EuroGlide 2024 24 June - 5 July

Euroglide is athe gliding race over more than 2500 kilometres through several european countries. Euroglide is organised by the Venlo Eindhoven gliding club, the Netherlands. Euroglide 2024 route is Venlo - Hodkovice – Lüneburg – Mainbullau - Zielona Góra - Venlo, a total…
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E6 Glide at Varese Registrations Invited

E6 Glide at Varese8-14 September 2024 The Adele and Giorgio Orsi Aero Club is organizing the sixth edition of the prestigious eglide competition. The eglide format is for electric gliders that are permitted to use up to 2kWh of power in an otherwise unpowered Grand Prix gliding…
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Hahnweide

The 56th Internationaler Hahnweide Wettbewerb concluded on 11 May after four racing days ans four days lost to bad weather. The contest was held in 15m,18m, Open and 20m 2 Seat classes. The fastest flying day was 10 May when Julien Duboc, from France won 15m Class in his Ventus…
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IGC Delegates take a look at the Integral E Electric Tow-plane

Delegates to the IGC plenary meeting in Toulouse paid a visit to Aura Aero to take a look at the Integral E tow-plane that is in development. The Integral E is being manufactured at Aura Aero’s factor yin Toulouse , France. Todate, it has been fitted with a petrol engine and…
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Alena Netušilová - IGC Champion Pilot of the Year 2023

Alena Netušilová has been named as FAI International Gliding Commission (IGC) Champion Pilot of the Year 2023 for winning the 18m class at the 2023 FAI Women's World Gliding Championships in Soria, Spain. This was her second World Champion title, which contributed to the overall…
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Club Class Handicaps Updated

The handicaps for Club Class in international competitions were updated at the IGC pllenary meeting ain March. The handicaps were last adjusted in 2008. At that time it was decided to review them again at a later date. This change is a result of that review. In summary Handicaps…
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Giorgio Galetto Wins E4Glide at St Auban

Giorgio Galetto after winning e4Glide By Sean Young On the first two days of e4glide, the weather provided good soaring conditions. Matthew Scutter, the winner of the two previous eGlide competitions came 1st on Day 1. It was a good start to defend his title. Giorgio Galetto…
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e4glide Saint Auban September 2022

e4glide is the fourth eglide format competition is now underway at the Centre National de Vol à Voile (CNVV) in Saint Auban, France 11 - 17 September. The frst race was won by current the championship holder, Matthew Scutter flying a 160.34 km racing task. He was followed by…
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E Glide Concept Contest Pavullo

Markus Uhlig flew in the E-Glide Concept Contest in September. Here are his impressions of this new type of glider contest where engine use is allowed. Major advances have been made in the technology of electro mobility recently, not just for the automotive industry but also in…
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E Glide Concept Contest

The 1st E-Glide Contest Pavullo Italy took place 31 August - 7 September 2019. The scoring was very successfully conducted remotely by Andrej Kolar from Naviter and Seeyou in conjunction with the local scorer. The results were calculated correctly according the FAI scoring…