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Vince
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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
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Endter at: 6/5/04 10:03 pm
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Ernie
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Re: Vince in
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Atta Boy, Vince! I can't wait to hear your stories.
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MattsFlyin
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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
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MattsFlyin
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Champion
Yup, he's the best darned hang "glinder" in the world!
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Donna
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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 
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Beer
Yeah, bring back some beer.
Leo
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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  
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MattsFlyin
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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
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Vince
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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
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Leo
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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
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Ernie
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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
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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.
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Vince
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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
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Vince
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Saturday June
19
Our hotel in Munich has internet connections so I made another post
today.
Vince
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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
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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
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