Jonas Lobitz
Roles:
Tandem Flight Instructor, Team Comp Pilot Bio:
I got a hang glider for my thirteenth birthday. The next day I took it out to the dunes with my dad. - With feet successfully leaving the ground I knew instantly this was for me!
I started flying most days after school at my home site 5 minutes from my house. School wasn't always mandatory when it came to hang gliding and with a quick phone call from my dad together we were on our way to the nearest cross country site 150km's away and could be in the air in exactly 2.5 hours from driving down our driveway with loaded gliders.
Six years later I'm now a full time Hang Glider Pilot competing in the Australian circuit in the Summer and working for Warren Windsports in Stanwell Park in between.
Life's all good!
Location:
Dunedin, New Zealand
Qualifications:
Tandem Instructor
Hang Glider/s:
Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5
Favourite Gear:
Achievements:
- 8th Place, 2012 Pre-Worlds (Forbes, Australia)
- Runner Up NZ nationals 2008 (16 years old)
- Youngest person to fly over 100km in a hang glider in NZ
- Current number one ranked pilot NZ
- 3rd Dalby Big air 2011
- 12th French & British Nationals, Saint Andre 2011
- Managed to Graduate High School despite missing so much school because I was hanggliding
- Shook the Prime Ministers hand
Interests:
Flying, surfing & bareback horse riding
Goals:
Top 10 Hang gliding World Champs Forbes 2013 World Number One Keep having as much fun as am having now. Go to Engineering school some day. 
