Werner Johannessen <<Werner.Johannessen>>
writes:
Sixteen pilots from the Lier Hang gliding club in Norway visit
Lanzarote in the last two weeks to get away from the cold snow. Lots of nice
flying before the Spring arrives here up in north.
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James Lamb <<jlamb>>
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I have transitioned AIR USA to Fred Kaemerer & BJ Herring. There’s
an update to my website with some info available. I’m very confident in their
ability to do the business of AIR USA in a very credible, capable manner.
They’re very excited, have lots of new energy and ideas, and new... mehr

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The documents we've linked to say this about nominal distance:
If a task distance is less than Nominal Distance, the day will be
probably devalued.Nominal Distance should be set to the expected “normal” task distance for the
competition site.
In most cases what I have experienced is that the nominal distance
is set quite a bit... mehr

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http://vimeo.com/59378182
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http://www.flyingthevoid.blogspot.com/2013/02/butterfly-dreams-raw.html

We spontaneously stretched our arms out, giggling like children. I
began to tear and wondered why. Instead of feeling as a lonely particle lost in
a vast and indifferent universe, I experienced being the universe, a tiny drop
of it. As integral as rock. A feather on an... mehr

http://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/2013/2/11/
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http://www.kulmcrosscountry.at/en_ai
April 6-7.
After the official competition, a voluntary fun-contest will be launched from the practice slope. The first 10 pilots in goal are qualified. http://youtu.be/rVSIZv7XORY
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http://www.forbesflatlands.com/team-challenge.html
A video about Forbes and hang gliding. Originally created for use in the bid to host the world championships in 2011. http://youtu.be/NO0FUDF2cYk
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When trying to explain the GAP scoring system to pilots, the
developers of the scoring system and others have tried to stick to pretty
pictures, because frankly the equations which our computers use to draw these
pictures can get pretty ugly and without the pictures they don't make much
sense. There is no real reason why one equation would... mehr

http://vimeo.com/59109463
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http://youtu.be/AobRBJ04-TY
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There seems to have been a lot of confusion caused by calling
these points, leading points
Leading points are supposed to be there to encourage a pilot to
lead as we saw in the last article in this series. At least that's what the GAP
authors thought. But really what are they?
Here's a picture of an idealized race, keeping all the essential... mehr

The GAP 98 scoring document gets updated to
GAP 2000.The overall point allocation is given like this:This is the distribution of points by type of points available to pilots. This
is not the distribution of points between pilots. Those involve more pictures.Still the GAP authors were not satisfied with the GAP 2000 program, they wanted:
The... mehr

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Paul Tjaden from Quest Air writes:

A few days
ago I promised that I would write a more complete accident report regarding the
tragic hang gliding accident we recently had at Quest Air resulting in the death
of our good friend, Zach Marzec. I do want to warn you in advance that there
will be no great revelations from what you already know.... mehr