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Newsletter 1 – January 2010 Come to the "AERO Friedrichshafen" from 8th till 11th Apri 2010 and meet me at my stand - you can make reservation for flying and accommodation for the new season in Gap!l
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From pilots for pilots: a German glider pilot has built a very nice new wooden chalet at beautiful Lac de Pelleautier and offers it to rent to other pilots. For more details, photos and prices click on the "holiday home" page |
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Ventus 2cm (Motor 50 HP), LX 7007 IGC Pro with Flarm, PDA with Pocket StrePla, standard instruments and equipment (dolly, towbar, fuel and water filling equipment). Charter per week: 800 €, 2 weeks 1500 € without fuel (AVGAS)
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Modern Times - something exceptional will happen soon in Gap: Two of the most modern glider will be available, a ANTARES 20m self launch with electric motor for rent (www.antares-charter.de) and the first ARCUS E in August 2010 for mountain gliding familiarizattion! Later it will be also possible to rent the Arcus E. |
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I am very happy about Claus-Dieter Zink put 4 photos in his calendar 2010 he took during we flew together. Mainly the one where you can see the Salto upside down in front of the steep rocks of west side of Pic de Bure! After a lot of try and error we worked out a technique to be very close after I turned to upside down; at the end we were lucky about having a nice autmn day with nice weather to get the shoot! You can also find one photo with the Twin Acro and the DG 505 we took during mountain flying familiarization.
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the season 2010 we can organize flights with a micro light motor glider Lambada. It is a very
good training for pilots who never flew in the mountains to do approaches to
the out landing fields from the catalogue, land on other airfields and also use
it for distance flights if there are no soaring weather conditions |
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Maybe we can use a Twin 3 SL during the season 2010, in August there will be the ARCUS E and for sure there is the Twin 2 Acro available from the Aero Club Alpin
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Wingsuit versus Glider over 150000 views „Wingsuit versus Glider“ or the game with the performance Sponsors: Red Bull, Salomon Pilot Wingsuit: Loic Jean-Albert; www.flyyourbody.com Flying together Wingsuit – Salto! We spend one week to try what is possible in the air and to get a maximum of nice images for Red Bull and Salomon. The project is located at Gap-Tallard with nice meteorological conditions and very good service for skydivers and glider pilots. The idea was born regarding wingsuit-flights, I mean really “flights”. If you see those flights from the ground, you can see a gliding-angel, performance 2,5! So is it possible to fly together with this simple human glider and a real glider?! |
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First experiments have already been done in summer of 2005. Martin Kroke takes off with his Salto by air-tow and climbs to the maximum altitude in thermals. Loic Jean-Albert jumps out of the Pilatus Porter after taking position about 200 meters vertically over the Salto. Loic tries to come close to the glider witch fly with airbrakes and a small speed break parachute (drop). First experiences shows that the size of the small parachute is the most important. The first used drop is too small, the glider accelerates too much with the same descending angle as the wingsuit; the original parachute from the salto works also bad: he turns too much with the higher speed. More experiments have been done one year later with better conditions: Loic got money from his sponsor Red Bull. We towed the Salto up to 4000 meters over the ground and Loic jumps out of the Pilatus like usual so we have more time to fly together. With the experience of last year we found the right size of the parachute soon. Flying together works very well now and Loic can play with his position to the glider like you can see in the video. |
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