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Entrevista Hans Bausenwein
¿Quién es Hans Bausenwein?: En palabras de Andy Heddiger: “Hans Bausenwein… un muy amigo mió desde hace más de 20 años… el es muy “grosso”… y tiene visiones, que casi todas sabe realizar As a paragliding instructor in the early days of paragliding I had some very famous pilots, that I introduced to paragliding. Among them John Pendry, Rob Whittall and Bruce Goldsmith who made their first flights on a paraglider during the hang gliding pre-worlds in Fiesch, Switzerland in 1988. The XC OPEN WORLD Series is an idea by Hans Bausenwein, first realized in 2005 in the Manilla XC OPEN in Australia. In the Manilla XC OPEN 2005 65% of all pilots, even myself and also some of the Top-Pilots, made their personal best flights. The XC OPEN WORLD Series 2007 of open distance paragliding competitions is organized by Hans Bausenwein, Andreas Rieck as technical director and Godfrey Wennes as technical adviser short cv's of all three of us you can find here Hans http://www.xcopen.org/cms/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=3&Itemid=3 Andreas http://www.xcopen.org/cms/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=2&Itemid=3 Interview We are with Han Bausenwein, organizer of the xc open, open distance competition, paraglider instructor, and free flight pasionate: Hey Hans how are you? Very good thank you.
Well, I’m a very old pilot,(laughs) I’m one of the pilots who became old without being too bold,(laughs) I started hang gliding in 1978, and started competition flying in 1983, and I was in the German national team from 1988 to 2000, so that’s why I know a lot of people that are still paragliding and hang gliding. When did you started paragliding? I started when the first paragliders came out in 86, the winter of 86. Now it seems like a long time ago doesn’t it? Yes, twenty years ago, I still do it, I had a paraglider accident in 2000, I stopped flying for half a year, I broke my legs quite badly at take off, so I dropped out of the national team, and all of a sudden, hanggliding wasn’t interesting anymore without racing with other guys, without my friends, so I flew more and more paragliders, and now I do only paragliding. Are you still competing? Yes, I’m still competing and I started to compete in more comps in paragliding. What’s the biggest result you ever had? The biggest result I had was in 2006 flying the pre-worlds in Australia, was second in serial class and 20th overall among 150 participants. So you are from Germany right? Yes, I am. And what do you call home these days? Well, in the summer Germany is my home, and in the winter when the weather’s bad and you can’t fly I like to travel a lot, I’ve spent the last 12 winters in Australia, always around two months, and that’s how the idea came up to start the xc open competition which was first made in 2005 In Manilla, and everyone taking part in it was really happy about it so we thought we should continue this idea and look for more places that are good for xc open. Please tell us what the xc open is all about? ***(see rules and ideas further down) Well it’s a different competition format, it’s not racing you just try to make your longest flight, try to use the day as much as possible, take off as early as possible, and land as late as possible, and cover the biggest distance, so you don’t have any start gates, or tight gaggles above launch, and we also try to find places and fly places not when the conditions are really strong like in xceara in November, wich is only for experts, I think nice, strong but consistent conditions that any good paraglider pilot can fly in is what we look for, so I came to Valle de Bravo, and I like this place a lot, specially very nice people here, very friendly people, and the atmosphere is great, and the flying is fantastic, I have never been in a place where… well, I have been here for 29 days and 27 of them I went cross country flying,(laughing) I had never experienced that in my whole flying career. So in general, you like México, and specially Valle, have you been anywhere else in México? Yes, I was in tapalpa two years ago during the PWC and I went to Morelia to do this small competition at La Escalera, I also went to Patzcuaro, but the wind was not right, so I do know some places. Ok, now, we are working, me and some of the top pilots in México to raise Mexico’s XC level, what do you recommend? Well, I recommend to fly as many different sites as possible, and to fly together and do training tasks, that helps, also do a debriefing in the evenings with all the pilots to speak about why you went where and let the best pilot of the day do the debriefing, I think that’s a good idea. Thanks, please tell us, what’s your best memory of flying? Well there’s so many good memories and flights, and you always remember the longest flights, and the longest I did was during the xc open in Manilla 2 years ago which was close to 200 kilometers, but I’m hoping to beat my personal best, also, my personal best in hangglider was in Australia, 300 kilometers, and I had the hanggliding world record which I flew in 1999, it was speed over a 100 kilometers triangle. Ok, any personal recommendations to young pilots who are just starting to do xc? Well, go to places that are safe, and easy to fly, and don’t pick the strongest day, also go with friends who are experienced pilots, that’s important. Ok Hans, thanks a lot. Thank you too. Return to Interview |
Después de volar casi diario juntos, por la misma ruta, y encontrándonos siempre en la misma área, y aterrizar varias veces en el mismo sitio, Hans y yo empezamos a cultivar una amistad de intereses y pasiones comunes, todas asociadas al cross country, por lo que después de que dio una platica de cross country en el campamento de competencia que hubo en Valle de Bravo, se me ocurrió entrevistarlo, y exponer a todos el proyecto tan interesante que desarrolla en todo el mundo, a lo que amablemente accedió, en el mismo despegue del peñón, con tono informal y siempre con una gran sonrisa.
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