The final stage of the Eagle XC romanian cross country competition was held in Poiana last weekend (organized by George Marinescu). This place is a nice ski resort few kilometers away from Brashov up on the mountains. Just as in the previous years, there was also an acro show to impress the puclic, composed of mostly paraglider pilots. They invited two synchro teams, Against The Grain (Xandi and Bernd) and Soft Landing (Gábor and me)). On saturday we jumped two times from helicopter.

APCO joined the acro market releasing a new, powerful machine, the Twister. The glider is making all the maneuvers very nice and stable like Helicopter, Rythmic SAT and also Infinity Tumbling. The Twister is already in production and will be available at the end of september. The first official presentation of the glider will be at Coupe Icare, in St. Hillaire at this weekend.

On sunday the last stage of the Aerobatics World Cup Tour 2006 ended in Italy at Lago di Garda.
After Acrofolies, Vertigo-Voss and Acroaria competitions the 4th and the last event of the year was Adrenalina taking place in the beautiful town of Malcesine.

Just one day after Vertigo 20 of the best acro pilots from all around the world travelled to Türkey for one week to impress the public of Ölüdeniz at the 1st AcroX festival.

This great event was organized by Cem Karakas (SkyExtreme) and for the next year his plan is to improve it to a competition and a grandiose show with about 100 participants, included paraglider pilots, sky divers etc...

Cem, in the name of all pilots thank you very much for the great hospitality and this amazing week we had in the sunny Ölüdeniz! Hope to see you at Coupe Icare!

Here are the final results of the 1st Aerobatics World Championship, which ended last sunday in Villeneuve, Switzerland.

The official website of Acroaria is not updated at all so here are the final results of the 3rd World Cup event of 2006:

Solo results

Synchro results

And here are the updated World Cup standings after Acrofolies, Vertigo-Voss and Acroaria:

Solo World Ranking