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First task flown at the World Championships (2023/8/11 0:56:50)

Today got canceled for the weather, yesterday got stopped when I was already in the air, but we flew a great task on the first day. Even if I didn´t get to goal, I really enjoyed the flying a lot. Here´s a link to the results , also to more pictur ...

World Championships Krusevo, Macedonia! (2023/8/6 17:05:22)

I´m excited that after a really long time, we now have an official Women´s World Championship again - thanks to the Macedonian organizers, CIVL, and many really motivated pilots! I only just arrived in this beautiful mountain area and had my first ...

Winning worldwide FAI XC Contest! (2022/10/31 22:29:53)

I was superhappy when I learnt today that I won the international women´s hang gliding cross country FAI championships! Really great pilots with me in all the different hang gliding and paragliding categories, big congrats to all of them! Still not ...

Wingmen above Landshut (2022/9/15 1:29:32)

It was great to follow a part of this clip in the making - look at the unreal stunts that my brothers in crime Miles Daisher (US), Marco Waltenspiel (AT), Marco Fürst (AT) and Max Manow (DE) painted into the sky above the beautiful Bavarian city of ...

German Open Awards (2022/6/7 19:49:27)

It´s been some busy days after the German Open, so I just get to post and write now. Congratulations to Alex Ploner for winning the international German Open at Kandel overall, and also to Dirk Ripkens who won international and also national title ...

After 3 tasks - Ploner in the lead (2022/5/28 14:57:17)

Results Class 1 Results Rigid Wings DHV Page Despite very low base, a strong wind and a poor forecast, it paid out to stay positive yesterday. We managed to take off safely into a small 45km task. Nobody made goal, Primoz won the day with 23km dista ...

German Open at Kandel (2022/5/26 15:04:24)

From May 24 to May 29, we are flying the international German Open at Kandel in the famous and beautiful Black Forest in the southwest of Germany. 81 pilots from 13 different countries are here to compete. You find more photos and a German report on ...

Free Flying: Aerial Athletes Camp in Argentina! (2022/2/20 8:48:38)

Winter and covid time has been way too long for my traveller´s heart, so when I got a short notice invitation to join the Red Bull aerial athletes performance camp at Andy Hediger´s AeroAtelier in La Cumbre, Argentina, I was on my way in no time! ...

Meeting Alvaro Soler at Porsche Open Space IAA 2021 (2021/9/10 17:28:52)

After a great little flight high above Rauschberg with my friend Giergl, I managed to get back to the Porsche Open Space in time to enjoy a live unplugged concert of singer/songwriter Alvaro Soler. Since Rebi and I always play his songs in our car w ...

At Porsche IAA Munich (2021/9/8 18:05:36)

What a dream! I am invited to present my Red Bull Porsche hang gliding clip and pursuit of my dreams at the international automobile exhibition IAA Munich at the Porsche Open Space! Presenter Sarah Elsser and I showed the audience how dreams can dev ...

Porsche x Corinna Schwiegershausen (2021/9/4 21:53:55)

After a long break, it felt great to get into the air again! I am very motivated to qualify for our open (men´s) national team to join European and World Championships in hang gliding. I need to perform extremely well in competitions that count for ...

Back to work (2021/8/26 15:42:01)

I wish I could have gone to the next competition in Italy too. Marco Laurenzi´s home turf is San Donato di Val comino, about a three hour drive south of Monte Cucco. Higher mountains, beautiful national parks. Instead I had to drive home, which too ...

Cucco last task: 150km around 3 trunpoints to Spoleto, and Awards! (2021/8/24 4:45:35)

Results task 4 Results overall Saturday was the last comp day, and we were promised even better weather than the day before. The organizers set an ambitious 150km task - telling us to speed up to be back for the award ceremony in time ;) I was reall ...

Cucco task 3: 120km around 4 turnpoints (2021/8/24 1:10:41)

On task 3, we saw the best flying conditions of the week, because the wind was weakest. Again we started at Cucco North take off, going quite far to the southeast, then back up into the Gubbio valley, south again, and then, against quite a headwind, ...

Cucco Task 2: 73km around 4 turnpoints (2021/8/24 0:50:40)

On day three, we went to the Cucco North take off again. The wind had slightly dropped, so a task of 73km to the southeast was set. Again I was stoked to fly to the furthest point with the lead gaggle, but turning around and going back headwind, the ...

Monte Cucco competition - training for the Europeans! (2021/8/21 1:08:36)

Comp page and results here! Since Tuesday Flavio Tebaldi and his great team organize the Piero Alberini international competition at Monte Cucco in Umbria, Italy. I decided to go, because my great friend Rebi agreed to come with me to drive and help ...

Day 2 cancelled - strong wind (2021/8/21 1:03:11)

On the second day, we drove to a different take off. Clouds looked great, but the wind direction for our launches was anything but ideal, also the wind speed was picking up in the valley already. Forecast was for a gusty 40km/h, in the afternoon we ...

Results and official comp page HM 21 (2021/6/13 2:33:59)

So happy I made goal today! But yesterday, I even won the day! And I thought I´d be last. But it was tough for many to get anywhere. Here you find more photos and the official results. And a new scoring system too! Hessenmeisterschaft 21

Hessenmeisterschaft 2021 (2021/6/12 4:03:48)

Even though weather conditions looked more than doubtful, I decided to join my regional championships, Hessenmeisterschaft, in Carinthia. It rained on takeoff, but around midday the rain stopped and it started clearing up, so the few of us started i ...

A new title: German XC champion 2020 (ladies) (2020/12/1 0:27:43)

Even though I only had about 3 weeks to go flying this year, I managed to cover enough kilometres in the air to get 1st place in our national German XC championship (women)! Without friends and their support, I couldn´t have done it. I hadn´t flow ...

Corona´s colateral damage (2020/3/17 1:15:50)

When I heard information about a new virus coming from China in January, I was alarmed to hear that they quarantined cities by destroying highways. Of course I was hoping for the best, but I clearly remembered Sars and Swine flu, which didn´t disap ...

Help for Miguel and his son Patricio (2020/1/25 23:00:10)

Junior and Ladies´ Challenge Greifenburg (2019/7/8 1:00:30)

I had a few days off from work and decided to volunteer in Greifenburg at the DHV challenge, where we try to improve hang glider pilots performance, help with equipment, and XC skills. Regina was happy about every helping hand, so she handed the gro ...

Work - can be amazing, or: How good is Sun ´n Fun? (2019/6/9 3:51:00)

If you were wondering what I was up to while all these 200+ km days in the alps passed unused - I could fly the first one (a 175km triangle, as I had to get back home early to prepare for my work trip), and had to work during the next 3 days. Yes it ...

Last task: 101km assigned area task! (2019/4/28 12:14:26)

I was happy to see that we finally got to do a task that the sailplane pilots have done for a while - assigned area tasks! This is a type of task with a huge radius that leaves possibilities into all directions open, so the flight course is not a gi ...

Day 6: cancelled for strong westwind and storms (2019/4/27 2:41:28)

Results here Ozreport DHV report in German Zac Majors won task 5, speeding like a maniac around the course, almost an hour faster than me! We had some rain this morning, and a lot of westwind with strong gusts, low cloudbase. I don´t think that peo ...

Day 5: 91,5 km around 4 TP (2019/4/27 2:24:58)

A nice article today in the Orlando Sentinel ! Thanks to Patrick, Sergey, Kevin, Nadja, Majo and Zippy, I managed to fly another day despite not being back to 100% yet. All I had been able to eat for 3 days was some watermelon and a sandwich basical ...

Monday Task: Find medical help!!! (2019/4/27 2:02:22)

After a sleepless night with shivers and fever and pain everywhere in my body, I thought one of these mosquitos here gave me Dengue, Chicungunya or Malaria... until I saw what was extremely hurting on my back. I went to briefing with the guys and sl ...

Day 4: Protest went through, day got invalidated. (2019/4/27 1:53:22)

Some pilots handed in a formal protest about task 4. A change of the task had not been announced at the take off site, nor was there a whiteboard with the new turnpoint for the pilots visible. Thus the organizers enlarged the radius of the disputed ...

Day 4: 109km around the green swamp (2019/4/25 22:46:49)

DHV Report in German Results here Just a short update, as the day was long and exhausting. We flew around the great swamp, about 20 in goal, Jonny Durand won the day, I got into goal last. I was the champion of finding sink today - if you wanted the ...

Task 3: 88,5km around 4 TP (2019/4/24 10:43:23)

Results DHV Report in German Feeling a lot better today, I went to Quest airfield without really knowing if I would take off or not - I was going to see how I felt when launch was open. Seemed like there were more important things to solve first! Wh ...

Next one: Quest Nationals (2019/4/24 9:43:53)

Results On Easter Sunday, we started into a new week of hanggliding competition here at Quest. Quite a few pilots left to go to the Spring meeting in Italy, but a lot of great US pilots joined us for the second week. We were going to fly 100km aroun ...

Awards (2019/4/24 9:24:23)

Results overall Sorry for being late with the awards, but they happened at 23.00 at night, and we started flying a new competition the next day, so it was kind of a rush! The owners of Wilotree Park organized a great Hawaiian Luau party and dinner f ...

It´s a long way to Georgia! (2019/4/20 5:52:31)

Task 4: 245km around 3 tp northeast to Hillard/Georgia DHV report in German Results Ozreport After Suan got a T-shirt as a prize for his amazing lonesome flight to goal and daywin on task 3, the pilots gasped even more when task 4 was announced: a 2 ...

Task 3: 109km around 2 tp (2019/4/18 21:19:49)

A long retrieve from goal, but I was so happy to have completed the task yesterday, together with another 31 pilots. It was so nice to fly with clouds, decent working height and crosstailwind instead of headwind! In a tailwind, we lighter pilots hav ...

Task 2: 90km around 3 Tp, goal Quest (2019/4/17 22:38:27)

Another long flying day, another 4 hours in the blue air! Base was a little higher than the day before, but we had to stay with gaggles to move as fast as we could. I made a couple of mistakes and almost landed twice, so I was too late before seabre ...

Task 1: 74km around Fantasy turnpoint (2019/4/16 11:29:52)

DHV-Report in German Results here Ozreport updates here West wind directions at Quest are the least favourite ones. The trees give us quite strong lee side turbulences when towing, also landings get quite rough. I kept checking wind speed and gusts ...

Quest Women´s Pre-Worlds 2019 (2019/4/15 22:11:30)

Just a brief update, as I have to go to briefing soon - I am meeting with the organizers and task committee early, cause I got voted into the safety committee of the pre-worlds competition that is held in Groveland, Florida, this week. We had to can ...

Red Bull Athlete´s summit in Leipzig (2018/10/10 2:32:52)

Here we are, a group of German Red Bull athletes of all sorts of unsusual sports, meeting in Leizpzig for the first summit in Germany ever. I think we were all awe-struck looking at the huge RB Leipzig stadium, from the players point of view. Then w ...

For Otto Lilienthal! (2018/8/30 23:12:34)

While I was in Macedonia, a British TV production company contacted me concerning a story about Otto Lilienthal. They were very fond to hear that there is a replica of one of Otto´s gliders in the German Museum Schleissheim, close to Munich. They a ...

Day 7: 104km around- too many turnpoints! (2018/7/19 18:46:51)

Results here ! DHV German report First the most important thing: Marco flew again! Tom gave him his spare Moyes RX pro, Niki a new reserve, everybody was really happy to see him back up in the sky! And the crowd funding for getting him new equipment ...

Saving Jörg! (2018/7/18 15:53:05)

It was an adventure to pick up Jörg on the 6th competition day. I had landed early and helped Carlo navigating to Jörg´s landing location. We were about 200m away, in a tiny village, surrounded by trees and high corn fields, wondering where it wa ...

Day 3, 4 and 5: 124km, 123km and 160km (2018/7/18 4:31:08)

Conditions got a bit windier and made flying more interesting. Tasks went across the valley with goals at some huge airfields - best goal fields I have seen in a while! While we are still trying to resolve some radio and communication problems in ou ...

Day 6: Turbulence (2018/7/17 21:56:54)

The 6th task of the comp got more than exciting. I had a good start and approached the fist turn point radius when a glider tumbled twice and fell down in the lead gaggle I was heading towards. I stayed back and watched the parachute opening, but so ...

Task 2: 131km around 3 turnpoints (2018/7/14 16:02:55)

A long, interesting task with great weather conditions let us fly fast. I was very happy to get to goal and score for my team the first time in this competition. And again, a push, this time a real one, pushed me out on take off. It´s quite stressf ...

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European Championship Macedonia, opening and day 1 (2018/7/14 15:53:08)

Finally I get to write a few line to catch up on my blog. It´s been a rush to get from a work flight to the US back through Frankfurt, Munich, then to Ljubljana where I met Matjaz, then to Skopje where we got a taxi for the 2 hour ride to Krusevo. ...

And Junkers wins! (2018/7/2 1:39:29)

Thanks to all the teams and brave pilots who "flewcrashed" their objects into the river Weser today, it was an honour being allowed to judge you! 50000 spectators gathered for a great event, major logistics well done! Sorry for no earlier updates, b ...

Red Bull Flugtag Bremen - preparations (2018/7/1 8:23:45)

Join us at the Red Bull Flugtag in Bremen today! I´m excited to be in the jury, together with some excellent athletes like Air Race world champion Matthias Dolderer, free skier Bene Mayr, formula e driver Daniel Abt, model and pilot Betty Taube, an ...

My world records ratified! (2018/5/5 3:22:45)

What a nice notice - today FAI ratified all of my 3 world record flight claims :))) To get a 405,8 km to a declared goal (previous Yoko Sano 367,6km), a 407,2km free distance (previous Kari Castle 403,5km), and 411,0km free distance around up to 3 t ...

Training in California (2018/4/2 3:47:04)

After freezing at a brief stop in the snow at the ski flying world cup in Planica/Slovenia, checking out the guys tactics on speed, low drag and flying with minimal "wings" (their skis!!!), I decided to shortpack my glider again and take off to the ...

Sportspeople of the year event in Bremen (2018/2/14 3:11:42)

It was a nice surprise today to see that I have been suggested as sportswoman of the year in my home city Bremen ! The other two women are active as freestyle skiier and rhythmic gymnast. It´s great to get the chance to present our beautiful sport ...

Final day - How good is Tacima/Araruna??? (2017/11/10 0:46:46)

A few days of no update on my blog, lots of flying, late retrieves, difficult changes of plans, little reest - but I will catch up for you now! On one of the non-flying days, we went to the coast with Konrad to see if we could soar on the cliffs. Bu ...

Another day in Tacima (2017/10/31 9:04:27)

More photos and my report in German on the DHV homepage! The sky looked great today! I took off first, at 7.55am. Found some lift, but couldn´t get to base. Then I headed for another cloud. It didn´t work. Soon I got low - and landed. At 8.20am!!! ...

And - another piece of humble pie! (2017/10/30 4:51:53)

The last two days were not flyable in Tacima. Low clouds and rain made it look very average, so we went to the coast instead. Our driver David took me for a tandem, and Konrad flew his RX pro down the coast for a bit. Today looked great. Just when I ...

When it is just not your day... (2017/10/26 7:07:39)

When you have a few consecutive days of low base, rain and no flying conditions, pilots get impatient. So yesterday there was a lot of talk if we could fly today, or better should go to Matureia straight away. A bit further inland, to avoid the morn ...

We were prepared, but... (2017/10/24 5:24:50)

... the weather didn´t behave according to the forecast. The first paraglider pilots launched before 6am already, and we arrived well before 8am on take off, excited to go a long way. Well. Then the clouds arrived. High cirrus, and the good looking ...

Hang waiting - preparing for a good day! (2017/10/23 4:10:42)

Thanks to Chico Santos and Konrad, I received our Bronze Team leader medal - very much sought after by my team mate Jörg ;) Meanwhile I had a couple of interesting flights in this area and learnt that a really long flight is not a give away. Gettin ...

Arriving in Tacima (2017/10/19 8:46:50)

Finally I arrived in the area of Brazil where records are set. It rained on take off today, but with a lot of patience, we got into the air. I only wanted to check my gear is working, all the varios, trackers, radios, headsets correctly connected, a ...

My first flight in Bahia - on a single surface glider! (2017/10/18 2:49:10)

Not so easy to be in an area with bad phone reception an fractured internet connection, but I try to keep you updated anyway. My first flight on this adventure trip happened thanks to Betinho Schmitz and his school SuperAr. He is here with an xc cli ...

Next adventure: Brazil again! (2017/10/13 4:07:59)

After I came back from the World Championships in Brasilia, my work started full throttle. Five flights to the US and back, and some ground trainings in Frankfurt inbetween, sometimes minimum rest, all within four weeks - barely time to wash my clot ...

Task 9: Esplanada and BRONZE TEAM MEDAL!!!! (2017/8/19 19:39:14)

Results here! 95km task to Esplanada and a way better weather forecast left us trying at the start gate and wondering. We didn´t get more than 1200m above the plateau, and at first I hesitated when Jörg called me to go with him on the first start ...

Day 7 & 8: inverted (2017/8/18 18:32:26)

Results here ! Two difficult days with slower lift, lower base and a strong inversion turn 130 pilots at take off into the gaggle of death! Two days ago, I had fallen back and didn´t quite make goal in the end, and yesterday nobody even made goal, ...

Day 5 & 6: Almost Esplanada and nowhere really (2017/8/16 8:45:14)

Results here! Big relief for our team that Gerd is allowed to fly with us again - and sure enough, he scored great! Thanks again to Wolfram Huhn from the German embassy who helped us get Gerd out very quickly - other pilots spent a few days in jail ...

Day 3 and 4 (2017/8/13 9:27:35)

135 km and 125 km were the long tasks of the last two days. It took us a long time to get to goal yesterday, but after all that crazy gaggle flying, I really enjoyed just cruising around with Primoz. Jörg was the first of our team in goal, and we a ...

Day 1 & 2 (2017/8/11 9:18:27)

Our live tracking is here! More pictures! Results! Sorry for the delay, but the days here are long. Yesterday I didn´t make goal by about 13 kms, and the drive back took a while too, as we didn´t go to Esplanada for goal. Right in the beginning of ...

Last preparations (2017/8/9 9:18:36)

Team Germany is getting ready for the worlds! Today I took time to repair my spare vario, the spare radio, charge all varios, get the right air spaces downloaded, pack trackers, team meeting at Claudinha´s house, kinesio-tape quite a few people, tr ...

Opening Ceremony World Championship Brasilia 2017 (2017/8/8 20:00:19)

More pictures on DHV website! For the opening ceremony of the 2017 Hang Gliding World Championships, we were allowed a special honour: All the teams were lined up inside the National Museum of Brasilia to walk down the saturn ring bridge around the ...

Memories (2017/8/6 22:38:17)

Thanks to this guy that I met in Brasilia last year, I had some of the most intense lessons in my life over the past twelve months. He smashed his leg trying to land my glider in Greifenburg, and it was quite a trip to get the right repair work for ...

Arriving in Brasilia (2017/8/6 22:20:57)

Today registration starts, and the opening ceremony will happen at 4pm - not enough time for a flight, so I can update this blog. After a lot of help from my friend Rebi, I finished packing my glider. Jörg picked me up in Belecke, we took a short s ...

German Open Awards (2017/8/4 23:02:50)

Lots of preparation work, organization and travelling, so Im a little behind with the reports. After I won the last task of the German Open, I finished first overall and won the internation German Open for the first time! It was great to see how muc ...

German Open 2nd task: 116 km to Wellmitz (2017/7/30 16:47:36)

Results task 2 here! After three days of no taskable air, we finally celebrated blue skies again on Friday with a direct flight to Wellmitz. Getting ready early as I was 6th off in the start row, I had to get out of the harness again, because a clou ...

First task: 80km out and return (2017/7/27 3:51:59)

Results here . After the first day of the German Open was cancelled as the wind gusted up to 45km/h, we managed to use the short window on the second day for an 80km/h out and return to Golssen and back to the airfield. Flex wings were off first, an ...

German Open Altes Lager, July 23rd-29th (2017/7/24 1:47:09)

Some impressions from registration and first competion day of German Open at Altes Lager, about an hour south of Berlin. The weather for here and the rest of Europe looks pretty grim for this week, still we are 30 flex wing and 40 rigid wing pilots ...

Wings for Life World Run (2017/5/9 20:57:54)

If you missed out on this event, you can watch the video highlights here! Two days after I participated in the Wings for Life World Run, my legs are still in pain. A sign of having been over motivated to run much more than my poor running capabiliti ...

How to travel to Rio with your glider (2017/4/20 20:47:14)

Some information for all European pilots who are joining the worlds in Brasilia and who will take their gliders from Frankfurt on Lufthansa LH 500 to Rio. This is how you do it: 1. When you get your ticket on LH500, you contact Lufthansa reservation ...

Aeros Winter Race Slovenia (2017/4/2 5:02:29)

Results here! I was very happy to start the first competition this European season in Slovenia, with great weather. Despite the name "Aeros Winter Race", it was unusually warm - well, except on 2500m where we unexpectedly got to on the first two day ...

Famara (2017/2/5 0:11:12)

In only one week on Lanzarote, I was lucky enough to fly almost all take offs. We started in Macher, and my first flight surprised me - I had expected just soaring, but it was thermalling all the time! And actually quite choppy too. Good training af ...

Lanzarote (2017/2/2 22:03:46)

Best friends forever! (2016/11/3 9:46:26)

Since we met in Canungra for the first time many years ago, Tascha and I have been closest friends. We are very different, but also very open and tolerant for each others´ worlds. Together we went flying in many beautiful places on several continen ...

Canungra task 6: patience! And awards (2016/10/31 14:20:27)

Final results here! On the last day of the Canungra Classic, we set up on Tambo. Only Gecko Girl Niki got off the mountain, then the tail wind started. We decided to pack up around 12pm, go over to Beechmont and set up there again. I was sweating wh ...

Canungra task 5: cancelled due to storms (2016/10/29 5:48:07)

We went to Beechmont, set up and hoped for good conditions to fly. Nobody got up for a long time, and the clouds kept building. When we heard thunder for a while and had constant tailwind on take off, the task was cancelled for the day. We hope for ...

Canungra Task 3 and 4 (2016/10/28 5:42:52)

After a tough day on Wednesday with a really early landing, I tried not to show my disappointment to much and cheer up for the Red Faces night. With Nils Vesk, we have the most creative mind of the whole comp in our team, and he sure invented a cool ...

Canungra task 2: 85km around 2 tp (2016/10/26 5:18:00)

Results here. With a lower base, a slight head or cross wind and long glides between thermals, it was definitely harder to fly around the 85km. As there were almost no clouds, the big gaggle who took the second start gate caught up with the few guys ...

Canungra task 1: 72km around 1 tp (2016/10/24 19:24:26)

Finally the weather looked great for our first task! Learning from yesterday, we were set up and ready to go at 10.30am! And what a beautiful day, clouds and all. Task was set to Palen Creek and goal in Rathdowney. I don´t get to talk a lot to Geck ...

Canungra Day 2: Wind over the back (2016/10/24 7:04:57)

The sky was still overcast from the front, but we were positive and wanted to try a task from Tambo. Four guys got off, but only Glen got up and flew around for a while. We got stuck in a tail wind on take off and had to cancel the day. A few storie ...

Canungra day 1: cancelled, strong cross wind on Tambo launch (2016/10/22 14:10:04)

This morning comp organizer Tony Giammichele invited us for 8am to the opening briefing of the Canungra Classic. Headquarter this year is the Canungra Hotel, very central and convenient. Only 40 pilots entered the comp this year, as most of the Kiwi ...

Repairing rat damage on my harness or How good is tape? (2016/10/21 9:34:16)

Arriving in Coolangatta, it was a very warm welcome by my friend Sue. She and I waited for Niki Longshore to arrive. In the morning, she had missed the check-in time of her flight (45 minutes before take off) just by two minutes (turning off to the ...

A perfect day at Stanwell Park (2016/10/20 3:55:38)

It´s not common to have such clear skies and sunshine in southeasters in Australia. But when Gecko Girl Niki Longshore and I went ot Stanwell Park yesterday, we were really lucky to find the smoothest breeze for soaring and the clearest air you cou ...

Preparing for the Canungra Classis Comp (2016/10/19 8:03:50)

Really nice to have more girls to fly the Canungra Classic comp this year! Vicki and I picked up Niki Longshore from the US yesterday at Sydney airport, and it looks like Stanwell will turn on in a few hours, so we can both go and testfly our glider ...

FlyRanch Buenos Aires, Timezone UTC -3 (2016/10/16 0:50:14)

Very often people ask me what I do during the short stays of my work layovers, and if it is enough time to recover. On my flight to Buenos Aires I got lucky - it was the perfect spring time weather! Blossoms everywhere, light wind, and sunny. Lionel ...

New World Records in Brazil! (2016/10/14 23:18:56)

I was very happy to hear that my friends Glauco Pinto and Andre Wolf both flew a new declared to goal distance world record after a foot launch in Tacima. They´ve beaten Jonny Durands record of 557km by about 50km, which is huge!!! Some paragliders ...

Buenos dias, Argentina!!! (2016/10/9 2:18:24)

The last weeks were full of flights, Bangalore - Tunis - Boston - Tampa, my Dad´s birthday, my mother´s birthday, Oktoberfest with my Kiwi friends - in short, not much time at all inbetween. In the meantime, winter started in Germany. After a beau ...

Hannes Arch (2016/9/9 18:24:52)

Oh Hannes - dear friend, my flying hero for half of my life - I can´t believe it! The day in the alps was so beautiful, so peaceful yesterday - I thought of you when a helicopter passed me low at Loferer Steinberge in the afternoon, while I was dan ...

Day 7: 67km/h of wind, day cancelled and Awards! (2016/9/5 2:27:15)

I just finished my German report for the DHV homepage here! Final results are here! When we arrived on take off for the last day of the preworlds, the wind was howling with up to 67km/h an hour, almost blowing anybody off the ground who tried to ope ...

Task 5: 80km around 2 tp (2016/9/3 11:17:48)

The wind was howling with up to 50km/h on take off when we arrived today, yet an optimistic 109km task was set, again with goal Esplanada. I was almost ready to quit and just go there directly, when they decided to postpone the take off for safety r ...

Task 4: not worth talking about (2016/9/3 10:52:55)

The highlight of flying in Brasilia, landing at Esplanada in the centre of the city, had been closed for us until today, because of demonstrations and actions of the impeachment process of (ex-)president Dilma Roussef. She lost, left and now we can ...

Day 4 preworlds: cancelled due to strong side wind on take off (2016/9/1 20:31:26)

I was pretty nervous as the second early bird pilot in my lane on take off today. The wind kept crossing with 90 degrees and quite hard, barely 30 seconds from the front within 20 minutes of grueling waiting. What a relief when the safety committee ...

Pre-Worlds Task 3: 105km around 3 Tp (2016/8/31 20:26:26)

Today a beautiful photo from Jörg - I also update the German report on the DHV-Hompage (here) , so Jörg sent me his beautiful pictures today to upload them! First the best news of yesterday: Primoz won the day and got 1000 fat points!!! We are all ...

Pre-Worlds Task 1 & 2 (2016/8/30 19:37:32)

Results here. Not an ideal start into the comp for me - no goal out of the first two tasks of about 103 km each. Some excitement in the morning though when I had to change the flat tyre of the German team car... I landed what felt like in the middle ...

Preparation days for the Pre-Worlds 2016! (2016/8/28 5:33:01)

There´s a lot to do if you have a few days between two major competitions: Looking after all the instruments, cameras, trackers and back-ups, washing clothes, register for the new competition, get the new waypoints on your vario, log the new retrie ...

Day 7: 80km and award party! (2016/8/26 3:38:59)

Results here! On the last day of the Brasilian Nationals, the wind was a lot stronger on take off, but the prediction for thermals was good, so we were hoping for a nice day. The task was about 80 km around 4 turnpoints. I am ok with strong wind tak ...

Day 6: 85km around 3tp, about 25 in goal (2016/8/24 20:30:06)

Results here! Finally a great Brasilia day, with nice thermals and clouds and half the field happy in goal! Tom won the day, Jonny in 8th dropped out of the overall lead and gave it to Nene Rotor. Strong storms during the night cleared the air of th ...

Brasilia Day 5: 109km task, nobody in goal (2016/8/23 18:44:21)

Results here! A good forecast, but really tough conditions. The inversion did not break all day and left us with barely 250m above the plains. Not enough height to even make the first turnpoint of the task... Many people landed in the valley, retrie ...

Brasilia Day 3: cancelled on take off, strong side wind (2016/8/22 4:00:57)

Task 3 was cancelled after about 5 pilots took off, but the lateral and partly tail wind kept getting stronger and more unpredictable. I had cued up quite early cause I expected to have to wait for a long time for safe conditions, but I was very rel ...

Brasilian Nationals Day 2: 109km (2016/8/22 3:49:28)

As the first day was undercalled, a much bigger task was set for the second day, even though the wind started to be a bit off on launch. I quickly got into the line to have enough time in the air before the start, but still only got away with the se ...

Brasilian Nationals Day 1: 60km (2016/8/22 3:25:20)

I was happy with a short first task of 60km, as I had once again gone straight from work to travel to competition. The weather proved to be better than expected, so almost all pilots made goal. At the moment, the authorities won´t let us use Esplan ...

Arriving in Brasilia, Timezone UTC -3 (2016/8/18 3:49:43)

This morning I finally arrived in Sao Paulo after a smooth trip with a great Lufthansa crew. Then I flew with Latam, how TAM is called here, to Brasilia. I had a good chat with very friendly flight attendants and really enjoyed the short flight. Our ...

On the way to Brasilia (2016/8/17 2:21:57)

Summer has been very limited this year around the alps, and my timing with work and flyable days was terrible. Rain and strong wind the few days at home, and while I was gone, some bigger distances had been flown. I kept following the webcams around ...

Great sunset at Munich tonight (2016/7/31 5:28:56)

... a storm west of Munich, and a rainbow earlier at Gerlos in Austria today. Drama weather :)

ATL-FRA-MCO-FRA-KIX-FRA-MUC-FRA-GIG in 7 days - my new record! (2016/6/23 20:46:32)

Most of the last week, I´ve spent in the air, either working or as Yoko´s company home to Japan. I´m still writing the story down about our long journey and will share it with you soon! Great news is that Yoko is home in Japan and says that she f ...

Rio without flying weather (2016/5/22 22:03:24)

Another short work trip to Rio right after the Hessen comp finished. I had my hopes up for Cristo weather, but this time the cold front pushed in much faster than expected, so the northerly got too strong and there was even some rain. Instead I enjo ...

Hessenmeisterschaft Awards (2016/5/13 1:54:06)

Where were our Russian friends? I´m holding their trophies as well, guess they must have partied Russian style last night and just couldn´t get to the awards ceremony before noon? Big thanks to all our voluntary helpers for a great, fun and safe i ...

Hessenmeisterschaft flex, rigid and paragliding in Greifenburg (2016/5/12 1:04:24)

After the German Open, most pilots went home, as the weather forecast was marginal for more flying this week. I like my regional championships, it´s great to see the pilots I started flying with, and with every flight even in difficult conditions I ...

German Open Podiums (2016/5/10 0:21:28)

Sorry for being a bit slow on reporting, but I caught a really bad cold. I made it to the awards of German Open, but then I went straight to bed to be kind of fit for the start of the Hessenmeisterschaft, my regional Championships, today. Big congra ...

German Open: Suan Selenati wins! (2016/5/8 15:39:29)

Primoz won the last task again with an amazing 10 minutes on the 2nd pilot, but as he had landed early in the 2nd task, Suan Selenati (ITA) won the international German Open ahead of my team mate Gerd Dönhuber. The awards will be at 10am. I had qui ...

German Open Day 1: Strong Foehn, day cancelled (2016/5/4 21:02:55)

At 8.30, Regina and Dieter started the opening briefing at the landing field of the camp site, head quarter of the German Open hang gliding 2016. An international field of 90 flex and rigid wing pilots is here to compete until Sunday. During the bri ...

St. John´s River with Sherry and Joe Kittinger (2016/4/25 6:43:42)

On my short trip to Orlando, I had the best tour guides you can imagine - Sherry and Joe Kittinger invited me to an airboat trip along the St. John´s river, Florida´s longest river! It is always a joy for me to meet them. Joe hasn´t only helped F ...

Support me at the Wings for Life World Run! (2016/4/14 1:11:33)

On May 8th, join the Wings for Life World Run and race to support a good cause: finding a cure for spinal cord injuries! Who of us hasn´t had a close call, some minor or major injuries, having seen "the dark side" of not having a fully functional b ...

From Rio to Denver (2016/4/4 5:15:27)

After a week of flying in the heat of Rio, the cold rain in Frankfurt welcomed me home for a short stop. Right on the next day I left for a work flight to Denver, Colorado. High cloud base, strong wind and some last specs of snow greeted us on the h ...

The sky above Rio de Janeiro (2016/2/17 2:50:34)

Arriving in Rio de Janeiro on a work flight the day after Carneval finished, the weather looked dreadful. Showers on approach, strong wind and grey sky. On the way to our hotel, I could see Urubus (Brazilian vultures) sitting on lamp posts, trying t ...

Ispo Munich (2016/2/1 2:00:51)

Always exciting to find and try new gadgets at Europes biggest sports exhibition Ispo in Munich. Here I´m trying some new glasses from adidas, and I can just swap them for the ones I currently have in my Tycane! Can´t wait to try them when flying ...

Akumal, Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itza, Cancun (2016/1/20 22:03:39)

Mexico, D.F. (2016/1/7 0:56:26)

It´s always an intense work flight to go to Mexico City, but I can´t help to smile all the way because I like the country so much. Great to dive into the cultures of Toltec, Aztec and Maya history, this time I went to see the pyramids of Teotihuac ...

Christmas markets and a lot of work flying (2015/12/22 2:36:36)

This time of year has been incredibly busy with work. Even over Christmas time I didn´t get time off, but I have to "wait" for a flight - I´m on standby, which means that I´m sitting in Frankfurt airport, ready to go where ever the company sends ...

Sao Paulo, Grand Prix F1 (2015/11/16 13:09:42)

I was happy when I was informed two days ago that my work schedule had changed, and instead of Bangkok, I ended up flying to Sao Paulo on very short notice. Impossible to hide my big smile when my favourite Scotsman David Coulthard took his friend D ...

Day 7: 60km around 1 tp (2015/10/10 15:09:53)

Tony Armstrong won the day to Lake Moogerah, but even though Attila didn´t get to goal, he will still win the comp ahead of Jonny. I had a hard day in the strong wind and didn´t dare going into locked gate road too low, flying back to reach a dece ...

Canungra day 6: 50km/h wind, day cancelled (2015/10/8 16:07:55)

Finally I feel like I have arrived in the right timezone! We went up to the SE Beechmont take off, the Durands´ home site, but it was gusting up to 50 km/h with low clouds racing over our heads, so meet director Davo cancelled the day. Chances for ...

Task 4: 101km to Palen Ck, border gate and Maroon Dam (2015/10/8 5:40:58)

Results here! At briefing this morning, I got advice on how to fly better from a cheeky Kookaburra, the funny laughing bird of Australia. One of my favourite animals - they are brave and fast enough to eat snakes and even the notorious funnel web sp ...

Day 4: Tailwind on Beechmont and 60km to Rath (2015/10/7 5:31:27)

Results here! Most of the time on Beechmont today, the wind was from the north - that means over the back. I´ve been waiting 1,5 hours in my harness to finally get some air I could lift off into. Poor Zupy waited in the boonies in front of launch t ...

Day 3: tailwind on Tambo (2015/10/6 7:13:33)

After the last difficult, slow day from Tambo, it looked a bit better yesterday. The alternate launch pilots got off and up, but when main launch was getting ready, the sea breeze kicked in and it wasn´t possible to take off anymore. We all packed ...

Day 2: 88km around 2 turnpoints (2015/10/4 20:03:26)

Today we launched of Mt Tamborine. Conditions were more stable, blue and light lift, with sea breeze moving in early afternoon. Not ideal, but flyable. I got to fly a lot with Craig today. After lots of flight training in Europe, he has improved a l ...

Canungra Classic 2015 (2015/10/3 23:02:27)

Results here A family of the cutest little wallabies welcomed me at my friends place in Canungra when I arrived after a long trip around the world. I didn´t sleep al that well due to a major jetlag, and I was really glad that Jonny Durand had testf ...

Canungra here we come! (2015/9/30 20:36:10)

After getting back from a great Rio work trip last night, I´m already packing the new suitcase to fly to Australia for the Canungra competition which starts this Saturday! Not much time as usual, that´s what I got cloned for in this infinity machi ...

Vancouver (2015/9/16 1:27:49)

It was great catching up with Brett Hazlett and his family in Vancouver yesterday. And again I was lucky, the weather was great. A bit chilly, but sunny for two days of my stay (work flight of course). Brett is only flying paragliders these days, bu ...

Rio de Janeiro (2015/8/31 20:37:58)

After having taken my Aussie tourist to Wieskirche to see the most famous church of Bavaria, I had to drop him off into the best care possible because I had to go back to work. Felix (A.I.R boss) took Craig up to testfly an Atos glider for the first ...

Greifenburg, Hangar 7, Vienna (2015/8/25 12:44:15)

After some wonderful flights in Greifenburg, I gave Craig the real Euro experience - traffic jam on the Autobahn! I just turned off and went to show him Hangar 7 with all it´s amazing Red Bull historical planes and vehicles. It was fun running into ...

Days of glaciers (2015/8/22 15:34:27)

After having visited Annecy, we went through Chamonix to see Mont Blanc on the way to Fiesch. Going up the cable car with our gliders was a new experience for Craig, also Lukas was going to fly in Fiesch for the first time. It looked a bit difficult ...

KL UTC +8 (2015/8/17 14:28:02)

First time in Kuala Lumpur, of course my first thought when I saw those amazing Petronas Towers was - FELIX! Quite a while ago, my friend Felix Baumgartner base jumped off from the top of one of them, after he had dressed up like a business man (or ...

German Open last day: cancelled due to strong northerly wind (2015/8/8 22:47:59)

The weather forecasts for today were as difficult and contradicting as the ones we had yesterday. Strong northerly winds, a shear at 1000m, low base and blue with a storm front somewhere to our northwest moving slowly closer. My idea was to go strai ...

Task 4 GO: 83km, nobody made goal (2015/8/8 14:28:35)

The hottest day of the comp affected quite a few pilots that did not feel like flying anymore, which dragged the process of task making and starting along a bit. I got off quite late and it was difficult to find good lift, as warm air from the south ...

GO day 4: 85km out and return (2015/8/7 13:20:39)

Another hot day in German flatland paradise! The forecast was for blue sky, late start and weak lift, so the out-and-return task was comparably small with 85km. After towing, we waited around for about an hour not getting higher than 1000m, but the ...

GO day 3: 108km around 3 tp (2015/8/6 4:39:42)

After the front went through yesterday, clouds were rising really fast and base went up to 1500-1800m, with nice cumulus forming. Tim had a camera for TV on his glider today, and still won the day :) the ZDF-guys were happy that he got back so fast ...

GO day 2: cancelled due to strong pre-frontal wind (2015/8/4 19:55:16)

When Lukas Bader presented today´s forecast, he mentioned an increasing southerly wind plus a cold front moving in towards us, reaching our only possible goal northwest of Berlin this afternoon. In a windspeed of 45 km/h at top of lift and with gus ...

GO day 1: 120 km around 3 tp (2015/8/4 14:30:28)

Results and DHV report here! With about 40 flex and 40 rigid wing pilots, we started into the first task of the international German Open south of Berlin. The 120km felt big to me, as we had quite a significant head wind on some of the legs of the t ...

German Open at Altes Lager, Berlin (2015/8/3 15:30:44)

Today the German Open starts in Altes Lager, about 1 hour south of Berlin. 80 pilots are here to compete, lots of rigid wing pilots as well. World champions Christian Ciech and Tim Grabowski will compete, along with Dutch, Norwegian, Austrian, Czech ...

Friends - at Wallberg-Fliegerfest, Tegernsee (2015/7/28 1:10:57)

It was great to meet some of my really good friends yesterday at the Wallberg landing field, where the local club had a big party. Hang & paragliding schools, tandem pilots and legends like Atos world champion Tim Grabowski and top paraglider pi ...

Roundup of the Dolomiti Open (2015/7/13 19:45:40)

DHV report in German here! Great video with Lukas Bader and Achim Vollmer at Dolomiti Open here! Results here! After having had a great comp in Canungra last year with the RX 3 Technora, I knew that this new little glider had a great potential. In M ...

What a day! 139km around 5 turnpoints (2015/7/12 6:52:38)

The day started strange. When my friend Evi helped me to take the glider to take off, she slipped and could not walk anymore. Luckily Florian took her piggy back, I got the tape on and ice, but it didn´t really get better. Konrad carried her back u ...

Task 4 Italian Open: 109km around 4 turnpoints (2015/7/11 13:34:13)

Task 4 was only 109km, but conditions were more difficult than the days before. Blue sky, weaker, broken lift only up to 3100m and a head wind of up to 25km/h right to the first turnpoint led to a lot of pilots bombing out right after take off. It t ...

Day 5: Too windy, cancelled (2015/7/10 14:02:31)

Day 5 of the Italian Championships was cancelled, as the clouds were racing past us, high winds at 4000m were predicted to be up to 40 knots, and more wind further east. Some people flew, but landings did not look too elegant.

Day 4: Rain- rest day after 3 tasks! (2015/7/9 4:30:21)

DHV report here . Finally the storms arrived in Italy, so I have time to give you an update! Even though the forecast was for late, weak lift and overdevelopment around 5pm, the cnonditions improved and a task of 140km into the high mountains at Sta ...

Dolomiti Open in Pfalzen (2015/7/7 14:13:44)

Two long tasks took us through the whole Dolomites yesterday and Sunday! Super scenic flying here in Pfalzen, top pilots from Italy, Austria, Germany, Brazil, Russia, Switzerland,... make this a high class competition. And it looks like we will be f ...

Flying in Fjordland (2015/7/4 4:01:31)

Flying in Voss was exciting. There is still a lot of snow melting, so I was glad that my goretex Terrex shoes kept my feet dry and warm in the wetlands! Thermals were good, base between 1600 and 2000m, and every now and then it looked like a good la ...

Going to Voss (2015/6/26 15:08:05)

It was great to be greeted at Oslo Airport by Nils who works there at the moment, and Johnny. The drive up north took about 6 hours and took us through magical forests, loungy tunnels, mountains, snow fields and gorges. I was kind of expecting troll ...

Going north (2015/6/24 21:44:02)

My cool, new speedarms arrived just in time before my next flying adventure. I decided not to hang around in the alps while another cold front hits with rain, snow and strong winds, but to pack my weatherproof terrex gear and just go north. There is ...

Bengaluru (2015/6/23 3:31:20)

On our brief stop in Bangalore, India, I had the whole pool to myself, as the the water temperature only seemed appropriate for northern Germans ;) so I enjoyed my swim work out and some experimental photography.

Athens (2015/6/20 19:06:35)

Arriving at 2am at the hotel in Athens this morning, I had a mere 10 hours before pick up. With the Mediterranean in front of my nose (and the noisy breakfast buffet in front of my room´s balcony), I couldn´t really sleep that long and got up earl ...

Primoz now with our German Team! (2015/6/20 19:01:03)

These are the news that really made my day: My friend Primoz Gricar now finally decided to change from the Slovenian to the German team. Primoz has been living and working in Germany for at least 15 years, and with him not having competed at the Mex ...

Moscow (2015/6/17 19:04:37)

After I cured my sore muscles from the trip to Brazil (we could try all fitness classes at our hotel for free, so for the first time I went to Zumba, Pilates, Aqua Gym, Bootcamp Xfit and DeRose method (which is kind of heavy duty yoga...), for a sho ...

I love Brazil! (2015/6/11 0:16:41)

After the G7 meeting closed down half of our hang gliding air space last weekend (Garmisch area) and storms kicked in as well, I decided to volunteer for work on Sunday - and won the lottery :) They sent me to Sao Paulo! I love the flights to Brazil ...

200km FAI triangle - finally some flying weather! (2015/6/7 17:46:13)

It was great to see a kind of good weather forecast after a more than average May. Thermals started late (for a really good day), base was below 2000m at launch, and there were storms in the forecast for late afternoon, but I was positive anyway. Wh ...

Last day: 50km around 3 turnpoints (2015/5/17 5:41:51)

Results here. As it was raining the whole day yesterday, I went to castle Landskron, visiting some vultures to get inspiration for the last day of the comp today. It was a slow day for sure, and only started clearing up around 3.30pm. With weak lift ...

Real shady (2015/5/16 1:51:47)

Today it´s been raining all day in Greifenburg - the first rest day after four consecutive days of flying for me, and after a long, exhausting task yesterday. You see the conditions on the photo - that was right after take off... not too promising, ...

Day 2: 60km around 3 turnpoints (2015/5/15 4:46:58)

Today´s results. Just briefly about yesterday - my friend Captain America (Leander Modersohn) came 2nd in the first task of Hessische, Konrad Lüders was 3rd (after having dug himself out from very low right after take off), and Kajo Clauss won the ...

First Day Hessenmeisterschaft: Short day (2015/5/14 3:08:00)

Scores here in a while! Lots of high clouds shaded our valley almost 100%, so no lift around for a while. The forecast was for storms in the late afternoon, that´s why the task was only 57km to Höfer Alm, then Radlberger Alm, Sender Egg and goal a ...

Greifenburg - Hessenmeisterschaft (2015/5/12 16:50:41)

On the way to Greifenburg on Sunday, I experienced a howling 40-50km/h valley wind from the west just before the tunnel going into Drautal. Then it switched to a steady easterly in the next valley... I thought not a good day to fly (I was too late a ...

Wings for Life World Run Munich (2015/5/3 16:59:50)

After some really good weather for training in Nagoya, Japan, where I cycled through the city for hours, now the rain doesn´t seem to stop at all today in Munich. Both the Darmstadt and the Munich Wings for Life World Run locations are sold out, th ...

Working out (2015/4/24 1:59:47)

Spring has finally arrived in Europe, and it was fun to work out in the nice, sunny weather. I grabbed some warmth in Munich and took it up north to my friends in Oslo - seemed like the whole city was outside on Sunday, enjoying the first day of spr ...

Nice tv show about "The flying Farmer" Konrad Görg! (2015/4/12 21:15:45)

After a beautiful, smooth flight at Tegelberg on Friday, dark big clouds are back in the sky today, so I started zapping on the TV and found this really nice documentary about farmer and pg pilot Konrad Görg. He is running a big farm in northern Ge ...

Buenos Aires (2015/4/4 19:16:42)

After a long 14 hours of work shift, Buenos Aires greeted our crew with the most beautiful weather ever seen in Argentina. Blue sky, pleasant temperatures, and cloud base at a height that I felt I should visit Flavio at the Fly Ranch . Or Andi Hedig ...

Germanwings accident in French Alps (2015/3/25 8:51:58)

Just because the first people are calling me already - I am fine and not working (only on my gliders) today. I was shocked when I heard on the radio an hour ago that a Germanwings A320 on the way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has crashed into the Fr ...

Improving Spanish - and sneaking away from winter for another week ;) (2015/3/23 10:42:59)

Guess I could have chosen a worse place than Playa del Carmen for a week of intense language training. It was good not having too much time to spend on the beaches, otherwise I just get sunburnt. When I went to Isla Mujeres, I decided to wear the lo ...

The awards (2015/3/14 12:21:05)

I just wrote a longer review about the worlds in German, published on the DHV site soon. The last two days were cancelled for weather reasons, rain and very windy conditions yesterday. That way we had time to prepare our gliders for the long trip ba ...

Day 9: Cancelled, OD and rain (2015/3/12 11:57:13)

It was very inspirational when Fabio brought his beautiful hawk up to take off a few days ago. Most pilots adore birds, and it´s nice to see that they care also for birds with an injured wing. This guy can´t fly and hunt a lot, and he has been liv ...

DAY 8: 100km and - my birthday (2015/3/12 7:43:18)

The 8th day of the worlds started with overcast skies and quite a bit of wind too, so pilots were not all that enthusiastic. Up on take off, I was very moved when Aldo sang a Mexican birthday song for me, and it was overwhelming to get so many good ...

Day 7: 107km around 4 turnpoints (2015/3/10 13:14:11)

After a well deserved rest day with team dinner and Moyes party, we had another tough day ahead of us today, with beautiful clouds, but also quite high wind speeds. Already in the morning we saw some lenticular, and when I launched, it was the bumpi ...

Day 6 and rest day! (2015/3/9 5:11:07)

Our daily team report in German here. Results here. Another 110km yesterday took us to the far west and back to the east. The lift was good, but it also created a lot of shade in some parts, which again slowed the lift down. I started well and caugh ...

Day 4 and 5 (2015/3/7 23:22:38)

Again, not exactly days of glory for our team. The tasks were long, 112 and 140km, and quite some guys made goal. Roland and Achim got there two days ago, and Roland was the only guy from Team D in goal yesterday. Christian and Antoine won those day ...

Day 3: 95km around 2 turnpoints (2015/3/5 13:35:13)

Today should have been an easier task than yesterday, but unfortunately the wind was stronger than in the organizers´ prediction. Lift was very rough and broken, I barely managed to fly one full circle in climb in many places. Take off was south of ...

Day 1 and 2 World Championships (2015/3/4 11:41:22)

Sorry for the delay in reporting from the worlds, but my days start at 6.30 and don´t finish until 11pm, with quite a bit of flying excitement inbetween! I have been voted into the safety committee, and Gerd is in the tasksetting, so we need to be ...

Opening ceremony (2015/3/2 6:26:45)

The opening ceremony led us from the main square, the "zocalo" of Valle de Bravo, to a place close to the lake, accompanied by a school orchestra and the cheering of the whole village. After official speeches, some traditional dance groups were perf ...

Registration (2015/2/28 7:45:18)

Yesterday I landed at the Amanalco goal when a football game had just started. A band was playing interesting mariachi style music, and we were welcomed by loads of friendly kids. My whole team and lots of others decided to land there, because it is ...

Nice flying and visiting the Monarcas (2015/2/27 0:55:04)

After visiting the Monarch butterflies from the air the day before, we went up the mountain yesterday to see this natural wonder of bezillions of bright orange butterflies. They are about to migrate back north to Canada, because they don´t like the ...

Big thanks!!! (2015/2/24 4:32:32)

I just finished my preparations and will take a first test flight tomorrow. Time to send a big thanks to a lot of people around the world for all their help on our way to get here. With all our gear, it is a major logistic event to move as much as w ...

Arriving in Valle - finally! (2015/2/23 1:41:41)

After a lot of help from great people on the way over to the hang gliding worlds at Valle de Bravo, we finally arrived after a neverending odyssee at 1.30 pm local time in the morning, which is 8.30 am our time... the guys managed to stay up and tal ...

In Mexico City (2015/2/20 6:15:28)

Landing in Mexico City on Tuesday night, the smoke above the vulcano Popocatepetl was still visible! The size of this city is always impressive - it seems to run to the horizon in all directions possible. At least there are a lot of trees, plants an ...

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