Ingo Renner

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Ingo Renner OAM (born in Hude, Germany) is an Australian glider pilot who has won the World Gliding Championships four times.[1][2]

He started gliding in 1954[1] at the LSV Hude (gliding club of Hude) of which he is a honorary member, now.[3] In 1967 he moved to Australia and was granted Australian citizenship in 1971.

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[edit] Occupation as a glider instructor

He joined Bill Riley's[4] Sportavia Soaring Centre, a commercial gliding operation in Tocumwal (NSW), as flight instructor shortly after moving to Australia.[5] From 1974, he worked during the European summers as a flight instructor at the Oerlinghausen training centre and at its branches in southern Europe, such as at Sondrio[6]. Each year he returned to the Australia for their summer. However at the age of 65, he retired after working thirty seasons at Oerlinghausen.[1] In 2006, Sportavia closed. However, a club has been started.[7] Ingo Renner is now chief flying instructor of the Murray Border Flying Club in Tocumwal.[8].

[edit] Dynamic soaring

He reported to have utilized the dynamic soaring technique with a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle at Tocumwal in 1974 and later flights in a Eiri-Avion PIK-20 successfully.[9]

[edit] Records and FAI Badges

In addition to several Australian records[10], he established two world records. In setting one record in 1975, he flew a straight distance of 970.4 km/h from Bendigo airport to Langley (Australia) in a two-seater glider Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 with Hilmer Geissler. For his other record in 1982, he flew a triangular course of 100 km at an average speed of 195.30 km/h from Tocumwal airfield, NSW (Australia) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3[11]. In addition to his FAI Gliding Gold badge with Three Diamonds, he earned the 27th FAI 1000 Kilometer Badge by a 1,015.50 km flight in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-2 from Tocumwal airfield, NSW (Australia) in 1980.[12]

[edit] Achievements in competitions

In 1976 he won the World Gliding Championships in the Standard Class. In 1983, 1985 and 1987 he was World Champion in the Open Class.[13] He also received the Dr. Mervyn Hall Trophy by the GFA as the Australian (Open Class) Champion in 1971/72, 1972/73, 1979/80, 1981/82, 1982/83, 1983/84 and 1991/92[14], and the GFA Shield (Team Trophy) in the seasons 1971/72, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91 and 1998/99[15]. To date he has been Australian National Champion nineteen times[1].

He is still taking part in the decentralized soaring competition OLC.[16]

[edit] Other awards and honours

In 1988, he was awarded the FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal[17] and the Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal.[18]

[edit] Family

His wife Judy is a talented glider pilot, too.[19] They have four daughters and eight grandchildren.[20]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Flugplatz Oerlinghausen / Neue Westfälische (in German) - accessed 2008-01-11
  2. ^ " Gliding basics", The Telegraph, June 27, 1998. Accessed January 24, 2008. "Resident coach Ingo Renner is four times World Champion."
  3. ^ LSV Hude: Vereinsgeschichte (in German) - accessed 2008-01-21
  4. ^ Soaring: 29 November 2006 - accessed 2008-01-21
  5. ^ SAHOF: Ingo Renner -accessed 2008-01-21
  6. ^ Fluglager Sondrio 2004 (in German) - accessed 2008-01-11
  7. ^ Soaring: July 25, 2006 - accessed 2008-01-23
  8. ^ GFA: Murray Border Flying Club - accessed 2008-01-21
  9. ^ Helmut Reichmann (1978): Cross-Country Soaring, Soaring Society of America, ISBN 1883813018
  10. ^ Australian soaring: Australian records - accessed 2008-01-21
  11. ^ FAI: world records of Ingo Renner - accessed 2008-01-11
  12. ^ FAI badges of Ingo Renner - accessed 2008-01-11
  13. ^ SSA: World Soaring Champions - accessed 2008-01-11
  14. ^ Dr. Mervyn Hall Trophy by the GFA - accessed 2008-01-11
  15. ^ GFA Shield Trophy - accessed 2008-01-11
  16. ^ OLC: Flights of Ingo Renner 2008 - accessed 2008-01-11
  17. ^ FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal - accessed 2008-01-11
  18. ^ Australian Honours received by Ingo Renner - accessed 2008-01-22
  19. ^ The Sidney Morning Herald: Greens candidate Judy Renner - accessed 2008-01-21
  20. ^ Greens candidate of the 2007 New South Wales for Murray-Darling - accessed 2008-01-23