2008-07 - Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada

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IN BRIEF Bite-sized news from the gliding world Free Flight now quarterly For subscribers — or potential subscribers — to Free Flight magazine, the publication is going quarterly. The change hopefully won’t mean any change in the total annual content or price, but it will result in more colour covers. HPAC stops subscriptions for XC Mag Attention XC Magazine subscribers: starting from this point onwards, subscriptions to XC Magazine will no longer be available through HPAC. After a review of the efforts to keep track of our members and the subscription, the board and its committee members have decided to discontinue the subscription through the HPAC renewal process. Individual pilots can subscribe using the XC Magazine website: www.xcmag.com. Ratings news The HPAC board has approved new ratings for two pilots. Jayson Biggins has received a senior paragliding rating. Steven Milchak has obtained the senior hang gliding ranking. Panorama Easter results By MAX FANDERL wasn’t sure, but based on my notes, this I was the 10th annual Easter meet. Wow, time just flies when you have fun. Saturday a picture-book day. Most people had about three flights and a lot of people made it up to more than 9,000 feet. Only six flew out into the valley and others decided to land due cold hands. Saturday evening, we had pizza and then went to the Pup. The party started slow, got into boat races, then to our annual “tray” race before dancing and music. For the food tray race, we had great conditions on the hill, but after two races, security shut us down for out own safety. The board meets at this year’s ADM (from left to right): Sam Jeyes, business manager; Charles Mathieson, treasurer; Domagoj Juretic, president/Quebec; Cas Wolan, VP/Saskatchewan; Michael Fuller, Atlantic Canada/IAC Chair; Steven Younger, Ontario Director/CARs advisor; Quinn Cornwell, Manitoba/safety chair/web; Amir Izadi, B.C./secretary. Sunday morning, the weather was OK, but you could see that snow was coming in. We got about four flights in total and then stopped due snowfall. At noon, we handed out the prizes and then we finally could go for a couple ski runs. Overall, it was just picture-perfect and everyone had a great time. By the way, we forgot to clean up the landing site with all the attempts to hit the Easter Nest. So Penny and I sent the kids to friends for a couple of hours and headed up the mountain to clean up. We were looking everywhere and could not find any. We even looked at Taintan Bowl without any luck. Eventually we went home as we had a hard time to find any under 25 cm of new snow. The winners were: 1st, Mark Tarrant; 2nd, Andy Gamp; 3rd, Greg Solvbjerk FAI record claims The FAI has seen a number of worldrecord claims recently. Austrian pilot Walter Geppert has submitted two record claims for a flight this past May in his native country. The first is for speed over a triangular course of 300 km on a rigid hang glider. Geppert set a record of 44.86 km/h on May 12 at Emberger Alm, Austria. There was no previous record in this category, and Geppert’s claim still must be ratified by the FAI. For the same flight, Geppert also submitted a claim for distance over a traingular course. The flight was 404 km. The previous record in this category was set in August 2000 by Marcus Hoffmann- Guben of Germany. Another Austrian pilot submitted two tandem paragliding record claims: distance over a triangular course, and speed over a triangular course of 100 km. Lois Grugger was flying, with Petra Lindbichler as a passenger, on May 9, 2008. The 112-km flight took place at Schareck, Austria. The speed claim is for 21.4 km/h. If they are ratified by the FAI, the claims would replace previous records held by Jurgen Stock of Austria. In June 2000, Stock had a 101.9-km flight with a speed of 19.41 km/h. In Namibia, the FAI has ratified a claim by a Spanish pilot for out-and-return distance on a rigid hang glider. Carlos Puñet of Spain submitted a flight of 348.4 km at Moreson Farm - Malta Hohe in Namibia from Jan. 10. The previous record is 338.2 km, set in December 2006 by Gil Souviron of France. 8 AIR MAGAZINE | JULY 2008
ISRAEL ANNIVERSARY FLIGHT photos by Shuki Genzler Anniversary marked by tragedy Pilot killed in attack day after flight over massive flag By ANATOLY COHN APCO Aviation I was just going to send a short story about Jimmy Kedoshim flying over the world’s largest flag, which was specially put together and laid out on Israeli soil to commerate Israel’s 60th anniversary. Unfortunately, it turned into a very sudden tragedy. Jimmy Kedoshim was a veteran paramotor pilot and multiple Israeli paramotor champion. We collaborated with him and sought his advice when developing our paramotor wings, and he was a great help. For the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding, which was celebrated on May 8, a number of Israeli paramotor pilots decided to fly over the giant Israeli flag laid out near the highway, and which is actually the world’s largest flag. The following day, on Friday, May 9, Jimmy was tending his garden in the late afternoon at his home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which is not far from the border with Gaza, near the Israeli southern city of Ashkelon. Unfortunately, Jimmy happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and an Iranian made mortar shell sent from Gaza by Hamas exploded in his garden, killing him outright. For all my life in Israel, victims of terror were something I read about in the newspaper or saw on the television news while having dinner at home. But I was left deeply shocked by the cruel reality slamming in my face, when TV became a painful reality as a friend was lost in a second in a terror attack. Jimmy was a great pilot, a good friend and life-loving, freedom-seeking family man with a huge passion for flying. We all will miss him greatly. AIR MAGAZINE | JULY 2008 9
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