Over the period of 3 weeks of his stay in Africa, Ondrej managed to set a new record, the longest triangle in Kenya. In a step by step approach, he first set a 310.9 km route, followed by 317 km, 331.3 km on the day of his birthday, and 333.56 km two days later. The final push of 340.70 km became his last attempt of his stay. Average speeds on the mentioned flights were in the 35-36 km/h range, and all were flown on the standard serial En-C PHI Scala2 paraglider. With well over 120 hours of airtime and 5000+ XC km covered, Kenya has had an impressive season with good weather. The triangles are currently among the longest on the African continent. For comparison, the currently ratified world record on an out-and-return course is set at 350 km (Iquique, Chile). The potential of beating this world record in Kenya is highly possible in the future. Tracklog Kenya 340 km - XContest
Back in Brasil, Ondrej dominated the dry flatlands with some long-distance flights. On his longest flight of 515.38 km (506 km straight line), he managed to set a new benchmark for the EN-C category flight, a lightweight version of the Scala 2. This glider, also flown in the Red Bull Xalps race 2025, proves to have impressive performance both in the mountains and in the flats. Other notable flights include 480.45 km, 490.00 km, and 491.58 km, as well as a couple of 400k flights from the Quixada mountain takeoff. Tracklog Brasil 515 - XContest
Two podiums in the 2017 competition season marked a successful year, included a 1st place in the World Cup in Acromax, Italy. Also a second podium came during the King of Brenta comp that took place in Molveno in the Brenta Dolomites. Ondrej added: “My last year was intense with[.....] Read more...
The 2016 competition season started brilliantly with a 1st place in Italian Molveno Trophy. Two weeks later the success was followed by a 2nd place in Norwegian Vertigo Voss competition. This was ... Read more...
While visiting Mexico I got invited by Jose Herrera-Fabul to visit Monterrey and jump from his hot-air balloon. I took the opportunity and spiced it up by attempting a World Record in the Esfera aerobatic maneuver. Thanks to weak winds in higher altitudes on.. Read more...
After a long break since the first event in Turin 2009, the Olympic games of air sports or so called World Air Games, took place in Dubai this year. Being an invitational event it was an honor for me to take part together with other top pilots.. Read more...
Visiting northern Brazil is a dream for a majority of cross country pilots and so was for Veso and me. Even if being one of the best places for distance flying in the world nothing as easy at seems on paper. My highlight flight battle took over 10 hours and 22 minutes finishing just over 332 kilometers in Piripiri. Read more...
