Steve Nash is a member of our pilot's team. Here a few details, about some of Steves flying activities:

Steve went to Annecy for a SIV course with his IBEX 15. See his report.

Steve won the X-Scotia event, flying his IBEX.

Steve was winning the sports class of the British Open in Pedro Bernardo (Spain), flying his RA.

These day's Steve got his new comp wing (a TRITON X229): all the best, Steve!

HP

Norway:



Egil Fonn (Tycoon) was flying from Harstad to Lofoten. This very difficult 70km flight is a new record for North Norway.
Congratulation!


more pics


Hungary:



Our factory director Peter Mack is flying his RA M 122.7km over the Hungarian hills and flatland!
Well done, Peter: you demonstrated, that even the NOVA management team has good pilots!




Italy:



Our NOVA team member Christian Pichler (Mentor M) was flying a nice 202.8km triangle in South Tirol.
In the flight report he's telling, that it could have easily got a 230km FAI, if no shadow in the Gader-valley.
Great flight, Christian! Nice area! Next time no shadow!
:-)

Marcel Dettling

Marcel is back and he's taking one's breath away: 223km FAI triangle (446.66 points) with an LTF 1-2 wing (Mentor M).
Congratulations!

 
Wolfgang Bernhard taking off with his MENTOR. He will land after 9 hours and 215km. 

Kay Tauscher is a paragliding instructor and NOVA Team Pilot, running Peak to Peak Paragliding, a paragliding school in Boulder (Colorado/USA).  As of May 11th until 18th, 2008, she will organise an XC flying camp in Greifenburg, Austria, one of the best spots for long XC flights, also suitable for less experienced XC pilots. Kay will be supported by the NOVA Pilots Team with world-class such as Wolfgang Bernhard and Johannes Kronberger (Austria), Mik Broschart (Germany), and Steve Nash (UK). Pilots interested in the XC Camp should visit www.peaktopeakparagliding.com , there are still places available.

In addition to the Peak to Peak Paragliding Camp, the NOVA Team Pilots offer their expertise to ALL interested XC pilots – pilots from other brands are very welcome as well. Every morning Steve Nash, Wolfgang Bernhard, Mik Broschart, or Johannes Kronberger will do a briefing concerning weather conditions and possible XC routes – FREE OF CHARGE. Meeting point: At 8 o’clock on the camping ground in front of the tent with the NOVA beach flags.

Wolfgang Bernhard in particular is one of the pilots, who established the legendary reputation of the “Emberger Alm”, Greifenburg’s launch site, as a superb XC flying area (XC-Contest link). He will offer his expertise to the paragliding community together with Steve Nash, Johannes Kronberger, and Mik Broschart – all top pilots as well. It is not a must to register for this free service of the NOVA Pilots Team, yet Wolfgang would be pleased about a non-binding mail from the ones interested: wolfgang.bernhard@atb.at .

Concerning Emberger Alm: Plenty of space for the launch, thermals are reliable, and the valleys are wide and open for safe landing on XC flights. Just check www.XContest.org , www.onlindecontest.org or www.xc.dhv.de to see what stunning flight have been done there.


UPDATE:
Several NOVA gliders will be available for test flights.

... unfortunately not a foto from Greifenburg, but a nice XC picture showing 2 Tritons above Achensee :-)

PM

An international PMA (paraglider manufacturers association) meeting took place during the Stubai Cup 2008. More than 25 manufacturers were present.
Apart from the rather dry topics of PMA bylaws, it was agreed among the PMA member circle to fully support the existing institutes for paraglider certification. The unanimous decision proclaims that all PMA members will abstain from self-certification!

As well there was agreement on the following:
All manufacturers who took part in the meeting will give up the name for certification classes ‘DHV1’ or ‘DHV1-2’ but name it ‘LTF1‘ or ‘LTF1-2‘ etc. in the future. This is a political instrument to ensure the acceptance of other test laboratories beside the DHV. Changes in websites, catalogue etc. will be executed step by step now.

Further details see PMA Homepage:

RA on a XC flight in argentina (Photo: Eduardo Sanches Granel)

Many of you might already know Jerome Daoust and his homepage with an almost unbelievable amount of helpful information for pilots. Jerome has recently gathered some experience with the MENTOR and wrote a great review about his impressions. Here is the Link-> enjoy it!
If you think, that's as detailed, as it can get, you haven't seen the review of Lars Sletten about his RA after one year of flying with it. :-) (Link)

Thanks a lot to those two pilots, for their big effort. We hope, you continue having great experiences with our gliders!

PM

  
The pictures don't show a lightsaber from some science fiction movie but the new line check system
with NOVA NTT and the new laser checking device for more accuracy when measuring the line lengths.

Many Pilots might already know NOVA Trim Tuning (NTT) and some already had the pleasure to experience the advantages of NTT, if they had their glider checked with NTT: The pilot receives a wing that corresponds to the new wing in terms of safety, performance and of course in terms of pleasure of flight

A few months ago we started to use laser measurement to evaluate the line lengths, and we could considerably improve the accuracy: The tolerance of this new system is within +/- 2mm. Every single line is measured with a defined load and is then transmitted via Bluetooth to the PC, where the data is stored and then evaluated. (As explained in the link above)

Our aim is, to offer a check-system, which enables us to offer the pilot a wing, which is identical to the new wing in terms of trim setting. With the laser measurement we were able to get close to this "perfectly adjusted glider" within the whole lifetime of the wing. Even after intensive use and many flight hours.

For the pilot this means increased safety, more performance and more fun!

PM

COS is our new online check system including a new check interval and longer 48month guarantee.

NTT is the new NOVA trim tuning, which is offering more accurate controlling and adjusting of the trim during the checks.
-more info when the translation is done....

BWC is the Bregenzer Wald Cup where we all meet this weekend and can talk about all these points!
-see you there!
HP

In the newest issue of the Austrian Magazin Gleitschirm the max. l/d of the MAMBOO (DHV 1-2) was measured with 8.6!

Until now only 2 class 2 wings (one of those is the TATTOO) could reach that high performance!
All other DHV 2 wings (even with thin comp. lines) or even a class 2-3 wing can not compete with the MAMBOO (DHV 1-2) in the discipline max. glide!
In it's own class (DHV 1-2) the MAMBOO is leading with around a half glide ratio over most of it's competitors!

Why is the MAMBOO performing that good?
To answer that question, one of our secrets was disclosed in that article: How our Computer can simulate the air stream around a paraglider wing.
See our new Know How section for more infos.