Katalin Juhasz has just set a new female open distance record in her homeland, Hungary, with an amazing 215 km flight.
In her own words:”This season started slowly in Hungary, except for a few days, there were no great opportunities. The weather forecast was good for this day, so we traveled from Budapest to the 400m “high” Szársomlyó, which we call “mountain”. 300km by car, 1h walk to the mountain where 40 pilots were preparing to fly feverishly. In 2014 I set up a 122km Hungarian female record at a declared goal that I’d try again this day. I carefully wrote up: 130 kilometers . We were watching the air and at noon it seemed worth starting.
The first 70km flight was simple, with some members of the Hungarian national team, we managed to work together efficiently and quickly. The clouds were working as the textbook. Suddenly the clouds began to fall apart, so I got lower while the others kept their height. I had to decide and pulled away from my teammates alone in the direction of my goal. At this point a big cirrus took over shadowing the ground, I kept gliding forward until BOOM found my rescue …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders