News from the field

Before us is the fourth contest for the photo of Slovenia. Again, the contest exceeded expectations in terms of the number of votes and the participating artists. With 1700 photographers in the competition and over 5000 photos.

We received the latest report from Anton Svolšak: Weather was nice, hot with thermal activity and wind. Mix that makes accuracy landing more difficult. To surprise of my opponents that I am competing with ROOK, I had to explain that this was my new challenge. It really was! Several times I landed great, twice with

After 3.rd task beeing canceled in the air, results stayed the same. ROOK became the first Triple Seven Glider made and also to win Slovenian Nationals competition. Overall Open Results ...

Ohrid in Macedonia is currently holding Paragliding Accuracy Championship with 15 national teams, all together 77 pilots. Our good friend Anton Svoljšak current Accuracy World Champion is also there representing Slovenian accuracy team with his ROOK.

On monday we were expecting D-day for the next 300 milestone with ROOK. The team was complete: Aljaz, Urban, Susa, Jost and Tilen Ceglar all equipped with ROOK XC machines.

Yesterday we had quite good conditions for long flights in Slovenian and neighboring Alps. Two ROOK pilots were flying over 200km! Tilen Ceglar 218km and Primoz Susa with the longest overall flight of the day 239km. Flights could be longer as we were flying very fast but cloud base got low in Italy and it would be impossible to return over the "mouse trap pass", so we rather headed back.

First practical day of XC course we had couple of options on a not really perfect day. Finally we decided to cross into Austria with the idea to end somewhere near Zell em See. With a bit of faster flying we could do it but overcast stopped us just when it become interesting.

Instead of receiving the glider by mail, Tilen picked it up himself and flew back home...

With his first flight, he was flying over Julian Alps and finally made 91.9km. Overall some really nice routes and a flight we can envy! His comment was "The glider is flying!" and "I could go a little bit higher over Vršič pass!"