1995 CANADIAN PARAGLIDING CROSS COUNTRY LIST

Glen Derouin topped the 1995 list with three flights over 70km. His most spectacular flight was from Lady MacDonald, Canmore to Millerville, AB. This flight out onto the flatlands of Alberta was the longest flight from Canmore.

The miserable weather in the summer of '95 meant that there was little opportunity for long flights at Golden. Hang gliders had a great (but cold) day in May, but the best day of the year was the day before the Nationals in August. That day there were paragliders and hang gliders littering the skies from Golden to Invermere.

Longest flights that day were Willi Mulle r(Alta) and Nat. Scales (USA) at 100km. Once again Golden was the place for pilots to record their longest flights. Peter Graf and Laureen Miki of Vancouver flew 75km tandem. Hang gliding 'pirate' Don Glass flew 45km on his first XC on a paraglider. Denis Bigeault from Quebec, after sitting in the he rain and enduring numerous sled runs the week before, was finally rewarded with a 56km flight.

The longest flights of the year were on Wednesday before the meet with Josh Cohn (USA) 110km; Zach Hoisington (USA) 109km; Mark Telup (USA) 108km and Gene Randall (USA) 100km.

Gary Nesbit, B.C. had two 24km Out & Return flights from McBride, the first paragliding XC flights at this spectacular site.

Richard Noel flew 20.5km from St. Nicholas, Quebec in September. This was the only flight reported from Quebec. Chris Muller had a 40km flight off tow in May in Alberta. He was moving right along, not much slower than the hang gliders but landed due to an impending storm and the proximity of being drifted into controlled airspace.

1995 PARAGLIDING CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHTS ORIGINATING OUT OF CANADA

Not many paragliding pilots reported out-of-country paragliding flights in 1995. Glenn Derouin of Alberta spent the winter in New Zealand and Australia. He totalled up 231km in Australia and 292.2km in New Zealand, placing 3rd in the NZ Nationals.

Chris Muller had XC flights in Japan at the World Championships where he placed 28th but they were shorter flights than those in Australia. Eric Oddy and Michael Solaja did not send in their flights from Japan.

Chris and Willi Muller went to Australia for the Flatlands. The tow meet in 'outback' Australia was attended by an international field of pilots. Most pilots used a winch tow system either ' pay-in' or 'pay-out'. However both the French team and the Mullers used the 'static' line system. It worked well but was rather stressful. Willi Muller had his longest paragliding flight during this competition, 120km on the open distance day. Chris Muller won two of the four round competition.