SpeedyWeb.at » Paragliding http://speedyweb.at/start Mikrokopter, Quadrokopter, Mikrocontroller, AVR, Electronic, Apple products and more Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:35:43 +0000 de hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Finally I was paragliding this summer… http://speedyweb.at/start/2009/10/05/finally-i-was-paragliding-this-summer/ http://speedyweb.at/start/2009/10/05/finally-i-was-paragliding-this-summer/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:25:38 +0000 Speedy http://speedyweb.at/start/?p=410 This summer I was paragliding at the Hochjoch (Montafon, Vorarlberg, Austria). It was a very exciting experience. If I had enough time in the moment I would start this Sport immediately. To log the flight I used my iPhone which I had in my pocket. I was surprised that the logged data was so good. (see map below)

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Elevation Profile
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Big thanks to my pilot Michael Rüdisser.

BTW: Today SpeedyWeb got an update of the blogging software WordPress (actual Version 2.8.4). – I finally had the time do do it ;)
The site is now faster and the Lightbox feature is working again (the nice picture popups with buttons to navigate forward and backward in article-pictures). I also installed a nice Google Maps plugin.

Speedy

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Last weekend I had the chance to play with a para-sail of a friend of mine (Manuel Wehinger). He showed my some interesting basic things of paragliding and we played a little bit in the field.

There wasn’t enough wind to have “real” fun – but it was enough to get a feeling of “how strong a little bit of wind” can be.

In the moment I don’t have time to start a new hobby, but I think that it will be interesting for me in the next few years. I am fascinated of “flying through the air” since I’m young. I have often dreamed of flying with a para-sail in my childhood and maybe this dream will come true in some months or years.

A big “thank you” to Manuel for showing me some interesting stuff in this topic (He is already a pilot and has the licence)

Photos of the session are added below:

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This photo shows a paraglider landing at our “training” location:

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