Day Nine… The race is taking its toll, with pilots dropping out due to exhaustion and wear and tear as well as two pilots out from accidents involving broken bones. Maurer is on track to finish this week, but the weather is not playing ball …read more
Icaristics: Preparing for competition
Bruce Goldsmith was Paragliding World Champion a decade ago. With his son Tyr facing his first World Championships in Italy, Bruce writes down some good advice. ‘Fly the gear you know … Use a backup instrument … When you apply bar, do it in two pushes.’ You know what they say – Dad knows best. See […] …read more
Skywalk introduce X-Alps Range 2 harness
Skywalk released the new X-Alps Range 2 harness at the start of the Red Bull X-Alps race 2017. Team Austria 2’s Stephan Gruber took time out to show us the harness during the preparations for the race. The harness features a fully certified blow-up back protection system developed using technologies from kiting and knowhow from Skywalk’s […] …read more
Red Bull X-Alps 2017: Day Eight Highlight Clip
Maurer reaches Turnpoint 5 while Gaspard Petiot reflects on what might have been …read more
OZONE CHABRE OPEN 2017
The OZONE Chabre Open 2017, just came to an end after a fun week of camaraderie and flying in southern France. The Chabre Vol Libre Team reports:
“The 12th OZONE Chabre Open finished on a high after five tasks in beautiful conditions. Surely, one of the best we’ve had. Even the windy first two days allowed pilots to free fly at St Jean Monclar and St Vincent Les Forts. The competition hotted up over the next five days, as did the weather, and the fifth task gave rise to a few upsets in the final rankings.
Task setting, briefings and de-briefings were led by the inimitable Jocky Sanderson, who was a star, as usual. Jocky’s skill and experience in cross country flying, SIV, safety and training, his enthusiasm to help pilots improve and his animated briefings and de-briefings truly make the competition the best learning environment for any budding XC or competition pilot, and provides great entertainment for us all.
Loads of prizes were handed out, courtesy of OZONE and Cross Country Magazine. All of the winners got an OZONE rucksack full of goodies!
After the meal, the prize draw: Soooo many prizes. This year’s OZONE glider winner was Karl Ford, he …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
Alex Mateos wins French Champion title
From 3rd till 7th of July the 2017 French Championships were held at Blois aero club. There were 36 pilots competing in the solo foot launch class plus several solo and double trikes and 5 tandem crews. Weather conditions were changeable during all week but good enough to complete 15 tasks. OZONE Team Pilot, Alex Mateos finished in first place flying his Viper 4 18. He impressed everyone flying 6 hours during pure eco tasks till the evening briefing.
Alex Mateos reports: “This year I won the French Champion title for the 6th time! For me this competition was not very stressful, because since the beginning I was on the top of scoring list with a huge gap to the 2nd pilot. I won 10 of total 15 tasks”
Congratulations from OZONE Team
Source:: Ozone Paramotor
Red Bull X-Alps 2017: Pal Takats by Lake Como
Pal Takats ran 50km with his glider to get to Lake Como before his time penalty for an earlier airspace infringement started. …read more
Cross Country 182: August 2017
Cross Country 182 (Aug 2017) is out now and features Xandi Meschuh and Benni Hörburger on the front cover, in full stall, dual-control SIV training in Gerlitzen, Austria. Photo by Marcus King Subscribe, and never miss an issue …read more
Red Bull X-Alps 2017: Day Seven Highlight Clip
The chasing pack converges on Monte Baldo, but at the front Gaspard Petiot suffers a crash landing and breaks his hand, leading to his retirement from the race …read more
Red Bull X-Alps 2017: Gaspard Petiot retires from the race
French pilot and mountain guide Gaspard Petiot was chasing down race leader Chrigel Maurer and looked like he’d catch him – but a crash landing put him out of the competition after seven days of hard racing …read more