Dazzled by tech? Hugh Miller and Marcus King look at the different needs for different pilots and round up the kit The soaring pilot If you’re starting out, your priority should be learning your core flying skills. Instruments should be simple and easy to use. Naviter’s Andrej Kolar says, “Any instrumentation you use shouldn’t distract […] …read more
Author: winguu
Falling – Full Article from XC165
A year ago this October Canadian competition pilot Brett Hazlett had an accident while launching from Babadag in Turkey. A year on he re-lives what happens, and takes us step by excruciating step through his painful recovery. The goal: to fly again. I am lying on the steep slopes of a six-thousand-foot mountain in Turkey, in […] …read more
Full article: Flying from the Coast
Anthony Moore investigates sea thermals and going XC from the beach. Think again about what you think you know – because anything is possible… This article is from Cross Country issue 165 Flying XC can be wonderful, but with ever-increasing distances being flown it can also be frustratingly limited. In northern Europe and the UK […] …read more
New acro move: the Tumble Flip
There has been a lot explored beyond the latest invented acro tricks as nowadays the top pilots are able to perform pretty much every move flown twisted. And now when most of us think the evolution is about to slow down Max Marien (former Infinite Tumble record holder, interviewed here earlier) takes it to another level by inventing the Tumble-Flip – flipping himself both forwards and backwards during an Infinite Tumble! Congratz Max!
Source:: Just Acro
Canungra Cup Results
Australia’s longest running competition, the 16 year old Canungra Cup, has come and gone for another year. With an oversubscribed pilot list, it opens the Aussie season in southeast Queensland and remains Australia’s most popular competition. 2015 saw 5 tasks and some great results for Ozone pilots with 7 of the top 10 flying Ozone and the winners of every performance class flying Ozone. Congratulations to Sydney pilot Felipe Rezende who held his lead on his Enzo 2 for the last few tasks to take home the win.
Overall comp winner: Felipe Rezende on an Enzo 2
Top EN-D glider: Gavin Zahner on a Mantra 6
Top EN-C glider: Tom Urie on a Delta 2
top EN-B glider: Rob Oliver on Rush 4
You can see the full results here.
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
Honorin Hamard breaks tandem distance record – 407km
Wow! That was fast. Congratulations to Ozone R&D team member Honorin Hamard and Karine Gras who have just landed after a 407km tandem flight, breaking the world tandem record by a good margin after 11 hours in the air in Brazil. This was their third attempt at beating the previous 363km unratified record. You can see the entire flight on Honorin’s page on Airtribune.
Great work and cheers from all the team at Ozone!
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
Dave Wainwright wins first Icarus trophy
Australian Dave Wainwright won the first ever Icarus Trophy – a 1,300km paramotor race dreamt up by Adventure specialists the Adventurists, which took place in October 2016 in the USA. The 1,300 kilometres from Seattle to Valley Springs, California were covered by Dave and fellow Australian Kristan Fischer in a staggeringly fast three days. Kristan actually landed four minutes […] …read more
Michael Kuffer and Yuki Sato win PWC Bir 2015
Michael Küffer (CH, GIN) and Yuki Sato (JP, Niviuk) have won the PWC that finished in Bir-Billing, India on 31 October 2015. The comp was a brilliant success, with five tasks flown and a lot of mainstream media interest in India. France topped the coutries rankings, ahead of the UK and Slovenia, and the first team were team […] …read more
335.4km world tandem PG record
Honorin Hamard and passenger Karine Gras are celebrating a successful 335.4km flight from Quixadá to a declared goal on 1 November 2015. If ratified, it takes the World ‘distance to a declared goal’ tandem paragliding record, beating André Fleury’s 308.3km record that was set in Brazil in 2006, by 27km. This is the second tandem paragliding world record […] …read more
Honorin Hamard attempting world record tandem flights
Ozone R&D team member Honorin Hamard is attempting to best the world record tandem flight with his girlfriend Karine Gras in Quixada, Brazil. The attempts will be made now until November 14th, 2015. The couple is trying to beat at least one of the current world record tandem flights:
Tandem straight distance: 356.2km (363km attempt pending ratification).
Tandem via 1 turnpoint: 308.3km
Tandem with 3 turnpoints: 258.43km
With one 353km flight already complete, you can follow their attempts live via Airtribune live satellite based tracking and all current news will be published on Hono’s Facebook page.
Good luck to the adventurous couple from all the Ozone team!
Source:: Ozone Paragliders