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Après les annulations de toutes les compétitions du printemps, nous étions à l’affut pour ce week-end et suite au report de l’Open de Laragne, la seule option était de descendre au Val Comino ou une fenêtre météo de 4 jours s’annonçait prometteuse. La compétition, initialement prévue sur 6 jours, se voit amputer de ses deux premières journées… Ce qui nous arrange bien. Un coup de téléphone à Flavio qui accepte gentiment nos inscriptions tardives et on se met en route pour la mission Val Comino, 1000km et 11h de route avec Simon et Jean-Daniel. Un nouveau site pour nous trois et la concurrence s’annonce féroce avec les meilleurs pilotes italiens dont Marco Laurenzi, vice-champion du monde et le local Francesco Marsella. Le terrain de jeu est composé d’une longue crête avec une plaine et quelques petits reliefs. Les manches entre 67 et 89km se ressemblent avec d’importants changements de rythmes et des options variées. Rester au relief et sortir sur la plaine pour les plus conservateurs ou tenter sa chance dans la plaine au risque de se retrouver bas et perdre du temps. Malgré des choix de lignes et de stratégies différentes, les écarts de temps sont minimes. Au final, la compétition est remportée par l’italien Manuel Revelli qui fait le goal tous les jours (tout comme Jean-Daniel) devant les locaux Francesco Marsella et Marco Laurenzi. Les places 4 à 6 sont extrêment disputées avec seulement 8 points d’écart entre Juri Bresanello 4ème et Damien 6ème. Jean-Daniel se classe entre les deux avec un excellent 5ème rang. Simon termine 14ème. Cette compétition nous a permis de nous frotter aux meilleurs pilotes italiens, d’emmagasiner de l’expérience et des heures de vols si précieuses en ce début de saison difficile au point de vue météorologique. Résultats complets ici: https://civlcomps.org/event/valcomino-trophy-2024/results Damien, Jean-Daniel et Simon

An zwei von vier Tagen wurde das Aeros Winter Race ausgetragen. Das Teilnehmerfeld war mit 50 Klasse 1 Piloten und 23 Klasse 5 Piloten gross und stark. Die beiden Tasks (123 und 94 km) waren mit vielen Entscheidungspunkten und mit den zyklischen Verhältnissen demensprechend anspruchsvoll. Mit Konstanten Tagesleistungen konnte sich Bänz Braun auf den zweiten Platz hinter dem Vizemeltmeister 2023 Marco Laurenzi und vor dem jungen Litauer Saulius Guobuzas in der Klasse 1 auf dem Podium sichern. Herzliche Gratulation L'Aeros Winter Race s'est déroulée deux jours sur quatre. Le peloton de participants était vaste et fort avec 50 pilotes de classe 1 et 23 pilotes de classe 5. Les deux tâches (123 et 94 km) étaient exigeantes en conséquence avec de nombreux points de décision et des conditions cycliques. Grâce à des performances quotidiennes constantes, Bänz Braun a pu assurer la deuxième place derrière le vice-champion mondial 2023 Marco Laurenzi et devant le jeune Lituanien Saulius Guobuzas en Classe 1 sur le podium. Toutes nos félicitations

Das Deltaleague Kick Off Wochenende ist leider dem Wetter zum Opfer gefallen. Trotzdem haben sich ein paar Piloten vor dem kommenden Föhn ins Jura begeben um den Frühling einzuläuten. Die nächsten Daten: - Aeros Winterrace: 19.-24. März: Aeros Winterrace 2024 - 13.-14. April: Deltaliga Cup #1: Deltaliga Cup #1Le week-end de lancement de la Deltaleague a malheureusement été victime de la météo. Néanmoins, quelques pilotes se sont rendus dans le Jura avant l'arrivée du foehn. Prochaines Dates: - Aeros Winterrace: 19.-24. mars: Aeros Winterrace 2024 - 13.-14. avril: Deltaligue Coupe #1: Deltaligue Coupe #1

Deltaliga Cup 2024 Sehr geehrte Piloten! Hier sind die Daten für den Swiss Cup 2024: Liga Wintertraining/Kick-Off Season 2024 (optional): 9.-10. März Interlaken/Brenzikofen Ligacup 1: 13-14. April Jura German/Swiss Open: 26. Mai-1. Juni Waldkirch https://civlcomps.org/event/german-open-2024-hanggliding Annecy Open: 13.-16. Juni https://civlcomps.org/event/open-annecy2 Ligacup 2: 6.-7. Juli Ostschweiz/Zentralschweiz Ligacup-Finale: 7.-8. September Wallis

Today the weather forecast announced a short thermik day. So a short 129km task has been set. Zig-Zag south and north. Very interesting with load of options and the choice between flats and mountains were the key to success. The finalglide was very tight for the most pilots. All Swiss Pilots in Goal today what nicely concludes this championships. We look forward for more such event, we gonna be ready for it. Tomorrow the closeing and prize giving ceremony will close this amazing experiance for all of us and everyone involved in this championships.

Day 10: 152km Task in a diamond form around the plateau. First leg north, then east, goint south and west. The finals were against wind back to goal, quite tricky and some pilots came too short, also Petsch with 300m too short before end of speed section.

Day 9 in short: not a swiss day. Very interesting task was set. 152km first south-west then north-east with a zig-zag to goal. The conditions were totally different again, with Alex Ploners words: The clouds here are wrong... Low-safe was not possible and at some places the pilots hit some serious sink to the ground. One wrong decision ended often to direct land.

Ruhetag. The weather seems to be flyable but not taskable today. The teamleaders together with the meet director decided to make a rest day today. So the race continues for 3 more days from tomorrow on. The Swiss Team is occupied with free flying, paragliding before the thunderstorm, doing laundry or just haveing a nice day.

Today, quite some E-wind in the forecast. The task let the competitors first south, then east, north-east and back south again. What seemed easy for orientation showed up to be very tricky. To be able to make the task, a fairly good mix of technic (cause of the winddrift of the thermals and lowsafes), tactics (which line was either possible to tick the north waypoint and also fast), positive thinking (a lot had surely their harness open doing lowsafes) and even more experience in task flying. The Livetracking never was so exciting than today for those who watched!!! The day's result show quite some mixing up rankings.

Today, lots of NE winds in the forecast. The task lead the competitors to north, then back to south and west near the beautiful lake ohrid for the final towards E to the goal in the south of Krushevo, 126km. The task was won by Alex Ploner, followed by Attlia Bertok and Franz Herrmann. This leads Franz on the currently overall second place togehter with Alvaro "Nene" Figueiredo Sandoli and the Swiss Team overall to the third place. The Rest of the Swiss are: 10: JD 22: Petsch 26: Damien 59: Ubi 84: Fredy

The day started cloudy and even, which setting up our glider, we caught some rain. The tasksetter set a smaller task north, south and goal just near Krushevo. JD and Ubi landed short, all others in goal. Franz did a fast race, but the leading points and the different gates the pilots took was makeing it difficult to see who won in the goal. Finally Jon Durand won the day. The Swiss team currently at the 4th place, due to good and solid performances.

Day 04, Task 2. The task, 126km. North, South and against the north-east wind back to the goal. First two ones in goal were Marco Laurenzi and Alex Ploner. But there were multiple gates. So we will see the fastest racers only on the ranking.

Tag 2: Der Task wurde vom Safety Komitee wegen einem Unfall am Startplatz (nur leicht verletzt) und schlechten Startbedingungen gestoppt. Tag 3: Der Tag wird gecancelled wegen Abdeckungen, Überentwicklungen und Regenschauer im Tal. Somit zählt der Tag als Ruhetag. Für die nächsten 5 Tage sind die Prognosen sehr gut. Fotos folgen.

Day one is on. Task is about to been set and the competitors are ready. Livetracking

The Team got all well to Krushevo. Last preparations are ongoing. Registrations start today and tomorrow, 07. August a training task is announced.

The Delta World Championships are coming up! From 6-19 August 2023, the best hanggliders in the world will compete in Kruševo, Northern Macedonia. Fredy Bircher, Franz Herrmann, Jean-Daniel Kugler, Peter Neuenschwander, Ubaldo Romano and Damien Zahn will fight for the world championship title for Switzerland. Team manager Toni Crottet has set himself a podium finish (individual and team) as a long-term goal for the World Championships. Whether this goal will be achieved at this year's Delta World Championships in Kruševo in northern Macedonia is uncertain. "It would have to go really well for that," says the Delta League boss. Follow the World Cup with us here. #hoppschwiz

For three days, there were beaming faces at the Lehn landing site in Interlaken. The reason for this was the top Delta pilots, because the conditions were great. In the air they enjoyed 3 superlative tasks. With 111km the 2nd day was the longest task. The Swiss Championship was part of the international Swiss Open. Pilots from Italy, New Zealand, Germany and France took part. The former world and European champion Christian Ciech from Italy won the Swiss Open ahead of local hero Petsch Neuenschwander. Against each other in the air, friendly on the ground, this is how the delta scene shows itself. We sat together on the pilots' evening and philosophized about the kilometers flown and also about the upcoming world championships. On the ground, the DT Falkenflue team, together with DC Interlaken, ensured safety, transport and set-up and dismantling. The various helpers were on call around the clock, so that the event lacked nothing and the pilots felt completely at ease. Bärtschi Transport und Event GmbH was the local catering service for food and music. Many thanks on behalf of the SHV to everyone who made this event possible.

Excellent conditions on the 2nd task with 111km for the many participating Delta pilots. They had a lot of fun. Shortly after take-off, the pilots were already hanging at an incredible 3400m. The task let us around lake Brienz with some zig-zags. The 2nd task was won by Christian Ciech from Italy with an average of 50km/h, which makes him 1st in the overall ranking. Conditions tomorrow look good. We are looking forward to it.