Archive for XC paragliding

Half a year after our record flight, we received official recognition documents by FAI.  Our flight from 2nd of June 2019 is now officially the current World and European Record with 233,23 km free distance around a triangle. What was more difficult: the flight or…

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  Alle Jahre wieder Jedes Jahr findet, sobald die Streckenflugsaison vorbei ist und das Leben eines XC-Süchtigen wieder in ruhigeren Bahnen verläuft, das jährliche Meeting des NOVA Pilots Team statt. Dieses Mal auf dem Köckenhof, ein gemütlicher Bergbauernhof im Alpbachtal, der Gruppenunterkunft anbietet, und von…

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Another excellent year Every year, as soon as the cross-country flying season is over and the life of an XC addict is more relaxed again, the annual meeting of the NOVA Pilots Team takes place. This time on the Köckenhof, a cosy mountain farm in…

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  Since my beginnings in paragliding, I always have been fascinated by some pilots of my club telling stories about landing on the summit of Mont Blanc in 2012. I was wondering what kind of experience it would be and if I would be up…

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Redbull-X-Alps – the ultimate adventure race! I’m absolutely fascinated by this race and I follow it as often as I can on the PC via live tracking. In Switzerland, the athletes had to fly or hike to Davos Turnpoint 6, then continue to the Titlis…

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Das NOVA Flachland Pilotenteam wurde 2019 um Monika Gschwendtner (nicht verwandt mit dem ‘großen’ Sepp) und mich (Stefan Weber) erweitert. Damit hat sich ein leichter, geographischer Schwerpunkt in Ostbayern ergeben und zusammen mit der günstigen Wetterprognose wurde kurzentschlossen das Teamtreffen in den Bayerwald gelegt. Wir…

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I put on my shirt and my ring – the one my love gave to me. The earrings that I inherited from my aunt. The wire with the winged pendant that my friend gave to me when I turned 50 years old. I put on…

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In October 2018, I made a paragliding trip to Bir in India. Of course, I tried to find some information online prior to the trip. Considering so many pilots travelling there, I found surprisingly little on the web. That is why I would like to…

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I can not compare my flights with all these mega flights that many of the NOVA pilots team completed, with all the kilometers flown and with all the altitude meters gained hiking. Not at all. BUT I can easily keep with big emotions in flight….

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Ich fange bei mir an, obwohl ich nur am Bildschirm dabei war, bei diesem grössten Flugtag am Niesen (für die Nicht-Schweizer bzw. Schweiz-Nichtkenner: der Niesen ist wunderschöner, pyramidenförmiger Berg am Thuner See) , seit wir als Streckenflieger öffentlich nachvollziehbar und messbar auftreten. Ich habe eine…

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