Super Paragliding Testival Kössen

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General Information
"Super Paragliding Testival 2022"
in Kössen Austria

Dates:	26. - 29. May 2022
	On the basis of accurate forecasts on the expected weather developments, the organiazer may cancel the event. This will be promptly made known on this website.
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 the 1st Austrian Kiting Klub Kössen
Event Management:	Sepp Himberger (A)
Official Airsport Media Partners	CROSS COUNTRY Magazin THERMIK
Participating Manufacturers	Advance (CH), Airdesign Gliders (AT), airG (AT), APCO (IS), Axis (CZ), BGD (AT), Davinci Gliders (KR), Drift Paragliders (CZ), Dudek Paragliders (PL), Fly Fat (CH), Flow (AU), Gin Gliders (KR), Icaro (DE), Independence (DE), Kimfly (SI), Kortel Design (FR), Mac Para (CZ), Niviuk (ES), Nova (AT), Ozone (UK), PHI (AT), Sky Paragliders (CZ), Skywalk (DE), SupAir (FR), Swing (DE), Woody Valley (IT), UP (DE), U-Turn (DE), 777 Gliders (SI)
Further exhibitors	Ascent Vario (US), AXA Versicherungen, Blacksheep Eyewear (AT), Finsterwalder (DE), Flecksi-Design (DE), Fly Market (DE), Flywear (AT), FreeSpee (DE), MIPFly (RO), NEO (FR), ParaCyclage (CH), PARA\|DISE (AT), Skybean (SK), Skytraxx (DE), Stodeus (FR), Syride (FR), Turnpoint (DE), XC Tracer (CH)
Event Concept:	The exhibitors 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, tuition flights and Hanggliding are not possible!
Foreign flying licenses in Austria:	According to the Guest flying decree Paragliding licenses from following countries are accepted automatically in Austria: Australia, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, United Kingdom. For the holders of licenses from any other country the local flying school (Kössen) may issue an Austrian Guest Flying Card (e.g. in combination with IPPI card). In this case just contact Flugschule staff at the Fliegerbar.
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 SPT 2013: General Information SPT 2014: General Information SPT 2015: General Information Photos from the Super Paragliding Testival 2015 SPT 2016: General Information SPT 2017: General Information SPT 2018: General Information SPT 2019: General Information
Further Information:	Please contact Sepp sepp@fly-koessen.at