piisfish 140 #1 August 6, 2011 A beautiful event held for the 4th time in Gruyeres, Switzerland http://vimeo.com/27216258 QuoteFourth international Meeting of Disabled Pilots, 17th to 24th of July 2011. For the fourth year, the aero club of Gruyère is organising a worldwide meeting of disabled pilots to share experience and to offer special training in mountain flying. Gruyère is the only airfield in Switzerland offering disabled people instruction in glider or power flight. For this fourth edition, 40 glider and powered aircraft pilots and paragliders from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, USA, Sweden, Poland, Scotland, England, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy have shared the pleasure of flying in this amazing region. Brian Jones is the Honorary President of the event. He participated with Bertrand Piccard in the first non-stop balloon flight around the world and is the co-founder of the Winds of Hope Foundation. The godmother is Dorine Bourneton, Honorary President of the French Aero-Club’s disabled pilots association. Breitling is sponsoring this event. Many thanks to our honorary guests Yves Rossy, jetman.com and Jasmin Rechsteinerwill, misshandicap.ch. Firedance performed by Franziska Neuhaus, firedancing.ch A special thanks to Franziska for her amazing support all the week and for her great work for the interviews. Many thanks to my friends Daniel and Sarah, to Tahan and Yves, to all the team and to all our visitors. Filmed and edited by Yannick Barthe, yannickbarthe.ch with a Sony HVR-Z1, a Sony NEX-VG10 and 3 GoPro HD. Assistant and Interviewer Franziska Neuhaus. Music with web license by Chris Haigh and Ben Beiny scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #2 August 9, 2011 crossposted it in the "jumpers with disabilities" forum. Great reaction already by 2 posters who are interested in coming next year scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #3 August 12, 2011 from the organizers : -places limited to 40 pilots (due to logistics/hotels/transport etc). More people interested than slots available). They had mainly glider and small plane pilots, 1 paraglider pilot. -if interested in a slot, please contact them via email or Facebook page (see above) -event is bi-annual, so next date will be end of july 2013scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
