Super Paragliding Testival Kössen

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General Information
to the "Super Paragliding Testival 2013"
in Kössen Austria

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Dates:	Due to the weather forcasts the Super Paragliding Testival could not be held on the original dates (9.-12. May, 18.-20. May 2013) and on the planned dates in June. New date: 5. - 7. July 2013 Confirmation of the date will be again due to weather conditions and in cooperation with PMA 3 days before.
Host City:	Town of Kössen, District of Kitzbühel, Tourism Region "Kaiserwinkl", State of Tyrol, Austria
Testival Location:	Landeplatz Kössen/Fliegerbar Thurnbühel 40, 6345 Kössen, Austria Fliegerbar at Google Maps
Organzier:	Flugschule Kössen GmbH in Cooperation with PMA and the Kössen Lift
Event Management:	Sepp Himberger (A), Hans Bausenwein (PMA)
Public Relations	Air Sports - PMA General - TVB Kaiserwinkl, Tirol Werbung, Kössen Lift
Official Airsport Media Partners	CROSS COUNTRY Magazin THERMIK
Public Sponsoring:	Tyrolean Government Tirol Werbung Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce Town of Kössen Tourism Management "Kaiserwinkl"
Product Sponsoring:	AXA Insurance Volksbank Kufstein Ayinger Brauerei Stiegl Brauerei
Participating Manufacturers	Advance (CH), Aircross (DE), Airdesign Gliders (AT), Axis (CZ), BGD Bruce Goldsmith Design (FR), Dudek Paragliders (PL), Gin Gliders (KOR), Gradient (CZ), Icaro (DE), Independence (DE), Mac Para (CZ), Niviuk (ES), Nova (AT), Ozone (GB/FR), Paratech (CH), Sky Paragliders (CZ), Skywalk (DE), Sol Paragliders (BR), Swing (DE), U-Turn (DE), UP (DE), Woody Valley (IT), Zunzun (FR), 777 Gliders (SLO)
Exhibitor Plan	pdf Download
Event Concept:	The members of the PMA provide their products free of costs to pilots for test flying. Instead of having several individual, time and money consuming test camps spread all over the world, all manufacturers offer their products at the beginning of the European flying season central in Europe in Kössen with its ideal infrastructure. For pilots keen to test several brands and to compare on site, this creates cheaper and timesaving possibilities to do so. For this purpose the flying site in Kössen is ideal: The flying site has a perfect infrastructure The flying school Kössen GmbH can guarantee an ideal neutral stage for all participating brands to present their products equally The north facing mountain slope is known for a soft convergence and mild thermals It is also known as a most popular and safe flying site It has a large landing field (3 ha) with a "Fliegerbar" It is probably the flying site with the most flyable days per year in the Northern Alps and with the probaly highest flying frequency in the world (5.600 safe flights during SPT 2009) 4 days seem to be a long enough period to allow all pilots to intensively test all products they want to test.
Conditions for pilots to test a glider:	The pilot must prove by signature that he holds the appropriate flying license and also that he has received briefing about the flying site and the special landing approach. Unfortunately no reservations for test flying paragliders can be done. Tandem flights are not possible!
Flying Shows / Demos:	To be able to do as many test flights as possible no official flying shows are scheduled so to keep the maximum airspace and flight time for testing. However on certain occasions exceptions can be organized upon agreement with the organizers.
Accommodation / Camping:	Reservations via www.kaiserwinkl.com (make reservations early, because of the long weekend!) No overnight staying or Camping at the exhibition area or the landing field.
SPT in previous years:	SPT 2009: Report on the PMA Homepage with Fotos SPT 2009: General Information Photos from the Super Paragliding Testival 2009 SPT 2010: General Information SPT 2011: General Information Photos from the Super Paragliding Testival 2011 SPT 2012: General Information
Special Information:	Please contact Sepp sepp@fly-koessen.at