The free flight glider: the other way of flying
After Formiga from Brasil, Jun came from Japan to learn flying the Swiftlight. He was here for a short week, and want to come back next year to fully enjoy flying in the southern french Alps 🙂 Here is a…
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Last Friday, Marc in his Swift, and Rob in his Swiftlight-E had the opportunity to fly with Jac from Aspres sur Buëch. The weather was fine, we took off at half past noon and met over the Aiguille de Serres…
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Rob came to Aspres sur Buech from Luxembourg to complete his training on his own Swiftlight-E: L shaped, steep angle, close U shaped, and S shaped approaches don’t have any more secret for him; this gives him confidence should he have to…
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The next training courses will be from August the 20th till the 30rd (initial , and advanced training courses) in Aspres sur Buech. More informations and registration forms are in the Training courses menu.
With the late arrival of spring, we could eventually resume training 🙂 April the 18th, Markus made his first flight with his new Swiftlight-E, radio guided by Jac. The same day in the afternoon, he made a 2 hours training…
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Our early spring training session was 90% cancelled due to persistent bad weather (rain and/or wind) We could only achieve the partial bungee training course for Jean-Marc and Yvain. The training of the 6 pilots will be completed as soon…
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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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Jean-Baptiste, made his first solo flight at 9am, and on the photo at 3pm after his second flight, which lasted 2:35, during which he reached an altitude of 3400m, and flew all around the high Buech valley 🙂 He just made the initial bungee training course…
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The new bungee launch system from ADPUL is outperforming the former one, thanks to the 15m long 12mm diameter bungees which can be extended up to 220% without damage: With 10 bungees extended at 200% giving an initial launch force of…
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From April the 7th till the 12th, Louis, Alain, Marc and Krzysztof came in Aspres sur Buech for learning to fly the Swiftlight. They all started with the initial bungee training course: Then Marc and Alain were able to continue…
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