Great Flights

As new year present, Didier Givois offered us this nice movie of flights realized in his Swiftlight PAS, mainly in December, in ridge soaring, with Eric Serrat in his old Pswift, from Challes les Eaux in the french Nothern Alps….
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August the 26th A 305km flat triangle in Archaeopteryx from Münster in high Wallis in Switzerland, from where Roger Ruppert took off thanks to the electric engine installed in his Archaeopteryx: he went all around Wallis and extended his circuit till Passy in France west of Chamonix,…
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This year, the weather was rather bad for XC pilots addicted to big closed circuits: Almost always bad in the northern french Alps, and heterogenous in the south. But the Aspres – Oisan route never worked so good, with top…
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The summer started with very good flying conditions regarding the weather, allowing us to go, almost each time we went flying, deap into in the Ecrin mountain range where the tops of climb were very high: •23/6 4300m •28/6 3950m •7/7 4000m…
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With the arrival of summer, the nice weather came back. So far, we haven’t got perfect flying conditions to turn big XC triangle from Aspres: The Queyraz and Ubaye area didn’t look nice to cross so the East route to…
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The 23rd of June, Roger Ruppert had a dream flight with its Archaeopteryx, he almost completed a 450km flat triangle. Congratulation Roger 🙂 Swiftlight pilots wake up!

February the 7th, Peter Eicher flew a 398km FAI triangle in Australia 🙂 And April the 20th, Franz Pacheiner flew a great 400km out and return in Austria along the slovenian and italian border They set high standards, Swiftlight pilots,…
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Peter Eicher in his Archaeropteryx flew a 435km free FAI triangle in Australia, in 9 hours airtime, the 23rd of December 2015. Congratulation Peter. We hope you can claim a world record to the CIVL/FAI…

The very good flying conditions which prevailed in the french Alps from end of June till mid July allowed Jac to fly 5 more than 300km triangles from Aspres with his Swiftlight Date Triangle km km/h Début Fin Durée 2015-07-16 Plat…
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