Great Flights

With her Archaeopteryx, she offered us wonderful flights 🙂 The 13rd of February a 586km free distance with only 1500m cloudbase: The 1st of March, a 351km FAI triangle at 53km/h:  

An unexpected head wind forced him to land 30km short of the goal in a 500km FAI triangle attempt in Australia the 6th of January… Congratulation to Peter 🙂  in his Archaeopteryx, he realized the best OLC score: 752 points! The…
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As new year present, Didier Givois offered us this nice movie of flights realized in his Swiftlight PAS, mainly in December, in ridge soaring, with Eric Serrat in his old Pswift, from Challes les Eaux in the french Nothern Alps….
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August the 26th A 305km flat triangle in Archaeopteryx from Münster in high Wallis in Switzerland, from where Roger Ruppert took off thanks to the electric engine installed in his Archaeopteryx: he went all around Wallis and extended his circuit till Passy in France west of Chamonix,…
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This year, the weather was rather bad for XC pilots addicted to big closed circuits: Almost always bad in the northern french Alps, and heterogenous in the south. But the Aspres – Oisan route never worked so good, with top…
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The summer started with very good flying conditions regarding the weather, allowing us to go, almost each time we went flying, deap into in the Ecrin mountain range where the tops of climb were very high: •23/6 4300m •28/6 3950m •7/7 4000m…
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With the arrival of summer, the nice weather came back. So far, we haven’t got perfect flying conditions to turn big XC triangle from Aspres: The Queyraz and Ubaye area didn’t look nice to cross so the East route to…
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The 23rd of June, Roger Ruppert had a dream flight with its Archaeopteryx, he almost completed a 450km flat triangle. Congratulation Roger 🙂 Swiftlight pilots wake up!