Hello NOVA Pilots Team, This is Nate Scales from Hailey Idaho in the USA. I’m sorry that I was not able to attend the NPT meeting, so I just wanted to say ‘hello’ and touch base with everyone. This year I flew the Triton 2…
Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Team Meeting. Wish I could have been there. I’m getting on the plane tomorrow to Delhi then Leh where I meet 4 friends to begin a vol biv adventure. We hope to fly south over the Himalayan…
My friend Gareth and me will leave for Mongolia on Friday 19th Aug, ready to start the crossing of the Khangai Nuruu mountains on the 26th Aug. The following link is to ‘XC Retrieve’ which should show the position of both our Spot satellite…
10 years ago, just before I joined the NOVA Pilots Team changed, I was attempting to cross an unflown mountain range in Mongolia with my good friend Gareth Aston. We were unsuccessful at that attempt, mainly down to the weather and it being generally a…
Last week I spent 6 days on 6 islands in the Hebrides, to the west of Scotland. Thanks to amazing weather, I got to fly in some of the most beautiful locations. This is the 3rd time I have visited these islands with an alterer…
Hi everybody first of all: Sorry for my bad English – I am Italian. My name is Stefano Mazzoleni and I live in Vicenza Italy 50 kms near Borso del Grappa. I fly since 1991 and my local flyoing area is Recoaro Terme. I…
It’s Monday evening and I notice Raul is calling me on my phone: ‘ So, what are the plans for tomorrow???” I had already flown on Friday for the first time over Sauris from Meduno (my local take off) and on Sunday over beautiful Mt….
Ich baue den letzten Flug, einer von vielen in den letzten Wochen, im Wallis auf dem Bildschirm auf. Mann, hat dieser Flugtag in unseren Reihen gewütet! 22. August. Oft hat uns der Talwind dieses Jahr verschont, aber nicht an diesem Samstag. Ich hab nicht allzu…
Triton 2 Impressions by nate scales My name is nate scales and I was fortunate enough to join the Nova Pilots team last winter. I have been flying since 1992, I have enjoyed competing for a long time, but flying XC is my true passion….
Hi from Portugal I want to share with you about my second national competition with M4 XS :) Well, I did goal on second task – http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:SilviaVenturaNovaTeamPilot/28.6.2015/12:38 But I got 0 points, because I passed the altitude limit of 3200 meters… There was very…