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Open Annecy 2021 - French & Czech Championship »

June 17, 2021, 8:54:09 pm MDT

Results task 5

Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021|Wills Wing T3

Pictures: https://championnatdefrancedelta2021.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://airtribune.com/open-annecy-2021/results

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:30:30 997.4
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:43:07 932.4
3 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 03:52:13 893.6
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:52:42 891.9
5 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 03:53:19 877.3
6 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 03:53:19 872.3
7 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 03:53:37 865.3
8 Jiri Gut Wills Wing T2C 04:15:41 777.8
9 Petr Cejka Aeros Combat 04:32:34 722.6
10 Jean-Marc Rousselet Wills Wing T3 04:41:59 689.2

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 4750
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 4716
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 4359
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 4218
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 4190
6 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 4141
7 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 4036
8 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 3865
9 Francois Isoard Aeros combat GT 12,7 3845
10 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 12.7 C 3455

Open Annecy 2021 - French & Czech Championship »

June 16, 2021, 8:27:42 MDT

Results task 4

Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

Pictures: https://championnatdefrancedelta2021.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://airtribune.com/open-annecy-2021/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 02:02:59 999.9
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:03:18 983.6
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:03:15 976.4
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:11:30 909.8
5 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 02:11:26 909.4
6 Francois Isoard Aeros combat GT 12,7 02:12:18 893.4
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat c 02:11:28 891.1
8 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 02:22:12 810.5
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 02:22:29 803.9
10 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:24:57 788.4

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 3824
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 3818
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 3734
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 3552
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 3296
6 Francois Isoard Aeros combat GT 12,7 3271
7 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 3269
8 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 3170
9 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 2988
10 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat c 2760

Open Annecy 2021 - French & Czech Championship »

June 15, 2021, 3:13:08 pm MDT

Results task 3:

Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021

Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021

Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021

https://airtribune.com/open-annecy-2021/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:07:47 1000.0
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:09:17 981.3
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:12:27 963.5
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 03:14:03 954.0
5 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 12.7 C 04:01:38 842.9

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 877.9 1000.0 963.5 2841
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 901.8 957.1 981.3 2840
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1000.0 824.1 1000.0 2824
4 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 879.4 974.8 954.0 2808
5 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat GT 12,7 858.6 960.8 558.1 2378
6 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 872.9 923.1 563.8 2360
6 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat GT 13.5 725.5 937.7 696.4 2360
8 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 790.4 938.4 567.4 2296
9 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 757.7 875.9 566.0 2200
10 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 721.5 413.3 733.8 1869

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Open Annecy 2021- French & Czech Championship

June 12-18, 2021

June 13, 2021, 1:14:28 pm MDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|Open Annecy 2021|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/open-annecy-2021/results

Task 1: No idea why it wasn't published on the results page. Christian easily won the day.

Task 2: Results only for open class published

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:30:14 1000.0
2 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 02:31:01 975.4
3 Francois Isoard Aeros combat GT 12,7 02:31:29 961.5
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:31:54 957.9
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 02:34:47 939.6
6 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 02:35:10 939.0
7 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 02:35:57 924.7
8 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:45:11 878.5
9 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:56:46 827.8
10 Jean-Marc Rousselet Wills Wing T3 03:09:18 793.5

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 877.9 1000.0 1878
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 12.7 C 901.8 957.9 1860
3 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 879.4 975.4 1855
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1000.0 827.8 1828
5 Francois Isoard Aeros combat GT 12,7 858.6 961.5 1820
6 Gregoire David Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 872.9 924.7 1798
7 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 790.4 939.6 1730
8 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat gt 13.5 725.5 939.0 1665
9 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 757.7 878.5 1636
10 Stanislav Trebeška A.I.R. Atos VR 746.5 400.4 1147

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The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sun, Sep 13 2020, 12:21:46 pm MDT

Task 4, the last day, Sunday

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time
)(h:m:s)
Distance
(km)
Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:27:10 83.09 930.6
2 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:27:45 83.09 912.6
3 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:28:23 83.09 895.9
4 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:34:54 83.09 868.5
5 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 80.44 660.7
6 Eric Mathurin Fra Moyes 54.78 526.4
7 Johann Courtain Fra Wills Wing 54.30 520.4
8 Joerg Bajewski Ger Icaro 54.10 518.9
9 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 54.25 517.0
10 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing 53.89 515.1

Final results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech m Ita Icaro 3315
2 Roland Wöhrle m Ger Moyes 3141
3 Marco Laurenzi m Ita Icaro 2718
4 Lorenzo De Grandis m Ita Icaro 2693
5 Joost Eertman m Ned Icaro 2537
6 Christian Pollet m Fra Aeros 2470
7 Oliver Salewski m Ger Icaro 2232
8 Suan Selenati m Ita Wills Wing 2139
9 Sasha Serebrennikova F Rus Moyes 1919
10 Marco Gröbner m Ger Moyes 1823

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sun, Sep 13 2020, 9:35:13 am MDT

Task 3

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 3:

Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 01:54:47 1000.1
2 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:21:43 789.0
3 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 02:23:22 771.6
4 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:23:47 765.5
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:24:41 752.7
6 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:25:25 743.6
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 02:26:07 735.0
8 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing 02:32:26 692.1
9 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:27:24 678.1
10 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 02:36:23 664.1

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 2385
2 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 2245
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 2057
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 2020
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 1780
6 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 1753
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 1720
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 1636
9 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 1602
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 1414

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sat, Sep 12 2020, 8:45:29 am MDT

Task 2

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Sasha at Goal on the second day.

# Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:16:31 975.9
2 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:18:17 945.2
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:18:49 929.2
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:30:39 842.7
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:36:10 813.3
6 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 02:47:43 737.8
7 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:53:24 699.8
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 02:59:32 696.4
9 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 03:01:11 665.2
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 03:42:14 507.8

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 1456
2 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 1384
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 1379
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 1276
5 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 1089
6 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 1028
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 985
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 864
9 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 836
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 760

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Fri, Sep 11 2020, 5:59:19 pm MDT

Rescheduled

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Distance
(km)
Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:07:10 59.69 480.5
2 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:14:17 59.69 450.0
3 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:11:15 59.19 439.2
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:20:15 59.69 433.4
5 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 02:24:39 59.69 424.1
6 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 32.58 251.9
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 33.21 247.6
8 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 23.99 214.3
9 Valentino Bau Ita Icaro 25.15 211.1
10 Eric Mathurin Fra Moyes 22.45 199.1

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020

Tue, Nov 26 2019, 7:28:57 am PST

25 Apr, 2020 - 01 May, 2020, Travesio/Meduno, Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/info/details__info

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy, at its 4th edition, is a FAI 2 competition (Hang Gliding class 1, class 5, Sport class) which takes place in a flight zone well known by European pilots. It is also part of the big flying area which have hosted the XXII Hang Gliding World Championship.

The flight area is mainly in the foothill but, depending on weather conditions, it is possible to fly also in the Alps and in the flatland. There are different takeoffs; two of them are in Slovenia and can be chosen in case of changeable weather.

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Wed, May 1 2019, 8:28:52 pm EDT

Results for the final day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 03:02:25 995
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 03:02:34 988
3 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 03:03:17 951
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 03:08:05 936
5 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 03:19:13 853
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 03:20:58 839
7 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 03:23:02 829
8 Olav Opsanger Moyes Litespeed 03:27:16 810
9 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed 03:39:21 769
10 Andrew Hollidge Wills Wing T2C 03:42:04 757

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 1982
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 1925
3 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 1920
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 1841
5 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 1767
6 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 1556
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 1506
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed 1465
9 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 1428
10 Olav Opsanger Moyes Litespeed 1416

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Wed, May 1 2019, 8:29:58 am EDT

The weather turns

competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_5

Pilots are already on takeoff. Weather seems perfect today, so we expect to go in the air early in the afternoon for a consistent task.

Because pilots weren't assigned Flymaster trackers through Airtribune, live tracking on Airtribune doesn't work for this competition. Follow the pilots on the Flymaster web site.

The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636

You can see the Replay from yesterday here: https://airtribune.com/play/4032/2d at the two times faster speed (compared to the Flymaster web site). The Airtribune replay uses the IGC files found here: https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results. The Airtribune Replay user interface is vastly superior to the Flymaster Playback user interface. It does have a problem with screen clutter on cell phones.

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Tue, Apr 30 2019, 1:39:46 pm EDT

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results

Task 2 (a 40 kilometer task starting at almost 4 PM):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 01:11:30 389
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:13:12 370
3 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 01:13:40 367
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 01:16:06 362
5 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 01:16:17 352
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 01:16:27 350
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:19:07 342
8 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 01:24:04 328
9 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 01:27:09 317
10 Joost Eertman Icaro Laminar 01:27:58 315

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 982
2 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 965
3 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 932
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 923
5 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 920
6 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 900
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 853
8 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 817
9 Joost Eertman Icaro Laminar 786
10 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed 770

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Tue, Apr 30 2019, 9:33:12 am EDT

Mostly canceled tasks

Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|video|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_4

Wednesday is a possible recovery day due to all the bad weather.

Pilots are on the takeoff, we had rain during the morning but we plan a late task in the afternoon, when weather should improve enough for a go.

Pilots will have a briefing at 13:00

The first flying day: https://youtu.be/VPP3_Cdnou0

The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636

Task has started for all classes. It's a 40 km task for class 1 and 5, and 15 km for Sport class.

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Sun, Apr 28 2019, 5:12:48 pm EDT

One task so far

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_2

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 01:22:01 637
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:23:18 612
3 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 01:27:53 580
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 01:28:20 573
5 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed 01:28:29 569
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro Laminar 01:29:21 565
7 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 01:31:12 553
8 Andrew Hollidge Wills Wing T2C 01:32:22 546
9 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 01:34:44 539
10 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 01:33:55 538

Roll Control – rubber wings

Sat, Apr 5 2003, 5:00:07 pm EST

Brett Snellgrove|Jean Louis Foglia|tow

Brett Snellgrove <Snelly14@cs.com> writes:

For some time I have noticed pilots commenting on the superior handling and roll control of single surface gliders. It's interesting what pilots will tolerate for higher performance in advanced wings especially if the changes are incremental. Personally, I don't find the roll control in single surface gliders ideal either. On two occasions in the past I have been gust turned into the ridge despite immediate reaction with full pull in and full opposite correction, in a single surface wing (probably flying too slowly, but a wing should be controllable at all flight speeds IMHO). Which begs the question why, even with loose sails and billow shift floating keel mechanisms, do we still have gliders sticking a tip and refusing to turn? I noticed in a review of the Offpiste Skyfloater Discovery the pilot commented on how, despite excellent handling, the wing still needed a firm hand and plenty of correction in rougher air or to turn into lift. The large sail was blamed but I doubt this is the underlying cause or 747s would be uncontrollable.

For what I can ascertain, the inertia and tension of the wing half that is unloaded on weight shift, tightening and flattening, resists the keel shift toward the loaded side that billows up, slowing or eliminating control response in certain situations. Adding anhedral as is done in most high performance wings, is a partial solution that also adds roll instability. One solution I read about in C.C a year or so ago was coupling a tip lifter to the hang strap with various activating mechanisms and cams. This was supposed to be available as an after market add on but I've since heard nothing more of the idea.

Jean Louis Darlet approached the problem differently and without the complexity of linkages, by first moving the virtual hang point higher to allow lateral hang point motion - or hanging from the king post, with his French connection which now has a popular adaptation in modern wings. A lesser known idea of his was to split wing sail down the center above the keel pocket, between the first ribs. The wing halves were rejoined with rubber straps. This allowed one wing half to billow up under load independently of the other half. The other half did catch up later so performance loss due to sail laxity was not problematic.

The wing was thoroughly tested and, apparently, had exceptionally positive roll control with no vices and virtual immunity to lock outs on tow. I'd be interested to hear why the idea was never developed further. Possibly, such modification would provide overly sensitive response at speed, especially in high performance wings and I suspect performance goals superseded handling issues. I wonder with the renewed interest in lower performance single surface skyfloating wings whether pilots would be again be interested in this modification?

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