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Blue Sky Wills Wing Scooter Tow Clinics

(Blue Sky, Virginia)

Blue Sky|Gilles Arfeuille|PG|scooter tow|scooter towing|Steve Wendt

Gilles Arfeuille «colimamagic» writes:

Last week I had the chance to participate to the Wills wing/Blue Sky scooter tow clinic at Wallaby Ranch.  Steve Wendt impressed me being the scooter towing Master.  I tell you it is great to learn from the King.  All the process was showed to us step by step from design to practical use.  The design is cool, and the practical part is lots of fun.

The wind gods obliged us to early starts and late sessions (hopefully I had my night vision gear, just kidding), and Steve was up for it with a great positive attitude starting at 7:00 a.m. These changing winds also gave us the chance to see the limits of scooter towing and its great flexibility.

The learning curve was steep for us the participants to learn how to tow people but also for people who joined us to increase their skills or even learn from the start, so that was a real experience.

Steve's technique have great applications, from teaching a beginner to fly to pilots who have landing problems.  Also, I have many paraglider friends who want to start hang gliding but I find the speed difference between the two kinds of flying sort of critical safety wise at the beginning of the learning curve (I personally fly both). Using the scooter tow with the Wills Wing condor will help them to go through the transition the safe way and have fun just before continuing on a Falcon and having even more fun (flying is about fun and passion, isn't it).

Many pilots tend to fly less and give up because they are scared to land.  That is sad and scooter towing can really be the solution.  I am back in Colima, Mexico and a local paraglider pilot has already given me a scooter, so that's a good start.  A great thank you to Steve from Blue Sky and Mike and Rob from Wills Wing.  And for the ones who never been to Wills Wing demo days you must go there to see and try all these goodies and meet all these great people.

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New Flytec Speed Sleeves

(Quest Air)

Quest Air|Steve Kroop

Steve Kroop at Flytec USA «info» writes:

For years we have been struggling with different materials and manufacturers trying to make really good speed sleeves and these are by far the best we have seen.  These are made from polypropylene instead of Lycra making them, warmer, more wind resistant and less prone to wrinkle/bunch up. They also have a plush finish inside so you can wear them against your skin in warm to cool temperatures and because they are polypropylene they will wick perspiration away from your skin.  Available in M, L and XL.



http://flytec.com/Products/Shirts.htm

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The National Fly In

(Leakey, Texas)

Worlds

http://flexwing.org/flexwing/txopen/jsp/home.jsp

When: Aug 3-5 2007. Where: Real Co. Airport, Leakey, Texas What: Your opportunity for:

* The National Fly-In in the heart of the Texas Hill Country during the best part of the season

* Fun competitions and excellent XC potential

* Relaxation after WRE before heading up to Big Spring for the 2007 Hang Gliding World Championship

* Excellent towing services provided by the Quest crew

* An excellent chance at your personal best

* Flying a beautiful part of the Hill Country

* Meet new friends from all over the country

* Wonderful Hill Country Hospitality

This is the practice site for the Worlds which will take place in Big Spring just two hundred miles north of Leakey.  The French team is already registered and is renting the house at the airport in Leakey for the Fly-in. If you are going to the Worlds and you want to get some more aerotow experience and/or check out your glider, come to the Fly-In.

You'll need to register for the Fly-In in order to be able to fly there.  The available local accommodations will be gone by June.  Sign up now and get a hotel or motel room.  There is camping at the airport.

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2007 CIVL Sporting Code

(Lausanne, Switzerland)

CIVL Sporting Code

FAI Secretariat «info» writes:

The 2007 edition of Section 7 of the FAI Sporting Code has now been published on the website at http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/documents/sc7.

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Google Maps - what's on the other side?

(Rodeo, NM)

Dave Swanson

Dave Swanson sends:

If you think that if you dig a hole deep enough straight down into the earth, you'll wind up in China, guess again.  This Google maps feature will get it right for you.  Now you'll know for sure.  http://map.pequenopolis.com/index.php?lang=en

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Finger Lakes Photos

(Finger Lakes Flight Park)

Bob "Skydog" Grant|PG|photo

Bob Grant «caskydog» writes:

We had a great weekend near Rochester a week ago and got some of our new photos.  The hang gliding photos can be found at - http://www.skydogsports.com/hg-1/ and for paragliding photos at - http://www.skydogsports.com/skynet/para-index.htm

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Santa Cruz Flats - have driver looking (now found) for team with truck

(Francisco Grande (headquarters))

Belinda Boulter|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2007

We are arriving on Saturday night.  We are looking to hook up with a pilot or pilots with a truck to retrieve who are looking for a driver (we found them). We have a mobile base station and big antenna.

Contact «me».

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