Ozone must be biting its nails as Aljaz Valic sneaks ahead on his Niviuk Icepeak to lead the Paragliding World Cup Superfinal after five tasks

Last night got pretty hectic, what with packing, showering and eating all at once, then waiting for Elena and Pal to come back from their cool long flights.

TODAY was another odd XCT day in that the first half was spent going to the mayor’s office to have tea with him and smalltalk in his downtown office

Task 5 on Monday was a 72.4 km elapsed time task, with conditions most favourable at the start of the window

FINALLY I got to make a really nice flight in Turkey It wasn’t super far, it didn’t take forever, and it wasn’t even particularly scary – it was just a nice, quite difficult flight with a few low saves, and an efficient public transport retrieve thanks to the everpresent SUPER friendly locals that make Turkey special.

Saturday was the last day in Karaman, and Trias outflew everyone to land in Cappadocia. The rest of the group went there by bus the following day en route for the next stop, Beysehir.

Tasks of 62.6 km and 107.6 km were set for Friday and Saturday in Denizli, with Sunday being a rest day. Seiko Fukuoka Naville continued her domination of the women, winning both of the tasks to make it four out of four so far. Joachim Oberhauser (IT) and Alex Hofer (CH) won overall in tasks three and four, both on Ozone R10.2s.

Day 5 of XCTurkey saw some long flights at last, but not for everyone

XCTukey day 4, parawaiting and sightseeing.

Ozone’s Luc Armant won task two of the Superfinal in Denizli, a short, racy task of 63 km that saw 88 pilots in goal. Seiko Fukuoka Naville was again the first woman.

Swiss paragliding acro champion Yves Berlowitz and his Lucky Clowns acro partner Remo Niederer have set a new world record for 121 synchro infinity tumbles.

Users of UK’s uncontrolled Class G airspace, which includes hang glider and paraglider pilots, are asked to take 10 – 15 minutes to complete a pilot survey for the Airspace & Safety Initiative (ASI).

Mads Syndergaard and the other XCTurkey competitiors find day 3 inverted and difficult, another 30km day.

South African Andre Rainsford has won the first task of the Paragliding World Cup Superfinal in Denizli, Turkey. Seiko Fukuoka Naville was the first-placed woman.

Mads Syndergaard reports back on day 2 of XCTurkey.

UP’s Mads Syndergaard heads off to XC Turkey, to try to win the 5,000 Euros prizemoney that has been promised to the first paraglider pilot to fly 300 km in the region. He reports back for xcmag.com.

Yesterday and a fair bit of today (until 6am) was spent travelling, from Husby via Copenhagen to Istanbul and on to Antalya. The stopover in Istanbul was fun; I ran into some 10 old friends in the gate, all Superfinal pilots heading for Denizli, I wanted sooo hard to come with them…

Independence’s Garuda, an EN B free-flight wing, is now certified for paramotor use up to 140 kg (M size) or 160 kg (L size).

The second edition of the hang gliding Atlantique Delta Race takes place near Naujac sur Mer in France on Saturday 13 November 2010.

Mads packs his UP Trango XC and what little else the airline baggage allowances permit, ready to go off to the XCTurkey cup.