Diana Rigg - World-of-Newave.info World-of-Newave.info http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 2008-11-23T20:44:51Z Latest news and articles about Diana Rigg Copyright (c)2004-2008.§/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Naughtie takes over from Mrs Peel Broadcaster James Naughtie replaces Avengers actress Dame Diana Rigg as chancellor of Stirling University. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/news-and-media/naughtie-takes-over-from-mrs-peel-2008105944.htm 2008-10-09T11:08:29Z 2008-10-09T11:08:29Z News.Bbc.Co.Uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7657451.stm Naughtie takes over from Mrs Peel {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Broadcaster James Naughtie replaces Avengers actress Dame Diana Rigg as chancellor of Stirling University.
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]]> {EUROPE > HEADLINE LINKS} - People this week Diana Rigg, James McAvoy, Alexa Chung, Mark Ronson and Sharleen Spiteri - interviews of the week revisited. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/headline-links/people-this-week-20080735320.htm 2008-07-11T18:55:13Z 2008-07-11T18:55:13Z News.Bbc.Co.Uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7499696.stm People this week {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Diana Rigg, James McAvoy, Alexa Chung, Mark Ronson and Sharleen Spiteri - interviews of the week revisited.
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]]> {AVIATION > HANG GLIDING} - The pre-Worlds, day nine The pre-Worlds, day nine Results The official pre-Worlds blog Jeff O\\'Brien\\'s blog Jamie Shelden\\'s blog Friday, July 4th The task and the flight. Despite coming in 21st on the last day Scott Barrett held onto his lead and won the pre-Worlds. The last day had very little spread in points between 5th and 25th. These were all guys that made goal quickly, so they all got about the same points. Scott headed out in the first gaggle at the first start window. They all had a relatively bad start having to go back 1.6 km to get inside the exit start cylinder. Those of us who took the second clock only had to go back 1 km and we came back right into the lift and got up quickly, losing no height overall. Then we found very strong lift just before the first turnpoint, west down the Laragne-Chabre ridge line at COL SAINT JEAN. Most of the first start gaggle headed east back down Chabre, while a number of us in the second start time jumped to the ridge to the south, more on the course line, at SOMMET DE LA PLA, and found strong lift to 7,400'. We could see four of the pilots with the earlier start just above us. Next was a 16 km glide across the valley to LA GACHE. The glide was reasonable, but the lift was a bit weak at the hill side under the cliffs after we got across the valley. The lead gaggle was just over our heads, maybe two hundred feet. They had already taken the turnpoint 3.5 km to the east. We finally got some good lift and were able to head to the turnpoint as the lead gaggle headed toward Sisteron. We worked weak lift coming back from the turnpoint and then just had to head off toward Sisteron also without getting high. We could see the lead gaggle turning in weak lift just past the town. We flew right over the citadel. The lead gaggle was slow, very slow. Scott would later mention how even with Andreas and Mario Alonzi, they just weren't taking any chances and he had resolved to stay with the gaggle. Balazs (who was in second place) had caught up with them starting at the second start time. We started turning on the north side of a valley on the lee side of a small ridge (the wind was 5 mph out of the northwest) here the lead gaggle had just been wasting their time. The lift was poor yet again. After gaining a mere 400' we moved over to the south side of the valley on the north facing hill sides. I saw a Gryphon vulture (gray back), circling in the valley near the hill side, but he was way below me and I felt that the hillside would be a better and kept going. The Gryphon came over under me as I climbed up, and I changed the direction of my turns to match the Gryphon's, and we climbed out together. After climbing 1000' the Gryphon moved over a small ridge line to another face. The lift stopped so I went over and joined him for another thousand foot climb. He was right under my wing. I was up high enough now to move over on top of the ridge line to get to the turnpoint. There were earlier starting pilots just ahead under clouds just beyond the turnpoint, the one and only cu's that we would see during the task, I jumped over to clouds called Zac and the Jeff's to come over and we climbed out fast to 7,400'. It was a twelve kilometer glide to Malijai, a village before the plateaus that we were about to get up on on the way to goal. We came over the town and then up on the treed hillsides before the plateau. It was a search for lift on the hill sides and we didn't get that high. In front of us were two large plateaus covered with lavender fields. The mountain flying competition had turned into a flatland competition. There were about half a dozen of us together and we worked the weak thermals to get across the plateau and jump to the next one. We could see Bruce Kavanaugh keeping up with us, but two thousand feet below. Jeff Shapiro had been above me but missed the lift on the hillside of the plateau and was soon working low with Bruce. We climbed to 5,600' and jumped across the creek to the second plateau, found weak lift and climbed to 4,900', not enough to get to goal, but plenty to make the turnpoint east of Valensole. I found lift at the turnpoint which encouraged the others and just drifted in it toward the goal field, a sailplane port past Puimoisson. Climbing to 5,000' (2,500' AGL) it was an easy downwind glide in to a very nice air field high up on the plateau. Attila Bertok started third and was very fast winning the day. Scott Barrett started on final glide with 600 meters below the glide line and Balazs went with him. Scott almost put Balazs on the ground 4 km from goal. Jeff Shapiro got low in the valley between the first and last plateau and worked with ten other pilots including Robin Hamilton and Bruce to try to get up. Only he and one other pilot were able to make it out of that hole and make goal. Jeff O'Brien was sixth in overall time to goal. He moved into tenth place overall. I was twenty fourth, three after Scott, and moved up to 17th place. Zac also made goal just ahead of me. The US team was very cooperative and very often flew together. I think that this may be a first for the US team. The two Jeff's, Zac and I were very close to each other for most of the flight on this last day and flew together on many days. The organization of the meet was excellent. There were twenty people helping with launches. The scorekeeping was very efficient with little waiting around to download your GPS even with 117 pilots and the scores were published almost immediately on the web. The downsides include poor launch conditions under some wind conditions and the difficulty of calling tasks when cu-nimbs were forecasted for the mountains. The dodgy weather was unexpected. Laragne is a great place to fly. Very open with lots of variety and challenges as well as many large fields to land in if necessary. The town is romantic and charming and has a great market day on Thursday. There is a lot of history to take in in the area, great cycling, mountain climbing, rock climbing (see Jeff's pictures), and swimming in the creeks. The wife and family will enjoy themselves here much more so than some other places that we go to where the flying is great. Last day at goal: # Name Nat Glider Time Total 1 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed 5 02:21:41 904 2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 02:34:30 864 3 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 02:50:09 839 4 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed s 4,5 02:37:02 824 5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat L14 02:40:58 798 6 Fabien Agenes FRA Aeros Combat L13 02:55:00 793 6 Jeff O'Brien USA Wills Wing T2 154 02:41:47 793 8 Luis Rizo Salom FRA Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 02:41:59 791 9 Christian Zehetmair DEU aeros Combat L14 02:55:05 790 10 Hakan Andersson SWE Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 02:42:01 789 11 Andreas Olsson SWE Wills Wing T2 02:55:11 784 11 Hans Kiefinger DEU Aeros Combat L13 02:55:10 784 13 Richard Lovelace GBR Aeros Combat L 02:43:27 782 14 Jesper Hassing DNK Aeros Combat L12 02:36:00 781 15 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Moyes Litespeed S 02:55:20 780 16 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat L12 02:55:22 779 17 Francis Gafner CHE Aeros Combat L13 02:44:28 774 18 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros Combat L 02:55:28 773 19 Raimund Kaiser AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 02:55:25 772 20 Anton Minskiy RUS Aeros Combat L 02:44:50 771 21 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne C4 - 13.5 02:56:31 765 22 Koos De Keijzer NLD Icaro Laminar Zero 7 02:58:59 748 22 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:49:19 748 24 Gary Wirdnam GBR Aeros Combat L 02:49:37 745 24 Davis Straub USA Wills Wing T2 - 144 02:50:02 745 26 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed S4 02:49:44 742 27 Blay Olmos Quesada ESP Icaro Z8 02:50:10 738 28 Gianpietro Zin FRA Wills Wing T2 - 144 02:51:12 731 29 Artur Dzamikhov RUS Aeros Combat L 03:03:18 725 30 André Disselhorst NLD Aeros Combat L13 03:04:46 716 31 Laurent Thevenot FRA Aeros Combat L 03:10:35 693 32 Vladimir Leuskov RUS Aeros Combat L 03:10:12 692 33 Francois Isoard FRA Aeros Combat L13 03:10:14 689 34 Malcolm Brown GBR Aeros Combat L 03:08:58 685 35 Joakim Hindemith SWE Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:13:29 671 36 Endre Kovacs HUN Aeros Combat L 03:18:14 658 37 Eric Mathurin FRA Moyes Litespeed RS 4 03:29:29 600 38 Uli Eysel DEU Moyes Litespeed S-4 03:40:15 598 38 Jeff Shapiro USA Wills Wing T2 144 03:29:42 598 Overall: # Name Nat Glider Total 1 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne C4 - 13.5 3482 2 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed s 4,5 3363 3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat L14 3311 4 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3302 5 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat L12 3141 6 Fabien Agenes FRA Aeros Combat L13 3078 7 Luis Rizo Salom FRA Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3004 8 André Disselhorst NLD Aeros Combat L13 2895 9 Andreas Olsson SWE Wills Wing T2 2885 10 Jeff O'Brien USA Wills Wing T2 154 2883 11 Hans Kiefinger DEU Aeros Combat L13 2832 12 Christian Voiblet CHE Aeros Combat L12 2818 13 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Moyes Litespeed S 2783 14 Gary Wirdnam GBR Aeros Combat L 2774 15 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 2640 16 Francois Isoard FRA Aeros Combat L13 2635 17 Davis Straub USA Wills Wing T2 - 144 2623 18 David Matthews GBR Moyes Litespeed S3.5 2571 19 Bruce Kavanagh GBR Wills Wing T2 2531 20 Hakan Andersson SWE Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 2497 Discuss Pre-Worlds - nine at the Oz Report forum   link» http://articles.world-of-newave.info/recreation/aviation/aircraft/footlaunched/hang-gliding/the-pre-worlds-day-nine-2008077688.htm 2008-07-05T08:47:25Z 2008-07-05T08:47:25Z OzReport.Com http://OzReport.com/1215236845 The pre-Worlds, day nine {new window}   OzReport.Com - The pre-Worlds, day nine Results The official pre-Worlds blog Jeff O\\'Brien\\'s blog Jamie Shelden\\'s blog Friday, July 4th The task and the flight. Despite coming in 21st on the last day Scott Barrett held onto his lead and won the pre-Worlds. The last day had very little spread in points between 5th and 25th. These were all guys that made goal quickly, so they all got about the same points. Scott headed out in the first gaggle at the first start window. They all had a relatively bad start having to go back 1.6 km to get inside the exit start cylinder. Those of us who took the second clock only had to go back 1 km and we came back right into the lift and got up quickly, losing no height overall. Then we found very strong lift just before the first turnpoint, west down the Laragne-Chabre ridge line at COL SAINT JEAN. Most of the first start gaggle headed east back down Chabre, while a number of us in the second start time jumped to the ridge to the south, more on the course line, at SOMMET DE LA PLA, and found strong lift to 7,400'. We could see four of the pilots with the earlier start just above us. Next was a 16 km glide across the valley to LA GACHE. The glide was reasonable, but the lift was a bit weak at the hill side under the cliffs after we got across the valley. The lead gaggle was just over our heads, maybe two hundred feet. They had already taken the turnpoint 3.5 km to the east. We finally got some good lift and were able to head to the turnpoint as the lead gaggle headed toward Sisteron. We worked weak lift coming back from the turnpoint and then just had to head off toward Sisteron also without getting high. We could see the lead gaggle turning in weak lift just past the town. We flew right over the citadel. The lead gaggle was slow, very slow. Scott would later mention how even with Andreas and Mario Alonzi, they just weren't taking any chances and he had resolved to stay with the gaggle. Balazs (who was in second place) had caught up with them starting at the second start time. We started turning on the north side of a valley on the lee side of a small ridge (the wind was 5 mph out of the northwest) here the lead gaggle had just been wasting their time. The lift was poor yet again. After gaining a mere 400' we moved over to the south side of the valley on the north facing hill sides. I saw a Gryphon vulture (gray back), circling in the valley near the hill side, but he was way below me and I felt that the hillside would be a better and kept going. The Gryphon came over under me as I climbed up, and I changed the direction of my turns to match the Gryphon's, and we climbed out together. After climbing 1000' the Gryphon moved over a small ridge line to another face. The lift stopped so I went over and joined him for another thousand foot climb. He was right under my wing. I was up high enough now to move over on top of the ridge line to get to the turnpoint. There were earlier starting pilots just ahead under clouds just beyond the turnpoint, the one and only cu's that we would see during the task, I jumped over to clouds called Zac and the Jeff's to come over and we climbed out fast to 7,400'. It was a twelve kilometer glide to Malijai, a village before the plateaus that we were about to get up on on the way to goal. We came over the town and then up on the treed hillsides before the plateau. It was a search for lift on the hill sides and we didn't get that high. In front of us were two large plateaus covered with lavender fields. The mountain flying competition had turned into a flatland competition. There were about half a dozen of us together and we worked the weak thermals to get across the plateau and jump to the next one. We could see Bruce Kavanaugh keeping up with us, but two thousand feet below. Jeff Shapiro had been above me but missed the lift on the hillside of the plateau and was soon working low with Bruce. We climbed to 5,600' and jumped across the creek to the second plateau, found weak lift and climbed to 4,900', not enough to get to goal, but plenty to make the turnpoint east of Valensole. I found lift at the turnpoint which encouraged the others and just drifted in it toward the goal field, a sailplane port past Puimoisson. Climbing to 5,000' (2,500' AGL) it was an easy downwind glide in to a very nice air field high up on the plateau. Attila Bertok started third and was very fast winning the day. Scott Barrett started on final glide with 600 meters below the glide line and Balazs went with him. Scott almost put Balazs on the ground 4 km from goal. Jeff Shapiro got low in the valley between the first and last plateau and worked with ten other pilots including Robin Hamilton and Bruce to try to get up. Only he and one other pilot were able to make it out of that hole and make goal. Jeff O'Brien was sixth in overall time to goal. He moved into tenth place overall. I was twenty fourth, three after Scott, and moved up to 17th place. Zac also made goal just ahead of me. The US team was very cooperative and very often flew together. I think that this may be a first for the US team. The two Jeff's, Zac and I were very close to each other for most of the flight on this last day and flew together on many days. The organization of the meet was excellent. There were twenty people helping with launches. The scorekeeping was very efficient with little waiting around to download your GPS even with 117 pilots and the scores were published almost immediately on the web. The downsides include poor launch conditions under some wind conditions and the difficulty of calling tasks when cu-nimbs were forecasted for the mountains. The dodgy weather was unexpected. Laragne is a great place to fly. Very open with lots of variety and challenges as well as many large fields to land in if necessary. The town is romantic and charming and has a great market day on Thursday. There is a lot of history to take in in the area, great cycling, mountain climbing, rock climbing (see Jeff's pictures), and swimming in the creeks. The wife and family will enjoy themselves here much more so than some other places that we go to where the flying is great. Last day at goal: # Name Nat Glider Time Total 1 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed 5 02:21:41 904 2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 02:34:30 864 3 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 02:50:09 839 4 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed s 4,5 02:37:02 824 5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat L14 02:40:58 798 6 Fabien Agenes FRA Aeros Combat L13 02:55:00 793 6 Jeff O'Brien USA Wills Wing T2 154 02:41:47 793 8 Luis Rizo Salom FRA Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 02:41:59 791 9 Christian Zehetmair DEU aeros Combat L14 02:55:05 790 10 Hakan Andersson SWE Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 02:42:01 789 11 Andreas Olsson SWE Wills Wing T2 02:55:11 784 11 Hans Kiefinger DEU Aeros Combat L13 02:55:10 784 13 Richard Lovelace GBR Aeros Combat L 02:43:27 782 14 Jesper Hassing DNK Aeros Combat L12 02:36:00 781 15 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Moyes Litespeed S 02:55:20 780 16 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat L12 02:55:22 779 17 Francis Gafner CHE Aeros Combat L13 02:44:28 774 18 Anton Struganov RUS Aeros Combat L 02:55:28 773 19 Raimund Kaiser AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 02:55:25 772 20 Anton Minskiy RUS Aeros Combat L 02:44:50 771 21 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne C4 - 13.5 02:56:31 765 22 Koos De Keijzer NLD Icaro Laminar Zero 7 02:58:59 748 22 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:49:19 748 24 Gary Wirdnam GBR Aeros Combat L 02:49:37 745 24 Davis Straub USA Wills Wing T2 - 144 02:50:02 745 26 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed S4 02:49:44 742 27 Blay Olmos Quesada ESP Icaro Z8 02:50:10 738 28 Gianpietro Zin FRA Wills Wing T2 - 144 02:51:12 731 29 Artur Dzamikhov RUS Aeros Combat L 03:03:18 725 30 André Disselhorst NLD Aeros Combat L13 03:04:46 716 31 Laurent Thevenot FRA Aeros Combat L 03:10:35 693 32 Vladimir Leuskov RUS Aeros Combat L 03:10:12 692 33 Francois Isoard FRA Aeros Combat L13 03:10:14 689 34 Malcolm Brown GBR Aeros Combat L 03:08:58 685 35 Joakim Hindemith SWE Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:13:29 671 36 Endre Kovacs HUN Aeros Combat L 03:18:14 658 37 Eric Mathurin FRA Moyes Litespeed RS 4 03:29:29 600 38 Uli Eysel DEU Moyes Litespeed S-4 03:40:15 598 38 Jeff Shapiro USA Wills Wing T2 144 03:29:42 598 Overall: # Name Nat Glider Total 1 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne C4 - 13.5 3482 2 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed s 4,5 3363 3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat L14 3311 4 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3302 5 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat L12 3141 6 Fabien Agenes FRA Aeros Combat L13 3078 7 Luis Rizo Salom FRA Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 3004 8 André Disselhorst NLD Aeros Combat L13 2895 9 Andreas Olsson SWE Wills Wing T2 2885 10 Jeff O'Brien USA Wills Wing T2 154 2883 11 Hans Kiefinger DEU Aeros Combat L13 2832 12 Christian Voiblet CHE Aeros Combat L12 2818 13 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Moyes Litespeed S 2783 14 Gary Wirdnam GBR Aeros Combat L 2774 15 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 2640 16 Francois Isoard FRA Aeros Combat L13 2635 17 Davis Straub USA Wills Wing T2 - 144 2623 18 David Matthews GBR Moyes Litespeed S3.5 2571 19 Bruce Kavanagh GBR Wills Wing T2 2531 20 Hakan Andersson SWE Moyes Litespeed RS 3,5 2497 Discuss Pre-Worlds - nine at the Oz Report forum   link»
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]]> {AVIATION > HANG GLIDING} - The pre-Worlds, day one The pre-Worlds, day one http://hang6.blogspot.com/ http://www.chabre2009.com/ With a forecast of northwest winds at eight knots at launch level (4000'), the meet organizers say that launching at Laragne-Chabre will not be possible (for 120 pilots) so we headed to the southwest facing launch at Aspres. The idea was that the winds will calm down and turn west during the day. We took a 40 kilometer drive to the Aspres launch, a launch that we haven't see so far, and what do you know it was beautiful, far nicer than the Laragne-Chabre launch. Covered with grass and wildflowers, huge, top landable, and with a nice steep launch (after a long less steep launch) with grass and not scree. It was blowing lightly over the back, but it was also coming up the face. This leads to "dust" devils, which they say never happen at this site. Later gliders will be spun around, and one pilot, Radek, will be flipped over while hooked in rupturing his ACL. The task committee called a 130 km task back to Laragne LZ at the campground. Not way up into the high mountains, but high enough. The forecast called for strong lift and cloud base between 8,000' and 10,000' depending on where you were (this proved to be quite accurate). I got off second in my line (there were three) and as I got up it was great to see the whole launch was covered with almost 120 gliders. The lift was a bit weak out in front, but as soon as I got over launch it was more than strong enough. I had been told that this is not really a cross country site, but it must be under different conditions than what we experienced yesterday. I was off an hour before the first start time and the air was soon filling with competitors. We spread out along the ridge line and there were cu's every where. It was easy to repeatedly get up to cloud base. I noticed that pilots kept out of the clouds. Perhaps they were concerned that the height limit restrictions rule would be implemented if they didn't. Any way it was nice to be able to see every one. Almost every one took the first start time as we were all high (7,800') and it had been good the whole time. Ten minutes before the start window opened I couldn't get back right to cloudbase after spending most of the time prior to the start window just staying out of the clouds, so I started a few hundred feet lower than the top most guys. Why does this happen? It was a race to the east northeast to the next mountain range and when we got there the lift was a bit too strong and rowdy for me. I hung on for a few turns before going for smoother stuff down the course line. As we progressed east along the range the conditions were strong and we were diving into the mountains getting up pretty well to 8,000'. It was 22 km to the first start point just west of the town of Gap and as I got there there were pilots every where. The second turnpoint was out in the flats east of Gap, but we worked a low ridge line and then a nice rock face north of the course line to get high enough to make it and have some extra altitude to get to the next hill before crossing a lake. The lift in front of the rock face was strong and broken and you didn't want to get too close to it. I headed for the hill past the second turnpoint before the lake and just got over the top at 5,000'. There was an exposed face to the south and Scott Barrett, who started twenty minutes after us, had caught me and we were climbing together over a high tension power line just below the lead gaggle. This thermal got me to the highest I was all day at 9,300'. From that altitude it was a quick jump over a large lake (Lac de Serre-Poncon) to the ridge line to the south east (Dormilouse). We'd been told that the ticket was to fly down this ridge line even though it was way off course line, and don't worry about turning. I climbed up the ridge, got on top and headed straight for the next 5 km. But where were the pilots on the ridge? They were all to my right out in the valley more on the course line. What's with that? After 5 km there was no one in front of me on the ridge (and me in a new and strange location) and it was clear that the pilots were flying along the course line which takes them over an unlandable canyon. I turned right and joined the other pilots. What a fool. It was a fourteen mile glide with a little stop to try to get higher into a large mountain, Blayeul, with a tower on top. The safe landing areas had long gone by the wayside and now it came down to getting over this mountain. But just as I got to the side of it, the shadow from the large high cloud (output from a towering cumulus) shaded the mountain side and everything around it. I found lift on the north side but the air was tossing my glider around and I was just barely holding on at this point. Scott and all the lead gaggle was just above me working their way high enough to get over the mountain. They would make it. I would get as high as the top of the mountain (7,000'), but not high enough to fly over it. I tried to climb up it, but got flushed. I climbed up again and tried to run around it following three other pilots but again got flushed into the unlandable canyon. I found a stream bed that was plenty wide and landed in it downwind up hill without damage to the glider and only a few minor scrapes for me. I got a ride out from some forest workers and found Natalie on a hill side in the valley that I landed in and then another pilot in the creek bed. It turned out that there was a couple of other pilots nearby, including Derrick Turner. The unlandable canyon turned out to be pretty popular. Natalie had aimed for a small landing field, but couldn't get the glider down, so went up the hillside at the end of the field and landed in the bushes. We scrambled up the hillside on our hands and knees to get to her and her glider. Amazing. Jeff O'Brien made it over Blayeul as did Zippy. Jeff Shapiro landed with nine other pilots in a field on the north side of Blayeul. Lots of broken aluminum. Jack Simons was further back. After Blayeul Scott stayed in the sunny areas (there was lots of shade from the high level cloud) to the east of the course line and took his time getting to the last turnpoint past Blayeul, near Digne les Bains. After the turnpoint, those pilots in front of him were low while he, Gordon Rigg and Gary Wirdhan had preserved their altitude by going slow and staying in the sunshine. The last leg of the course was cross wind and over a difficult forested section that stopped most of the pilots who made it that far. Scott went on final glide at 15 to 1 and made it in twenty minutes in front of every one else. Discuss Pre-Worlds - 1 at the Oz Report forum   link» http://articles.world-of-newave.info/recreation/aviation/aircraft/footlaunched/hang-gliding/the-pre-worlds-day-one-20080622142.htm 2008-06-27T08:51:03Z 2008-06-27T08:51:03Z OzReport.Com http://OzReport.com/1214545863 The pre-Worlds, day one {new window}   OzReport.Com - The pre-Worlds, day one http://hang6.blogspot.com/ http://www.chabre2009.com/ With a forecast of northwest winds at eight knots at launch level (4000'), the meet organizers say that launching at Laragne-Chabre will not be possible (for 120 pilots) so we headed to the southwest facing launch at Aspres. The idea was that the winds will calm down and turn west during the day. We took a 40 kilometer drive to the Aspres launch, a launch that we haven't see so far, and what do you know it was beautiful, far nicer than the Laragne-Chabre launch. Covered with grass and wildflowers, huge, top landable, and with a nice steep launch (after a long less steep launch) with grass and not scree. It was blowing lightly over the back, but it was also coming up the face. This leads to "dust" devils, which they say never happen at this site. Later gliders will be spun around, and one pilot, Radek, will be flipped over while hooked in rupturing his ACL. The task committee called a 130 km task back to Laragne LZ at the campground. Not way up into the high mountains, but high enough. The forecast called for strong lift and cloud base between 8,000' and 10,000' depending on where you were (this proved to be quite accurate). I got off second in my line (there were three) and as I got up it was great to see the whole launch was covered with almost 120 gliders. The lift was a bit weak out in front, but as soon as I got over launch it was more than strong enough. I had been told that this is not really a cross country site, but it must be under different conditions than what we experienced yesterday. I was off an hour before the first start time and the air was soon filling with competitors. We spread out along the ridge line and there were cu's every where. It was easy to repeatedly get up to cloud base. I noticed that pilots kept out of the clouds. Perhaps they were concerned that the height limit restrictions rule would be implemented if they didn't. Any way it was nice to be able to see every one. Almost every one took the first start time as we were all high (7,800') and it had been good the whole time. Ten minutes before the start window opened I couldn't get back right to cloudbase after spending most of the time prior to the start window just staying out of the clouds, so I started a few hundred feet lower than the top most guys. Why does this happen? It was a race to the east northeast to the next mountain range and when we got there the lift was a bit too strong and rowdy for me. I hung on for a few turns before going for smoother stuff down the course line. As we progressed east along the range the conditions were strong and we were diving into the mountains getting up pretty well to 8,000'. It was 22 km to the first start point just west of the town of Gap and as I got there there were pilots every where. The second turnpoint was out in the flats east of Gap, but we worked a low ridge line and then a nice rock face north of the course line to get high enough to make it and have some extra altitude to get to the next hill before crossing a lake. The lift in front of the rock face was strong and broken and you didn't want to get too close to it. I headed for the hill past the second turnpoint before the lake and just got over the top at 5,000'. There was an exposed face to the south and Scott Barrett, who started twenty minutes after us, had caught me and we were climbing together over a high tension power line just below the lead gaggle. This thermal got me to the highest I was all day at 9,300'. From that altitude it was a quick jump over a large lake (Lac de Serre-Poncon) to the ridge line to the south east (Dormilouse). We'd been told that the ticket was to fly down this ridge line even though it was way off course line, and don't worry about turning. I climbed up the ridge, got on top and headed straight for the next 5 km. But where were the pilots on the ridge? They were all to my right out in the valley more on the course line. What's with that? After 5 km there was no one in front of me on the ridge (and me in a new and strange location) and it was clear that the pilots were flying along the course line which takes them over an unlandable canyon. I turned right and joined the other pilots. What a fool. It was a fourteen mile glide with a little stop to try to get higher into a large mountain, Blayeul, with a tower on top. The safe landing areas had long gone by the wayside and now it came down to getting over this mountain. But just as I got to the side of it, the shadow from the large high cloud (output from a towering cumulus) shaded the mountain side and everything around it. I found lift on the north side but the air was tossing my glider around and I was just barely holding on at this point. Scott and all the lead gaggle was just above me working their way high enough to get over the mountain. They would make it. I would get as high as the top of the mountain (7,000'), but not high enough to fly over it. I tried to climb up it, but got flushed. I climbed up again and tried to run around it following three other pilots but again got flushed into the unlandable canyon. I found a stream bed that was plenty wide and landed in it downwind up hill without damage to the glider and only a few minor scrapes for me. I got a ride out from some forest workers and found Natalie on a hill side in the valley that I landed in and then another pilot in the creek bed. It turned out that there was a couple of other pilots nearby, including Derrick Turner. The unlandable canyon turned out to be pretty popular. Natalie had aimed for a small landing field, but couldn't get the glider down, so went up the hillside at the end of the field and landed in the bushes. We scrambled up the hillside on our hands and knees to get to her and her glider. Amazing. Jeff O'Brien made it over Blayeul as did Zippy. Jeff Shapiro landed with nine other pilots in a field on the north side of Blayeul. Lots of broken aluminum. Jack Simons was further back. After Blayeul Scott stayed in the sunny areas (there was lots of shade from the high level cloud) to the east of the course line and took his time getting to the last turnpoint past Blayeul, near Digne les Bains. After the turnpoint, those pilots in front of him were low while he, Gordon Rigg and Gary Wirdhan had preserved their altitude by going slow and staying in the sunshine. The last leg of the course was cross wind and over a difficult forested section that stopped most of the pilots who made it that far. Scott went on final glide at 15 to 1 and made it in twenty minutes in front of every one else. Discuss Pre-Worlds - 1 at the Oz Report forum   link»
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