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Vince in
Austria
Nancy and I leave for Austria on Friday. Actually, we are heading for Munich Germany until June 1st, then to Greifenberg Austria for the World Hang Gliding competition. If I can get internet access, I will post to one of my web pages as I did for the Florida competition. The link is:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
I will try to keep track of what we do every day, but I may only be able to post every few days.
Vince Edited by: Vince Endter at: 6/5/04 10:03 pm
Nancy and I leave for Austria on Friday. Actually, we are heading for Munich Germany until June 1st, then to Greifenberg Austria for the World Hang Gliding competition. If I can get internet access, I will post to one of my web pages as I did for the Florida competition. The link is:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
I will try to keep track of what we do every day, but I may only be able to post every few days.
Vince Edited by: Vince Endter at: 6/5/04 10:03 pm
Re: Vince in
Austria
Atta Boy, Vince! I can't wait to hear your stories.
Atta Boy, Vince! I can't wait to hear your stories.
Austria
You should run for public office there, maybe governer or burgemeister!
Have a beer in Munich on me, I'll pay you when you get back!
Oh yeah, and good luck flying, all types!
Matt
You should run for public office there, maybe governer or burgemeister!
Have a beer in Munich on me, I'll pay you when you get back!
Oh yeah, and good luck flying, all types!
Matt
Champion
Yup, he's the best darned hang "glinder" in the world!
Yup, he's the best darned hang "glinder" in the world!
Austria
Bound
Vince & Nancy,
Have a great time in Austria. You sure know how to make us jealous. We'll live through your reports. Anyway, have a good time, fly high, fly far and be safe.
~Donna
Vince & Nancy,
Have a great time in Austria. You sure know how to make us jealous. We'll live through your reports. Anyway, have a good time, fly high, fly far and be safe.
~Donna
Beer
Yeah, bring back some beer.
Leo
Yeah, bring back some beer.
Leo
Pictures in
Germany
Good goin' Vince and Nancy. Take lots of pictures. Wear those cute little leather mini shorts, and record polkas with tubas and accordians.
Have unt gooten timen :-)
Greg Edited by: Greg Sugg at: 5/27/04 7:22 pm
Good goin' Vince and Nancy. Take lots of pictures. Wear those cute little leather mini shorts, and record polkas with tubas and accordians.
Have unt gooten timen :-)
Greg Edited by: Greg Sugg at: 5/27/04 7:22 pm
Not Champion
Anymore
Ok, so he's given up his world hang "glinding" champ aspirations. Darned fool sport anyway. Everyone knows hang "gliding" is much more fun!
Go Vince Go!
Matt
Ok, so he's given up his world hang "glinding" champ aspirations. Darned fool sport anyway. Everyone knows hang "gliding" is much more fun!
Go Vince Go!
Matt
Re:
Austria
I have internet connection now. Reports at:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
Due to the internet availability at the hotel, they will be a day late each time.
Vince
I have internet connection now. Reports at:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
Due to the internet availability at the hotel, they will be a day late each time.
Vince
bent aluminium
etc.
It's been fun reading your exploits so far. I would have warned the pilot of the Airbus. Sheesh - I've changed downtubes a lot less bent than that.
Please don't drive 125 mph on the freeway when you get back. At least not with my glider on the roof. If you had 4 gliders on the roof you could probably take off at that speed.
Thanks for the reports. Have fun.
Leo
It's been fun reading your exploits so far. I would have warned the pilot of the Airbus. Sheesh - I've changed downtubes a lot less bent than that.
Please don't drive 125 mph on the freeway when you get back. At least not with my glider on the roof. If you had 4 gliders on the roof you could probably take off at that speed.
Thanks for the reports. Have fun.
Leo
Another
viewpoint
It seems Vince's reporting has caught on. Jim Yocum, from Colorado, is also keeping an on-line journal of this adventure:
www.rmhga.org/xccontest/2004Worlds.htm
If you don't know who Jim is, there's several photos of him in the Flytec Championship photo galleries. Here's one:
http://www.sonomawings.com/archive/fl2004/0424/images/img_4133.jpg
I took a lot of photos of Jim 'cause he flies a rigid wing and was with Vince on the flight line every day. Now he and Vince are flying as team mates at the worlds.
Ernie
It seems Vince's reporting has caught on. Jim Yocum, from Colorado, is also keeping an on-line journal of this adventure:
www.rmhga.org/xccontest/2004Worlds.htm
If you don't know who Jim is, there's several photos of him in the Flytec Championship photo galleries. Here's one:
http://www.sonomawings.com/archive/fl2004/0424/images/img_4133.jpg
I took a lot of photos of Jim 'cause he flies a rigid wing and was with Vince on the flight line every day. Now he and Vince are flying as team mates at the worlds.
Ernie
Monday the 7th
,Austria
Vince, that was quite an accomplishment you made Monday! thanks for reporting, since the wind has been gusting to 50 mph at times here , for the last week or so.
we need some flying stories.
above the clouds !
Keep this up and you'll get good enough to launch from St John , fly up to Herd Peak, land , sleep in Shastina, and fly back the next day.
Vince, that was quite an accomplishment you made Monday! thanks for reporting, since the wind has been gusting to 50 mph at times here , for the last week or so.
we need some flying stories.
above the clouds !
Keep this up and you'll get good enough to launch from St John , fly up to Herd Peak, land , sleep in Shastina, and fly back the next day.
Re: Kari tumbled
yesterday
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
She is OK but her glider is destroyed and her equipment is still on the top of a mountain.
Vince
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
She is OK but her glider is destroyed and her equipment is still on the top of a mountain.
Vince
Saturday June
19
Our hotel in Munich has internet connections so I made another post today.
Vince
www.flyatos.com
Our hotel in Munich has internet connections so I made another post today.
Vince
www.flyatos.com
Thanks
Vince
Thanks Vince. It was great living the experience vicariously through your reports.
See you fourth of July at St John.
We're off to King!!! Yee Haa!!!
Hangfly
Thanks Vince. It was great living the experience vicariously through your reports.
See you fourth of July at St John.
We're off to King!!! Yee Haa!!!
Hangfly
2004 rigid
worlds
On the long flight back home, I had a lot of time to think about my flying in Austria. I was trying to come up with a better way of describing what it is like to fly there. We had two types of flying days. On what I will call the "good" days, we were climbing to 13,000'+ over mountains with peaks between 7,000' and 9,000'. I found that if you got below 5,000' or 6,000' you were soon on the deck. The valleys were 2,000', but there was very little lift low in the valleys (they are very wet and green). I made goal every day on the "good" days. On the "bad" days, the cloud bases were between 8,000' and 9,000' (in many areas lower than the peaks). On these days I never made goal. I have come up with a couple of scenarios to describe these "bad" days. For those that have flown King, imagine flying between May and Salmon (up that canyon), with the clouds below the peaks and the wind blowing 20+ mph, and make two complete round trips (130+ miles). The second scenario is to fly from McClellan (NV) to Silver Springs with the clouds lower than the peaks, 20+ mph wind and again make the round trip twice. Oh, and I forgot, fly at speeds between 55 and 60 mph while on glides. If you miss one thermal, you are one the ground.
I also gave some thought to what kind of pilot the USA would have to send to Austria to be competitive (this is in no way meant to question the ability of most of the current USA team members). This would be my ideal pilot. Take a Dean Tiegs or Kevin Frost (for their experience in high winds in the mountains), make them loose 80 to 100 pounds each, (the Italian pilots have the frontal area of a dinner plate), take 20 to 30 years off their age, give them a harness for comps only, with 20 to 30 pounds of ballast (Christian's harness was so tight he had bruises on his hips, I don't think you could have slid a credit card between him and his harness), give them the latest and greatest glider (a $12,000 to $18,000 investment, and tweak this glider for this comp, Christian's glider had very little washout). Don't forget the special vario with total energy compensation (the stick thermals at 60 mph make it virtually mandatory).
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the flying in Austria. Though many days the air was rough, I never felt like I was going to tumble. In fact, you could say the rigid gliders are now less likely to tumble, given the fact that two of the flex wings tumbled and none of the rigids. The scenery from the air was spectacular. I am glad I had the chance to fly there.
You can read about the entire trip at:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
Vince
On the long flight back home, I had a lot of time to think about my flying in Austria. I was trying to come up with a better way of describing what it is like to fly there. We had two types of flying days. On what I will call the "good" days, we were climbing to 13,000'+ over mountains with peaks between 7,000' and 9,000'. I found that if you got below 5,000' or 6,000' you were soon on the deck. The valleys were 2,000', but there was very little lift low in the valleys (they are very wet and green). I made goal every day on the "good" days. On the "bad" days, the cloud bases were between 8,000' and 9,000' (in many areas lower than the peaks). On these days I never made goal. I have come up with a couple of scenarios to describe these "bad" days. For those that have flown King, imagine flying between May and Salmon (up that canyon), with the clouds below the peaks and the wind blowing 20+ mph, and make two complete round trips (130+ miles). The second scenario is to fly from McClellan (NV) to Silver Springs with the clouds lower than the peaks, 20+ mph wind and again make the round trip twice. Oh, and I forgot, fly at speeds between 55 and 60 mph while on glides. If you miss one thermal, you are one the ground.
I also gave some thought to what kind of pilot the USA would have to send to Austria to be competitive (this is in no way meant to question the ability of most of the current USA team members). This would be my ideal pilot. Take a Dean Tiegs or Kevin Frost (for their experience in high winds in the mountains), make them loose 80 to 100 pounds each, (the Italian pilots have the frontal area of a dinner plate), take 20 to 30 years off their age, give them a harness for comps only, with 20 to 30 pounds of ballast (Christian's harness was so tight he had bruises on his hips, I don't think you could have slid a credit card between him and his harness), give them the latest and greatest glider (a $12,000 to $18,000 investment, and tweak this glider for this comp, Christian's glider had very little washout). Don't forget the special vario with total energy compensation (the stick thermals at 60 mph make it virtually mandatory).
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the flying in Austria. Though many days the air was rough, I never felt like I was going to tumble. In fact, you could say the rigid gliders are now less likely to tumble, given the fact that two of the flex wings tumbled and none of the rigids. The scenery from the air was spectacular. I am glad I had the chance to fly there.
You can read about the entire trip at:
www.flyatos.com/v/vince_report_old.html
Vince
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