News from the field

A young and talented 777 team pilot Ruard du Bruyn once again showed his skills in Western Cape open competition. He and his Queen where making decent steps in each tasks where in the end Ruard landed on podium with 3rd place in sport class. Big congrats from the team to South Africa.

Every year there is a new brand of competition that already became traditional in Tolmin. SerialCup was made to get the top pilots flying lower certification wings to teach new pilots about competition flying. Every year many new pilots come to learn and fly with the best. We are happy that we have such a good pilots here in Slovenia from Slo Paragliding team.

We know that Pawn has great potential for XC flying even when its nicely placed in EN/A category. Mrs. Tatiana Noskova took the Pawn to the sky and landed after nice 120 km flight. Congrats on a nice flight!

Denis Soverini our team pilot was searching for this day for a long time in this bad weather season. In the end he found one that took him and Queen over the 200km barier from famous Sorica take off. Here is what he told us about it:

Our team pilot Rui Nascimento has done it again! After battling it out with leading till the last day, a small error on the last day got him to a second place in sport class. The outstanding performance of this "combo" Rui and the Queen is placing one good result after another.

Another succesful competition for Triple Seven Gliders with Urban Valic taking first place by 200 points in sport class with Queen. We also would like to congratulate for second place in her first competition, our team pilot Lara Leban made it to the podium for the girls. Congratulations to all.

We received great news from Portugal where our team pilot Rui Nascimento won serial class with his new Queen. In three tasks Rui was able to build up enough big lead for the win and with 6th place overall in open class, Queen and Rui did his best. Congrats also from Triple Seven team!

Young and talented Triple Seven team pilot came second in sport class at Barberton National Open 2014. We congratulate Ruard for another great result.

777 team pilot Brett Janaway flew over Triglav mountain on his 777 Pawn. Triglav is the highest mountain in the Julian Alps standing at 2,864 metres. The flight was done using a 4-stroke PPG (paramotor) that he borrowed and a large Pawn fitted with the optional PPG risers.