Toute l’histoire commence devant le beffroi de Bergues, chez les ch’tis; avec Jonas notre professionnel des gps, et Fred, copain membre de l’équipe de France. Nous commandons une frite à la baraque à frites, et filons prendre le ferry à Dunkerque et rejoindre l’autre bande de copains. Direction Douvres de l’autre côté du Channel. Nous [...]

Here we are, this friday 12 june, at 15H00, the official results of the 3 tasks, to determinate the 8 qualified paramotors pilots are done.
We ran 3 tasks, where the agility of the pilot, and the speed of the wing are the master words.
-Basket ball slalom:

We have to take a ball in between our 2 [...]

The french nationals 2009 are this year running at Puisserguier, in the Hérault départment, south of France.The ambiance is very rocky, and vinyards are everywhere around. The région is also known for winds which can be strong, like mistral, or tramontane. We will have a very good weather this week, and will run not less [...]

As i often say, paramotor compétitions can convert a very large public of pilots:
You can come as a real competitor, and fight to get a podium, but you can also come as a normal pilot, who just wants to improve his level, and see what are the different techniques, materials of other pilots.
I fact, you [...]

Congratulations to Stefaan who won the belgium championships 2008, last september.

I’m happy because it is a long time i can see Stefaan in all international competitions, and he is a great pilot.

He says that 6 tasks has been run, for 20 pilots competing.
A slow fast, 2 speed navigations, 1 slalom and one basket task, and [...]

 
The week end of the 27 and 28 october, i’ve been to Italy, in Torino, to participate to an event.
 

That was in the same time a test event to warm up the organisation staff, a compétition in itself, and also one of the qualifications for the paramotor pilots for the WAG 2009 (world air games). 
That will be [...]

Cette année les championnats d’Europe se sont tenus a Lomza en Pologne, dans un champ énorme, nous permettant beaucoup de fantaisies au vu de l’espace donné.
 
Les manches furent variées, et représentatives de ce que nous attendons d’un championnat. Au final, un classement représentatif des compétences des pilotes, et de leur forme actuelle, bien que la [...]

We made theese european championships near the Lomza town, in a very huge
field.
Tasks were really interesting, and we could have a very nice panel of tasks
to have a real classement and podium at the end.
The weather was not all the days excellent, sometimes raining, and we could
do only 6 tasks, which is the minimum required [...]