The 20th pilot to make his first solo flight with ADPUL
Today Louis made his 1st flight on ADPUL’s Swiftlight, here are his comments: Congratulations Louis, welcome to the club 🙂
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a 19th pilot made his first solo flight with ADPUL
Pilots come from far away for the ADPUL Swiftlight training course: Evgeny from Russia, Douglas from the USA, and now “Formiga” from Brazil 🙂 This morning he made his first solo flight. Here is a video, just after his landing:
First flight of a “full” Carbon Dragon in Ireland
After years of development work, Phil Lardner completed the building of his Carbon Dragon which he modified, replacing most of the wooden parts by carbon ones designed by himself. Here are his first trials, launching with a bungee from a…
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Ultralight glider flying in Ireland
While, due to the bad spring weather we had in France and in the Alps, the flying activity is lower than ever this year, in Ireland Ken had good flights, taking off with the bungee. Here is a video of his bungee launch…
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Swiftlight meeting in southern Germany
Organized by ADPUL member Joseph in Grabenstetten near Ulm, this Swiftlight meeting was granted by a great weather: 5 days of flying out of 6 🙂 Better than words, have a loock at the vidéo
Next training courses
The next training courses will be from August the 20th till the 31st (initial , and advanced training courses) in Aspres sur Buech. More informations and registration forms are in the Training courses menu.
First Ultralight Glider Meeting in Burgundy
The 21st – 22nd week end of April, we had our first Ultralight Glider Meeting out of Aspres. We were eventually lucky with the weather… 🙂 As everybody enjoyed, we will do it every year, at least one time, and at…
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ADPUL’s new organization
With the committee’s approval Jacques and Pascal decided to invert their positions, in order to better balance their functions and tasks in the management of the association. Jacques’s goal is to fly more, training his new student pilots to cross…
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Fall training session in Aspres sur Buëch
From Oct/26th till Nov/4 we had a successful training session, except from the 27th till the 30th of October due to the strong north wind (Mistral). We were operating from sun rise till sunset. Doug, Markus and Christoph completed the bungees…
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Bungee take off from Saint Hilaire du Touvet
Saint Hilaire south take off area is appropriate for ultralight glider bungee launch. Jac proved it: this test was done in order to make demos during the Coupe Icare. Unfortunatelly during that event, there was not enough space left to…
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