Our ninja pilot, Seiko Fukuoka, and her flying partner Charles Cazaux have both broken more records in Australia. Seiko flew a new record free distance using up to 3 turn points of 378km. Charles flew a World record 3 point free distance of 476km and Australia record free straight distance around 450km!
Yesterday, while riding the train back to her hotel, Seiko sent us a quick report on her latest record flight:
Reading the weather on this side of the planet is not an easy task. The day started, as usual, with poor conditions: shifty winds, low cloud base and a lot of stability. We knew that the northeasterly wind was going to switch to the west and later during the day we would have more instability, so we went for a late start. Taking all this in consideration I decided to go for a “Free distance using up to 3 turn points” (255 km was the female current record). For this kind of record I don’t need to fly on the same direction the whole time, I have to choose 3 waypoints between my launch and my landing, simply I just need to go with the wind.
It was my turn to …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders