Altitude is your friend (AKA: how not to do it)

Submitted by Lloyd Greenfield on Wed, 27/02/2013 - 23:13. Posted in

Today I made a stuff-up, which could have ended very badly. Rather than try & forget about it I'm posting this so anyone else can see my mistake & hopefully learn from it:

http://youtu.be/Df22YewLX8U

World Hang Gliding Champs, Forbes, Australia ~ an epic competition.

Submitted by Rod Stuart on Fri, 18/01/2013 - 15:33.
Best NZ pilot Jonas Lobitz with his father Hagen sitting under his wing at the worlds. He came 25th out or 105

World Hang Gliding Champs, Forbes, Australia Jan 2013
Final Overall Results after 10 Tasks

Pilot Name, Country, Place, Score.
Manfred Ruhmer, Austria, 1st, 9010
Alessandro Pioner, Italy, 2nd, 8871
Fillipp Oppici, Italy, 3rd, 8560

Jonas Lobitz, NZ, 25th, 7476
John Smith, NZ, 47th, 6212
Conrad Loten, NZ, 65th, 4968
Matt Barlow, NZ, 75th, 4198
James McKirdy, NZ, 88th, 2974
Lisa Bradley, NZ, 101st, 1167

A superb effort by the NZ team with every Kiwi pilot flying in every task.
The top pilots flew 1876km to win this championships.

Taylors Mistake - Test Weather Station

Submitted by Gareth Gore on Thu, 20/12/2012 - 08:35. Posted in

Hi All,

Over the last few months I`ve built and tested a wind station.
The Wind station is now mounted near to the Taylors Mistake Launch.
The system runs on 900mhz GSM and sends out INSTANTANEOUS readings every 20minutes between 8am and 8pm.
I have an application running that automatically forwards the information to Twitter
You can access the data by getting yourself a Twitter account (I know alot of regular pilots have them already)
Once you have a Twitter account, you need to follow GoretekWeather

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