Great Flights
Peter Eicher, short of a great achievement
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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Winter flights in the french Alps
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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Great late flying season in the western Alps
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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Still 4000+ top of climbs
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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Plenty of great flights
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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Nice weather coming back
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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An ultralight glider over the 500km in triangle mark
May the 21st, Franz Pacheiner past the 500km triangle mark with his Archeoptéryx ! Unfortunately the flight cannot be registered as a world record in the FAI 2 category as the Archeopteryx was equipped with an auxiliary electric engine. Nevertheless, congratulation to Franz…
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Great Archeopteryx 2016 XC year start
February the 7th, Peter Eicher flew a 398km FAI triangle in Australia 🙂 And April the 20th, Franz Pacheiner flew a great 400km out and return in Austria along the slovenian and italian border They set high standards, Swiftlight pilots,…
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