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World Air Games Turin 2009 - The discipline: hang gliding
Aerobatics
In order to improve pilots’ safety, this event will take place over the Lago Grande in Avigliana. Hang Gliding demonstrates the pureness and simplicity of air sports. Pilots fly sequences of aerobatic manoeuvres using only their weight to control their wings in the air. Hang Gliding Aerobatics is the most recent development in this air sport and requires the most experienced pilots to control their wings through their full flight envelope. A raft moored out on the lake will be used as the landing area; this way of terminating the flight is exciting and much appreciated by spectators.


Speed Run
In this Hang Gliding event pilots compete in down-hill individual races using only their weight to control themselves in the air. The winner is the fastest, as in skiing. The course is designed to include gates and turn points. The main location for the public is at the lake itself, but gates or turn points along the course provide exciting locations for spectators to observe pilots flying close to the ground at high speeds. The raft will once again be the precision landing point.