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…
Am 16. August 2014 machte sich unser Junior-Team-Pilot Robert Schaller, inspiriert durch Toni Benders Film “Glücklicher Ikarus”, auf die Alpen von Nord nach Süd zu überqueren. In den kommenden drei Tagen wollte er nur mit Thermik und Muskelkraft vom bayrischen Osterfelderkopf bei Garmisch-Patenkirchen bis zum…
HELT I HUNDRE (totally in hundred = meaning something like “Absolutely awezome”) is our first “Activitycamp” – and hopefully a brand new tradition. From the 6. th to the 10.th of August this year, we invited friends and friends of extremesportfriends to join our…
Tomy and me went on a trip from Bassano to Aviano only by tandem and feet. Tomy and me packed our stuff into our biggest walk and fly harness and took the earliest train from Villach (4.45) to Bassano. We arrived at 9 o´clock in the morning….
Dear Fellows, I’d like to share some impressions about the new Triton 2 from a recent XC Flight from Hochfelln on May20th. I had already done some winter soaring with it before, but this was my very first thermal flight with size L, 115…
Before you keep on reading, I would like to inform you that I am a NOVA team pilot and that I handle NOVA’s public relations. So I’m completely biased! However, what I write here is something I would also tell to my friends. On Thursday,…
Way up north (on top of Norway) it has been snowing until yesterday, and there has been grusomly rare flyingopportunities. Nevertheless, I have had time enough to plan some incredible flights from mountains pilots have never entered before. So this spring & summer I am…
The last years every end of the winter had something in common: I was desperate to fly in thermal conditions again and therefore tried to get to Bassano at least at the beginning of march to start into the cross-country season. This year I also…
Yesterday some Team Pilots met in Terfens for a reserve packing workshop, held by Sascha Pezzo from High Adventure. It was an interesting day yesterday and we learned a lot. It isn’t that easy to do it well. Sascha can explain well and is very…
Hedwig was a very good friend of my grandparents and I could say that our friendship lasted my whole life. About 4 years ago she surprised me by asking if it would be possible to go paragliding together. Ever since that day we talked…