A British Woman pilot setting world records

[moyesboy]

This is very off topic!
My Wife Kathleen set three world records in hang gliding this year.
She flew the first triangular course over 200km by a woman, and a speed record for that course. Then the longest out and return distance by a woman with 230km.
She flew from Ruhpolding in Germany via Pinsgau and Zell am Zee in Austria back to Ruhpolding for the triangle.
The out and return was all in Austria.

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[trillian]

Cool! That's outstanding :cheers2:

[Rob Barnes]

Superb news , well done .

[crash-test-tomo]

Fair play, no fear!

[Thor]

That's awesome! Congratulations to her.

How much time do these flights take?

[tourerjim]

That seems some distance so how long timewise did this take...?

[tomatwalden]

Cool! I still remember Judy Leden (the then foremost GB female pilot) giving a talk to our Uni hang and para-gliding club in Swansea. I tried hang gliding but wasn't very good at it so stuck to paragliding. Also, I was too lazy to carry the hang-gliders up Rhossilli down! :)

[pooleman]

Awesome news! Well done :cheers2:

[Granpappy]

That's brilliant. Well done to your missus. I guess she must have been using thermals to get that distance. It must be like going up in a fast elevator. It would scare the pants off me....

[Mike Sanders]

Great achievement.

[trexamanic]

Congrats to your good lady. Be careful not to let her get too big headed or you will be doubling your housework in no time lol

[gazmk2]

That's superb!!

[moyesboy]

The flights took 7-8 hours. The start is as early as possible from the first cable car in the morning. In fact paragliders are walking up earlier and higher than the highest cable cars to get an earlier start for their record flights!

Judy Leden we know well. She is running pour local hang and paragliding school in Derbyshire and lives in the same village as us.
I went to the universities hang gliding comps in Swansea a few times but that was before paragliding was invented.

There is lots of detail about the flights online:

The triangle flight:
[url=http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?dsId=4506848]OLC Flight information - Kathleen Rigg (UK) - 01.07.2015[/url]
Follow this link to look at the flight on google earth (downloads a kml file) [url]http://www.xcontest.org/trackml.php?t=1436172680.13.igc[/url]
The out and return:
[url=http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?dsId=4520034]OLC Flight information - Kathleen Rigg (UK) - 05.07.2015[/url]
Follow this link to look at the flight on google earth (downloads a kml file) [url]http://www.xcontest.org/trackml.php?t=1436172593.23.igc[/url]

[Rachel]

that is a very cool achievement , well done :-)

[tomatwalden]

[QUOTE=Granpappy;1184406]That's brilliant. Well done to your missus. I guess she must have been using thermals to get that distance. It must be like going up in a fast elevator. It would scare the pants off me....[/QUOTE]

Or wave clouds, which contain up-draughts to much higher heights than thermals.