WGC 97 - Links
The 25th world Gliding Championships
are an official event
organized under the aegis of
Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale
and organized by the french soaring
association (FFVV)
Philippe de Péchy's "Vol
à Voile" (Soaring) server : infos, ad's, glider pictures, GPS
turnpoints coordinates, competitions results and an unofficial ranking
of all glider pilots in the world.
See cumuluses via satellite (Université
de Strasbourg)
Bruno Ramseyer from Emerald
Computer Products for Export to Europe offered a completly new AT Bus
Flatbed Scanner 4800dpi full colour and other hardware (he is also the
IGC delegate for Ireland)
Cécile Bon translated some
of these pages into french in a effort to save our culture
David Robertson, whose
TaskNav® is used to display flights (in addition of being used for
automatic flight evaluation)
Günther Eichhorn
provided instant mirror access to WGC results on SSA
website
Jean Molveau, from Vol à Voile Magazine, granted publication
on the web of Vol à Voile special WGC issue
John Leibacher, who made a
great job creating and maintaining a Worldwide
Soaring Turnpoint Exchange, converted Official Turn Points data into
files various formats (including errata updates)
Hans Trautenberg
created a map of flight area with
TPs
and (last but not least), Philippe
de Péchy contributed to the elaboration of the whole site and
created a dedicated software to convert scoring data into results webpages
; visit his great "Vol
à Voile" (Soaring) website.
The website also uses information from :
Beyond French Riviera site (area
maps)
Flags of the world website (at http://flags.cesi.it/flags/)
: flags of participating countries.
InfoMet, from
Université de Barcelone and Fondation
Catalane pour la Recherche (most weather information displays : for
education and research use only)
METEO-FRANCE
French Soaring clubs of Graulhet
, Chérence
and Fédération Française
de Vol à Voile : general information about gliding
Université de Strasbourg
: NOAA satellite pictures
Other World Gliding Championships :
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All World Champions since 1937
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Complete results :
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Next World Championships :
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Very comprehensive site about Provence Côte
d'Azur region (around Saint-Auban, beyond French Riviera)
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