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Black Shore (Juodkrantė) / oct21-24
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in flights, juodkrante on October 30th, 2009
Juodkrantė (literally: Black Shore, German: Schwarzort [Black Place]) with permanent population of about 720 people is a quiet Lithuanian seaside resort village located on the Curonian Spit. A part of Neringa municipality, Juodkrantė is the second largest settlement on Lithuania’s part of the spit and the first and only one place for dreamy soaring:
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September-1 at XContest world daily charts
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in flights on September 5th, 2009
For those who didn’t checked the XContest world daily flight chart for September 1st, here’s:
The flag of Lithuanian waving starting from the #5 (and furture of course) from 140 registered flights.
Position #5 in world daily – Tadas Grinevičius:
Flight details at XContest.
Trip time: 03:50:37h
Trip distance: 138km
Max altitute: 1617m
Max climb:3.0m/s
Start point: Birštonas
Few photos By Tadas Grinevičius from [...]
liotcik at Vern’s Hill, Kansas
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in flights on September 1st, 2009
August 29
A nice hill “Burr Oaks” was named in memory of hang-glider man Vern. A hill is a perfect place for gliding (para/hang) which is few km from at St. Joseph and ~70km from Kansas City.
Wana glide at Vern’s Hill?
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Vern’s hill was a meet point with Darius L. The [...]
Mad Mike Küng Dances With Paragliders
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in paravideo on September 1st, 2009
According to the net “The one and only Mad Mike Kung performs more death defying acro paragliding thrills!” A fun video with Mad Mike Kung which is avaible at paraglider.lt now.
Also some of tube video for Mad Mike:
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SPEED TO FLY
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in paravideo on August 28th, 2009
Join Jocky as he takes you on a world tour of some of the best flying sites and offers gems of advice from some of the world’s best pilots. A full instructional is given in XC flying, including finding thermals, speed to fly, dealing with fear, assessing clouds, competition flying, and XC decision making. Sites [...]
131.25 km / 126.94 km / 108.59 km
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in flights on August 28th, 2009
August 25 was a non routine day at XContest.org.
Top positions at Daily score PG (full blown list from xcontest for current day) was occupied by Lithiuanian para pilots!
Position #7 – 131.25km / Jonas Miklovis
Position #9 – 126.94km / Gintas Ciuplys
Position #15 – 108.59km / Valentinas Raginskas
Position #17 – 85.20km / Arminas Petrauskas
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Starting Paragliding
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in paravideo on August 23rd, 2009
Yet another paragliding learning DVD for you folk, online on paraglider.lt >>>
“Learn what Paragliding is all about! See how easy it is to learn to Paraglide! If you’ve been looking for a video that will inspire you or your friends to take up paragliding – this is it! Features first lessons on the beginner hill; [...]
Arminas Petrauskas – 20.8.2009 · 92.38 km
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in flights on August 20th, 2009
Few minutes ago Arminas Petrauskas just registered his today flight which is 92.38 km.
According to Arminas the day was just perfect but the wind was too strong for triangle.
The start point held at Birštonas and he landed near to the Belarus border (Eišiškės). Whole route (projection trace) was ~142km:
He flew ~4hour. Maximum alttitude was 1564 [...]
2009 US Paragliding Nationals
Posted by Gediminas Siutilas in championship, flights on August 19th, 2009
What’s go in on at US these days? Salt Lake City, Utah? US Paragliding Nationals XC championship is already in middle. August 16 – 22 Sunday through Saturday (7 possible flying days!).
From http://www.usparaglidingnats.com:
“Competition Information Page
This is the first year that the US National Champion will be decided on a two competition basis. The first competition [...]
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