{"id":19084,"date":"2023-07-06T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/flights-and-thrills-at-the-23rd-fia-el-yelmo\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:42:38","slug":"flights-and-thrills-at-the-23rd-fia-el-yelmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/flights-and-thrills-at-the-23rd-fia-el-yelmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights and thrills at the 23rd FIA El Yelmo."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Though the weather conditions were not the greatest Saturday and Sunday, it was possible to fly well on Friday and Saturday in the evening at the FIA. Sunday was a day more suitable to enjoy the aerial shows, the films and the trade fair, under a solid gray sky that was a blessing in face of the high temperatures experienced the previous days.<\/p>\n\n

Thrilling!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

The intense weekend offered emotional moments like the talk given by a group of veteran paragliding female pilots who shared their stories and anecdotes of the early days of free flight in Spain in the end of the 80s, when paragliders glided barely a bit more than a parachute and they used climbing harnesses. <\/p>\n

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Some of the pioneer paragliding women in Spain, with three decades of flying on their shoulders.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Magdalena Serrano,<\/strong> who started flying back in 1988 and continues to date, was the voice of a video prepared collectively by the flying women, \u00a8Voleteras\u00a8<\/strong>, where they went over the history of free flight in Spain with them as the protagonists. Later, Magda took over, along with other pilots like Emiko Morota or Magdalena Alca\u00f1iz, who\u00b4ve been two or three decades in the air, and they shared some of their stories from those pioneering times.<\/p>\n\n

It was also great to hear Horacio Llorens<\/strong> talk about the risky adventure he did together with Ram\u00f3n Morillas and Tomas de Dorlodot<\/strong>, flying the Himalaya section of Pakistan along and over such emblematic peaks like the K2, over 7000m high. \u00a8The ground is lava\u00a8 they said, and the possibility of landing in those unfriendly landscapes in the middle of the gigantic eight thousand meter high peaks could result in death.<\/p>\n

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Blay Olmos left his footprints at the \u00a8Walk of Flying Stars\u00a8.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

And there were more thrills later when Blay Olmos<\/strong> stamped his footprints at the \u00a8Walk of Flying Stars\u00a8, after parachuting to the site from a paratrike. Blay isn\u00b4t just a high level and outstanding paragliding pilot with podiums and records on his back, he is also a seven-time hang-gliding Spanish champion and European sub champion, as well as a parachuter and BASE jumper.<\/p>\n\n

Another protagonist of this FIA El Yelmo was Ram\u00f3n Morillas<\/strong> who, besides presenting the film \u00a8Flying between Giants\u00a8 together with Horacio Llorens, plus winning an award at the Air Film Festival, he also performed paramotoring exhibitions every day and still had time to host the party singing with his band, \u00a8Los Monchies\u00a8, Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n

Big time shows<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Regarding the shows, during the weekend the FIA showcased outstanding paragliding and paramotoring pilots, together with BASE jumpers, an acrobatic plane, a helicopter and even an amazing Eurofighter aircraft of the Air Army that shocked the entire landscape of the Sierra de Segura with its high-speed maneuvers.<\/p>\n\n

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