Snowphoric - The Outcome

[Bengel 0]

Click http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=5529 or search “snowphoric” on skydivingmovies.com!
It’s a Groundlaunching movie I’ve been working on over the past several month with great assistance from my buddy Nick Selmes.
It was really much fun, especially flying close to the ridge and finishing these never-ending swoops with a “butt-first” landing in the deep snow ;).
But also the long distance flights were just incredible having the beautiful Switzerland scenery in the background.
I really enjoyed the trips and can’t wait to get back!

And I hope, you’ll enjoy the clip as well.
-Chris-

I'm a British nanny, and I'm dangerous!

[piisfish 135]

didn't check the video yet, but please note that now there are rules and regulations for groundlaunching/ speedriding etc.

Grosso modo If you take off from the ground (ski/foot...) it is considered as paragliding. If you take off from an aircraft it is considered as skydiving.

In theory you need valid licenses and insurances and respect rules and regulations... Or just don't get caught

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Bengel 0]

Thank you for the advice, piisfish. I spoke to the lift operator first. He said, it's ok, because it is off-piste and the site is used from the local paragliding students (I actually have a license for this ;) ) as well. So no worries ;)

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[freeflyn 0]

This is the recent law pasted in Switzerland at the end of Feb 2007.

Note speedflying According to the federal Office of the civil aviation (OFAC), the speedflyers are sailplanes of slope of the parapentes category. Their use is consequently regulated by the Ordinance on the aircraft of special categories (OACS) RS 748.941. - read

Legal provisions:
Only A right to use a speedflyer
· that which has an official licence (delivered by the FSVL) of pilot of coasting flight of the cat. parapentes (age minimal: 16 years)
· or which, if it did not obtain the aforementioned licence yet, flies under the direct monitoring of an instructor of coasting flight for the parapentes category.

It is moreover obligatory
· that the owner of the apparatus concluded, to cover the rights to repair of damage caused with thirds on the ground, an insurance civil liability for a guaranteed amount of a million CHF at least. It must carry the certificate of this insurance on him lasting the use of the speedflyer.
· the speedflyer must be provided, on the lower face of the airfoils, with a quite visible distinctive mark (figures a 40 cm height), mark which must correspond to the inscription appearing in the certificate of insurance civil liability for the owner of speedflyer (Article 11 has Ordinance on the distinctive marks of aircraft (RS 748.216.1 - read).

Rules of traffic and exploitation (Article 8 OACS)
· the take-off and the landings are prohibited on the public roads and on the ski pistes
· the gatherings in the open air, the buildings, the roads public, the ski pistes, the installations of public transport, in particular the railroads, cable cars and ski-lifts, as well as the powerlines or other cables are flown over or circumvented at a sufficient distance.

Code of conduct for pilots
· Pratique only after having received instructions by a qualified person
· Evaluation of pilots own capacities (training step by step)
· Inform the local owners
· Consult the opinions of avalanches
· Eviter the zones of protection of the

Recommandations from the FSVL
· Voler only in the zones delimited for the practice of the speedflying
· Casque/glasses
· Back Protection

For more infos: Swiss federation of coasting flight, Seefeldstrasse 224, 8008 Zurich 044 387 46 80, www.shv-fsv.ch, [email protected]

[Bengel 0]

Thanks for posting this, freeflyn. I did not know about this law (I was there before Feb 07, actually).
But good to know this.

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