Mit Freunden am Hausberg. With friends at our local mountain. Location: Tegelberg Gliders: NOVA Ion 3 and Nova Mentor 3
Hey Team, unfortunately I have not been able to attend at the team meeting in Lermoos this year since I spontaneously catched up a cold. I was really looking forward to meeting all of you so I’m very sad that I had to pass out. At…
Hi all, what you read here is a short summary of another outstanding year of paragliding for the NOVA Pilots Team, which we celebrated in Lermoos, written by “El Capitano” (nickname within the team of team manager Till). 1 week before the meeting: Still in…
Am vergangenen Wochenende sind die zweiten Nova walk and Flying Days über die Bühne gegangen und es war wieder ein voller Erfolg! Gemeinsam mit dem Paragleitclub Alt Aussee, Toni Bender, Thomas Hofbauer und mir stemmten wir ein Walk and Flytestival mit über 80 Teilnehmenden. Von…
As I have had a fantastic paragliding season 2014, I decided to write a short flashback about the most memorial moments of this year! The application During the season 2012/2013, I started to think about if I should apply for a place in the…
Less than a year ago, you read about me making my debut to the NOVA Pilots Team. Today, I want to tell you about the fabulous season that followed. Last Season I managed to fly my first bigger XC flights. In August I flew a…
Normalerweise versuchen wir ja, möglichst lange in der Luft zu sein, möglichst hoch zu fliegen, gemütlich an den Startplatz zu kommen, mit Zeit den Schirm zu packen und dabei den soeben erlebten Flug nochmals Revue passieren zu lassen… Normalerweise… Jedes Jahr im Herbst, Ende…
Last week, I joined a few members of the NOVA Pilots Team (Laetitia, Kerim & Sebastian) on an SIV training course at Annecy. The course instructor was Fabien Blanco of Flyeo, a master of all things SIV. We had great weather during the 3 days…
Last weekend I travelled to St Hillaire in France for the Coupe Icare, the World’s largest flying festival. There were so many things to see and do; new flying kit, crazy costumed creations, insane flying manoeuvres, late nights and early mornings and a wicked G-Force trainer……along with…
Possible accelerator travel on many harnesses is frequently too short for 3-liners. I fly the Triton 2 with a Swing Connect Race, which is basically identical to the Woody Valley XAlps GTO. In normal configuration it’s impossible to fully accelerate, because the accelerator line on…