2017 New Zealand
Paragliding Cross-Country Championships
April 1st 2016 to March 31st 2017
Updated by the administrator of the NZ PG flights database,
Tim
Percival.
Last updated 11 July 2017.
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At the end of the flying season, contrasting with the joy and
exhilaration one gets from a great cross country flight was sadness
with the news of the deaths of James Maaka on Apr 18, and Ben Letham on
Apr 22. Both had been active cross country pilots: James' NZ
flights had included the Treble Cone to Wanaka town 'test piece'; while
this season Ben had opened his XC Champs account with a 30+ km flight
from Cardrona to Mt Maude. My thoughts and sympathy go out to their
families and close friends who must still be hurting very much.
~/~/~
Champs’ wrap-up report. Overall it seemed to me to be a season that was “condensed”
into just two to three good weeks, plus the extra odd excellent flying
day here and there depending on where in the country you
were. In the South Island there was a great period from Dec
20 to Jan 5, while in the North Island the Kaimai Range was putting up
nice days from late January through to March. Of the other days, Oct 30
was one where personal bests were flown at Mt Ida, Cheeseman and
Inwoods Lookout; Dec 5 saw PBs and six flights scoring over 150 points
from Roys Peak and Treble Cone; Feb 16 saw five PBs over 25 km from
Blowhard and Cheeseman; and on Mar 2 a great day and XC task at the
Nationals saw four PBs over 30 km from Kaimai. Although the pace of NZ
paragliding record setting eased back, we did see Guillaume Chatain
with passenger Flora
Charrieau set a new tandem open distance record.
Nick Neynens
showed what you could do if you launched early (around 10:00am) and was
rewarded with two very long flights that were the season’s best.
Here’s a list of some particular highlights:
- NZ's Tandem Open Distance record broken, the mark is now
109.3 km (Guillaume
Chatain, Treble Cone).
- NZ's 4th and 5th best open distances (Nick Neynens, 191 km
from Mill
Creek, Glenorchy West; and 182 km from Stair Peak, Glenorchy East).
- NZ's 3rd best FAI Triangle (Dave Watson, 121.6
km, Roys Peak).
- A 182 km ‘out’ flight followed by a 101 km ‘back’ flight
the next day (Neynens).
- Five NZ100km open distance flights achieved from three
different sites
on the same day (Stair Peak, Coronet Peak & Mt Maude on
December
29).
- Eleven NZ100km open distance flights in total.
- Four NZ personal bests over 100 km (Watson, Glen Stevens, Michal Karnik and Nick Taber).
- Nineteen NZ personal bests over 50 km.
- A new regional open distance record for Waikato (Mark Macdonald, 80.9
km, Kaimai).
For details of other site records flown during the season,
look for asterisks in the right hand column of the Season Site Best Flights
tables.
2017 NZ XC Champions and
Category Winners
XC Champs Table - Final Standings
North Island Table
2017 Season Site Best
Flights
2017 Season Milestone
Flights
2017 NZ XC
Champions and Category Winners
|
Title/Category
|
Pilot
|
Notes
|
|
1st place and
2017 NZ XC Champion
|
Nick Neynens
|
Nick's two weeks in NZ was enough time for him
to defend his title, through some committing and canny mountain flying
which achieved the season's two longest flights. See www.sharemyjoys.com
for details of his adventures!
|
|
1st Runner Up
|
Dave Watson
|
This season Dave found his GPS download cable
and logged some of his mountain XCs! Great stuff including
NZ's 3rd longest FAI TRiangle flight ever, and becoming just the 6th
person to fly NZ 150 km open distance.
|
|
2nd Runner Up
|
Bryan Moore
|
Bryan’s flights included flights over 100 km XC distance from three different Otago sites! (Roys Peak, Mt Maude and Sharks Tooth).
|
|
2017 Women's XC Champion
|
Helen Jeffery
|
Consistently good flying - three flights over
50 km XC distance, South and North Islands - has netted Helen her first
women's XC title. Helen's 280.7 points total is the second best by a
female pilot since Leonardo scoring began.
|
|
Best Rookie
(first-time PG2
competitor)
|
Rob Hughes-Games
|
Rob’s tally included flying an open distance
best of 68 km! (from Blowhard, Marlborough).
|
|
North Island Champion
|
Evan Lamberton
|
Evan's best-of-season flight from the Paeroa
Range was the highest scoring flight ever from there (89.9 km via 3
turn points).
|
|
Longest North Island Flight
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
93.4 km from Te Mata Peak, Hawkes Bay.
|
|
Longest South Island Flight
|
Nick Neynens
|
191.3 km from Mill Creek, Otago.
|
Well done all of the above! (Especially Nick) :)
Thank you to all who submitted flights so we could
see where there was good flying to be had.
2017/2018 NZ PG Cross-Country Championships
Please note:
For the coming 2017/2018 season, the online web site for scoring and
uploading your track logs to is XContest at: http://www.xcontest.org/newzealand/
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2016/2017 NZ PG
XC Champs Final Standings (top 40 placings)
For detailed flight information and relative rankings of all
NZ resident pilots, see the
2017PG XC Champs Table at Leonardo (Leonardo season name: “2016”).
(Note that for the NZ PG XC Champs,
the Leonardo table is an approximate table only: international pilots
are incorrectly excluded from the NZ ‘club’
competition, while a flight submitted more than 30 days after the day
of the flight is incorrectly included).
|
Pos
|
Pilot
|
Club
|
F1
|
F2
|
F3
|
Total
|
|
1
|
Nick Neynens
|
Southern
|
306.6
|
298.9
|
170.0
|
775.5
|
|
2
|
Dave Watson
|
Southern
|
251.2
|
243.2
|
157.8
|
652.2
|
|
3
|
Bryan Moore
|
Southern
|
214.8
|
204.8
|
173.6
|
593.2
|
|
4
|
Louis Tapper
|
Southern
|
210.2
|
210.1
|
145.3
|
565.6
|
|
5
|
Glen Stevens
|
Canterbury
|
199.3
|
186.5
|
137.9
|
523.7
|
|
6
|
Michal Karnik
|
Southern
|
202.6
|
145.9
|
145.3
|
493.8
|
|
7
|
Stew Karstens
|
Tasman
|
161.5
|
146.6
|
111.2
|
419.3
|
|
8
|
Michal Talavasek
|
Canterbury
|
173.1
|
140.5
|
91.0
|
404.6
|
|
9
|
Nick Taber
|
Tasman
|
179.3
|
102.1
|
100.8
|
382.2
|
|
10
|
Jean Brossard
|
Canterbury
|
144.1
|
126.4
|
109.4
|
379.9
|
|
11
|
Peter Groves
|
Southern
|
167.8
|
107.1
|
85.1
|
360.0
|
|
12
|
Mark Hardman
|
Southern
|
172.2
|
99.6
|
87.8
|
359.6
|
|
13
|
Doug Patterson
|
Southern
|
151.8
|
101.6
|
98.6
|
352.0
|
|
14
|
Mark Macdonald
|
Waikato
|
140.8
|
114.7
|
83.8
|
339.3
|
|
15
|
Evan Lamberton
|
Auckland
|
134.9
|
106.4
|
97.8
|
339.1
|
|
16
|
Jiri Hanc
|
Canterbury
|
118.2
|
113.6
|
98.4
|
330.2
|
|
17
|
Bruce Vickerman
|
Waikato
|
111.8
|
107.9
|
107.0
|
326.7
|
|
18
|
Derek Divers
|
Southern
|
112.4
|
105.4
|
104.8
|
322.6
|
|
19
|
Rob Gillard
|
Waikato
|
113.8
|
107.9
|
98.0
|
319.7
|
|
20
|
Martin Kraemer
|
Southern
|
138.7
|
89.6
|
89.4
|
317.7
|
|
21
|
Matt Senior
|
Tasman
|
160.3
|
146.4
|
0.0
|
306.7
|
|
22
|
Dylan Vickerman
|
Southern
|
175.0
|
79.0
|
38.2
|
292.2
|
|
23
|
Aaron Ford
|
Southern
|
146.2
|
78.6
|
62.2
|
287.0
|
|
24
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
Hawkes Bay
|
156.1
|
67.6
|
60.4
|
284.1
|
|
25
|
Jeff Ripley
|
Auckland
|
116.1
|
93.9
|
71.5
|
281.5
|
|
26
|
Helen Jeffery
|
Southern
|
100.4
|
94.9
|
85.4
|
280.7
|
|
27
|
Gert van Maren
|
Southern
|
101.9
|
96.9
|
77.1
|
275.9
|
|
28
|
Steven Christophers
|
Southern
|
152.1
|
71.3
|
50.2
|
273.6
|
|
29
|
Rob Hughes-Games
|
Canterbury
|
109.5
|
93.1
|
70.0
|
272.6
|
|
30
|
Rob Boyle
|
Tasman
|
98.8
|
92.7
|
80.0
|
271.5
|
|
31
|
Elliot Revell-Nash
|
Auckland
|
99.7
|
96.6
|
72.8
|
269.1
|
|
32
|
Rhys Akers
|
Bay of Plenty
|
119.1
|
98.3
|
48.5
|
265.9
|
|
33
|
Emlyn Revell-Nash
|
Auckland
|
115.4
|
103.7
|
44.8
|
263.9
|
|
34
|
Wayne Rohrs
|
Auckland
|
99.1
|
83.8
|
78.6
|
261.5
|
|
35
|
Rory Devine
|
Southern
|
109.4
|
108.4
|
42.5
|
260.3
|
|
36
|
Blake Round
|
Southern
|
116.8
|
69.5
|
66.4
|
252.7
|
|
37
|
Henry Dumbleton
|
Waikato
|
99.5
|
94.1
|
56.9
|
250.5
|
|
38
|
Kinga Masztalerz
|
Auckland
|
131.9
|
109.5
|
0.0
|
241.4
|
|
39
|
Steve Bramfitt
|
Southern
|
240.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
240.0
|
|
40
|
Dean Straker
|
Tasman
|
150.9
|
57.6
|
26.9
|
235.4
|
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North Island
Table (top 20 placings)
(Top scoring from North Island flights).
|
Pos
|
Pilot
|
Club
|
F1
|
F2
|
F3
|
Total
|
|
1
|
Evan Lamberton
|
Auckland
|
134.9
|
106.4
|
97.8
|
339.1
|
|
2
|
Bruce Vickerman
|
Waikato
|
111.8
|
107.9
|
107.0
|
326.7
|
|
3
|
Rob Gillard
|
Waikato
|
107.9
|
98.0
|
93.4
|
299.3
|
|
4
|
Mark Macdonald
|
Waikato
|
140.8
|
83.8
|
73.5
|
298.1
|
|
5
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
Hawkes Bay
|
156.1
|
67.6
|
60.4
|
284.1
|
|
6
|
Jeff Ripley
|
Auckland
|
116.1
|
93.9
|
71.5
|
281.5
|
|
7
|
Elliot Revell-Nash
|
Auckland
|
99.7
|
96.6
|
72.8
|
269.1
|
|
8
|
Rhys Akers
|
Bay of Plenty
|
119.1
|
98.3
|
48.5
|
265.9
|
|
9
|
Emlyn Revell-Nash
|
Auckland
|
115.4
|
103.7
|
44.8
|
263.9
|
|
10
|
Wayne Rohrs
|
Auckland
|
99.1
|
83.8
|
78.6
|
261.5
|
|
11
|
Henry Dumbleton
|
Waikato
|
99.5
|
94.1
|
56.9
|
250.5
|
|
12
|
Kinga Masztalerz
|
Auckland
|
131.9
|
109.5
|
0.0
|
241.4
|
|
13
|
Andrew Cavaney
|
Auckland
|
100.1
|
73.0
|
57.5
|
230.6
|
|
14
|
Rob Boyle
|
Tasman
|
98.8
|
80.0
|
49.6
|
228.4
|
|
15
|
Matt Harrison
|
Auckland
|
99.4
|
65.6
|
58.6
|
223.6
|
|
16
|
Roy Tingay
|
Southern
|
99.5
|
56.5
|
48.5
|
204.5
|
|
17
|
Joe Ward
|
Auckland
|
79.0
|
77.5
|
45.2
|
201.7
|
|
18
|
Dave Washer
|
Auckland
|
105.1
|
49.2
|
40.1
|
194.4
|
|
19
|
Doug Patterson
|
Southern
|
101.6
|
51.2
|
36.2
|
189.0
|
|
20
|
Nick Taber
|
Tasman
|
100.8
|
64.0
|
22.6
|
187.4
|
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2017
Season Site Best Flights (from entries)
Open Distance
|
Region
|
Site/Site Group
|
Distance
|
Pilot
|
Date
|
Take Off
|
SR
|
|
Northland
|
Kamo
|
28.3
|
Joe Ward
|
11/09/2016
|
|
|
|
Auckland
|
Moirs Hill
|
35.8
|
Jeff Ripley
|
03/12/2016
|
|
|
|
Auckland
|
Pakiri Hill
|
24.5
|
Lukas Walton-Keim
|
31/01/2017
|
|
*
|
|
Waikato
|
Alans Hill
|
30.6
|
Pete Martin
|
06/01/2017
|
|
|
|
Waikato
|
Harrys Hill
|
17.9
|
Rob Gillard
|
28/08/2016
|
|
|
|
Waikato
|
Kaimai Range
|
80.9
|
Mark Macdonald
|
30/01/2017
|
(Kaimai)
|
**
|
|
Bay of Plenty
|
Paeroa
|
68.2
|
Evan Lamberton
|
28/01/2017
|
|
|
|
Hawkes Bay
|
Burma Road
|
21.5
|
Robbie Kerr
|
30/04/2016
|
|
|
|
Hawkes Bay
|
Te Mata Peak
|
93.4
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
28/01/2017
|
|
|
|
Hawkes Bay
|
Turiri
|
38.5
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
11/02/2017
|
|
|
|
Wellington
|
Mt Climie
|
21.3
|
Chris Connolly
|
21/03/2017
|
|
|
|
Nelson
|
Inwoods Lookout
|
113.5
|
Nick Taber
|
30/10/2016
|
|
|
|
Nelson
|
Mt Murchison
|
94.9
|
Matt Senior
|
26/12/2016
|
|
|
|
Nelson
|
Takaka - Riwaka
|
12.1
|
Jude Tarr
|
05/01/2017
|
(Takaka Hill)
|
|
|
Marlborough
|
Blowhard
|
76.7
|
Jean Brossard
|
16/02/2017
|
|
|
|
Marlborough
|
Canvastown
|
15.5
|
Nick Taber,
Josh Benjamin
|
20/08/2016
|
|
|
|
Marlborough
|
Okiwi Bay
|
23.2
|
Pepijn Wyffels
|
05/01/2017
|
|
*
|
|
Canterbury
|
Avalanche Peak
|
90.6
|
Jean Brossard
|
09/02/2017
|
|
*
|
|
Canterbury
|
Craigieburn Range
|
37.1
|
Jiri Hanc
|
30/10/2016
|
(Cheeseman)
|
|
|
Canterbury
|
Hunter Hills
|
12.2
|
Rob Hughes-Games
|
11/02/2017
|
(Mt Studholme)
|
*
|
|
Canterbury
|
Port Hills
|
19.0
|
Matt Stanford
|
07/08/2016
|
(Mt Pleasant)
|
|
|
Canterbury
|
Sealy Range
|
80.6
|
Glen Stevens
|
30/12/2016
|
(Sealy Tarns)
|
|
|
Otago
|
Cairnmuir
|
49.5
|
Glen Stevens
|
21/10/2016
|
|
|
|
Otago
|
Cardrona
|
46.7
|
Benjamin Kellett
|
05/01/2017
|
|
|
|
Otago
|
Coronet Peak
|
155.0
|
Dave Watson
|
29/12/2016
|
|
|
|
Otago
|
Hawea Eastern Ranges
|
47.5
|
Michal Karnik
|
01/12/2016
|
(Lake Hawea East
Pt 1410)
|
|
|
Otago
|
Hawkdun Range
|
28.5
|
Blake Round
|
14/03/2017
|
(Hawkdun Pt 1658)
|
|
|
Otago
|
Humboldt Mountains South
|
191.3
|
Nick Neynens
|
05/01/2017
|
(Mill Creek)
|
*
|
|
Otago
|
Matukituki
|
103.3
|
Bryan Moore
|
20/01/2017
|
(Sharks Tooth)
|
|
|
Otago
|
Mt Ida
|
41.9
|
Ian Douglass
|
30/10/2016
|
|
|
|
Otago
|
Mt Maude
|
122.1
|
Bryan Moore
|
29/12/2016
|
|
*
|
|
Otago
|
Glenorchy E. Ranges
|
182.7
|
Nick Neynens
|
29/12/2016
|
(Stair Peak)
|
*
|
|
Otago
|
Roys Peak
|
58.9
|
Louis Tapper
|
04/12/2016
|
|
|
|
Otago
|
Treble Cone
|
104.9
|
Glen Stevens
|
28/12/2016
|
|
|
* Site Record
** Site and Regional Record
FAI Out-and-Back
|
Region
|
Site/Site Group
|
Distance
|
Pilot
|
Date
|
Take Off
|
|
Waikato
|
Kaimai Range
|
62.7
|
Rhys Akers
|
05/01/2017
|
(Kaimai)
|
|
Nelson
|
Takaka - Riwaka
|
15.5
|
Jude Tarr
|
05/01/2017
|
(Takaka Hill)
|
|
Canterbury
|
Craigieburn Range
|
30.7
|
Michal Karnik
|
05/01/2017
|
(Cheeseman)
|
|
Otago
|
Hawea Eastern Ranges
|
23.6
|
Gert van Maren
|
09/10/2016
|
(Pakituhi Spur)
|
|
Otago
|
Mt Maude
|
51.7
|
Michal Karnik
|
24/09/2016
|
|
|
Otago
|
Roys Peak
|
102.3
|
Dave Watson
|
04/12/2016
|
|
|
Otago
|
Treble Cone
|
73.9
|
Louis Tapper
|
30/11/2016
|
|
FAI Triangle
|
Region
|
Site/Site Group
|
Distance
|
Pilot
|
Date
|
|
Otago
|
Roys Peak
|
121.2
|
Dave Watson
|
04/12/2016
|
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2017 Season Milestone Flights
NZHGPA Cross-Country Milestone Achievement stickers are
awarded the first time a pilot surpasses the ‘milestone’ distances of
25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 or 200km (open distance) on a hang glider or
paraglider in New Zealand. This table lists the pilots who
achieved milestone paraglider flights during the 2017 season.
Table 1 lists the pilots who achieved milestone paraglider
flights during the 2017 season through to the end of April.
In the North Island, 8
pilots surpassed 25km for the first time, flying from
sites Kaimai (7) and Moirs Hill (1); while in the South Island, 15 pilots logged
that mark flying from a spread of sites: Blowhard, Mt Murchison,
Cheeseman, Cardrona, Treble Cone and Coronet Peak. Great stuff!
In the North Island, where it's typically harder to fly 50km than the
South Island, we had four pilots achieving that for their first NZ50km
flights: Mark
Macdonald and Elliot
Revell-Nash flying in January from Kaimai and Paeroa
respectively, and then on the same day in February, Emlyn Revell-Nash
and Henry Dumbleton
flying from Kaimai (with Emlyn adding an extra 20km to bag the 3rd best
open distance ever from Kaimai).
At the end of January, PG2-rated Macdonald
went on to achieve his 75km milestone too. If achieving your first NZ50km
flight in the North Island is rare, then achieving your first NZ75km
flight on the outlying island is even rarer! To
find when it was last achieved, I had to go back eighteen years to
1999, when Te Mata Peak was still in vogue as "the place" for distance
paragliding in the North Island (see Table 2, below, for a list of
historical N.I. paragliding 75km milestone flights). Mark’s flight was
also the Kaimai site
record and Waikato
regional record (paragliding open distance).
In the South Island, sites of Nelson/Marlborough, Arthurs Pass and
Central Otago contributed to the tally of 50km and 75km
flights. XC Champs’ Best Rookie Rob Hughes-Games and
acro pilot Blake Round
bagged 50+ km from Blowhard; Matt
Senior at last got the weather around Christmas for a 75+
km flight south from Inwoods Lookout; and Michal Talavasek
teamed up with Jean
Brossard to fly 75+ km from Avalanche Peak. The Central
Otago action included a couple of tandem and acro pilots taking days
out: Todd Weigand
and Steve Bramfitt
logging NZ50km open distance for the first time, Steve's effort being part of a
massive loop around both Lakes Wanaka and Hawea from Treble Cone.
Doug Patterson,
last year's Best Rookie, bagged his 75km milestone flying 92km from
Treble Cone to Mt Buscot in the Mackenzie Basin.
And last, but not least, Michal
Karnik and Dave
Watson joined
the 'NZ100km Club'! Karnik picked a good day
(December 29) to visit Mt Maude, teaming up with Bryan Moore and Glen Stevens to fly
100+ km to Mt Cook Village. On the same day, as mentioned in
the wrap up report on the XC Champs, Watson, with a decent leave pass
for the day (and the next), flew a monster flight of 155kms from
Coronet Peak to just south of Mt Cook Nat. Park. His flight is the
first time a pilot has achieved their 100 and 150 milestones in the
same flight, and Dave becomes just the 6th paraglider to bag NZ150km
(the others in that group being Bryan Moore, Angus Tapper, Grant
Middendorf, Nick Neynens and Louis Tapper).
Table 1. 2017
Season Milestone Paraglider Flights
|
Pilot
|
Milestone Achieved (km)
|
Flight Date
|
Open Distance
|
Site Name
|
|
Andy Spierer
|
25
|
2/03/2017
|
33.6
|
Kaimai
|
|
Benjamin Kellett
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
46.7
|
Cardrona
|
|
Benjamin Letham
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
33.0
|
Cardrona
|
|
Blake Round
|
25
|
9/10/2016
|
41.8
|
Coronet Peak
|
|
Blake Round
|
50
|
16/02/2017
|
70.9
|
Blowhard
|
|
Clemence Cadario
|
25
|
16/02/2017
|
28.0
|
Cardrona
|
|
Dave Washer
|
25
|
2/03/2017
|
32.2
|
Kaimai
|
|
Dave Watson
|
75, 100, 125 & 150
|
29/12/2016
|
155.0
|
Coronet Peak
|
|
Dominique Washer-Le Sellin
|
25
|
5/02/2017
|
26.2
|
Kaimai
|
|
Doug Patterson
|
75
|
20/01/2017
|
92.0
|
Treble Cone
|
|
Elliot Revell-Nash
|
50
|
28/01/2017
|
57.3
|
Paeroa
|
|
Emlyn Revell-Nash
|
50
|
11/02/2017
|
72.6
|
Kaimai
|
|
Henry Dumbleton
|
25
|
5/02/2017
|
28.5
|
Kaimai
|
|
Henry Dumbleton
|
50
|
11/02/2017
|
59.9
|
Kaimai
|
|
Jenna Hughes-Games
|
25
|
16/02/2017
|
30.0
|
Blowhard
|
|
Jeremy Fletcher
|
25
|
4/12/2016
|
28.5
|
Treble Cone
|
|
Jiri Hanc
|
25
|
27/12/2015
|
32.8
|
Inwoods Lookout
|
|
Josh Benjamin
|
25
|
1/12/2016
|
27.2
|
Mt Murchison
|
|
Jude Tarr
|
25
|
2/03/2017
|
32.4
|
Kaimai
|
|
Lloyd Greenfield
|
25
|
26/12/2016
|
28.9
|
Mt Murchison
|
|
Mark Macdonald
|
25
|
4/12/2016
|
26.2
|
Moirs Hill
|
|
Mark Macdonald
|
50
|
5/01/2017
|
51.8
|
Kaimai
|
|
Mark Macdonald
|
75
|
30/01/2017
|
80.9
|
Kaimai
|
|
Matt Senior
|
50 & 75
|
20/12/2016
|
92.5
|
Inwoods Lookout
|
|
Michal Karnik
|
100
|
29/12/2016
|
120.7
|
Mt Maude
|
|
Michal Talavasek
|
25
|
30/10/2016
|
35.0
|
Cheeseman
|
|
Michal Talavasek
|
50 & 75
|
9/02/2017
|
82.6
|
Avalanche Peak
|
|
Paul McGinley
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
26.1
|
Coronet Peak
|
|
Pete Helliwell
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
46.2
|
Cardrona
|
|
Pete Martin
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
33.4
|
Kaimai
|
|
Peter Jones
|
25
|
5/01/2017
|
30.6
|
Kaimai
|
|
Rob Hughes-Games
|
25
|
28/12/2016
|
26.7
|
Treble Cone
|
|
Rob Hughes-Games
|
50
|
16/02/2017
|
68.4
|
Blowhard
|
|
Ryan Scarlett
|
25
|
16/02/2017
|
28.7
|
Cheeseman
|
|
Steve Bramfitt
|
25 & 50
|
4/12/2016
|
58.4
|
Treble Cone
|
|
Todd Weigand
|
50
|
8/02/2017
|
50.5
|
Coronet Peak
|
Table 2. List
of Historical North Island Paragliding 75km Milestone Flights
|
No.
|
Pilot
|
Milestone Achieved (km)
|
Flight Date
|
Open Distance
|
Site Name
|
|
1
|
Shaun Gilbert
|
75 & 100
|
23/01/1996
|
112.0
|
Te Mata Peak
|
|
2
|
Lee McLelland
|
50 & 75
|
25/12/1996
|
77.0
|
Te Mata Peak
|
|
3
|
Barry Sayer
|
75 & 100
|
3/01/1999
|
115.8
|
Te Mata Peak
|
|
4
|
Grant Middendorf
|
50 & 75
|
3/01/1999
|
95.1
|
Te Mata Peak
|
|
5
|
Mark Macdonald
|
75
|
30/01/2017
|
80.9
|
Kaimai
|
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