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Today the GAME begins! 15 invitational pilots will be challenged to qualify into the finals. Who will be the 8 of them to make it?
– REMINDER: the take off will be closed tomorrow during the finals approximately between 4-6 pm. Everybody is welcome to watch the event on the launch site with cold drinks and shade! –
Rules:
– Each pilot have 4 letters for the entire qualification and for each battle.
– In the qualification they will…
Source:: Just Acro
The British All Comers Open 2018 in Feltre, Italy just came to an end.
Our friend, Kieran Campbell, reports:
“In summary, conditions were relatively unstable creating challenging tasking conditions all week. Most tasks started with the field vying for the best spot at (or in!) cloudbase. “Sunday saw the first task stopped due to rain at the farthest turnpoint. “Monday’s task proved too difficult for everyone, with the field strewn far and wide across the course, giving the retrieve drivers a busy afternoon. “Yuki Sato-Colombé was the only pilot to make the ESS, but with less than 100m AGL, her flight finished very soon after. “Tuesday’s conditions looked better but an incident in front of launch, and the resulting helicopter rescue, invalidated the start window. “Moving to Bassano on Wednesday saw 46 pilots make goal, boosting morale considerably. “Thursday was binned due to the forecast overdevelopment. Many chose to free fly before it did bubble up, including a dozen of us who landed at the nearby mountain refuge for a light lunch. “The smiles in the group photo soon disappeared as we were all consumed by heavy rain almost as soon as we’d started our glide back to Feltre. Ten …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
The Gin Wide Open in Ager, Spain was a blast with 82 pilots from all over the world
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‘Pretty unstable’ … Kieran Campbell reports from the British Allcomers Open in Feltre, Italy, 21-27 July 2018
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Britain’s Theo Warden has won the FAI European Paragliding Championships in Portugal, in a nail-biting competition that came down to the wire
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Airfer now offer the Dron paramotor frame with Vittorazi’s new Atom 80 engine
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Théo de Blic is crowned King of Brenta, after wining the second leg of the 2018 Acro World Tour
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Nova’s Ion 5 Light is 20% lighter than the standard Ion 5, and available in an XXXS size for 50-70/80kg all up
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MARIE MATEOS JOINS OZONE TEAM
OZONE is excited to announce that Female World Paramotor Champion and European Vice Champion (overall) Marie Mateos has joined our team.
Marie is 27 years young, from France, and has been flying paramotors since 2011. She participated in her first competition in 2014 flying the Speedster 22m in regional championships. After competing in the French Championships she qualified for the French National Team in 2015 and participated in her first international competition flying the Slalom 16m at the World Slalom Championships.
Marie is known as an extremely focused, hardworking, and talented pilot.
Her results so far:
World Female Champion 2016, 5th overall
1rst Female at World Championship 2018, 5th overall
French Female Champion
French Vice-Champion (overall)
Vice European Champion (overall) 2017
Marie says: “I am very happy to join the OZONE Team. I already use OZONE wings especially the Roadster 2 with my students, so I know that OZONE offers high quality all range of wings, from school to competition. I tried the Viper 4 and my first impressions are very good, I’m impatient to use it in the next competition! My next goal is World Slalom Championship in Egypt, in October!”
OZONE is happy to have the opportunity to support Marie in achieving her flying …read more
Source:: Ozone Paramotor
The reports from the UK keep coming, in one of the best flying seasons seen there in years.
On July 15th, our friend Richard Carter, who over the years has held the UK XC record, got it again. Richard is the first person in the UK to break the 300km barrier, flying a declared 301km flight.
In Richard’s words:
“I had been looking for sites that a 300km flight could be made from for a year at least. The forecasts suggested there was a chance of a good flight from Elan on the Sunday. I flew near there on the Saturday as well but bombed out twice.
This probably helped as I spent the rest of the afternoon resting and sorting out Sundays flight. The 300 was what I wanted, and if everything went spot on there was a chance.
But it was not an obvious record day. No increase in wind after take off and the thermal strength was quite weak on route . I was there in mid Wales, so would give it a go but I felt it was at best a 50/50 chance. On take off there was only me and ,Piers Nesbitt, the local club chairman. We …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders