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Fly Games World Championship - Day Three

Posted on December 04, 2011 in Dean Eldridge   

After waiting for the rain to subside all day yesterday and this morning, we were finally granted a window of opportunity to get out and practice some tasks before lunch, despite quite strong and changeable winds. Most of the time the wind was drawing offshore so was not the best, with some rotor coming off the back of highrise buildings; but flyable none the less.

I had a trial ‘head-to-head’ run with Grzegorz Krzyzanowski from Poland around the pylons this afternoon which was fun and exciting, both swapping the lead and having some overtaking maneuvers.
There’s definitely a difference in styles out there between the paraglider pilots and their acro wings and most of us Europeans with our reflex paramotor wings. Both my Parajet Polini200 motor and Paramania GTR20 wing are performing faultlessly with just a little tweak here and there to set things up for the conditions.

Training is now over and much shorter than anticipated but there’s not much that can be done when the weather doesn’t play ball. At least the forecast is favourable for the weekend event.

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