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Records and Long Distance Flights Summer Season

Tomas suchanek
Long distance flghts from narromine

Visiting Czech pilot Tomas Suchanek has flown 7 flights of over 900km this season from Narromine, including 2 1,000km fliights.
He has mostly been flying a 15m ASW20 with some flights in a Ventus2.
His first flight of the season was in a Ventus 3T 15m and he flew a distance of 1,187km at 124kph.
Since then he consistently been flying long isitances from 500 to well over over 900km.
On 30 December he flew 1,040km at 125kph in a Ventus 2a. The day before he flew 9762km in the Ventus 2.
His longest flight in the ASW 20 was 949km at 112kph on 214 November.
Tomas has had a very strong competition career with his first major competition listed as WGC Buyreuth in 1999. He took 3 place in Club Class at WGC Gawler. Sincet hen he has won numerous European and Czech national championships and competed in many World Gliding Championships takint 1st place in Club Class at WGC Musbach 2002.
He is currently ranked 30th competition pilot in the world. You can see his competitin history at
tinyurl.com/IGC-Ranking-List
and his recent Australian flights on Weglide at tinyurl.com/Tomas-Suchanek

Sophie Curio
Fenimmine 750km record

Ryan Dsiscoll
back to back 1000km

  1. records backup Dec 24
  2. Australian National Records Update December 2024
  3. Australian National Records 2021

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