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First Two Days of the Rob Kells Memorial event

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Rob Kells Memorial 2009

See Terry Ryan's blog entry on the first two days of the Rob Kells Memorial here.

New Lower Prices for Leonardo Comp Edition

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We have made it even easier for you to upload and present your events via pgcomps.net / hgcomps.net. We have lifted the limit for 'free' tasks up to 25 pilots, so most small events can now use the system for free. Subsequent changes have been made to the whole price range, here is the new prices and below the old ones for your reference.

The difference is up to 50% !!!

NEW PRICES AS OF 2009/04/09
Pilots in task Normal price with sponsor banners
1-25 FREE 7 Euro
26-50 5 Euro 10 Euro
51-100 10 Euro 15 Euro
101+, 15 Euro 25 Euro

California Xtreme Sports Showâ„¢

California Xtreme Sports Showâ„¢ is an exciting, two full days of
exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, and fashion, all dedicated to the
world of extreme sports. It's being held at the beautiful Long Beach
Convention Center in Long Beach, Ca., on November 14th & 15th, 2009, and
we'd like to invite you to be a part of it. Without a doubt this will be
the largest and most extreme event of it's kind on the west coast.

The show will feature over 300 booth displays plus an additional 25,000
sq.ft. dedicated to interactive exhibitions and displays. Every inch of the

Event Registration requires a user account

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Flytec Race and Rally 2009

If you're on the site and waiting to register for the Flytec Rally, you'll need a user account on the site. So please visit here to get an account and logged in so you don't have to do that when registration opens (in two hours).

T5 - 114 km - Cro team bombed out

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Paragliding Worlds 2009

T5 - 114 km - Cro team bombed out - There are no translations available.
Yeah today we did bad. Both of us landed on same field. It did not work as we thought it would. We had task 114k long in front to La Piena than back behind Valle and than again in front and than back and to goal. Thermals were not so good as other days.

Organisers defend hang-gliding safety

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Forbes Flatlands 2009

Organisers defend hang-gliding safety - Organisers of the Forbes Flatlands Hang-gliding Championships say the sport is getting safer, despite two deaths at the event in the past three years. [ABC News - Forbes]

Hang Gliding Championship competitor dies

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Forbes Flatlands 2009

Hang Gliding Championship competitor dies - A competitor injured during the Forbes Flatland Hang Gliding Championship has died. [ABC News - Forbes]

Forbes hang gliding competition enticing more entrants

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Forbes Flatlands 2009

Forbes hang gliding competition enticing more entrants - The Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships has been expanded this year to entice more entrants. [ABC News - Forbes]

Indoor Glider: Record broken

FAI World Records - A Case Study

A major activity of the FAI is the homologation and registration of aeronautical and astronautical world records; each year the FAI Secretariat issues around 300 certificates to successful claimants. To date the FAI database of world records contains over 15,000 entries, the majority of which are available on the FAI website http://records.fai.org

GoFlyXC: A New Look

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Being I'm snowed under and actual flying is unheard of, I created a new look-and-feel to the site. I hope people like it better. The last one had a lot of issues so I started fresh. Now the site is more compatible with the browsers (which was the biggest issue) and is fixed-width now so people with non-wide-aspect ratio displays don't have to scroll vertically.

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