Patagonia 2008
The cake was so nice that it didn’t need cherry! Since we went back, every new met person comes out again me the same question: it was not that good, didn’t see you beating record”? What a mistake! It was the most beautiful season in absolute since...
Patagonia 2008
Of course we didn’t ever flown at 200 km/h of average during five hours, of course we could not make flights of 16 hours from dawn to sunset because the meteorology never conceded ever us a whole day worth of interest, and by consequence my beautiful dream of...
Patagonia 2008
The day following my arrival in Buenos Aires, whereas I was going to look at the airport for my friend Mattanò, experienced glider pilot and ex 747 Captain at Aerolineas Argentina, we met by the pure lucks Lito Fentanes, president of the CADEA, the equivalent of our...
Patagonia 2008
Everything that follows would be only news of a disconcerting triviality if it had happened in our small European club where all is simple, with a portable telephone you call the manufacturer without time-lag and you have the piece following day without even to pass...
Patagonia 2008
NB: every flight mentioned in this article is downloadable on our site as well as on Netcoupe with report of flight. http://www.netcoupe.net/Main.aspx Whereas the main weather novelty of the past year was the abnormally south position of the anticyclone of the...
Patagonia 2008
Or the folk recovery of a glider by the gauchos on horseback. (In French, oultanding is said “going to the cows”). I don’t like to speak of outlandings, but the accident of the Argentinean glider close to Bariloche is a beautiful example of...
Patagonia 2008
(chapter written in collaboration with Dr Schaffner) . This physician Swiss anaesthetist demonstrates a particular interest for the rational use of the oxygen in medical and aeronautic use. As confirmed alpine glider pilot (2.700 hours) and co-owner of an ASH-26 E...
Patagonia 2008
The 2009-2010 expedition is already launched. Considering the global meteorological changes that essentially result in an anticipation of the “baric” seasons of about one month, we are going to tempt to be operational since mid-October in order to be able...
