In the second task of 94 km 21 pilots at goal.
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Russian Open has just kicked off in Sopot. Today they flew a 64 km triangle - many people at goal. The cloudbase was at around 3000 m. Some pilots are taking the opportunity of flying two (or even three) comps in a row as Shambhala have put all events next to each other in their calendar.
Some pics from today.
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Including all registered pilots
Above the most popular wing brands.
And the most popular models are:
Advance Omega - 14
Gradient Avax XC - 13
Niviuk Peak - 9
Axis Vega - 9
As we have a nice cinema at our disposal in Sopot, we decided to organize some educational activities for you. One of the will be mountain rescue training, in which we'll show you what to do in case of tree-landing, how to safely get somebody down and how to behave in other emergency sistuations in the mountains. The training will be presented by Jakub Poburka, who's a member of the Polish Tatra-Mountain Rescue Service.
We would like to remind you that you should always have with you (in an easily accessible place in your harness) some emergency gear in case of tree-landing, at least an anchor sling, a carabiner and, the most important, dental floss (lack of which might result in a four-hour koala-style tree-hanging on a Mexican pine, see picture). You should also carry a whistle and something to drink within reach.
Army Adventure Wing (Skybirds) comprises of seven team members, the Team Leader in the rank of major and the rest are corporals and sergeants. Some of the team members have been flying for a while, 2-3 years now but, as they claim "it has been an uphill task, since paragliding in India is not a mainstream sport in flying. In 2007 the team got a shot in the arm when we started training under a qualified instructor". Last year they took part in the Pre-World Cup held in India and this comp will be the first time the Indian paragliding team would participate in a foreign country. "Slowly this team is begining to take shape, not worried bout the results at the moment, learning is what we aim at" claims major Arjan Singh Bedi (but this might be just smokescreen ;)
We, and by "we" I mean the female part of the organization, are waiting impatiently for a photo of the team in their uniforms.
And for the time being we can let our imagination go wild:
Indian army to the right, on the elephant. To the left Alexander the Great. Maybe some Macedonians will come as well.
If the Axis Girls haven't done that job, we would like to encourage you some more to take part in the comp. Polish Paragliding Association is offering 1400 euro in cash for the winners. That money will be devided between the best pilots in the women, open and Polish classifications. Some top pilots are already interested in taking part in the comp, including Yassen Savov and Nikolay Shorokhov. Come and try to kick their ....
We're happy to present competition poster with the new official logo.
To encourage you to take part in the competition (and pay the entry fee as there are more and more spots taken) we would like to present to you some of the participants. To start with let us introduce you to the Axis Girls in their everyday uniforms. If you want to find out if they also fly in their miniskirts and if their harnesses are closed or not, you'll have to come to Sopot.