I wrote to Joerg Ewald:
At the recent Brazilian Nationals they used Jump the Gun in scoring for the
first time. They used a factor of 4.
On the sixth task (http://www.abvl.com.br/images/brasilia2013/brasilia2013prova6elite.pdf),
Eduardo Fernandes, started 38 seconds early. But he received only a penalty of
10 points.
I read in the FS... mehr

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Between Spain and France, that's how the Cool kids Crew has fun !
Flying, partying, doing crazy stuff wherever it's possible ! Life rocks ! mehr

Joerg Ewald <<joerg>>
writes:
Ahem, the PWCA does not use FS for its scoring, they have been
using Ulric Jessop’s CompCheck for many years now.
I got fooled by this:
http://fs.fai.org/trac/wiki/ScoringFormulas.
Joerg Ewald& lt;<joerg>>
writes:
There are other comps (Swiss Paragliding League, for instance)
that want... mehr

Stan Roberts <<airhogstan>>
writes:
I haven't written about any of my flights to you in years, since I
lived in Ellenville, NY. Now I'm stuck living in Blythe, CA; a million miles
from all good flying sites.
I'm flying an ATOS VR-QT now: a 2009 model. I noticed a good flight from Dustin
Martin in Arizona from Casa Grande. So this... mehr

Joe Schmucker <<wingloader>>
writes:
Yea. It's hot in Florida in August. However, it's a lot cooler up
above the clouds!
Here's a video of one of the coolest flights I've ever taken. Mark Frutiger said
"get your stuff on and let's go" so I did. It was only 10 am and I knew it
wasn't because the lift was good.... mehr

This is an earlier satellite photo. There are some fires that are closer to
McCall (which is north of Boise) so there is smoke here. mehr

Alan Coffield <<alcoffield>>
writes:
If you liked our
Crestline Super Floater
video, you might like this clip of my friend Andrew Serata flying his PW-2
sailplane in Pennsylvania. It is a certified sailplane but is very similar in
design to the air chair style gliders such as the super floater, the GOAT, and
the BUG, as well as... mehr

Joerg Ewald <<joerg>>
writes:
We just released FS 2013 R2, which fixes a number of issues that
came up since the release of FS 2013. More details here:
http://fs.fai.org/2013/08/25/fs-2013-r2-released/
http://fs.fai.org/trac/wiki/F2013R2 mehr

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Jonny writes:
Another great day in Brasilia for the last day of the competition.
We flew a 107km task with three turnpoints Boca will win the day two seconds in
front of me and Andre.... mehr

http://www.abvl.com.br/http://www.abvl.com.br/images/brasilia2013/brasilia2013prova6open.pdfAndre Wolf moves into first place:
http://www.abvl.com.br/images/brasilia2013/brasilia2013geralopen.pdfIt gets tight at the top. One more day.
Jonny Durand writes:
A 140km task with seven turnpoints with goal in the esplanada. I
think around 25-30 pilots... mehr

DHMead <<wingmead>>
writes:
The Hawaiian guys have put up an amazing video:
http://vimeo.com/72574161
mehr

http://youtu.be/WGMxHBhgbOc

http://youtu.be/VoOjdJ6Sejs

Thanks to
Arne Havgaard. mehr

Glauco Pinto wins the fifth task:
http://www.abvl.com.br/images/brasilia2013/brasilia2013prova5open.pdf goes
back on top:
http://www.abvl.com.br/images/brasilia2013/brasilia2013geralopen.pdfhttp://www.abvl.com.br/Jonny Durand writes:
A long 144km task today with five turnpoints and many in goal. I did
the second start with the top guys and was... mehr

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33249&start=54
We fully agree with you, without plunging deep into the subject
and just being based on the general technical knowledge. This is the very reason
why we have not made the test procedures public but have only sent them to
authorised Aeros dealers.
In this certain case we are lucky to... mehr

Stef Malbos writes:
Published today on our website is the latest completely revised
edition of ‘Practical Guidelines for Organising CIVL/FAI Category 1
Championships’.It can be found at: http://www.fai.org/civl-documents under Event Organisers/Practical
Guidelines...It can also be found through the "Box" in the lower left... mehr

http://www.aeros.com.ua/news.php?lang=english&id=350
Based on the in-depth study of the problem we have decided to
extend the scope of the Safety Directive-016 dd. August 12, 2013 and to arrange
immediate re-testing of all the carbon crossbeams on Combat gliders produced
since January 2010 to date. Combat gliders produced between January... mehr

http://avherald.com/h?article=466f3b5e&opt=0
Swiss RJ1H near Zurich on May 8th 2013, near miss with paraglider.A Swiss European Airlines Avro RJ-100, registration HB-IYS performing flight
LX-781 from Brussels (Belgium) to Zurich (Switzerland), was on approach to
Zurich descending through 6800 feet north of the aerodrome in German Class C... mehr

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Gijs Wanders <<gijswanders>>
writes:
It was at the place where I learned hang gliding in Sapenay,
France, ten years after my first practice runs and nine years after my first
mountain flights. Even more special is that ten years after my first contact
with hang gliding I was able to win the Dutch national hang gliding title three... mehr

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/hang-gliding-europe-2013 mehr