My paragliding events

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#996699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="145467d1erlcll.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Paragliding</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paragliding"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="my_contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Contact"><U>My Contact</U></A>   |   <A HREF="what_is_paragliding.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is paragliding?"><U>What is paragliding?</U></A>   |   <B>My paragliding events</B>   |   <A HREF="dynamic.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dynamics"><U>Dynamics</U></A>   |   <A HREF="weather.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Weather"><U>Weather</U></A>   |   <A HREF="photo_galery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo gallery"><U>Photo gallery</U></A>   |   <A HREF="paragliding_sites.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paragliding sites"><U>Paragliding sites</U></A>   |   <A HREF="skydiving.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Skydiving"><U>Skydiving</U></A>   |   <A HREF="paragliding_links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paragliding links"><U>Paragliding links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="photo1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo 1"><U><B><IMG SRC="1a1ba770.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="119" ALT="Gliding in Linhares da Beira" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Here I am gliding my Reggae</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> My paragliding events</div> <bR> <div> I did a paragliding course with <A HREF="inatel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="INATEL"><U>INATEL</U></A> gliding school in April 1995 and finished the course in April 1996. I glide a Reggae 27 - Air Wave. </div> <div> At the moment I'm not gliding because I left my equipment in Portugal and it is very old and unsafe to glide. I want to by a new equipment but I don't have the money.</div> <bR> <div> Personal records:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2300 metres maximum altitude in Algodres Portugal. Take off at 650 metres altitude.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15 Km maximum strait line distance, take off in Algodres Portugal. Landing not far from Aguiar da Beira town. I didn't follow the wind direction because I had in mind to land in a specific place. On this flight I was at trees high ready to land when I got this nice thermal. I had to risk and I did a 360 degrees very closed to ground to get inside the thermal. And I did very well.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6 hours maximum time on air at once in Linhares da Beira.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">585 flies</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">185 hours total air time</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In the 1996 Linhares da Beira Open (Portugal) I toke the 7th general place in the B competition. And I had a 3rd place during the event. I was competing with very good gliders.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In the 1998 Linhares da Beira Open I toke the 10th general place in the B competition. Again I as compiting whit my very basic Raggae glider.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2 landings inside the <A HREF="#castle_of_linhares_da_beira" TITLE="My paragliding events"><U>castle of</U></A><A HREF="#castle_of_linhares_da_beira" TITLE="My paragliding events"><U> Linhares da Beira</U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Principal gliding sites I've gliding</I></div> <bR> <div> Portugal:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Linhares da Beira - Celorico da Beira</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Algodres - Fornos de Algodres</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Serra do Larouco</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sra. da Graça -  Mondim de Bástos</div> <bR> <div> Australia</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Stanwell Park - Sydney</div> <bR> <div>  New Caledonia</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Noemia</div> <bR> <div> Brazil</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Serra da Moeda - Belo Horizonte -MG</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Alfredo Chaves - Vitória - ES</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro - RJ</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Serra do Carmo - Palmas - TO</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="castle_of_linhares_da_beira"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="1f50a740.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="116" ALT="Castle of Linhares da Beira" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Castle of Linhares da Beira</div> </td> </tr></table></body>