The day started early for the remaining pilots of the first run. At 8:15 they been sent up to the takeoff, where backwind was found again. The wind dummies could take off quickly, but after the wind got stronger, and the competitions pilots stuck up at the mountain top for about 2 hours. Finally the first solo and synchro runs where finished by the afternoon. The solo competition is 26 pilots, and the synchro is 4 teams. On the briefing the pilots and organizers decided to do the secound tund the next day, as it was too late and the conditions weren't ideal.

The first day of the Acro Jam in Obertraun (Austria) started with a rainy morning and the first briefing at 8'o clock. The weather forecast was promising and around 11 the pilots were sent up to Krippenstein in the hearth of the impressive Dachstein mountain range. Under fully covered sky the first solo run has started with light but managable back-wind.

The current world ranking has been updated with the latest results of the first World Cup in Ölüdeniz.

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The comp season continues with two smaller FAI2 category events, this weekend the Extremesportsweek in Norway and then the following week the AcroJam in Austria.

Current Top 10:

Dell Shanze (alias “SuperDell”) performed probably one of the coolest Speed-Wing launches ever but got arrested the next day. He was using a 14m2 Speedmaster from U-Turn, the wind was smooth laminar around 16 km/h.
Catched him on the phone a bit to chat about what actually happened:

A few un-cut and some more edited videos by different pilots from the first Acro World Cup event in 2011.