Author Archive: jac
a 19th pilot made his first solo flight with ADPUL
Pilots come from far away for the ADPUL Swiftlight training course: Evgeny from Russia, Douglas from the USA, and now “Formiga” from Brazil 🙂 June the 19th he made his first solo flight. Here is a video, just after his landing: And…
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First flight of a “full” Carbon Dragon in Ireland
After years of development work, Phil Lardner completed the building of his Carbon Dragon which he modified, replacing most of the wooden parts by carbon ones designed by himself. Here are his first trials, launching with a bungee from a…
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Ultralight glider flying in Ireland
While, due to the bad spring weather we had in France and in the Alps, the flying activity is lower than ever this year, in Ireland Ken had good flights, taking off with the bungee. Here is a video of his bungee launch…
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First Ultralight Glider Meeting in Burgundy
The 21st – 22nd week end of April, we had our first Ultralight Glider Meeting out of Aspres. We were eventually lucky with the weather… 🙂 As everybody enjoyed, we will do it every year, at least one time, and at…
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17th and 18th pilots to make their first solo flight with ADPUL
With the late arrival of spring, we could eventually resume training 🙂 April the 18th, Markus made his first flight with his new Swiftlight-E, radio guided by Jac. The same day in the afternoon, he made a 2 hours training…
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Spring training session
Our early spring training session was 90% cancelled due to persistent bad weather (rain and/or wind) We could only achieve the partial bungee training course for Jean-Marc and Yvain. The training of the 6 pilots will be completed as soon…
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ADPUL’s new organization
With the committee’s approval Jacques and Pascal decided to invert their positions, in order to better balance their functions and tasks in the management of the association. Jacques’s goal is to fly more, training his new student pilots to cross…
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