Dear friends from the NPT, Those who attended the ‘10 Years Anniversary Team Meeting’ on Penken will probably agree: It was an unbelievable event! On the one side, there was and is the pleasure of having created a team that is highly successful as well…
On 31st of August, we received the devastating news that our team mate Steve Nash was found dead in Mongolia. Steve and his friend Gareth were doing a vol-biv. Unfortunately Gareth had to quit due to an injury and Steve decided to proceed by himself….
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…
JAAAAA, ich bin PHANTOM geflogen! Nachdem es bislang so wenige PHANTOMe – PHANTOMs? – gibt und einige Leute auf Facebook gesehen haben, dass ich damit schon geflogen bin, bekam ich einige Mails wie er „denn so ist“. Hier meine Eindrücke. OK, als NOVAs PR-Mensch bin…
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…
A Mentor 4 and two Triton 2 dominated the 6th task of the Iquique XC League in Chile. NOVA Team Pilot Pope Salinas won the 67 km task in about 2,5 hours flying his Mentor 4 wing, beating the competitors on his EN B. The podium:…
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…
In June, less than a week for the beginning of the national competition season, I was prepared for the “fight” to get the best position on the female classification and also on the overall ranking. I made my homework: since last October I started to…
The wind blows from the wrong direction. It is cloudy. Foggy. It is raining. And all you can do, is wait – for the midnightsun, and for the perfect nightflightconditions. The wind blows from the mountain, and down. You sit there. Wait. Should I walk…
Für 23. und 24. Juni sind fliegbare Tage angesagt. Gar nicht mal so schlechte. Zwar Hitze und bei uns am Alpenrand recht stabil, aber inneralpin und vor allem im Süden recht thermisch und hochbasig. Was tun? Daheimbleiben? Grente? Mit Aussichten auf Glockner, Stubaier und Dolomiten?…