1st time I follow a gliding and paragliding competition live on internet !!!

The World air games have started in Torino (Italy). I just went to the web site www.wag2009.com and clicked on the link Live streaming, wondering what this would be about. Probably some cameras on the ground shooting the demos in the air... Could not me more wrong. First the first time I attended a race comment based on Google earth images, real time ! All the gliders transmitting real time their position, altitude, climbing rate.

Unbelievable ! we got there were we can now shoot and comment real events, tactics...without a camera... Distance gliding race like you have never seen it ! Next could added some cameras on the ground or in some of the gliders in order to also give the real atmosphere... Could Gliding become a TV sport ? I think it can with that technology.

New adventures for this summer ? Seems like it :-)

The Summer is getting closer and it will be time to ensure that the paragliding skills are dust free. The gang is forming again and coming from multiple continents, pilots are preparing their venue to France for August. Get ready, Inspect your equipment, reserve your plane tickets and lets thermal ! Vero, Lulu , Arnel, Erik, Arturo, Michele, Anatole, Viera, Maria, Bea are already enlisted. Desertion is not an option :-) We will make sure that the organization will be flawless. If it is not, ...that is part of the fun :-)

I started to learn how to use this kind of lamp while in the US with Craig. I must admit that it is more complicated, heavier, need to be handled carefully and with good maintenance... and why is that so that this is so enjoyable to have a leaving object like that... Elegant. Useful. Complicated and basic at the same time. Where you have to spend the time to take care of it and learn how it behaves... : I must be getting old to enjoy that :-)



Coleman is the oldest manufacturer in US for pressure lamps. In Europe, I think the Petromax is the reference...
I ordered one and hope to get it next week.
It is so interesting to surf on the net and discover that there are clubs of users, taking care of their lamps together and educating new users... I read on a post somewhere that so many stories have been written at the light of those lamps, during marvelous trips, adventures and experiences... I like that thought.

PS: It is good to be in love :-)