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2022 Corryong Cup »

Thu, Jan 13 2022, 4:12:27 pm MST

Day five, task four

Corryong Cup 2022

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=335&tasPk=1442

There are no leading or arrival points, so launch and start later.

Task 4:

# Pilot Time Tot
1 Jon Durand 1:32:57 1000
2 Neale Halsall 1:44:05 903
3 Mitch Butler 1:50:37 858
4 Jason Kath 1:55:39 825
5 Mikhail Karmazin 1:56:39 819
6 Paul Bissett-Amess 1:57:33 813
7 Richard Martin 1:58:58 804
8 Neil Hooke 2:05:59 761
9 Bruce Atkinson 2:06:31 757
10 Steve Docherty 2:13:36 715
11 Troy Horton 2:23:11 661

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Moyes Gecko 170 2978
2 Neale Halsall Moyes RX 4 Pro 2299
3 Mitch Butler Moyes LS4 2221
4 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2220
5 Hughbert Alexander Aeros Kombat 2077
6 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2075
7 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2051
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2011
9 James Wynd Moyes RX 3.5 1958
10 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX5 Pro 1827

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2022 Corryong Cup »

Wed, Jan 12 2022, 5:26:54 pm MST

Day four, task three

Corryong Cup 2022

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=335&tasPk=1442

Task 3:

# Pilot Time Kms Tot
1 Peter Burkitt 1:54:26 62.65 845
2 Neale Halsall 57.99 692
3 Jon Durand 57.11 687
4 Paul Bissett-Amess 55.17 676
5 Hughbert Alexander 52.10 636
6 Neil Hooke 51.60 633
7 Troy Horton 47.41 579
8 Ward Gunn 44.05 556
9 Peter Adriaans 38.22 500
9 Bruce Atkinson 38.18 500

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Moyes Gecko 170 2017
2 Hughbert Alexander Aeros Kombat 1666
3 Peter Burkitt Moyes RX5 Pro 1492
4 James Wynd Moyes RX 3.5 1449
5 Paul Bissett-Amess Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1441
6 Neale Halsall Moyes RX 4 Pro 1431
7 Mitch Butler Moyes LS4 1370
8 Steve Docherty Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1315
9 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1256
10 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1253

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2022 Corryong Cup »

Mon, Jan 10 2022, 3:36:35 pm MST

Day two, task two

Corryong Cup 2022

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=335&tasPk=1442

Task 2:

# Pilot Time Tot
1 Hughbert Alexander 1:39:21 693
2 Steven Crosby 1:49:11 658
3 Jon Durand 2:00:36 627
4 Mikhail Karmazin 2:03:47 619

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jon Durand Moyes Gecko 170 1358
2 Mikhail Karmazin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1098
3 Hughbert Alexander Aeros Combat 1064
4 Mitch Butler Moyes LS4 1014
5 James Wynd Moyes RX 3.5 1009
6 Jason Kath Wills Wing T2C 144 1001
7 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 910
8 Steven Crosby Moyes S5 881
9 Todd Wisewould Wills Wing T2C 873

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2022 Corryong Cup - day 1 task 1 »

Sun, Jan 9 2022, 6:02:15 am MST

40 open day pilots

Corryong Cup 2022

http://xc.highcloud.net/task_result.html?comPk=335&tasPk=1440

# Pilot Glider Time Tot
1 Jon Durand Moyes Gecko 170 1:48:51 745
2 Mitch Butler Litespeed S4 2:02:16 702
3 James Wynd 2:21:54 655
4 Richard Martin Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2:25:45 646

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Aeros Combat⁣ "Tail Art" »

Tue, Jul 9 2019, 3:38:35 pm MDT

To match the glider

Jimsmess «Jimsmess» writes:

I recently purchased a Aeros Combat 13.5 (Thanks JD your customer service and support was fabulous). It didn't take long to realize what a amazing glider it is. To compliment its great flight characteristics and color scheme, I decided to give it's tail a distinctive look. I came up with a simple design and laid it out on some 3m self adhering vinyl auto wrap (many colors to choose from) and then carefully placed it on the tail. It also makes it more visible when sitting on it's keel, so nobody accidentally walks into it.

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2014 East Coast Championship

Day 7 and final results

Sat, Jun 7 2014, 9:27:48 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat GT 15|Aeros Combat L|Aeros Discus|Airwave Vision Pulse|Bob Filipchuk|Brian Boudreau|Bruce Barmakian|Charles Allen|Cory Barnwell|Dana Harris|Dan Lukaszewicz|Dave Proctor|Davis Straub|East Coast Championships 2014|Felix Cantesanu|Greg Dinauer|Greg Sessa|Highland Aerosports Flight Park|Hugh Mcelrath|Icaro Laminar Z8|J.D. Guillemette|Jim Messina|Joe Schmucker|John Claytor|John Dullahan|John Waters|Knut Ryerson|Michelle Haag|Moyes Litespeed|Moyes Litespeed S|Moyes Litesport 4|Richard Elder|Richard Milla|Soraya Rios|Tom McGowan|Tom Mcgowan|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Sport 2|Wills Wing T2C|Wills Wing Talon|Wills Wing U2

http://soaringspot.com/ecc2014/

Task 7:

1. Greg Dinauer Aeros Combat 12.7 02:26:13 1000
2. Davis Straub Wills Wing T2C 144 02:26:22 994.02
3. Charles Allen Icaro Laminar Z8 12.8 02:40:06 837.19
4. Tom Mcgowan Moyes Litespeed 03:34:53 546.85

Final Totals:

1. Bruce Barmakian Wills Wing T2C 136 4913.06
2. Greg Dinauer Aeros Combat 12.7 4560.29
3. Davis Straub Wills Wing T2C 144 3821.55
4. Jd Guillemette Moyes Litespeed S4 3037.99
5. John Waters Aeros Combat L 15 3026.09
6. Jim Messina Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2953.45
7. Charles Allen Icaro Laminar Z8 12.8 2941.23
8. Bob Filipchuk Aeros Combat GT 15 2397.18
9. Dave Proctor Wills Wing T2C 154 1449.28
10. Tom Mcgowan Moyes Litespeed 967.38
11. John Claytor Wills Wing Talon 160 276.18

Task 7 Sport:

1. Hugh Mcelrath Wills Wing Sport 2 01:39:20 1060
2. Brian Boudreau Wills Wing Sport 2 155 01:43:18 980.21
3. Dana Harris Wills Wing Sport 2 155 02:17:47 660.81
4. Cory Barnwell Airwave Vision Pulse 02:21:01 640.73
5. Soraya Rios Wills Wing Sport 2 135 02:29:32 592.70
6. Richard Elder Wills Wing Sport 2 03:00:45 468.69

Final Sport:

1. Felix Cantesanu Aeros Discus 3798.89
2. Hugh Mcelrath Wills Wing Sport 2 3519.46
3. Cory Barnwell Airwave Vision Pulse 3258.15
4. Brian Boudreau Wills Wing Sport 2 155 3044.54
5. Dana Harris Wills Wing Sport 2 155 2810.15
6. Richard Milla Wills Wing Sport 2 2804.88
7. Knut Ryerson Wills Wing Sport 2 2440.09
8. Soraya Rios Wills Wing Sport 2 135 2417.55
9. Richard Elder Wills Wing Sport 2 2203.56
10. Greg Sessa Wills Wing U2 1982.97
11. Michelle Haag Wills Wing Sport 2 135 1156.05
12. John Dullahan Moyes Litesport 4 649.96
13. Dan Lukaszewicz Wills Wing Sport 2 482.98
14. Joe Schmucker Wills Wing Sport 2 175 462.76

Forbes Flatlands - final results »

January 15, 2012, 0:44:39 AEDT

Forbes Flatlands - final results

Rohan wins, Attila second, Scott third

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Forbes Flatlands|Gerolf Heinrichs|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

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

Task eight:

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time Total
1 Gerolf Heinrichs AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:31:17 18:14:24 03:43:07 1000
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 14:30:54 18:31:07 04:00:13 881
3 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 14:31:14 18:35:18 04:04:04 870
4 Peter Dall AUS Airborne Rev 14.5 14:44:05 18:39:30 03:55:25 869
5 Curt Warren AUS Moyes RS 4 15:00:00 18:56:52 03:56:52 801
5 Davide Guiducci ITA Moyes RS 3.5 14:35:58 18:50:30 04:14:32 801
7 Matthew Barlow NZL Moyes RS 4 14:31:10 18:50:06 04:18:56 795
7 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 14:42:40 18:55:39 04:12:59 795
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 14:35:43 18:52:23 04:16:40 791
10 Franz Herrmann SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 14:35:39 18:55:08 04:19:29 784

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 6628
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S 5 6516
3 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5847
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Rev 13.5 5739
5 Hans Kiefinger GER Aeros GT 13.2 5707
6 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5676
7 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes RS 3.5 5665
8 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes RS 3.5 5633
9 Trent Brown AUS Moyes RS 3.5 5626
10 Lukas Bader GER Moyes RS 4 5603

Having forgotten that the first turnpoint in the swamp was 5 KM instead of 400 meters Rohan found himself low at about 100 meters while those who remembered were thermaling back up behind him.

Bassano »

Mon, Apr 13 2009, 8:25:32 am EDT

Manfred returns to flex wings

Øyvind Ellefsen|Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer

http://www.klemencicmatjaz.blogspot.com/

Manfred Ruhmer is back flying a flex wing glider and winning the first day of the Bassano meet. He was second to Christian Ciech on day two.

Primoz is flying an Aeros with a tail. Remember, you heard about tails on Aeros gliders here first.

http://www.ellefsen.net/

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com/

http://www.aeroclubmontegrappa.it/

After four tasks:

1 Ruhmer Manfred Icaro Laminar Z9 14.8 Aut 3876
2 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed RS4 Aut 3691
3 Reisinger Robert Litespeed Aut 3666
4 Ciech Christian Laminar Z9 14.1 Ita 3644
5 Ploner Alessandro Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 Ita 3643
6 Weissenberger Tom Moyes Litespeed RS4 Aut 3454
7 Johansen Jars Bo Aeros Combat 2 Dnk 3371
8 Gricar Primoz Aeros Combat L Svn 3329
9 Alonzi Mario Combat L13 Fra 3295
10 Friesenbichler Michael Icaro Laminar Z9 13.2 Aut 3131

Monday, the last day, the launch conditions were poor, so the task was canceled.

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NSW Titles »

February 5, 2006, 8:42:00 PST

NSW

The competition at Manila is on

Aeros Combat|Conrad Loten|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

TP Distance Name
TO 0.0 km BORAHW
1 14.1 km Stratt
2 44.7 km Barrbt
3 79.7 km H4wyst
GOAL 108.4 km Mgair

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 SEIB, Dave Moyes Litespeed S 5 AUS 02:33:52 868
2 DURAND, Jon (Jnr) Moyes Litespeed S 3 AUS 02:39:56 827
3 PARER, Adam, Airborne C413.5 AUS 02:46:26 824
4 TUNBRIDGE, Cameron Airborne C4 14 AUS 03:07:24 744
5 LOTEN, Conrad Moyes Litespeed S 4 NZL 03:18:13 704
6 GJERDE, Jon Moyes Litespeed 5 NOR 03:19:26 696
7 HOLTKAMP, Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 AUS 04:03:08 629
8 SIMENSON, Warren Aeros Combat NZL 04:06:47 624

Full results here.

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Flytec Championship - day nine »

A tough day, made that way by the task committee (on purpose).

competition

Sat, Apr 24 2004, 7:00:00 pm GMT

A.I.R. ATOS|A.I.R. ATOS VX|Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Aeros Ltd|Alex Ploner|Brett Hazlett|Brian Porter|cloud|competition|Eric Paquette|Flytec Championships 2004|Flytec Championships 2005|gaggle|Jacques Bott|Johann Posch|Just Fly|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Trimmel|Mario Alonzi|Ron Gleason|Swift|tandem|Worlds 2004

The results will be posted here: http://www.flytec.com/flytec_champ_04/index.html

We are back to east winds again like for most of the meet. The winds are forecasted to be higher at higher elevation, up to 19 knots. It also looks like the clouds will be thin or not there at all. The top of the lift is forecasted to be 7,400' with lift at 640 fpm, so it should be strong and high enough to come back into the wind.

We hold everything back half an hour as there are clouds forming and we want them to fill in a bit. The rigids will start at 2 PM and the flex wings at 2:30. The clouds do start to look good just on the north side of Quest.

The flex wing contest is very tight with Mario Alonzi in first by less then 40 points over Oleg Bondarchuck. Both these top two pilots are flying Aeros Combat L's. Of course, Bo who won yesterday, is flying the Aeros Combat 2 (not the L). So this day could determine who wins the meet.

The rigid wing contest is not particularly tight (for first at least). Alex had hoped to be 1000 points ahead so that he could go tandem on the AIR ATOS VX today, but he was only 600 points ahead of Worlds Number 1, David Chaumet, on the Tsunami. Alex has won every task. Ron Gleason has a chance to move into fourth behind Eric Paquette (see below), if he does really well today.

We get reasonable climbs to cloud base at 5,000' staying out of the fourteen mile start circle centered around Kokee, 19 miles to the west, northwest. One flex wing, maybe Chris Chris Zimmermann is the only one to go with us, unlike Bo the day before. The rest of the flex wings will wait until later to start.

I'll go down early missing the second thermal, so I'll get a chance to see how the rest of the crew does waiting at goal. Alex Ploner is the first pilot in, with Mark and Brian closely behind him (starting fifteen minutes later). After a bit of a wait David Chaumet comes in, followed by Jacques Bott, Eric Paquette and later Ron Gleason. Then it is a long time until Kurt Schumann gets home and a long time later Johann Posch. The question remains whether Ron will gain enough points to pass Johann for forth.

Now it is time to wait for the flex wings to make it. The sky has been washed clean of clouds for the last hour, but Alex says that he find plenty of lift on the way home. He said he struggled getting to the second turn point, but the guys who came along a little alter timed it perfectly and had clouds form out in front of them as they made it to the second turnpoint to the north at Coleman.

The winds were switchy out on the last leg into Quest from Coleman. So it wasn't as hard making it in as we had thought.

As we break down Alex's VX, we catch site of four flex wings coming in low and fast. In the lead is Oleg Bondarchuck, with Antoine right behind, followed closely by Kraig Coomber and Brett Hazlett. These four are the first gaggle and they are a good ways in front of the next group that includes Mario coming in low and fast just over the trees.

It looks like Oleg has been able to grab the lead back from Mario. It looks like for the first time the Aeros Combat has been the glider selected by the top two place finishers in a major hang gliding meet (outside the Ukraine, that is). Congratulations to Oleg, Mario, Bo, and the folks at Just Fly and Aeros.

The new AIR ATOS -VX, with the very excellent Alex Ploner piloting, it has proven to be the glider to be in in light conditions. It is still not clear what he will be flying at the Worlds in the Alps. Manfred Trimmel won the first day at Bassano in a VX.

Alex, Christian, ad David Chaumet have to be the top favorites at the Worlds coming up in six weeks. Alex and Felix will have an interesting decision to make.

Brian Porter has been flying a very heavily customized Swift with a much smaller cage. He will be flying this in the Worlds. Will this be enough to beat Manfred? We'll see.

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Flytec Championship - day eight »

Fri, Apr 23 2004, 9:00:00 pm GMT

A trip around the swamp.

competition

Flytec Championship - day eight

Aeros|Aeros Combat|Bo Hagewood|cloud|CompeGPS|competition|Flytec Championships 2004|Flytec Championships 2005|gaggle|Jim Yocom|Johann Posch|Kraig Coomber|Mario Alonzi|Mark Mullholland|photo|record|Ron Gleason|Tim Ettridge|track log|Vince Endter|XC

The results will be posted here: http://www.flytec.com/flytec_champ_04/index.html

Not the complete task, but you get the idea:

http://olc.onlinecontest.org/olcphp/2004/ausw_wertung.php?ein_kl=107&olc=holc-usa&spr=en&dclp=d541cda3b5bfd158c1613bcacda1b61e

After our long downwind task yesterday to set a new record for competition in Florida, we decide on a more difficult task in very light wind conditions, an eighty one miler (130 km) around the Green Swamp. The forecast for lift (600 fpm) and cloud base (6,000+) are good so we are willing to go far. The east winds are strong on the coast at the buoy's, but it sure looks like it will be lighter inland.

The winds have been blowing on the east coast all night, and in the morning they are still blowing at 9 AM when we have our task committee meeting. It's a concern, because yesterday the winds were stronger than predicted and when we saw that we changed the task.

There are clouds overhead and I notice that they are not moving at all. So we go with the light winds forecast. When I go back later and check to see what happened during the day at the buoy's, sure enough the winds had died down starting around 11 AM, going to zero in the afternoon.

There is good lift right at Quest and we climb out at an average of 400 fpm to cloudbase at 5,200.' There are cu's every where and I can see Johann Posch, Vince Endter, and Bo Hagewood on an Aeros Combat thermaling to the northwest by the edge of the start cylinder. I head over there and climb up as they head out for the 1:15 PM start time, the first start time.

The winds are very light, and the cloud at the edge of the start cylinder stays fixed, so it is possible to thermal in one location for fifteen minutes at cloud base and not drift down wind at all. Jim Yocom, Christoph, Alex, and David Chaumet are about a mile to our south near the Green Swamp, also waiting for the second start time.

Ron Gleason, Eric Pacquette and I are circling around waiting for the start time and trying to stay out of the clouds. The lift is light enough that it is not too difficult.

We're all off at 1:30 toward the first start point at Kokee, fourteen miles to the west. The clouds ahead are ragged, although I have to go around the cloud we were circling under as I had actually climbed up one side of it and needed to stay clear going on course.

Ron and I will fly together as Eric is a bit lower. We'll find ragged lift under the few clouds going to the first turnpoint, but enough to keep us interested. We'll find 500 fpm 4 miles from the turnpoint and the track log shows absolutely no drift in the thermal at all as we climb to 5,700'.

Johann has apparently moved his hang strap forward too much and can't slow down the glider. He later says that we pass right over him at the first turnpoint as he is down to 300'.

We can see Jim Yocom. Alex, David, and Christoph, just ahead of us and we get to pick out better lines as we evaluate their glides on the way to the second turnpoint at Fiddle, 10 miles to the southwest. We are catching up with them as they stop in weak lift for a few turns.

Jim gets low going into the second turnpoint and runs southeast over a big shaded area. Ron suggests that we turn and head east to get to the good looking clouds over the Green Swamp. Our next turnpoint is the sink hole at the intersection Rockridge and highway 98, 24 miles to the southeast.

The lift is good over the Green Swamp and Ron and I continue flying together. It looks like we are out in front now. Jim Yocom is low in the shaded area and lands near Dade City trying to keep up with Alex and David.

Flying to the east of Ron a bit I have to go back to get the lift he finds first and he gets three miles ahead after climbing to cloud base in 600 fpm. He is nice enough to tell me where it is, so I'm also quickly there and racing after him.

Seven miles out from Rockridge at 98, Ron find lift under most likely Vince, and Alex David and I join him, trying to get as high as we can before we head for the intersection. Eric Pacquette comes in underneath us, Brian has passed us on the north side, and Mark Mullholland will also join us.

The lift is crummy as always at the intersection but we are down to 3,000' so we take what we can get. After climbing slowly to 4,000 we head out toward the next turnpoint at highway 474 and 33.

There is a cloud street with thin but new clouds forming (it appears) heading upwind due east. There are more clouds to the north. On course line there is a blue hole for a long ways until some clouds way to the northeast.

I decide to take the cloud street to the east, Ron goes on course line with Eric and Mark following. I continue down the cloud street and do not find any lift.

Ron and his followers get low out in the blue but find some lift and get back up while I land at a very pleasant sod farm. Alex and David got up better just before Rockridge and are high going across the blue hole.

Ron has two more low saves then gets up good when he reaches the turnpoint on highway 33 at 11 miles out. He is able to go on glide from there from 5,000' and make goal easily.

Alex, David, Vince, Ron,. Eric, and much later Johann make goal (at least). Then we all sit down and watch to wait for the flex wings. But Bo has also made it to goal beating his flying partner, Vince, and now he's hoping that he has won the day.

He started at 1:17 and his flight will just be shifted to make it as though he started at 2 PM. So he has to hope that it takes the lead gaggle longer to make it to goal than it took him flying with Vince.

Bo crossing the line and grabbing the money bag. Photo by Tim Ettridge

We wait and wait, and then finally we see the flex wing lead gaggle coming in fast and low. It's Oleg in the lead, with a harness that he doesn't seem to be able to unzip, and Antoine just a few seconds behind him.

Mario Alonzi comes it soon after along with numerous French team pilots and Kraig Coomber. About fifteen flex wings will make it to goal.

It looks like Bo has won the day, although we can't tell for sure as we don't know when everyone started.

Although you wouldn't know it from the scores posted on the Flytec web site there is a very tight race for first place between Mario and Oleg. (Tim Meaney really is disgusted with the new version of CompeGPS. The previous version was much better according to him.)

Aeros Combat »

Wed, Jan 21 2004, 12:00:02 pm EST

calendar|carbon fiber|Kevin Carter|Oleg Bondarchuk

G. W. Meadows «gw» writes:

I noted in your comparisons of the Litespeed and Climax (both fine gliders) that you mentioned the Combat and how light it is. This may confuse some of your readers (and for good reason), so I figured now is as good a time as any to announce our new glider.

The Combat L is Aeros' latest glider for the flex wing racing market. The "L" is for Light. The glider is the lightest topless wing that we've ever produced and this reduction in weight has made a glider that has tremendously light (while still being predictable) handling.

Our 13 meter size wing (approx 145 square feet) weighs in at only 73 pounds in the "full race" mode. So how did we reduce the weight so much? By going to a 7075 aluminum airframe and carbon fiber ribs.

The 7075 tubing allows us to shave a few pounds off the wing and the carbon ribs reduce the weight by almost another 2 pounds. This glider is officially available now and can be purchased in 3 sizes.

Our website is being updated now with the information about the Combat L and we hope to have it live by the end of this week. www.flyaeros.com

Currently, Oleg, Bo and Kevin Carter are flying the Combat L in Australia. Oleg and Bo are on the production models and Kevin is flying the 'pre-production' Combat L.

Speaking of Kevin, I would like to welcome him to Team Aeros. I recruited Kevin in October after catching the eye of one of our talent scouts. A tri-athlete, Kevin is familiar with training and competing. He considers the Australia competitions as good training ground for his upcoming North American competition season. He's only been flying hang gliders for a year - and we're very happy to have him on our team.

I'm happy that you're able to get rides on those fine gliders there in Australia. It greatly reduces the strain of traveling to compete in another country, when you don't have the logistical hassles of transporting a glider. Having two major flex wing manufacturers there sure is handy. With this in mind, we'd like to let you know that if you were to decide to attend the Ukrainian Nationals this spring - not to worry - we'll have a brand new Combat L waiting for you. Just as 'home field' has it's advantages in Australia, I'm sure that the Ukrainian Nationals will have Aeros gliders in at least nine of the top ten places. Keep up the good work.

(editor's note: I haven't separately weighed the gliders, so I really don't know the differences in weight between them. Oleg, Kevin, Bo and I are sort of a team here, getting picked up together, and talking on the radio (Oleg doesn't turn on the radio), so I've just been picking up gliders and I noticed that Oleg's seemed lighter than the Climax or the Litespeed. I have no idea if that is true, and I mentioned to readers that they might want to check the respective manufacturer's web site for specifications.

Like G.W. says, it is a great thing to be able to fly gliders in the country that you are going to. I worked out a trade with Airborne and Moyes to rent their gliders in trade for ad space in the Oz Report. As the reader donation/subscriptions and Oz Report ad space is my only income these days, I don't give it away cheaply.

I may take up the offer to fly in the Ukrainian Nationals. We'll look at the calendar. If I can do it before the Worlds in Austria, it might work out. You'll then be seeing some new ads in the Oz Report from Aeros.

The 15th Annual Pre-Worlds 2004 - day seven, task four

Wed, Jan 21 2004, 5:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros|Aeros Combat|aerotow|Airborne Climax|Dave Seib|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Moyes Litespeed S|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Pre-Worlds 2004|Rohan Holtkamp|safety|Steve Moyes|Tove Heaney|tow|weaklink

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/preworlds2004/

Like I reported yesterday the day was forecast to be windy and with thunderstorms, and it is blowing 40 kph when we get to the paddock. But, unlike yesterday, the safety committee now is committed to waiting to see if it calms down, even if we have to wait until 3 PM. The lift is predicted to stop at 4,000'.

There are some cu's forming in the distant east which look like the precursors of a little over development. It doesn't look nearly as bad as it did the day that we canceled the task in mid flight, but it could be a bother.

The task committee has set a task 137 kilometers to the east down the Sturt highway. We will stick to that task the whole day in spite of arguments for the different directions (not possible given the 40 kph winds), the coming change (slowly coming), and the line of towering cu's (fly under them) in our way.

The safety committee is unfortunately split between two car towing guys and Martin at the aerotowing place. This is a bad idea. In the Hay Open we had all the safety committee at the car towing end, so that they don't get scared by the wind noise in the trees at the aerotowing spot. Also you need to have the safety committee all in one place to make a decision. The task committee doesn't even hear from the two other safety committee members until way late.

No one is setting up their gliders as we wait out the strong surface winds with the thought that it looks like they should calm down. Attila gives us the same report on the upper winds as the day before, with 35-40 kph strengths and bumpy.

Finally, at 2 PM the surface winds die down to reasonable strengths. I don't know if the safety committee at the car towing area is set up all ready or not, but the aerotow folks get their gliders off the cars and begin to setup. We call a three o'clock launch window and a four o'clock start clock.

The launch gets delayed at 3 PM when the surface winds come up again for a few minutes. The clouds are building quite nicely to the east and that is freaking out some people. Paul, Martin, Jonny and I are flaying about trying to get the task going, when I finally realize that we haven't heard from the other two safety committee guys. Paul calls them up and sure enough they are keen to go (Dave Seib, one safety committee member, relies on the other, Phil Schroeder, to make the call). Well, that's a majority, so I say, let's go, it's decided.

The launch reopens at 3:30 and the start time starts at 4 PM. I insist on starting a half hour after the launch window opens because: Everyone was ready for 3 PM, there is no need to wait and we want to encourage pilots to start launching right away and not wait because they thin that they will be blown out of the 20 km start circle before the first start time, in fact, there is no way anyone is going to get to the start circle circumference by 4 PM because it is 20 km away, so I want the start time opened so that pilots can start whenever they get to the edge of the start circle, and finally we set 10 minute start intervals given all the winds.

Bo is off first in our line and I'm right behind him. Unfortunately at 600' the tow rope breaks (I've got a stronger weaklink) under only minimal pressure. This puts me to the back of the line. Not good.

No gaggles form over the paddock as most pilots are blown down wind in light lift. Bo gets to 7,000' over the tow paddock and Jon Durand, Sr. gets to over 7,500'. They are the exceptions.

I don't launch until 4:30 and there are still five or six guys yet to tow. I drift out of the paddock at 2,500' with the wind west at 40 kph.

I'm down to 900' AGL before I find some good lift that gets me to 5,000' at the edge of the start circle at 5 PM. This is a late day, and for the most part the lift is quite weak although on the first two thermals both inside the start circle it averages 300 fpm. It will average 150 fpm after that.

Even with the strong winds and gentle lift I'm really liking flying the Moyes Litespeed S 4.5. It seems very responsive in this air and I'm pushed out circling up in the lift when I find it. I'm relaxed, the glider feels stable, and I'm zooming fast over the ground. My average L/D will be 25:1, so you know the wind is blowing.

About forty kilometers out from the tow paddock I'll come in under three pilots including Steve Moyes. Tove will come and join me low and we'll work from 1,200' to 3,000' AGL in 200 fpm. The guys above us will just continue to stick in the thermal even when it gets very very light.

We'll go on glide from low without the other higher pilots and look for lift along the Sturt highway trying to stay away from the large rice operations with their wet fields. I zig zag about and finally find lift at 900' AGL again while Tove misses it to the right and lands. Steve Moyes is right near me and watches as I dig out from this hole. He and I are going up.

The cu nimbs have formed in a line off to our northeast. It looks like it is possible to make it to goal without getting in under the over development. I can see lightening under the area where it is raining, and a wall of dust stretching about 30 kilometers. The wind has switched with west northwest to southwest as we approach the storm. It feels like the cloud of dust is far enough away and stationary so that it won't bother us. The wind is so strong out here away from the storm that it is hard to imagine the storm doing anything but calming the winds.

I'll circle while drifting almost twelve kilometers getting to 3,400' AGL. Then it is an eighteen kilometer glide toward the wall of dust without a low save at the end, even though I find zero sink at 800' for about five kilometers.

I'll end up 48 kilometers out at sixteenth for the day. Steve Moyes who was just above me will get to within 41 kilometers. Kevin Carter will make goal (among the few) and Bo will go down 89 kilometers out from goal. Bo doesn't find any lift after getting high at the tow paddock. The same will happen to Diego Bussinger.

Some of the pilots who make goal well get nearer the storm cell and ride the air above the wall of dust. The winds die down in this area, but the air gets bumpy. Rohan Holtkamp will fly until 7:45 and get to within 25 kilometers of goal. Kraig Coomber will land 53 kilometers out.

Results from task four:

1

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

1:36:05

892

2

Pritchard Phil

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

1:51:47

846

3

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

1:43:14

834

4

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

Ukr

1:52:15

825

5

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

1:52:20

820

6

Durand Jon Snr

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Aus

1:49:06

808

7

Carter Kevin

Aeros Combat 2 13

Usa

2:08:36

761

Overall Results:

1

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

3602

2

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

Ukr

3474

3

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

3423

4

Holtkamp Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

Aus

3120

5

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

3089

6

Durand Jon Snr

Moyes Litespeed S4.5

Aus

3087

7

Coomber Kraig

Moyes Litespeed S

Aus

3039

8

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

3018

9

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

2875

10

Pritchard Phil

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

2847

Oliver Barthelmes «oliverbarthelmes» sends this picture of Belinda and I (that I think Carol took) in from of the Airborne Climax:

The 15th Annual Pre-Worlds 2004 - day five, task three

Mon, Jan 19 2004, 5:00:00 pm GMT

Pre-Worlds 2004

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/preworlds2004/

Attila says forget about getting dinner if he is on the task committee. With the winds 10-15 kph out of the north-northeast, we call a 150 mile (242 kilometer) task south-southwest to Victoria and the Bendigo gliding club. Everyone seems up for a long straight out task, so why not.

The last time we had a task like this and we made it to goal was at the previous preworlds when Mad Dog was the meet director and he wanted to average 100 mile tasks. The lift got me to 11,000' on that day under a beautiful cloud street, but today we are forecast to get to 7,000' and it will be blue.

Being on the task committee interferes with getting into the launch line but I weasel my way in and am off third. I'm thinking that maybe the earlier start clock is the go at 1:30 (first start clock) or 1:45. I'm rushing everything to get ready and actually input the task coordinates while I'm on the cart.

Grant pulls me into 900 fpm, but the other pilots around me in the start circle seem to have poor lift and nothing is really gelling yet. I launched at 1:15 and see a couple of pilots out by the start circle circumference at 1:30, but that seems like a thin crew to go with. With poor lift in the start circle after my first climb the pilots are bobbling up and down waiting for the next start time. A few more take the 1:45.

A group of pilots heads for the edge of the circle just before the 2 PM start time and they find a thermal that drift us outside the start circle, but not far enough that we can't get back and take the 2 PM start time. Another group of pilots including the fast guys will wait and go back for the 2:15.

I'm a bit low at the start, and with a radio that will not allow me to transmit, so I head south-southeast to get near the highway to Denniliquin, which parallels the course line. There are ten or fifteen pilots in our group so it looks like I might have company. Jonny Durand has gone off my himself further upwind to the east of the highway.

With pilots out in front from the earlier start times and those who were higher at the start gate there are good markers heading down the highway. We're getting to 5,500' AGL and moving along at a good clip leaving the lift whenever it gets a bit weaker.

I'm noticing that I can't easily adjust the Litespeed VG. It has been hard before, but now I have to shake the glider to get the VG off. I also have to pull the cord across my body with my left arm to get the VG to go to a little past half way. I'm wondering what the problem is as I decide to keep the VG on at about half way and try not to mess with it.

At 80 km from the start the highway does a bit of a jog to the south east and I head out on my own over the dirt roads to the southwest paralleling the course. Yesterday I left my buddies to my great regret. On that day I already had 15 minutes on them, and if I had just stayed with Lenny I would have either won the day or come in second. The difference is that on that day I was acting on pride thinking that these guys were too slow for the likes of me. Today, it just seems like the lift is good and I'm moving in the right direction.

I'm crossing the creek six kilometers west of Waganella, and just getting light lift as I glide south-southwest. It's not enough to turn in, but it's great just to be in lift while gliding. Makes me feel good about my decision to go off on my own. Jonny Durand is to my east also on his own. No fast guys to go with him.

As I glide in the lift I hit a strong core and climb to 7,000' in the best thermal of the day so far. After that invigorating climb I'll go on a 20 kilometer glide and start searching seriously for lift at 3,000' AGL. The Edwards River is up ahead and that means trees along the river. I know that I have to find lift before I cross the trees not because I won't be able to make it over the trees, but because I won't be able to concentrate on finding lift if I also have to think about crossing the trees low.

I am searching and searching finding small bits at 1,500' and heading toward some paddocks that extend further south before the tree line hoping to extend my search before coming to the trees. I circle low in broken loft always searching when I'm finally in the last paddock before the trees and I find lift at 700'. Without a working radio, I've got to make it to goal.

I saw some pilots behind me when I first climbed out to 7,000'. Now after my low save I see three of them to my west more on the course line. I come in under them and the lift is decent to almost 7,000'. I've been on the course for over two hours now and am averaging about 55 kph.

Up ahead I can see the trees that mark the Murray River and that is the line that we cross to get from New South Wales into Victoria. The trees are to our right, west, and in some place they must be 5 kilometers across or more. Further south they appear to be thinner, and that's where I'm heading.

I can hear Bo Hagewood and Kevin Carter on the radio 15 to 20 kilometers behind me. Kevin also started at 2, but Bo took the 2:15. Bo is near the fast guys who took the 2:15 clock. It looks like in spite of my low save I'm progressing along well enough.

As I approach the trees from the east, I can see a few other pilots who are also heading south near the tree line heading for the thin spot to get over them. I come in over a red plowed field and climb out to 7,000' again. Nick, from Switzerland, and another pilot will come in a few thousand feet under me and I get high a few kilometers before the trees.

There is a small gaggle a few thousand feet below me as I head out over the trees. It looks like the fast guys are about 10 kilometers behind and I'm high and on my own. I find a good thermal in the brown fields just on the other side of the river so at 75 kilometers out from goal at 5:15 and right on the course line it looks good for getting there.

A couple of pilots come in under me but too far below me as I climb in this thermal to 6,000', so I'm on my own again going to goal. It will remain that way.

I head off to the west a bit to get over some red plowed fields as I get low and have to search again at 1,500'. I see a few little wisps of dust devils over the field, which is a good reason to go to such a field that can display the lift, drive upwind to them and climb out.

I'll have to repeat that little maneuver one more time to stay up. Meanwhile to my east the fast guys will be finding better lift and catching me as I grovel low in search more over the red fields. Bo and Kevin will be flying together and with the fast guys.

It's a slow climb out 24 kilometers from goal to 5,000', but then it looks like I can go on final glide. It's after six o'clock and I'm looking at a 15 kph tail wind, with buoyant late day air over open fields. There is some sink heading for goal, but at 15:1 L/D required to make it, I can float along until I get close and then dive in.

The last two slow climbs cost me the chance to get in early. Jonny Durand flew the whole flight on his own and won the day. Gerolf landed early.

My average L/D over the flight was 17:1, so you know that the tail wind was a big help.

On landing at goal, I had Jonny look at the glider to see what was wrong with the VG. There was a rope that had jumped out of the pulley and was jammed between the pulley and the clamp holding the pulley.

When I was setting up net to Jonny in the morning at the tow paddock. I had mentioned to him how the Climax VG was much more user friendly, easier to pull, less rope. He stated that that was fine, but he had heard that Rohan had had a problem with the rope jumping from the pulley, so there were problems with the Climax VG, implying that there weren't with the Litespeed VG.

I guess God heard him and punished me by having my rope jump off the VG and then having Jonny find it. I spoke with Rohan at goal and he said that it did happen to him once on the Climax in Brazil and that it was on a prototype setup. Kraig and Jonny were very helpful and took that glider to be fixed. Again, I found something that no one had found before. I'm wonder now if this has been my problem with the VG being hard to pull (part of it being user unfriendly) all along.

Task 3:

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1

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Durand Jon Jnr.

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Moyes Litespeed S4

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Aus

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14:00:00

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18:00:48

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4:00:48

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977

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2

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Bondarchuk Oleg

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Aeros Combat 2 13

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Ukr

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

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18:15:07

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4:00:07

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

961

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3

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Hazlett Brett

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Moyes Litespeed S4

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Can

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:08

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4:00:08

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955

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4

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Coomber Kraig

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Moyes Litespeed S

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Aus

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14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:24

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4:00:24

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

945

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

5

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Bader Lucas

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Moyes Litespeed S

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Deu

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:32

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

4:00:32

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

939

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

5

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Hagewood Bo

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Aeros Combat Ii 150

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Usa

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:32

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

4:00:32

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

939

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

7

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Barthelmes Oliver

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Moyes Litespeed S4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Deu

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:39

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4:00:39

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930

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

8

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Bosman Mart

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Moyes Litespeed

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Nld

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:40

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4:00:40

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

927

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

9

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Hideaki Nagamitsu

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Moyes Litespeed 4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Jpn

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

18:15:56

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4:00:56

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

918

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10

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Bares Radek

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Aeros Combat

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Cze

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

14:15:00

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18:16:03

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4:01:03

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912

Totals after three days:

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1

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Hazlett Brett

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Moyes Litespeed S4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Can

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2804

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Bondarchuk Oleg

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Aeros Combat 2 13

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Ukr

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2745

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

3

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Durand Jon Jnr.

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Moyes Litespeed S4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Aus

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2696

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4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Coomber Kraig

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Moyes Litespeed S

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Aus

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2665

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5

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Holtkamp Rohan

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Airborne Climax 13

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Aus

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2609

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6

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Moyes Steve

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Moyes Litespeed S5

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Aus

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2535

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7

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Barthelmes Oliver

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Moyes Litespeed S4

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

Deu

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2428

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8

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Bares Radek

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Aeros Combat

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Cze

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2332

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9

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Durand Jon Snr

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Moyes Litespeed S4.5

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Aus

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2328

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10

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Orgler Andreas

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Moyes Litespeed S

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Aut

0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt">

2238

Oliver Barthelmes «oliverbarthelmes» sends in this shot of a tow in the dust at Hay:

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The 15th Annual Pre-Worlds 2004 - day four, task two

Sun, Jan 18 2004, 5:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Airborne Climax|Dave Seib|gaggle|Len Paton|Moyes Litespeed|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Pre-Worlds 2004|tow|Worlds 2023

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/preworlds2004/

The winds die down to 20 kph out of the south with gusts to 30 kph. The winds higher up are lighter so there is a chance that the winds will die down further. We call a 182 kilometer task to the north to the airport an Ivanhoe, a favorite spot with a turnpoint at Booligal.

The lift is forecast to be good, but stop at 6,000' for a blue day. Given the long task, I'm up for leaving at the third clock at 2 PM hoping to get to Ivanhoe at 5 PM (assuming a 60 kph average). I'm able to get in line a little early and get pulled up third. Bo is at the back of the line, and Kevin gets up at the same time I do in the Moyes line. The fast guys are waiting for a later start.

There is good lift in the tow paddock, but the launches are slow and with the wind there are few gaggles. The early guys gaggle up and head for the the start circle circumference 15 k away. Some of us head back to wait out the fast guys on the ground.

Not much is happening over the tow paddock and I begin to wonder if the fast guys are ever going to tow or gaggle up. I drift out to the start circle and get the 2 PM clock following the early guys by fifteen minutes hoping to use them as markers.

It's a slow go at first in the no man's territory going to Booligal, the first turnpoint. Everyone is happy to be together to get up to 4,000'. I'm thinking that we've got to get going as fast as possible. The fast guys have got to be up over the tow paddock by now.

Ten kilometers out from Booligal I catch Len Paton and Ilan Sallm and the lift is improving as we head into the turnpoint. Now I've got a bad attitude. I just want to fly as fast as possible and I'm thinking that these guys are going to slow me down.

I just can't see them as my friends and after taking the turnpoint I head out on my own in front away from the road and toward the goal. I've been right here before and I'm happy to go over this territory to hook up with the road later.

As I climb up Lenny comes in under me but when we again get back up to 4,000' AGL, he heads back a bit to get over some of the other pilots climbing up below us and I head on toward goal.

It's 120 kilometers from Booligal to Ivanhoe, and we are moving along at 100 kph when we are on glide. It's dangerous out here alone in front, but I'm feeling that the lift has turned on.

I'm down to 1,800' 90 kilometers from goal and climbing good when Len and Ilan come in over me and I climb up to them at over 5,000' AGL.

We head out with Len in the lead. We've left all the other early pilots behind, and it's a question of just how fast we can go. We keep hitting lift and staying high spread out and searching.

Len stops for 200 fpm, but I press on in front for better and fly all the way to the ground. Len and Ilan stay up and soon pass over my head 60 kilometers out.

Ilan will land 3 kilometers from goal and Len will find just enough to make it in. A pilot that we left behind will find better lift and get into goal first.

The fast guys will come in over my head in one gaggle of twelve pilots about a half hour after I land. They'll make goal as will a good bunch of folks.

Results:

Task two:

1

Heinrichs Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aut

14:30:00

17:29:36

2:59:36

911

2

Orgler Andreas

Moyes Litespeed S

Aut

13:45:00

17:03:25

3:18:25

867

3

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

Ukr

14:30:00

17:32:50

3:02:50

858

4

Keijzer Koos De

Icaro Laminar Mr 14

Nld

13:45:00

17:04:59

3:19:59

855

5

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

14:30:00

17:33:31

3:03:31

849

6

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

14:30:00

17:34:57

3:04:57

832

7

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

14:30:00

17:35:53

3:05:53

823

8

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

14:30:00

17:36:39

3:06:39

815

9

Seib David

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

14:30:00

17:37:20

3:07:20

808

10

Paton Len

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

13:45:00

17:15:16

3:30:16

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Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

1850

2

Bondarchuk Oleg

Aeros Combat 2 13

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1786

3

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

1722

4

Coomber Kraig

Moyes Litespeed S

Aus

1722

5

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

1703

6

Holtkamp Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

Aus

1702

7

Bussinger Diego

Moyes Litespeed S

Che

1528

8

Keijzer Koos De

Icaro Laminar Mr 14

Nld

1510

9

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

1504

10

Durand Jon Snr

Aus

1491


Oliver Barthelmes «oliverbarthelmes» sends this collage of shots from Hay:

The 15th Pre-Worlds - day one, task one »

Thu, Jan 15 2004, 12:00:00 pm EST

the Pre-Worlds

Aeros Combat|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|The 15th Pre-Worlds|Tove Heaney

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/preworlds2004/

It seems like Attila and Gerolf and some other pilots were upset that the task weren't long or tough enough. That the pilots here weren't impressing the Euro-wimps back home. So now we've got Attila, Jonny, and me on the task committee. I'm supposed to be the one that they can easily push around. Well, I don't think we did so good on the first task.

The forecast was for an inversion at 5,000' if the temperature didn't get above thirty two on the ground. Grant flew his trike in and said that it was very warm below the inversion which at 11 AM was at 2,200'. The winds were predicted to be light southwest maybe up to 10 knots. Attila took a tug up and said the winds were light.

We call a 150 kilometer task, not any longer than the other days, but with a forecast for poor lift and a fairly low inversion it doesn't look easy. The first leg is a 50 kilometer run northeast up the Midwestern highway to Gunbar, which is the center of the 50 kilometer entry start circle. Then 60 kilometers north-northeast to the Hillston airport and a 40 kilometer return against the light winds to Merriwagga.

The lift is predicted to start late, so we call a 2 PM first start time. In fact the lift is poor and we don't get much over 4,000' at the tow paddock at around 2:30. I'm last in line again, with Bo joining our towing team. I'm happy to be late as I'm looking for a late start with the better lift. Maybe 3 PM.

In this contest I'm flying a new Moyes Litespeed S. It is the one made out of a clear Mylar with black threads so it looks smoked. This will be my first flight on a Litespeed S. I'll have more to say on the Litespeed S later.

All the top pilots are launching late so it looks like I'm in good company again. Grant finds a thermal a bit upwind of the tow paddock and I'm off early again by myself as the gaggles are pretty thin nearby. Jonny comes in underneath me and we are going up much better than I had expected.

It's a left turn day and as I start turning the glider really wraps into the turn and I'm high siding just to keep it from spiraling in further. I'm actually wrapping my arm around the right down tube and hauling myself up hill to keep the thing in reasonable shape. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong and why can't I seem to learn to fly these flex wing gliders. Jonny slowly climbs up through me as I fly as a fairly fast clip holding on as best I can.

Well, this is the first time I've flown this glider so probably I just don't know what I'm doing yet. I decide to put on a little VG and see if that helps, and at about half VG it gets a little better. I'm happy for that.

At the top of the thermal I head out looking for lift but find that I can't get the glider to fly straight or head to the right. It continually wants to bank to the left. I go off by myself and find lift because I want to turn right in the lift (on this left turn day) given how hard it is to control the glider when banked left. When I do get the glider in a right turn I have to again hold on to the right downtube and pull my body all the way over to the right to get it to stay in the turn. I've got the VG half on because with the VG off it is much worse.

I continue to wonder why I can't learn to fly flex wing gliders. I was hoping for a nice relaxing day, but I'm getting beat up and my arms are sore. Drifting toward the entry start circle I find I have to fly the glider staying on the right side of the control bar even with the VG ¾'s on.

As 3 PM approaches I find myself in good company with Craig and Rohan and I'm high in the small gaggle. Plenty of pilots have gone on course at 2:45. Given the poor lift and low inversion we have been waiting around for better conditions. I'm getting use to the glider and feeling I had just better get going and learn to fly it.

There is a bit of wind out of the southwest so it's a quick run up the Midwestern highway to Gunbar. All the fast guys are out flying me again, which is disappointing since I started with them, but I'm not losing too much time. I can see the gaggle just ahead. It marks a thermal that I come in low (1,000') at and is the best thermal of the day so far. I have trouble staying in it, but I climb out with the pilots around me.

The lift gets us back to 4,000' each time until just before we get to Gunbar when the day starts to improve and we climb to over 5,500' AGL. It looks like things are getting better and the chances of landing out are decreasing. I hear from Bo that he took the 3:15 PM start and is slowly catching up with me.

We're off the paved road heading cross country to Hillston after Gunbar, but there are plenty of wide red dirt roads below. I head for a circling pilot 10 kilometers out from the turnpoint and climb up through him to 6,500'. It's looking good.

It's a good ways between thermal and the pilots around me are scattered about, but I keep finding lift although I can't find another one to get me back as high. Half way along this second leg Bo comes in underneath me has we skip a poor thermal and head for the next one.

Bop and another pilot behind him are getting low and searching. I'm feeling that these guys are not going in a good direction and head off a little more to the left at and find weak lift at 1,200'. Bo and the other pilot go down 25 k from the Hillston turnpoint. We hear from Kevin Carter, the other US pilot, that he is scratching along low near the first turnpoint.

There are clouds to our east and it looks like we might be able to just get under them. I make a run for it after getting up and find lift at 1,000' under the edge of the wisps over two pilots on the ground and nine kilometers from Hillston. The lift will get me back to 4,000' AGL where pilots who've made the turnpoint at Hillston, including Attila will join me.

There is no lift on the glide into Hillston and after rounding the turnpoint I land at 6:15. I will hear later from Tove that she started the course at 2 PM, and flew for six hours landing eight kilometers short of goal.

I'm breaking down the glider and it is at this point that I get a clue as to why I've been having such trouble with the glider. It has a broken tip wand. It appears that the wand smashed itself just from the pressure of the sail as nothing happened in the tow paddock and the landing was perfect. My right arm is aching.

Belinda comes by and we head out to pick up Bo and Kevin out in the paddocks to the southwest. It's nine o'clock by the time we get to check up on Oleg who we hear has made it there. No one is around. We drive into Goolgowi 110 kilometers from Hay to get some dinner at the pub and the place is packed with hang glider pilots.

The Swiss pilots come in and they have hit a kangaroo and taken out their radiator. Each truck takes one of their gliders and a couple of the pilots get rides also. The driver and one pilot has to wait for the tow truck which costs them $500.

Results:

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BUSSINGER Diego

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Anger Open 2004

Wed, Jan 14 2004, 8:00:04 pm GMT

Anger Open

Aeros Combat|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed LS|record|weather

Felix Rühle <felix@a-i-r.de> sends this report from Adi about the Anger Competition:

The Anger Open Competition took place on 3 January 2004.

This unique glide competition is carried out every year in January on the slope edge of the Anger Führmannalm (near of Salzburg/Austria). It was extraordinary that already the first date that was aimed at had suitable weather conditions. However, not extraordinary were the snow condition and temperature which, with light fog, did at least not allow thermic movements and ensured equal opportunities.

This is the 9th time that the Ruhpoldinger Gleitwinkel AG“ invited pilots to this event. Nearly 60 pilots followed the invitation and there were also experienced competition pilots like Toni Raumauf, Seppi Salvenmoser, Manfred Trimmel and Günther Tschurnig among them.

Here a short description of the competition:

The difference in altitude between starting and landing field amounts to approximately 300 meters, the distance to 3095 meters. When starting, the fly off-time is read and noted by a GPS receiver and at the landing field the flight over the finishing line is also noticed by the GPS receiver/ (The GPS receiver serves as a chronological gauge.)

If a pilot’s flight is too short, he is allowed to walk to the finishing line with his complete equipment and is evaluated by this total time. (For pilots who landed too short this modus causes dubiously appearing speeds which are below the stall speed of a glider!) The winner is, of course, the pilot who flew the shortest time and so the fastest speed at glide 10:1!

Now, what is such fun but also serious competition about? Due to the compact snow cover in this season, thermic influences are extremely low. There are wind influences, however rather disturbing. (A good take-off wind slows gliding down, following wind makes starting quite fast impossible and causes quick sinking on the lee-side.)

Up to the time the pilot has closed the belt after starting, made slight course corrections and prepared his landing 2.5 minutes later, there is some drop in efficiency. Consequently the flown speed at this glide of 1:10 can be considered as secured minimum value! (And been taken over to the own glide.)

At first, many pilots warmed themselves up on the Alm before setting up. From 11 hours on, the first gliding flights were started. In the beginning a light headwind made the participants‘ starts easier. Some of them seemed to have already had a longer flight pause or taken in excessive bulkage during the holidays. Later on a following wind caused some adrenaline shoves at the start.

With regard to the rigid wings, the new two-seater ATOS VX was used for the first time in this competition. Unfortunately, due to the starting conditions no tandem flights were possible. However, this wing reached right away respectable results also during solo flights.

Toni Raumauf and Felix Rühle were the fastest pilots in this class with equal times and established a new speed record on this gliding route. The former mark reached by Toni Raumauf in 2001 was 83,1 km/h, at that time also with A-I-R ATOS.

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As expected, Seppi Salvenmoser dominated among the flex wings. With 75,8 km/h he outran the record time of 74,8 by Manfred Ruhmer in 2001 with a Laminar.

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Remarkable: Wing constructions by Felix Rühle have constantly won this competition since 1998 by a wide margin!

In the late afternoon there was much pilot’s slang in the fully crowded hall of the Führmannalm. The victory ceremony after the flight evaluation was presented by Dieter Kamml and Hias Mayer with a lot of humour. Again it was a well organised and amicable competition. Many thanks to the organisors and helpers of the Ruhpolding association. www.dcb-ruhpolding.de.

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Hay Open - day six, task four »

Mon, Jan 12 2004, 12:00:00 pm EST

Hay Open

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Hay Open 2004|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Nichele Roberto|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/hayopen2004/

Tourists no more. If you look at the results you'll notice that I'm not the only rigid wing pilot flying a flex wing glider here at the Hay Open. Diego Bussinger, a Flight Design Access pilot from Switzerland, is flying a Moyes Litepseed here and doing very well. He was in sixth after three days.

Monday the task committee called a task that kept us close to home and didn't send us off downwind. The forecast showed 20 kph winds out of the southwest, and that's what we got. The high pressure continues to build as each day gets a little bit warmer. Of course, this also means that we get broken up and bullet thermals, lots of turbulence, and a healthy inversion at a little over 5,000'.

So given the prospects for poor lift, the task committee calls a task with two cross wind legs and a final upwind leg. Doesn't bother us as half the field makes it into goal again.

It's an 20 kilometer entry circle start with the start point at One Tree Point to the northwest of the tow paddock about nine kilometers. With the Western Australia boys in my tow line always going earlier because they feel that they are slow, I'm the last to launch at 1:50 PM.

The talk has been that with the high pressure this looks like a relatively stable day, so we might want to taker a later start time. I'm more than happy to let everyone launch ahead of me.

I get off early as there is good lift a bit upwind for once, and it is easy to climb out of the paddock. Grant later mentions that I can stay longer on tow if I like, but I just can't seem to pass up the chance to start thermaling in good lift.

A bunch of us later starters thermal up to over 5,000' AGL (including Diego) and then head out toward the entry start circle although there doesn't look to be much good lift out there.

We spread out and look around, but the lift is marginal and no significant gaggles form. There are now about thirty or forty pilots near the entry start circle all looking for lift. Some pilots have pushed strongly upwind, including Rohan and Attila, but they will find themselves on their own and get low, necessitating taking a later start clock.

As everyone is searching around for some reasonable lift I head north and find a good one. Fortunately, everyone has made a decision to head a bit south of me and circle there for no apparently good reason and I'm out on my own in the best lift screaming up.

After a couple of minutes a few guys get a clue that someone out of the main gaggle has the keys to the kingdom and come in under me. A few minutes later the, main gaggle wakes up and soon everyone has come in under me. I'm glad to be out of their way.

Now, there is a problem. It is 2:30 and I'm on top at the altitude that we expect to get to today and have already gotten to over the tow paddock. Should I leave now or wait fifteen minutes to go with the fast guys. I figure given the poor lift that the chances of staying high and on top are slim and that I should take what I've got now and run with it. Fortunately five other pilots go with me, so I've got some help.

We started late (2:34) and the lift isn't real good out on the course line. I'm just thinking that the guys behind us are going to catch us and all they need is a strong thermal or two. The task is 20 kilometers to One Tree, then 24 k to the west to a station, then back to One Tree, and then 24 k to a dirt road coming off the Cobb highway, 15 kilometers north of Hay.

We're past the first turnpoint and I get low when I first catch sight of the 2:45 pilots high and racing. They found much better lift that the six of us did on the first leg. It is only to be expected.

The cross wind leg is not that bad and after getting low once, I stay high. I hear later that Rohan got down to 200 feet on his first leg. I can see the racers just out in front of me, and I'm not too far behind as we jump from thermal to thermal.

The second turnpoint is a station (ranch) on the Lachlan River. We try to stay high coming into the turnpoint, but I can see some folks on the deck. The lead guys are now about two kilometers ahead of me as we make the turnpoint and head back cross wind.

With no help from the wind it is a slog getting back to the last turnpoint before we head into the wind, back toward Hay down the Cobb highway. Thankfully I and others around me get plenty high before the turnpoint so that we can have something in the tank as we take on the headwind.

Of course, it is late in the day, and the lift always seems to be the worse on the upwind legs (well, almost always). The tendency is to push too hard against the wind, as it is so discouraging to backup downwind as you thermal up.

We work some patches that do us no good as the group of pilots I find myself with struggle to stay up and go toward goal. We don't get nearly as high on this ;eg as the previous legs. Finally we find some reasonable lift, 13 kilometers out, and from that we can get to six kilometers out still not real high.

There we find the best lift of the third leg and start screaming up. I know that we are going to hit sink and not net zero lift and sink on the way in, so even though my 5030 is telling me to go to goal, I know enough to ignore it. I just hate to leave really strong lift.

When the 5030 is showing 8.9 glide and 1500' above goal I go on glide and pull the other guys (including Atilla, who caught us after starting at 3 PM) out of the thermal also. Some guys are racing to the goal, but I'm watching the 5030 and seeing just how much of the projected altitude at goal we are losing and it doesn't look good. I slow up to the best glide speed, just to be sure I can make it.

The fast guys are already there at goal and I can see the cars lines up on the road. I'm hoping for a little lift to balance out all the bad sink I've been getting. I do hit some small patches and let the bar out some to let it sink (rise) in.

As I come into goal I'm just going to make it and cross the line with five feet to spare. It's turn and land in one movement. I'm sure glad no one else landed right behind to the goal line t block my landing. This is by far the closest I have every come over goal, and I wasn't doing it with extra speed.

The goal is crowded and despite the difficult conditions many pilots made goal. Oli Barthelmes, the source for my Hay pictures, who was in third place on Monday morning, finished a kilometer short of goal. He was trying to stay with the fast guys and was the one on the bottom. He went with them, when he should have gone back and stayed in the lift. You can't win every day.

Bo and Oleg didn't fly on Monday. Oleg is feeling really sick and Bo got some Claritin so now he feels a bit better, Belinda is going to take Oleg into the doctor's today.

We are definitely feeling the pain of this competition. Kevin Carter, who is a triathlete, is complaining most vociferously about how his shoulders are beyond fatigue. Bo and I are really appreciating it and encourage him to complain as loudly as he likes.

Day four results:

1

Heinrichs Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aut

2:18:40

1000

2

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

2:23:53

921

3

Bader Lucas

Moyes Litespeed S

Deu

2:25:48

897

4

Coomber Kraig

Moyes Litespeed S

Aus

2:27:36

880

5

Paton Len

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

2:28:08

870

6

Nichele Roberto

Wills Wing Talon 140

Che

2:28:44

863

7

Holtkamp Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

Aus

2:38:00

859

8

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

2:38:40

851

9

Seib David

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

2:40:42

833

10

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

2:44:33

797

11

Bosman Mart

Moyes Litespeed

Nld

2:46:30

785

12

Hideaki Nagamitsu

Moyes Litespeed 4

Jpn

2:46:12

743

13

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

2:46:37

740

14

Schroder Phil

Airborne C2

Aus

2:58:33

722

15

Beavis Alan

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

2:58:47

720

16

Bertok Attila

Moyes Litespeed S45

Hun

2:43:53

713

17

Bussinger Diego

Moyes Litespeed S

Che

3:12:36

705

18

Keijzer Koos De

Icaro Laminar Mr 14

Nld

3:15:02

683

19

Minoru Kato

Icaro Laminar Mr

Jpn

2:59:05

672

20

Crapanzano Angelo

Moyes Litespeed S4

Ita

3:14:27

638

21

Straub Davis

Airborne Climax 14

Usa

3:15:33

632

Totals:

1

Coomber Kraig

Moyes Litespeed S

Aus

3703

2

Durand Jon Jnr.

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

3641

3

Hazlett Brett

Moyes Litespeed S4

Can

3471

4

Moyes Steve

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

3440

5

Bader Lucas

Moyes Litespeed S

Deu

3383

6

Holtkamp Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

Aus

3309

7

Bussinger Diego

Moyes Litespeed S

Che

3259

8

Barthelmes Oliver

Moyes Litespeed S4

Deu

3180

9

Bertok Attila

Moyes Litespeed S45

Hun

3168

10

Straub Davis

Airborne Climax 14

Usa

2906

11

Bosman Mart

Moyes Litespeed

Nld

2845

12

Seib David

Moyes Litespeed S5

Aus

2808

13

Keijzer Koos De

Icaro Laminar Mr 14

Nld

2787

14

Paton Len

Moyes Litespeed S4

Aus

2697

15

Bares Radek

Aeros Combat

Cze

2623

Jonny is about 60 points behind Craig. Craig got low at the second turnpoint yesterday and caught up with me after the third turnpoint. I was high over him and such should have stayed with him for a much better time to goal. Craig and Jonny are on the same frequency and the same driver. Craig will stick to Jonny hard today to perserve his lead. How will Jonny get away and get 60 points on Craig?

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Sun, Jan 11 2004, 12:00:00 pm EST

Hay Open

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|Hay Open 2004|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tove Heaney

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/hayopen2004/

I like to fly with the lead gaggle. I'm just not that happy when I'm not with the fastest guys, out in front, high, leading the way. Of course, without the ATOS flying against flex wing gliders, I don't have that extra performance that always permits me to get with the lead gaggle.

Still I just don't feel comfortable unless I'm right there with the fastest guys. I know that they are going to race, push, and spread out (except Brett Hazlett) to find the next thermal. I want to have the best pilots with me and I don't want anyone holding back.

Today we again had a late task call, and I again look at 2:30 as the premium time to get the start. I'm out to the launch line a little earlier at 1:25, but we've got some organized guys on our tow team and three of them march out to the tow line fully ready to go just as I get my glider out there. Still it looks good for a 2 PM launch (15 minutes after the start window opens).

While the forecast calls for winds at 20 kph out of the south-southwest, it doesn't feel nearly as strong in the tow paddock as Saturday. Maybe there will be time to get high before the start circle on this day. It is again inverted, so it will be blue with no upper level clouds.

It turns out that everyone gets a chance to get high in the start circle, well, at least as high as every one else, which is the real issue. We get to 5,000' AGL quite a bit lower than the day before, but with the light winds there is a 40 or 50 pilot gaggle hanging around the edge of the start circle. We even skip the 2:15 start time given our ability to stay put and not get blown downwind.

I'm getting use to the Airborne C2 and starting to use pitch (pushing out) to coordinate my turns and to wrap the glider around when I feel a surge of lift. I'm able to stay high in the gaggle in the start circle, so I must be remembering something about how to fly these flex wing gliders.

At two thirty almost all the pilots head out with Oleg and Gerolf plus a few others hanging back for the 2:45 PM start. I see Craig, Brett, Rohan, and Jonny going and I'm out there heading off with them near the front. Unlike with my ATOS I don't feel any moral obligation to be the glider out in the front of everyone searching for the lift and taking all the risks.

We're heading northeast 80 kilometers up the Midwestern highway to Goolgowi and then north to Hillston airport for a task length of 147 kilometers. As we spread out we're picking bits and pieces of lift staying between 3,500' and 5,000' AGL. I'm slowly losing a bit on the lead gaggle of five pilots, and it is heart breaking. I'm trying to figure out how I can out smart them, if I can't out fly them.

Bo blew the second day after coming in second on the first day. After crossing the start cylinder low he tried to come back (against my advice) to to get a alter start time. With strong winds and no one there to show him the lift he didn't make it. Now Bo has blown off the meet heading out at 1:45 on his own. He's already down at 45 kilometers short of the first turnpoint,

Kevin Carter, the other American pilot here, in his first major competition is out with us at 2:30, but he didn't bother to go back a half a kilometer and get the 2:30 PM start time. He wondered why the rest of the gaggle headed back suddenly and it was only a few minutes later that he realized that they went back to get the last start time. He wasn't going to go back now as he was with the main group of pilots.

I'm just at the bottom end of the lead gaggle in a good thermal as we get to about 15 kilometers out of the first turnpoint. The five pilots just over me head out and I follow a bit lower, and to their left. We keep on gliding and gliding and I notice that they aren't hitting any lift as I shade further to the left to stay off their course line. Soon they are racing down to almost 1,000' AGL as I move further to the left and find lift. Not strong lift, like earlier in the task, but much better than the sink that the lead guys are in.

Now I'm thinking that they may bomb out, or at the least get stuck, and that I'll be in the lead by myself, a scary prospect, but an exciting one. I climb to 5,500' and watch to see if they get any lift. I can't see where they've gone to but I start heading straight for the turnpoint and see that they've found a strong one and aren't that far behind at all now.

I come into the turnpoint from the northwest a few seconds after the lead pilot, Craig Coomber, comes into it from the southeast (we'd all been approaching the turnpoint from the southwest) . Further behind him the rest of the lead gaggle with some additional folks that caught up to them are climbing even higher in strong lift. Perhaps I should have gone back and got in the good thermal with them, but I want to stay with Craig and zoom out in front. Rohan, Brett and Jonny are back there getting high just behind Craig and I.

Unfortunately, I find a bad line and within 6 kilometers I'm down to 1,100' AGL while everyone else seems to be stinking high. Oh well, now I just have to ignore my bad feelings about not being with the big boys and save my sorry butt. The winds is about 20 kph out of the south west, so it is a quartering tail wind, that drives me to the northeast, right of the highway, as the task follows the road to the north-northwest.

I hear from Kevin that he's about twenty kilometers behind with Oleg. Oleg got the later clock and is in a hurray to catch the lead gaggle starting fifteen minutes behind them. Bo, Oleg and Kevin are all suffering from allergic reactions to Australia and Hay. There is a not of new growth here this year. Bo might not fly on Monday to try to get over the effects.

While the lift is broken and light at first, it quickly turns on to the best thermal of the day and I climb to over 6,000'. Meanwhile Rohan is high and has been pushing ahead with Brett right on his tail. The other pilots who got high hold back a bit and Rohan is able to find a strong thermal and get high with Brett, leaving the other guys behind.

I go on glide after the strong climb only to find myself down low again at Merriwagga ,trying to find lift right over the covered stack of wheat, not wanting to go and join some other pilots who were low and turning as they seemed to be too much off the course line. Pride goeth before the fall.

This time the lift at 1,100' AGL is really scratchy and I have to work hard and hold on tight to stay in it and start climbing. Again as I get up the lift improves and I attract other pilots who are also looking to save themselves. We climb out to over 5,000' and for me it looks like goal is achievable.

Oleg has caught me from behind as we top out in the thermal. I go on glide from about 25 k out (half the distance of the last leg) and even with the cross wind it is easy to make it to goal as I don't run into any bad sink as I had on the first half of the leg.

Meanwhile, up in front of me, Rohan and Brett are near goal on final, and Brett has chosen this time to no longer follow Rohan once he sees that he can make goal. Brett will be first for the day followed by Rohan.

Rohan won the first day, but inadvertently he didn't turn off his Garmin GPS at goal (his Polaroid glasses told him the screen was blank, i.e. the GPS was off, after Rohan pressed the off button). With wrap mode on, he wiped out his start time.

While this is a good long task, the tail wind component of the cross wind was a big help getting many pilots to goal. On Saturday over thirty pilots made goal and it looks like that many will have made it on Sunday. We've got two more days of the Hay Open before the pre-Worlds start (an eight day meet).

Results:

1 Hazlett, Brett, 60 Moyes Litespeed S4 Can 2:51:52 978
2 Holtkamp, Rohan, 9 Airborne Climax 13 Aus 2:52:53 963
3 Durand, Jon Jnr., 46 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2:53:18 954
4 Barthelmes, Oliver, 25 Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 2:53:41 946
5 Bader, Lucas, 22 Moyes Litespeed S Deu 2:53:59 940
6 Coomber, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed S Aus 2:54:24 932
7 Itagaki, Naoki, 14 Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 2:54:36 927
8 Keijzer, Koos De, 12 Icaro Laminar Mr 14 Nld 2:56:30 907
9 Bussinger, Diego, 40 Moyes Litespeed S Che 2:56:39 902
10 Seib, David, 33 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 2:50:44 885
11 Matsumuta, Takahiro, 10 Moyes Litespeed 4 Jpn 3:00:06 872
12 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 32 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 3:04:25 799
13 Schroder, Phil, 53 Airborne C2 Aus 3:11:39 794
14 Paton, Len, 58 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3:05:14 790
15 Moyes, Steve, 61 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 3:10:24 751
16 Straub, Davis, 38 Airborne Climax 14 Usa 3:20:57 730
17 Bertok, Attila, 59 Moyes Litespeed S45 Hun 3:15:53 715
18 Bosman, Mart, 13 Moyes Litespeed Nld 3:16:12 711
19 Hideaki, Nagamitsu, 20 Moyes Litespeed 4 Jpn 3:25:27 703
20 Minoru, Kato, 18 Icaro Laminar Mr Jpn 3:34:46 702

Totals:

1 Coomber, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed S Aus 2823
2 Hazlett, Brett, 60 Moyes Litespeed S4 Can 2731
3 Barthelmes, Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 2728
4 Durand, Jon Jnr., 46 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2720
5 Moyes, Steve, 61 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 2589
6 Bussinger, Diego, 40 Moyes Litespeed S Che 2554
7 Bader, Lucas, 22 Moyes Litespeed S Deu 2486
8 Bertok, Attila, 59 Moyes Litespeed S45 Hun 2455
9 Holtkamp, Rohan, 9 Airborne Climax 13 Aus 2450
10 Straub, Davis, 38 Airborne Climax 14 Usa 2274
11 Keijzer, Koos De, 12 Icaro Laminar Mr 14 Nld 2104
12 Bondarchuk, Oleg Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 2070
13 Bosman, Mart, 13 Moyes Litespeed Nld 2060
14 Heaney, Tove, 52 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2034
15 Thompson, Mark, 56 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2015
16 Seib, David, 33 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1975
17 Itagaki, Naoki, 14 Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 1876
18 Jones, Chris, 44 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1869
19 Mengelt, Rolf, 24 Moyes Litespeed 1847
20 Barnes, Andrew, 42 Moyes Litespeed S35 Aus 1842

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Sat, Jan 10 2004, 12:00:00 pm EST

Hay Open

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|dust devil|Gerolf Heinrichs|Hay Open 2004|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tove Heaney|weather|Wills Wing

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/hayopen2004/

When you launch can have a great effect on your flight. This is such an important parameter that you need to spend considerable effort getting it right. It depends on the conditions, the task, and the actions of your fellow competitors (those folks that are going to help you find thermals and encourage you to race).

A 137 kilometer straight downwind task was called when Paul Rundell, the meet director, and Len Paton, the weather man, realized that their earlier predictions for very light winds were all wrong and that we would have a 30 kph southwest wind instead. Given the late breaking weather news, the task got called late and the first start time was 1:45 PM. I was looking to try to get the 2:30 PM start time (the third start time always seems to be the most popular).

The day was inverted again, but the forecast was for a 7,000' top of the lift for hang gliders. There would be no clouds. The task was downwind (east-southeast) with a strong tail wind component (southwest wind), so it looked doable later in the afternoon when the lift was stronger without having to be in the air real late, like the first day.

2:30 looked like the optimum start time to me and given the strong winds in the tow paddock, it seemed like a two o'clock launch would be about optimum. Otherwise you'd get blown out of the start cylinder before 2:30.

I got in line but I could see that the tows were taking longer than the ten minutes each that I had predicted. I finally launched at 2:05, but I could already tell I was ten minutes too late. I'd been watching who was towing in the Moyes line next to me and Craig and Attila got away before me.

I got off tow at 1,100' AGL as my bridle came out when we popped into a light thermal, so at least I was in something. The guys who got off earlier were stinking high downwind, as they had found something much better than I.

Bo was with me as we slowly climbed up but drifted even faster. He missed one piece of lift and was soon groveling low past the start cylinder as I continued to slowly climb going through the cylinder at 4,500' at 2:25 PM, five minutes early, with the main gaggle at over 7,000' and coming back to get the 2:30 PM start time.

I went back to get the 2:30 start time and with the help of three other pilots that were also relatively low with me (but not as low as Bo who was drifting to the northeast along the Midwestern Highway at 600') we found a good thermal that took us to 7,000' AGL but six kilometers past the start cylinder and no way to get back against the strong winds to get the 2:45 start time.

The main gaggle was how ten minutes ahead of us, but hopefully that strong thermal would let us catch up with them assuming they had to working something weak and we hit all the good stuff. Of course, it was not to be.

The lift was often light as the high clouds that are associated with a thermal low came over us again like the day before and shaded the ground. Kevin Carter, who got in that first high gaggle, said the best thermal he got was over the tow paddock at over 1000 fpm to 7,200' AGL.

Oleg said that he and a few others in the front hung on at 1000' over the highway for 15 kilometers, so that slowed them down a bit. As it was a downwind task a bunch of people made goal (see the results below).

I saw from a review of my flight statistics that the average glide was 18:1 (remember this is in a flex wing racing (but going downwind)). The average climb rate was 300 fpm out on the course line, but we did get some stronger bits that didn't last as long because they took us high quickly. Going downwind we were able to stay between 3,000' AGL and 6,000' other than the first good climb to 7,000'.

It took me a little under 2:20 hours to cover the course with an average speed of 34 mph.

At 22 kilometers out from goal I was in one of the strongest thermals of the day and because it was so strong I took it to 5,500' AGL knowing I'd get a higher optimum speed into goal. The 5030 was telling me to stay in the lift even though I was well above the best glide line into goal. Actually I couldn't flight as fast as I would have liked going into goal because there was too much lift and turbulence. Still I averaged 53 mph on final glide (ground speed), and a 20:1 glide ratio.

Ten kilometers out from goal I heard from Belinda that a dust devil had just come through the landing zone at goal wiping out a number of gliders, tossing them into the air for long rides before they were smashed up. We'll see tomorrow who has been able to rebuild their glider. I saw little Jon holding his sore arm that came about when he tried to hold down his glider.

The wind was blowing so hard at goal (cross ways to the final glide), that some pilots came in landing on their bellies as they were afraid to let go of the control bar.

Results:

1 Coomber, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed S Aus 1:56:48 1000
2 Heinrichs, Gerolf, 57 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 1:57:59 969
3 Moyes, Steve, 61 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1:58:11 962
4 Bertok, Attila, 59 Moyes Litespeed S45 Hun 1:58:16 957
5 Bussinger, Diego, 40 Moyes Litespeed S Che 2:00:01 931
6 Barthelmes, Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 2:00:44 919
7 Bosman, Mart, 13 Moyes Litespeed Nld 2:02:42 896
8 Hideaki, Nagamitsu Moyes Litespeed 4 Jpn 2:06:08 858
9 Yasuhiro, Noma, 45 Moyes Litespeed S Jpn 2:07:02 848
10 Bondarchuk, Oleg Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 2:07:52 838
11 Hazlett, Brett, 60 Moyes Litespeed S4 Can 2:09:52 818
12 Holtkamp, Rohan, 9 Airborne Climax 13 Aus 2:10:05 814
13 Durand, Jon Jnr., 46 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2:10:09 812
14 Beavis, Alan, 102 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 2:11:28 800
15 Nichele, Roberto, 50 Wills Wing Talon 140 Che 2:11:31 798
16 Straub, Davis, 38 Airborne Climax 14 Usa 2:21:42 722
17 Bader, Lucas, 22 Moyes Litespeed S Deu 2:21:44 721
18 Heaney, Tove, 52 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2:24:08 704
18 Mengelt, Rolf, 24 Moyes Litespeed 2:38:24 704

Total:

Name Glider Nation Total
1 Coomber, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed S Aus 1891
2 Moyes, Steve, 61 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1838
3 Barthelmes, Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 1782
4 Durand, Jon Jnr., 46 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1766
5 Hazlett, Brett, 60 Moyes Litespeed S4 Can 1753
6 Bertok, Attila, 59 Moyes Litespeed S45 Hun 1740
7 Bussinger, Diego, 40 Moyes Litespeed S Che 1652
8 Bader, Lucas, 22 Moyes Litespeed S Deu 1546
9 Straub, Davis, 38 Airborne Climax 14 Usa 1544
10 Holtkamp, Rohan, 9 Airborne Climax 13 Aus 1487
11 Heinrichs, Gerolf, 57 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 1485
12 Thompson, Mark, 56 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1459
13 Heaney, Tove, 52 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1408
14 Yasuhiro, Noma, 45 Moyes Litespeed S Jpn 1368
15 Bosman, Mart, 13 Moyes Litespeed Nld 1349

Again the weather has been very pleasant here in Hay will a high yesterday of about thirty degrees. The nights are cool and we haven't turned on the air conditioning in the cabin at the Caravan Park yet.

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Fri, Jan 9 2004, 12:00:00 pm EST

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Belinda Boulter|Bo Hagewood|Brett Hazlett|cart|Davis Straub|Grant Heaney|Hay Open 2004|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tove Heaney|weather

The weather turns with "light" winds out of the west. We're out of the paddock at 11:30 and it is completely pleasant with temperatures in the mid twenties. They don't seem to grow grass here for the sheep, but let them eat the weeds that do show up when the rains have come through. Still it is most pleasant with no blowing sand like last year.

A most interesting task is called, with a 70 k downwind leg east along the Murrumbidgee, then a 50 k cross wind north to Goolgowi, and a final leg at 29 kilometers back west on the Midwestern Highway to Gunbar. It's a good long task at slightly less than 100 miles, and with cross wind and upwind legs making the task progressively more difficult it should test the skills and patience of experienced competition pilots.

I spend all my time in the tow paddock getting ready for the upcoming task, and working as quickly as I can after getting there reasonably early, I'm the sixth pilot in line to be towed up by Grant Heaney. I haven't been this far back in years, but seeing as how I'm flying a flex wing for the first time in big time competition in at least five years, I'm happy to have other pilots in the air ahead of me to spot the thermals in the start circle.

Moyes has got three Dragonflies pulling up a hoard of folks and Grant's got ten pilots to pull up also. The cart's set for way too high a nose angle, so I have Belinda pull out the pins so that when it gets to me I've got a fighting chance of keeping the glider from stalling and still on the cart. I might even push up the keel rest a bit more tomorrow.

We've got a 12:30 launch open window and a start time of 1:30, open for 15 minute intervals thereafter. Pilots are late getting going, and I'm not in the air until almost 1:30. The tow is as gentle a tow as I've every had, and a really appreciate the Airborne C2. It is my understanding that since I last flew it last year they have solved the problem of yawing through a different design of the tips. I'm having no problem with one half VG and the staying behind the trike.

Grant drops me off at 1,700' AGL with a couple of gliders turning and I'm back in that Hay air that we love so much. With the good breeze out of the east we drift quickly downwind as we slowly climb up to a little less than 5,000' AGL. With the brisk breeze we are quickly approaching the circumference of the 10 kilometer start circle.

The pilots who got earlier tows including Gerolf, Oleg and Bo are in a gaggle in front of us taking the 1:45 start time, but getting stuck in a thermal 1.5 kilometers past the start cylinder. Bo will decide to come back and take the 2 PM start time with Jonny Durand, Brett Hazlett, myself and a couple of other pilots. We really had no choice, as we drifted past the start circumference also and had to come back for the 2 PM start time losing a good bit of altitude.

Thankfully the task and the wind takes us right along the river road so we can head downwind with no worries. There is a strong inversion near 5,000', high clouds and no cu's, so it will be a blue day in Hay.

I'm trying to remember to push out in thermal to help coordinate the turns. This was something that I didn't have to do on the ATOS (in fact it is not a good idea). I'm still trying to to get the glider to turn with just weight shift in roll, but it certainly isn't helping me stay up too well with the others.

We've got a 20 kph tail wind every once in a while we'll find almost 500 fpm lift. For me, the lift is broken unless I can get the glider twirling which happens every so often when I remember to push out. I'm losing the fastest four gliders that I'm not able to climb with and head a bit to their right (south) to get closer to the river. Jonny and Bo are out there also and we hit much better lift and get to almost 6,000' AGL.

This gets us into the first turnpoint, on the road going north to Goolgowi, where we find more lift before we have to start the cross wind leg. I've got Bo on my left heading a bit more upwind on this leg, with Jonny out in front more along the course line. I split the difference until Bo finds the good lift and I join him as Jonny disappears.

Three other pilots out in the lead are to our right and groveling now on the deck as they get swept to the east by the wind. Bo goes too far and has to come back to join me in a thermal that gets us high and attracts five other pilots as we push our way north on a 345° bearing toward a turnpoint that is at 360°.

In a few thermal we find Jonny again as he had to save himself while out there alone. Gerolf and Oleg are apparently out there in front of us going down near the second turnpoint. As the upwind leg comes next I want to be sure to be high at this turnpoint and work upwind and in lift in order to be able to drift into the turnpoint climbing.

I see pilots low around the turnpoint and some drifting back east past the turnpoint just trying to get back up and save themselves for the upwind leg.

We are all spread out now. Bo and Rohan are in the lead on this upwind leg taking it carefully to make sure that they can make goal. I get down to 1,400' AGL, but find strong lift back to 6,000' AGL, while only losing a couple of kilometers. There is enough help around to be able to take a few chances and plung ahead to the next thermal.

I'm nervous about not making goal in the strong headwind, and climb in a strong thermal 7 k from goal until the L/D required to make goal is 5.9 to 1. This turns out to be plenty to make goal with 1000' of altitude above the goal. I'm the eight pilot in. Rohan was the first in.

Results:

1 Durand, Jon Jnr., 46 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 14:00:00 18:14:32 4:14:32 948
2 Hagewood, Bo, 30 Aeros Combat Ii 150 Usa 14:01:00 18:20:49 4:19:49 908
3 Coomber, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed S Aus 15:00:00 19:07:50 4:07:50 887
4 Hazlett, Brett, 60 Moyes Litespeed S4 Can 13:45:00 18:17:23 4:32:23 879
5 Moyes, Steve, 61 Moyes Litespeed 5 Aus 14:00:00 18:28:36 4:28:36 870
6 Itagaki, Naoki, 14 Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 13:45:00 18:18:57 4:33:57 869
7 Barthelmes, Oliver, 25 Moyes Litesport S4 Deu 15:00:00 19:10:18 4:10:18 860
8 Seib, David, 33 Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:00:00 18:37:30 4:37:30 831
9 Bader, Lucas, 22 Moyes Litespeed S Deu 13:45:00 18:31:52 4:46:52 822
10 Straub, Davis, 38 Airborne C2 Usa 14:00:00 18:40:52 4:40:52 817
11 Crapanzano, Angelo, 29 Moyes Litespeed S4 Ita 14:00:00 18:41:16 4:41:16 813
12 Bertok, Attila, 59 Moyes Litespeed S45 Hun 14:30:00 19:08:01 4:38:01 780
13 Thompson, Mark, 56 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 13:45:00 18:42:39 4:57:39 779
14 Paton, Len, 58 Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 19:06:41 5:06:41 732
15 Holtkamp, Rohan, 9 Airborne C2 Aus 12:30:00 18:12:45 5:42:45 731
16 Bussinger, Diego, 40 Moyes Litespeed S Che 14:15:00 19:18:10 5:03:10 718
17 Heaney, Tove, 52 Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 14:00:00 19:15:53 5:15:53 702
18 Keijzer, De, 12 Icaro Laminar Mr 14 Nld 13:45:00 19:15:40 5:30:40 682
19 Barnes, Andrew, 42 Moyes Litespeed S35 Aus 13:45:00 19:37:50 5:52:50 625


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Flying XC in San Paolo

Sat, Oct 11 2003, 5:00:01 pm EDT

Aeros Combat

Luciano N. de Oliveira «luciano» writes:

It’s been a really great time flying in Sao Paulo state, Brazil lately. Lots of pilots flying XC over 230km. Just this past weekend on Saturday, Sergio Galvani flew over 238km an Aeros Combat II 13' without a vario. Go Galvas!!

Earlier you saw that Nene, Leo Mascara, Paulo Baz and Lois Neubauer, flew 244, 294, 294 and 284 km. More news coming soon.

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2003 Team Challenge »

Fri, Sep 26 2003, 9:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Bo Hagewood|Brad Gryder|Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Ollie" Gregory|Steve Rewolinski|Team Challenge 2003|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

The day dawns gray with fog below and gray skies above. The forecast looks good, but reality isn’t matching up to the forecast. Speaking of which, BLIPMAP predictions of lift this week have been too high, except on the second day.

As we head out at 12:30 to get to Dr. Dale’s for another day of towing from this great pre-flight park, the sky has opened up and the gray is revealed to be towering cu’s on both sides of the valley over the plateaus (of course, it’s blue in the valley). The launch doesn’t open until 2 PM, as we’ve all been launching later in the day.

I’m in second behind Revo so when Revo gets ready without me noticing I have to scramble to get in line a few pilots behind him. Bo has taken Revo to the plateau on the east side of the valley next to Dr. Dale’s. I have Brad tow me there also and I let off five hundred feet below Revo.

Revo, Ollie Gregory, Steve Larson, and I very slowly climb up on the ridge line to over 3,500’ AGL under the clouds. We are in the five mile start circle and only Steve has made a break for it to go on course. The remaining three of us spend over half an hour just hanging in the start circle.

Revo breaks for it when he sees that the clouds are lining up for us. Ollie and I are right with him, and soon I’m in the lead. It’s a six mile glide to the north side of highway 111 where I find the best thermal of the day on the west facing face of the ridge under a newly forming cloud.

We climb from 2,400’ AGL to 4,200’ under the cloud and I go on glide in front as Revo and Ollie continue to climb. There is a cloud right on the course line and as I’m way above its base, I fly to the left and get on the side of the cloud. As I continue straight on the course I climb up the side of the cloud, what fun. This looks good. I’m fourteen miles from goal and at 4,300’ AGL (17:1).

Revo and Ollie are gliding about a mile behind me and watching. Steve is further in on the plateau gliding at about where Revo and Ollie are.

At nine miles out I’m at 3,200’ AGL (15:1) having flown along the edge of the ridge under clouds. I’ve lost only 1,100’ in five miles of gliding. The vario is saying that I have the goal field with plenty of altitude if the sink and lift net out to zero on the way in.

The light sink quits and the strong sink begins. In the next 6.5 miles I’ll lose 3,200’ (11:1) and land 2.8 miles short of goal. Revo will land a mile behind me and Ollie and Steve a mile behind him. My average speed on the course will be 40 mph (including the time taken to thermal up). My time on all but 2.8 miles of the 21.8 mile (26.8-5 mile start circle) course is 29 minutes.

Ollie will pound in hard and knock himself out. He is taken to the hospital for x-rays then released. He also took out two downtubes, but no other damage to his ATOS. Ollie came into a field too low, had to fly under a power line, was going fast downhill for a fence and had to stop himself before he hit the fence. Steve Larson had just landed in the field on the northern half going up hill stopping before the power line. Ollie came around into the wind at 4 feet over Steve’s head.

Meanwhile back at the tow field, pilots have lined up behind us and are getting pulled up to spots all over the valley. Terry Presley get dropped off in a blue hole, slowly climbs, and twice tries to make it to the eastern ridge where I got let off. He fails both times and has to run back to the valley. Finally he decides to go to the western ridge and is down to 300 feet AGL when he gets a pop and starts climbing.

Bo has been towing all of us up all week along with Brad Gryder. Bo is always the last one to launch as Brad pulls him up just before 5 PM. We’ve been on the ground for an hour.

Bo heads for the western side of the valley. He gets on course late and hooks up with Terry Presley. They both make goal together. Kevin Carter goes as far as goal, but isn’t able to get from the western side over to the goal field on the eastern side of the valley.

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Thu, Sep 25 2003, 8:00:01 am GMT

Aeros Combat|Bo Hagewood|Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Ollie" Gregory|Steve Rewolinski|Team Challenge 2003|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

Inversion at about four thousand feet. That’s the main story for the day. Also light winds out of the south.

There were no cu’s – see the fact that there was an inversion. We decided that the best route would be to go ten miles south of Dunlap to Dr. Dale’s farm and grass airstrip so that we could tow up behind Bo and Brad piloting Dragonflies. The farm is beautiful, of course, and we again have access to way more resources than we deserve.

I’m the first to launch at near 2 PM, with no signs of lift around. But there is in fact light lift to 3,000’ AGL in the middle of the valley. I spend an hour in the five mile start circle slowly getting up and waiting for others. After forty minutes I get high enough to run over to the west ridge to see if there is better lift on the ridge than in the valley. I find good lift and get to 3,500’ AGL.

Terry Presley and Ollie Gregory chase after me after seeing me get up, get flushed and run back, to where they finally land inside the five mile start circle to get a late relaunch. I don’t find any more lift down the ridge and go down at 9 miles out.

The smart guys stay in the weak lift in the middle of the valley and trickle down toward the goal 26 miles to the northeast. Revo is the only one to make it to goal. Bo gets close.

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325

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325

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PRESLEY, Terry

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14.4

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319

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7

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9.4

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251

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8

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8.9

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246

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9

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LAUGHREY, Jeff

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222

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10

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218

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218

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10

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218

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1180

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1073

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960

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5

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FINGER, Jim, 23

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791

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750

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9

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JOHNSTON, Joe, 19

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701

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10

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CARDEN, Eric, 10

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699

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538

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433

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340

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HOLC »

Fri, Sep 19 2003, 7:00:02 am GMT

Aeros Combat|Airborne Climax|Alfred Mayer|Andreas "Ernst" Becker|Bernd Weist|Dietmar Rauscher|Exxtacy|HOLC|Icaro Laminar MR|Jochen Zeyher|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Lukas Etz|Marcus Hoffmann|Markus Ebenfeld|Moyes Litespeed|news|OLC|Oliver Schmidt|photo|polar|Reinhard Pöppl

Adi Meierkord (A-I-R) <adi@a-i-r.de> writes:

OLC 2003 Germany results:

1494,63 Langwald Gerd A-I-R Atos
1466,86 Pöppl Reinhard A-I-R Atos
1421,35 Meierkord Adi A-I-R Atos
1306,72 Schmidt Oliver A-I-R Atos
1198,11 Götz Alfred A-I-R Atos
1173,66 Zeyher Jochen A-I-R Atos
1165,67 Dorn Alfons A-I-R Atos
1163,05 Hoffmann-Guben Marcus Axxess, Exxtacy
1132,61 Lehmann Ernst Axxess,
1053,14 Pfander Frank Stratos

The rigid wing pilots were able to use the efficiency of their wings much better during this year and improved their flight performances considerably in comparison to the last year. Gerd Langwald had the longest flight in Germany with 386 km on 24 June “pursued” by Reinhard Pöppl with 348 km on 8 July. Newcomer Alfred Götz could immediately hold his ground among the first 10 pilots. Special congratulations to our woman pilots Andrea Hetzel and Manuela Braun.

Photo of Gerd Langwald

If the rigid wings’ points of the first places are added and compared with those of the flex wings, an advantage of 26% is the result! This confirms considerably the result of the Angerer Open in the flight practice on 11 January 2003. A superiority of the ATOS of 26 % was also measured there (A-I-R/News/Angerer Open). Among the 103 rigid wing pilots 72 flew with A-I-R ATOS. Many thanks for this overwhelming result.

1 1186,53 Becher Tom Moyes Litespeed 4
2 1112,43 Waldmann Peter Moyes Litespeed 5
3 1010,07 Altmannshofer Max Icaro Laminar 13 MRX 700
4 993,43 Etz Lukas Airborne Climax C 2
5 983,16 Weinzierl Georg Icaro Laminar MR
6 978,08 Rauscher Georg Moyes Litespeed 4
7 930,41 Ebenfeld Markus Moyes Litespeed 4
8 929,22 Otterpohl Bernd Aeros Combat
9 912,96 Liebig Rich Moyes Litespeed 4
10 907,03 Wöhrle Roland Moyes Litespeed 4

Unfortunately, the flex wing pilots were hardly able to improve their performance during this season. However, they showed respectable single results, for example Bernd Otterpohl with his long-distance flight of 321 km in chilly polar air.

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Cearar Race & Rally

Sun, Sep 7 2003, 3:00:01 am EDT

Aeros Combat|Brett Hazlett|Curt Warren|Kraig Coomber|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso

http://www.goupresults.com/cearar/default.asp

José Luiz Moura Velloso «joseluiz» writes:

Yesterday was the last task, and 20 pilots made the goal (95.5 km). Pilots loved the task, whose take off was in the middle of a semi desert area, and goes north landing at the beach. Tom and Brett went a little further, and landed on a beautiful island out from the goal. They had to go back in fisherman's boats.

The winner yesterday was Tom, and Curt Warren won the competition. The pilots flew 600 km (counting the task that was not valid for the competition) in 4 days.

Last day:

Pos.

Nome

Equipamento

Tempo

Total

1

WEISSENBERGER, Tom

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:21:11

1000

2

WARREN, Curt, 21

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:22:27

992

3

HAZLETT, Brett, 7

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:22:40

990

3

ALONZI, Mario, 1

Aeros Combat 2

1:22:44

990

5

SCHMITZ, Betinho, 19

Moyes Litespeed S 3.5

1:23:13

987

6

SALDANHA, Gustavo

Moyes Litespeed S 3.5

1:26:05

970

7

DURAND JR., Jon, 6

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:26:51

966

8

BARBER, Mike, 3

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:27:42

962

9

COOMBER, Kraig, 5

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1:29:30

953

10

KOCH, Klaus Egon

Icaro Laminar

1:29:51

951

Cumulative:

Pos.

Nome

Equipamento

T1

T2

T3

Total

1

Warren

Moyes Litespeed S 4

1000

988

992

2980

2

Alonzi

Aeros Combat 2

964

1000

990

2954

3

Hazlett

Moyes Litespeed S 4

974

969

990

2933

4

Weissenberger

Moyes Litespeed S 4

938

970

1000

2908

5

Saldanha

Moyes Litespeed S 3.5

961

969

970

2900

6

Azevedo Dias

Moyes Litespeed

910

974

941

2825

7

Schmitz

Moyes Litespeed S 3.5

890

941

987

2818

8

Pritchard

Moyes Litespeed S 4

892

958

937

2787

9

Durand Jr.

Moyes Litespeed S 4

940

854

966

2760

10

Coomber

Moyes Litespeed S 4

944

843

953

2740

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2003 Class 1 Worlds – final »

Sun, Aug 31 2003, 6:00:02 am EDT

Aeros Combat|Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/index.html

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

http://www.dhv.de/deutsch/sport_termine/hg/aliga_hg/deutsch_03/main.htm.

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br>, scorekeeper at the Worlds, sends the following:

Betinho won the task today by almost 3 minutes, but gained only one position in overall results. There were 73 pilots in goal.

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958

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HIROSHI Suzuki

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898

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1:31:21

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893

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4

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HEINRICHS Gerolf

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1:31:48

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884

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5

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WILLIAMS Paris

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881

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877

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7

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RUHMER Manfred

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873

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8

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HOLTKAMP Rohan

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867

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9

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CIECH Christian

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858

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10

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VIÑAS DOT Francesco

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856

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11

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NENE ROTOR

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854

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12

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BOISSELIER Antoine

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1:33:12

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851

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13

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GUILLEN Bruno

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1:33:16

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849

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14

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BADER Lukas

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844

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15

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MENIN Marcelo Alexandre

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1:33:47

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839

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16

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SALVENMOSER Joseph

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1:33:56

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836

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17

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REISINGER Robert

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1:34:07

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832

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18

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HAZLETT Brett

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1:34:28

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827

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19

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WEISSENBERGER Tom

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Moyes Litespeed S 4

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1:34:33

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825

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20

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CAUX Raymond

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1:35:14

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816

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21

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BARBER Mike

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Moyes Litespeed S 4

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1:35:39

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810

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22

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MOYES Steve

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Moyes Litespeed S 4.5

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1:35:49

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807

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23

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ALONZI Mario

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Aeros Combat 2

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1:35:53

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805

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24

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PRITCHARD Phil

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1:35:57

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803

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25

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SALDANHA Gustavo

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Moyes Litespeed S 3.5

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1:35:59

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802

Final results:

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Nation

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1

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RUHMER Manfred

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Icaro Laminar MR

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AUT

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8682

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2

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REISINGER Robert

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Icaro Laminar MR 700

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AUT

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8310

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3

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BOISSELIER Antoine

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Moyes Litespeed S 4

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FRA

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7883

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4

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NENE ROTOR

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Wills Wing Talon

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BRA

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7877

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5

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SCHMITZ Betinho

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BRA

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7856

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6

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Team Scores:

AUT 24935
BRA 24397
FRA 23952
ITA 22434
DEU 22242
AUS 21795
GBR 21693
USA 20781

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2003 Class 1 Worlds – Manfred conquers »

Thu, Aug 28 2003, 5:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

http://www.dhv.de/deutsch/sport_termine/hg/aliga_hg/deutsch_03/main.htm.

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br>, scorekeeper at the Worlds, sends the following:

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Okay, now does this guy do it? Here he is in first place again on a non race day. A day where the slower pilots had a chance to be careful and go further. A bunch of pilots who hadn’t the fastest time getting to goal did get near the top here, but on top was Manfred again.

Is there only one pilot that can beat Manfred, and that’s Manfred?

The task was 70 km. No one made goal, obviously.

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2003 Class 1 Worlds – Oleg misses a turnpoint »

Sat, Aug 23 2003, 2:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm states in an excerpt from their latest report:

The task committee believes what they can see and set another imaginative course - but larger at 178 km - and manage to get the launch and 3x20 minute starts open slightly earlier. Pilots are soon away with the smaller launch area cleared in 12 minutes. The other launches are not too far behind and virtually everyone is in the air in about 20 minutes.

The launch area here is a big bonus with generally easy conditions, plenty of space and no hassling between pilots. In 7 days I have heard only one push - which was politely put by the one pilot in the launch queue to the one pilot in front of him. It was politely acknowledged and both pilots launched.

Before reaching the city we received reports of a pilot under canopy between the second and third turn points. It turned out to be Tom Weisenberger of Austria, there was no initial movement so two others landed to assist, a Japanese pilot and Ron Richardson but it turned out Tom was fine.

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

Oleg missed the 2nd turnpoint, by 35 meters.

Task Seven:

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Fri, Aug 22 2003, 2:00:03 pm EDT

the Worlds

Øyvind Ellefsen|Aeros Combat|Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm states in an excerpt from their latest report:

Winds forecast to be lighter, thermal strength weak to moderate (which was strong enough to get 40 pilots around a 192 km course yesterday) but no cloud. There was already evidence of cloud by the time the task committee started their deliberations so it was no surprise to be briefed for 151 kms, 3x20 minute starts again.

The pilots I spoke to were happy that the course had been set away from the ridge covering some new territory and were looking forward to it. Rightly so as it turned out a classic day with a lovely sky and cloud streets aplenty.

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso «jose.luiz» scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

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Discuss "2003 Class 1 Worlds" at the Oz Report forum   link»

2003 Class 1 Worlds – Oleg first, provisional results »

Thu, Aug 21 2003, 4:00:03 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Gerolf Heinrichs|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Leonardo Dabbur|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm states in an excerpt from their latest report:

The sky was uniformly blue around the launch area but some useful clouds could be seen on the approach to goal - in our car.

As expected it was a longer wait than usual for the first gliders to appear but the first into goal was a popular first - Oleg. Reisinger followed close behind and there was a steady stream for a while.

After a short break a group of five appeared and Carl Wallbank was the second of these in - twelfth in goal. Robin and Ron arrived somewhere in the twenties and 40 pilots were to make it in the end - with Grant providing a welcome boost to morale by arriving with a duff radio around 5:30.

The Aussies did good, the Americans had Mike Barber and Jerz Rossignol in - but Paris and Curt down…

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

The task today has 155 km, and 42 pilots reached goal. These results are provisional, because only 88 pilots have reported in yet.

Task five:

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Check out the team scoring at the URLs above.

Look how well Steve Moyes is doing relative to his performance in Australia during the last competition season. He said that he always seems to come through at these World Meets.

Oleg is quickly climbing back up the chart. Curt dropped 12 places by not making goal. Paris didn’t help himself today. Antoine is doing much better than his did in Australia and Guido is climbing slowly upward as is Kraig Coomber. Same goes from Nene. Alex Ploner looks like he’s feeling the effects of not making goal yesterday and not racing as hard as he normally would. He needs to push it to get back in the running.

Discuss the Worlds at OzReport.com/forum/phpBB2

Discuss "2003 Class 1 Worlds – Oleg first, provisional results" at the Oz Report forum   link»

2003 Class 1 Worlds – Manfred first, Paris second »

Wed, Aug 20 2003, 2:00:03 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brett Hazlett|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Mart Bosman|Mike Barber|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Barthelmes|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm states:

The first two pilots in goal caught everyone by surprise and Manfred just took it from Paris Williams on the race into goal. A significant wait for the next guys…

There were some surprisingly late arrivals. Goal closes at 6 PM and we have not seen anybody arrive much after 5:15 but at 5:30 we could still see pilots in the distance thermalling under weak clouds. Eventually one broke for goal but it did not look like he stood much chance of getting in. After almost surfing the large government building across the road the glider cleared the street lights (so no penalty points) and we saw it was Mike Barber who had made the brave glide in. This inspired the others and another 4 or 5 made it, with a couple having to turn away and land. Dutchman Mart Bosman arrived in similar style to Mike to finish the day off.

http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm

Check out the URL above for pictures, results, and a report in Italian about the Italian team.

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

Sorry for the delay, some problems today with pilots who misunderstood the concept of "entry start".

Manfred and Paris did very well today, leaving in the first start (most pilots get the second start), and being more than 15 minutes faster than the other pilots. This gave them an advantage of almost 200 points over the 3rd pilot. With this result Manfred gets the lead in the competition and Paris climbed 26 positions

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Curt moved up to fifth coming in fourth today and starting early and Alex Ploner dropped to thirteenth by not making goal. The first guys in from the second clock came in close together but they had already lost two hundred points as Manfred was much faster and went early. The gaggle slowed them up, perhaps?

This shows the benefit of going out early as long as you can handle it and can go very fast.

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2003 Class 1 Worlds »

Tue, Aug 19 2003, 3:00:03 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Curt Warren|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gordon Rigg|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robert Reisinger|Robin Hamilton|Wills Wing|Worlds

http://www.brasilia2003.com/results/default.asp

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/
internat/brasil_2003.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

The Worlds organizers and the task committee chose to use GAP 2000, not GAP 2002.

Day three:

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I raised the question about the GAP parameters with José because it seemed like the pilots who went early yesterday just clobbered those who went later, no matter how fast the second guys were. Well, what a difference a day makes.

Today Betinho, the top placing pilot took the last start time and used the guys in front of him (in this case only fifteen minutes in front instead of twenty minutes like yesterday) to race to goal in the fastest time. He had a sixty point deficit compared with Curt Warren (first into goal), but made up for it with his fast time and thereby gaining 120 points for a net of about 60 points.

Unlike yesterday only a few pilots who made goal today took the first start time. Curt often likes to go on his own early and Steve Moyes went with him to do well also.

Robert Reisinger is the hot pilot continuing to do well, essentially tied with Betinho for the lead, finishing in second with the second fastest time and leaving at the last start clock. Manfred was there too, for the fourth fastest time with Alex Ploner a few seconds behind him.

Today the goal arrivals were a bit more spread out with 51 pilots at goal instead of 101 although Kraig and Antoine managed to come in at almost the same time, hopefully at different elevations, and they weren’t the only ones.

Yesterday’s winner Christian Ciech didn’t make goal, and a bunch of the US pilots haven’t reported in yet. All the Brits made goal.

The speed section of the task was 113.2 km long. Betinho finished the task in 2:25. Therefore his speed over the task was 47 kmh. You’ll notice (if you look on-line) that the speed results given by the Race program are incorrect in that they appear to count the distance from the start circle center to the edge of the start circle as distance covered during the race.

But even when that distance is taken into account the 128 km covered in 2:25 would equal 53 kmh, not 64.8 kmh as indicated on the Race output.

47 kmh is a good fast speed (29 mph) but not all that fast, indicating that conditions were not outstanding.

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Mon, Aug 18 2003, 7:00:04 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Christian Ciech|Class 1 Worlds 2003|David "Dave" Kinlan|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moura Velloso|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Worlds

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

http://www.theleague.force9.co.uk/internat/brasil_2003.htm

David Kinlan is kind enough to send me the above URL for the comments from the Brits in Brazil.

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds sends the following scores:

Today the task has 107.9 km, and 101 pilots (from 111) made goal.

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You’ll notice that Manfred and Oleg had the fastest times but they took the second start clock twenty minutes behind the leaders. This cost Manfred 105 points relative to Christian Ciech. I wonder which GAP system they are using.

As you can also see as at the Brazilian Nationals a week ago at the same location, this contest is a race. It’s over in less than two hours and your score depends on how fast you get high and how hard to race to goal. Gordon Rigg is a racer and he did well today, although Christian came in 1000 feet over his head and therefore had plenty of extra latitude to come in faster.

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Paris Williams was 45th today having started with Manfred and Oleg and coming in 11 minutes behind them. Paris has no where to go but up.

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Sat, Aug 16 2003, 3:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Brett Hazlett|Class 1 Worlds 2003|Filippo Oppici|Guido Gehrmann|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moura Velloso|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Worlds

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

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> scorekeeper at the Worlds (and assistant at the 2003 Wallaby Open) writes:

Yesterday was the official opening of the 14th World Class 1 Hang glider Championship. There are 116 pilots in the competition.

Task 1 (preliminary):

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You can see who was in the lead gaggle. Four guys. Can’t tell if Paris bombed or hasn’t reported. It would seem like everyone has reported as they all flew toward the city where the goal was. It’s after 10 PM there when I got these results. Everyone had the same start time.

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2003 Brazilian (Brasilia) Nationals – the final results

Sat, Aug 9 2003, 5:00:01 pm EDT

the Brazilian Nationals

Aeros Combat|Akiko Suzuki|Andreas Olsson|Betinho Schmitz|Brazilian Nationals 2003|Brett Hazlett|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

http://www.jlv.com.br/brasilia/

Thanks goodness the Brazilians now do HTML in addition to PDF. Bravo!

Final results of the Brazilian Nationals:

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I’d day that the Moyes Litespeed almost swept the field. These results make it look like there is the Moyes Litespeed and then there are a few others. Perhaps the Worlds results will be different.

Betinho won the last day in addition to his other wins. I know that he has been concentrating on getting ready for the Worlds in Brasilia for the last year or more, so it looks like he is ready. Did he peak too early? Will Manfred come and dominate once again. What about Oleg? And Paris? The Worlds start in seven days.

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2003 US Nationals – Paris wins flex wing championship »

Sun, Aug 3 2003, 10:00:00 pm GMT Place Place Place

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Brian Porter|Bruce Barmakian|cloud|competition|gaggle|Jerz Rossignol|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|Phillip "Phill" Bloom|record|Robin Hamilton|Swift|US National Champion|US Nationals|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

http://www.flytec.com/usnats03/scores.html

Paris Williams, the number US ranked flex wing hang glider pilot, won the US National Championships and is the US Flex wing National Champion. Bruce Barmakian is the US National Rigid Wing Champions and Brian Porter is the US National Swift Champion.

Paris has been US National Champion three years in a row, which I believe is a record. He won the US Nationals when they were last held in Texas two years ago at Hearne.

So how did Paris do it? He flew faster than anyone else. Sound like a tautology? It isn’t.

I’ve flown with Paris a lot. Given the extra performance of the AIR ATOS, I can stay with Paris whenever the rigids and flex wings fly together. We flew together on the first two days and I got to see him on other days at the Nationals. So I have a real good idea about how he flies.

Paris is a racer (although he quickly slowed down in Wisconsin in the weak lift at the Midwest Regionals). He wants to go fast and is willing to go in front. He goes for the big lift and is reluctant to stop for the weak stuff. He leaves the thermal when they get weak. He doesn’t wait around for anyone else. He’s not thinking about the gaggle. He’s thinking about how to go as fast as possible.

I’m always happy to fly with Paris because I want someone out there with me when I’m leading and Paris never hesitates. Time and time again I’ve gone out with him and it always works. (I held back in Wisconsin, and Paris had to come back to the gaggle when it proved to be very weak out in front.)

Paris will most often take the last start time as that is the time when the best pilots go, but sometimes he will go for the extra points afforded the pilots who go early and go fast.

Paris often starts off a meet in the hole and has to dig himself out because he flies too fast on the first day and doesn’t make goal. In this meet he flew fast on the first day, was leading from the start.

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Paris at Big Spring at the US Nationals

Paris flying the Aeros Combat 2 at Big Spring

Big Spring provided us with strong lift, high cloud bases, and lots of thermal markers, i.e. cu’s. These are perfect conditions for a racer. You can ignore the gaggle because you are flying the clouds. You can ignore weak lift because you are high and there is something better coming along. You can leave when it slows down, because there is something faster ahead.

So you had better be ready to run as hard as you can. Forget about hitting the deck. Fly hard and fly to win.

You also might notice that Bo, who was flying with Paris when he could, had a much better meet than he’s had lately. He was smoking up the course also. Kraig Coomber and Robin Hamilton provided strong “foreign” competition.

More on the US Nationals in a later issue.

Flex wings day seven:

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2003 US Nationals – courage on a blue day »

Fri, Aug 1 2003, 8:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Belinda Boulter|Bobby Bailey|Buddy Cutts|Carol Sperry|cloud|CompeGPS|competition|dust devil|FAI|gaggle|Kraig Coomber|Mike Tryon|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|Phillip "Phill" Bloom|Swift|tow|triangle|US Nationals|Vincent "Vince" Endter|Wallaby Ranch|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

http://www.flytec.com/usnats03/scores.html

First, a few corrections from the last report on the Nationals. The mystery glider was Vince Endter. That mystery was cleared up today when we got together with Tim Meany and used CompeGPS to run the task back on the screen. Quite amazing to live the race over again and see who did what. Campbell and Bruce took a completely different track than the rest of us. And Bruce was way behind us for the longest time but apparently didn’t have to stop and thermal on the way back.

I believe that Buddy Cutts has made goal before, although what I wrote was what my informant told me. Jeremie Hill, you may know him as the chef at Wallaby Ranch, made goal for the first time. He is flying a borrowed Wills Wing Talon (borrow from Wills Wing), and I believe that this is his first competition (don’t hold me to that).

The task committee mistakenly interpreted Gary’s weather forecast as calling for a chance of over development. Sorry for our mistake there. We should have called a longer task, but then Carol Sperry might not have made it in.

There were a few mistypings and I also said that Rich Burton was low on my left. He actually was low on my right. Sorry about any other problems that I didn’t catch today.

Speaking of today. We had a magnificence if rowdy blue day.

The FSL forecast calls for a brisk south-southeast wind (10-13 knots) turning to southwest up high. It also shows an inversion that rises to over 12,000’ after 4 PM. I call for perhaps blue or thin clouds.

There are no clouds when the rigids are set to launch at 1 PM for their race start at 2 PM. It’s easy and fun to do a race with the rigids because there are only fifteen (fourteen with Mike Tryon out of it because of shoulder problems) and there is no crowding in the thermals even at the start gate.

Still given my forecast for the good likelihood of only thin clouds we (Kraig Coomber and I on the task committee) figure that’s just the way the day is and let’s go for it.

I get Bobby Bailey to tow me up and given that I’m the seven or eighth guy in line I let him tow me up as far as he will under the gaggle that is slowly rising in the center of the airstrip. He waves me off before he passes anyone.

The lift is actually pretty good at 200 fpm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t last and the next half hour before the race start we all slowly climb up to 5,000’ AGL. The flex wing guys on the ground are a lot happier to be starting later when perhaps it will be better. There are one or two thin cu’s in the distance. The inversion layer is obvious between 6 and 8,000’ MSL.

The task is a 70 mile FAI triangle (when you subtract the 5 mile start circle), and that may make it available for world records (see article below). The first leg is off to the northeast, then back to the northwest, with a 25 mile final leg to the southeast. If the wind does in fact clock around to the southwest up high maybe it won’t be quite so tough getting in.

We rigids find good lift for the first time right after the start circle which is a surprise (without clouds these thermal are darn invisible) and that gets us to 9,000’ MSL. Another blip a few miles later and the whole crew is sticking together and racing.

Vince and another glider are low off to the north but they get the next thermal first and it is a strong one. The rest of us continue on to find a worse thermal and one that is actually very unpleasant. This will be the story for the next few thermals getting to and around the first turnpoint. Very unpleasant with the gliders doing most of the flying on their own. I’m hoping that everyone realizes that it’s not a good idea to be too close to anyone else.

The rigids thin out with four rigids taking an upwind southern track and Jim Yokum, myself and another rigid or two following the course line. We’ll drift away from it to the north while thermaling as the wind out of the south in measuring well over 15 mph. At three o’clock the four of us hit our first really good thermal that actually gets as high as 700 fpm and I’ll climb out to almost ten thousand feet. I’m not able to keep track of the rigids to the south and there is one rigid that I don’t recognize just 100’ over me.

The last flex wing start time is 3 PM, and Paris will later say that this is when the lift really turns on for them. He’ll take the 3 PM start clock.

I go on a fifteen mile glide without seeing anyone else and from five miles out from the second turnpoint I can see a small dust devil and dust rising in another field from a couple of tractors. I go over to where the dust is rising from the tractors but don’t find anything. I then go to the field where I had seen the dust devil another one or two miles closer to the turnpoint. I’m down to 1,200’ AGL. The dust devil is no longer there, but I’m thinking that the lift will be. It is.

I’ll climb to 10,200’ MSL at times at 800 fpm just before the turnpoint and catch a glimpse of Vince and Bruce climbing just in front of me past the turnpoint. I’ll go on glide and come in under Vince twelve miles later in the only thermal that I’ll take on the last leg of the task. I’ll see 1000 fpm on the averager in this thermal.

The extreme turbulence that we experienced in thermals on the first leg disappeared at 3 PM, and the thermals have been much stronger, much smoother and we are getting much higher. I assume that the inversion breaking was related to this change in the characteristics of the thermals.

I will climb under Vince and Bruce to 10,500’ fifteen miles from goal. Paris will tell me later that when he comes along an hour after us he’ll find 1,200 fpm on the averager at the thermal at the turnpoint and 1,600 fpm on the thermal half way to goal. The clouds are just beginning to form when I get to the second turnpoint and there are a few wispies on the course going back to goal.

From fifteen miles out it’s a 10:1 glide to goal. Vince is two miles ahead and Bruce is about a mile ahead of me. I’m telling Belinda at goal to watch for two gliders and I’ll be right behind.

The lift is good going to goal until about 7 miles out where there is a stretch of 900 fpm down. I’m flying at about 55 mph air speed the whole fifteen miles only slowing up when the bumps from the lift get too hard.

Vince has a problem with his final glide calculator and stops to thermal as Bruce and then I pass unnoticed below him. Bruce will be first into goal and I’ll be a few minutes behind him. Vince will finally see that he can indeed make goal and come in a few minutes later. Then the wait is on for Ron to come in twenty minutes alter and Jim Yokum another twenty minutes later. Twelve out of fourteen rigids make goal.

While we are waiting for the rigids to come in the flexies start coming in with Paris Williams first. He found the strong lift and was able to run very fast. Curt warren came in with Paris but started 15 minutes earlier.

As the flexies came in two cloud streets set up along the course line coming into goal. We had seen the beginnings of these when we were coming in but now they were quite distinct. Still it didn’t help some flex wings who landed short. Bo just made it in by 4/10th of a mile. Rich Burton on a Stratos was just barely in the goal cylinder.

Flex wings:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 2 2:18:20 916
2 VOLK Glen Moyes Litespeed 2:21:47 833
3 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 2:33:41 783
4 SAUER Rich Icaro MRX 2:34:22 769
5 HAGEWOOD Bo Aeros Combat 2 2:37:41 705
6 COOMBER Kraig Moyes Litespeed 2:43:25 698
7 HAMILTON Robin Moyes Litespeed 4 2:48:40 632
8 BLOOM Phill Wills Wing Talon 2:57:15 615
9 ZIMMERMAN Chris Wills Wing Talon 150 3:00:25 592
10 LEE Jim Wills Wing Talon 3:12:55 554

Cumulative:

Place Name Glider Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 2 4998
2 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 4795
3 COOMBER Kraig Moyes Litespeed 4685
4 VOLK Glen Moyes Litespeed 4634
5 HAGEWOOD Bo Aeros Combat 2 4594
6 HAMILTON Robin Moyes Litespeed 4 4359
7 LEE Jim Wills Wing Talon 4300
8 SAUER Rich Icaro MRX 4269
9 ZIMMERMAN Chris Wills Wing Talon 150 4082
10 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 3972

Rigids:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 BARMAKIAN Bruce AIR Atos C 2:35:27 1000
2 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 2:38:00 937
3 ENDTER Vincent Icaro Stratos 2:40:09 901
4 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos 3:00:51 736
5 YOCOM James AIR Atos C 3:19:14 628

Cumulative:

Place Name Glider Total
1 BARMAKIAN Bruce AIR Atos C 5152
2 ENDTER Vincent Icaro Stratos 4809
3 SEABERG David Icaro Stratos 4345
4 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos 3946
5 BOWEN Campbell Flight Design Access 3921

Swifts cumulative (30 points separate them):

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 PORTER Brian Aeriane Swift USA 3632
2 NAKAMURA Junko Aeriane Swift Lite JPN 3613
3 MULHOLLAND Mark Aeriane Swift Lite USA 3602

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Millau, the gliders/the pilots

Wed, Jul 2 2003, 1:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Betinho Schmitz|comic|Comic Sans|competition|Europe|flood|Gerolf Heinrichs|Icaro Laminar MR|Lukas Bader|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|Sepp "Seppi" Himberger|sport|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

Let’s compare last year’s Europeans with this year’s pre-Europeans:

2002:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 RUHMER, Manfred Icaro Laminar MR700 AUT 6198
2 GEHRMANN, Guido Aeros Combat DEU 5818
3 BOISSELIER, Antoine Moyes Litespeed FRA 5685
4 HEINRICHS, Gerolf Moyes Litespeed AUT 5511
5 WALBEC, Richard Icaro Laminar MRX 14 FRA 5215
6 RIGG, Gordon Moyes Litespeed GBR 5115
7 Gerard, J.F. Moyes Litespeed FRA 4973
8 GUILLEN, Bruno Moyes Litespeed FRA 4905
9 BONDARCHUK, Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 4903
10 OLSSON, Andreas Moyes Litespeed SWE 4878

2003:

Pl.

Name

Glider

Nation

Total

1

RUHMER, Manfred, 2

Icaro Laminar 4.2

AUT

5891

2

PLONER, Alex, 91

Icaro Laminar 14 MR

ITA

5799

3

BONDARCHUK, Oleg

Aeros Combat 13

UKR

5680

4

ALONZI, Mario, 4

Aeros Combat 2

FRA

5598

5

NÉNÉ ROTOR

Wills Wing Talon 143

BRA

5258

6

BADER, Lukas, 114

Aeros Combat 2

DEU

5105

7

SCHMITZ, Betinho, 12

Moyes LiteSpeed S

BRA

5099

8

HEINRICHS, Gerolf, 3

Moyes LiteSpeed S4

AUT

5047

9

SALVENMOSER, Seppi

Moyes LiteSpeed 4

AUT

4896

10

WEISSENBERGER, Tom

Moyes LiteSpeed 4

AUT

4849

Obviously very good pilots on very good gliders like the Icaro200 Laminar do very well. The Aeros Combat 2 seems to have enticed more top pilots to be among its ranks, and with Lukas Bader doing very well the representation of this glider in the top ten has increased.

It seems that Nene and the Wills Wing Talon are quite competitive. With so few pilots in Europe or Brazil flying the Talon it would be hard to flood the top ten at the pre Europeans with Talon pilots. Perhaps others should consider Nene’s performance here. Only one US pilot was flying at this meet and he was flying a Talon.

The Moyes Litespeeds did not do as well as last year. I notice that Gerolf raced himself into the ground just before the goal on the last day dropping down three places. You go to win not come in fifth. The Moyes Litespeed remains a very popular glider, but it and its pilots are competing against other manufacturers and their top pilots, so it is very hard to completely dominate.

Congratulations to all the pilots and to the manufacturers for their consistent support of the sport. Congrats to Manfred for his consistent domination of this high level competition.

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Millau – they weren’t done yet

Mon, Jun 30 2003, 6:00:05 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Betinho Schmitz|Gerolf Heinrichs|Rob Kells|Sepp "Seppi" Himberger|site|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

I got confused by the Millau web site (its mostly in French), and thought the last results were the final results. Not true as Rob Kells points out. Final results (I think):

Pl. Name Glider Nation Total
1 RUHMER, Manfred, 2 Icaro Laminar 4.2 AUT 5891
2 PLONER, Alex, 91 Icaro Laminar 14 MR ITA 5799
3 BONDARCHUK, Oleg Aeros Combat 13 UKR 5680
4 ALONZI, Mario, 4 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 5598
5 NÉNÉ ROTOR Wills Wing Talon 143 BRA 5258
6 BADER, Lukas, 114 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 5105
7 SCHMITZ, Betinho, 12 Moyes LiteSpeed S BRA 5099
8 HEINRICHS, Gerolf, 3 Moyes LiteSpeed S4 AUT 5047
9 SALVENMOSER, Seppi Moyes LiteSpeed 4 AUT 4896
10 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes LS4 AUT 4849

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Millau

Sat, Jun 28 2003, 6:00:01 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Betinho Schmitz|competition|Gerolf Heinrichs|Lukas Bader|Moyes Litespeed|Sepp "Seppi" Himberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon|Worlds

http://millauclassic.free.fr/intro.htm

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 RUHMER, Manfred, 2 Icaro Laminar 4.2 AUT 4955
2 PLONER, Alex, 91 Icaro Laminar 14 MR ITA 4903
3 BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 1 Aeros Combat 13 UKR 4790
4 ALONZI, Mario, 4 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 4599
5 HEINRICHS, Gerolf, 3 Moyes LiteSpeed S4 AUT 4549
6 NÉNÉ ROTOR Wills Wing Talon 143 BRA 4420
7 BADER, Lukas, 114 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 4275
8 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 4213
9 SCHMITZ, Betinho, 12 Moyes LiteSpeed S BRA 4172
10 SALVENMOSER, Seppi Moyes LiteSpeed 4 AUT 4100

This is the final result.

Good to see Alex Ploner do so well. Now the flex wing boys know what we are up against in the rigid wing class. Also, Lukas Bader did very well relative to his previous performance. This looks like a tough crew here at the top for the Worlds in August.

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Millau

Thu, Jun 26 2003, 6:00:01 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|altitude|Betinho Schmitz|Bruno Guillen|Christian Ciech|cloud|competition|game|Gerolf Heinrichs|radio|Rick Christen|Sepp "Seppi" Himberger|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

http://millauclassic.free.fr/intro.htm

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 RUHMER, Manfred, 2 Icaro Laminar 4.2 AUT 3955
2 PLONER, Alex, 91 Icaro Laminar 14 MR ITA 3942
3 BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 1 Aeros Combat 13 UKR 3826
4 ALONZI, Mario, 4 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 3685
5 HEINRICHS, Gerolf, 3 Moyes LiteSpeed S4 AUT 3628
6 NÉNÉ ROTOR Wills Wing Talon 143 BRA 3473
7 SCHMITZ, Betinho, 12 Moyes LiteSpeed S BRA 3397
8 BADER, Lukas, 114 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 3336
9 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes LS4 AUT 3265
10 SALVENMOSER, Seppi Moyes LiteSpeed 4 AUT 3249

Saskia <staff@Icaro2000.com> sends this article from Christen Ciech:

Here we are, another time in this beautiful place. This time I'm competing with the flex wing (instead of rigid), because I need points and training for the next World Championship.

Unfortunately, it seems that I'm not in a good condition and in the first two tasks I miss the goal by many kilometres. Alex Ploner seems to be in the opposite condition: he's able to beat everybody and he's in first place, with a good advantage.

In the third day I leave the take off early to try to earn some points and position. It's the best day I ever seen here in Millau, but when I reach 3000 meters I'm still in a 3 m/s lift and Antonio Corradini calls me by radio to say that task is cancelled because the wind conditions at launch are bad. Bruno Guillen, on this day, climbs to 4200 meters over the first turnpoint.

On the 4th day, task is 121 km. Conditions are still good to the north but really difficult around the take off and start area. I leave with the top pilot's goggle at 15.15, but I chose a different direction and start flying by myself. I find very good thermals and easily climb to 3700 m and the task seems really easy. But on the way to the turnpoint I make some bad decisions about the lines to follow and lose 15 minutes.

The lead goggle catches me again and then over takes me. They are able to close the task because they make cloud base at 3000 m at 27 km from the goal. I reach only 2700 m and I miss the goal again. Alex Ploner was flying much faster than everybody, but he made a big mistake at that start and I lose 30 minutes of starting time. And he's still in front of everybody: it's incredible!!

Finally I'm able to reach the goal in the 5th day. We have a 70 km task from Serran take off, about 60 km south-east of Millau. With a maximum altitude of 1400 m the flight is technical even if it is all along some ridges. It seems to me that today I can understand a little more the conditions and close the day in 10th position.

Alex lost 8 minutes from Manfred who it seems doesn't want to play Alex's game any more. But after this day Alex is still leading the competition with only a one point advantage in front of Manfred and Oleg. Just the trip back to Millau in this beautiful landscape and magic light of sunset, it's a good reason to be here.

6th day is another non-fly day, because of a strong south-east wind.

7th day: It seems to me that I'm not able to fly as well as other times. 70 km of task with weak conditions at the beginning, with some high clouds that stop the sun light. I try to do the 14.00 start gate but before 15.00 I didn't reach the altitude; I thought it’s necessary to stay in the air. So I remain more or less alone and even if the thermals are pretty good, I can't fly very fast, because of the low base altitude.

I lost a lot of time and I close the task in 21st position. The fastest is Gerolf Heinrichs who completes the task in 1 hour and 36 minutes. With 1 hour and 51 minutes Manfred is second separated only few seconds from Oleg and Alex who loses first place overall. So Manfred first with about a 10 point advantage on Alex. Oleg is about 100 points behind.

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Millau

Tue, Jun 24 2003, 2:03:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Betinho Schmitz|Gerolf Heinrichs|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

http://millauclassic.free.fr/intro.htm

The report is that after five days Alex Ploner leads Manfred by 1 point.

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 PLONER, Alex, 91 Icaro Laminar 14 MR ITA 3082
2 RHUMER, Manfred Icaro Laminar 4.2 AUT 3081
3 BONDARCHUK, Oleg Aeros Combat 13 UKR 2965
4 ALONZI, Mario, 4 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 2914
5 SANDOLI, Alvaro, 11 Wills Wing Talon 143 BRA 2760
6 HEINRICHS, Gerolf, Moyes LiteSpeed S4 AUT 2682
7 SCHMITZ, Betinho Moyes LiteSpeed S BRA 2628
8 BADER, Lukas, 114 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 2621
9 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes LS4 AUT 2565

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Flytec/Quest Air WRE – ooh, this is fun

Tue, Jun 24 2003, 6:03:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alejandro Isaza|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bill Bolosky|calendar|Chris Muller|David Casartelli|Dragonfly|Dustin Martin|Flytec / Quest Air World Record Encampment 2003|Flytec 4030|George Longshore|Gerolf Heinrichs|Isaac William|Josh Cohn|Manfred Ruhmer|Markus Villinger|Niki Longshore|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paul Klemond|PG|Quest Air|record|Russell Brown|USHGA|US Nationals|weather|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

Yes, Flytec and Russell Brown from Quest Air are again sponsoring the WRE here in Texas. We appreciate the kind sponsorship from the super folks headquartered at Quest Air in central Florida. Three years ago they stepped into the breech when our arrangements with a Texas-based Dragonfly operation fell through, and they have been supporting us ever since.

George Longshore is letting us use his Dragonfly as a backup, although we haven’t needed it yet. Russell is the tug pilot for the Flytec Dragonfly. I think both of these ships will be going to the Texas Open after the WRE and then to the US Nationals in Big Spring.

Russell has to get going early in the morning as some of us are ready to go as soon as we think we can stay up. I was first off today at 9:40 AM quickly followed by Bo, Mikey, and Pete. Gary didn’t get towed up in the Sparrowhawk until 10:40.

Russell pulled me up to a little less than 1 km in height (which is 3,281’ AGL), a bit above cloud base and I took off to the north gliding through a canyon in the clouds. There was a 22 mph southeast wind and it was easy to glide far enough to feel like I could make the first highway 13 miles out with a little help from the clouds.

It was an eight mile glide until I hit lift at 900’ AGL. Now the game in the morning is survival, not racing. The idea is to stay in the air long enough for the day to get good enough so that you can race. And, you want to stay in the lift as the wind blows you at 20 mph downwind. You’ve also got to maneuver around the Laredo airspace.

With cloud base at 2,100’ AGL you don’t have a lot of time to find the lift before you hit the ground. Fortunately early in the morning the lift is much more closely spaced, and the clouds are pretty good indicators of some lift, even if it isn’t enough to keep you up.

Flying in Zapata is just as enjoyable as it gets. I’m glad I spent the previous week flying in the often light conditions in Wisconsin, because that’s what Zapata is like in the morning (and today, all day). You just slow that glider right down and milk every bit of lift as you climb up to the clouds. You need all the altitude you can get for when you have to jump cloud streets, and you know that the wind is doing all the work getting you down the course, so why not enjoy it.

One problem we noticed early about the day was the presence of cirrus clouds that were filtering the sunlight. I would have launched at 9 AM except for those clouds. The clouds continued throughout the day and kept the lift light. In fact the climb rates throughout my flight averaged 180 fpm, which is pretty weak for west Texas.

The winds have some east in them but a lot of south, and that made if very easy to get around the Laredo airspace. In fact I tracked 10 miles to the east of highway 83 heading toward Uvalde, which hasn’t been done since in the first year Dustin Martin mistook Interstate 35 for 83 and headed northeast toward San Antonio.

Pete went down right off tow not finding any lift. Bo tried to catch me and landed 45 miles out. Mikey hung on in weak conditions and was about 20 miles behind. We heard Dave Prentice and Chris Muller at the paragliding paddock towing up and getting out at around 11 AM.

As Mikey and I headed north we found weak climbs but fast glides at around 60 mph over the ground. Cloud base didn’t not rise much as we got 100 miles out. Our timing was great though. I was 100 miles out at 12:30 and I’ve only been able once to get that far faster. It looked like a record day if we could just get some higher climb rates and higher cloud bases.

I started racing a bit and entered an area that was completely shaded over assuming that as before I’d find lift somewhere. It was not to be and I went down 117 miles out near Crystal City at 12:57, 3 hours and 12 minutes into the flight. Mikey had been wondering about the flight and the conditions especially the weak climb rates for a while and decided as he needed a retrieve to land next to me.

A couple of minutes later Gary landed near Uvalde, fifty miles to the north, in the Sparrowhawk having hit a wall of cirrus that shaded the ground and cut off the cu’s. With the cloud base not rising, but the land rising 1,500’ he felt it was not worth proceeding. We could still hear Chris and Dave on the radio 50 miles behind us in good conditions, and there was significantly less cirrus to the south.

They caught up to our landing area at about 4 PM and continued on before they also hit the cirrus. Chris went down at 153 miles and Dave at 165. Their declared goal was over 200 miles out. They felt they were on a pace to set the world distance record before they hit the cirrus.

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We heard that two days ago Josh Cohn set the world paragliding distance to a goal record of 177 miles flying from Edinburg, Texas – seventy miles to our south. Now, of course, he already has the US record at 192 miles set two years ago in Zapata, so it is a bit strange that he has a new world record claim at a shorter distance and this initially confused us.

Here’s the report we received today. Paul Klemond <paul@kurious.org> sends this:

Yesterday, June 22nd Josh flew from the Edinburg International Airport, Texas to Carro Springs, TX a total of 177 miles. He launched at 10:30 am and landed at 6pm. Winds were around 25mph both on the ground and at altitude. Early on cloud base was only 2k ASL but eventually lifted to about 3k ASL. He says the cloud streets were great. He had 2 low saves which were pretty rough with the wind blowing everything apart. He had flown 90 miles the day before.

As you may remember, Josh submitted a 196 mile flight last year for a declared goal world record and the FAI eventually turned it down for a paperwork error. This time he thinks everything is exactly right for the new declared goal record.

He wanted to thank everyone for the help, especially Bill Belcourt for staying with him on chase. Josh loves his new Windtech Nitro and says the new Flytec 4030 really helped make it all come together.

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The report is that after five days Alex Ploner leads Manfred by 1 point.

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David Casartelli <david.casartelli@wanadoo.fr> writes:

We got an incredible day in Europe. It was the 22nd of June. The same day was incredible in Switzerland. I made the all tour of Mont-Blanc at 4650 meters (15,256’) altitude. I just missed the summit of Mont-Blanc for 210 meters. I was with a friend flying the Gin Gliders Boomerang III. We were higher than all the mountains of the Mont-Blanc Massif except the top of Europe.

First we were over the Aiguille Verte and les Drus (summit top is 4121 m, we were at 4650 m), then over Aiguille du Midi (top 3842 m, we 4002 m) after Bionnassay (top 4051m, we 4500 m), after Arête des Bosses (top is the Mont-Blanc 4810 m, me 4600m), then Aiguille de Peuterey (top 4100m, me 4550m), then over Tour Ronde, Helbronner, near Dent du Géant, Les Periades, Aiguille du Tacul, Aiguille du Moine, then come back in the Chamonix Valley.

We took of at 15h30 from the Plan de l'Aiguille and land at 18h30 in Chamonix. 3 hours of the best flight of my pilot life!

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Markus Villinger at Airwave <markus@airwave-gliders.com> writes:

This years (the 15th) ALPEN OPEN which took place June 6th - 9th in Gnadenwald near Innsbruck/Tyrol/Austria. The Alpen Open is one of the most popular XC hang gliding events. For two years it has been combined with a paraglider event.

The whole Austrian hang gliding (and paragliding) team competed as well as a lot of other European hot shot pilots.

The weather was great with spectacular flights on the "main ridge" of the Alps

Results:

Flex wings:

1st.) Manfred Ruhmer (Icaro Laminar MR 4.2) AUT

2nd.) Waldhart Stefan (Wills Wing Talon 150) AUT

3rd.) Metzler Florian (Icaro Laminar MRX) AUT

Rigid:

1st.) Trimmel Manfred (A.I.R. Atos) AUT

2nd.) Raumauf Toni (A.I.R. Atos) AUT

3rd.) Dunst Wolfram (A.I.R. Atos) AUT

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I mentioned noting that the AIR ATOS tail was shaking when I flew slow in Wisconsin (bar trim). I thought I would notice that here in Zapata also in the light conditions of the early morning flying. But, I haven’t felt any shaking at all, and I wonder if the temperature makes a difference?

It is very important to pull on your flaps when thermalling at ATOS-C. On the ATOS I hardly ever bothered, but with the ATOS-C I use the flaps a lot to slow down in the thermal and get a better climb rate as well as more control. If you’re not doing it, check it out because the difference is dramatic.

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Alejandro Isaza <alejoisaza@geo.net.co> writes:

I just finished two new pods for the Garmin GPS 76 series, one for Brauniger varios and the other one for Flytec varios.

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Bill Bolosky <bolosky@microsoft.com> USHGA president writes:

Rick is all worked up about the new section F in the waiver that says that the USHGA waiver supersedes local waivers. Tim (the USHGA lawyer, and author of the waiver) put this in because he was concerned that people would sign badly written local waivers, and then go into court and claim that the badly written waiver was binding and not the USHGA waiver. While this argument probably wouldn't work if the pilot was suing the USHGA, it's not as clear if he was suing the landowner or some other third party. The idea of part F is to keep that from happening.

Rick has decided that what part F really means is that the USHGA can use any version of the waiver that a pilot has signed, so that we're all bound by whichever version we signed that's strongest. I asked Tim (the lawyer) if this is the case. He said that that's not true, that the latest version of the USHGA waiver is binding and that the old ones are superseded by the new one. Rick (who's not a lawyer) said that he didn't believe Tim, and that he knows more about interpretation of contract language than a lawyer does. I respectfully disagreed with him. It seems absurd to take the opinion of an amateur over that of a professional on something like this.

The second question is about the meaning of the language at the very end of the waiver, where it doesn't use the term "Sports Injuries." Rick is worried that that paragraph expands the class of things that are waived. I think that it probably doesn't (and I'm sure that that was not the intention of it), but I wrote to Tim to get his opinion on it. I haven't heard back from him yet. When I do, I'll let Rick, the Oz Report and now all of these mailing lists know the answer.

Jones, Isaac William <isaac.W.jones@nasa.gov> writes:

In our zeal to protect our sport and obtain affordable liability insurance over the years, the scope of the USHGA "waiver" has gotten out of control. The "waiver" requires pilots (and many others) to accept inordinate risks not related to our sport. Additionally, the "waiver" bars any recourse a pilot may justifiably and legally have (can you say - kick a dog when he's down). EXAMPLE: Hanglider pilot flying at 2,000 feet AGL between turn points in a competition, over-flys a drunken irate farmer's property. Drunken irate farmer hates hang gliders. Drunken farmer whips out his trusty ole smoke pole (gun) and shoots pilot dead (lucky shot). Dead pilot and glider crash into drunken farmer's house. Drunken farmer can sue and collect from USHGA liability insurance for damages to house. According to the "waiver", pilot can't sue or collect for anything. Something is bad wrong with this picture.

Somewhere along the line we forgot about limiting the scope of the "waiver" to cover only those risks necessary for liability sake. If the farmer shot down a Cessna 150, killing the pilot, the outcome would be exactly opposite. The farmer would be jailed and the heirs of the 150 pilot would own the farm. The current "waiver's" underlining premise of "if you fly a hang glider then you've got to accept total and complete responsibility for anything that goes wrong regardless of the cause" is grossly defective and unjust to the pilot community for which the USHGA solely relies as its basis for existence.

Having said all that I can also say that I've been please with the improvements made by the current USHGA staff on other issues and it would be unreasonable for me or anyone else to think the staff can fix everything right now. The scope of the waiver should definitely make the "to fix" list.

(editor’s note: Well, now I’ve done it. I tried to get Rick Cavallaro’s concerns dealt with without too much ado, but it didn’t just quietly go away, so I felt I needed to at least present his argument. Me, I couldn’t care less. I’ll sign anything. Just let me fly.

Now I don’t want the Oz Report to turn into the waiver report, so at some point I’ll just cut this off and let it find its way back to the hang gliding digest or some such similar haunt.)

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Midwest Regionals – the final day

Sun, Jun 15 2003, 6:03:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Airborne Climax|barefoot|Bubba Goodman|Carl Wallbank|cloud|competition|cost|David "Dave" Glover|David Glover|flight park|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Moyes Litespeed|Oz Report|Paris Williams|photo|Raven Sky Sports|release|Rik Bouwmeester|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown|safety|sport|students|tug|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

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Have I said often enough just how much fun it is flying and competing here in the Midwest? Twin Oaks/Raven Sky Sports is a great flight park and the air conditions here in southern Wisconsin are phenomenal. We’ve had a great competition with seven days of flying out of nine days.

Competition developed out in the west with the big air conditions back in the days when hang gliders were more hang than glide. With the outstanding performance we can get from our super ships these days, we can have very valid competitions in areas where only short flights were possible in the past.

Competitions are competitions between glider pilots. Everyone is in the same conditions and you’ve got to see if you can do better than the next guy in whatever conditions you’re in. It doesn’t matter that conditions are “weak” and scratchy. If you can stay up in those conditions while everyone else goes slower or lands out than you’re the top dog. So what if it takes two hours to go twenty miles?

Any half witted hang glider pilot can get up and go far in strong conditions. Just what are competitions in such conditions telling us? Who can handle the rough stuff?

It takes real skills to be able to fly together with your friends in minimal lift conditions with no sunlight under black clouds.

Of course, not every day has been extraordinarily weak. We’ve had plenty of lift on most days and the last two days a significant number of the pilots have made goal. And as I found out on the practice day, conditions here can be booming, if you like that sort of thing (I don’t).

“Low and slow.” Didn’t that use to be a major identifier for hang gliding in general? Here in Wisconsin we are practicing it every day and frankly it is the most fun you can have in hang gliding. The country side is very beautiful here, the people are friendly, the fields are in clover (I’m flying barefoot). What more could you want?

Did I mention how great it was here at Raven Sky Sports? How well we’ve been treated by all the staff and the owner Brad?

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We didn’t get to see that much of Brad as he takes responsibility for the marketing, sales, and reservations end of the business (and he definitely has the feel of a business oriented type a guy) from his home office. It seems that Brad started off possessed like all other folks who are starting a new business with no money and almost succumbed to “founders” syndrome where the founder can’t ever let go of the business and let it grow.

Finally Brad realized he was either going to go nuts or he was going to hire good people and have them take responsibility for the flight park (and of course he had to get out of their way so they could). One way to do that is spend your time at home making sure that there are students coming to the flight park for lessons from your crew.

Thanks to Brad for making sure that we could come here and have a great competition and to David Glover for assuring him that it would all work out even if we didn’t have 50 pilots. Thanks also to Brad for his support for the Oz Report and for helping out with my tows in exchange for my weather forecasting. Forecasting has turned into a nice little income (actually cost reduction) supplement.

David Glover, America’s best meet director, has turned in another low key behind the scenes performance keeping everything working and letting the pilots make all the tough decisions – tasks, safety, and protests.

Speaking of tasks. The weather forecast was for stronger lift (400-500 fpm) and 15 knot winds out of the northeast. There would be cu’s, but little if any vertical development in them. Cloud base was predicted to be 6,000’, but the height of the lift was predicted to be 4,000’. Funny, that doesn’t really work out.

When we get out on the run way it looks a lot more northerly than easterly, so I go back and come up with a 44 mile task due south to a farm grass strip just south of I 90 in Illinois. After the launch window opens but before anyone goes we decide to use that task instead of the same task as yesterday. Our goal is to get two thirds of the pilots to goal.

There are cu’s but they are small. There is a big block of cirrus right over us which is cutting off the lift. The tug pilots take us to the east where the clouds are lining up pretty nicely.

Russell Brown is in second place and is the only pilot who has a chance to catch me on this last day. Paris is far ahead in first in the flex wings, but three pilots are close for second. Paris could be caught if he falls down.

We get towed over to the clouds but there is very little lift. We have to work everything we can find and the strong wind is pushing us to the southwest off the course line. I’m slowly climbing to cloud base with Chris Grzyb, but we are alone. I’m covering Russ but he’s gone back toward the air strip and is down to 300’. Ron Gleason has to land.

Chris and I are at cloud base at the start circle circumference, but there is no one to go with. I decide to fight back up wind to cover Russell as he is getting up with an ATOS pilot (Jim or Dave), but my Velcro on my nose nappy comes loose and the glider starts vibrating. I don’t know what the problem is by Chris can see it from above.

I get back to the air strip and after trying to get back up with all the flex wings and rigids now high above me decide to land and get towed back up. I find the problem with the nose cone right away and it is quite a relief to fix it.

I’m towed up just as the last start window starts and I release 6 minutes after it starts up high. After one else has taken the 1:45 PM start time and I’m starting at 2:08 for the 2 PM start time.

The wind turns out to have a lot of easterly component in it and there is a big blue hole to the south of the start window. I push southeasterly for six miles to get under some forming clouds and get my first lift out on the course line. I’m down to 1,200’ so I take the 60 fpm that is offered and stick with it for 12 minutes before I can slide with an extra 500 feet over to a better cloud and climb out to 4,000’ AGL. That thermal will average 300 fpm.

The next two which get me to 5,000’ AGL will average 600 fpm. Whoa, this is the best lift I’ve seen during the contest. My average climb rate over the task today will be 250 fpm, much better than any previous day.

The strong lift gets me fifteen miles down the course line and I finally see four flex wing pilots off to my right a mile. I won’t get any more strong lift, but I’ll get enough to get over 3,500’ AGL a couple of times. I haven’t seen Russell or any of the ATOSes and no flex wings other than the four to my right.

There are plenty of clouds in front of me and now the question for me is can I get in quick enough to beat Russell in speed or at least get close to him so that I can win the meet. Since I can’t see him I’ve got to keep trading off rates of climb (which are weaker now) with how fast I can get down the course.

Four miles out I’m down to 1,600’ AGL as I had assumed that I would have hit something a bit better after going on what I though was a final glide at 11 miles out at 3,500’ AGL. My IQ-Compeo was saying I had 650 feet above my best glide line. I was slowing the glide way down to 35 mph to make sure I was flying near best L/D speed (and , of course, I was watching the vario to make sire I was doing that).

I decided that I needed 500’ at 100 fpm in order to make it safely into goal, as the IQ-Compeo was telling me that I was only 100 feet over my best glide line. The height of above goal had been jumping all over the place just like it use to on the IQ-Comp (same algorithm).

I zipped on into goal with 400 feet at the quarter mile cylinder. Since I had been pulling in for the last two miles, it was clear that I would have made it without taking that last bit of lift and spending 5 minutes climbing 500 feet.

As I come over goal I see that Russell has just landed a couple of minutes before me. All the other rigids are there also. They all started 23 minutes before me.

Paris, Bo and Andreas are also there. They were the first three into goal coming into together after flying together within a few seconds of each other. Why didn’t Bo start doing this when the meet started?

Terry, Dennis, Chris, Bubba and Carl all come in a few minutes later. It is the first time Carl has made goal.

The goal is just a grass strip at a farm. Apparently no one had been flying out of it recently as the grass is a foot high. They have been mowing the lawn though, so we break down there. No one is home.

Flex wings today:

Place Name Glider Finish Total
1 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 15:14:44 971
2 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 15:14:46 948
3 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 15:15:05 922
4 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 15:48:23 627
5 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 15:52:04 599
6 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 15:52:43 592
7 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 16:05:37 520
8 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 382
9 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 188
10 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 134
11 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 129
11 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 129
11 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 129
14 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 0

Flex wings total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 4462
2 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 3912
3 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 4 3572
4 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 3498
5 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 2961
6 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 2785
7 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 2579
8 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 2039
9 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 1550
10 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 1505
11 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 1278
12 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 1226
13 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 751
14 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 550

Rigids today:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 1:41:37 938
2 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos C 1:44:48 831
3 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 1:46:26 802
4 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 1:43:56 799
5 LAMB James AIR Atos C 1:56:50 780

Rigids total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 4875
2 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 4518
3 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos C 3646
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 3200
5 LAMB James AIR Atos C 2990
6 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + 2026

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Midwest Regionals – cu nimbs and guys at goal

Sat, Jun 14 2003, 6:03:00 pm GMT

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The FSL forecast shows that there is the possibility of over development, but while I inform the task committee of this possibility I forget to mention it to the pilots. There is large patches of cirrus both north and south in the late morning, and the cu’s are forming slowly and they look soft and weak.

The wind dummies are up and staying up, so it’s a good sign. We’ve got the option of launching at 12:30 PM with a 2 PM start window (way more time than we need to get everyone in the air with four Dragonflies waiting to pull us up).

I notice that Jim Lamb is suiting up early and he’s thinking that its time to go soon after the launch window opens. The task is a 46 mile dog leg to the east south east, away from Class D airspace at Janesville and over to an airport at Monroe where hang gliding pilots use to truck tow.

The five rigid wing pilots all notice that Jim and Dave are getting ready so we all get ready and we are all in line together by ourselves as the flex wing pilots look on. No body wants to be left behind.

We’re up in a few minutes and it is a quick climb to cloud base at 4,400’. The flex wing guys get in line right behind us and everyone other than Paris who has been sitting around in a lawn chair is off before 1 PM. No waiting around today.

The cu’s get thicker and thicker and it looks like we won’t be waiting until the 2 PM start time. Dave Brandt heads out to the south and the rest of us rigid wing pilots up high follow him and Russell out toward the start circle. But Dave doesn’t get up and everyone but Russell turns back to get back up again with the flex wings.

Dave gets lower and lower out on his own, as he’s not willing to come back and join us low, and I’m wondering what the point is. This meet has taught us to work with our friends above all else, and I can’t figure out why Russell and Dave have gone out on their own, way early.

The rest of us are back working lift and getting back up to cloud base. We drift down wind under the clouds and get right up to cloud base and near the start circle circumference. I watch as Ron Gleason and Jim Lamb head out on course as I hold back. Three flex wings cross the line also. I wait and let them check out the lift out in front while I get to start my start time later than them.

Finally I head out and head right for the rigid wings who are five miles out. I get there with their altitude and I’m feeling great. We’ve got six guys together and it looks like we’ll have plenty of helpers.

Eleven miles out we encounter a large cu nimb just to our south. We are working on the northern edge of the cu nimb. The ground is completely shaded. The cu-nimb stretches to the west for another fifteen miles. Thank goodness we are just on the northern side of the cu-nimb and the winds are out of the northeast.

Brad sends over this graphic that shows the raining part of the cu-nimb.

We climb up slowly at first with everyone looking around. Jim and Ron are just above me climbing a little bit better. I have no idea where Russell is.

I’m looking back and seeing Rik Boumeester flashing his wings in a high bank. Ron and Jim who were just above me have gone further along the course line and don’t see Rik a few hundred feet behind us. I go over to him and soon Krzysztof Grzyb and I are two thousand feet over the five guys who’ve gone ahead.

The cu-nimb is right next to us as we head west quickly trying to run past it. Everything is as dark as can be, both the sky and the ground. We continue to find bits of lift on the edge of the cu-nimb and we can see the rain coming down five or ten miles to the south.

As we are circling up I see a lightening strike to the south about five miles away. I’m wondering if the cell is going to come our way. I can see that if we go another ten miles to the west we should be able to get around the storm. I’m hoping that there aren’t any gust fronts or more lightening.

I’m nervous about the storm so I’m leaving lift earlier than usual. I’m leaving everyone behind and I got out fast on my own hoping to get away from the storm. Whoa, I’ve caught up with Russell. I come in under a few hundred feet below him. It is great to be able to cover Russell.

We’re almost to the Albany turnpoint and I climb back to cloud base as Russell heads out. I can see a few of the guys I was with behind me getting up from below. I’ve got to hang with Russell now.

Things are happening fast as it is only an eleven mile leg to goal. I’m at 4,000’ AGL 14 miles out, three miles before the turnpoint. I’m hoping that this is enough with a good tail wind to make it to goal.

Nine miles out I see Russell come in a few hundred feet over my head. We work a bit of lift gaining two hundred feet. I can see the guys behind me at the turnpoint climbing high. Given how low they were when I left them, they must have found much stronger lift than I did.

Four miles out from goal I’m at 1,250’ AGL. That’s a 17:1 glide to goal, so I decide to take the weak lift I’m in and climb 500 feet. Russell continues on to goal to get there first. A few of the pilots behind me catch up and keep going just over my head.

I will have the extra 500’ when I get to goal with 500’ to spare.

Paris started late at 1:45 PM and wins the day getting to goal as the first flex wings. Ron gets across the goal line a few minutes before me. Bubba, Chris and later Dennis comes in.

All the times get moved to 2 PM as everyone started before the 2 PM start clock. The finish times just represent there total time to goal.

Flex wings today:

Place Name Glider Finish Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 15:20:06 932
2 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 15:34:24 776
3 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 15:35:28 756
4 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 15:36:56 742
5 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 464
6 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 452
7 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 420
8 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 357
9 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 351
10 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 327
11 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 258
12 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 68
13 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 59
14 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 0

Flex wing totals:

Place Name Glider Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 3556
2 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 2997
3 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 2987
4 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 2899
5 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 2461
6 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 2209
7 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 1679
8 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 1669
9 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 1416
10 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 1378
11 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 1035
12 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 971
13 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 631
14 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 409

Rigids today:

Place Name Glider Finish Total
1 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos C 15:35:27 986
2 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 15:36:03 930
3 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 15:45:16 793
4 LAMB James AIR Atos C 15:53:01 718
5 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 274

Rigids total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 4076
2 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 3716
3 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos C 2815
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 2262
5 LAMB James AIR Atos C 2210
6 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + 2026

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Midwest Regionals – sunshine, cu’s, goal finishers

Fri, Jun 13 2003, 6:03:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Airborne Climax|altitude|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|Carl Wallbank|cloud|competition|Dave Brandt|gaggle|James "Jim" Lamb|Jim Lamb|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|photo|polar|Rik Bouwmeester|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown|safety|sport|tail|Terry Presley|triangle|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

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While it has been great fun flying in overcast conditions here in Whitewater, Wisconsin (half way between Milwaukee and Madison in southern Wisconsin) today we were actually blessed with sunshine. While it has been a while since we’ve seen that luminescent orb during the flying part of the day, we quickly adjusted ourselves to the prospect of calling a task and having pilots actually make it back to goal.

There was a low pressure centered off to our southwest with an east/west front in Illinois. We could see the upper level clouds from the front overhead as the task committee met. The one o’clock BLIPMAP showed weak lift, and very low cloud bases but the 3 PM FSL chart showed good lift and high bases (4,000’ MSL). At least they both agreed that the winds would be light.

Given that we are conflicting forecasts for lift and heights we called two triangle tasks to the south (hoping for the flatter, hotter bare field to the south), one fifty miles and one thirty. A short time later Jim Lamb who had suggested we go south, thought better of his suggestion given that the southern sky had the high clouds and the weaker looking cu’s underneath. I came up with a 50 mile triangle task to the north and east.

As one o’clock rolled around the high clouds had disappeared as the front headed off to the south and east. There were cu’s ever where and it looked like it might be possible to go 50 miles, and not settle for a 32 mile out and return, which was now our secondary option.

I got towed up after Bo and immediately climbed out to 4,000’ MSL and cloud base. We were repeatedly able to touch the bottoms of the clouds today without any fear of being sucked up given the light lift.

The cu’s got big, and the ground got dark. In spite of all the sunshine it would have been good to use the yellow lens, but I had my orange ones.

Everyone was getting up under the dark cu’s and shaded ground and we all gathered up to take the first clock at 2 PM. Might as well if everyone else will go with you.

There is a northeast wind going to the first turnpoint, and we don’t get out very far as we find the first lift, after leaving the three mile radius start circle at cloud base. At 3:11 (four minutes before the next start window), we have drifted back right next to the start circle. Still no one goes back to take a new start time. Paris and a few others have been holding back and will take the 2:15 PM start time.

Half the field is with us as we head out after climbing almost back to cloud base. The ground is shaded ahead and there are dark cu’s everywhere. It is hard to find any sunlight. But, then, this is what it has been like the past few days, so it is not a great worry. We are already getting 1,400’ higher than we were over the last two days, so a little (or a lot) of shading doesn’t hold that much terror for us.

While a couple have dropped out, we climb back to cloud base at 4,300’ MSL and look out to more shading, but now under clouds that are flat and gray, not puffy and back. It looks like a dead zone in front of us, and we are slowly progressing into the wind toward the first turnpoint nineteen miles to the northeast.

A few flex wings are out in front and Bubba finds very light lift at 800’ AGL under the a gray sky with the tiniest bit of light on the ground. Soon there are eight of us in the gaggle. Luckily I’m on top, because the middle six are all on the same level with Terry Presley on the bottom. Six pilots have to learn to get along on their marry-go-round and I merrily float above them as though I had hollow bones or an extra hit of helium.

It takes 17 minutes to climb 1,000’. The clouds disappear and there is sun every where and we get over a hot spot to the north and we get up to 4,500’. Now the dark clouds are much further apart. There is sun on the ground and things are looking better.

I’m with Ron Gleason and Russell Brown on rigids and Terry Presley on a flex. As we approach the first turnpoint I can see four flex wings to the south high, obviously a mix of later starters and some of the flex wings from our previous gaggle. Ron heads out first toward the turnpoint as Russell and I hold back. Ron gets ahead by finding a good thermal on his own just before the turnpoint.

The flex wings from the south, Russell and I come in under Ron, get high fast and I make the turnpoint as Russell has already taken it.

Now it is a chase as Russell, Dave Brandt in an ATOS, and I push to catch up with Paris Terry, Dennis and Ron. We are just behind and below them in the next thermal and Paris, Ron and Russell get away from the four of us five miles before the second turnpoint. We can see them getting high two miles before the turnpoint as we work a thermal also getting high two miles back.

Terry, Dennis and I get to the cloud that Paris, Ron and Russell left five minutes previously and we climb to almost 5,000’ two miles before the second turnpoint. I head out as we hit cloud base on a mission to catch up with Russell so that he doesn’t gain too many points on me.

I find Dave Brandt south of the turnpoint as he didn’t go to the good cloud with us. We’ve got a sixteen mile leg back to Twin Oaks, due south with an east wind (just as forecast). I spot Paris way high above and out in front of me climbing under very small clouds. He’s right on the course line so I go for him and start climbing in lift that averages 200 fpm. Good for the day that averages 130 fpm.

I’m down to 2,400’ AGL when I enter the thermal and 13 miles out. I climb to 3,500’ AGL before it gets weak. It’s 19.6 to 1 to get to goal. My IQ-Compeo says I’m 350’ above the best glide line. It must think I’ve got a tail wind. My polar is about 17 to 1 at best L/D speed of about 32 mph.

I go on glide as I can see good clouds ahead of me if I need any lift. I’m watching the final glide calculator. I’m aware that the goal is a quarter mile cylinder so I have a little extra margin of safety.

At eleven miles out I come in under the clouds Dennis and Terry are way back below me and Dave has gone way off to the east to get under some clouds. I get 500 fpm as I glide straight. The vario says I have the goal so I just push out and don’t turn. I climb 400’ and am at 3,500’ AGL 10.5 miles out. It’s a 15.8 glide to goal. The IQ-Compeo is saying I’m 1250 feet over the best glide line and that I’ve got goal by 1,250’.

I keep flying straight given the IQ-Compeo reading and my feeling that I’m going to make it. Also I really want to catch up with Ron and Russell and I know they aren’t at goal yet, but I haven’t seen them.

As I keep gliding suddenly I see Ron and Russell 700 feet above me a mile to my right more on the course line. They are just a little in front of me and now I’m sure that I have to keep gliding so that they don’t get into goal too far in front of me.

I glide for 10.5 miles in sixteen minutes averaging 39 mph over the ground. I tried to fly at the indicated best L/D speed over the ground. My average rate of sink over the last 10.5 miles was 220 fpm.

I came into Twin Oaks at 100 feet over the quarter mile cylinder and would have made the goal with zero altitude to spare. I didn’t speed up at the last minute I’ll tell you that.

I wonder what happened to the 1,250 feet of extra room over the best glide line. Was I just going too fast? Perhaps I should just have made sure that my air speed was 32 mph.

Ron and Russell are first and second into goal. I’m two minutes behind Ron. Paris uncharacteristically came in high behind me, but won the day as he started at 2:15 PM.

Terry and Dennis were able to get to goal also along with Dave Brandt. Campbell Bowen left to go to a wedding so he wasn’t here to fly the last three days of the meet. We will fly through Sunday.

Paris moved from third to first and Andreas moved from first to third. Terry Presley stayed in second.

Flex wings today:

Place Name Glider Finish Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 17:03:10 906
2 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 17:22:04 749
3 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 17:22:36 737
4 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 474
5 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 333
6 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 328
7 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 238
8 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 182
9 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 163
9 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 163
9 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 163
9 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 163
13 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 0
13 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 0

Flex wing total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 2766
2 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 2656
3 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 2637
4 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 2338
5 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 1747
6 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 1497
7 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 1352
8 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 1336
9 MORRIS Dan Wills Wing Talon 954
10 CIZAUSKAS Rich Wills Wing FusionSP 783
11 BURICK Carl Airborne Climax 765
12 BOUMEESTER Rik Aeros Stealth 750
13 DUGGAN Dan Icaro MR700WRE 569
14 GILLETTE Rhanor Wills Wing Ultra Sport 163

Rigids today:

Place Name Glider Time mph Total
1 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos C 2:59:52 17.03 1000
2 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 3:00:32 16.97 946
3 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 3:01:48 16.85 908
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 3:22:08 15.16 739
5 LAMB James AIR Atos C 209
6 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + ABS 0

Rigids total:

Place Name Glider Total
1 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 3146
2 BROWN Russ Flight Designs GhostBuster 2923
3 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + 2026
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 1988
5 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos 1829
6 LAMB James AIR Atos C 1492

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Midwest Regionals

Mon, Jun 9 2003, 6:03:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Andreas Olsson|Belinda Boulter|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|Carl Wallbank|cloud|competition|Dennis Pagen|gaggle|Ghostbuster|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|photo|Raven Sky Sports|Rik Bouwmeester|tail|Terry Presley|Wayne Sayer

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With a strong west wind we initially call a 75 mile out and return due south (east takes us into Milwaukee). But as we get ready to launch this task looks less and less like a good idea given the winds. We quickly switch to a crossing tail wind 35 mile leg to the northeast, and then a final 50 mile leg north-northeast along the coast of Lake Superior. We’re hoping for a little bit of convergence from an on shore flow going against the strong west wind. Maybe just enough to cut down on wind speed.

The BLIPMAP forecasts 500-600 fpm lift (not climb rates) and 7,000’ cloud bases at 1 PM. It sure is looking a lot lower than that at noon, about 4,000’ MSL, and it’s not clear that it is going to get warm enough on the ground to get us that high.

Bo is off first at 12:20 and I’m right behind him. We’ve got 1 to 1:30 PM start window times with 15 minutes intervals. I climb out to cloud base at 4,400’ MSL and immediate head to the north to get at the top of the five mile start circle, so that I can be upwind of the northeast leg with the west, northwest wind.

I hang out there for almost an hour until finally Campbell Bowen, Terry Presley, Andreas Olsson, Wayne Sayer, and Dennis Pagen join me just before the 1:30 and last start time. Bo has already taken an earlier start time thinking that I went on course, when in fact I went five miles to the north. He’ll find himself out there alone.

Given the strong winds (measuring 16 mph), I am absolutely not going to get caught down wind of the first turnpoint and keep pushing north, assuming that I’ll drift to the east when ever I’m thermaling. The rest of the pilots started the task along the course line or down wind of it so we don’t ever see them.

Given my paranoia about not getting caught down wind, I’m soon on my own as the rest of the gaggle moves along the course line to the northeast, except for Campbell whose just south of me. Ten miles out I find myself down to 240’ AGL, but I’m in zero sink. The wind is blowing fiercely and this is usually a bad combination – light lift, strong winds, down low. But this time it works out as with a help of a couple of hawks I slowly climb out to 2,000’ AGL.

There are cu’s every where and the forecast was for strong lift, but other than right over Twin Oaks airport and Raven Sky Sports, the lift has been very light. I’d already warned myself that I had to be especially careful, now I had just been given another warning and a reprieve. Fifteen minutes later I was back down to 450’ AGL.

Two warning and now I was going to make sure that I started working weak lift a lot earlier and not wait until I got too low. The average rate of climb during the task for me was 150 fpm, which is pretty darn low. So much for the forecasted lift. I should have paid more heed to the FSL chart which showed that the lift wouldn’t be as strong as forecast by the BLIPMAP.

With more patience I spend more time in the weak lift (rarely finding any better) and start getting a lot higher. Still it takes a little over two hours to cover thirty five miles. Getting low really slows you down. Weak lift doesn’t help either.

I find the best thermal of the day right at the turnpoint northwest of Milwaukee, and climb to a little over 5,000’ MSL. Campbell Bowen joins me for the ride up, the first pilot I’ve seen in a while and when we head out we almost immediately catch up with Terry Presley and Andreas Olsson.

It’s great to have three more pilots to help out finding the lift and we worth together heading north-northwest trying to stay upwind of the course line. Campbell gets low about eight miles out from the turnpoint as the three of us head northwest to get on the front side of some clouds and avoid the blue hole to our north. This turns out to be a mistake and looking back on it we should have gone northeast to the clouds more on course line. We’re still trying to make our way upwind, when the winds have actually died down some.

It’s a long glide and Terry Presley gets a bit lower and lands. Andreas finds the light lift a mile behind me at 500’ and I go back to join him. The lift is extremely light and we spend the next twenty minutes gaining 2,000’. Andreas is about 500’ over my head having reached the lift first.

It’s now 6 PM and the day is dying. We are still more than 30 miles out. Terry Presley on the ground calls Belinda up and tells here how impressed he was with our low save and that Campbell is high to our east, more on the course line.

Andreas and I work out way slowly to the north working very light lift under any clouds we can get to, but they are drying up, there is cirrus overhead to the north, the sun is filtered and at about 25 miles out the cu’s give out. We land about two miles apart. Campbell is able to eek out another mile and a half not having to make the save that we did.

Flex wing round two:

Place Name Glider miles Total
1 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 62 900
2 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 53.1 813
3 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 42.9 697
4 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 4 41.1 675
5 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 30.9 540
6 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 22 430
6 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 21.9 430
8 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 19.9 400
9 MORRIS Dan 17.8 363
10 BURICK Carl 16.2 331
11 BOUMEESTER Rik 15.5 316
12 CIZAUSKAS Rick 7.3 131
13 DUGGAN Dan 0 0

Cumulative:

Place Name Glider Total
1 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 4 1556
2 PRESLEY Terry Moyes Litespeed 4 1301
3 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 1287
4 PAGEN Dennis Moyes Litespeed 4 1059
5 GRZYB Krzysztof Icaro MRX700 841
6 SAYER Wayne Moyes Litespeed 3 831
7 GOODMAN Bubba Moyes Litespeed 4 753
8 HAGEWOOD Robert Aeros Combat 2 752
9 MORRIS Dan 524
10 BURICK Carl 498
11 BOUMEESTER Rik 483
12 CIZAUSKAS Rick 334
13 DUGGAN Dan 139

Rigid wings, round two:

Place Name Glider miles Total
1 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + 63.4 900
2 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 60.3 868
3 BROWN Russ Flight Designs Ghostbuster 32.2 501
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 22 385
5 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos-C 19.9 358
6 LAMB James AIR Atos C 12.6 239

Cumulative:

Place Name Glider Total
1 BOWEN Campbell Flight Designs Axxess + 1800
2 STRAUB Davis AIR Atos C 1768
3 BROWN Russ Flight Designs Ghostbuster 1400
4 BRANDT Dave AIR Atos 877
5 LAMB James AIR Atos C 731
6 GLEASON Ron AIR Atos-C 565

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Canadian Nationals »

Mon, May 12 2003, 5:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|competition|Mark Dowsett|Mauricio Hoyos|Moyes Litespeed|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

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Mark Dowsett reports on the Canadian Nationals:

Place Name Glider Time Total
1 HAZLETT, Brett, 10 Moyes Litespeed 1:07:53 928
2 DOWSETT, Mark, 6 Moyes Litespeed 1:07:54 914
3 REMPEL, Jeff, 22 Airbourne Climax 2 1:52:30 738
4 BORRADAILE, Tyler, 2 Aeros Combat 2 686
5 BRITTINGHAM, Mauricio, 3 Wills Wing Talon 657

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Paris on the Aeros Combat 2

Sat, Apr 26 2003, 1:00:03 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|competition|Florida|gaggle|Gerolf Heinrichs|injury|landing|Paris Williams|sprogs|Wills Wing|XC

Paris Williams <parisflies@hotmail.com> writes:

It seems that Robert Handmart and his friends have been having fun drawing a lot of false conclusions about Oleg and the Combat 2, so I feel compelled to try to set a few things straight:

"While Manfred and Oleg seem busy to make their own one-off gliders perform good, that Litespeed makes everyone happy!"

I can't speak for Manfred and his glider, but I distinctly remember one occasion when Gerolf told the audience upon receiving a first-place trophy that "he was holding a little something back." Perhaps just his way of a joke, who knows?

As for Oleg, there's no question in my mind that Oleg's not hiding anything from us other competitors or the public about his personal glider. Oleg and I have become really good friends in the past few years, and what's probably impressed me most about the man is his pure-hearted honesty and genuine humility. Typical human nature does not make it easy for one to climb to the top of the ladder and still treat others with genuine equality, and yet Oleg always seems to find the time for anyone.

Here's a story that shredded any remaining doubt in my mind that he might be trying to hide some secret advantage over his fellow Aeros competitors: Last year, when the new gliders arrived for the Florida Comps, Oleg and a fellow competitor were standing over two new Combats, and Oleg asked him which one he wanted--the fellow competitor picked one, Oleg took the other and then proceeded to kick everyone's butt at both meets.

This year, the only difference between the competitors' Combats from the previous stock combats are new lighter leading edges. Aeros wanted the competitors to try these out before introducing them to the market, in hopes that the handling would be improved while not harming performance. We've definitely found this to be true (the handling was lightened significantly while performance didn't suffer), and now these new leading edges come stock on the latest Combat 2's (and can be installed in older models). The only other thing we did to tune our gliders differently than stock Combats was to lower the sprogs a bit. Of course anyone can drop their sprogs if they like, if they're willing to take the risk of flying a glider with reduced pitch moment.

So I can personally verify that the only difference between Oleg's Combat, my Combat, and the Combats sold to the public, are the positions of the sprogs.

"We saw from your report that Paris Williams left Icaro now to try Aeros - with only little success so far!"

So why were my latest results a bit lower than average? (9th place at Flytec, and Incomplete at Wallaby due to an injury on launch) Well, for one, I don't claim to have the experience level of pilots like Manfred and Oleg who've been competing steadily for over 17 years (this is only my 5th year competing), and two, there's always a "dialing in" period for any new glider (it's always been realistically about 20 hours for me).

My very first thermaling flight on the Combat 2 was day one of the competition! Not ordinarily a wise choice to fly a new wing at a big meet, but I definitely don't regret it. Considering that, I'm pretty happy to get into the top ten. I was actually feeling more dialed after two days than I'd ever felt on the Laminar, but since my first two days weren't so good, I took a lot of big risks in my strategy during the remaining days to try to make up, and unfortunately the big risks didn't always pan out.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the glider--I didn't give up any performance at all (in glide nor, surprisingly, in climb, nor in ease of landing) going from the Laminar to the Combat, but I've gained a lot more handling and quick maneuverability which has helped me to work through my "gaggle aversion" and wrestle it out with the thick gaggles a lot better (something that has always been a weakness of mine).

"To us it looks like lately only Moyes cares for the ordinary XC and competition pilots. The Florida results/reports show this also quite clear."

OK, let's look at the top ten results at Flytec: Out of the 68 full time (no absences) competitors, there were 27 Litespeeds, 11 Laminars, and 9 Combat 2s. In the top 10, there were 6 Litespeeds, 1 Laminar (Manfred), and 3 Combat 2s.

33% of the Combat 2’s made the top 10; 22% of the Litespeeds made the top 10; 9% of the Laminars made the top 10 (though winning the meet).

And if you want to talk about taking care of ordinary pilots, why not take a look at the prices?

(editor’s note: For the Wallaby Open, the numbers are: 22% Combat 2, 23% Litespeed, 12.5% Laminar, 0% Wills Wing, Avian, La Mouette, Airborne)

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The 2003 Wallaby Open

Sat, Apr 26 2003, 5:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Betinho Schmitz|David "Dave" Glover|Eric Raymond|Icaro Laminar MR|Jerz Rossignol|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|picture|Wallaby Open 2003|weather|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon|Zapata

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Heavy rains during the night.

Overcast in the morning. The forecast is for improving weather during the day, but not enough improvement as the winds are predicted to be even higher than yesterday. Winds measured by the buoys are already over 20 knots.

The overcast goes away around 1 PM, and we have blue skies with cu’s at 1,500’ to 2,000’ with winds out of the west.

Things change. The provisional results I received earlier had something wrong with them, so here are the latest results:

Flex wings:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 BONDARCHUK Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 3984
2 HAZLETT Brett Moyes Litespeed 4 CAN 3728
3 SCHMIDT Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 3723
4 BOISSELIER Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3721
5 WALBEC Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3670
6 COOMBER Kraig Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 3599
7 DURAND Jon Jr. Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 3586
8 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 3567
9 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 3518
10 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3511
11 LEE Jim Wills Wing Talon 150 USA 3501
12 CAUX Raymond Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3472
13 BESSA Carlos Wills Wing Talon USA 3434
14 OHLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 5 SWE 3297
15 WOLF Andre Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 3290
16 ROTOR Nene Wills Wing Talon BRA 3232
17 CASTLE Kari Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 3025
18 MULLER Chris Wills Wing Talon 150 CAN 3022
19 RICHARDSON Ron Avian Cheetah GBR 2914
20 ROSSIGNOL Jerz Icaro Laminar USA 2840

A picture of Oleg from Dave Glover.

Rigid wings:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 PLONER Alex Air Atos C ITA 4512
2 CHAUMET David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 4140
3 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 3988
4 BARMAKIAN Bruce Air Atos USA 3707
5 POSCH Johann Air Atos C AUT 3414

Alex Ploner taken by Dave at Zapata.

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The 2003 Wallaby Open

Fri, Apr 25 2003, 8:00:01 pm GMT

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The FSL MAPS modeled data for Kissimmee:

Shows winds predicted to be up to 29 mph at 3,000’. The top of the lift is forecast to be 3,200’, with the lift predicted to be 400 fpm (subtract your sink rate). By five o’clock the top of the lift is forecast to be 2,600’ with the lift at 200 fpm.

There is a warm front to the northwest in Panama City in the Florida panhandle where there are presently (around noon) thunderstorms. With the strong winds we would have to call a task to the northwest toward the area of likely thunderstorms this afternoon.

Malcolm calls the day at the 10:30 AM pilot meeting, based on wind strength in the field itself. The forecasted wind conditions for tomorrow are for similar strengths with more of a west component.

Results so far:

Rigids who made goal on day five:

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 PLONER Alex Air Atos C ITA 2:06:49 988
2 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 2:06:51 973
3 CHAUMET David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 2:09:17 915
4 BARMAKIAN Bruce Air Atos USA 2:13:00 863
5 POSCH Johann Air Atos C AUT 2:13:49 848
6 POUSTINCHIAN Mark Air Atos C USA 2:14:16 837
7 STRAUB Davis Air Atos C USA 2:14:48 827
8 GLEASON Ron Air Atos USA 2:15:03 821
9 YOCOM Jim Air Atos C USA 2:15:26 814
10 ENDTER Vince Icaro Stratos USA 2:17:41 792
11 BOWEN Campbell Flight Design Axxes USA 2:25:03 733
12 PAQUETTE Eric Air Atos CAN 2:29:04 704
13 LAMB Jim Air Atos C USA 3:06:31 497
14 VAYDA Tom Air Atos USA 3:13:23 464

We averaged 27 mph, which is pretty slow, given the fact that we averaged 36 mph on the last and longest leg.

Rigids after five days (and likely the final results):

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 PLONER Alex Air Atos C ITA 4515
2 CHAUMET David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 4144
3 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 3988
4 POSCH Johann Air Atos C AUT 3424
5 BARMAKIAN Bruce Air Atos USA 3391

As at the 2002 Worlds, Alex, Christian, and David are in a separate class from the rest of us duffers. Christian just missed goal one day or he would be in a tight contest with his friend Alex for first place.

Flex wings:

On day five:

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 2:14:44 947
2 BOISSELIER Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:12:09 939
3 HAZLETT Brett Moyes Litespeed 4 CAN 2:16:48 920
4 WOLF Andre Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2:17:16 911
5 SCHMIDT Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2:13:17 907
6 ROTOR Nene Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:13:18 903
7 BONDARCHUK Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 2:13:19 900
8 WALBEC Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 2:13:36 893
9 BESSA Carlos Wills Wing Talon USA 2:15:35 862
10 LEE Jim Wills Wing Talon 150 USA 2:15:51 857

The pilots that started at 2:15 PM were the quickest into goal, not being held back by the lollygagging rigid wing pilots, but Manfred was first to goal, so that counted for something.

Yesterday, before the task, Manfred was in twelfth. Today after winning the fifth (and likely last) task:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 BONDARCHUK Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 4159
2 BOISSELIER Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3898
3 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 3765
4 DURAND Jon Jr. Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 3754
5 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 3684
6 BESSA Carlos Wills Wing Talon USA 3620
7 SCHMIDT Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 3554
8 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 3548
9 WALBEC Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 3488
10 OHLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 5 SWE 3468

Oleg benefited immensely when Manfred didn’t make goal two days in a row and he then kept the competition far away from him. Oleg ended up only 100 points behind Manfred at the Flytec Championships and when Manfred didn’t make goal at the Wallaby Open the first time, Oleg jumped ahead of him by enough points to make it very difficult for Manfred to catch him. Perhaps that was his consideration when he raced to goal and landed 1 mile short of Wauchula on day four.

Antoine, after not even registering on the applause-o-meter in Australia (but doing well enough to come in at 11th at the Flytec Championship), did very well at Wallaby. He was able to gain a few extra points on the fifth day by racing ahead and getting a minute on everyone else at goal. Funny how things change so rapidly.

After Paris and Mikey took themselves out of the competition, Curt flew well and was the first American. He was 10th at the Flytec Championship just behind Paris and ahead of Mike, so he definitely improved. Too bad he landed after gliding with me on the third day or he could easily have been in second place at the Wallaby Open. All he had to do was keep gliding over the Bok Tower. I would have appreciated his help at that point.

Carlos has yet to decide whether to fly for the Brazilians or on the American National team (if he makes it). He beat his fellow Brazilian Betinho after finishing at 16th at the Flytec Championship behind Betinho at 11th there.

Jon Durand Jr. finished very well again doing a little better overall in this competition than the last one where he was sixth. Jon is a strong pilot who is willing to take risks, and came out the top Australian in the Wallaby Open.

There were two Aeros Combats in the top ten at the Wallaby Open with Paris out and three at the Flytec Championship. This is certainly a jump in their top numbers.

Only Manfred is representing the Icaro 2000 Laminar in the top ten. Kari Castle on the Laminar did very well at the Flytec Championship to come in 14th (and perhaps hold her place on the US National team). At the Wallaby Open she dropped down a little to 16th, behind Jim Lee at 14th. She is still looking for a harness that works for her and doesn’t cause such pain in her chest (maybe I can get her to try my harness).

Moyes continues to win the numbers game with six Litespeeds in the top ten. Lots of pilots fly the Litespeed and many of them do well (right after Manfred and Oleg). Wills Wing had Carlos on the Talon, so that rounds out the top ten pilots.

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The 2003 Wallaby Open

Mon, Apr 21 2003, 8:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|aerotow|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|altitude|antenna|Belinda Boulter|Betinho Schmitz|Brett Hazlett|Bruce Barmakian|cart|Christian Ciech|cloud|competition|control frame|David Chaumet|dolly|Eric Raymond|fire|flight park|Florida|Flytec Championships 2003|gaggle|game|GPS|Icaro Laminar MR|insurance|Jerz Rossignol|Kari Castle|Mike Barber|Moyes Litespeed|Oz Report|Paris Williams|Quest Air|Steven "Steve" Pearson|survival|transport|Wallaby Open 2003|Wallaby Ranch|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

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In the competition between the flight parks, 93 entrants at the Wallaby Open and 110 for the Flytec Championship. I guess that bragging rights (for quantity at least) goes to the Quest Air Flight Park (largest aerotow meet ever).

Here at Wallaby the rigid wing class was decimated with the number of pilots falling from 28 to 17. You’d think that once that got here with their difficult to transport rigid wings, they would continue flying in the Wallaby Open.

The launch line on the first day.

So the top two American flex wing pilots have taken themselves out of this premier US competition. Yesterday Mike Barber cut open his knee (the pictures were gross and I publish the least gross one – see below) down to (but not into) the ligament. Today Paris Williams bounced off the cart and smacked into the ground taking out his control frame. You’d think he would be familiar with dolly launching at aerotow parks in Florida. ☺

The story according to Belinda who watched it happen (and who spoke with other observers) is that the cart hit a bump while he was going plenty fast (just at the point where you would take off), the glider came off the cart (Paris wasn’t holding onto the rope), his hands slipped off the control bar, and the Aeros control frame dug into the ground in front of the cart. The glider pancaked into the ground. People rushed over and took the glider off Paris who was then up and walking around. He didn’t fly the task.

Mike Barber didn’t fly the task today either. He is on crutches and happy enough with the fact that he will make the US team without doing well in these meets and get to go to Brazil. Same for Paris.

Speaking of the task here it is:

There are two separate tasks today for flex wings and rigids. The rigids are to start from a start circle seven miles to the south on highway 27, then go through the Bok Tower control point (to keep us away from the sky diving contest at Lake Wales airport), next to Avon Park airport (25 miles miles further south) and then back (through Bok Tower waypoint) and on to Wallaby Ranch. With a five mile start circle radius this puts are start point twelve miles to the south of the Ranch. A total of 81 miles.

The flex wings will be starting behind us (to the north) in order to separate the classes. The assumption being that it is harder for the flex wings to catch the rigid wings rather than the other way around. Their start circle is centered one mile north of the Ranch but with a five mile radius they will in fact be starting four miles south of the Ranch, eight miles behind the rigid wings. A total of 89 miles (from the edge of the start circle).

To keep the two classes further separated, the rigid wings will be starting at 1:15 only and the flex wings fifteen minutes later at 1:30 PM. That’s right it’s a race start, as predicted/urged in the last Oz Report.

With launch opening at noon there is plenty of time to get everyone off in time for the single start time. Many of us will get to the edge of the start circle twenty minutes early, but eventually everyone will be there. The lift is diffuse enough so that we don’t get in each others way too much.

I hear from Oleg that the flex wing start gaggle is not too bad either. There are plenty of cu’s with 4,000’ bases to choose from so perhaps they spread themselves out in a sensible fashion.

It’s great to have a race start. No worrying about whether someone is behind you catching you. You get to see all your competition and the guy in front is winning the day.

We are at cloud base at 1:15 as the start window opens and everyone together takes off spreading out to find the next lift. I’m on the left side with Alex Ploner wandering about. He’s got a good glide, but it seems only slightly better than mine. David Chaumet doesn’t display any better glide either. Interesting how things change each day.

Staying to the left I get a little better line and then hit the first thermal 3.5 miles out. Christian Ciech and the other pilots behind me come and join me, while David, Alex and a few others continue on not knowing that we are climbing behind them. We get a thousand feet on them right away as they don’t find any lift.

I’m leaving with Christian trying to keep him from getting away from the group (or at least from me). I’m just a few hundred yards behind him as we glide and a hundred feet below him climb through Bok Tower and to Lake Wales.

It’s a long glide into Lake Wales and Christian finds something that I can’t seem to find right under him. I’m down to 1,800’ when I get under him but under a cloud with lots of sunshine around and I go looking around for the lift. I don’t find any for eight minutes.

I will spend the next seven minutes below 750’ AGL, getting down to 340’ AGL. That’s fifteen minutes of rescue time, getting myself out of a hole that I have dug and back in the game. I just didn’t want to go back home tonight having screwed up so early in the task.

Fortunately the light lift that I find is next to the only cleared field within gliding distance, so I can both feel the comfort of turning low to the ground knowing that if I don’t get up I can land safely. This lets me let the bar out a bit more and milk the broken weak lift down low.

As I climb out of there I keep my head down and concentrate on survival keeping thoughts about my stupidity at bay. Just enjoy that fact that the lift is weak and therefore not too turbulent. As I climb up it turns on strong and within fifteen minutes I’m back at base. Almost a half hour of slowing myself down. Now it’s time to race.

I make a point of going for the clouds as I don’t have any pilots to help out. I get back on the course line upwind to the east over the lakes and find lift, while most pilots follow highway 27 to the left with few clouds. I can hear from Johann that the lead gaggle (minus Christian who is way out ahead) is only five miles in front of me. I catch most of them by the time we get to Avon Park taking a completely different course to the east.

Now I head downwind to the west to the clouds as the ground gets shaded from the high overcast. They are working great and I’m getting high under them while all the other pilots have disappeared.

The overcast gets darker as we approach Lake Wales and the Bok Tower turnpoint. I stop over a fire finding 100 fpm. Its light lift like this for the next nine miles as we creep toward the tower and I spot the other rigids circling near it.

Fortunately one of them finds strong lift in the sun to the north a mile as the high overcast begins to break up. I hook up with Mark P., and Johann, with Alex Ploner and Bruce Barmakian over us.

There are still plenty of shaded areas with light lift in front of us but we are back high enough to give a few areas a look see to see where the best of the light lift is.

Eight miles out and at 3,400’ high the Brauninger IQ/Comp tells me I can just make it to goal. Belinda, at goal, says Alex and Bruce just came in low and Christian came in a while ago. Well I’ll get a chance to see if the new version Brauninger behaves any differently as I go on glide. Will it be more stable?

An article in https://OzReport.com/pub/Ozv7n106.shtml describes the changes to the Brauninger IQ/Comp.

The sky is dark and so is the ground so I don’t expect to find any more lift, but I also didn’t expect to find any bad sink. There iss no wind (a report from Belinda confirmed this) and I figure there will be net no sink or lift going to goal.

Mark P. and Johann are way off to the right working a bit more lift as I continue on glide. They want the extra insurance.

The go to goal target showed up on the Brauninger, but I couldn’t tell if it was more stable than the previous version. It seemed that way but it was hard to tell for sure. Steve Pearson sent in the description that said a distance above your MacCready altitude would be displayed, but it wasn’t. This was perhaps because the go to goal symbol never flashed while I was climbing. Who knows?

I just saw that the vario said I could make it. I saw that my sink rate was 200 to 400 fpm. I saw how far out I was and how fast I was flying and could calculate how many minutes it would take to get to goal and whether I would still be in the air for that time period. It looked good to me.

I just kept the glider at less than 40 mph for the first six miles just to keep the needle at the best glide over the ground speed as I knew I was close to not making it. When I got within two miles at 1,200,’ I could go sixty mph with ease.

Fortunately our group was able to make it in before Manfred smoked the course starting eight miles and fifteen minutes behind us.

So Alex Ploner won the first day and Christian Ciech won the second day. At the moment David Chaumet’s Tsunami looks mortal, about the same as Christian and Alex.

It seems to me that pilot skills are really being tested here (and maybe a bit of the drag of harnesses and other bits). The gliders are very close to each other (with or without tails) and David’s may or may not be that much better. Alex and Christian are just much better pilots than the rest of us (at least that is my tentative conclusion based on my scraps of observations). Maybe I’ll get more relevant observations later.

One interesting twist was the fact that we had to go by the Bok Tower which is a place where we know that under some circumstances your GPS loses coverage. This is probably due to some nearby antenna that overpowers the GPS signal. Piltos were told that if their GPS coverage goes out but that their track showed them headed for the tower, they would get the turnpoint.

I’m thinking that if you get low near Chalet Suzanne (near Bok) your GPS signal goes out, but not if you are high. Mine does go out on the way back when I’m low, but I get a Mark Enter in the .25 mile circle just before I lose it completely. What luck.

It’s easy to see the Bok Tower so there is no problem flying close to it to get the waypoint. Hopefully all pilots will do this.

The story I heard from the flex wings is that on the way back it got very iffy near Lake Wales with light lift. Just the same as we experienced. The lead gaggle was low over the Orange Juice factory, and Manfred was climbing better than the rest of the group in the lift broken stuff.

He gets high enough to go search for better lift. Brett Hazlett who doesn’t get high enough goes with him and doesn’t make goal. The rest of the flex wing pilots know their place and work the light stuff until they do get high enough to move along.

Very preliminary results for day two:

Flex wings:

1 RUHMER, Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 13:30:00 17:03:05 3:33:05
2 WOLF, Andre Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 13:30:00 17:04:46 3:34:46
3 SCHMIDT, Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 13:30:00 17:06:49 3:36:49
4 BONDARCHUK, Oleg Aeros Combat 2 UKR 13:30:00 17:10:20 3:40:20
5 WALBEC, Richard Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 13:30:00 17:10:57 3:40:57
6 BOISSELIER, Antoine Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 13:30:00 17:11:28 3:41:28
7 WARREN, Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 13:30:00 17:12:02 3:42:02
8 MULLER, Chris Wills Wing Talon 150 CAN 13:30:00 17:12:23 3:42:23
9 CAUX, Raymond1 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 13:30:00 17:16:32 3:46:32
10 DURAND, Jon Jr., 49 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 13:30:00 17:38:42 4:08:42
11 GUILLEN, Bruno, 57 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 13:30:00 17:40:55 4:10:55
12 ALONZI, Mario, 23 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 13:30:00 17:42:28 4:12:28
13 DE LA HORIE, Geoffory Aeros Combat 2 FRA 13:30:00 17:43:02 4:13:02
14 CASTLE, Kari, 15 Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 13:30:00 17:44:15 4:14:15
15 ROSSIGNOL, Jerz, 14 Icaro Laminar USA 13:30:00 17:44:35 4:14:35

Totals so far:

1 RUHMER, Manfred, 85 Icaro Laminar MR AUT 2000
2 BOISSELIER, Antoine, 31 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 1842
3 WARREN, Curt, 13 Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 1764
4 WOLF, Andre, 97 Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 1764
5 DURAND, Jon Jr., 49 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 1762
6 WALBEC, Richard, 94 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 1715
7 SCHMIDT, Betinho, 30 Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 1684
8 BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 33 Aeros Combat 2 UKR 1675
9 ALONZI, Mario, 23 Aeros Combat 2 FRA 1588
10 CAUX, Raymond, 51 Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 1574
11 CASTLE, Kari, 15 Icaro Laminar MR700 USA 1471
12 LEE, Jim, 20 Wills Wing Talon 150 USA 1418
13 OHLSSON, Andreas, 108 Moyes Litespeed 5 SWE 1397
14 BESSA, Carlos, 16 Wills Wing Talon USA 1370
15 HAZLETT, Brett, 59 Moyes Litespeed 4 CAN 1368

Rigid wings:

1 CIECH, Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 13:15:00 16:23:24 3:08:24
2 PLONER, Alex Air Atos C ITA 13:15:00 16:47:27 3:32:27
3 CHAUMET, David La Mouette Tsunami FRA 13:15:00 16:50:45 3:35:45
4 YOCOM, Jim Air Atos C USA 13:15:00 16:50:47 3:35:47
5 BIESEL, Heiner Air Atos C USA 13:15:00 16:55:12 3:40:12
6 POSCH, Johann Air Atos C AUT 13:15:00 17:00:39 3:45:39
7 STRAUB, Davis Air Atos C USA 13:15:00 17:00:43 3:45:43
8 POUSTINCHIAN, Mark Air Atos C USA 13:15:00 17:03:03 3:48:03
9 BRANDT, David Air Atos USA 13:15:00 17:04:57 3:49:57
10 PAQUETTE, Eric Air Atos CAN 13:15:00 17:12:52 3:57:52
11 GLEASON, Ron Air Atos USA 13:15:00 17:19:27 4:04:27

Totals after two days:

1 CIECH, Christian, 114 Icaro Stratos ITA 1781
2 PLONER, Alex, 121 Air Atos C ITA 1687
3 CHAUMET, David, 113 La Mouette Tsunami FRA 1511
4 POSCH, Johann, 122 Air Atos C AUT 1343
5 BIESEL, Heiner, 3 Air Atos C USA 1326

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The 2003 Flytec Championship

Fri, Apr 18 2003, 6:00:02 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Airborne Climax|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Christian Ciech|cloud|competition|Curt Warren|Dave Carr|David "Dave" Glover|David Chaumet|David Glover|Florida|Flytec Championships 2003|gaggle|GPS|Icaro Laminar MR|job|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|sailplane|Steve Kroop|tug|waypoints|weather

The scores:

http://www.flytec.com/flytec_champ_03/scores.html

We called a 66 mile out and return task to the northwest in order to take advantage of the forecasted convergence. The rigids had to go 5 miles longer than the flex wings, just to keep the two classes on separate routes.

We chose a turnpoint at a little grass airstrip just to the west of Interstate 75 10 miles north of Wildwood. It sure was great to use the Florida sailplane outlanding database for our turnpoints as the task committee had a lot more to choose from.

David Glover and I massaged that database and added quite a few points to it to come up with 171 waypoints and goals for the Flytec Championship. No one had to enter any new coordinates in their GPS, which was our goal. With all the extra waypoints, the task committee had plenty of options in every direction which made it much easier to define a task based on the weather and the Race parameters.

Speaking of David and Steve Kroop, they have been very responsive to our concerns about the meet format. For a week in advance of the meet many pilots went over the proposed local rules and made numerous helpful comments that were incorporated into the rules to make the competition that much more fun and interesting.

During the meet they are also very flexible and made changes when pilots saw that things could be better or the weather changed. I appreciate their support of the task committee, and while I think we did a good job, I only wish we had done even a better job.

Seven days of flying. Strong tasks which really demanded a lot from pilots on a couple of days especially. Also some fun tasks that everyone enjoyed.

Great organization on the ground, with twenty tug pilots and very little waiting. Of course, I launched early everyday, so I never had to wait. It’s a little trick I’ll let you in on. ☺

It took about 45 minutes or less for the ground crew and tugs to get everyone in the air. There are well over a hundred pilots here. Pretty smooth.

The rigid wing pilots were hanging out north of Groveland by highway 19 waiting for the perfect start time today. We were all near or right at cloud base, and the cloud kept forming in the perfect spot at the northwest edge of the start circle. It was like so easy to stay in the perfect spot.

I had an opportunity to circle for about 10 minutes with David Chaumet on his Tsunami. He was just below me so I got a real good feel for how well he climbs. Essentially he gained about 6 inches every 360 on me. Like I said I got to watch this for a long time.

We were in light lift, and we were just hanging out waiting and waiting for yet another start time, so I got a very good view, and I can say that while David flies very well and makes very good decisions, the climb rate of his glider is about equal to mine and other ATOS-C’s and Stratoses.

Of course, later I got to see him glide. We tried to drag everyone out with us at 2 PM, but they were not to be dragged. There were about 17 rigid wings in this gaggle in the start circle, and it was hard to get them going. The start time opened at 1:15, but as the clouds to the north started late, unlike yesterday, so everyone wanted to wait to the optimum time.

Johann and I agreed to go at 2:15 and I made a dramatic move at 2:15 to get everyone to come with me. I’m relying on my reading of the studies of herd behavior, and a start circle full of rigid wing hang gliders is nothing if not a herd. Everyone goes with me.

I do glide with David, but soon he gets ahead and in front. Alex Ploner (ATOS-C) and Christian Ciech (Stratos) are with him, so it isn’t like he is totally cleaning everyone’s clock, but it is still obvious that he has the best glide.

I head northwest toward the prisons while the fastest four rigids head on a more northerly course line. I can see a gaggle of flex wings (who started 5 miles in front of us) over the prison so I don’t want to go in any other direction. The rigid guys who took the route to the right do come join us there and everyone gets up, even the guys who first get there low.

The lift is strong and this is a hard racing day. No time to wonder, just find the next strong thermal and go. Of course, a strong thermal in Florida this year averages 400 fpm.

But wait, to the north it looks shaded, dark, overcast, and devoid of cu’s along the course line. The fast guys in front are heading straight on the course line into the gloom. But on the west side of the course, two miles to the west of I-75, I see a set of obvious convergence clouds.

Now I’m thinking, maybe these guys will find really weak lift along the course line. Maybe they won’t find any lift at all. Maybe the only lift will be these clouds. I’m a couple of minutes behind, so I head for them quickly hoping to outsmart the smart guys in front.

The clouds are working. I find a thermal at 1,600’ and right away I’m joined by a hawk that knows something about clouds (or at least lift) and he really helps out finding the best parts of the lift. As I climb out I look off to the east and there is the lead gaggle, getting up okay. But getting up when I was hoping they would be groveling in the shade.

I move deeper into the convergence area and get even stronger lift before dashing back to the northwest to get the turnpoint at the Savanna grass airstrip. Pilots who’ve made the turnpoint in front of me are coming back to the convergence clouds and I come back with them for more of that good lift to 6,000’. The forecast is holding true.

Now the race is really on and it’s a quick run back to the prisons for that good lift over the concrete. It’s still there and every second counts. The fast guys can’t be caught and don’t get stuck.

I get a long glide into the prison area next to Johnny Carr on a Stalker2, the very one that I have flown. It seemed to me that his glide was almost exactly equal to mine. I then circled with him and his climb rate was also very close. I didn’t see any of the hatcheting that I had seen in Texas at the US Open. There was no yawing back and forth, just a very smooth thermaling. This was true of all the Stalker2’s that I saw during the meet. Of course, I mentioned this earlier when test flying the Stalker2.

After the prison. I race as hard as possible, get a little low 7 miles out and have to waste 5 minutes getting back up. I should have kept going as the next seven miles were nothing but lift. Almost all the rigids and over 50 of the flex wing pilots make it back to goal.

Rigid Results:

1 CIECH Christian Icaro Stratos ITA 5823
2 CHAUMET David La Mouette Top Secret FRA 5721
3 PLONAR Alex AIR Atos ITA 5195
4 BARMAKIAN Bruce AIR Atos USA 4765
5 YOCOM James AIR Atos C USA 4467

Flex Results:

1 RUHMER Manfred Icaro Laminar MR AUT 5625
2 BONDARCHUCK Oleg Aeros Combat UKR 5519
3 COOMBER Kraig Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 5457
4 HAZLETT Brett Moyes Litespeed 4 CAN 5265
5 WALBEC Richard Airborne Climax 2 - 14 FRA 5039
6 DURAND Jon Jr. Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 4999
7 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 4909
8 OLSSON Andreas Moyes Litespeed 5 SWE 4811
9 WILLIAMS Paris Aeros Combat 2 USA 4796
10 WARREN Curt Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 4752

Curt Warren won the day by having a fast time and leaving when most everyone else did. It was a very competitive meet with a strong battle for first place in both rigid and flex wings. It’s obvious that the best pilots in the world are here.

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New Aeros Combat 2

Thu, Apr 10 2003, 12:00:02 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Australia|Oleg Bondarchuck|Paris Williams|Quest Air

There is a new version of Aeros Combat 2 here at Quest Air, the one that Paris and Bo have been flying lately. Oleg Bondarchuck came in last night at midnight and I spoke with him about it also. It weighs about two kilos less than the previous version that Oleg was flying in Australia (and winning with there).

Paris said how much he liked the lighter version compared to the slightly heavier one and Oleg mentioned that he notice that it was climbing better than the version he flew just two months ago. Oleg told me that the Combats that have been shipping since the end of the Australian competitions are the new version.

Paris felt that with the lighter version there was no more excessive tip inertia in the glider making it easier to control and get flying straight and level again after turning.

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Florida Report

Thu, Apr 3 2003, 10:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Airborne C2|cloud|competition|Florida|Jamie Shelden|picture|record|Rick "Ricky" Duncan|Ricky Duncan|Timothy Ettridge

http://www.davisstraub.com/Glide/questairweather.htm

Light winds. The FSL predictions showed no clouds but at 10 AM they showed up in force. Bo took off at 10:30 in good lift thinking he could get the 100 mile record in light winds as he started early (we assume 15 mph on a single surface hang glider). He dolphin flew after getting up but only 12 miles as the day totally changed as high clouds came over quickly and thinned out the cloud streets.

Ragged cu’s with light lift under the high clouds with up and down periods for the rest of the day. Some periods of sustained lift.

Ricky Duncan showed up today. He’ll be flying in the Flytec Championships. It sure was great to see him. Jamie Sheldon also showed up last night with an ATOS-C for Mark P. Five ATOS-C’s will show up tomorrow.

Quest is beginning to fill up with gliders and pilots getting ready for the upcoming competition. Stacks of Icaro 2000 Laminar MR’s, Aeros Combat 2’s, Airborne C2’s, and Moyes Litespeeds. The joint in jumping and good flying is happening.

Timothy Ettridge <TimothyEttridge@aol.com> sends the picture of the setup area at Quest today.

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Governador Valadares

Sat, Mar 29 2003, 9:00:02 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Betinho Schmitz|Carlos Bessa|cloud|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Governador Valadares 2003|Guga|Jos Guggenmos|Luiz Niemeyer|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon

http://www.evanews.com.br/2003/valadares/resultado.htm

José Luiz Moura Velloso <jose.luiz@jlv.com.br> sends the results for the last day at Governador Valadares. Jose has been very nice to send in the results in HTML format which is much more compatible.

Sixth day:

Place Name Glider Nation Time Total
1 LEISER René Atos 1:18:21 863
2 HEINRICHS Gerolf Moyes Litespeed AUT 1:19:08 835
3 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 1:22:08 787
4 CARLOS BESSA Cloud Bessa Wills Wing Talon BRA 1:22:31 779
5 FÁBIO CARDOSO NUNES Fabinho Moyes Litespeed BRA 1:24:30 754
6 FERRO Marcelo Moyes Litespeed 5 BRA 1:24:45 748
7 WOLF André Moyes Litespeed. BRA 1:25:11 741
8 BUSCA Alessandro (Alex) La Mouette Topless ITA 1:25:45 732
9 MARIO ANDRE FELSKE Monex Moyes Litespeed BRA 1:26:04 727
10 MASSIMO Turiaco (Max) Moyes Litespeed BRA 1:26:22 721

The ATOS was penalized, but it is hard to figure out exactly how. Total for the meet:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 5364
2 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 4868
3 LUIZ NIEMEYER Luizinho Icaro Laminar BRA 4845
4 LEISER René Atos 4795
5 SALDANHA Gustavo (Guga) Moyes Litespeed BRA 4747
6 HEINRICHS Gerolf Moyes Litespeed AUT 4633
7 OPPICI Filippo - Pippo Moyes Litespeed 4488
8 WOLF André Moyes Litespeed BRA 4476
9 BUSCA Alessandro (Alex) La Mouette Topless ITA 4469
10 CARLOS BESSA Cloud Bessa Wills Wing Talon BRA 4439

Well, a huge win for Nene and the Wills Wing Talon. The story I heard was that Gerolf, Andre and Betinho agreed to fly together to see if they could get Betinho a win over Nene on this last day. Betinho fell down and ended up 40th on the last day falling far out of second place. He can afford to drop a day on the Brazilian ranking system.

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Governador Valadaras

Tue, Mar 25 2003, 9:00:02 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Betinho Schmitz|Carlos Bessa|CIVL|cloud|competition|Fernando Milani|Filippo Oppici|Gerolf Heinrichs|Governador Valadaras 2003|Guga|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|Wills Wing Talon

http://www.evanews.com.br/2003/valadares/resultado.htm

Are rigid wings 10% better? Yah, probably. On the second day of the meet 13 minutes was added to the times for the ATOS pilots. I had heard earlier that a 10% penalty (13 minutes is about 10% of Betinho’s flight time of 135 minutes) would be added to the rigid wing pilots.

For CIVL purposes rigid wing and flex wing pilots need to be scored separately. Usually the rigids and flex wings are only scored together for the purposes of comparison, but not for any official purposes. In Brazil, which is not too happy with CIVL, scores them together and then adds the penalty. I assume that at the end of the meet, they will in fact be scored separately before the results are sent to CIVL.

So the unaltered results of the second day would show the ATOSes coming in first, second and third, with the third ATOS in one second in front of Betinho. I assume that they were gaggling together and then racing into goal.

LEISER, René: 15:28:50
RIS, Jurg - Jimmy 15:29:41
MEIER, Richard: 15:30:47
CARLOS ALBERTO SCHMITZ, Betinho 15:30:48
OPPICI, Filippo – Pippo: 15:30:50

Day 3:

1 HEINRICHS Gerolf Moyes Litespeed AUT 2:02:18 1000
2 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:03:37 963
3 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 2:04:02 952
4 FERRO Marcelo Moyes Litespeed 5 BRA 2:04:13 945
5 LUIZ FERNANDO AZEVEDO DIAS Fernando DF Moyes Litespeed BRA 2:07:05 907
6 FÁBIO CARDOSO NUNES Fabinho Moyes Litespeed BRA 2:14:19 840
7 DORIVAL AGUILHON JR Doriva Moyes Litespeed BRA 2:22:15 782
7 SALDANHA Gustavo (Guga) Moyes Litespeed BRA 2:22:15 782
9 CARLOS ALBERTO SCHMITZ Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2:22:25 774
10 CARLOS BESSA Cloud Bessa Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:22:48 769
11 BUSCA Alessandro (Alex) La Mouette Topless ITA 2:22:52 766
12 LUIZ NIEMEYER Luizinho Icaro Laminar BRA 2:23:18 760
13 AMIR Shalon Icaro Laminar ISR 2:23:30 757
14 RIS Jurg – Jimmy Atos C CHE 2:26:43 735
15 ACAUA PASETTO NOBREGA Kawai Wills Wing Talon BRA 2:29:10 719

Fifteen minutes added to Jurg Ris’s time

Total after three days:

1 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 2832
2 CARLOS ALBERTO SCHMITZ Betinho Moyes Litespeed 4 BRA 2670
3 OPPICI Filippo – Pippo Moyes Litespeed 2591
4 LUIZ NIEMEYER Luizinho Icaro Laminar BRA 2580
5 HEINRICHS Gerolf Moyes Litespeed AUT 2466
6 ALONZI Mario Aeros Combat 2 FRA 2427
7 FERRO Marcelo Moyes Litespeed 5 BRA 2421
8 FÁBIO CARDOSO NUNES Fabinho Moyes Litespeed BRA 2322
9 RIS Jurg – Jimmy Atos C CHE 2311
10 SALDANHA Gustavo (Guga) Moyes Litespeed BRA 2257
11 DORIVAL AGUILHON JR Doriva Moyes Litespeed BRA 2248
12 CARLOS BESSA Cloud Bessa Wills Wing Talon BRA 2241
13 BUSCA Alessandro (Alex) La Mouette Topless ITA 2207
14 ACAUA PASETTO NOBREGA Kawai Wills Wing Talon BRA 2157
15 WOLF André Moyes . BRA 2140

Gerolf has finished first twice now, but fell down on day two. Nene moved into the lead over Betinho when Betinho got a little slow today. Looks like Wills Wing is on top of the competition.

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Florida Report

Tue, Mar 18 2003, 8:00:01 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Discus|Aeros Target|Bob Lane|David Glover|Florida|Gerry Uchytil|Jim Lamb|landing|Litesport|record|Ron Gleason|tow|wires|Worlds

http://www.davisstraub.com/Glide/questairweather.htm

West winds today. Quite unstable in the middle of the day. No rain, but good lift under dark sky’s. Tomorrow looks like a day that we may be going for the single surface record. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

Jim Lamb is here. Gerry Uchytil and Ron Gleason also. Ron’s ATOSes need to be X-rayed in San Francisco, so he’s flying David Glover’s Falcon 195. I picked up an Aeros Target from GW today. Also an Aeros Discus, and the larger Aeros Combat, the one that was flown by Natalia, the Russian pilot at the Women’s Worlds.

I might be able to fly the Aeros Discus tomorrow for a short test/demo flight. You can read about it at www.justfly.com. Curved tip, intermediate kingposted glider to compete with the Litesport and the U2. Bob Lane says that it tows with one finger and has a nice light, but positive bar pressure.

The joint was jumping today with lots of tows late in the afternoon after the lift quit (hello?) and the sun came back out.

I noticed on the Target the same thing that Bo mentioned. A little harder to initiate a turn and then the glider wants to spiral in. I hear that this is a design feature. I’ll see how it goes, as this was only a short flight. The cross bars seem to be designed so that they don’t float or move from side to side.

Also the pull back wires on top of the keel go through the king post bracket and under the kingpost. It seems like this would be an area of wear. This also restricts the upward movement of the cross bars, which I assume is the idea.

I have a great landing with it and it was pretty easy to tow for a single surface glider. Hope to learn about 100+ miles more about it tomorrow.

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Bo in Combat

Tue, Jan 28 2003, 7:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Viper|Aeros Viper harness|ATOS|Bo Hagewood|Combat|harness|Jerz Rossignol|Kari Castle|Stalker

Bo Hagewood <bokodi@hotmail.com> writes:

I wanted to remind everyone how much I enjoyed flying the Aeros Combat II and the new Aeros Viper harness. Unfortunately, last year Jerz, Kari and I helped the Aeros glider earn a bad landing wrap due to our inability to terminate a flight without the loss of one or more downtubes. This problem has been fixed. I'm proud to say that my one year old glider still has all the original parts.

After flying in all three Australian meets I am convinced that it has a better higher speed glide than any of the other flex wings. I think it almost keeps up with the ATOS-C.

Hopefully, I won’t make as many mental mistakes in Florida and give this glider the placing that it deserves. Let's get back to Florida and set some more records. I know Mark Pistachio and his Stalker are hungry.

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Bogong Cup 2003 - flex results »

Wed, Jan 15 2003, 3:00:03 am GMT

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2003|Brett Hazlett|Chris Muller|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2003|Brett Hazlett|Chris Muller|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

Aeros Combat|Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2003|Brett Hazlett|Chris Muller|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

1Bondarchuk, Oleg,Aeros Combat 2 13Ukr4381
2Heinrichs, Gerolf,Moyes Litespeed 4Aut4322
3Williams, Paris, 81Icaro Laminar ST14Usa4252
4Coomber, Kraig, 77Moyes LitespeedAus4179
5Bertok, Attila, 55Moyes Litespeed 5Hun4100
6Holtkamp, RohanAirborne C2 14Aus4099
7Rigg, Gordon, 48Moyes Litespeed 4Gbr3972
8Warren, Curt, 65Moyes Litespeed 4Usa3929
9Bader, Lucas, 22Aeros Combat 2Deu3927
10Durand, Jon Jnr.Moyes Litespeed 4Aus3879
11Hazlett, Brett, 60Moyes Litespeed 4Can3873
12Rossignol, Jerz,Icaro LaminarUsa3696
13Castle, Kari, 69Icaro MR700Usa3642
14Caux, Raymond, 18Moyes Litespeed 4Fra3509
15Moyes, Steve, 59Moyes Litespeed 5Aus3470
16Gerard, Jean-FrancoisMoyes Litespeed 4Fra3444
17Mathurin, DidierMoyes Litespeed 4Fra3388
18Muller, Chris, 41Wills Wing Talon 154Can3382
19Ujhelyi, Balazs, 56Aeros Combat 2 14Hun3349
20Guillen, Bruno, 11Moyes Litespeed 4Fra3337

Jon Durand Jnr was the flex wing winner last year, so you can see that things can change very quickly.

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Litesport on day four

Sat, Jan 11 2003, 6:00:01 am GMT

Moyes Litespeed|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes

Oliver Barthelmes <oliverbarthelmes@gmx.de> sends in some pictures and wants me to be sure to report that flying the Litesport he was able to beat some rigid wing gliders into goal on day four. Yes, this is quite true, but then he did start 15 minutes earlier. But, then again, just talking about the glide from the last thermal, he’s definitely got a point:

21 BARTHELMES, Oliver Moyes Litespeed 4 DEU 14:45:00 16:21:26 1:36:26 771
9 STRAUB, Davis Air Atos C 145 USA 15:00:00 16:21:35 1:21:35 849
17 GLEESON, Ron Air Atos USA 15:00:00 16:24:05 1:24:05 803

Oli flying out in front of launch at the Pines

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Australian Open - finals »

Sun, Jan 5 2003, 9:00:01 am EST

Aeros Combat|Australian Open|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|Gordon Rigg|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Ron Gleason|World Record Encampment

http://www.cool-ether.net.au/australianopen

Oleg wanted me to be sure to report the open (including class 1 and 2) results. I guess after I won the Australian Nationals overall last year, Oleg wanted to be sure to show everyone that a flex wing won overall at the Open this year. Of course, in this case it was an Aeros Combat 2 flex wing.

1

BONDARCHUK, Oleg

Aeros Combat 13

UKR

4517

2

WILLIAMS, Paris

Icaro Laminar

USA

4369

3

RIGG, Gordon

Moyes Litespeed 4

GBR

3933

4

GLEASON, Ron

Air Atos

USA

3888

5

DURAND, John Jnr

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

3670

6

HAZLETT, Brett

Moyes Litespeed 4

CAN

3651

7

MOYES, Steve

Moyes Litespeed 5

AUS

3624

8

PRITCHARD, Phil

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

3565

9

PATON, Len

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

3451

10

STRAUB, Davis

Air Atos

USA

3415

Oleg flew very well in the competition and when Belinda congratulated him and said in a kidding fashion “It must be the glider,” (this is what Oleg always says), he said, “Oh, no, it was the pilot.”

Unlike previous Australian competitions, the Moyes gliders did not completely dominate the competition with Oleg on his Combat 2 in first and Paris with this Laminar MR700 WRE in second.

It looks like to me that we will have plenty of opportunities to see the comparison between glider models and classes as we continue through the next two competitions.

Australian Open - Day 7 »

Fri, Jan 3 2003, 1:00:01 am EST

Aeros Combat|Australian Open 2002|Bo Hagewood|Brett Hazlett|Davis Straub|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Ron Gleason|weather|Wills Wing

http://www.cool-ether.net.au/australianopen

If this web site isn’t up to date, I’ve got the results after three tasks (not including today) below.

Bo Hagewood is awesome. Just awesome.

After finishing fifth on the third task, Bo was slated to be the trike pilot today to tow us up as Daveo had to go home. Bo did a great job getting us all in the air very quickly with a lot of help from the pilots. He took me right to the only cloud around and sure enough there was a real nice thermal right there.

When Bo finished towing us all up, he got a tow from another trike pilot, but then bombed one kilometer out of the tow paddock. He radioed for a trike pilot to come get him and tow him back up over the tow paddock.

I got up and was one of the few pilots to make goal, at around 6 PM. Way to go Bo.

The weather forecast was for light south, southwest winds so the task committee with me pushing for it called a 103 km triangle. It looked like the best possible day for a task that would bring us back.

The floaters had a 49 km down wind goal, and a bunch of them made it. The kingpost guys had a downwind task with a dog leg. At least three of them made their task.

As soon as I got in the air (there was only light winds on the ground) I saw that we were in for a struggle. It first showed 13 mph out of the south or southeast. Later this would build to 20 mph. It looked like the strongest wind day yet.

The cu’s were just beginning to form over us at 7,000’ as we started towing. And then they really started sprouting as we waited until 2:15 for the first timed interval start gate. The air was a bit raspy but the inversion from the day before was gone and we were getting pretty high. And it would get better out on the course.

 

With the strong southwest winds, we were moving pretty quickly along the first leg averaging 83 km/h for 37 kilometers. We were getting over 7,000’.

Ron, Johann, Tony and I were together with Oleg and ten other flex wings. I didn’t see Paris and wondered what was up with him. We set the start time interval at 15 minutes to keep anyone from trying what Oleg did yesterday by going back and getting the next start time.

The second leg was cross wind for 24 km and our average speed over the ground came down to 32 km/hr, which is the normal average for hang gliders. The average climb rates moved up from 400 fpm on the first leg to 500 fpm. We appreciated the extra lift getting to the second turnpoint.

 

The last leg is into the wind and it’s great that there are many pilots together working for the goal. Unfortunately the average lift drops to 350 fpm. I wonder why this happens just as we hit the hard task. The average speed drops further to 20 km/h. Just as you’d expect with a 20 mph head wind.

Ron takes a bad line, gets low and gets blown back trying to get up never to recover. He lands 27 kilometers from goal. Tony get a good line and gets out in front. He will win the day overall. Johann was in front of everyone including Oleg, took a bad line down wind of the course line and got very low. He was able to recover. I was at 7,000’ watching him find a thermal 5 kilometers behind me as Ron was landing.

I kept high at first with Oleg but got a little below him and Tony and had to struggle together with the guys a bit behind. 16 kilometers out from goal I was at 6,500’ AGL and without a 20 mph head wind the goal was very achievable. Unfortunately we had a head wind.

After an 12 kilometer glide at 8 to 1 I was down to 600’ AGL when I moved over to a 180 fpm thermal. This got me back to 3,000’ as Phil Shroder joined me at 1,500’ AGL. Johann had gotten back up and apparently was about a kilometer behind me with two other flex wings.

I left a bit early at 2,500’ AGL as I drifted back from 4 kilometers from goal to 7.5 kilometers. I left too early as my glide over the ground was 6 to 1. I landed looking for a thermal as Johann who took the thermal to 3,600’ came over my head and made goal by 200 meters.

Tony was first into goal followed by Oleg. Jon Durand Jnr was next having pushed upwind 10 kilometers and then got into goal going down wind. Bo may have been the only other pilot at goal. Paris and Kari landed 4 kilometers out from goal.

After three days, the flex wing group:

1

BONDARCHUK Oleg

Aeros Combat 13

UKR

2718

2

WILLIAMS Paris

Icaro Laminar

USA

2690

3

RIGG Gordon

Moyes Litespeed 4

GBR

2321

4

HAZLETT Brett

Moyes Litespeed 4

CAN

2213

5

BADER Lukas

Aeros Combat 13

DEU

2194

6

MOYES Steve

Moyes Litespeed 5

AUS

2157

7

PRESLEY Terry

Wills Wing Talon 143

AUS

2149

8

PRITCHARD Phil

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

2092

9

PATON Len

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

2020

10

COOMBER Kraig

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

2009

Rigids after three days:

1

GLEASON Ron

Air Atos

USA

2638

2

STRAUB Davis

Air Atos

USA

2320

3

POSCH Johan

Atos C

AUT

1690

4

DALL Peter

Air Atos

AUS

1433

5

RAUMAUF Toni

Air Atos

AUT

1327

Oleg will continue in first place. Ron may still be in first, but there is a chance that I will move into first in the rigid wing class. Ron was third overall after three days.

The flex wing Pre-worlds »

Fri, Sep 6 2002, 12:00:00 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|André Wolfe|Brett Hazlett|Conrad Loten|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:

Task 10:

Very preliminary results today.

Place Name Time km Total
1 MANFRED, Ruhmer 2:09:25 146,2 1000
2 WEISSENBERGER, Tom 2:17:21 146,2 951
3 OLEG BONDARCHUK 2:18:47 146,2 941
4 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS 2:19:33 146,2 936
5 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE 143,3 780
5 Nene Rotor 143,3 780
5 Betinho Schmidt 143,3 780
8 REISINGER ROBERT 143,2 779
9 ATTILA, Bertok 143,0 778
10 KOJI DAIMON 141,1 765
11 KARI CASTLE 138,7 746
12 BOISSELIER ANTOINE 138,4 743
12 MATHURIN DIDIE 138,4 743
14 BAUSONE, Federico 138,3 742
15 HEINRICHS GEROLF 137,9 738
16 MASSIMO TURIACO 137,2 729
17 KRAIG COOMBER 136,9 726
18 JOSEF BRANDNER 136,1 714
19 JON DURAND JNR 135,9 712
20 WALBEC RICHARD 135,7 708
21 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI 134,7 692
22 FABIEN AGENES 134,6 690
22 DE LA HORIE, Geoffroy 134,6 690
24 ALDO SANCHEZ 133,7 675
25 CONRAD LOTEN 132,6 658
26 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE 131,4 639
27 JERZ ROSSIGNOL, Jerz 131,3 638
28 MOTOKI TAKAHASHI 130,0 615
29 MARIO ALONZI 129,2 601
30 HIROSHI ONUMA 127,8 581

The results after 10 tasks (without the full results from the last task):

Name Glider Task Total
1 OLEG BONDARCHUK Aeros Combat UKR 941 8523
2 MANFRED, Ruhmer Icaro Mr 700 AUT 1000 8483
3 Nene Rotor Wills Wing Talon BRA 780 8231
4 WEISSENBERGER, Tom Moyes Litespeed AUT 951 8102
5 Betinho Schmidt Moyes Litespeed BRA 780 7870
6 REISINGER ROBERT Icaro Laminar 14 AUT 779 7799
7 KRAIG COOMBER Moyes Litespeed AUS 726 7759
8 HEINRICHS GEROLF Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 738 7607
9 BOISSELIER ANTOINE Moyes Litespeed FRA 743 7558
10 GUIDUCCI DAVIDE Moyes Litespeed ITA 780 7235
11 WALBEC RICHARD Icaro Laminar MR700 FRA 708 7151
12 ATTILA, Bertok Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 778 6980
13 JON DURAND JNR Moyes Litespeed AUS 712 6676
14 MIKE BARBER Moyes Litespeed 4 USA NYP 6640
15 PARIS WILLIAMS Icaro Laminar MR700 USA NYP 6600
16 CURT WARREN Moyes Litespeed 4 USA 427 6591
17 JEAN FRANÇOIS PALMARINI Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 692 6510
18 ALDO SANCHEZ BRA 675 6451
19 JERZ ROSSIGNOL Aeros Combat II USA 638 6293
20 GUILLEN BRUNO Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 529 6276
21 ROHAN HOLTKAMP Airborne Climax AUS NYP 6264
22 GERARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Moyes Litespeed 4 FRA 936 6155
23 CARLOS BESSA Wills Wing Talon BRA NYP 6140
24 MARIO ALONZI Icaro Laminar 13 MRX FRA 601 6109
25 ANDRE WOLF Icaro Laminar MR700 BRA ABS 6051
26 FRANZ HERMANN Moyes Litespeed 5 CHE NYP 6027
27 KARI CASTLE Icaro Mr700 USA 746 5984
28 BRETT HAZLETT Moyes Litespeed CAN ABS 5712
29 MASSIMO TURIACO Moyes Litespeed ITA 729 5632
30 MOCELLIN FRANÇOISE Airborne Climax FRA 639 5519

NYP in the next to last row means NOT YET PROCESSED, likely means that these pilots haven’t reported in yet after the task. This greatly affects Mike Barber, Paris Williams, Rohan, and Carlos Bessa’s scores. Andre and Brett are marked as absent for the day.

The competition goes through September 8th.

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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:

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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.

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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

The flex wing Pre-worlds »

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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Click the Resultados green button in the middle of the heading.

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

WRE – Wednesday »

Wed, Jun 19 2002, 6:00:00 pm GMT

A.I.R. ATOS C|Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|AIR ATOS|AIR ATOS-C|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bo Hagewood|David Prentice|Exxtacy|Flight Design|George Ferris|Hans Bausenwein|Jamie Shelden|Mike Barber|Moyes Litespeed|Pete Lehmann|Will Gadd|World Record Encampment 2002

Wednesday started off with cumulus clouds forming early at two lower levels. The bottom level with a cloud base starting off below 2,000’. At around 19:45 AM the sky was completely black with cumulus clouds – the great precursor of a super day in Zapata.

As the general darkness of the cumulus cover began to break up into cloud streets pilots (starting with Bo Hagewood on the Aeros Combat 2) started launching and finding good lift up to the lower cloud base at 2,400’. Pete Lehmann (WW Talon), George Ferris (AIR ATOS), Dave Watkins (AIR ATOS), Mike Barber (Moyes Litespeed), Jamie Sheldon (Flight Design Exxtacy), and Alex Ploner (AIR ATOS-C) all took off and got quickly to cloud base drifting north quickly in the moderate winds.

The wind direction was quite good and no one had any problem skirting the Laredo airspace as the clouds raised and spread out a bit.

While Gary had predicted strong winds, this turned out not to be the case. Pilots landed mostly at around 125 miles, with Alex Ploner landing near Uvalde (160 miles) and Bo going down way off the road at 184 miles, necessitating a long retrieve (without his glider).

Jamie landed at 30 miles out (automatically setting – but not claiming – the women’s rigid world record) behind two locked gates but a short distance from our friend Rick Walker’s ranch house. He later went in with his helicopter and retrieved Jamie’s glider.

Dave Prentice got up on his first tow into 800 fpm, that turned into 1000 fpm right to cloud base. He raced himself into the ground not too long afterwards. Must have got too excited. Will Gadd and Louise flew their paragliders about 130 miles before deciding to stop. They required multiple tows, as did Hans Bausenwein who landed near Dave. Both Dave and Hans hitchhiked back into town from the main dirt road to our north.

We are looking for more moisture to be pushed up across the state to make for more clouds along the route. It was clear from the satellite photos today that the clouds only went about 200 miles out. It looks like more moisture will be coming our way on Friday.

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WRE – the last few days »

Sun, Jun 16 2002, 7:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros|Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Bo Hagewood|Combat|Gary Osoba|Jim Lamb|paraglider|record|Rhett Radford|Will Gadd|World Record Encampment 2002

Given the original prediction (last Thursday) that Tuesday would be a super day, and given the light winds in Zapata, pilots flew locally Sunday and Monday while getting prepared for the big day. As Tuesday approached the issue became would the best day be Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (you’d hate to go long – but not long enough - and not get back for the best day). Also, would the clouds start forming early?

On Tuesday at 6 AM a dark thin low cloud street formed east of the airport toward the paraglider tow paddock at Renato’s. Starting about 5 miles south of Zapata it extended to the north as far as we could see. It looked like there might a possibility of cu’s forming early.

The previous nights predicted sounding for Zapata showed diminished chances of cumulus development early in the day with lighter wind than hoped for earlier, but winds up to 20 mph on the ground in north Texas and higher at 5,000’ The direction looked very good and the winds were predicted to be stronger along the route than any of the previous two years’ record days.

There were scattered cu’s forming above the airstrip as we held our 8 AM pilot meet (moved up to be ready for the big day). Still with light winds, and low moisture there wasn’t any sign of cloud streets reforming. Bo Hagewood (Aeros Combat 2) launched at 8:45 AM. He landed about 4 miles away and we sent Rhett Radford over to pull him up again off a gravel road. He landed back at the airstrip.

A few minutes later he was off again, followed by Peter Lehmann (WW Talon) and Jim Lamb (AIR Atos-C). Gary Osoba had been up since before Bo took off in his Woodstock making sure that he was marking lift in the now blue sky for the pilots who had just released from tow.

By noon the pilots were negotiating their way around the Laredo airspace and hoping for the cu’s to start popping, which in fact a bit later they did.

Bo and Jim decided to land at Uvalde (165 miles out). Pete decided to land 20 miles out on highway 83.

All the paraglider pilots flew, with the Mexican pilots going 40-50 miles. Will Gadd and Dave Prentice landed 4 miles out. Louise landed in the Mesquite 400 yards out, was wet and hot, took off most of her clothes and burned to a crisp.

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234.4 miles in Florida/Georgia

Sat, May 11 2002, 1:00:01 pm EDT

(?-i)John "Ole" Olson|Aeros Combat|Bo Hagewood|Flytec 4030|John "Ole" Olson|Mark Poustinchian|Quest Air|record|Ron Gleason|Steve Kroop|weather|Wills Wing

Steve Kroop writes:

I would like to congratulate the three TEAM FLYTEC pilots that flew XC from Quest yesterday. For the first time inFlorida 3 pilots made it intoGeorgia on the same day. Bo "hillbilly" Hagewood (2000 National Champion and Quest tandem instructor) flew 183 miles on an Aeros Combat 2, Ron "we'll see about that" Gleason flew 189 miles on a stock ATOS, and Mark "old downtubes and glove compartment basetube" Poustinchian broke his own east coast record flying an ATOS 234.4 miles with the draggiest harness and setup we have seen. They were using the top of the line Flytec 4030XL vario. Way to go guys!

Mark Poustinchian «mpousti2000» writes:

We didn’t expect to go far, but you never know if you don’t try. Yesterday, Bo Hagewood, Ron Gleason and myself decided to try to fly our hang gliders from Quest Air toGeorgia. Unfortunately, the weather has not been that great this year inFlorida, but we have had few great days here and there. We had a late start and about11:30 am we started our journey towards northwest of Florid. With the east wind component we were not going that fast and the lift wasn’t that great to start with.

After a few hours of flying we were still very close to each other and had been below 2000’ agl a few times. But the conditions started to improve. For about an hour before it got good the air got very rough and we were getting some butt kicking. However, the clouds started to develop better. Not great looking clouds but the little ones were working. About 100 miles I got a little low and found a nice thermal which put me well over 5000’ agl and after that I stayed above 3000 until the final glide. I flew towards some clouds on the west side and all of sudden my glides between the thermals got very long, for example I had 2 glides of over 20 miles with little altitude lost. This is where I put a big distance between myself, Ron and Bo. While I was gliding over 5000’ agl with no turns they had a few low saves and got slow. The air got very magical and I had some great lines and covered some great ground at the end.

It seemed as three of us were on the final glide at the same time. Towards the end of our flight, I found a small thermal which I worked for much longer to make sure that I was going to set a new record for east coast breaking my own record of 225 miles which was holding since last year. At 1200’ agl I found a great field with a nice home next to highway 65 and decided to turn around and land next to it. There were huge fields to land in all over the place but not too many homes for long ways. The GPS was showing 234.4 miles from Quest Air, but as smooth and fat as the air was, I could have squeezed another 3 miles out of it, but I was happy with 234.4 miles for anther east coast record breaking my own old record.

Ron landed insideGeorgia for his personal best of 189 miles and Bo landed inGeorgia at 183 miles. All three of us were happy campers. After landing the land owners spotted me. I have been very lucky with the land owners and most of the times they have been very good to me. I told them that I have flown fromFlorida nearOrlando and they were very amazed that how this strange contraption can fly so far without any fuel and engine. While I was breaking down, they brought me some ice water and a nice cold Coke. Shortly after the glider was in a bag, the lady of the house came out with a large warm box containing a large amount of Pizza Hut’s garlic bread sticks with some pizza sauce which they just had picked up along with another cold Coke and offered the whole thing to me. I was so hungry that I gladly expected the offer and sat next to the glider by the road and started having dinner while I was waiting for Ron Gleason’s wonderful wife, Elsa, to get there. As I was finishing the last piece of my dinner, she got there, great timing, thanks Ron and Elsa for the retrieval. We went after Ron and Bo and before2:30 am we were back at Quest Air.

I had a down wind crash landing three days ago on a small X-C flight. It seemed as there was no wind on the ground and as soon as I turned on final I felt the wind picking up on my back, I hate it when that happens. I plowed into the ground and broke all three pieced on my Wills Wing control frame. So I had the old stock control frame on my ATOS with the fat base bar which has the built in glove compartment for instruments and large skids at the end. The is the base bar that everybody makes fun of due to it’s drag. But I had great luck with this control frame when I broke the World record in Zapata last summer, so it proved again to have good karma.

Today we woke up and saw the great conditions much better than yesterday, but we were too tired to fly. So the record that was set yesterday maybe broken today. It sure looks great out there now. Perfect clouds and a great tail wind, it sure wasn’t this good looking yesterday.

I want to thank AIR for a wonderful glider, my ATOS with its fat base bar and all the drag is flying great and more records will be broken. I want to thank Steve Kroop for a wonderful Flytec 4030XL vario. This new vario with the new adjustable beeps is what gets me going when the going gets tough. Elsa, thanks for the retrieve. I also want to thank Quest Air and crew for wonderful tows and great hospitality and putting me in a nice thermal to start the flights with. I am going to go back toArkansas very soon and will miss all the great flying and my friends here at Quest Air.

What happened in Florida

Tue, Apr 30 2002, 6:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Chris Arai|Christian Ciech|Curt Warren|David Glover|Florida|Gerolf Heinrichs|Glen Volk|Hansjoerg Truttmann|Jim Lee|Johann Posch|Kari Castle|Manfred Ruhmer|Mike Barber|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Robert Reisinger|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Ron Gleason|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan|US Nationals|Wallaby Ranch|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

As I reviewed the results of the meets in Florida, I noted quite a few stories within the bigger story.

Many of the world’s top hang glider pilots came to Floridato compete against each other, with twelve of the top twenty flex wing pilots and five of the top ten ranked rigid wing pilots in attendance. This made for a very tough field, and more than enough NTSS points to make for 600 point meets. The Floridameets are truly international events and should continue to be viewed as such.

Glen Volk did very well coming up to capture third in the Flytec Championship after twenty eighth at the Wallaby Open. Paris Williams, currently ranked third in the world – the highest ranking US pilot in years, was consistently very good coming in just behind Oleg in both meets. Oleg, of course, is kicking butt (even though Manfred’s was missing from the Flytec meet). It’s great to see such a sweet guy do so well.

Johann Posch was highly ranked before, but had never won a daily task. He finally did on the second to last day of the Flytec Championship. The big difference for him – ballast. He did much better in these meets than before and the difference was he finally became convinced of the need for ballast.

Robert Reisinger came into the Floridameets with a new relationship with Wills Wing, and a high ranking, that had slipped recently from 3rd to 14th in the world. He did very well on some days, but landed out on a number of other days. He finished below expectations at 23rd and 28th.

Curt Warren moved up dramatically from best new competitor designation last year at the Flytec Championship to finish 18th in the Wallaby Open and fifth in the Flytec Championship where he had a good chance for third. Just a little more patience in light conditions would help, but his go for it attitude also helps him win the day. He was with Johann and I when we were low on the second to last day of the Flytec meet.

Curt came in first on day one of the Flytec meet when he aced out Gerolf by a couple of feet. They were so close that Gerolf did run into him when Curt flaired to land. Gerolf was injried on that day.

Robin Hamilton did well on Manfred’s MR700 WRE coming in fourth at Flytec, but he could have moved up to second or perhaps first with a little more thermaling in weak lift.

Gary Wirdham moved up from 55th at Wallaby to 7th at Quest after he destroyed and then rebuilt his Aeros Combat. Maybe he should do that more often. He really appreciates his helmet (EN 966).

Kari Castle came back from a poor showing at 35th at Wallaby to move into 17th and first female pilot at Quest. She often seems to use the first competition to get herself warmed up.

Gerolf Heinrichs who is ranked as the number one pilot in the world (before the Floridameets) came in sixth at Wallaby, after a number of problems. These seemed to continue at Quest, where he was 44th. It was quite a tough two weeks for Gerolf and I hope he gets some time off to rest and recuperate.

Mike Barber did very well in Floridalast year, and maybe that lead to too high expectations on his part. He came in 7th at Wallaby a few places behind Paris, and the second American, with new American citizen and Floridaresident, Carlos “Cloud” Bessa, right behind him. Then he had some trouble early at Quest and slipped way down in the standings. Going all out on day 6 he hit the deck, and then doing it again on day 7 he won the day.

Speaking of Carlos Bessa (pronounce Base –a) he has been on a tear doing all he can to make the US National team, so that he can go back to Brazil next year to fly in the Worlds. He is now in the seventh position (1 shy of the team), so he has a very good chance. If the Wallaby Open had been fully valid, and everyone had been in their same places, he would have moved into the 6th place on the US NTSS ranking.

Jim Lee had to leave the Flytec Championship because of problems with his neck. This would move him down in the running for the 2003 NTSS ranking to 14th.

Mitch Shipley would do well after taking some time off from competition hang gliding. He would be the fifth American in the Flytec meet. Chris Arai did well enough after not flying for six months to come in 10th and 20th. He moved himself back toward being on the US national team.

Tish the Flying Fish was able to beat Kari at Wallaby and was second behind her at Quest. She seemed to have a great time fly and with her water pistols. Apparently she was aggressive in both fields. Francoise Mocellin was the top women competitors at Wallaby, while Kari was the US Nationals Women’s champion.

Dorval, a Brazilian pilot who learned to fly at Wallaby Ranch a few years ago, improved his performance substantially in spite of a recent operation. He certainly moved up in the ranking for the Brazilians.

Rohan Holtkamp who is currently ranked number 2 in the World didn’t do as well as he had hoped to, coming in 16th and 12th.

So, Johann Posch goes up to Dave Glover and says what a great job he did at the Flytec Championship. He says that Dave is just like Janet Reno. “Janet Reno?” Dave asks quizzically. Yes, just like Janet Reno (who is currently running for governor here in Florida), responds Johann. “Hmmm,” thinks David, “do you mean, Jay Leno?” “Of course,” responds Johann, “the late night talk show host.”

Ron Gleason moved himself way up on the NTSS ranking doing well in both competitions. He came to Floridato get some cross country training after selling his business and purchasing a mobile home. He’s on the circuit like Johann and myself.

Alex Ploner, the current rigid wing world champion and Christian Ciech were almost out of reach to the rest of us. Only Johann was able to pass Alex in the Flytec meet. They are good friends. Christian taught Alex how to be a competition hang glider pilot. They compete against (and with) each other often.

It looks like they will be the rigid wing pilots who are coming from Italy to the Worlds. While it will probably take at least three pilots to win the team competition, they might have a chance with two. They, along with Hansjoerg Truttmann from Switzerland, will be very tough to beat. I’m racking my brain for ways to do this.

Manfred apparently from what I hear had a really good time flying the Swift. Is more in store?

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Flytec Championship – 70 mile fish bowl »

Sat, Apr 27 2002, 9:00:00 pm GMT

A.I.R. ATOS|Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Aeros Ltd|Alex Ploner|Chris Arai|Christian Ciech|cloud|competition|Curt Warren|David "Dave" Glover|Flytec Championships 2002|Flytec Championships 2005|gaggle|GAP|Gary Osoba|Ghostbuster|job|Mike Barber|Moyes Delta Gliders|Moyes Litespeed|Quest Air|Ron Gleason|Steve Kroop|tail|tracker|tug|video|weather|Wills Wing Talon

David Glover was very smart and every day as the meet went on he would drag up folks to thank them for their help at the Flytec Championship. During the week he thanked the tug pilots, the volunteers, the ground crew, the Quest Air crew, the people who put the dinners together, Frank and Steve Kroop, the registration crew, etc. Because it happened every day everyone got more applause and more attention than if he had put it off until the last night, when everyone gets crammed together.

David and Steve did something also very clever, they had GW create a video taking footage and shots during the week. On Saturday night, the last night of the Flytec Championship, the video was ready to go and we got to see the whole video with the sound track. It was amazing that it had been done so quickly, all the while GW just looked like he was hanging out taking pictures and having fun.

But, not only did we get to see the video, all the pilots and tug pilots got a copy of the video last night. It really showed off what we do at a Floridaaerotow competition and we’ll be able to take it around and show it to our friends (if we have any outside of hang gliding).

Dave was a kick all week making announcements, telling jokes, getting pilots to come to the pilot meetings because they were so much fun. Belinda commented that we hadn’t seen Dave in his element in quite a while. While there were many many people who played keys roles in making the Flytec Championship such a great meet, I’ve got to feel that it was Dave Glover that really put it over the top and made it so much fun.

One of the key elements to its success (I feel), is that he was able to delegate responsibility to others, and in this case I’m referring to the task committee. I had written to him early on stating how giving the task committee the complete responsibility for calling the task was one of the keys to Tove’s great meets in Australia. David, like Tove, had the personality that allowed him to delegate responsibility and not get tied up into knots about it.

Chris Arai, Revo, and I had complete authority to choose the task each day, we took lots of pilot input and we did our best for the pilots to make the meet fair and fun. I can tell you that there was no barbeque task on the last day (although we did come back to Quest Air) as there has been in the past.

Having a task committee made up exclusively of pilots who without prodding from the meet director or organizer (well, we kept Dave away almost all of the time), is a key to having a meet (there are other ways to do it, but there are very very few individuals who can pull it off, and I can think of only one, Mad Dog, in Australia) that satisfies the pilots. This will continue to be a difficult issue and I hope that there will be a way to work this out at the upcoming worlds in Chelan.

Oh, yes, we did have a task on day seven. First, we heard from Gary Osoba:

Looks like a 7 day meet, thanks to the task planners, meet administrators, and reasonably good weather. Congratulations!

For a change, the entire soaring window today should provide for relatively consistent wind directions and strengths. Should make the planning a little bit easier. Here's how it stacks up:

11am Weak lift. Probably a bit early for clouds to be forming yet. When then do (likely closer tonoon), they should be around 2500'. Surface winds sse around 6. Winds aloft a little bit more southerly at 10-12.

2pm Good lift, strong in spots. Cb 5000' to 5300'. Surface winds sse 5-8, aloft sse 12-14.

5pm Moderate lift, good in spots. Cb could go to around 6000". Surface winds sse 8-10, aloft sse about 12.

"Only a fool would try to predict the weather"!

So we’ve got strong winds aloft out of the south, but good lift also. With the good lift we can come back against the strong winds, and that is exactly what we plan to do. We have really been counting on Gary’s forecasts, and he has done a great job for us. We really pick the tasks based on his weather predictions.

We call a 70 mile task (no barbeque task this one) that will first take us downwind 17 miles to the west, northwest to Bushnell, back against the head wind to Quest, south into the head wind to the intersection of highways 33 and 474, then north, downwind past Quest to Gator field, then 7 miles upwind for the final glide to goal.

The task keeps us near Quest, while at the same time making it difficult to complete. We come back over Quest to get everyone on the ground excited and it keeps us out of the swamp.

There are plenty of clouds when we start taking off, and it looks like maybe there are too many, maybe it will over develop after all. The wind seems awfully strong also, but it’s too late now to come up with an other task.

We hang around until the middle start time at 1:15although everyone is in the air in half an hour. We just stay at cloud base for an extra 15 minutes. GAP gives one very little reason to go out in front and leave the gaggle behind. Johann and I have already made up our minds that we will take the middle start time, and maybe everyone else felt that way also, or, when two pilots left, they all decided to go with us.

We can see all the darkness out to our northwest and it looks like we are jumping into a black hole. There are high cirrus clouds that dull the areas on the ground where the cu’s don’t block out the sun.

We spot the guys who took the 1 PMstart time and that makes it easier to make our way to the turnpoint through all this very gloomy looking area. Still we’re down below 1,400’ before we connect with the big lift that gets us to the turnpoint and back out again.

Well, that was a downwind task, but we averaged only 27 mph getting there, so the south wind didn’t help that much. Coming back will prove to be much more difficult (and most if not all of the pilots who don’t make it will drop out here), as the average speed will go down to 15 mph.

I’ll charge across some blue areas to get under what seems to be a cloud street, find nothing then push up wind to get under some pilots turning at 8 miles out from Quest, only to find myself at 450’ and working lift that averages 140 fpm, starting out at a much lower value. It turns out that every one will have difficulty making it back to Quest and will get low on this leg.

Christian Ciech and Alex Ploner are doing much better in this meet than the rest of us, and they have zoomed out ahead. They were half a mile ahead at the turnpoint, and I lost them coming back as I went more easterly, but they will also get quite low. They are flying together.

I’m flying with Johann, but I’ve lost him also. Given how weak the conditions are we are all struggling and it looks like a long day if we can stay up. I’ve got quite a few other gliders here with me, so we hang on and the lift improves, as we drift north away from Quest, but with stronger lift it is no problem. Twenty minutes after coming in low, I’m up to 4,000’ and on my way to Quest with Curt, Paris, Ron Gleason, and some other ATOSes.

We are styling now, hitting good lift and staying high as we come into Quest. We can see a gaggle forming to our south that includes the Swifts, so they must have struggled also. I can see Alex and Christian in the gaggle also.

Johann will lose it here and head off to the west to get under better looking clouds, while I’ll continue to the south to join up with the gaggle. Johann, who is in second place, will almost land at Quest.

I catch up with the lead gaggle, which is putzing along. I guess they don’t see any need to probe out into the blue to the south. All the clouds that we had by Bushnell have not come down here in the late afternoon, and there are mere wisps to our south.

With a bunch of rigid wings, Curt Warren, and above us all the two Italian rigid wing pilots, we start punching our way south only to find good lift, light sink in between, and long patches of buoyant air. We stay high and work light lift to get to 5,000’.

We are still running into the wind, so it takes a while, but we have no problems getting down to the south to get the turnpoint with Alex and Christian leading the way. The Swifts start to get ahead of us now, with Manfred taking the third turnpoint and coming back to greet us when we are 2 miles out from it.

As soon as we get the turnpoint, we can drift back north along 33 in strong tail winds and buoyant air. With the lift averaging less than 200 fpm in the cores, we are just taking a little bit here and there. After the long up wind grind it is a joy to drift toward the Gator turnpoint.

Now there are only rigid wings in the lead as we come into the Gator turnpoint and turn to get back to Quest. It’s been a long glide into Gator before our upwind final glide. My IQ/Comp has been acting up and not reporting any final glide info, so I’m just hanging with the four other rigid pilots. Heiner goes on glide and we all just speed up as it becomes clear that no matter that fact that we are going into a strong head wind, we will make it back to Quest without a problem.

Mike Barber who bombed out on the previous day (after passing up lots of lift trying to go faster) goes all out and will win in Class 1 as the flex wings will come in about 20 minutes behind Alex Ploner who takes first in the rigid wings. Then again he'll start fifteen minutes behind us, so you can see how much Alex and Christian were holding back, just tracking the rigids below them.

Class 5 on the last day:

1 Ploner, Alex, 65 Air Atos C Ita 13:15:00 16:20:00 03:05:00 953
2 Ciech, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos Ita 13:15:00 16:20:11 03:05:11 935
3 Biesel, Heiner, 101 Air Atos Usa 13:15:00 16:28:30 03:13:30 848
4 Gleason, Ron, 300 Air Atos Usa 13:15:00 16:28:35 03:13:35 839
5 Endter, Vincent, 43 Air Atos Usa 13:15:00 16:28:36 03:13:36 832
6 Straub, Davis, 50 Air Atos C Usa 13:15:00 16:28:55 03:13:55 825
7 Zeiset, Jim, 66 Air Atos Usa 13:15:00 16:38:43 03:23:43 762
8 Barmakian, Bruce, 17 Air Atos Usa 13:00:00 16:34:50 03:34:50 741
9 Brandt, Dave, 60 Air Atos Usa 13:15:00 16:48:51 03:33:51 713
10 Posch, Johann, 112 Air Atos Aut 13:15:00 16:54:20 03:39:20 689
11 Campanella, Mario, 186 Flight Designs Ghostbuster Bra 13:15:00 16:54:52 03:39:52 685
12 Almond, Neville, 116 Flight Designs Ghostbuster Gbr 13:00:00 17:45:14 04:45:14 469

Class 5 finals:

1 Ciech, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos Ita 5804
2 Posch, Johann, 112 Air Atos Aut 5354
3 Ploner, Alex, 65 Air Atos C Ita 5272
4 Straub, Davis, 50 Air Atos C Usa 4994
5 Gleason, Ron, 300 Air Atos Usa 4983

Class 1 last day:

1 Barber, Mike, 2 Moyes Litespeed Usa 13:30:00 16:41:15 03:11:15 915
2 Wirdnam, Gary , 39 Aeros Combat 2 Gbr 13:30:00 16:41:37 03:11:37 902
3 Bessa, Carlos, 155 Moyes Litespeed Bra 13:30:00 16:42:09 03:12:09 891
4 Warren, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed Usa 13:15:00 16:40:29 03:25:29 843
5 Zweckmayr, Josef, 18 Icaro Laminar Aut 13:00:00 16:33:16 03:33:16 841
6 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 13:30:00 16:55:38 03:25:38 800
6 Agulhon, Dorival, 94 Icaro Mrx Bra 13:15:00 16:45:15 03:30:15 800
8 Harri, Martin, 31 Moyes Litespeed Che 13:30:00 16:55:41 03:25:41 797
9 Williams, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 13:30:00 16:56:04 03:26:04 793
10 Bertok, Attila, 64 Moyes Litespeed Hun 13:30:00 16:56:08 03:26:08 790

Finals Class 1:

1 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 5841
2 Williams, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 5644
3 Volk, Glen, 5 Moyes Litespeed Usa 5584
4 Hamilton, Robin, 30 Icaro MR700WRE Gbr 5515
5 Warren, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed Usa 5440
6 Hazlett, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed Can 5437
7 Wirdnam, Gary , 39 Aeros Combat 2 Gbr 5434
8 Wolf, Andre, 117 Moyes Litespeed Bra 5389
9 Olsson, Andreas, 27 Moyes Litespeed Swe 5369
10 Rotor, Nene, 77 Wills Wing Talon Bra 5348

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Fri, Apr 26 2002, 9:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Bruce Barmakian|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|cart|Christian Ciech|Curt Warren|Davis Straub|Dennis Pagen|Florida|Flytec Championships 2002|Gary Wirdnam|Ghostbuster|Glen Volk|Greg Dinauer|Johann Posch|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Manfred Ruhmer|Mark Bolt|Mark Dowsett|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Oleg Bondarchuk|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|Ron Gleason|Steve Rewolinski|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan|Tyler Borradaile|Wallaby Ranch|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

Finally we have an “interesting” task here in Florida. We’ve had so many races (at least while I was still in the air), and it’s just been climb and go, climb and go, final glide, finish. Today we had time to stop and smell the roses. Or was it the cow manure? Whatever it was it was really close by.

Not that it started off that way at all. With Garycalling for over development and rain possibly, we were concerned about whether we could get back to Quest without running into unsafe conditions. We have two proposed tasks, an 88-mile out and return, and a 68-mile run down to Avon Park airport to the southeast that should get us away from any over development.

We move all the start times up to 1, 1:15and 1:30to get everyone going before the chances of OD get too high. The windcast shows the convergence zone (where you would expect the OD) right down the middle of the state (north or south). The BLIP forecast shows the highest CAPEindex to our north, so if we run south we’ll have the best chance of avoiding the OD.

The winds are light (as they would be in the convergence area), so it is even difficult to tell which runway to launch from, but then does it really matter? We are expecting good lift and a cloud base at 4,600’.

After blowing the second day, I’m down in the pack so I do have to run my glider out to the staging area. This time at least I have a cart. Bubba Goodman and I have a sprint first across the runway to get a cart (but it is all in fun as we know there are two carts). Great exercise before the actual competition.

The task committee is meeting on the flight line to decide which task to choose. If there is no sign of over development at 12, then we will choose the out and return task. There are only a few small cu’s around at noonso we say, let’s come back.

Fortunately no competitors launch for the next fifteen minutes, and in that time a number of cu-nimbs form out over highway 27 to our east. We quickly reconvene the task committee and change the task to a straight run to AvonPark.

By 12:30the cu’s are thick around us and over us with lots of vertical development. I’m wishing that we didn’t push the start clock back 15 minutes, as it would be great to leave at 1 PMinstead of the 1:15 PMfirst start time. Heck, it would be great to leave at 12:45, as it took but a couple of minutes under a black bottomed cu’s to get right up to cloud base at 4,000’ right over Quest Air.

The tugs are pulling pilots out of the air park at an astounding rate. It seems like everyone is in the air in way less than 30 minutes. Yesterday they were launching folks at a rate of one every 15 seconds. The pilots are being especially helpful by being ready to go when they get in the launch line.

A plane is landing or taking off every 8 seconds (not including the hang gliders) whenever there is a launch line, so this makes the Sheets airport the busiest airport in the world for about half an hour. Same can be said of the Wallaby Ranch during the Wallaby Open.

Many parks have provided multiple tugs for the event and there are more Dragonflies assembled at the Flytec Championship than have ever been in one place at the same time (pictures later). Wallaby has provided two tugs, for which everyone is quite grateful, and two highly skilled (and experienced) pilots. It’s great to have tug pilots who’ve been at this a long time.

With the task decided at the last minute it is a big scramble on the ground and in the air, but everyone is taking it in stride. We on the task committee are just trying to do our best for the pilots, and apparently they are really appreciative. We hear nothing but praise from everyone.

Johann and I have agreed to take the first start time no matter what. I’m not high at the time, but I don’t care. I leave anyway and head out toward the gaggle of flex wings at the 5 mile point. A few miles beyond that Johann and I hook up with the first gaggle of flex wings on the course. These guys have taken the first start time also, and they found something good over highway 33.

Johann is much higher than I and there are plenty of flex wings over my head as we climb up but only to 3,400’, 800’ below cloud base, when the thermal stops and we all spread out. I keep leaving low as I want to get as far away as possible from the guys who are going to take the next start time. I don’t want them to see our thermals.

Getting out in front is a tough assignment because you’ve got to find the thermals and race without knowing what is in front of you. Much easier to follow. We go early because we think that maybe the over development will shut down the guys behind.

We’re with a dozen flex wings and we are all spread out moving quickly down 33, finding bits of lift, climbing for a minute or two then moving quickly on to keep up with the guys in front. Everyone is helping everyone else as we search in front here. We need all the noses we can get if we want to go fast.

We aren’t finding much when a glider in front of me and to my right runs into good lift just south of 474. This baby is 700 fpm to cloud base and 4,700’. I get on top with Brett Hazlett and a few other of the fast flex wing boys and so I’m now the lead guy.

My leading sucks, and I have to go east and west to finally find an average 150 fpm at 1,600’ just northeast of PolkCity. Oh the shame of it all. Thankfully we do get up enough to be able to join another small gaggle to our southeast over Old Grade Roadjust north of I4. This thermal is quite a bit better averaging 350 fpm to almost 4,000’.

We are entering the go fast part of the race, although other than slow climbs we haven’t exactly been dawdling. I’m kind of surprised at the direction that the guys, including Johann, who are now out in front are taking, more south-southwest toward the east side of Winter Haven. The notoriously weak area around the Winter Havenairport is coming up, but the clouds are saying come along.

I get great climb rates of between 450 fpm average to 550 fpm average in a couple of the thermals, climbing to over 5,000’. There are flex wings every where and one rigid catches us for a moment before we leave him behind. Johann and I are running scared thinking that Alex Ploner and Christian Ciech are just behind us.

As we get southeast of Winter Haven taking care to be out of the airspace from the Bartow airport way off to our southwest, we can see the high top of a cu-nimb to our southeast and right on the course line. It’s well shadowed underneath and looks like there may be some virga around it.

I have gone into the lead again as I cut the corner and ignored some lift. It is always good to just bypass the gaggle when you are high and there looks to be lift ahead. I’m thinking that there may be too much lift ahead. I’m happy that there are a couple of flex wings near me way below that are diving toward the cloud also. I hoping that they are not as nervous as me.

I’ve put my hang point on ATOS ¼” more forward. Maybe it is the air, and maybe it is the hang point, but the glider seems to be having a much better time of it. It’s not bucking around quite so much and I’m enjoying the Floridaair.

While I stay on the right sunny side of the cloud, some pilots go right underneath it. Doesn’t seem to be a problem, but I do notice that we get a bit of rain. I want to put this cloud behind me and get to the next ones.

As we get a couple of miles south of Lake Wales, and a mile west of highway 27, Curt Warren, Johann and I head for a cloud a little bit to our right that seems to be working. We’re spread out and make a thorough search of the area, but we can’t find anything like what we’ve had until now. I’ll drop from 2,500’ to 550’ AGL as all three of us go round and round trying to find the lift.

Johann and I are in radio communication so he brings me back one more time to get under Curt and him just next to a small lake. I’m way low and way below them, but we climb up enough and when Curt goes over to the east and finds a better core, they climb to 3,000’, while I’ll get up to 2,500’. We’re alive.

Johann and a bunch of gliders are out in front now on a long glide. I’m going carefully and slowly as possible. There are no clouds nearby, as the rain cloud has wiped when all out. The air is very smooth and I hear this also from Johann ahead of me.

Alex Ploner gets on the radio and says that he and Christian Ciech have landed 7 miles from goal in Frostproof. They took the start time 15 minutes after us and raced through the gaggles to get past us as we groveled on the deck. Now they are on the ground and we are almost on the ground.

At 12.5 miles out from goal I tell Belinda that I am at 1,000’ and will probably land at 10 miles from goal. I’m checking out just how far I can glide over the trees to get to a landable field.

Then Johann gets on the radio and says that they have lift at 10 miles out. I’m gliding toward him and wondering which fields I can land in. At 450’ I come in over a tractor working in some burnt off area a mile short of Johann’s thermal. There’s a beep on the vario and I start searching it out.

There are plenty of gliders around, all above me, and numerous gliders with Johann, so there is plenty of encouragement to stay up in whatever is available. There are no clouds, and the landing fields are scarce. Time to hang in there and be patient as the day is much different now that the first two place guys are on the ground.

I work this thermal to 2,900’ and actually leave it too early. Numerous gliders above me have gone out in front and are way ahead so that we can’t see them. I go to where the flex wings are working the lift that Johann has left, but just get zero for 3 minutes at 2,500’. Finally I’ve had enough of this head out now in the lead of the fifteen or so pilots in the neighborhood.

At 7 miles out from goal and at 1,700’ I know that I’ve got to find something, anything to make it in. I feel the barest hint of some lift nearby and start turning looking for anything. There are plenty of orange groves below and I prefer them as thermal generators to green pastures.

For four minutes I don’t gain any altitude, but I also don’t lose any. Then things get a bit better as the little gaggle joins me. This thermal will average 175 fpm and take me to 3,100’. Glen Volk will be just above me the whole time.

It stops at 3,100’ and although I wanted to go to 3,500’ before I went on final glide, I’ll take what I can get. There is a large patch of trees and houses before the airport, so I’m worried about the final glide in addition to the distance.

The air is completely smooth, and my sink rate averages only 200 fpm. I try to keep the air speed at about 32 mph, for best L/D but I seem to have averaged 37 mph over the ground. I don’t think that there was any wind. 3,500’ would have given me goal at 10:1. I’m hoping for 15:1 and I’ll get 16:1.

Glen will comment later how much better I’m gliding at these lower speeds than him as he sees me rise up above him as we cross over the unlandable areas. In the last field before the houses and trees I spot three flex wings. Then at the very end of the field, washed up as though by the sea, I will spot a dozen gliders and three rigids. I’m sure that they are cursing me as I fly over their heads at about 1,400’ two and half miles from goal.

I spot the goal and one glider. It seems to be the Swift, but in fact it is Johann. The Swifts have been moved to a spot near the hangars. Johann will be the first hang glider into goal, I’ll be second, quite a few minutes behind him. Glen Volk will be the first flex wing into goal.

All the top five pilots in each class (other than Johann) will not make goal. This means that the scores will be quite tight for the final day. Anyone could win the meet (and probably will).

Class 5 today:

1 Posch, Johann, 112 Air Atos Aut 13:15:00 16:08:06 02:53:06 994
2 Straub, Davis, 50 Air Atos C Usa 13:15:00 16:35:04 03:20:04 803
3 Dinauer, Greg, 32 Air Atos Usa 13:30:00 16:45:17 03:15:17 786
4 Biesel, Heiner, 101 Air Atos Usa 13:45:00 16:58:26 03:13:26 764
5 Ferris, George, 59 Air Atos Usa 13:30:00 16:53:53 03:23:53 744
6 Almond, Neville, 116 Flight Designs Ghostbuster Gbr 13:15:00 17:09:54 03:54:54 645
7 Campanella, Mario, 186 Flight Designs Ghostbuster Bra 13:30:00 17:39:03 04:09:03 591

Class 5 cumulative (going into the last day):

1 Ciech, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos Ita 4758
2 Posch, Johann, 112 Air Atos Aut 4693
3 Straub, Davis, 50 Air Atos C Usa 4240
4 Gleason, Ron, 300 Air Atos Usa 4200
5 Campanella, Mario, 186 Flight Designs Gb Bra 4170
6 Ploner, Alex, 65 Air Atos C Ita 4141
7 Barmakian, Bruce, 17 Air Atos Usa 3978
8 Biesel, Heiner, 101 Air Atos Usa 3936
9 Hollidge, Andy, 26 La Mouette Top Secret Gbr 3727
10 Bowen, Campbell, 49 Flight Designs Axxess + Usa 3287

Class 1 today:

1 Volk, Glen, 5 Moyes Litespeed Usa 13:30:00 16:36:43 03:06:43 970
2 Dowsett, Mark, 29 Moyes Litespeed Can 13:30:00 16:44:06 03:14:06 904
3 Bolt, Mark, 143 Aeros Stealth Usa 13:30:00 16:44:17 03:14:17 899
4 Mclellan, Tish, 11 Moyes Litespeed Aus 13:30:00 16:45:23 03:15:23 886
4 Sauer, Richard, 7 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 13:15:00 16:43:01 03:28:01 886
6 Shipley, Mitchell, 99 Aeros Combat 2 Usa 13:15:00 16:43:40 03:28:40 878
7 Bajewski, Joerg, 34 Aeros Combat Deu 13:15:00 16:45:05 03:30:05 860
8 Borradaile, Tyler , 109 Aeros Combat 2 Can 13:15:00 16:45:13 03:30:13 857
9 Pagen, Dennis, 51 Moyes Litespeed Usa 13:30:00 16:59:20 03:29:20 837
10 Agulhon, Dorival, 94 Icaro Mrx Bra 13:15:00 17:04:19 03:49:19 796
11 Grzyb, Krzysztof, 35 Icaro MR700 Pol 13:15:00 17:08:39 03:53:39 784
12 Rewolinski, Steve, 96 Icaro MRX2001 Usa 13:45:00 17:40:43 03:55:43 759
13 Woodruff, Jon, 28 Airborne Climax Usa 13:15:00 17:22:34 04:07:34 749

Cumulative Class 1:

1 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 5049
2 Williams, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 4860
3 Volk, Glen, 5 Moyes Litespeed Usa 4804
4 Hamilton, Robin, 30 Icaro MR700WRE Gbr 4752
5 Hazlett, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed Can 4665
6 Wolf, Andre, 117 Moyes Litespeed Bra 4611
7 Warren, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed Usa 4602
8 Olsson, Andreas, 27 Moyes Litespeed Swe 4594
9 Rotor, Nene, 77 Wills Wing Talon Bra 4574
10 Wirdnam, Gary , 39 Aeros Combat 2 Gbr 4538

Robin Hamilton is flying Manfred’s glider. He says that he didn’t know that Oleg had landed. If he had, he would have stayed one more minute in the last thermal and made goal.

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Flytec Championship – pilot’s choice »

Thu, Apr 25 2002, 9:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Belinda Boulter|Brett Hazlett|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Arai|Christian Ciech|Curt Warren|David Glover|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships 2002|Gary Wirdnam|Glen Volk|Jim Lee|Johann Posch|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robin Hamilton|Ron Gleason|video|weather|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment

While the meet is on I’m a little strapped for time, so I just get out what I can. I’ve got a few other articles that I’ll get to when the meet is over.

Yesterday I wrote:

Preliminary results are up on the www.flytec.com web site. Dave Glover had them up by about 10:30 PM. This is the fastest I can recall the results going up on the web in a major competition.

Dave wrote back:

While I appreciate the compliment I need to redirect the credit. Tim Meany, Scorekeeper Extraordinare for the Flytec Championship 2002 is the reason why the scoring and web updates are so correct and timely. GW (by himself) routinely was able to finish scoring by 9pm almost every night at his meets.

Tim and Dave (who are working together as a team) got the scores up on the web by 7:45 PMtonight. They also have an intranet setup to display the scores (Flytec goes high tech) on a separate computer (in this case a Mac). Pilots don’t have to wait until the wood chipper (otherwise known as a printer) prints out the latest updates of the preliminary scores. They can go right “on-line” and see the scores and all the latest pictures from the meet, right at headquarters upstairs at Quest.

I was interviewed by one of the three local newspapers that are covering the Flytec Championships today. They wanted to know from me how we did the weather. There was also a camera crew from the Orlando CBS affiliate here all day getting great shots of pilots launching and coming into goal. The video may go nationwide, so if you see it, please write in.

Gary’s forecast was for winds at 14 mph out of the south, but the windcast said more westerly than southerly. We decided to go with Gary’s forecast with the winds at Quest in the morning were strong out of the south.

The task committee decided to let the pilots help make the choice between a 91-miler straight out to the north to our favorite airport at Keystone, and a 53 miler triangle, up to Coleman, down to the north end of the GreenSwampand then back. Of course, the straw poll from the pilots spilt about down the middle, so our fallback was for the triangle.

Turned out that once we got in the air, the winds at altitude were out of the west instead of the south, so it was fine to have a triangle task, although in this case it would bring us home with a tail wind. Garyhad been worried about the possibility of over development, and we did get some shadowed areas and vertical clouds, but no rain on the course.

Most pilots waited around for the 2:15 PMstart time. This is just a waste of time, and reflects the fact that we aren’t using OzGAP or maybe GAP 2002 (although no one was quite sure what to make of GAP 2002 after the debacle of scoring at the Wallaby Open). All the rigids were at cloud base for almost half an hour just hanging out until forced to go. Even then they didn’t really want to go so I cursed them and headed out on my own at 2:15 PM.

That got me a bit low being the guy in front with no one to watch, so I came into the first thermal low, which can be good as the lift is often better down below, before it tapers off, and you’ve got guys out in front that you can now follow. In this case, it wasn’t so hot (unlike yesterday).

All the rigids are sticking together and we haven’t caught the flexies who start out 2 miles in front of us. There are thick clouds every where, but long patches of blue and sink also, so we’re hoping not to run into a shadowed area with no lift as we head toward the prisons. Christian, Felix, and Johann are together in front and on top.

There is a lot of darkness on the ground and in the air as we approach Coleman. Some of us run to the west by the prisons just to be sure that we get some sunlight mixed with the clouds and get upwind a bit of the clouds so that we can get up before the turnpoint. Even with all the shadowed ground there is lift by the Coleman turnpoint, and we are able to get high.

By this time (one hour into the flight) we’ve caught the flex wings and it’s all a big jumble of gliders spread out over a mile, as there are lots of bits of lift. We head south toward the GreenSwampto get the next turnpoint.

After a five mile glide (long for the day), I find myself with Oleg working 90 fpm at 2,500’. We’ve gone out in front of the gaggle a bit, although there are rigid wings ahead of us. This lift is pretty piss poor after 400 fpm average in the last thermal, and finally we see that Andy Hollidge out in front of us in his Top Secret has found a much stronger thermal down low.

This thermal will average 500 fpm, get us over 4,000’, and make it easy to get to the next turnpoint and on toward goal. All the fast flex wings are in this gaggle, but Alex and Christian are way ahead. Alex will come into goal after making the course in an hour and 46 minutes. Christian is four minutes behind. Belinda has already told me the news on the radio.

A few miles past the turnpoint, we all stop for a thermal that averages 150 fpm. After climbing to 3,000’ with Oleg, I decide that I can find something better than this on the way to goal.

In fact I do find much better lift on the way to goal, but I get down to 1,200’ before I get it. Oleg says that the lift picked up after I left and this enables the gaggle to come over my head and get to goal 2 minutes before me.

Class 5:

1 PLONER, Alex, 65 AIR Atos C ITA 14:15:00 16:01:14 01:46:14 901
2 CIECH, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos ITA 14:15:00 16:05:16 01:50:16 831
3 POSCH, Johann, 112 AIR Atos AUT 14:15:00 16:22:36 02:07:36 699
4 BARMAKIAN, Bruce, 17 AIR Atos USA 14:15:00 16:24:59 02:09:59 678
5 GLEASON, Ron, 300 AIR Atos USA 14:15:00 16:26:25 02:11:25 658
6 STRAUB, Davis, 50 AIR Atos C USA 14:15:00 16:27:15 02:12:15 649

Class 1:

BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 UKR 14:15:00 16:24:51 02:09:51 918
2 WARREN, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed USA 14:15:00 16:25:07 02:10:07 905
3 ROTOR, Nene, 77 Wills Wing Talon COL 14:15:00 16:25:21 02:10:21 896
3 BERTOK, Attila, 64 Moyes Litespeed HUN 13:45:00 16:02:58 02:17:58 896
5 BESSA, Carlos, 155 Moyes Litespeed BRA 14:15:00 16:25:28 02:10:28 890
6 WIRDNAM, Gary , 39 Aeros Combat 2 GBR 14:15:00 16:25:44 02:10:44 873
7 VOLK, Glen, 5 Moyes Litespeed USA 14:15:00 16:28:00 02:13:00 838
8 ARAI, Chris, 57 Wills Wing Talon USA 14:15:00 16:28:43 02:13:43 829
9 BAJEWSKI, Joerg, 34 Aeros Combat DEU 14:15:00 16:30:14 02:15:14 812
10 WILLIAMS, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE USA 14:15:00 16:31:00 02:16:00 804

Cumulative in Class 1:

1

BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 107

Aeros Combat 2 13

UKR

4416

2

WILLIAMS,Paris, 1

Icaro MR700WRE

USA

4247

3

WARREN, Curt, 73

Moyes Litespeed

USA

4143

4

HAMILTON, Robin, 30

Icaro Laminar

GBR

4109

5

WIRDNAM,Gary, 39

Aeros Combat 2

GBR

4069

6

HAZLETT, Brett, 90

Moyes Litespeed

CAN

4035

7

WOLF, Andre, 117

Moyes Litespeed

BRA

3978

8

OLSSON, Andreas, 27

Moyes Litespeed

SWE

3964

9

ROTOR, Nene, 77

Wills Wing Talon

COL

3939

10

VOLK, Glen, 5

Moyes Litespeed

USA

3831

Curt Warren (new pilot of the meet last year) is doing very well as is Parisjust behind Oleg. They don’t have Manfred to fly with (he won the day again in Class 2), and maybe Oleg would have challenged Manfred in this meet, after sneaking by him in the Wallaby Open.

It is great to see all the top competition gliders doing well against each other. There doesn’t seem to be a clear advantage to any flex wing, but Oleg is always blaming his glider for his good performance. This is a much different story than the one I reported last year at this time.

Jim Lee has returned to New Mexicoafter having problems with his neck, that’s why you don’t see him in the results. Robin Hamilton returned to his Laminar after flying his Swift in the Wallaby Open and is doing very well also.

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Flytec Championship – I think we are having fun yet »

Wed, Apr 24 2002, 9:00:00 pm GMT

A.I.R. ATOS|Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Aeros Ltd|Andrew "Andy" Hollidge|Chris Arai|Christian Ciech|cloud|comic|competition|Curt Warren|David "Dave" Glover|Dragonfly|Flytec Championships 2002|Flytec Championships 2005|gaggle|Moyes Delta Gliders|Moyes Litespeed|Nene Rotor|Quest Air|Robert Reisinger|tow|tug|weaklink|weather|Wills Wing Talon

Many pilots were excited about the short task yesterday and getting to goal for the first time. This really upped the mood of the competitors and brought everyone one into the fold. The new guys wanted to be included also.

I wrote a while back about Tove’s meet in Deniliquin and how she organized it so that it encouraged new pilots to join in competition. No one has taken her example and run with it yet, but maybe we’ll see more of that. We on the task committee have to set tasks for the major racers, so it would be nice to have a meet where we could see tasks for the great middle of the field.

Did I say that we were having fun yet? Seems like the competitors are really liking the tasks and enjoying the facilities here at Quest Air. Good weather helps, of course, and Floridais doing its best to makes us all happy.

There is a lot going on at Quest in addition to the meet. A new turbine Dragonfly flew tonight, so that’s bringing a lot of excitement to all the motor heads. With so many Dragonflies and trikes here, not only do we get in the air in a real big hurry, but all the tug pilots get to talk to one another and encourage each other.

With an east-northeast wind prediction and difficulty forecasting the lift, we call a straight run, 68 miles, out to the WillistonAirportto the north, northwest. We want folks to see a little bit of Florida, if they happen to look down at all. A little cross country flying wouldn’t hurt either.

There is a strong east wind on the ground, and in the air (I’ll measure 60° at 14 mph throughout the flight), so launches prove to be a bit tricky. I’ll break two weak links, which will start me off in a fine mood, nervous as possible.

With the high pressure and shearing winds, the lift above Quest is quite a handful. I’m getting tossed around something fierce and frankly I’m totally terrified. I’m thinking of landing, but the competition spirit keeps me in the air.

We’re waiting for the 2:15 PMstart time, and even with my late start because of the multiple weaklink breaks due to the action at tree top level, I’ve plenty of time to get to cloud base. Russell takes me up on the third tow and it is as smooth as can be. He deposits me under a small cloud that is working at 200 fpm, and I much appreciate it.

All the rigids were out near the start circle circumference, but they come back to join me as we wait until the last start time. I assume that they are thinking like me that we want the full heating of the day to fly our reasonably short task in.

I’m at cloud base at a little over 5,000’ and given that we are all back a mile and a half from the start circle circumference I decide to leave in time to make it there as the start time starts. Seems like some other pilots want to keep working to stay out of the clouds close to Quest.

There are lots of high clouds, and thin cu’s with cloud base at 5,000’ out in front of us. There is very little development today in the clouds, but they are numerous. They are mostly just wisps.

I go on an eight mile glide to 2,300’ and find some lift with a few other pilots under very marginal clouds. It’s 400 fpm back to 4,700’ so I’m happy to be high. I guess I only need to say this once more here. I’ll be terrified for about 75% of the flight. I experience it has very turbulent, and I can’t help thinking that the glider to going to go over at any minute. Other pilots will mention how turbulent it was.

There are flex wings who’ve taken the 2 PM start gate out in front of us, along with a couple of rigid wing pilots who also took the earlier start time. I’m falling behind as I keep leaving uncomfortable lift, and hoping to find lighter, but more comfortable climbs.

At around Wildwood I start chasing the lead gaggle – a gaggle of mixed rigids and flex wings. They are moving very fast, racing from thermal to thermal, but I’ve got the advantage that I’m following and can see where they find lift.

There is a tough stretch right around Wildwood as we head toward I-75, then things start to improve and folks get more and more into the racing mode. I’m still way behind many of the other rigids, and the top flex wings are spread all around. We’ve probably got 20 to 30 pilots in the front of this race, within two miles of each other.

Southwest of Ocalawe get under a cloud street that lasts for maybe 3 or 4 miles, and I’m somehow able to catch up with the top few pilots. We al decide to go on glide from over 5,000’ and this will turn into a ten mile glide down to 1,700 until a flex wing pilot way to my right is the first to find the lift. For the first time during the flight I’m happy to be in a thermal because it is completely smooth and takes us back to over 5,000’.

At 15 miles out my IQ/Comp is telling me to go on final. I’ve got it at 15/1. I head out, but find a small gaggle to my left that is climbing well, and make the mistake to go join them. I really didn’t need the lift and this would have been my opportunity to pass Christian and just go into goal.

The last twelve miles in are full race mode. I can see Andy Hollidge in his Top Secret way in front of me and higher, but I’m pulling in much more than he and catching him. There is little chance to go down before goal, so the only reason to slow down is to absorb the bumps from all the lift we are flying through. Andy can’t pull in any more, so he’s at a big disadvantage.

Christian Ciech is just in front of me, and there is no catching him. I’m surrounded by (but soon they are below and a little bit in front of me) Nene Rotor and Chris Arai (who took the 2 PM start time) and Robert Reisinger and Joseph Zweckmayr who took that last start clock. The first four flexies get in just a few seconds before I cross the goal, second for the day. Curt Warren started much early and came in between Manfred and Brian.

Class 2:

1 Ciech, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos Ita 14:15:00 16:16:23 02:01:23 906
2 Straub, Davis, 50 Air Atos C Usa 14:15:00 16:17:16 02:02:16 875
3 Barmakian, Bruce, 17 Air Atos Usa 14:15:00 16:19:12 02:04:12 841
4 Posch, Johann, 112 Air Atos Aut 14:15:00 16:19:56 02:04:56 826
5 Biesel, Heiner, 101 Air Atos Usa 14:00:00 16:12:01 02:12:01 822

Class 1:

1 Reisinger, Robert, 72 Wills Wing Talon Aut 14:15:00 16:17:06 02:02:06 909
2 Zweckmayr, Josef, 18 Icaro Laminar Aut 14:15:00 16:17:07 02:02:07 903
3 Rossignol, Jerz, 6 Aeros Combat 2 Usa 14:15:00 16:19:05 02:04:05 856
4 Williams, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 14:15:00 16:19:33 02:04:33 841
5 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 14:15:00 16:20:12 02:05:12 830
6 Warren, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed Usa 13:45:00 16:04:17 02:19:17 821
7 Hamilton, Robin, 30 Icaro Laminar Gbr 14:15:00 16:23:07 02:08:07 800
8 Rotor, Nene, 77 Wills Wing Talon Col 14:00:00 16:16:57 02:16:57 799
9 Arai, Chris, 57 Wills Wing Talon Usa 14:00:00 16:16:58 02:16:58 795
10 Wolf, Andre, 117 Moyes Litespeed Bra 14:00:00 16:17:16 02:17:16 782

Manfred made the task in an hour and a half. Brian in an hour and fifty minutes. Manfred leads overall.

Christian Ciech has to fall down for anyone to catch him in Class 5.

Cumulative in Class 1:

1 Bondarchuk, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 Ukr 3498
2 Williams, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE Usa 3443
3 Hamilton, Robin, 30 Icaro Laminar Gbr 3333
4 Hazlett, Brett, 90 Moyes Litespeed Can 3250
5 Wolf, Andre, 117 Moyes Litespeed Bra 3244
6 Warren, Curt, 73 Moyes Litespeed Usa 3238
7 Reisinger, Robert, 72 Wills Wing Talon Aut 3223
8 Wirdnam, Gary , 39 Aeros Combat 2 Gbr 3195
9 Olsson, Andreas, 27 Moyes Litespeed Swe 3179
10 Zweckmayr, Josef, 18 Icaro Laminar Aut 3062

Preliminary results are up on the www.flytec.com web site. Dave Glover had them up by about 10:30 PM. This is the fastest I can recall the results going up on the web in a major competition.

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Flytec Championship – launch, go on final »

Tue, Apr 23 2002, 8:30:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Arai|Christian Ciech|David Glover|Davis Straub|Florida|Flytec Championships 2002|Gary Osoba|Kari Castle|Manfred Ruhmer|Martin Harri|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Oleg Bondarchuk|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Taylor|Wallaby Ranch|weather|Wills Wing|World Record Encampment|Worlds

Well, not quite, but close. We’ll call a short task today, and make a lot of people happy (and some others not so happy).

First, a few interesting tidbits.

According to David Glover, the Flytec Championship is the largest aerotow in the world for the second year in a row. Seems to jibe with my understanding of these things. This year there are at least 104 pilots in the meet.

During the peak period when every one wanted to tow yesterday, they were able to launch a pilot every 23 seconds (this is from two lines). Shows just what you can do when you’ve got the resources and the organization.

Both major Floridaflight parks are doing very well on the organizing of resources and all the pilots really appreciate all the folks who’ve brought their tugs and trikes to Floridafor these meets. This really indicates that the next Worlds in Class I (or II) could be here in Floridawith resources shared by both flight parks.

This is the kind of rivalry that we all enjoy. The two major flight parks striving to be the best that they can be both with safety and with efficiency. Everyone appreciates this kind of competition and it is healthy for the sport and the industry. Congratulations to Quest Air for hosting the largest aerotow meets in the world!

Speaking of which I got an e-mail message tonight from the Flying Tush:

I just wanted to say that I think Dave is doing a fantastic job as meet director. I've never really been in a comp where the director doesn't treat us like simpletons and it’s very refreshing. He also has a great manner with the mic which keeps us laughing whilst still dealing with serious topics. I have never been quite so impressed by a meet director before.

I can only agree that David is doing a great job, both with the people relations aspects as well as the technical aspects of the meet. The Quest Air folks are also doing a superb job on the ground, in the air, and at the dinner line. The vegan food is an added plus (except the weird soy bacon).

Did I mention that we had a task today? Okay, okay.

Geez, the weather forecast sucked today. I had three different forecasts to go with this morning, and so we just picked one and said we’ll use that one for the task selection. We decided to go with Gary Osoba’s perhaps just because it was done just for us:

11am Weak lift to around 2,000'. Might be clouds forming up a little higher but probably not reachable yet. Winds at the surface nne 5-8, aloft 10.

2pm Moderate to good lift to around 5500'. Winds at the surface nne 5 and aloft nnw 10.

5pm Moderate lift to around 5300'. Winds at the surface nne 5 and nne to about 4500' at 8, up to 5300' nnw around 6

Now the other models showed weak lift all day. So we decided on a long task to Chalet Suzanne (42 miles) to the south-southeast, then to Wachula (total of 77 miles) to the southwest, and a short task to Chalet Suzanne, if the lift reported by the wind technicians was poor.

With the winds out of the north at 10 mph, and our options of going east/west poor, we decided to run down wind, especially given the possibility of poor lift. Poor lift was the output from the other models, because the high temperature was supposed to be ten degrees cooler than the day before – about 85°, with the north-northeast wind.

With a primary and secondary task set up we get out on the flight line and make arrangements with the wind tech’s to speak with them in the air and get a feel for the day. Earlier reports (10:45) indicated good lift, but a ceiling at 1,800’.

The wind dummies are off at 12:30(as we will open the launch window at 12:45) and they report back lift at 250 fpm to 2,300 and then it stops. They take three or four thermals and then land. No good.

There are no cu’s nearby, and there are plenty of high clouds perhaps from the front that is supposed to be going through. We delay everything 15 minutes, while we wait for the ground to get warmer. We are also discussing whether to call the shorter task.

We can see the clouds to the south and hear the reports from the thermal techs that there looks like there is plenty of lift to the south. They also report winds of 10 to 12 mph at 30°.

We decide to let the first competitors launch at 1 PM, with start windows at 2, 2:15, and 2:30 PM.Ten out of the twelve pilots who launch slowly come back to land. The other three look like they are going to land, and we don’t know what to do. We ask pilots to voluntarily not launch for a couple of minutes while we see if everyone is going to come down. We can call to new task then if we want.

The three pilots still in the air don’t come down, but slowly climb out, so the secondary task – the short one with Chalet Suzanne is on. We’re thinking that this poor lift could be a local effect due to LakeApopkato the northeast, but it does look more widespread than that.

With time running out, and a few pilots staying up, suddenly everyone wants to get into the air. Now it is very important just when you launch, because everyone (almost) will try for the 2:30 PMstart gate, and some pilots will be launching just a couple of minutes before 2:30 PM. They won’t have time to get up to cloud base (and out 3 or 5 miles to the start circle circumference) before the start clock reads time to start.

I get off at 2,000, fly over to the thermal, and get up in a thermal that averaging 300 fpm. The day has gone from really weak to just fine in over an hour. We just needed for it to heat up. The inversion lasted much longer over Quest than Gary’s forecast indicated, not breaking up until around 1:30 to 2 PM. At 2:30 PMwe could climb to 4,500’. The switch over was very rapid.

The start will turn out to be very important today especially as we have such a short task. I’m feeling pretty good even though there are plenty of rigid wings that launchedbefore me and are now higher, as I’m situation in the perfect position away from Quest and climbing at a rate that should get me to cloud base just as the 2:30 PMstart time begins.

A few minutes before 2 L30, ten rigids further out come back to join Alex Ploner and I in our thermal just inside the start circle. Still a few of them, including Christian Ciech are 300 feet over our heads. Not good.

I head out first hoping to get ahead by getting to the start circle first just as the start time begins. If the pilots behind are waiting in lift, they’ll get a bit higher, but be a minute late. Still they come over me.

Alex in plunging ahead trying to find strong lift way ahead of the gaggle in order to catch up and get ahead of Christian. After the first thermal, the gaggle heads toward the sand minds just to the north of 474 as we head a bit west of highway 33 and on the course line. I try keeping a line to the east seeing if I can find a line that works better than the line chosen by Christian who’s about a mile ahead.

The lift lines are the same, so that strategy doesn’t work. I continue it as we approach Old Grade Roadand Dean Still just west of Wallaby Ranch. The clouds seem better to the east, but again the gaggle finds the good lift first, and I’m back with them.

We’ve picked up the flex wings who started 2 miles in front of us also at 2:30 PMand so the gaggle is a mixed bag of rigids and flexies. We are putting our gliders up into steep banks as the lift gets up into the 500/600 fpm range.

The Swifts tried to get out in front, but we catch them at I4 and get over them also. Just south of I4, we hit a strong thermal and climb at 600 fpm at 15 miles out from goal. It looks like this will be all we need to make it.

We head off from toward the goal from 4,500’. So far glides have been averaging about 20 to 1 over the ground with the ten mph tail wind.

At ten miles out I lose my GPS signal and also find 500 fpm, so I take a few turns. The IQ/Comp has already told me to go to goal, so I’m not worried about my elevation, but this lift should speed me along. I know where the goal is, so I don’t need to have the GPS signal.

After a couple of turns, I continue on the ten mile glide across numerous large lakes into goal racing with all sorts of other pilots, flexies and rigids to get there early.

Manfred will get to goal first, come in high enough to get back up, and fly back to Quest. That way he doesn’t have to break down the Swift. Christrian Ciech will be the first hang glider into goal. Oleg will just beat out Paristo goal.

Seventy seven pilots will make goal, quite a few for the very first time. A pilot will come up to me in the goal and say that he’s been reading the Oz Report for two years and this is the first time that he has made goal. He’s obviously incoherent.

Christof, who helps Felix build ATOSes, will make his personal best and his first time into goal. Other pilots will be delirious. Long time competitions pilots will be disappointed with the fact that the task isn’t enough of a challenge and doesn’t differentiate pilots enough.

The field is a very narrow north/south grass patch. Thank goodness the wind is right down the runway. I've never seen so many pilots landing at the same time. Mitch Shipley comes in a few feet over my head and lands ten feet in front of me two seconds after I land.

Class I:

1 BONDARCHUK, Oleg, 107 Aeros Combat 2 13 UKR

14:30:00

15:39:18

01:09:18

757
2 WILLIAMS, Paris , 1 Icaro MR700WRE USA

14:30:00

15:39:24

01:09:24

749
3 HAMILTON, Robin, 30 Icaro Laminar GBR

14:30:00

15:39:45

01:09:45

737
4 HARRI, Martin, 31 Moyes Litespeed CHE

14:30:00

15:41:06

01:11:06

712
5 BESSA, Carlos, 155 Moyes Litespeed BRA

14:30:00

15:41:34

01:11:34

704
6 CASTLE, Kari, 8 Icaro MR700WRE USA

14:30:00

15:41:39

01:11:39

701
7 OLSSON, Andreas, 27 Moyes Litespeed SWE

14:30:00

15:41:51

01:11:51

696
8 WALBEC, Richard, 83 Wills Wing Talon FRA

14:30:00

15:41:53

01:11:53

694
9 ARAI, Chris, 57 Wills Wing Talon USA

14:30:00

15:41:54

01:11:54

692
10 HOLTCAMP, Rohan, 15 Airborne Climax AUS

14:30:00

15:41:58

01:11:58

689

Class 5:

1 CIECH, Christian, 47 Icaro Stratos ITA

14:30:00

15:36:03

01:06:03

731
2 BARMAKIAN, Bruce, 17 AIR Atos USA

14:30:00

15:36:19

01:06:19

715
3 BIESEL, Heiner, 101 AIR Atos USA

14:30:00

15:36:39

01:06:39

702
4 TRIMMEL, Manfred, 113 AIR Atos C AUT

14:30:00

15:40:48

01:10:48

645
5 STRAUB, Davis, 50 AIR Atos C USA

14:30:00

15:41:07

01:11:07

638

Preliminary results are up on the www.flytec.com web site.

By the way, regarding the weather. Instead of 85°, we saw 96°. When the forecast from the weather service is that far off on a critical variable which determines the predictions for lift, then all bets are off.

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Flytec Championship – the race begins »

Sun, Apr 21 2002, 8:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|Curt Warren|Florida|Flytec Championships 2002|Gary Osoba|Gerolf Heinrichs|Hansjoerg Truttmann|James-Donald "Don" "Plummet" Carslaw|Jim Lamb|Johann Posch|John "Ole" Olson|Manfred Ruhmer|Oleg Bondarchuk|Quest Air|weather|Wills Wing

The weather has continually improved since the beginning of the Wallaby Open, and over the last few days it has been great here in Florida. Today, Gary Osoba was predicting:

Looks like a good day for you. There is a distinct morning inversion. Things will start a little bit later than the average last week but when they kick off they'll be just fine for the first day of competition. Here's how it stacks up:

11am Blue. Weak lift to about 1800'. Winds at the surface sse at 3-5, aloft se at 5. As things progress toward noon and beyond, it will kick off for you. May wish to use a wind dummy or two to see when it happens.

2pm Good to strong lift and some clouds to around 5700'-6000'. The thermals might be sheared up a little in the last 1000' or so, depending upon what the upper winds really do. Surface winds sw at 3-5, at 3,000' sw at 7, at 6,000' se at 12. Around 3 pm maximum climbs to around 6300'-6500'.

5pm Good lift to around 6000' with some clouds. Less shearing in the thermals at this hour. Winds at the surface wsw 5-8, at 3000' sw 6, at 6000' ssw 5.

There was a west wind all day, but not enough to keep us from launching to the south. It measured about 10 mph out of te west during the task.

Given the predictions for good lift and light winds, we call an 82 mile triangle, with the first leg north to Leeward, a bit northeast of Belleview, south down to Coleman, and then southeast back to Quest Air flight park.

We are expecting a blue day, or at least clouds that don’t get too high. It certainly is blue in the morning, and there aren’t any clouds when the launch window opens at noon. We’ve moved everything back to a start window at 1:30as there is no chance of over development, and Garyis calling for a later day.

We call a race to minimize any of the effects of departure points and to make sure that pilots can know where they stand by just looking around and seeing where they are with respect to everyone else.

The rigids start at 4 miles out and the flex wings at 7 miles out north of Quest. With no one all that excited about getting into the air given the blue nature of things, the launch times get compressed. Still, with the sufficient resources just like at Wallaby, we all get into the air very very quickly. It is great having this many (17) tugs and trikes.

The lift seems weak at first for most people. I pull the pin when I’m at 2,000’ and my averager is showing 1,200 fpm. It couldn’t have been a better tow, especially behind a trike. A small cu forms over me as I climb out to 4,500’.

I scoot out to the 3.3 mile mark where all the rigids gaggle up and get ready for the start. You’ve got to wonder about the flex wings that are flying with us. Haven’t they heard the news that they are supposed to be out at 7 miles out?

I made a presentation of the strategy for the day after the pilot meeting. I suggested to those few attendees that they not follow the course line to Leeward, but rather head west toward the Okahumpka service area on the Floridaturnpike. This gets them away from Leesburg, away from the lake to the east of Leesburg, and away from the forest between the turnpike and Leesburg.

When the window opens at 1:30 PMI head northwest toward Okahumpka, but at first only a few pilots follow me. Most head toward the gaggle of flex wings straight north toward Leesburg. I find a good line of lift and notice that the clouds are forming to our west, in the direction I’m heading.

I continue pushing northwest to get half way between Wildwood and Leesburg, where I think I will find the good lift over the drier farm lands. Now only one pilot is following me away from all the rest of the pilots. We are hitting good lift. I have to take a six mile glide and get down to 2,000’ to get under the next forming clouds, but the lift continues to be strong and I’m clearly catching the lead gaggle of flex wings that started 3 miles ahead of us.

Just a few miles north of the turnpike I’m next to the forest at its thinnest part, just where I had advised the pilots to go. The lift is light, and the clouds aren’t forming yet to the north of me. I’m checking out a landfill a few miles to the north and thinking that it will be working even if there aren’t any clouds.

The lead gaggle to down wind of me to the east a couple of miles. Suddenly they all turn 90° and head my way as I start climbing. The gaggle includes the two Swifts (one flown by Manfred), Alex Ploner and Christian Ciech on the ATOS-C and Stratos respectively, and a bunch of flex wings – the fastest flex wing pilots.

I really should leave before these guys get to me as the lift is so weak, but now I get a bit nervous after going out on my own up until this point. I wait a few minutes before leaving the gaggle behind when it proves to be just too painful to be with them.

The clouds are now beginning to form, but I find the lift over the landfill first and climb out with enough gusto to bring along the rest of the pilots. To keep away from them I push further west of the course line again, ignoring light lift and looking for a good one under the better clouds to the northwest. At 1,400’ I finally get to the cloud I’m interested in and my 450 fpm attracts a lot of attention. The Swifts have already gone ahead.

The day is improving and we are now under lots of well formed clouds. We climb to over 5,000’. I go on glide with Curt Warren and when he stops to find some lift I continue toward goal and hook into 550 fpm that gets me (and later others) to 5,700’ just before the turnpoint at Leeward airstrip, 40 miles out from Quest Air.

As I approach the turnpoint, I notice Christian Ciech coming into it at the same time from the east. He had not gone nearly as far west as I had. I cut in front of him to get the turnpoint at the edge of the cylinder and head south toward Coleman.

Christian appears to have a much better glide on his Stratos compared to me. I’m not use to seeing other rigid wing hang glider pilots out glide me, other than Hansjoerg. I’m wondering if I’ve got too draggy a harness setup, whether I have enough ballast (I have 11 kilos), whether the T-tail, because it isn’t set at the proper angle, is adding drag, or whether the Stratos has a better glide (see below).

As we head south, we’re in the lead, other than the Swifts which are at least ten miles ahead of us. After a while I notice Alex Ploner coming in 500’ to 1000’ below us. I wonder what happened to him.

The lift going back toward Coleman isn’t all that great, averaging about 250 fpm. The wind is blowing pretty strong out of the west at 11 mph, and I’m concerned about an on-shore flow from the west coast killing the lift. It seems to be dampening things out a bit.

Alex goes off to the west and presumably finds a good thermal while Christian and I head south. At Wildwood, Alex and Christian (who also went off to the west to find lift) join me in 200 fpm under thick clouds, but not well defined clouds. We need the lift even if it isn’t up to the standards we got use to going to the first turnpoint.

Christian again gets a better glide going into Coleman. Alex has a bit better glide than I. He’s not doing as well as Christian. Later he will tell me that he was gliding with Christian in the Wallaby Open, but that Christian was out gliding him today.

I stop for lift just before Coleman having taken a different line trying to get under some clouds on the west side of Christian and Alex. They work for me and I get above Alex. Christian makes the turnpoint and heads southeast toward the prisons.

The gaggle of flexies and a few rigids in catching up with us point men out in front as I approach Coleman, so I hurray up and take the turnpoint and head for the prisons. Alex was chasing Christian and is working light lift just west of the prisons when that effort failed. I’m 500 feet over him, and continue along in buoyant air without any strong cores toward the southeast hoping to find Christian.

I spot him working lift 5 miles south of the prisons and come in at 1,700’. The lift is averaging only 280 fpm, but we are under a large dark cloud and the cloud cover from there toward goal is spotty. We are 15 miles out.

Christian and I will spend 12 minutes climbing here in this light lift while Alex and then the gaggle will come in underneath us. Johann Posch has been listening on the radio and I’ve been providing lift locations and he’s with the gaggle.

Christian and I are playing a cat and mouse game on top of the gaggle. As this is a race we know that where you are determines your position in the race. He is only 200 feet over me (as the lift has slowed down at the top of the thermal). He won’t leave until I do (or until Alex does). I want to force him to leave by staying with him in the thermal until there is nothing left. You only have to beat the other guys and the three leaders all together.

Finally Alex leaves from below, I immediately follow to his right, and Christian can watch us and take an even further right course which proves to be much better. Alex and I plummet from 5,200’ to 1,600’ in 7 miles. I find lift over a brown earthmoving area with clouds above it and Alex comes in below. We climb out to 4,200’ while Christian just continues on toward goal after a few turns in our thermal.

The gaggle has spotted me circling up again and joined in below. Johann comes in just over me.

Alex goes on glide and I follow with Johann right behind me. We hear that Christian is on final glide in front of us.

The final glide is very fast at speeds over 50 mph. We four rigid wing pilots have left just before the flex wings decide to go. Johann and Alex pull in more than I do and I see them out in front and way below me and I’m not willing to go quite that fast. I speed up when I see them in front of me going faster.

Curt Warren and Gerolf Heinrichs are right behind me and below as they have sped up also. They are beginning to catch up and as I’m not willing to let them beat me to goal, I pull in even further and keep them at bay.

Gerolf and Curt are right on the deck and have to slow up a little while I have plenty of altitude and can pull in more as I find smoother air. Christian then a few minutes later Alex with Johann right behind him cross the goal line. I’m not far behind. And right after me Curt and Gerolf right on the ground.

They are right next to each other as they cross the goal line and right next to the ground. Curt is 2 inches off the ground and has been in ground effect for 300 feet. He slows down and flares. Gerolf crashes a bit into him, takes out his own control frame and breaks a few of Curt’s battens.

Gerolf lies on the ground and doesn’t move. We think he may be hurt, but he just doesn’t want to be moved. An ambulance is called, but Gerolf turns out to be okay, well almost – sprained ankle. The rest of the gaggle comes in right after Curt and Gerolf’s show and buzz the launch low also.

We find out after landing that Bruce Barmakian had one of his Wills Wing slipstream downtubes come unscrewed at the apex. It was flopping down on him in flight. He had to climb up into the control frame, untie one of his shoe laces, and tie the downtube back in place. Thankfully downtubes are not structural on ATOSes.

Landings were difficult at the field with no wind. I had a slider and found that the AIR ATOS-C control frame with its little skids would slide just fine.

Felix and Christof finished Jim Lamb’s ATOS-C repair this morning after Jim hit the wind sock pole at the Wallaby Open and he was back in the air at the Flytec Championship today. Oleg, GW and many others helped Gary Wirdham get his Aeros Combat 2 back together after he took out the main windsock at Wallaby and he was back in the air today.

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2002 Bogong Cup – The Tawonga Flatlanders »

Fri, Jan 25 2002, 9:00:00 pm EST

Aeros Combat|Bogong Cup 2002|Bo Hagewood|Conrad Loten|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|PG|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Aeros Combat|Bogong Cup 2002|Bo Hagewood|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|PG|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Aeros Combat|Bogong Cup 2002|Bo Hagewood|Conrad Loten|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|PG|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

With light winds but the forecast of showers and cu nimbs in the mountains, we go back to Mystic launch at Bright to join in the paragliding weekend contest. This time the task committee isn't going to be caught calling a task that might be cancelled, its back out to the flats near Wangaratta and Milawa.

Yes, except for the first day, all the valid tasks have been out on the flats way out of the valleys. We are just using the hills as launch pads, poor substitutes for trikes are car towing.

The launch is chocked full of paraglider pilots up from Melbourne for the Australian Day weekend doing their weekend competition. It is a zoo with three paraglider launches at a time and hang gliders being set up on both sides of the launches.

One bozo paraglider pilot launches sideways and crashes through a slew of hang gliders cracking a bunch of ribs in Peter Dahl's ATOS. What a knucklehead, as the rest of the paraglider pilots acknowledged.

The cu's are building up, and it is time to get out of the valley.

Kari ready to launch at Mystic.

The task is a long one, 140 kilometers with four turnpoints keeping pilots out by the river next to Wangaratta. There are darn few cu's out there early, but later there will be big cu's with dark flat bottoms.

Eighteen pilots will make goal. I hear that James hasn't been getting the results up on the web site, so here goes.

After three days:

1

HOLTKAMP, Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

2860

2

Durand, Jon, Jnr

Moyes Litespeed 4

2695
3

COOMBER, Kraig

Moyes Litespeed 4

2629
4

Sturm, Herbert

Moyes Litespeed 4

2563
5

BONDARCHUK, Oleg

Aeros Combat II

2519
6

Williams, Paris

Icaro Laminar

2406
7

Richardson, Ron

Avian

2375
8

UJHELYI, Balazs

Moyes Litespeed, 5

1963
9

PARER, Adam

Airborne Climax 13

1948
10

CASTLE, Kari

Aeros Combat II

1938
11

STINNETT, James

Moyes Litespeed 4

1848

The results on the fourth day:

Start Goal Elapsed
1

Durand, Jon, Jnr

1:45 5:09:06 3:24:06

2

Sturm, Herbert

1:45 5:30:08 3:45:08
3

BONDARCHUK, Oleg

1:45 5:32:04 3:47:04
4

UJHELYI, Balazs,

2 5:32:34 3:30:34
5

Loten, Conrad

1:45 5:34:10 3:49:10
6

HOLTKAMP, Rohan

1:45 5:37:27 3:53:27
6

Olli

1:45 5:38:33 3:54:33
7

STINNETT, James

2 5:39:33 3:39:33
8

Williams, Paris

2 5:41:56 3:41:56
9

COOMBER, Kraig

2 5:42:47 3:42:47
10

Schroder, Phil

2 5:42:53

3:42:53

11

Hagewood, Bo

2 5:48:35 3:48:35

It looks like Jon Durand Jnr has moved into first place passing Rohan Holtkamp.

2002 Australian Nationals – Results »

Thu, Jan 17 2002, 11:00:00 am EST

Aeros Combat|Australian Nationals 2002|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Aeros Combat|Australian Nationals 2002|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Aeros Combat|Australian Nationals 2002|Conrad Loten|Curt Warren|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor

Overall:

1

STRAUB, Davis,

Air Atos 145

4661
2

METZ, Bruno,

Aeriane Swift

4544
3

WILLIAMS, Paris,

Icaro Laminar St14

4152
4

BARBER, Mike,

Moyes Litespeed 4

4137
5

HEINRICHS, Gerolf,

Moyes Litespeed 4

4039
6

COOMBER, Kraig,

Moyes Litespeed 4

3991
7

ALONZI, Mario,

Icaro Laminar MRX700 13

3905
8

HOLTKAMP, Rohan,

Airborne Climax 13

3881
9

ROSSIGNOL, Jerz,

Aeros Combat II 150

3848
10

RIGG, Gordon,

Moyes Litespeed 4

3809

Class I:

1

WILLIAMS, Paris,

Icaro Laminar St14

4438
2

BARBER, Mike,

Moyes Litespeed 4

4363
3

HEINRICHS, Gerolf,

Moyes Litespeed 4

4340
4

COOMBER, Kraig,

Moyes Litespeed 4

4219
5

ALONZI, Mario,

Icaro Laminar MRX700 13

4117
6

HOLTKAMP, Rohan,

Airborne Climax 13

4107
7

ROSSIGNOL, Jerz,

Aeros Combat II 150

4037
8

BOISSELIER, Antoine

Moyes Litespeed 4

4034
9

BONDARCHUK, Oleg,

Aeros Combat II 14,2

4021
10

LOTEN, Conrad,

Moyes Litespeed 4

3962

Last year the Australian competitions were dominated by the Litespeed (Gerolf and Betinho ad many other top pilots). This year the story is different. The ATOS-C is dominating (although the Swift Lite has the best performance). The Litespeed is doing well, but so are the Laminar and the Combat 2. The Climax is much improved.

Oleg won the Australian Open on a Combat 2. He had a good chance to win the Australian Nationals if he had made goal in round three when we flew to Ivanhoe. Jerz Rossignol did well on the Combat 2 coming in 7th overall (Oleg was 9th). Jerz needed to get to goal on the last day to place in the top three.

Gerolf on the Litespeed did very well and could have easily won the Nationals if he hadn't landed 30 feet short of goal on the second day. Pilots indicated that he had superior glide, got ahead and then got stuck on his own. This apparently was Oleg's problem also. I guess the story of the Nationals was too much performance.

Paris finished behind Gerolf on 4 of the 5 days, and it was his consistently high finishes that put him in first place. Gerolf and Oleg traded off on their positions and mistakes.

Gordon Rigg started with a bad day and that cost him his chance to win the meet. With his spectacular finish on the last day getting in way ahead of the other flex wing pilots showed that taking chances and getting out in front into the better lift (when Gordon drove upwind after he found lift he always found better lift) pays off.

With better focus, Kari Castle improved a great deal over her results from the last meet rising from 41st to 16th. Her best day was when she went early with me. A few earlier starts to get with the main gaggle and she would have been right up there.

Mike Barber was consistently near the top every day which is why he came in second. A little improvement on his speed, especially the first day, would have moved him into first place.

Rohan on the Climax had a much better time of it this year than last. I don't have last year's results in front of me, but watching Rohan indicated to me that the Climax was gliding much better now than last year.

Jon Durand Jnr, started well and was leading after two days, but then slowed down and then didn't make goal on the fourth day. Maybe a little more experience and focus will let him beat the old guys, like Paris. J

Curt Warren, a much less experienced US competition pilot, did very well, especially on day four, and he just needs a bit more practice to become one of the top US pilots.

The ATOS-C had quite a performance advantage over the flex wing gliders. It paid off in many ways and the results indicate that I was able to use the performance without getting into trouble when out on my own.

Results should be up at http://www.dynamicflight.com.au.

Australian Open Results

Aeros Combat|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Gordon Rigg|Matthew Bower|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Wills Wing

Combined Open:

1

BARBER Mike

Moyes Litespeed 4

USA

785

809

887

883

3364

2

RIGG Gordon

Moyes Litespeed

GBR

911

817

849

786

3363

3

BONDARCHUCK Oleg

Aeros Combat- 2

UKR

678

821

921

921

3341

4

ALONZI Mario

Icaro Laminar 13

FRA

851

695

891

890

3327

5

DURAND Jon Jnr

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

856

815

876

757

3304

6

HOLTKAMP Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

AUS

876

668

823

900

3267

7

PRITCHARD Phil

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

772

774

831

849

3226

8

STRAUB Davis

Air Atos

USA

415

864

1000

946

3225

9

ANDERSON Anders

Airborne Climax

SWE

778

733

833

803

3147

10

ZIMMERMAN Chris

Wills Wing Talon

USA

646

719

843

912

3120

Class I Open:

1

BONDARCHUCK Oleg

Aeros Combat- 2

UKR

674

879

996

984

3533

2

BARBER Mike

Moyes Litespeed 4

USA

785

867

947

929

3528

3

RIGG Gordon

Moyes Litespeed

GBR

916

875

886

824

3501

4

DURAND Jon Jnr

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

859

873

933

798

3463

5

ALONZI Mario

Icaro Laminar 13

FRA

854

695

951

938

3438

6

HOLTKAMP Rohan

Airborne Climax 13

AUS

880

669

859

952

3360

7

PRITCHARD Phil

Moyes Litespeed 4

AUS

772

777

883

900

3332

8

ANDERSON Anders

Airborne Climax

SWE

778

789

885

838

3290

9

ZIMMERMAN Chris

Wills Wing Talon

USA

641

773

880

971

3265

10

BOISSELIER Antione

Moyes Litespeed

FRA

628

678

895

976

3177

King Posted Class:

1

GIAMMICHELE Tony

Moyes SX 6

AUS

588

749

922

880

3139

2

HOLT Greg

Airborne Blade

AUS

665

830

549

873

2917

3

BOWER Matthew

Moyes Xtralite 137

AUS

394

746

616

886

2642

4

ROBERTSON Mark

Airborne Shark

AUS

479

658

470

944

2551

5

HEFFER Dick

Moyes SX 4

AUS

490

511

645

902

2548

Floater Class:

1

BEAVIS Alan

Moyes Ventura

AUS

358

1000

1000

933

3291

2

BARNES Andrew

Moyes Sonic

AUS

218

794

790

716

2518

3

KELLY Kathy

Moyes Xt

AUS

681

193

849

701

2424

4

HANNAFORD Scott

Airborne Sting

AUS

541

852

293

612

2298

5

PURCELL Nick

Moyes Xt

AUS

451

787

388

199

1825

Results up at: http://www.cool-ether.net.au/australianopen2002.

Australian Open – the final round »

Sat, Jan 5 2002, 7:30:00 am GMT

Aeros Combat|Australian Open|Bill Moyes|Bruno Metz|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Kari Castle|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuck|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Schmidt|Ricky Duncan|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tascha "Tish the Flying Fish" McLellan|Wills Wing

Did I say how well Oleg Bondarchuck is doing on his Aeros Combat 2? What a difference a year (and a new glider?) makes. Yesterday, Oleg was the first flex wing in the Open Class into goal, winning the coveted yellow shirt. Today he would have been the first flex wing into goal, but for a little too aggressive final glide. He had to go back a bit and get up with the guys that eventually nipped him at the goal line.

The winds forecasted were finally a bit lighter then the previous seven days, so we were able to call tasks that actually brought us back toward the tow paddock. The forecast was for 8 knots out of the southwest (same direction as the last three days), about have the wind strength experienced on the previous two days.

We call a floater task straight to the northeast, and down wind. No need to try to get these guys and gals upwind. But, the king posted task is an out and return of 80 kilometers to the northeast.

We decide that the Open Class can handle a triangle task, cross wind to the north, northeast, cross wind to the south southeast, and straight into the wind back to the paddock next to the pub in Conargo – 124 kilometers. I've been using 40 kph as the speed for the fastest topless pilots on a good day with no help from the wind. Should be a three-hour task.

The OzGAP system is encouraging the pilots to leave as soon as possible. There are so many points available for early leaving (and if the good guys go early, for arriving early), that pilots are very much encouraged to go as soon as a likely bunch of pilots gaggles up by the start circle perimeter.

This is exactly what the OzGAP system was designed to do, get the pilots out on the course and not waiting around for the last moment. It really encourages a bunch of pilots to leave together, so the gaggle aspect works out also.

Everyone in launching earlier each day also. The waiting around of the first day is a by gone and pilots get in line to take off soon after they are ready to go. This makes it a lot easier on the tug pilots (and Bo needs to get us out of there so he can fly).

About twenty pilots take the 2:45 after Conrad and Tish (flying fish) take the 2:30 PM start window. It's totally blue with a forecast for thermals to 7,000 or higher if it gets to 32° Celsius.

I'm worried that with so many in gaggle it will go too slow. The next gaggle could catch us if we get slowed down. Of course, the first few kilometers are slow.

I'm racing and pulling the gaggle as fast as I can worried about the next one. Thankfully there are a bunch of racier with me, so the center of gravity moves along smartly.

Gerolf in his Litesport is in the thick of the action unlike the last couple of days and is doing every well against the topless and the ATOS-C. He hasn't been showing the Litesport's best face on the previous days, but now he's got it wired and its going very well indeed.

We catch up with Conrad and Tish at the northern turnpoint a third of the way into the race. I'm sure hoping that the same fate doesn't await us. All the extra pilots in the ggale do help find thermals, so that isn't so bad.

Conrad shows us a few before we catch him. It's hard for a guy alone to stay alone.

I head out after getting over Conrad and go on a long glide in front while the rest of the gaggle works the lift that got too light for me. Finally I hit something half way to the next turnpoint and they all come and join me, even Gerolf, and Oleg, and Jerz in his Combat 2. Lots of French pilots in their Litespeeds also.

Meanwhile, back at the paddock, Gordon and Johnny who were in the tight contest with Mike Barber for first place (Gordon was in first) are having a tough time getting up and out. I took a thermal from 700 feet at 900 fpm to 6,000', but not everyone was so fortunately. Those of us who got the good lift over the tow paddock got out early, but some guyrs were hurting.

Kari got out early with us, but Paris had to wait also. Kari made sure she got an early tow today which gave her time to get up and get ready to take advantage of the OzGAP system.

No one knew exactly how things stood going into this last day as Zupy included the rigid wings in the scoring in Open Class, thereby distorting the scoring when I came in second and first on the previous two days. No one knew how many points they had to make up to take Gordon.

Still Gordon was now stuck at 3,000' over the tow paddock, and the guys in the lead gaggle were racking up the departure and arrival points on him and Johnny.

The gaggle has reformed (and become a column) as we approach the second turnpoint, getting high in preparation for the 30 kilometer upwind leg into goal. We can see a few of the king posted gliders, some on the ground at the turnpoint, and some heading back toward the goal, which is also our goal at Conargo.

As soon as we turn upwind it is a game of making sure that you stay up going into a head wind. Lift that you would have ignored on the first two legs suddenly takes on a brighter glow. We huddle together in the first weak thermal and work out way back to 6,000'.

As about five of us top out I keep to the upwind side and then head more upwind than the rest of the pilots. Like on the previous day, I'll be on my own upwind of the gaggle.

I can penetrate a bit better especially with all the ballast I'm wearing. The ATOS-C is definitely superior, so the pilot gets lots of extra options.

The winds a bit stronger than predicted especially as you get over 4,000'. With the weaker lift and the strong winds we are only slowly moving forward. I can keep an eye on the gaggle 3 kilometers to my north as I try to get over the trees and the creek making for a straight cross wind into goal.

I have to dig out from 1,300' but there is a 700 fpm thermal there as I've scooted cross wind to get to it, trying to up my changes of finding a thermal when I get low. It takes me to 5,600' and it looks like there will indeed be enough lift at 5:30 PM to get us into goal.

I'll continue to work weak lift, taking 100 fpm that will turn into 400 fpm just to be sure that I don't get caught low again. The gaggle has disappeared to the north so I've got no way to judge how fast I should be going. I'm on the radio to Kari who's in the gaggle so that gives me some idea of what is going on with them.

I make it across the tree line and now it’s a 9 kilometer cross wind to goal in a lifty section. I come in first but way too high.

Within five minutes Gerolf, on the king posted Litesport is the first flex wing into goal. Oleg was in the lead but took too much of a chance going to goal and had to come back for a little lift. Gerolf was higher and was able to beat all the topless gliders into goal.

So now I'm writing this at the Deniliquin RSL (returned serviceman's league) Club, while we wait for Zupy to complete the scoring. No body showed up here until almost 10 PM, so it's a late night for the staff. Zupy says that the scoring won't be completed until 1 AM. We'll see.

Gordon was still in first going into today. Jon Durand and Mike were right behind him. I realize now that the latest results haven't been placed up on the web site in a timely fashion, and of course, I was only reporting what little results I knew. I'll get a bunch of results tonight to send out.

The scores may not get here in time as the RSL closes at 1 AM, and it is almost midnight and we won't get today's scores for another twenty minutes. Then Zupy has to put out the final scores. Real time reporting here.

There was a driver award for the driver who blew out three cars during the meet and an award for the driver who towed Lukas Bader's wagon 90 kilometers back to Deniliquin.

Gerolf wins the Drama Queen award – a tiara to wear. The American team won an award for the best story telling. Oliver Schmidt won the mosquito award for being left out all night and the next day (he did stay at the farmer's house). He got a tow at 5 PM the next day.

Lukas Bader won the Fabio award and the best-undressed award. Bill Moyes won the dirtiest t-shirt award. Kari Castle won the Boomerang award for not quite making it to goal. Ricky Duncan kept missing the turnpoints with his GPS, so he won a camera.

Provisional Open Results for the Fourth Round (including class I, II, V):

Davis Straub, AIR ATOS-C
Gerolf Heinrichs, Moyes Litesport
Oleg Bondarchuck, Aeros Combat 2
Antione Boisselier, Moyes Litespeed
Chris Zimmerman, Wills Wing Talon
Bruno Metz, Aeraine Swift Light
Bob Baier, Moyes Litespeed
Rohan Holtkamp, Airborne Climax
Jean Francois Palmarini, Moyes Litespeed
Jean Francois Gerard, Moyes Litespeed

Notice that today, at least, the Moyes Litespeed is not dominant (as it was last year). But overall…? We'll see in a minute. Or is it a half hour? It's already 1 AM.

Open Class I:

1st – Oleg Bondarchuck, Aeros Combat 2
2nd – Mike Barber, Moyes Litespeed
3rd - Gordon Rigg, Moyes Litespeed
Open Class I - first female - Tish, the flying fish, Moyes Litespeed
Floater Class winner - Allan Beavis
King Posted Class winner - Tony Giammichelle
Class II winner - Davis Straub

I don't have all the results in Class I. Chris Zimmerman, WW Talon, USA, came in ninth, Jon Durand in fourth. The first three places were within about 33 points. Oleg got $1,500 and Mike $750, which they could all use. Gordon lost because he didn't get out of the tow paddock in time.

Results may be up at: http://www.cool-ether.net.au/australianopen2002.

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Tue, Oct 23 2001, 5:00:09 pm EDT

David Glover|Flytec Championships 2001|picture|record|tandem|US Speed Gliding Nationals 2001|World Championships 1999|World Record Encampment|World Record Encampment 2001|World Speed Gliding Championships 2000

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2001 Canungra Classic »

Sat, Oct 20 2001, 6:00:00 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Canungra Classic 2001|Kraig Coomber|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Tim Cummings

D Tim Cummings «timcu» writes:

Final results of Canungra Classic 2001 have been posted at:

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2001

1 DURAND, JON JNR, Moyes LS4 3987
2 HOLTKAMP, ROHAN, Airborne CLIMAX 14 3821
3 BERTOK, ATILLA, Moyes LS5 3718
4 COOMBER, KRAIG, Moyes LS4 3566
5 DURAND, JON SNR, Moyes LS5 3536
6 HEANEY, GRANT, Moyes LS4 3421
7 MOYES, STEVE, Moyes LS5 3410
8 PRITCHARD, PHIL, Moyes LS4 3021
9 OSBORN, TIM, Aeros COMBAT 2869
10 MCLEOD, GLEN, Moyes LS5 2656

Also on the above link, are details of the new departure points system (OzGap) we are using in Australia this summer.

Florida meets - post partem depression

Sun, Apr 29 2001, 5:00:00 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Brian Porter|Chris Arai|Dave Sharp|Davis Straub|Gary Wirdnam|Gerolf Heinrichs|Hansjoerg Truttmann|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr|Malcolm Jones|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Quest Air|Steve Elkins|Tomas Suchanek|Wallaby Ranch|weather|Wills Wing

Florida meets - post partem depression

Actually it isn't that bad. We've been on a high from flying ten of the last fourteen days in a very intense competition. Many (if not most) of the world's best pilots have been here in Florida. It has been like a Worlds at a place with superior conditions and flying.

Quest Air and Wallaby Ranch turned into little Olympic villages with so many pilots coming from Europe and South America. It was great to hear all these different languages in dinner. Pilots and friends really love this hang gliding community.

There were quite a few British pilots here (they are not able to fly in their own country these days). Johnny Carr reminded me that lots of British pilots read the Oz Report and he wanted me to mention what a great guy he is. At least he realized that foot landing the Swift was a special event.

We are now slowly packing and cleaning up after ourselves. Repairs are the order of the day. The strong east winds with high and low clouds have stopped any possible flying, so we are entertaining ourselves in other ways. Soon even the holder overs will be gone and the Ranch will seem far too quiet.

There is nothing more fun than a friendly little hang gliding competition. It was great to have Tomas Suchanek back and flying well. It was great to see Paris Williams do so well, after doing so poorly on his last glider at the 1999 Worlds in Italy. It's great that Manfred still dominates, but that others are pressing him hard. Gerolf came in second and came close.

Lots of ATOSes were sold here after the competitions. Seven so far and one is still available, having been brand new, flown only once, before the pilot brought it here. The pilot chose not to fly on a number of windy days, also. Shipping is still quite a barrier, so it is nice to be able to sell your glider after coming to the United States.

I'll be checking on the web site logs to see how many clicks I'm getting on yesterday's special naked hang gliding issue. Too bad I can't identify who clicks on the pictures and downloads them to their special folders.

On the sixth day of the Wallaby Open the Dragon fly pilots flew a special formation in the morning. This is what it looked like and these are the tug pilots:

With this many Dragonflies and a good number of trikes it is possible to hold a major competition at an adequately sized flight park for probably 150 pilots and still get everyone off in time. The Wallaby Ranch is a little small and the new extensions will help quite a bit.

Even Quest Air is a bit small, but adequate for these numbers. You have to be right on top of the organization and do a lot of planning in advance. Getting pilots to launch earlier is crucial.

Both the Wallaby Open and the Flytec Championship could use better organization. The pilot meetings were held too late at the Wallaby Open. They need to be moved up an hour. On the two days that we didn't fly, we probably could have if we had been out at the flight line earlier and had adequate time to launch in reasonable conditions.

The Wallaby Open organizers should have been more cognizant of the launch time validity rule that invalidates a day if there is not adequate time to launch everyone. Starting earlier and applying this rule (like they did at the Flytec Championships) would have reduced the amount of emotional decision making.

Both organizers did not rely on their committees as much as they should have. They tended to take them as advisory, when I find it best to let the pilot task, safety, and protest committees make the decisions. The organizers can then just implement the decisions. This worked spectacularly well at the last Bogong Cup.

The task committee at the Wallaby Open was a bit more emotional than the one at the Flytec Championship. One member in particular had quite a few feelings about which task should be run. Other than the 95-mile square, most of the tasks were under called at the Wallaby Open.

Scoring at both meets was not quite up to the high standards set in Australia. It is nice to have the author of the Garmin checking program as your score keeper at the Forbes meet. In the end the scores did get figured out, and with more experience on all their parts, things will get better.

Overall the emotional content of the launch or not launch decision has to be considerable reduced. The emotions rule both the pilots and the organizers. I believe that we need to plan ways to keep these emotions in check so that our best thinking can be in charge.

Reporting the weather in certain ways feeds into this emotional atmosphere, and after a few days, I tried to watch my words carefully for their emotional content.

Final Results Class I:

1

RUHMER, Manfred

Icaro MRX2001

AUT

4499

2

HEINRICHS, Gerolf

MOYES Litespeed

AUT

4345

3

SUCHANEK, Tomas

MOYES Litespeed

CZE

4193

4

WILLIAMS, Paris

WILLS Wing Talon

USA

4179

5

SCHMIDT, Betinho

MOYES Litespeed 4

BRA

4056

6

REISINGER, Robert

Icaro Laminar 14ST

AUT

3960

7

MOREIRA, Lincoln

Icaro Laminar Mrx 14

BRA

3958

8

ARAI, Chris

WILLS Wing Talon

USA

3881

9

WIRDNAM, Gary

AEROS Combat

GBR

3664

10

ZWECKMAYR, Josef

Icaro Laminar ST14

AUT

3601

Final results Class II:

1

PORTER, Brian

BRIGHT Star Swift 135

USA

3633

2

TRUTTMANN, Hansjorg

A-I-R Atos

CHE

3400

3

SHARP, Dave

A-I-R Atos

USA

3020

4

ELKINS, Steve

A-I-R Atos

GBR

2871

5

STRAUB, Davis

A-I-R Atos

USA

2797

Malcolm Jones feels that the prize money should basically go to the top guy in his competitions. This philosophy is quite a bit different than what we saw at the Flytec Championship, where there was a wider and deeper distribution of prizes:

Class I:

First Place Manfred Ruhmer $4000.00 (Original Design Medal)
Second Place Gerolf Heinrichs $1500.00 (Original Design Medal)
Third Place Tomas Suchanek $500.00 (Original Design Medal)
Fourth Place Paris Williams Brauniger IQ Comp Vario (retail value: $1000.00+)

Class II:

First Place Brian Porter $1111.11 (Original Design Medal)
Second Place Hansjoerg Truttmann
Third Place Dave Sharp

Unfaired Rigid Wings only:

First Place Hansjoerg Truttmann $1500.00 (Original Design Medal)
Second Place Dave Sharp $300.00 (Original Design Medal)
Third Place Davis Straub Rotor Kickass Harness (Retail value: $1000.00+)

Total Value of Prizes Awarded: $10,911.11

First Place Class II $1111.11 provided by Super 8 Motel
Third Place Class II Rotor Harness provided by Nene Rotor
Fourth Place Class I Brauniger IQ Comp provided by Wills Wing

Malcolm wanted to separate the faired from the unfaired rigids given the stark difference in their performance potential. Therefore the top three unfaired rigids received prizes. My prize wasn't actually a prize, as Nene and Carlos had already asked me to try one of their harnesses. I agreed to do so, under the condition that it stay their harness and that at a later point I would give it back to them or make other arrangements. Still it was nice to be in third after Brian was pulled from the rigids' scoring.

Full results at www.wallaby.com.

Wallaby Open – we circle the square

Tue, Apr 24 2001, 5:00:00 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Belinda Boulter|Brian Porter|Chris Arai|Dave Sharp|Gary Osoba|Gary Wirdnam|Ghostbuster|Hansjoerg Truttmann|J.C. Brown|Jim Yocum|Johann Posch|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Quest Air|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins|Wallaby Open 2001|Wallaby Ranch

Today we played in the Green Swamp. A ninety-five mile task with three turnpoints that were supposed to keep us out of the worst parts of the Green Swamp. Still, that is where we go to have our fun.

The first day at Wallaby Ranch.

The flex wing pilots have been complaining about the rigid wing pilots. The meet director is setting the start times for the rigid wings first with the last start time shared with the flex wings. The flex wing pilots are complaining that Manfred just goes first and uses the rigid wings to go fast when they glide and then sits on top of them in thermals. The other flex wing pilots want to make it so Manfred can't keep using the rigid wings.

The meet director, JC Brown, decides to spilt the classes, with the rigid wing pilots doing the task counter clockwise and the flex wings clockwise. The task is Wallaby Ranch, to Quest Air to Cheryl airstrip to the Intersection of 98 and 301 and back to the Ranch. The reverse for the flex wings.

The forecast for the day looks great. Here is what Gary Osoba reports:

Probably the best day I've seen unless the moisture transport from the Atlantic is more saturated than what is shown. Good looking sounding, good looking wind stack with honest southeast winds feeding into a convergence line which should form through the middle of the state and extend into southeastern Georgia. Moisture profiles in the boundary layer show lots of latent heat adding to the lift. Thermals should be very strong but not violent. Well organized, powerful climbs. Lots of clouds. A real day for racing.

The start window opens at 1:15 and closes at 2:15 for both groups. It looks like an early start might be the ticket given the length of the task. Pilots are still a bit reluctant to get into position to launch, so pilots are still launching after the second start time.

The hot pilots in the flex wing category take the 1:15 start time. A few rigid wing pilots, including the Swift, take the 1:30 clock. Hansjoerg, Dave Sharp, Jim Yocum, Diego Bussinger, and I take the 1:45 start. We are half an hour behind the flex wing guys, but going the opposite direction.

The sky is full of cumulus clouds and there is plenty of vertical development. The sounding shows that it won't go high enough to over develop except in isolated cases. The six of us are gliding together and starting from cloud base. After three miles Diego in a Ghostbuster is quite a bit below the ATOS pilots (the rest of us).

While it is a cakewalk to Quest Air for Dave, Hansjoerg and I, I hear that 1/3rd of the rigid wing pilots go down on this first leg. We are lucky to get the timing right. We scrape off Diego and Jim and pick up an ATOS pilot from the earlier gaggle at Quest.

It is a 15-mile leg to Cheryl to the northwest. Six miles out from Cheryl we spot Brian flying straight to the turnpoint just over us, but quite a bit higher. Maybe we'll catch him.

We approach the turnpoint down below 3,000' and I scoot under a cloud street just before the turnpoint that turns out to be barely working. Hansjoerg is lower and not getting up. Dave and I are barely climbing.

Hansjoerg is trying the ATOS winglets on today. They seem to negatively effect his performance. We have no trouble gliding with him.

Suddenly we lose GPS coverage. We won’t be able to get the turnpoint if it doesn't return soon. Heck, we can't even find the turnpoint as we don't have an arrow to follow.

After a few minutes of weak climb, the GPS coverage returns and Dave and I can get to the turnpoint. We should have gone there first as there was a thermal there out in the sunlight and not under the clouds. We've scraped off Hansjoerg.

As we climb out at the turnpoint the flex wings start diving at us coming in from the south. Looks like there has been good lift along their flight path. Dave and I head out and find good lift all the way to the next turnpoint 25 miles to the south. We are on our own high over the Green Swamp.

Making the turnpoint south of Dade City and getting up at the west side of the Green Swamp, we are sitting pretty at over 6,000' and at cloud base. We now have to cross the Green Swamp going east for ten miles. It turns out to be one long glide with no lift over the Swamp.

We get so low that Dave drains the ballast from his ballast tanks. He's down below 1,500'just as we get to the east edge of the swamp.

I've been watching a cloud just to the north of our line and I find a little bit of lift under it and call Dave over. We climb out to cloud base 17 miles from Wallaby.

There is pretty much of a cloud street back to Wallaby and we just take it home.

We've been getting reports all along from Belinda at goal. The flex wing pilots who started much earlier are coming into goal (Of course, Brian is there long before anyone. This will completely screw up the scoring for rigid wing hang gliders by devaluing their times to goal and not putting much differentiating between other rigid wing pilots.)

Gerolf will win the day by 9 minutes. I remember seeing him launch early. He was on a mission.

Paris Williams will blast around the trees to come in low and fast for third for the day.

Having jettisoned his ballast Dave comes in a little behind me. Much later Steve Elkins makes it, then much later Hansjoerg, and finally just as goal closes Michael Hubert comes in. Another all ATOS finish at goal.

A total of 27 pilots make goal (much better on the goal crew after 73 yesterday).

Here are the preliminary results (I pull these off the goal keepers time sheets, so I'm unsure of the pilot's start time):

Class I:

Gerolf – Litespeed
Manfred – Laminar
Paris – Talon
Zwecky – Laminar
Tomas – Litespeed
Andre – Laminar
Chris Arai – Talon
Nene – Litespeed
Betinho – Litespeed
Reisinger – Laminar

Class II:

Brian – Swift
Davis – ATOS
Dave Sharp – ATOS
Elkins – ATOS
Hansjoerg – ATOS

Second day results:

Class I:

1

Ruhmer, Manfred

Icaro MRX2001

AUT

01:46:22

887

2

RAEMY, Kilian

MOYES Litespeed 4

CHE

01:44:00

863

3

SCHMIDT, Betinho

MOYES Litespeed 4

BRA

01:49:46

843

4

SUCHANEK, Tomas

MOYES Litespeed

CZE

01:49:47

841

5

HEINRICH, Gerolf

MOYES Litespeed

AUT

01:49:58

836

6

WIRDNAM, Gary

Aeros Combat

GBR

01:45:20

830

7

ROTOR, Nene

MOYES Litespeed 4

BRA

01:50:44

826

7

WOLF, Andre

Icaro Laminar

BRA

01:50:44

826

9

MOREIRA, Lincoln

Icaro Laminar Mrx 14

BRA

01:51:24

814

10

REISINGER, Robert

Icaro Laminar 14ST

AUT

01:52:06

805

Class II:

1

PORTER, Brian

BRIGHT Star Swift 135

USA

01:26:56

756

2

TRUTTMANN, Hansjorg

A-I-R Atos

CHE

01:45:39

590

3

MEIER, Richard

A-I-R Atos

CHE

01:49:58

532

4

YOCOM, Jim

A-I-R Atos

USA

01:51:38

521

5

SHARP, Dave

A-I-R Atos

USA

02:01:14

514

5

POSCH, Johann

A-I-R Atos 140

AUT

02:01:14

514

Full results (when available) at www.wallaby.com.

Flytec Championships 2001 - Results »

Sun, Apr 22 2001, 9:00:01 pm GMT

Flytec Championships 2001

Flytec Championships 2001|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr

Overall in Class II:

1 Porter, Brian Bright Star Swift Usa
2 Elkins, Steve Air Atos Gbr
3 Straub, Davis Air Atos Usa
4 Posch, Johann Air Atos Aut
5 Bowen, Campbell Flight Design Ghostbuster Usa

Class I:

1 Ruhmer, Manfred Icaro Laminar Mr 2001 Aut 3326
2 Heinrichs, Gerolf Moyes Litespeed Aut 3229
3 Schmitz, Betinho Moyes Litespeed Bra 3136
4 Williams, Paris Wills Wing Talon Usa 2913
5 Zweckmayr, Josef Icaro Laminar Mr 2001 Aut 2718
6 Suchanek, Thomas Moyes Litespeed Cze 2682
7 Hazlett, Brett Moyes Litespeed Can 2633
8 Lee, Jim Wills Wing Talon Usa 2563
9 Wirdnam, Gary Aeros Combat Gbr 2451
10 Castle, Kari Moyes Litespeed Usa 2428

Complete (but not updated, yet) results at flytec.com.

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Flytec Championships – Round Four »

Fri, Apr 20 2001, 9:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Bobby Bailey|Bo Hagewood|Brett Hazlett|Brian Porter|Chris Arai|Dave Sharp|David Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships 2001|Gerolf Heinrichs|Glen Volk|Icaro Laminar MR|Jim Lee|Johann Posch|John "Ole" Olson|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr|Kari Castle|Manfred Ruhmer|Mark Mulholland|Martin Harri|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Steve Elkin|Steve Elkins|Tip Rogers

Tomas sneaks around the lead gaggle to win the day!

We have a conundrum during the task committee. There are two different forecasts for the winds. One says winds at 20 mph out of the east and the other says 10 mph. The task committee can't decide what to do. We look outside and the winds look light out of the southeast.

We send Bobby Bailey up in a tug and he reports 8-10 mph out of the southeast with the cloud base at 4,500'. There are cu's every where (except on the forecasts).

We decide on a 92 mile task due north, so we'll have a cross wind most of the way.

The launch window opens at 1 PM with the first start time at 1:30 so things start happening really quick. The last start time is 2:15, so they only have an hour and fifteen minutes to get everyone in the air and high enough (cloud base) to get the last start gate (which most people want anyway).

Bo gets launched first and takes the first start time. The ground crew and the tug pilots get going right away and the field goes bananas as everyone realizes that they need to go right now. Quiet one minute, the next the place is blasting with engine noise.

Just before 2:15 there are almost a hundred pilots at cloud base or in cloud base 4 miles north of Quest. It is hard making sure that you are high but not too high at the start time and at the start circle circumference. We are near 6,000'.

At 2:15 it is a race straight north as we head toward Leesburg and the lakes to the northeast. We turn to go up wind a bit, but it looks like there won't be any clouds or action down wind of the lakes to our north.

I'm a bit behind today so I get to see the action. Manfred and Betinho are on the left side of the spread of pilots. Tomas and Martin Harri are pushing more up wind to the right and east. I'm following them.

I watch Betinho and Tip Rogers in an ESC. Tip started earlier and is taking a thermal and drifting to the west. I focus my attention on Betinho as he begins to search an area and as he hits something I go toward him. Tomas and Martin will find something in a minute and I see them going up also. But, we are in lift and there are cu's every where around us.

I'm thinking that we had better head a bit to the west because the wind off the lakes is cutting the lift to our east. I'm also thinking that we probably want to be on the west side of the Ocala National Forest so that we should fly to the north west.. It's no fun going down in the forest.

I drive west to the next cloud as soon as we get up and the rest of the pilots seem to think that this is a good idea. We are rewarding with strong lift to cloud base. Now we've got a bit of a blue hole to the north, but lots of open areas that look like thermal producers below.

I lose track of Martin and Tomas, although I do spot some pilots further to our east heading up the west, and downwind side of the lakes. They look low.

We pass over some rigid wing pilots who've gone down earlier west of Leesburg, and it is slow getting up to Bellview. Still we don't get below 2,000' and the gaggle is hanging tight.

Once we get north of the lakes, we get into better lift and start getting back above 5,000'.

I'm not able to stay in front like I did on the previous day, so I have to do a bit of following from below. Still it is possible to stay up with the lead gaggle, and even get in front a few times to lead. I seem to like to be in the lead even if sometimes it is a bit costly in strategic points.

We get strong lift all along the Ocala National Forest and are ripping up the sky. The lift has been strong and often quite a bit too strong and turbulent. I think that courage is the word for the day. I have to keep calling up my courage to get back into rough thermals, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one. I just don't want to hit anyone.

At thirty miles out I'm out in front with Betinho and Manfred but a few hundred feet below them. I can't see them so I miss it when they start working something. We are in a big blue hole and I have to keep running to the clouds to the northeast. I find 800 fpm in a smooth thermal at 1,600' over a clear-cut area. The clouds now fill in to the north all the way toward goal (or it looks that way from here).

The lead guys get away from me as I make the low save even as I climb out to 7,400' in strong lift. Dave Sharp and Johann Posch take the lead and get high twenty miles out. Manfred, Reisinger, Zwecky, Gerolf, and Betinho are now a bit behind them to the east.

Dave and Johann head toward goal at Keystone airport thinking that they will find something within the next twenty miles. Brian Porter goes with them. Thirteen miles out they are down to 1,500' with Brian 500' over their heads. He picked the wrong folks to pimp off of.

Manfred and crew are doing much better just a couple of minutes in front of me. I can now follow them from back and below.

We find good lift all along the way unlike Dave and Johann who get stuck. Brian is able to get away from them and get to goal.

Sixty pilots make goal. Glen Volk and Chris Arai head for goal when the Tangent tells them to go, but the air doesn't cooperate and produce no net negative lift. They land 3 miles from goal.

Bo makes it into goal first with the first start time. His speeds are a bit slow, so he doesn't get a lot of bonus points, but he does get enough to put him in third place.

Tomas and Martin make it fast to goal beating the rest of us by almost 20 minutes. They flew on their own and must have found some better lift lines out over the National Forest.

Steve Elkins on an ATOS left 15 minutes earlier, had a good run and got the early bonus points to place first for the day in Class II. Brian and Mark have ballasted up their gliders so that they wouldn't be able to foot launch or land them, and they used the high weights to their advantage on this strong day.

Here are the results:

Day 4:

Class I:

1

Suchanek, Thomas

Moyes Litespeed

Cze

02:30:56

897

2

Harri, Martin

Moyes Litespeed

Che

02:33:06

866

3

Hagewood, Bo

Wills Wing Talon

Usa

02:57:54

792

4

Ruhmer, Manfred

Icaro Laminar Mr 2001

Aut

02:49:36

763

5

Heinrichs, Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed

Aut

02:49:40

760

6

Schmitz, Betinho

Moyes Litespeed

Bra

02:49:42

758

7

Zweckmayr, Josef

Icaro Laminar Mr 2001

Aut

02:50:34

752

8

Reisinger, Robert

Icaro Laminar Mr 2001

Aut

02:50:49

749

9

Hazlett, Brett

Moyes Litespeed

Can

02:52:10

742

10

Bondarchuk, Oleg

Aeros Combat

Ukr

02:54:28

730

Class II:

1

Elkins, Steve

Air Atos

Gbr

02:49:54

937

2

Porter, Brian

Bright Star Swift

Usa

02:49:08

928

3

Mulholland, Mark

Bright Star Millennium

Usa

02:49:28

914

4

Yocom, Jim

Air Atos

Usa

02:49:54

906

5

Straub, Davis

Air Atos

Usa

02:51:24

892

 Overall:
Class I:

1

Ruhmer, Manfred

Icaro Laminar Mr 2001

Aut

2691

2

Heinrichs, Gerolf

Moyes Litespeed

Aut

2554

3

Schmitz, Betinho

Moyes Litespeed

Bra

2506

4

Zweckmayr, Josef

Icaro Laminar Mr 2001

Aut

2470

5

Suchanek, Thomas

Moyes Litespeed

Cze

2453

6

Hazlett, Brett

Moyes Litespeed

Can

2441

7

Lee, Jim

Wills Wing Talon

Usa

2396

8

Williams, Paris

Wills Wing Talon

Usa

2369

9

Wolf, Andre

Icaro Laminar

Bra

2319

10

Castle, Kari

Moyes Litespeed

Usa

2275

Class II:

1

Porter, Brian

Bright Star Swift

Usa

2844

2

Straub, Davis

Air Atos

Usa

2682

3

Sharp, David

Air Atos

Usa

2568

4

Elkins, Steve

Air Atos

Gbr

2529

5

Posch, Johann

Air Atos

Aut

2473

Complete results at www.flytec.com.

Flytec Championships – Day 1 »

Sat, Apr 14 2001, 8:00:00 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Brian Porter|Chris Arai|Dave Sharp|David Sharp|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships 2001|Gary Wirdnam|Gerolf Heinrichs|Glen Volk|Jim Lee|Josef "Zwecki" Zweckmayr|Manfred Ruhmer|Mark Mulholland|Mike Barber|USHGA

The forecast called for winds 10-15 mph out of the west. The sounding showed moderate thermal strength with consistent winds (in strength and direction) all the way to above cloud base at 12-15 mph out of the west. The task committee went bananas (I'm on the committee so I can critique it), and called a 62 mile task.

First, there is a leg to the north, northwest 21 miles at 325°. Unfortunately that's 12 miles into the wind. Next comes a leg to the northwest, which includes 10 miles downwind. Finally and then a return leg with a few miles downwind.

The idea was to do basically an out and return at 90° to the west wind (can't go east here unless you want to go into Orlando airspace). The leg to the west was thrown in without sufficient thought regarding the strength of the winds and the moderate nature of the thermals.

Flying, we basically take two steps forward and then two steps back. Here's a look at a track log near the first turnpoint, showing the drift.

Later, I asked Mike Barber what he was showing for winds. He said that earlier in the flight he was measuring 14 mph out of the west. Later, around 3 PM, his Tangent showed 20 mph. My Brauniger was showing 12 mph at 240.

Not only did we have a hard time getting any where, because of the strong head winds going to the first turnpoint, but we also couldn't get very high, 3,800' was the highest, and we didn't climb very quickly, with maximum climb rates averaging between 300 to 400 fpm.

Here's a chart of altitude gains going to the first turnpoint.

With all this wind you would have thought that the air would have been very turbulent, but this was not the case. Perhaps do to the light lift, there didn't seem to be any sharp edges to the thermals. It wasn't always easy coring up, but it was possible even from low even in the strong winds.

Many flex wing pilots were only able to make the minimum distance or less with 40 out of 70 pilots given the minimum distance. Six of the twenty-nine rigid wing pilots got the minimum distance.

I was flying with Dave Sharp and I first heard from him on the radio 13 miles out from the first turnpoint. I was 18 miles out. Half an hour later both he and I were 13 miles out from the first turnpoint. Gives you an idea of the degree of difficulty the task presented.

As we got closer to the first turnpoint, the proportion of rigid wings increased. Many flex wing pilots had gone down before the first thermal on the course. Brian Porter in the Swift, Mark Mullholland in the canopied Millennium and Greg Dinnauer in the faired Millennium were all together 12 miles out.

Manfred, Dave Sharp and Gerolf made the first turnpoint. Gerolf lands a mile and a half beyond it, Dave lands 5 miles below it, and Manfred is able to make the second turnpoint and get some of the way back.

Given that flex wing most pilots didn't make in the minimum distance, the day was very devalued. Rigid wing pilots got a few more points, but not many, as no one made it half the distance of the task.

The charts below show distance and points in the last two columns.

Class II:

1 Sharp, David Air Atos Usa 27.9 211
2 Porter, Brian Bright Star Swift Usa 23.2 189
3 Straub, Davis Air Atos Usa 22.3 185
4 Yocom, Jim Air Atos Usa 20.0 171
5 Mulholland, Mark Bright Star Millennium Usa 17.7 158
5 Meier, Richard Air Atos Ita 17.7 158
5 Dinaur, Greg Bright Star Millennium Usa 17.7 158

Class I:

1 Ruhmer, Manfred Icaro Laminar Mr 2001 Aut 43.8 131
2 Heinrichs, Gerolf Moyes Litespeed Aut 24.8 102
3 Zweckmayr, Josef Icaro Laminar Mr 2001 Ita 19.4 93
4 Wirdnam, Gary Aeros Combat Gbr 18.6 91
4 Cook, Steve La Mouette Topless Gbr 18.6 91
6 Walbec, Richard Wills Wing Talon Fra 17.9 89
6 Lee, Jim Wills Wing Talon Usa 17.7 89
6 Hollidge, Andy La Mouette Topless Gbr 17.7 89
9 Arai, Chris Wills Wing Talon Usa 17.6 88
10 Raemy, Kilian Moyes Litespeed Che 17.4 87
10 Barber, Mike Moyes Litespeed Usa 17.4 87
10 Volk, Glen Moyes Litespeed Usa 17.3 87

Complete results at www.flytec.com.

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Stalker/Combat demos in southern California »

Wed, Mar 21 2001, 7:00:05 pm GMT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Stalker|G.W. "GeeDub" Meadows|Joe Greblo|John Borton|Torrey Pines

At Joe Greblo's request G. W. Meadows <GW@JustFly.com> sends the following:

G. W. Meadows will be doing demos at Kagel this weekend with Joe Greblo of Windsports.

The following weekend he will be at Torrey Pines with John Borton of Thin Air Designs.

All interested parties in demos can contact:

Joe Greblo 818 988 0111
John Borton 858 454 2298
G. W. Meadows 252 480 3552

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