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In memoriam Sasa Kirdyashkin in slike iz Kazahstana

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V galerijo sva dodala slike bivanja in padalskega tekmovanja Kazahstan Open in tekmovanja bivših republik Sovjetske zveze v kazahstanski Alma Ati konec poletja 2009.

Te posvečava najinemu prijatelju Sanyi - Saši Kirdyashkin, izvrstnem XC in tekmovalnem pilotu jadralnega padala iz Chelyabinska blizu Yekaterinburga v Rusiji.

Sanya - Saša Kirdyashkin

Skupaj smo preživeli lepe trenutke tako v zraku kot na tleh.

24.02.2010 se je Saša smrtno ponesrečil pri testiranju padala v Pokhari v Nepalu.

Klubska majica, ki jo je Tadej prejel v dar od njega za rojstni dan, nama vliva pozitivno energijo, ki jo je Sasa vedno delil z vsemi.

Povezava na album v galeriji.

AsiaTmin - Sasa in Tadej

Paragliding – known in China as huáxiángsǎn (滑翔伞) or 'gliding parachute'

... is a relatively new sport in China. It first began to be promoted in China about 10 years ago but has yet to attract the numbers of die-hard pilots found in the US, Europe or even South Korea and Japan.

"Paragliding is one of those sports like Kung Fu or bicycling that can become a way of life for those that enjoy it," said Mike Fougere.

Over the last two springs, he has been exploring ideal areas around Kunming for paragliding – in addition to Anning's Longsan, he has also tried out Xishan in Kunming and Liangwan Shan in Chengjiang, about 50 minutes' drive from Kunming. Meteorological knowledge is crucial to being a good (and safe) pilot and understanding how the sun heats the ground and creates hot air currents in specific areas is how you find thermals - and go up.


You can check his picasa web album and many images about flying in China.

Mike Fougere is a Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada (HPAC)-certified paragliding instructor based in Kunming. He has been paragliding for more than 10 years and has been involved in various other airsports and windsports since a young age. He is available – winds permitting – to pilot tandem paragliding flights around Kunming at a rate of 300 yuan per person (plus transport expenses). Mike can be contacted at mike4g_air(at)yahoo.ca or (+86) 15825256431.

Paragliding terrorists ?

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Inteligence inputs indicate that the Lashkar- e- Tayyeba ( LeT) is desperate to launch an attack on India after a lull since the 26/ 11 Mumbai terror strikes.

A source in the Union home ministry said on Friday that there was concrete information that the LeT had recently bought over 50 paragliding kits from Europe and were training Pakistan- based terrorists to use them and attack India soon.

Identified paragliding terrorist above Bir, Himachal Pradesh

The equipment, bought through the LeT's overground cadres, is state- of- the- art, lightweight and equipped with Global Positioning System ( GPS) device. They also have a variometer to detect rates of ascent or descent on board, the source added.

Using such hi- tech equipment, a skilled paraglider can fly for at least a couple of hours and cover nearly 200 km, after launching from a peak or a cliff. India fears this could help intrusion from the border and a strike a sensitive target.

The National Security Guards ( NSG), Border Security Force( BSF) and state police units have been asked to look out for aerial crafts around vital installations, a home ministry source said. As paragliders can escape radars, those located at sensitive locations like Delhi and on the Indo- Pak borders have been retuned to intercept ' low- flying' crafts. A trained paraglider can manoeuvre the flight to land at a specific spot with the help of GPS, the source added.

Pakistan shepard in Pamir mountains on the border with Afganistan

Sources said India had received this intelligence input, as well as that of a plot to hijack Air India aircraft, from US intelligence agencies at the meeting between US defence secretary Robert Gates and Indian security officials in Delhi.

US intelligence agencies had stumbled on information that certain overground workers with LeT links had been scouting markets in Europe for modern paragliding equipment a source said.

Source: Counter Jihad

Foto Pirata...fotografije iz Rusije - Foto Pirata...photos from Russia

Flying over Kurai landscape / Letenje preko Kuraiskih planjav

Pozdravljeni!

V galerijo slik sva dodala nekaj fotografij, ki nama jih je napravil Pirata- prijatelj, pilot jadralnega padala, višinski delavec predvsem, pa prijeten človek. Slike so bile posnete v letošnjem poletju, ko so se skupaj še z petimi prijatelji potepali po Rusiji. Slike so iz njegovega rodnega Perma, Kavkaza, kjer so kot ekipa osvojili prvo mesto, Mleko in iz letošnjega državnega prvenstva Rusije Kuraia (Galerija), ki se nahaja v pogorju Altaja na Rusko, Mongolski in Kazahstanski meji. Tam je Vitaly Shabanov eden izmed članov ekipe, ki so jo poimenovali „Medicinski bratje“ postal državni prvak. Če si želite pogledati kaj več o njegovem kraju in možnosti letenja v Kavkazu pasmatrite(si poglejte) www.yutsa.ru

IIz razlicnih koncev Russije_Perm_Kavkaz_Meleko_Foto Pirata 2009

Slike iz Kazahstana pa pridejo na vrsto kasneje, ko jih bova uredila in se kaj več napisala o tem. Tam, so ekipno zasedli na drugo mesto na državnem prvenstvu Kazahstana na drugi tekmi, ki je nosila naslov Odprto prvenstvo bivših Sovjetskih republik, pa prvo mesto. Med posamezniki, pa je slavil Gosha, ki je lastnik njihovega „reševalnega vozila“, ki je zmogel vse napore potovanja na 16.000 ali več kilometrov dolgem potepanju po Rusiji, kjer so se selili, kot nomadi v velikem šotoru, ki je nosil napis EXTIRM - CLASS www.paraplan.samara.ru kjer najdete vec informacji o letenju v tem ruskem kraju. V tem kraju je tudi organizirana tekma ki traja cel mesec maj. Njen namen je izboljsati rekord najdaljsega XC poleta v tem kraju 222km. Nagrada za tistega, ki mu to vspe je 10.000 rubljev.
Trenutno so nekateri izmed njih na tekmovanju v Ukrajini. Kako jim gre ne veva, vendar jim želiva vse najboljše.
Vseh slik nebi vedela točno poimenovati, zato bi prosila, če kdo ve točen kraj, naj nama to sporoči na najin email asiatmin@gmail.com.

English:

Hi everybody!

We add some photos in Gallery, that were captured by Pirata – Sergey Udot. Friend, paragliding pilot, working on a high altitude at the most he is a great person. Pictures were captured during this summer trip around the Russia that was made by 6 friends who called themselves “Medicinski Bratje – Medical Brothers”. You can see his birthplace Perm, Kavkaz where they took first place as a team, Mleko and nation championship of Russia in Kurai (Gallery) which is based in Altai Mountains on the border between Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhastan. Vitaly Shabanov one of the team member's became the Russian Champion for 2009. If you wish to read something more about his place on Kavkaz you can “pasmatris – browse” on www.yutsa.ru

Meleko nekje v Rusiji / Meleko somewhere in Russia

Pictures about Kazakhstan will be published later because we have to sort the out and we'll write some more about it at the same time. There they took second place as a team on the Kazakhstan Open and first place on Open Championship of Commonwealth Independent States, where overall won Gosha – Igor Kazakov. He's the owner of the “Ambulance car” who took them all over Russia where they made 16.000 or more kilometers where they were travelling as a “nomads” in their big tent, which was addressed EXTIRM - CLASS www.paraplan.samara.ru There you can get some more news about flying in Samara (only in Russian but you can use the google translator). About Samara and their pilots we heard for the first time from UP dealer in moscow Alexander Bogdanov that this is a nice place with a “great people”! In Samara they organize the competition thet takes place for a month. The challenge is to fly further than is the the current XC record in that place 222km. The event holds it place in May. This year prize was 10.000 rubles.

At the time of writing some of the Medical Brothers are competing in Ukraine. How they fly we have no idea but we wish them all the best. We don't know all the names of places on the pictures thet we published in our Gallery.
If any of you have any idea where exactly were pictures took please write us on our mail asiatmin@gmail.com

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