245km and 235km
The final best distances yesterday were 245km and 235km. Today strong southerly winds and tomorrow risk of storms, so no flying probably till Wednesday. We will probably only have around 23-30 by then, but will try to do something interesting. It seems the repercussions of the CIVL prohibition are echoing around the world. Calvo is flying out Thursday to the UK to attend a meeting with the BHPA to discuss the Opens. In Germans and Belgium it seems they are now banned from uncertified gliders. Also the X-Alps is going Serial.
July 12th, 2011 at 07:12
Hi Steve.
Belgium hasn’t decided yet
July 12th, 2011 at 08:50
And X-alps hasn’t officially announced anything yet
July 12th, 2011 at 09:05
which pilots flew the 245 and 235km?
July 12th, 2011 at 10:48
@Pat,
Jack Brown (USA) and Greg Knudsen (LUX) both went about 245 KM on Sunday. They flew much of the flight together and landed about 50 metes from each other. Jack has a blog post about the flight here: http://www.usaparagliding.blogspot.com/
And Josh Cohn’s out and back flight was 128.5 km.
http://paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/475714
Jeff
July 12th, 2011 at 12:49
Finally, Xalps will accept the R11s.
All the best.
Cheers,
Reynald
July 12th, 2011 at 13:43
We seem to be hearing all sorts of conflicting information about what NACs and organisers will do. I imagine this time next week we will have a clearer idea of the future. Calvo is off to a BHPA meeting on Thursday, so I imagine on friday we will know the Brit position.
July 12th, 2011 at 19:04
thanks Jeff, v. interesting blogs