August 20, 2009...3:15 PM

U.S. Paragliding Nationals Day 4

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With a North flow and light winds an 89km task was called. Inspo to Buckly to a control point around a temporary flight restriction due to a forest fire and then on to Levan. Conditions we weak at first and many pilots didn’t get up and away until 2:30. 11 Pilots made goal some taking as long as 4:45 minutes. That’s a long day on a paraglider. Mads Syndergaad won the day again.

Task 4 results are HERE.

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  • Wow, I can’t image flying for that long

  • Being a relative novice myself, I havn’t spent more than 1 hour in the air…yet. Just shy of 5 hours is a bit of an epic. A flying buddy of mine told me of a moment he was flying smooth air over dunes for a few hours and actually fell asleep! Luckily he woke himself up snoring…


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