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Pay up for the⁢ 2011 pre-Worlds »

Tue, Jan 12 2010, 5:43:01 pm AEDT

Just a few more days to send in the money

Flavio Tebaldi|Pre-Worlds 2011

Flavio Tebaldi «Flavio Tebaldi» writes:

I would like to remind you that in order to confirm your place please pay and send the organisation the payment receipt no later than the17th January. Confirmed pilots whose receipt of payment does not reach the organizers by 17th January, will be moved to the bottom of the waiting list. All other pilots accepted afterwards, will have 10 days to pay the registration fee before their place is reallocated to another pilot.

pre-Worlds - update »

Sun, Jan 3 2010, 8:49:03 am AEDT

150 out of 250

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Pre-Worlds 2011|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

The preliminary pilot list has been updated with the latest WPRS rankings. You'll find it here: http://www.cucco2011.org. Click Pilot Info, then Pilots List. If your name is on the list you have until January 17th to pay your entry fees in order to hold your place on the list.

As of Sunday night there are 150 pilots listed: 145 male, 5 female. Gliders: 58 Moyes, 38 Aeros, 23 Wills Wing, 21 Icaro, 5 Airborne, 3 Laminar, 1 Aeros, 1 unspecified.

  • ARG: Marcelo Chaves
  • AUS: Jonny Durand, Steve Blenkinsop, Cameron Tunbridge, Rod Flockhart, Bruce Wynne, Trent Brown, Neil Petersen, Tony Lowrey, Richard Heffer
  • AUT: Manfred Ruhmer, Thomas Weissenberger, Robert Reisinger, Michael Friesenbichler, Manfred Trimmel, Wolfgang Siess, Günther Tschurnig, Christl Elmar, Christian Tiefenbacher
  • BEL: Michel Bodart
  • BRA: Michel Louzada, Alvaro Sandoli (Nene Rotor), Jose Lessa, Konrad Heilmann, Eduardo Oliveira, Alexandre Trivelato
  • CAN: Brett Hazlett
  • COL: Mike Glennon, Eitan Koren
  • CZE: Radek Bares
  • DEN: Nils Dalby, Bo Klint, Johnny Christiansen, Jens Henrik Badsberg
  • ECU: Raul Guerra, Rafael Arcos
  • ESP: Blay Jr Olmos Quesada, Pedro Garcia Morelli, Daniel Martin Mota, Jose Antonio Abollado, Lucio Nelli
  • FRA: Mario Alonzi, Gianpietro Zin, Luis Rizo-Salom, Antoine Boisselier, Laurent Thevenot, Eric Mathurin, Eric Wyss, Fabien Agenes
  • GBR: Carl Wallbank, Gordon Rigg, Bruce Kavanagh, David Shields, Richard Lovelace, Dave Matthews, Anthony Stephens, Gary Wirdnam, Graham Phipps, Nigel Bray
  • GER: Gerd Doenhuber, Lukas Bader, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Tim Grabowski, André Djamarani, Markus Ebenfeld, Roland Wöhrle, Stefan Boller, Christian Zehetmair, Joerg Bajewski, Hans Kiefinger, Konrad Schwab, Monique Werner
  • GUA: Giovanni Vitola, Jose Herrarte, Dieter Meyer, Rolando Mansilla, Mario Leon
  • HUN: Attila Bertok, Endre Kovács, Attila Kis, Zsolt Balogh
  • IRL: Shaun O'Neill, Geoffrey McMahon, Philip Lardner, Justin Beplate, Kenneth Hickey
  • ISR: Amir Shalom, Ron Wiener, Yaron Levin
  • ITA: Alex Ploner, Christian Ciech, Elio Cataldi, Davide Guiducci, Tullio Gervasoni, Anton Moroder, Arturo Dal Mas, Filippo Oppici, Paolo Rosichetti, Fabrizio Giustranti, Sergio Bernardi, Suan Selenati, Edoardo Giudiceandrea, Vanni Accattoli
  • JPN: Koji Daimon, Hiroshi Suzuki, Takahiro Matsumura, Shogo Ota, Keita Kokaji
  • LTU: Justinas Pleikys
  • NED: Mart Bosman, Martin Van Helden, André Disselhorst, Joost Eertman, Erik Van Keulen
  • NOR: Vegar Hansen, Petter Peikli
  • POL: Dariusz Perenc, Sebastian Olifiruk
  • RUS: Vladimir Leuskov, Artur Dzamikhov, Anton Struganov, Natalia Petrova, Julia Kucherenko, Maxim Usachev, Oleg Andreev
  • SLO: Primoz Gricar, Stanislav Galovec, Iztok Jarc
  • SUI: Roberto Nichele, Christian Voiblet, Francis Gafner, Chrigel Kuepfer, Carole Tobler, Beat Howald
  • SWE: Hakan Andersson, Joakim Hindemith
  • TUR: Tugrul Yilmaz, Halil Caner Atilgan, Kamil Demirkan
  • UKR: Dmitriy Rusov, Pavel Yakimchuk, Sergey Semenov, Dmytro Teteretnyk
  • USA: Zac Majors, Dustin Martin, Jeff O'Brien, Davis Straub, Jeff Shapiro, Derreck Turner, Ben Dunn

pre-Worlds - who's going? »

Sat, Jan 2 2010, 6:58:31 pm AEDT

150 out of 250

Ben Dunn|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Jeff O'Brien|Jeff Shapiro|Pre-Worlds 2011|Ubaldo Romano|Wills Wing T2C|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Worlds 2023|Zac Majors

The best guess so far: http://www.cucco2011.org/test_romano/ Click Pilot Info, then Pilots List. Based on December 2, 2009, WPRS ranking, will change when January ranking is available. US pilots chosen to go to the pre-Worlds, so far:

Zac Majors, Wills Wing T2C-144
Dustin Martin, Wills Wing T2C-144
Jeff O'Brien, Wills Wing T2C (144 or 154)
Davis Straub, Icaro Laminar MR1000
Jeff Shapiro, Wills Wing T2C-144
Derreck Turner, Moyes Litespeed S5
Ben Dunn, Moyes Litespeed

Each nation gets up to five pilots independent of WPRS ranking. If more than five pilots from one country apply for the pre-Worlds, then the top five in that nation as per their January 2010 WPRS ranking are allowed in. When all those nations' slots are taken (some nations won't have five slots because less than five pilots pre-registered from that nation, for example, Turkey), then the remaining slots are available by WPRS ranking to the pilots who pre-registered.

Turns out a lot of pilots from Italy pre-registered and they have a lot of good WPRS rankings, and so fifteen pilots are coming from Italy. Derreck Turner and Ben Dunn got in with their WPRS rankings. Many US pilots did not.

Everyone has to get their entry fee in with ten days (January 17th) or they go to the end of the line. Starting on the 17th, pilots are chosen for the now empty slots by pre-registration date.

The actual five man teams will be decided at the competition.

Update: The January WPRS ranking it up and the pilot list will be updated soon.

Over 200 pilots sign up for⁢ 2011 pre-Worlds »

Fri, Nov 6 2009, 8:58:57 am PST

The limit is 150

Pre-Worlds 2011|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Worlds

http://www.cucco2011.org/

Apparently hang gliding is not dying at the level of World competitions (or at least pre-Worlds) The Italian based pre-Worlds is over subscribed already, just a few days after opening the registration to the waiting list. The local regulations state:

Registration will open on 2nd November 2009. Priority will be given to national teams of up to 5 pilots per country.

Places will be allocated starting from 7th January 2010 to pilots on the waiting list.

Allocation will be based on WPRS ranking on 1st January 2010 followed by order of registration for any unranked pilots.

As from 7th January, all confirmed pilots will have ten days time in which to pay the registration fee, in order not to lose their priority position in the pilot list.

Therefore, confirmed pilots whose receipt of payment does not reach the organizers by 17th January, will be moved to the bottom of the waiting list.

All other pilots accepted afterwards, will have 10 days to pay the registration fee before their place is reallocated to another pilot.

Dutch Open

Mon, Aug 1 2005, 6:00:01 pm GMT

At Greifenburg

Dutch Open 2005|gaggle|GPS|Hans Kiefinger|Koos de Keijzer

Koos de Keijzer «kdkeijzer» writes:

Hans Kiefinger is doing well at the Dutch Open in Greifenburg. The first day he was the fastest, but missed the first turnpoint by 5 meters because he had forgotten to put his GPS back on 5 sec interval:-( But today with task 2 he is the fastest again). Read his report:

"The conditions were OK on the first day, but cloudbase was low at 2100m. I started very early, but I was not in the perfect position at first start gate. I was too low, so I waited for the second start at 13.30. I hoped that cloudbase would rise as well, but it did not.

We flew at cloudbase most of the time. Then just before the second start gate I hit a very nice thermal with Harry Renders. It was a really fresh and strong one. Harry and I managed to get to 2400 on the border of a big cloud. It was very beautiful.

Harry and I started together. We were flying just on the right side of the cloud to the first waypoint. Then I lost Harry. I turned to go back to second. I was always high, just slowing for lift. On glide I flew 70-75km/h, in lift I slowed down to 50-55.

On the whole leg to the second turnpoint I made only two turns and they were not even needed. At the second turnpoint I caught up with lead gaggle that started at the first start gate.

After the turnpoint I went back to the mountain and found good lift. Then I had to slow down a bit, it was not so good any more. Halfway at the height of Greifenburg I was forced to take slow lift, just 1 m/s. There I lost a few minutes.

At Stator I found 4 m/s lift and got up to 2300 m. This was good enough for final glide. I just had to cross the valley to the last waypoint. Then at goal was really surprised to find Koos (de Keijzer) there, I did not see him all the time. I really thought I was the first pilot today. I flew the task in one hour and thirteen minutes, Koos was 6 minutes slower but he took the first gate."

For results, foto's and clips look here

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Hay or central Florida

Sat, Apr 26 2003, 1:00:07 pm EDT

Australia|Bob Baier|CIVL|Florida|Guido Gehrmann|Hansjoerg Truttmann|Hans Kiefinger|Hay|Herbert Klaushofer|Lukas Bader|Lukas Etz|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Swiss Nic

Lukas Etz <Lukas.Etz@gmx.de> (from Germany) writes:

This is the result of a voting I made before the CIVL decision (worlds 2005). “?” means – no answer:

Bob Baier: ?
Guido Gehrmann: Hay
Hans Kiefinger: Hay
Herbert Sturm: ?
Jörg Bajewski: Florida
Lukas Bader: Hay
Lukas Etz: Florida
Olli Barthelmes: Hay
Roland Wöhrle: Hay

Hansjoerg already has stated that the Swiss pilots wanted to go to Australia.

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Glide off

Fri, Feb 11 2000, 11:00:01 pm GMT

Hans Kiefinger|Norbert Kirchner|Tomas Pellicci

Felix Rühle, <felix@a-i-r.de>, tells us the story of a weekend glide contest in the Alps:

Last weekend, the 6th of February, there was a glide competition in the Alps. The conditions were good with smooth and stable air. The task was similar to a final glide.

Take off at 300 meters higher than the goal line. The distance to goal was 3km (a 10/1 glide). The pilot could take off anytime between 11AM to 3 PM. The winner was the pilot with the shortest flight time (the fastest to goal).

Pilots who landed short, especially with older gliders, had the chance to walk (or run) across the goal line, which made the comp more sportive for these pilots.

Enclosed the List of the first 5 rigids and first 11 flex wings (out of 29 participants).

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ATOS

Felix Rühle

82.5

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Exxtacy

Karl-Heinz mühlpointer

71.9

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Exxtacy

Lenz Dürnegger

54.9

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Exxtacy

Nikolaus Eisl

50.9

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Pegasus

Konrad Liedl

50.4

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Aeros Stealth

Hias Mayer

58.6

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XTRALight

Girgel Weinzierl

56.8

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Laminar ST14

Dieter Kamml

55.4

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Moyes

Armin Neuhofer

54.1

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XTRALight

Girgel Weinzierl

52.3

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Stealth

Hans Kiefinger

51.1

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Compact 14

Georg Mayer

44.2

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Topless

Norbert Lorenzen

43.2

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Sunrise

Wolfgang Lankes

43.2

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Ikarus Aeros

J. Pellicci

43.0

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Topless 2

Ludwig Stiegelhammer

41.1

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