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July 2011
A brief report from Skywalk Night Fever event
As already announced on our site, 25th June was reserved for Skywalk Night Fever. This is the first time that demonstration of accuracy landing was a part of this traditional event and it happened, due to a good sponsorship relations with Skywalk paragliders. The whole event was held in Andelsbuch, the very Western part of Austria and was perfectly organized and hosted by Flugzentrum Bregenzerwald and Skywalk, of course.
Despite the fact that accuracy landing was not so well known in this area, we managed to encourage 20 pilots (including one female pilot) to participate in accuracy landing competition, which took part right before main Night Fever event.
Pilots used a liberty to take off on their own and to stay in the air max. 2 hours and to land latest till 13.30hours. This time was more than sufficient to complete a whole round. Because of wind and thermal activities, landing was not so easy and all the pilots had to pay more attention to their approach. The best at this were Pascal Purin and Dragan Popov, sharing the first place with 9cms, followed by Lukas Ratz on the third position. Top 10 pilots were awarded with very useful &nice prices, contributed by Skywalk.
The following main Night Fever event was fully booked but due to a stronger side wind, organizer after some time spent on the mountain, took a clever decision to cancel the flying and we used ski lift again, this time in opposite direction. Not an easy choice but the best under the circumstances.
At the camp, a party and a price giving ceremony was already prepared and waiting for us.
At the end, we would like to express our gratitude to Mrs. Christa Vogel and Flugzentrum Bregenzerwald team and Skywalk team, who did a really great job organizing all this and took a great care of all participants. Not to mentione showing us new projects, offering us to test their paragliders and what is the most important, preparing enjoyable and safe flying and a party in the evening.
We all can really looking forwards to next year`s event.
You can see images on our gallery here .
June 2011
Malaysian PGAWC competition report
A Malaysian leg of PGAWC was this year held in Sabah region of Borneo island in a town called Ranau . Place is located a little bit over 100 km Eastern from Kota Kinabalu, at the bottom of beautiful, 4.095m high Mt. Kinabalu. The most of pilots actually continued Asian part of competitions, joined by pilots from Qatar, China and Chinese Taipeh.
Malaysian organizer already had some experiences with PGAWC but this time, they used a place where nothing can go wrong and had more luck with a weather, as well. Despite some rain drops, we completed max.number of rounds, all six, thanks to good organized transportation and dedicated launch marshals.
Landing site is not so easy as it seems from a take off but there is a lot of place for a safe landing. When the sun appeared through the clouds, pilots experienced a lot of lift on the bottom but this was not a case for Slovenian Rafael Kerin and Chinese Guang Sheng, who were on the top from a very beginning.
A last -sixth round began in a opposite ranking order and among top ten there were only some slight changes of positions. Pre-last flight was for Guang Sheng and he scored 2cms, while last one was for Rafael, who once again confirmed his best position with a 0cm.
In a female competition, top four positions were kept by Indonesian pilots, where Rosnalia Dian, Sirin Milawati and Cherry Bonaria were the strongest.
In team competition, Yagababa won with incredible 76cm after all six rounds, with only 4 cms for a last round. They were followed by China 1 and Best 4 Nike.
Opening ceremony was held at the landing site, accompanied by a Minister of turism, while a closing ceremony with a dinner and some tourist presentations, not to mentione some local music and dancing, was organized at beautiful Mount Kinabalu Heritage resort hotel.
This competition will be also remembered by a big price money for individuals and teams, not to mentione a great hospitality and good organization and of course, an organized tour to Mt. Kinabalu the very next day.
More pictures in fotagallery here .
An Indonesian PGAWC competition report
The fourth PGAWC competition of a season was held in Indonesia, about 100km South East from a capitol Jakarta. Puncak is a special flying place, since take off and landing are both placed in the middle of tea plantation.
Like always, opening ceremony in Indonesia was something really special and organizer continued entertaining a crowd almost every evening.
A little less luck, they had with a strong tail wind at the take off, for a first competition day. This is also a reason why organizer has decided to take us to Cililin, which is about 80 km further to the East. That was a good move and in the morning term, very skilled organizer managed to complete two competition rounds, before a rain shower. Pilots were very pleased also with a transportation to the take off site, which was provided by local boys on motorcycles.
The second competition day started back in Puncak. First with a zero and later with a nice head wind at the take off. Other three rounds were completed very fast and without any complications and the worst score was dropped.
Since local Indonesian pilots proved their strong position on a home terrain, still some of European pilots infiltrated to top 15 and in the last competition round, Feraric Matjaz from Slovenia climbed to the very top and won with a minimum advantage of 1cm, followed by Rajasa Darumaka and Nisbah Dede, both Indonesia.
In female competition, Bonaria Cherry from Indonesia was too strong for the rest of the girls, including second place Rosnalia Dian from Indonesia and third place Phuchong Nunnapat from Thailand.
More details about results you can check on: http://www.pgawc.org/ResultsPGAWC2011 and some pictures from Senica Slavko, Didit Majalolo and Rafael Kerin in the gallery.
Compliments to organizers also on all logistics, excellent organized and accomplished competition and for all interesting activities which fullfilled this competition, not to mention a closing ceremony which was really on a World Cup level.
More pictures in fotagallery here .
PGAWC organizing team
Skywalk Saturday Night Fever
This year is the first time that on a mentioned event, will have a demonstration of Paragliding Accuracy landing.
Since Skywalk is one of sponsors of Paragliding Accuracy World Cup, an organizing team will prepare a round of accuracy landing for all interested pilots, who will come on Saturday, 25th June in Bregenzwald.
All details about event, including entry form can be found on Skywalk internet page (German language) and in enclosed document (entry form Accuracy).
http://www.skywalk.info/News/article/2722/
Not forget to mentione some nice prizes from Skywalk for top ten pilots. So, it will be worth comming there a couple of hours earlier.
Looking forward to meet you there…
Second part of Asian PGAWC tour
Lohan flying site in Malaysia was the fifth PGAWC competition site for a season 2011.
A very interesting landing site and a crowd of pilots from ten different countries plus an organizer who did his best to complete all six planned rounds, made this competition really interesting.
Some results can be seen on: http://www.pgawc.org/ResultsPGAWC2011
More detailed report with pictures will follow…
First part of Asian PGAWC tour
At this year`s fourth PGAWC competition in Puncak – Indonesia, 84 competitors from 11 different countries were attending and completing all of planned five rounds.
During the whole competition, there was a battle between local Indonesians and European pilots. At this moment, you can check already prepared results on: http://www.pgawc.org/ResultsPGAWC2011 .
More detailed report with pictures will follow, soon >>