Last weekend 3 Nova Team Pilots competed in the 2012 edition of the Crossalps, a hiking and paragliding competition with the objective to go as far away AND back in 33 hours; with the emphasis on having fun whilst trying. Till Gottbrath, Vera Polaschegg and…
Bei Sauwetter das Packl stundenlang geradeaus über eine Landstraße schleppen?- Die spinnen ja! Lieber 1000m senkrecht als stundenlang so geradeaus hatschn! Da fall ich ja um vor lauter Langeweile und Fußweh- so war meine Devise noch vor einem Jahr…. Bis ich dann vergangenen Herbst mit…
As I told you in an all earlier story. The Dutch open flatlands ends with a finale weekend with the 16 best pilots. There are always two weekends in case there is bad weather on the first weekend. This year on both weekends the weather…
Last update from Chabre unfortunally the weather wasn,t that good. we flow almost every day but tasks were cancelled due to weather conditions. That was not so good for Chavert and myself because we were every time in the front gaggle and would have been…
Task 2 strong winds made it impossible to do a large task so the taskcommite decided to a 30 km run partly with the wind. there were higher clouds so the sun was at times covered. it was an elapsed time race with a exit…
Hi you all, i told you to keep you informed about the Chabre open…. Well it started yesterday with a test task from about 30 km. Chavert and i started of early. the wind was sw and strong. in the end chavert and i made…
So last week was the first leg of the British Championships 2012, the event was held in Meduno in Italy near the Slovenian border. The competition had very special service, because normally to “free fly” in the area is difficult because there is an American…
Hi All, Uphere in the Netherlands we ara suffering the worst season ever. Untill now i only achieved 4 xc flights and not one of them is spectacular. There were some good days but you will always see that on that day you cannot fly…
By Chavert & Hans ter Maat (Nova Team Pilots) Before I am going to explain how the Dutch flatland competition works, I will explain how we used to fly our Dutch Open competition in the past. Well, it was similar to most competitions. We had…
Hey guys, my name is Matt Stanford and I am the new Team Pilot from New Zealand. Now that our season has wrapped up down here, (sob and jealous looks at the Northern Hemisphere!), it is time to get around to all those ideas you…