{"id":5525,"date":"2016-11-02T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:20:23","slug":"world-record-to-declared-goal-and-400km-en-b-gliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/world-record-to-declared-goal-and-400km-en-b-gliders\/","title":{"rendered":"World record to declared goal and +400km on EN B gliders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 1st, 2016, brought superb conditions for XC to the Brazilian Northeast, where several personal bests were broken, with a number of flights exceeding the 400km barrier and two of them on EN B (easy intermediate level) gliders &#8211; including the <strong>new paragliding world record to declared goal of 425 km!<\/strong> The owner of Air Cross, <strong>Konrad Goerg<\/strong> took their new high EN B glider <strong>U Cruise<\/strong> from Quixada to Miguel Alves for a total distance of 440 km, after passing his declared point with altitude to spare. This is also a new German record.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Faircrossgliders%2Fvideos%2F1802349943311690%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 2000m above goal and landed in Miguel Alves as there was no landing at the declared Point\u201d said Konrad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5530\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5530 size-medium\" title=\"425 km\" src=\"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"425km_termikzone\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone-696x497.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone-588x420.jpg 588w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_termikzone.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konrad Goerg on the U-Cruise in Brazil, the new high EN B glider from Aircross. Photo: Termikzone \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was flying our high EN B glider released just one month ago, the U Cruise, on which we worked for 3 years, and I\u2019m very happy with it as it is very safe and also fast\u201d, he commented. \u201cDuring the first part of the flight I had strong winds of over 55km\/h and I reached 100km\/h at some points\u201d, explains the record-maker. \u201cFortunately, I could stay high most of the flight, with only one low point when I almost touched the ground\u201d. Konrad arrived in Alves by 5pm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5528 size-medium\" title=\"Josef Edlinger and Konrad Goerg. 425km \" src=\"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"425km_quixadaaventura\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/425km_quixadaaventura.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josef Edlinger and Konrad Goerg happy at goal. Photo: Quixadaaventura \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the same day, Nova Team pilot <strong>Josef Edlinger<\/strong> outstripped his personal record flying 435km on the same route flying on the new high EN B <strong>Phantom<\/strong>, the 100-cells paraglider. This is the longest flight on an EN B glider for an Austrian pilot. You can see his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcontest.org\/world\/en\/flights\/detail:JoeEdlinger\/1.11.2016\/09:52#fd=flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tracklog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other +400km flights of the day include the new <strong>Portuguese record<\/strong> set by <strong>Eusebio Soares<\/strong> with <strong>456,7 km<\/strong> on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niviuk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Niviuk<\/strong> <\/a>Icepeak 7 (EN D) glider, as well as the <strong>Austrian record<\/strong> by <strong>Alexander Rob\u00e9<\/strong> with <strong>456,5km<\/strong> on an Ozone Zeno (EN D). <strong>Carlos Lopes<\/strong> from Portugal covered 448,5km on a Triple Seven King paraglider.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the pilots!<\/p>\n<p>The season is still hot in the Northeast, with more pilots from all over the world arriving every day to fly big distances and break marks.<\/p>\n<p>*Follow the Brazilian activities on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quixadaaventura\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quixadaaventura\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/termikzone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/termikzone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1st, 2016, brought superb conditions for XC to the Brazilian Northeast, where several personal bests were broken, with a number of flights exceeding the 400km barrier and two of them on EN B (easy intermediate level) gliders &#8211; including the new paragliding world record to declared goal of 425 km! 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