The Hinterlands Drifter Tour mission was: "FLY, TRAVEL, LEARN".  Well...mission accomplished! Jonas Lobitz and I teamed up to always provide one instructor on the ground and one in the air.  We started our hang gliding tour in the Gold Coast at Mt Tamborine, stopped in Manilla for a big chunk of heavy-hitting thermals and then rinsed off the dust at Stanwell on the last evening of the tour. 

FLY, TRAVEL, LEARN!

I've been staying busy lately planning plenty of clinics, comps, and events for the

Check Anton's video below of his first flight back home in Tasmania. He recently learned to hang glide with us here at Stanwell Park, and is already slaying the coast in his Moyes Malibu!

Photo: Flying Tasmania!  Screen capture from Anton's video below, thanks to "Shark"

We're now on tour, away from our hang gliding base at Stanwell Tops, Australia.

Well....our European hang gliding/honeymoon is going great!

Below: Three days ago, at the main take-off area, Laragne-Chabre, FRANCE, for the upcoming 2009 Hang Gliding World Championships

BELOW: 80 kilometers later, at Monts du Chaval Blanc, very incredible.

“High-Alpine Adventure, Low Stress”

Austrian Michi Friesenbichler, assisted by Curt Warren, guides pilots across the premier gliding sites of Austria in the peak flying season.

When: 5th – 9th of August 2009  

The very best month to fly the Austrian Alps

The Region:

As the winter flying slows down a bit, I'll sneak away...
Tomorrow I'm flying UP and AWAY from Stanwell Park to...... Moscow, Russia to hang glide at a water/aerial stunt show.

We've got a great group of ol' mates going... Team members from USA, Australia, France, and Russia will converge together to perform a 30-minute show for a private party of high profile guests. Each member of the 14-man squad holds either a World or National championship to their credit. The show will include jet-skiing, wakeboarding, barefoot-skiing, free-style jumping, and hang gliding…all choreographed to music and pyrotechnics.
The private-event will be held at the Olympic Stadium once used for the rowing events during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

Warren Windsports was out of the office last week...in New Caledonia :).
We took a break from the hang gliding at Stanwell Tops and spent seven days on a boat with friends.
Man, we surfed some brilliant south swell... I loved my new Wayne Lynch surfboard:

This past weekend at the Mudgee airport we scored some L&V (light and variable) winds with plenty of sunshine, and smOOth lift. YES! Made the 4.5 hour trip worth it!
This gig was the follow-up to our appearance at the Mudgee Airshow, about a month back.

PHOTO: Here's our student Patrick (tandem), getting a good taste of aerotowing:

ROAD TRIP FROM SYDNEY TO GLOUCESTER

Friends, fuse ball (table soccer), and FLYING :) ....last weekend.

The weather turned out to be surprisingly pleasant, allowing for some great conditions for aerotowing training and free flying.

ABOVE: The team... microlight tug-pilot and tandem instructor.

Anousha (photo below) on the Guitar providing the live audio track for some of the filming: