The same successful options as for the past expedition: coming with friends for a longer time, the cost is much lower with unlimited flying time, or discover Patagonia by foot, by horse, by car or in sailplane. Contact us with an indication of you preferred flying periods.
Patagonia 2010-2011
An expedition governed by the Niña, name given to the cooling down of the surface water of the central pacific ocean, which has generated a monstrous high pressure cell above our heads for three months. Read more
10th gliding expedition in Patagonia: live your winter in spring!
Dear friends,
For the tenth consecutive year, we are preparing the next gliding expedition in Patagonia, that will take place from next November 15 to January 15, 2012, whose goal is not only to go hunting for records, although every attempt is always an unforgettable moment, but also to discover, preferably in silent flight with our Nimbus 4DM especially designed for your comfort and safety, a marvellous country where all is only immensity in a virgin nature and a highly protected environment.
The expedition is open to everyone, the goal being to help you discovering the natural marvels of this continent while practicing wave flight at the highest level in the world under ideal meteorological conditions, a unique opportunity to discover extraordinary landscapes, from the sub-tropical falls of Iguazu to the extraordinary Perito Moreno glacier while passing by the petrified forests or caressing the penguins and the whales, and occasionally flying together with the condors.
Gliding is practiced within a club whose social activities are highly developed, in unique conditions of comfort, conviviality and serenity. San Carlos of Bariloche (800 m), with more than 150.000 inhabitants, linked to all capitals of South America by more than ten daily flights, offers you all the services and the pleasures that one can expect from the most important mountain resort of South America, such as trekking and hiking on the volcanoes, fly fishing, para and hang gliding, windsurf and kite-surfing, rafting and kayaking, sailing, swimming, ice skating, two 18 holes golf clubs, tourist navigation, mountain bike, horse riding, airplane renting. And for the most gourmands, Bariloche is also the South American capital of chocolate. It is therefore ideal for ladies and children.
I invite you to read the magazines (Gliding International, Sailplane & Gliding, Vol à Voile, Volo a Vela) as well as the other pages of this web site.
Cordially,
Jean-Marie Clément
TopFly is a private initiative whose goal is to have the greatest number of pilots discovering, sharing and being taught the joy of the "dream flights" in sailplanes, and in particular, the dynamic and wave flights, that Jean-Marie Clément had already studied during his engineering degree studies in Paris in 1967 and later, at the Polytechnic of Turin with the late, regretted Prof. Piero Morelli.
In 1982, Jean-Marie achieved the first 1000km flight in Europe, in the Alps and using wave. He then started putting down in black and white his techniques for analysing and exploiting atmospheric gravity wave systems, which are still the subject of conferences regularly presented within the aero-clubs. Read more
