With 128 pilots from 17 countries participating, the 11th OZONE Chabre Open finished with six days of flying. The Chabre Vol Libre Team reports:<\/p>\n
\u201cCongrats to Cullmann, Grant Oseland, and Frederick Angrimer who shared the overall podium. We ran our longest task ever on Thursday, a 66.25km elapsed time set from Chabre to Chorges with 41 pilots making goal. On the last day, having woken to rain in the morning, we managed to complete a 33km task from Buc (Sederon) to Laragne, in glorious late afternoon sunshine.<\/p>\n
The classes this year were determined by a combination of aspect ratio and EN certification, with a new Fun class (EN-B or below and AR less than 5.2), in addition to the regular Recreation, Sport, X-Class, Rookies and Women (results at bottom).<\/p>\n
FAI World Paragliding XC Champion, new FAI world record holder (306km FAI Triangle), and OZONE test pilot, Honorin Hamard, flew with us on both final tasks under his OZONE LM6. Modest as he is, he provided a stunning and inspirational demonstration on what can be achieved on a serial class glider. He out-thermalled and out-flew us all, of course! On Friday morning he answered many questions on techniques and tactics for competition\/performance flying and …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n