Brazil's Kamira Pereira has had several female paragliding records ratified
Brazilian Sol Tracer pilot Kamira Pereira has just had several World and South American female paragliding records ratified by the FAI:
Female straight distance to a declared goal
14 November 2009, 285.3 km from Quixada to Castelo do Piaui (Brazil), breaking Petra Krausova’s (CZ) 2005 record of 247.7 km
Female straight distance
14 November 2009, 324.7 km from Quixada to Novo S Antonio (Brazil), breaking her own previous record of 320.6 km set only 6 days earlier.
XCmag report here
Female distance using up to 3 turnpoints
10 November 2009, 131.5 km, Quixada (Brazil), topping Anja Kroll’s (CH) 103.8 km record from 2008.
Spanish Air Atos pilot, Carlos Puñet Pellisé broke the out and return distance record (rigid wing hang gliders) on 11 January 2010 with a 354.4 km flight from Burgsdorf to Bethanie (Namibia) . The previous record was from almost exactly the same date two years previously, 10 January 2008, and was held by himself, Patrick Chopard (FR) and Pascal Lanser (FR)
