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3000km world record claim
28/01/2003 | Posted by Peter at 07:57 PM

Klaus Ohlmann (Germany) and his copilot Karl Rabeder (Auistria) have claimed a fantastic world record in the subclass DO (open class glider) for a flight in the waves of the Andes on January 1, 2003: 3008.8 km over a free distance round 3 turn points.

If the record is validated, Klaus will have broken his own world record in this category by more than 500km! The bare (provisional) details:

Claim number 7605 :
Sub-class DO (Open Class Gliders)
General Category
Type of record : Free distance using up to 3 turn points
Course/location : Chapelco, Airport of San Martin de los Andes
(Argentina)
Performance : 3008.8 km
Pilot : Klaus OHLMANN (Germany)
Copilot : Karl RABEDER (Austria)
Glider : Nimbus 4 DM
Date : 21.01.2003
Current record : 2'463.7 km (26.11.00 - Klaus OHLMANN, Germany)

Unblievable? Well, check out the IGC file of the flight here, or just have look at the map.


IGC meeting in Prague
28/01/2003 | Posted by Peter at 05:53 PM

The agenda for the next IGC meeting, which will be held in Prague on Februaray 28 and March 1 2003, has been published and may be accessed from the IGC "meetings" page.

The accompanying documents will be added as soon as they are all (or almost all) avaiable. There will also be a zip file with all documents for downloading.

Late documents will be added only to the on-line version, and there may ba some modifications made to the agenda, so please check from time to time.


IGC Ranking List
24/01/2003 | Posted by Peter at 04:39 PM

The Offiical IGC Ranking list is now on line. For all information about this new IGC project, please follow the links in the ranking list main page http://rankings.fai.org/gliding/ A link from the IGC home page has been aded tp the drop-down menu.



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