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Ukrainian Hang Glider Pilots in War

Tue, Apr 12 2022, 5:43:23 am MDT

You can help them out

Julia Burlachenko|Mykola Polovyy|war

Julia Burlachenko writes:

Friends, I want to tell you a bit about who we help. Currently, we are most actively cooperating with the units and battalions where our pilots serve. One of such units is the Marusyni Vedmedi (Marusia's Bears) volunteer platoon, where a member of the Ukrainian national hang gliding team, Mykola Polovyi, is a paramedic. During the first month of Russian full-scale invasion. This unit was based in Kyiv and was the territorial defense rapid response platoon. They neutralized sabotage and reconnaissance groups, and also went on the Armed Forces support missions in the hot spots of Kyiv region, including Irpin. Now they are undergoing retraining, and in a few days they will go to the frontline as part of the assault troops. Therefore, our main task now is to equip them to the maximum with everything they need. We are looking for rangefinders, shoulder strap systems, tablets, GPS navigators and other equipment.

I would like to tell you about the platoon commander, Marusya Zvirobiy, who was working in web design until 2014, and after the Russian attack created a training ground for initial military training, which trained soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and volunteer battalions before going to the frontline.

I would very much like to tell you about such a phenomenon as volunteer battalions. These are just fantastic stories and I think this is the first precedent in history when volunteers in the war form combat-ready units themselves and only after that, already with combat experience, join the Armed Forces.

The help of volunteers is also unprecedented. Most of the operational needs for equipment and special equipment are covered by volunteer foundations, the largest of which have reached the level of cooperation with the General Staff. As soon as we get a little free time, we will try to tell you how it works

But now our small "hang gliding" volunteer unit is actively working and we don't even have time for full reports of our work (yes, I know it's important, but there are more urgent tasks right now).

I want to thank once again all those who support us financially and organizationally and ask you: please do not stop. Now we have very high expenses, each of your contributions is crucial!

PayPal (USD, EUR): ‹julia.burlachenko@gmail.com

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Our Russians are Safe

Mon, Mar 14 2022, 7:10:36 pm MDT

And not in Russia

Andrey Solomykin|Bobby Bailey|Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya|Facebook|Julia Burlachenko

April sends:

I have been in contact with Evgeniya and Yulia. Two of our pilots. They are safe for now. I am posting one of the correspondence as of this morning.

Evgeniya "Zhenya" Laritskaya, Bobby Bailey, Julia Burlachenko

Bobby Bailey with Evgeniya and Yulia

Hi April, I am very touched by your letter, thank you. Yulia and her husband, and their daughter, and even Yulia's mom, as well as Andrey and I, are still out of Russia, in Sri Lanka. We all are safe. We don't want to go back to Russia now because of the war, and from the looks of it we maybe won't be back there for years. Since we are not in Russia, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube still work for us.

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Supporting our friends in Ukraine

Fri, Feb 25 2022, 2:32:18 pm MST

PayPal, Google Pay, etc.

Julia Burlachenko|Oleg Matvieiev|war

From Julia and Oleg, Ukrainian friends: https://mirco.com.ua/en/index.html

Their PayPal email address is in the upper right above the Donate button (you can use the Donate button for Google Pay, for example).

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Supporting our friends in Ukraine

Thu, Feb 24 2022, 7:19:53 am MST

Sign up for a Patreon account

Julia Burlachenko|war

Julia Burlachenko sends: https://www.patreon.com/savelife_in_ua

The National Bank of Ukraine has opened a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is possible to donate in GBT too.

SWIFT Code NBU: NBUA UA UX
Bank of England, London
SWIFT Code: BKENGB2L
Account: 40000982
Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8AH, UK
Bank account: UA843000010000000047330992708

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Our friends in Ukraine

Wed, Feb 23 2022, 7:17:53 pm MST

As they get invaded

Artem Chervonenko|Artem Kazachanskiy|Bogdan Norkin|Evgen Bublyk|Evgen Lysenko|Igor Drozd|Igor Hladchenko|Illia Tarasiuk|Julia Burlachenko|Mykola Polovyi|Oleg Matvieiev|Oleg Skirko|Oleksandr Lokot|Oleksii Dvernytskyi|Oleksiy Kovalenko|Pavel Krents|Roman Azemov|Sergey Drobyshev|Stepan Shepitko|Vasyl Bilek|Volodymyr Tkachenko|war|Yaroslav Kozlo|Yurii Petrenko|Yuriy Kobzar

Julia Burlachenko and Oleg Matvieiev write:

Hi, hang gliding community. This is Oleg Matvieiev and Julia Burlachenko from Ukraine. Many of you have seen us at various hang gliding events throughout Europe. This year might be a bit different. We have a war in our country provoked by one of the last dictators remaining in the 21st century. His name is Vladimir Putin, his country is Russia.

You may have heard the news about the Russian invasion into Ukraine in the last few days. In fact, this invasion, which for most of you has become evident only now is already lasting more than 8 years when Ukraine has declared the course for joining the EU and when Russia occupied Crimea peninsula and began flooding the eastern parts of Ukraine with modern weapons, special operations forces, supporting pro-Russian separatists. As every war goes it is combined with tons of propaganda, fakes, fraud, blackmail, etc. You can't be wrong comparing this to Nazi anschluss of Austria and annexation of Sudetes in 1938. As you may remember this also caused only the "deep concern" of that day's main political players, which turned to WWII very soon.

Following Hitler's footprints Russia did this trick at least 3 times in modern history: in Moldova in 1991, Georgia in 2008 and now in Ukraine in 2014. Moreover, just like Hitler denied the right for existence for Jews in 1940-ties, Putin denies the right for existence for the Ukrainian nation in 2022! (Yes, you are reading this right, just check his speech from February 21, 2022!).

As for today, more than 150,000 Russian troops are standing on our borders and have already entered the so-called separatist “republics” in Ukraine.

We have received many messages from friends throughout the world, offering support or even shelter if things go really bad. Thank you, friends.

The fact is that we will stay here in Ukraine. We have a stronger army now, so it won't be a milk run for the aggressor. We want to thank the USA, GB, Canada, Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Lietuva for the provided weapon systems. This support is worth thousands of words! We are also grateful to all the countries that have provided us with other assistance and promised further support in case of further escalation. Many of you ask how they can support Ukraine personally.

Well, the obvious move is to tell your politics to put more pressure on Russia. Sanctions are fine but armed support of Ukraine is much better. You may see that "deep concern" is not working now, neither it was in 1939. This may sound pathetic but Ukraine stands for the all democratic world now. If we fall then comes the turn of other ex-Soviet bloc countries, starting from Poland, Baltic states, Czech Republic, Hungary. This is declared by Putin. Russia is already playing on minor internal tensions inside the EU and the rest of the world, donating “easy to sell” politics and parties.

Second, more simple help option - you can financially support the volunteer division "Hospitallers" ("Госпітальєри"). This division provides the medical evacuation of injured from the battlefield, sets courses of first medical aid for civilians, etc. They are not combatants, if it matters for you for humanistic or religious reasons.

Some of our hang gliding friends are members of this division, so we can be sure that all donations will go for medicines, medical equipment, fuel for medevacs etc.

This is the contacts of the division: https://www.facebook.com/hospitallers/

For USD donations:
Beneficiary: Fedianovych Hanna Vitaliivna
51400, Ukraine, region Dnipropetrovska, district Pavlohradskyi, city Pavlohrad, street Zakhidna, building 13
IBAN: UA973052990262086400928825287
Account: 4149 4993 9795 0427
Bank of beneficiary: JSC CB Privatbank, 1D Hrushevskoho Str., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine
SWIFT code/BIC: PBANUA2X
Correspondent account: 0011000080
Intermediary Bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank
SWIFT code/BIC: CHASUS33

For EUR donations:
Beneficiary: Fedianovych Hanna Vitaliivna
51400, Ukraine, region Dnipropetrovska, district Pavlohradskyi, city Pavlohrad, street Zakhidna, building 13
IBAN: UA323052990262006400928825801
Account: 5168 7451 2080 1474
Bank of beneficiary: JSC CB Privatbank, 1D Hrushevskoho Str., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine
SWIFT code/BIC: PBANUA2X
Correspondent account: 623-160-5145
Intermediary bank: J.P. Morgan AG, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
SWIFT code/BIC: CHASDEFX
Western Union: Fedyanovich Ganna Vitaliivna
MoneyGram: Fedyanovich Ganna Vitaliivna

We wish we all have a better world to live in when all dictators fall.

Julia Burlachenko, Oleg Matvieiev, together with:
Evgen Lysenko, pilot, Ukraine
Sergey Drobyshev, pilot, hang gliding wings designer, Ukraine
Igor Hladchenko, pilot, Ukraine
Illia Tarasiuk, pilot, sailmaker, Ukraine
Yurii Petrenko, pilot, sailmaker, Ukraine
Artem Kazachanskiy, pilot, aircraft designer, Ukraine
Roman Azemov, pilot, aircraft designer, Ukraine
Oleksii Dvernytskyi, pilot, Hospitallers volunteer, Ukraine
Artem Chervonenko, pilot, Ukraine
Evgen Bublyk, pilot, Ukraine
Pavel Krents, pilot, Ukraine
Volodymyr Tkachenko, pilot, aircraft designer, Ukraine
Bogdan Norkin, pilot, Ukraine
Yaroslav Kozlo, pilot, Ukraine
Igor Drozd, pilot, Ukraine
Vasyl Bilek, pilot, Ukraine
Stepan Shepitko, pilot, Ukraine
Mykola Polovyi, pilot, Hospitallers volunteer, Ukraine
Oleg Skirko, pilot, Phantom rigid wing designer, Ukraine
Yuriy Kobzar, pilot, Ukraine
Oleksiy Kovalenko, sailplane pilot, Ukraine
Oleksandr Lokot, pilot, Ukraine

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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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2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

August 18, 2019, 5:18:48 pm CDT

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Final Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|competition|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Italian Open 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Europeans 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

Task 5:

# Name Glider Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER icaro laminar z9 1000
2 ANTON MORODER icaro 2000 laminar 13 933
3 VALENTINO BAU ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 925
4 LORENZO DE GRANDIS Icaro z9 915
5 TULLIO GERVASONI Wills Wing T3 879
6 MARCO LAURENZI Icaro Laminar 824
7 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 821
8 ROBERTO FERIGO moyes rx14 750
9 YEVGEN BUBLYK Aeros Combat GT 12.4 730
10 MYKOLA POLOVYY Aeros Combat 13.5GT 697

Final Results:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER icaro laminar z9 1000 1000 1000 744 1000 4744
2 MARCO LAURENZI Icaro Laminar 853 899 876 745 824 4197
3 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 853 816 848 700 821 4038
4 EVGEN LYSENKO Aeros Combat 12.7C 852 875 946 709 567 3949
5 Pedro L. Garcia Wills Wing T3 144 790 823 807 729 612 3761
6 ROLAND WOEHRLE Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 PRO 853 700 795 704 478 3530
7 LORENZO DE GRANDIS Icaro z9 560 455 840 703 915 3473
8 VALENTINO BAU ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 605 470 938 487 925 3425
9 VANNI ACCATTOLI Moyes rx4 pro 853 406 810 715 605 3389
10 TULLIO GERVASONI Wills Wing T3 847 406 835 178 879 3145

Almost a perfect score.

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

August 15, 2019, 5:56:41 pm CDT

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Montecucco

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|competition|Davide Guiducci|Italian Open 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Europeans 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ITA icaro laminar z9 1000 1000 1000 3000
2 EVGEN LYSENKO UKR Aeros Combat 12.7C 852 875 946 2673
3 MARCO LAURENZI ITA Icaro Laminar 853 899 876 2628
4 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 853 816 848 2517
5 PEDRO L. GARCIA USA Wills Wing T3 144 790 823 807 2420
6 ROLAND WOEHRLE GER Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 PRO 853 700 795 2348
7 TULLIO GERVASONI ITA Wills Wing T3 847 406 835 2088
8 VANNI ACCATTOLI ITA Moyes rx4 pro 853 406 810 2069
9 VALENTINO BAU ITA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 605 470 938 2013
10 ANTON MORODER ITA icaro 2000 laminar 13 771 452 766 1989

The competition lasts through the 18th.

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

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017

Wed, May 3 2017, 6:31:36 am MDT

Just finished

Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017|video

https://airtribune.com/spring-meeting-2017/blog

No live tracking on Airtribune for this meet.

https://www.facebook.com/731889390194258/videos/1327146994001825/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

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