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| John Jones crosses the lake |
Annecy! I will never get bored of that lovely place, it is so beautiful and so versatile. You can fly around the lake, on either the petit tour of about 30km, or do the grande tour of about 60-70km. Then, when you are done with that, you can fly south towards Genoble, over stunning national parks and mountains, or north along the Aravis to Chamonix. Then there is the lake for some superb SIV and general playing about with your glider. What an aerial playground.
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| Foram after her fun swim. |
We have been out there for two weeks and both groups were great fun with a truly cosmopolitan collection of pilots, all with the same positive attitude and hunger to learn SIV and XC. Each week had a day of bad weather, but that didn't stop us completing the schedule. We had two pilots, Foram and James, who wanted to throw their reserves, which went very well, so welcome to the exclusive club you two. Foram was particularly brave because she could swim! In addition to the parachute fun, we had perfect stall recoveries from everyone, not to mention some awesome wing overs, in the end. Well done everyone. Course do seem to just get better and better, and that is largely down to the skill level of pilots and their sensible choice of gliders, which are more fun to fly, with a perfect balance of security and performance.
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| The first A&1 teams |
We had over 20 personal bests with XC flights in distance, height gain, and time, with many pilots flying more than 30km, up to 2,500m, and for over 4 hours in the air.
Some great images of Annecy and the course...
This is a funky short film by Stafano Tomassi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdHpNguZUQ
Here is a nice slide show from Paul Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwYm0gtbKQ=BuwYm0gtbKQ
Here are some lovely on-board manoeuvres from Rob Ness
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