It’s been a bit quiet on the posting side of things as the boys are in Gulgong for the Gulgong Classic comp.  They’re doing quite well and after the weather wasn’t looking too great at the start of the week things have improved with two tasks completed at the moment (there may be a third yet but Trent’s not returning my calls!!). It was a lot hotter in Canberra today with a storm later this arvo so hopefully the weather held out in Gulgong.

Special congrats to Peter Dall who made goal on Day 1 - one of only 3 people with a total task of 207.9km - a great result.  Pete’s currently in 3rd place overall after the second task and here’s hoping that he continues to post similar results.

Limited results can be seen on the OzReport at the following link:

Gulgong results after Day 2

I’ll update more as it comes in.

Cheers, Deb

Due to popular demand here are the Australian Hang Gliding Ladder as of the start of the 2008/2008 comp season:

Open

Female

Kingpost

Floater

A Grade list

Splint put us on to this interview with Scott after returning from France.

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He’s done it!! Scott maintained his lead to win the pre-worlds flying his Airborne C4. Congratulations from all of us and I can’t wait to have a chat to him when he returns from his successful adventure.

Results and further interviews can be seen from the pre-worlds site:

Chabre pre-worlds blog

The organizers of the Pre-Worlds are maintaining a great little blog of competition with many great interviews and photos.

Chabre 2009 Blog

Among the interviews is Scott releasing a few more pearls of wisdom:-

Interview with Scott after the first task

Holly crap!!!

Nice flying Scott! He was excited about the new sail cut on the C4 - Now I can see why!

Results here

A short video of Scott lanuching here

Sorry guys, the updates have been somewhat scarce over the past month due to me being on the road and flying a lot. Since Christmas alone, I’ve wracked up 53 hours on 19 flying days. Not a bad way the start the year but I have to work out a way to keep the site updated while I’m on the road - I’m working on it.

Over the next week or so I will get some posts happening about the past few weeks and what I have learnt while flying with the world’s best pilots on their annual pilgrimage down under. In the mean time though sit back and enjoy a few happy snaps of the fun times we’ve had over the past few weeks.

As usual, use the arrows on either side of the image below to scroll through the pics.

I’m a bit slow getting this out but the Canberra guys featured prominately in the local rag during the Gulgong Classic!

Thanks to Nath for picking up a copy of the paper.