SkyNomad News

The winter inversions started creeping in the valleys and the first snow came shortly after - with Sopot takeoff covered in snow and the usual winter mists the only thing left to do was practice our spot landings.

Some club members decided to join the Sopot Accuracy Open - spot landing competition that took place in mid November.

One competition day with 5 rounds was held.

First time competing - our club member Vanya Radulova managed to take 3-rd place in the women category!

It seemed that the summer didn't wanted to end this year.

October provided the perfect conditions for training and amazingly even samall cross country flying for the eager flocks of new birds that joined us in the beginners and intermediate courses.

More than 20 students took to the skies and discovered the beautiful new world of paragliding.

With the last sunny days of the Summer came and the annual "Finnish Invasion" of Sopot.

Our frinds from Helsinki were again arround and about managing to make some nice flights in the valley and beyond making the best of the good autumn conditions.

Due to the persistent NE winds some interesting routes were possible to the SW of Sopot in the rarely flown southern slopes of Sredna Gora.

With the first days of the August sun came and the long awaited summer weather.

In the first week of August our team at Skynomad organized the 2018 Czech Open championshps.

With a very favorable weather 6 valid tasks were flown by the 62 competitors.

With many smiles and many people in goal every day the competition elected the new Czech champion - Michal Sneiberg

July came with warm weather and some more thunderstorms.

However we managed to complete 2 XC Training and 2 XC Guiding weeks and to help our friends reach new horizons while feeling more comfortable with thermals.

The XC training consisted of thermal by thermal guidance by our instructors plus briefing and debriefing via tracklog analysys of everyone participating - one of the best ways of learning is trough your own mistakes.

Despite the uncooperative weather we've managed again to fill up the month with lots of flyign and smiling faces.

7 more young birds took to the skies with the last Beginners course for the Spring season and lots of happy faces finished the 2 Intermediate courses in the beginning of the month.