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The Pilots
Andreas Nagel
Student, age 26.
Flight log: 10 yrs 1500 hrs.
Sponsors: Dad & Grandma.
German Junior Championships 98 3rd place, Germ 2000 2nd place.
Finds that gliding is a lot of fun, enjoys the feeling of being free.
Likes meeting other people from the gliding circus.
Mathias Sturm
Modellbauer, age 26.
Flight log: 11 yrs 2000 hrs
Sponsor : Dad
Comps flown: DM Club Class 1999, 2000: EM 97 Club Class
Wolli Beyer
Gliding teacher, Dentist
Flight log: 3100 hrs
Championships - Nationals 1998 1st; 2000 3rd, Barossa Glide 2000 5th.
Finds that gliding is the most fascinating interaction between human being and
nature.
Likes talking with friends after a long flight - watching sunset - drinking
“something”.
Frank Hahn
Engineer - wind energy, age 30.
Flight log: 17 years, 1700 hrs
Comps: EMJ 93 3rd; EMJ 95 1st; EM 1998 1st; all club class.
Instructor Licence 1997, Acrobatic licence 1996.
He says that gliding is a complex sport which needs high technical skills as well as
knowledge and routine. And then there is the feeling of freedom, of dynamic, which
makes every flight a new adventure.
Axel Reich
Age 36, married with three children.
Flight log: 21 yrs. 3000 hrs.
Championships: European Club class 1998 3rd.
Swaantje
Geyer
Telecommunications Engineer, age 44.
Flight log: 21 yrs 1500 hrs
Championships: European Women 1999 9th; 1997, 1995;
German women 2000 ; Club class German Women Champ 98, 96 94, 92, 90, 98,
86.
Barossa Glide 2000
Holds German Club Class record 300 km speed - female
She loves the extraordinary feeling of freedom and speed, the fight with nature and
the expanded view of the world, and likes to compete with others to find out about
her abilities.
She says that she never gives up. If she doesn’t reach her goal this goal this year, she
will be back for the next year.
Benno Beesten
Engineer, age 38.
Gliding log: 13 yrs
Benno also has a private pilot's licence and has flown a Dimona
around most of Europe.
He prefers gliding because he says
it’s the most challenging form of flying,
it's fun and has the best competitions.
Although this is his first International
competition, outside of Germany, he has flown in Minden USA,
in the Alps in Southern France and in Sweden, Poland and England.
Unusually, he has also flown in winter in Wales so that he
could enjoy ridge and wave soaring.
This is Benno's first trip to Australia and he really enjoyed
the opportunity to see some of the county when he drove
around for two weeks collecting gliders.
Team Captain --
Thomas Wartha
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