Jac’s experience

1972 Glider pilot licence

1974 Start of my Airline Pilot training at the ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile)

1975 First flight with a hang-glider

1976 300km triangle with a Ka6 glider

1977 First climb in a thermal to the cloud base with a hang-glider, last flight with a glider

1978 French distance record with a hang-glider

1979 Hired by Air France as third officer on B707

1982 First officer on B727

1986 First officer B747

1996 Captain F27

1999 French champion FAI class 1 hang-glider (flexwing)

1999 Captain B777

2005 French champion FAI class 5 hang-glider (rigid wing), winner of the German Open (FAI 5)

2006 World champion team (FAI 5), French champion (FAI 5)

2007 Winner of the Flytec Championship USA & Italian Open (FAI 5)

2008 Winner of the Swiss Open (FAI 5)

2009 Starting to fly an ultralight glider (Swiftlight), end of flying hangglider (1900 hours airtime)

2012 World record FAI 2 (foot launch able ultralight glider) Out & Return, 366Km (in France); winner of the World OLC (FAI 1, 2, 5)

2013 Retired from Air France, 19.500 hours airtime

2013 Biggest triangle ever completed in the free flight world: 476km (in Namibia; flat triangle, not registrable as a world record)

2014 Biggest closed circuit ever completed in free flight in France: out and return Serres – Chamonix, 408km

2014 Founder President of ADPUL

2017 Class 2 ultralight glider Vice World Champion

2022 Class 2 ultralight glider Vice World Champion

1870 hours ultralight glider airtime end of 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

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