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Martin Kroke

News:

  • Thank you for your visit at the stand during the AERO 2009! It was fun to give detailed information and meet friends
  • Mountain glider flight familiarization with DG 505 MB and Twin Acro during the season 2009: the first reservations are done - a early booking safes the date you want to come and makes longer anticipated joy
  • Charter DG 505 MB in Gap. Information about actual reservation situation on www.glidercharter.de.
  • Aerobatic flights with the Twin Acro in the new official area west of the airfield Gap-Tallard. Progress your knowledge and learn new figures
  • During the season 2009 we can use a Lambada (micro light motor glider)
  • Antares-Charter in Gap: Alpine Gliding Service Martin Kroke Gap Tallard will do the briefing on the glider in Gap. More Information on www.antares-charter.de
  • If you have Google-Earth you will find here the  airfield of Gap

 

 

Newsletter 2 – April 2009

Martin Kroke, Stefan Senger and Claus-Dieter Zink say thanks to all visitors at our stand: Glidercharter.de (www.glidercharter.de), Antares-Charter (www.antares-charter.de) and Fotokalender-Segelfliegen (www.fotokalender-segelfliegen.de)

We made very good experience with the DG 505 during a lot of mountain flights and also the charter-customers are lucky. No waiting time for take off, good handling with the 20 meter winspan- winglet version in the mountains, more possibilities of flying in weak conditions, short and comfortable preparing time on the ground (put off the Jaxia covers, put in fuel, taxi to the runway, take off). Up from now you can reserve the glider for the season 2009 for cross country flights with flight instructor and mountain glider flight familiarization. It is also for rent daily or weekly. A lot of information about the glider, the equipment and the reservation planning you can find on www.glidercharter.de.

The glider is rigged and ready to fly on the airfield Gap-Tallard.

Progress your aerobatic experience with the Twin Acro in the special area between the airfield and the “Ceüse”  mountain. You can compare the aerobatic handling of the glider with the ASK 21; even better upside down…Nearly every time you find a good lift at Ceüse – so you do several aerobatic training with only one air tow in order to your physic condition!

After learning mountain gliding in the doubleseater there are LS 4 and Pease available in the Aero Club Alpin.

During the season 2009 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

 

 

 

Mountain training flights with the  DG 505 MB:

  • Charter 160€/day, 100€/half day
  • Instructor 26€/h, free after 6th hour
  • Motor running: 2,90 €/min
  • Landing fee 7€/day

 

                                            

DG 505 MB for rent at Gap-Tallard:

  • 1 week: 1260 €, from 8th day 180€/day
  • 1 day: 195 €
  • Motor running: 2 ,90 €/min
  • Ground briefing, Charter Contract and Check-flight: 79 €, after first hour 30€/h
  • Insurance excess: 7500 €

 

Wingsuit versus Glider

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„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?!

        

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.