Congratulations to Sebastian Kawa for winning this very special competition in Dubai.
1. Sebastian Kawa (Poland)
2. Place Werner Amann (Austria)
3. place Tilo Holighaus (Germany)
We congratulate all winners.
Thank you to Ralf Holighaus for the reports, great videos and pictures from Dubai (Facebook page Schempp-Hirth)
Our Report from December 4, 2015:
From December 1st until 12th the City of Dubai will be hosting the 2015 World Air Games. With its stunning skyline, including the World’s highest building Burj Khalifa, Dubai will provide a monumental setting for this big assembly of all sorts of air sports.
In addition to the more established sports as for example aerobatics with powered aircraft, sky diving, hot air ballooning or model airplanes Dubai’s World Air Games will also present some of the younger developments in air sports like paragliding and powered paragliding.
Soaring will be on site as well! St. Auban’s gliding center has shipped two Discus-2c with 18 m wingspan and Schempp-Hirth made an Arcus M available. So journalists, VIP’s and film crews can be brought right into the middle of the exciting air games.
The soaring competition will be run pilot against pilot. Three predefined turn points will have to be rounded as quickly as possible. The start line will be at 1000 m of altitude. From there the distance to the finish will measure 25 km. With a glide angle of 1 : 25 the competing pilots will then need a good feeling for the optimal start, the right speed limit and the fastest method to get around the turn points. The pilot who manages his energy best will be the winner. We’ll be curious who is going to soar in the final!
Here is the link to Dubai’s WGC website
https://www.wagdubai.ae/air-sports.php#slide_gliding
Participating pilots:
Werner Amann (Austria)
Giorgio Galetto (Italy)
Tilo Holighaus (Germany)
Sebastian Kawa (Poland)
Roman Mracek (Czech Republic)
René Vidal (Chile)
