The top 100 pilots in the world have been selected for the Paragliding World Cup super final,along with the top ten women and many of the past World, European and PWC champions who have also been given discretionary places.
This is likely to be a very special event so I have decided ( because of time restraint problems)not to go to the final round of the UK championships ,but instead take my place in the PWCA final.
It will be held over 12 days from the 1st of September, in the southern Apennines,based at Podgio Bustoni,about 100km north of Rome and is one of my favorite flying areas in Europe.
link to pwc web site
http://www.paraglidingcup.com/
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Monday 20 July 2009
PWCA Super Final
I have just found out that I have qualified for the Paragliding World Cup Super final in Italy in September by finishing as one of the top 100 pilots in the PWCA this year.
I now need to decide if I can Justify taking two weeks holiday to go to the first true world championships ( you can only qualify for it through your previous comp results unlike the FAI events when a team is selected by each country and the pilot quality can be very poor) .
I will let everyone know what I am going to do very soon.
I now need to decide if I can Justify taking two weeks holiday to go to the first true world championships ( you can only qualify for it through your previous comp results unlike the FAI events when a team is selected by each country and the pilot quality can be very poor) .
I will let everyone know what I am going to do very soon.
piedrahita
Sorry about the lack of post,I am not at work and could not access my account.
old news
Piedrahita was Ok its not my favorite venue but I was 19th overall and third in serial class,yes I was flying a Niviuk peak,which was very interesting after years of flying comp wings,unfortunatly after a good 1st task and a fantastic, most of the flight secound task, I was gliding into goal with Craig Morgan in fourth position when I realised why people fly comp wings,I left higher than Craig and Kia but on the final 5km into wind could not compeate with thier glides and decked it a couple of km short,in the next task I flew 4.8km past the first Turn Point and had A painfully long into wind push to retrase my flightback and then had to fly back getting to goal 1/2 an hour latter than I should have taken BUGGER the final task was a short downwing dash and I was 10 mins behind the winner.
So all in all a pleasent week with a good bunch of guys in our peaceful village retreat,not a great result but not bad in the UK Championships I ended up as 2nd serial only a few pts behind the winner and 400pts behind Adrian who won this round of the championships.
old news
Piedrahita was Ok its not my favorite venue but I was 19th overall and third in serial class,yes I was flying a Niviuk peak,which was very interesting after years of flying comp wings,unfortunatly after a good 1st task and a fantastic, most of the flight secound task, I was gliding into goal with Craig Morgan in fourth position when I realised why people fly comp wings,I left higher than Craig and Kia but on the final 5km into wind could not compeate with thier glides and decked it a couple of km short,in the next task I flew 4.8km past the first Turn Point and had A painfully long into wind push to retrase my flightback and then had to fly back getting to goal 1/2 an hour latter than I should have taken BUGGER the final task was a short downwing dash and I was 10 mins behind the winner.
So all in all a pleasent week with a good bunch of guys in our peaceful village retreat,not a great result but not bad in the UK Championships I ended up as 2nd serial only a few pts behind the winner and 400pts behind Adrian who won this round of the championships.
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