Everything about Ingo Renner totally explained
Ingo Renner (born in
Hude,
Germany) is an
Australian glider pilot who has won the
World Gliding Championships four times.
He started gliding in 1954 at the LSV Hude (gliding club of Hude) of which he's a honorary member, now. In 1967 he moved to Australia and was granted Australian citizenship in 1971.
Occupation as a glider instructor
He joined Bill Riley's Sportavia Soaring Centre, a commercial gliding operation in
Tocumwal (NSW), as
flight instructor shortly after moving to Australia. 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. Each year he returned to the Australia for their summer. However at the age of 65, he retired after working thirty seasons at Oerlinghausen. In 2006, Sportavia closed. However, a club has been started.
Ingo Renner is now chief flying instructor of the Murray Border Flying Club in Tocumwal..
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.
Records and FAI Badges
In addition to several Australian records, 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. 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.
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. 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, and the GFA Shield (Team Trophy) in the seasons 1971/72, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91 and 1998/99. To date he's been Australian National Champion nineteen times.
He is still taking part in the decentralized soaring competition
OLC.
Other awards and honours
In 1988, he was awarded the FAI
Lilienthal Gliding Medal and the Medal of the
Order of Australia. In 2000 he was awarded the
Australian Sports Medal.
Family
His wife Judy is a talented glider pilot, too. They have four daughters and eight grandchildren.
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