{"id":29847,"date":"2018-11-11T23:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T20:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paragliding.olympicwings.com\/?page_id=29847"},"modified":"2019-12-18T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:05:37","slug":"mikekueng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paragliding.olympicwings.com\/el\/2026-2\/events-2014-2022\/past-events-2019\/mikekueng\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike K\u00fcng at Olympus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Olympic Wings offers a Groundhandling & Glider Control seminar<\/h4>\n

with Mike K\u00fcng<\/h5>\n

from 13.04. to 20.04.2019<\/h4>\n

ngg_shortcode_11_placeholderThis Groundhandling & Glider Control seminar aims to pilots who wish to reconnect with their gliders<\/strong> and lock a solid ‘piloting skills’ base<\/strong> by training correctly and gaining a clear understanding of the complete potential of their flying gear.<\/p>\n

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Groundhandling can be groundbreaking to a pilot’s progress, no matter their level of experience<\/strong>. It is essentially the only practice method, necessary to revisit time after time, for one to discover and utilize all of the glider’s abilities and with safety.
\nTraining your feeling, your cognition, your reflexes and your physical inputs will broaden the spectrum of control with your own glider<\/strong> and enable you to familiarize faster and better with any new glider you fly!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The goal is to discover how a paraglider should really be handled<\/strong> and how it should react to your intentions<\/strong>.
\nThe next step is establishing the reasons behind a glider’s incident behavior<\/strong> and any deviations<\/strong> from it.<\/p>\n

We will give you<\/strong> answers<\/strong> and demonstrate several techniques<\/strong> applicable to the take off procedure as much as landing as much as all flight stages, which you will then implement yourself in real time action, so together we can work on adapting them to your flying style.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A blend of intense exercises on the ground and in the air, clear theory presentations and live demonstrations, daily targets and open dialogue, with plenty of airtime will optimize your flying sensations <\/strong>just in time for the start of the flying season!<\/p>\n

The seminar will focus on:ngg_shortcode_12_placeholder<\/h5>\n
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  • Establishing several reliable take-off techniques.<\/li>\n
  • Evolve your take-off \/ landing technique.<\/li>\n
  • Adaptive techniques of thermalling and dynamic flying.<\/li>\n
  • Tipps for active piloting and safety in flight.<\/li>\n
  • Points of consideration when changing equipment and\/or upgrading.<\/li>\n
  • Facts on glider new designs and equipment features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Introduction and establishment of pilot levels<\/li>\n
    • Review of pilot equipment<\/li>\n
    • Area briefing and weather<\/li>\n
    • Groundhandling sessions on grassy fields<\/li>\n
    • Day2day targets and group flights with radio<\/li>\n
    • Daily debrief on individual and group basis<\/li>\n
    • Final assessment and summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      About Mike K\u00fcng:<\/h5>\n

      ngg_shortcode_13_placeholderngg_shortcode_14_placeholderMike or Mad Mike is a talented paragliding pilot<\/strong> also a famous professional acrobatics pilot<\/strong> from Austria, who has won the ongoing interest of the entire paragliding community by performing extraordinary flying tasks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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      He presents great achievements<\/strong> in his flying career by providing essential input for glider development being the test pilot for a number of designers<\/strong> and further a test pilot for the EARP and DHV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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      ngg_shortcode_15_placeholderHe co-developed the book Acrobatics<\/strong>, a first and thorough publication on aerobatic paragliding. He posts on the cover<\/strong> performing a perfect infinity tumbling and further through the book’s chapters discussing acro and demonstrating a number of maneuvers for the purpose of education to acro pilots from all over the world.<\/p>\n

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      He is owner of the altitude flight world record<\/strong>: on April 30th in 2004, he jumped from a height of 10.100 m<\/strong>. with his paraglider from a hot air balloon.<\/p>\n

      He landed in a Ferrari<\/strong> convertible on 25.04.2008, after jumping from a Zeppelin NT<\/strong> flying 300m above Lake Constance.
      \nMike also jumped out of the former airship hangar of Cargolifter AG<\/strong>.
      \nOther ventures include crossing the English Channel<\/strong> and jumps from flying helicopters<\/strong>, mountain railways<\/strong> and bridges<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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      This day he is referred to as \u201cthe master of groundhandling\u201d<\/strong> due to the vast media exposure of his fascinating skills in handling all types of gliders under extreme conditions or at impressive remote locations. <\/p>\n

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      He is in close collaboration with the new glider manufacture company Phi by Hannes Papesh<\/strong> and together they develop promising designs while spreading their enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

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