News from the field

The epicness of this year's three task Serial Cup can be easily compared with last year's five task event. Besides of being a joyful flying and competitive experience for pilots flying serial wings, Serial Cup competition's main goal is to be educative.

Previous week Miha Razinger and Primoz Susa went for some hike and fly adventure over Macedonia. The plan was to do some hike & fly and use other transport in between meeting some freends on the way. With everything they need in small backpack their route took them from Skopje to Tetovo Šar mountains continuing to Kruševo and forward south to Greece.

On the photos is Aljaž Valič flying his father's small size ROOK lite. Glider weight is less then 3.9kg made with Porcher lite 24g together with ROOK standard lines and risers.

This weekend Soča Valley was full of paragliding pilots and free flyers attending festival "Flying for Simon". The main purpose of the festival was to help Slovenian pilot Simon Vogrinec to recover from an accident in Bosnia. After landing he got stucked in the mine field and and lost both legs.

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.