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Name: | David Wainwright |
| Glider: | UP Trango XC3 | |
| Flying For: | 6 years | |
| AU Rank: | 10 | |
| WPRS: | 471 |
1. Where do you mostly fly?
Laurieton.
2. Which pilots most influenced you?
Ivan Anissimov, Gareth Carter, Brian Webb, Mads Syndergaard, Che Golus, Craig Collings.
3. Where and what was your most memorable flying experience, best flight ever?
Flying from my local site Middle Brother to Taylers arm, the site record at 120km in 4hrs.
4. What is your favourite flying site in your State?
North Brother.
5. What is your favourite site in Australia?
Corryong Mt Elliot.
6. What is your favourite site in World?
Garmisch, Germany.
7. What is you favourite item in your flying kit and why?
My fly master B1 nav, it has never let me down.
8. What do you believe to be your strongest flying skill?
Patience and thermalling getting low and not getting frazzled finding lift and getting high again. Flying strategically by observing others and the conditions.
9. What do you believe to be your weak link?
Knowing when to change gears reading lift lines and gliding efficiently.
10. What equipment do you use, Harness, Instruments, etc?
Glider UP Trango XC3 Harness Up Fast XC, Helmet Icaro full face with visor, Flymaster b1 nav, iPhone flyskyhy, kobo XC soar, IQ sonic.
11. Best comp task you’ve flown so far, the most memorable?
Corryong on the last task back in 2012 i was flying the new APCO Zefira for the first time that day, It gave me a bit of a scare at the start but also gave me that mental and performance edge which helped me win the task.
12. Why do you fly?
For the feeling of flight and the Challenge it presents.
13. What are your personal flying goals?
to be No.1 in Australia and top 10 in the next worlds.
14. What tips can you give to newcomers to the sport?
Fly as much as you can, surround yourself with better pilots to learn from, go to as many camps as you can and be a sponge, ask lots of questions people love to tell you how good they are. No one has all the answers and things that work for other may not work for you so find what does work for you and grow with it.