ BRA 5771
23 GUILLEN BRUNO Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 5742
24 BRETT HAZLETT Moyes Litespeed CAN 5699
25 JERZ ROSSIGNOL Aeros Combat II USA 5647
26 MARIO ALONZI Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 5502
27 ADAM PARER Airborne Climax AUS 5311
28 KARI CASTLE Icaro Mr700 USA 5232
29 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 5214

The competition goes through September 8th.

The flex wing Pre-worlds »

Wed, Sep 4 2002, 12:00:00 pm EDT

Adam Parer|Aeros Combat|Amir Shalom|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Nichele Roberto|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Shalom Amir|Wills Wing

http://www.brasilia2003.com/resultados/us_results.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso «joseluiz» sends the results:

The conditions are getting better here. Today we had a 103.1 km task, and 39 pilots in goal. Manfred was the first pilot to reach goal, but he took the 1st start time. The winner was Oleg, who took the 3rd start time and was in goal only 1 minute after Manfred. Nene Rotor was 4th on day. With this result, Oleg jumped to 1st in the competition, followed by Nene Rotor and Manfred

Task 8:

1 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 1:58:35 889
2 CURT WARREN Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 2:04:16 867
3 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 2:04:42 859
4 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:06:07 843
5 PARIS WILLIANS Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 2:06:08 840
6 ANDRE WOLF Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 2:02:04 832
7 CARLOS BESSA Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:07:18 827
8 MANFRED, Ruhmer Icaro Mr 700 AUT 2:17:29 807
9 KRAIG COOMBER Moyes Litespeed AUS 2:09:36 806
10 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 2:09:51 801
11 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 2:16:59 746
12 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE Moyes Litespeed ITA 2:12:48 740
13 GUILLEN BRUNO Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:13:26 734
14 JERZ ROSSIGNOL Aeros Combat II USA 2:14:08 729
15 NICHELE ROBERTO Moyes Litespeed 4 CHE 2:21:34 714
16 KUEPFER CHRIGEL Moyes Litespeed 4 CHE 2:21:40 711
16 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 2:28:24 711
18 MIKE BARBER Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 2:17:05 709
19 SHALOM AMIR Icaro Laminar MRX 700 ISR 2:17:34 705
20 FRANZ HERMANN Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 2:22:56 702
21 HEINRICHS GEROLF Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 2:17:59 700
22 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:24:03 694
23 MARIO ALONZI Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 2:19:28 690
24 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 2:20:59 680
25 MASSIMO TURIACO Moyes Litespeed ITA 2:30:18 654

The results after 8 tasks:

1 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 6749
2 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 6705
3 MANFRED, Ruhmer Icaro Mr 700 AUT 6567
4 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 6399
5 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 6256
6 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 6241
7 KRAIG COOMBER Moyes Litespeed AUS 6194
8 HEINRICHS GEROLF Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 6103
9 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 6052
10 MIKE BARBER Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 5935
11 PARIS WILLIANS Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 5823
12 ANDRE WOLF Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 5788
13 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE Moyes Litespeed ITA 5751
14 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 5680
15 ROHAN HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax AUS 5558
16 ATTILA, Bertok Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 5452
17 CARLOS BESSA Wills Wing Talon BRA 5441
18 CURT WARREN Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 5418
19 BRETT HAZLETT Moyes Litespeed CAN 5340
20 FRANZ HERMANN Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 5212
21 JON DURAND JNR Moyes Litespeed AUS 5209
22 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 5039
23 JERZ ROSSIGNOL Aeros Combat II USA 5026
24 ALDO SANCHEZ BRA 5003
25 GUILLEN BRUNO Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 4959
26 MARIO ALONZI Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 4761
27 ADAM PARER Airborne Climax AUS 4638
28 KARI CASTLE Icaro Mr700 USA 4480
29 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 4428
30 SHALOM AMIR Icaro Laminar MRX 700 ISR 4240

The competition goes through September 8th.

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Mon, Sep 2 2002, 6:00:00 pm EDT

Adam Parer|Aeros Combat|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Nichele Roberto|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

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José Luiz Moura Velloso «joseluiz» sends the results:

Big changes today. Manfred didn't make goal (he was 2.4 km short of the goal). There were 15 pilots in goal (104.2 km). First in goal was Mike Barber (USA), followed closely by Gerolf, Betinho, Nene and Oleg. With this task, Nene jumped into first, with Oleg only 3 points behind. Manfred is 3rd, 142 points behind

Task 7:

1 MIKE BARBER Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3:04:59 1000
2 HEINRICHS GEROLF Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 3:05:15 987
2 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 3:05:15 987
4 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 3:05:21 974
5 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 3:06:09 960
6 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 3:07:06 948
7 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 3:07:31 941
8 PARIS WILLIANS, Paris Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 3:07:45 937
9 BRETT HAZLETT, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed CAN 3:12:22 906
10 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3:17:02 881
11 ROHAN HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax AUS 3:19:32 869
12 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 3:20:03 866
13 GUIDUCCI DAVID Moyes Litespeed ITA 3:28:24 832
14 KRAIG COOMBER, Kraig Moyes Litespeed AUS 3:28:50 830
15 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3:37:33 800
16 JON DURAND JNR Moyes Litespeed AUS 103,4 597
17 KARI CASTLE, Kari, 52 Icaro Mr700 USA 102,8 595
18 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 100,8 585
19 ALDO SANCHEZ, Aldo, 81 BRA 94,2 553
20 MATHURIN DIDIE Moyes Litespeed FRA 86,9 526
21 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 86,5 524
22 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 83,1 508
23 KUEPFER CHRIGEL Moyes Litespeed 4 CHE 82,4 504
24 NICHELE ROBERTO Moyes Litespeed 4 CHE 79,9 488
25 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE Airborne Climax FRA 79,3 485

After 7 tasks:

1 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 5871
2 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 5868
3 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 5732
4 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 5694
5 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 5502
6 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 5466
7 HEINRICHS GEROL Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 5414
8 KRAIG COOMBER, Kraig Moyes Litespeed AUS 5383
9 MIKE BARBER, Mikey, 73 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 5237
10 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 5176
11 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 5093
12 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE Moyes Litespeed ITA 5006
13 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 4999
14 PARIS WILLIANS Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 4989
15 ANDRE WOLF, Andre Wolf Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 4936
16 ROHAN HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax AUS 4925
17 JON DURAND JNR Moyes Litespeed AUS 4845
18 BRETT HAZLETT, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed CAN 4709
19 ALDO SANCHEZ, Aldo, 81 BRA 4628
20 CARLOS BESSA, Bessa, 63 Wills Wing Talon BRA 4603
21 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 4551
22 FRANZ HERMANN, Gagu, 31 Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 4492
23 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 4337
24 ADAM PARER, Boo Boo, 55 Airborne Climax AUS 4029
25 KARI CASTLE, Kari, 52 Icaro Mr700 USA 3851
26 JERZ ROSSIGNOL, Jerz, 57 Aeros Combat II USA 3816
27 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3773
28 MARIO ALONZI, Alonzi, 7 Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 3769
29 GUSTAVO SALDANHA, Guga Moyes Litespeed BRA 3757
30 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE Airborne Climax FRA 3716

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Sat, Aug 31 2002, 9:00:00 pm GMT

Adam Parer|Aeros Combat|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Wills Wing

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José Luiz Moura Velloso <joseluiz@jlv.com.br> sends the results:

Another difficult task. Only 5 pilots made goal. Manfred was first in goal, but took the second start time. Paris Williams took the third start time, and was first for the day.

Nene didn't make goal, so Manfred is 200 points ahead of him

Day 5:

1 Paris Willians Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 2:51:43 973
2 Reisinger Robert Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 2:52:16 962
3 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 3:06:07 951
4 Oleg Bondarchuk Aeros Combat UKR 3:16:00 912
5 Kraig Coomber Moyes Litespeed AUS 3:16:52 909
6 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 791
7 Boisselier Antoine Moyes Litespeed FRA 789
8 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 785
9 Betinho SCHMIDT, Moyes Litespeed BRA 784
9 Josef Brandner Icaro Mr 700 AUT 784
11 Rohan Holtkamp Airborne Climax AUS 776
12 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 738
13 Guiducci Davide Moyes Litespeed ITA 734
14 MIKE BARBER, Mikey Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 729
15 ANDRE WOLF, Andre Wolf Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 728
16 ALDO SANCHEZ, Aldo, 81 BRA 727
17 GUSTAVO SALDANHA,Guga Moyes Litespeed BRA 725
17 MASSIMO TURIACO, Max Moyes Litespeed ITA 725
19 KARI CASTLE, Kari, 52 Icaro Mr700 USA 715
20 MARIO ALONZI, Alonzi, 7 Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 683
21 CARLOS BESSA, Bessa, 63 Wills Wing Talon BRA 645
22 HIROSHI ONUMA, Hiro Icaro Laminar MRX JPN 644
23 MATHURIN DIDIE, Did, 24 Moyes Litespeed FRA 623
24 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 606
25 Dorival Agulhon Icaro Laminar MR BRA 596
26 Leonardo Dabbur, Wills Wing Talon BRA 594
27 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 593
28 JERZ ROSSIGNOL, Jerz Aeros Combat II USA 588
29 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE Airborne Climax FRA 570
30 Koos De Keijzer Icaro Laminar MRX 700 NLD 522

Cumulative after 5 days:

1 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 4329
2 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 4116
3 OLEG BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 5 Aeros Combat UKR 4084
4 WEISSENBERGER, Tom, 80 Moyes Litespeed AUT 3986
5 BOISSELIER ANTOINE, Tonio, 3 Moyes Litespeed FRA 3949
6 REISINGER ROBERT, Robert, 78 Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 3927
7 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 3925
8 ANDRE WOLF, Andre Wolf, 39 Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 3843
9 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE, Guiducci, 51 Moyes Litespeed ITA 3826
10 KRAIG COOMBER, Kraig, 35 Moyes Litespeed AUS 3789
11 MIKE BARBER, Mikey, 73 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3708
12 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 3708
13 HEINRICHS GEROLF, Gerolf, 2 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 3639
14 JON DURAND JNR, Dundee , 36 Moyes Litespeed AUS 3636
15 CARLOS BESSA, Bessa, 63 Wills Wing Talon BRA 3584
16 ROHAN HOLTKAMP, Rowboat, 44 Airborne Climax AUS 3416
17 ALDO SANCHEZ, Aldo, 81 BRA 3371
18 WALBEC RICHARD, Walbec, 17 Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 3346
19 FRANZ HERMANN, Gagu, 31 Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 3312
20 PARIS WILLIANS, Paris, 62 Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 3306
21 Dorival Agulhon Junior Icaro Laminar MR BRA 3210
22 JERZ ROSSIGNOL, Jerz, 57 Aeros Combat II USA 3205
23 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3202
24 MARIO ALONZI, Alonzi, 7 Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 3083
25 GUSTAVO SALDANHA, Guga Moyes Litespeed BRA 3075
26 GUILLEN BRUNO, Guillen, 22 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3053
27 BRETT HAZLETT, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed CAN 3031
28 ADAM PARER, Boo Boo, 55 Airborne Climax AUS 2988
29 Paulo Eduardo Baz, Wills Wing Talon BRA 2851
30 KARI CASTLE, Kari, 52 Icaro Mr700 USA 2842

Spoke with Steve Pearson from Wills Wing today at the SHA meeting. He’s mighty proud of Nene and Carlos Bessa flying the WW Talons.

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Fri, Aug 30 2002, 1:00:00 pm EDT

Adam Parer|Aeros Combat|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

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José Luiz Moura Velloso «joseluiz» sends the results:

In the briefing before the first task, pilots asked that instead of having 2 rest days after 6 competitions days, they get 1 rest day after each 4 competitions days. So we will have now more 4 tasks, another rest day at next Tuesday, and 4 more tasks.

Well, this is very civilized. A long enough competition to have scheduled rest days and still have full validity. Those Brazilians know how to live and have a good time.

Day 4:

1 CARLOS ALBERTO SCHMIDT, Moyes Litespeed BRA 3:02:07 1000
2 WEISSENBERGER, Tom, 80 Moyes Litespeed AUT 3:02:09 989
3 ALVARO SANDOLI, Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 3:09:03 962
4 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 813
5 OLEG BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 5 Aeros Combat UKR 811
6 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 810
7 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 795
8 ANDRE WOLF, Andre Wolf Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 789
9 KRAIG COOMBER, Kraig, 35 Moyes Litespeed AUS 786
10 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 782
11 MASSIMO TURIACO, Max, 11 Moyes Litespeed ITA 779
11 WALBEC RICHARD, Walbec, 17 Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 779
13 DE LA HORIE, Geoffroy, 21 Icaro Laminar 13 MRX700 FRA 772
14 TISH, The Flying Fish, 32 Moyes Litespeed 3 AUS 768
15 HEINRICHS GEROLF, Gerolf, 2 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 766
16 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE, Guiducci Moyes Litespeed ITA 760
17 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS, Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 759
18 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 756
19 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 754
20 ROHAN HOLTKAMP, Rowboat Airborne Climax AUS 750
20 MIKE BARBER, Mikey, 73 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 750
20 KARI CASTLE, Kari, 52 Icaro Mr700 USA 750
23 PARIS WILLIANS, Paris, 62 Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 748
24 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE, Airborne Climax FRA 742
25 ADAM PARER, Boo Boo, 55 Airborne Climax AUS 739
26 JON DURAND JNR, Dundee Moyes Litespeed AUS 727
27 PAULO EDUARDO BAZ Wills Wing Talon BRA 702
28 CARLOS BESSA, Bessa, 63 Wills Wing Talon BRA 695
28 DORIVAL AGULHON JUNIOR Icaro Laminar MR BRA 695
30 BRETT HAZLETT, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed CAN 692

Cumulative after 4 days:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 MANFRED, Ruhmer, 1 Icaro Mr 700 AUT 3378
2 ALVARO SANDOLI, Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 3378
3 WEISSENBERGER, Tom, 80 Moyes Litespeed AUT 3195
4 JON DURAND JNR, Dundee , 36 Moyes Litespeed AUS 3174
5 OLEG BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 5 Aeros Combat UKR 3172
6 BOISSELIER ANTOINE, Tonio, 3 Moyes Litespeed FRA 3160
7 ATTILA, Bertok, 33 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 3139
8 ANDRE WOLF, Andre Wolf, 39 Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA 3115
9 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE, Guiducci, 51 Moyes Litespeed ITA 3091
10 HEINRICHS GEROLF, Gerolf, 2 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 3046
11 MIKE BARBER, Mikey, 73 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 2977
12 REISINGER ROBERT, Robert, 78 Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 2965
13 CARLOS BESSA, Bessa, 63 Wills Wing Talon BRA 2935
14 CARLOS ALBERTO SCHMIDT Moyes Litespeed BRA 2924
15 WALBEC RICHARD, Walbec Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 2908
16 KRAIG COOMBER, Kraig, 35 Moyes Litespeed AUS 2880
17 FRANZ HERMANN, Gagu, 31 Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE 2813
18 ALDO SANCHEZ, Aldo, 81 BRA 2640
19 ROHAN HOLTKAMP, Rowboat, 44 Airborne Climax AUS 2638
20 JERZ ROSSIGNOL, Jerz, 57 Aeros Combat II USA 2615
21 DORIVAL AGULHON JUNIOR, Icaro Laminar MR BRA 2610
22 GUILLEN BRUNO, Guillen, 22 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2602
23 CURT WARREN, Curt, 40 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 2596
24 BRETT HAZLETT, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed CAN 2575
25 ADAM PARER, Boo Boo, 55 Airborne Climax AUS 2472

Wallaby Open – death gaggles and stop times

Tue, Apr 16 2002, 5:00:00 pm EDT

Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John "Ole" Olson|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

(?-i)John "Ole" Olson|Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

Adam Parer|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brian Porter|Florida|Jaime Ruiz|Jim Lamb|John Vernon|Manfred Ruhmer|Peter Gray|Quest Air|Rhett Radford|Robin Hamilton|Wallaby Open 2002|Wallaby Ranch|weather

We are in a very stable weather pattern with light winds out of the east southeast and lots of moisture in the air (and on the ground). Lift is for the most part pretty light and cloudbase is low. This makes for interesting and difficult tasks.

The forecast calls for convergence on the western side of the state with a trough forming right along the west coast in the late afternoon. I advise the other members of the task committee that we probably want to stay away from the west as the convergence will probably be just too much for us. The rain chance is 30 percent, a little less than the day before, and scheduled for the late afternoon.

We on the task committee call a Wallaby Ranch friendly task, a bit longer than the day before – 65 miles. The idea is go north to Quest Air flight park (Sheets) back to highway 27 and 192, the road that goes to Disney. This gets us up on the Floridaridge and the high dry spots with plenty of places to land if necessary. Next is the intersection of 27 and 17/92 in Haines City 11 miles south of Wallaby, with a final leg into the Ranch.

With an east wind predicted this gives us an out and return task that should be mostly cross wind, although some forecasts show a bit of a southerly wind component also. Coming back over the Ranch will give all the kind folks who are volunteering to help out with the meet a chance to see the competitors in action.

Given the shaky weather conditions we are again out early for an 11 AMlaunch and start time at 12:30. Looking at all the clouds forming around the Ranch at 11, I propose to Gerolf and Paris that we set a stop time of 3 PM. I’m afraid that the day will over develop and the meet director will cancel the task (there is no provision to stop the day without this advance notice).

At the last minute we agree to stop the day at 3 PMand of course that puts a fire under the pilots to get going. Bo goes right after we change the task to add this element, and soon every one is lined up in the launch line.

With seventeen tugs and trikes there are the resources here to get every one in the air in a very big hurray. Rhett Radford was instrumental in getting the two Floridaflight parks to agree to share resources so three tugs came down from Quest to help out with the Wallaby Open. The ground crew is very experienced so pilots are ready to go when the tug is there. It takes less than an hour to get almost everyone in the air.

Rhett Radford put Robin Hamilton’s Swift back together last night so he’s ready to take on Brian Porter (who got a score for the first day) in Class 2. Robin was hoping he could carry his time from flying his Laminar into Class 2, but no go. Jim Lamb got a borrowed ATOS to fly from Jaime Ruiz. Mike Z is still working on his broken keel.

With the 3 PMstop time, pilots are definitely thinking about the 12:30start time. The class one pilots are forming a death swarm at 5 miles out holding near cloud base in the skimpy lift waiting for the clock. The rigid wings are at 3 miles out in smaller gaggles. I get low trying to get tricky by flying upwind and getting away from other rigid wing pilots. I find myself at 800 feet over the Ranch at 12:25. Looks like I’m in big trouble.

I slowly climb out and now it is a question of whether to get the start time late or wait for the 12:45start time. A careful calculation would show that we are going to have a difficult time making the 65 miles in 2 ½ hours (in general we average 25 mph), so waiting is foolish. I don’t have time to make this calculation and wait for the 12:45start time.

I’ll get to see a lot of the race today as I now have the opportunity for a whole lot of gaggle hoping. Unfortunately the first gaggle is going to be the stragglers and you’ve got to be very careful. Use them for lift markers, but ignore what they are doing.

With cloud base at about 3,600’ it is a slow slog up to Quest for most of the pilots. With the lift averaging 300 fpm I find Adam Parer in an Airborne Climax a bit north of the Seminole Lake glider port and we work into 400 fpm to 4,200’. The day is looking good. There is no over development and the winds are light.

Just to our north there are half a dozen gliders working weak lift right over highway 33 and they are down low. I slide off to the left downwind a bit to the west of 33 under the clouds and get the rewards that such a move so justly deserves, 500 fpm to 4,100’.

There’s a gaggle over Quest and it is a quick glide from a commanding altitude to get to it after making the turnpoint. I’m on a mission to make up for the 15 minute handicap I have made for myself. The leading gaggles are a great help in this quest. I average 27 mph getting the Quest.

No one is waiting around in puny lift and we are hard charging to the south east toward the intersection of highway 27 and 192. We over the low swamp lands and sand mines, but our goal is the ridge. We’ve got a bit of a head wind, and broken lift that’s averaging 350 fpm. While it takes 48 minutes to cover the 22 miles to Quest from the Ranch, it takes 42 minutes to cover the mere 16 miles to the intersection and my average speed is down to 23 mph.

I come in under the main lead gaggle half way to the intersection, but it proves hard to climb up through them. Everyone is pushing to get to goal before the clock runs out. We get high just before the turnpoint and now it is a race down the ridge to the south turnpoint at HainesCity.

To the south we can see a big cell dumping hard on the swamp to the east of HainesCity. It looks like it isn’t moving our way thankfully. Gust fronts are a concern but the downpour is about ten miles to the east of the turnpoint and we don’t see anything else around that would cause a problem.

Time is now getting very short. Everyone is thinking about getting as far as possible before the time runs out. We are all bunched up so it is quite a squadron that passes by Wallaby and gives the folks there a thrill.

The storm to our east is adding a bit of texture to the air and suddenly the climb rates get quite strong. I come in low at the mid Floridahospital, and catch some of that strong lift. I’m wishing I had John Vernon’s tail, as Felix convinced me to fly without it today to get a feel for the ATOS-C without the tail. I’ll have it back on tomorrow (of course, the air was a lot different today).

I’m thinking that the rigid wings should be out in front but they seem to be mixed in with the rest of the gliders. I guess the gravitational influences of the flex wing gaggle just held them back. Too bad.

With ten minutes left we are all racing toward the turnpoint or just racing back from it. There is so much lift that you just have to ignore it and know that you are going to stay up as much as you need until 3 PM.

Making the turnpoint at HainesCity.

Manfred and Alex Ploner (Italian, Ladino) are out in front and racing. There must be thirty gliders just behind them and the pilots all know that the goal is not obtainable. If we (or I) had only said 3:15 PMinstead of 3 PM.

Some pilots are racing to the ground and others decide that a mile or two isn’t worth not making it back to the Ranch. There is plenty of lift so you can fly straight and fast toward the Ranch and still make good distance before the bell tolls.

Manfred gets a better line and gets ahead of Alex. He is 47 seconds too late coming into goal with Alex half a minute behind him. Manfred dives in, pulls up after the goal line, skims across the top of the dinner tent, dives back down and lands with a no stepper on the goal (or former goal) line to the great applause of all the volunteers at the Ranch.

Everyone is vectoring into the Ranch no matter where they were before 3 PMand the place is a bee hive of activity as those of us that decided not to land out make it back. Earlier I watch as Oleg scares some cows and then gets up from less than 100 feet as they kick off a thermal in a field 5 miles south of Wallaby. The cows charge Jerseyand another pilot.

In the morning you should be able to find the latest scores at: http://www.elltel.net/peterandlinda/Wallaby_Open_2002/Wallaby.htm

There seems to be a problem scoring this type of task with a stop time. We’ll see how Peter Gray does it tonight (maybe all night) with Compe-GPS.

GAP 2002 gives folks who only make it half way as many departure points as the fastest pilots. This seems a bit odd to say the least (although who really cares).

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