Ingo Renner OAM (1 June 1940 – 26 February 2022) was an Australian

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pilot. He won the

World Gliding Championships The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held every two years or so by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are sometimes held in the summer in the Southern ...

four times.Flugplatz Oerlinghausen / Neue Westfälische (in German)
– Retrieved 2008-01-11" Gliding basics"
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'', 27 June 1998. Retrieved 24 January 2008. "Resident coach Ingo Renner is four times World Champion." Renner was born in Hude in Germany and started gliding in 1954 at the LSV Hude (gliding club of Hude) of which he was an honorary member. In 1967 he moved to Australia and was granted Australian citizenship in 1971. He has flown over 37,000 hours.

Occupation as a gliding instructor

Renner joined Bill Riley'sSoaring: 29 November 2006
– Retrieved 2008-01-21 Sportavia Soaring Centre, a commercial gliding operation in

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(NSW), as

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shortly after moving to Australia.SAHOF: Ingo Renner
-Retrieved 2020-09-25 From 1974, he worked during the European summers as a flight instructor at the

Oerlinghausen Oerlinghausen (Low German ''Ankhiusen'') is a city in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany located between Bielefeld and Detmold in the Teutoburger Wald. It has c. 16,700 inhabitants (2013). Geography Geographically, Oerlinghaus ...

training centre and at its branches in southern Europe, such as at

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.Fluglager Sondrio 2004 (in German)
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 Each year he returned to Australia for the southern summer. At the age of 65, he retired after working thirty seasons at Oerlinghausen. In 2006, Sportavia Soaring Centre closed but the Murray Border Flying Club extended its operations to include gliding. In 2009 the Southern Riverina Gliding club was formed, and Renner was its chief flying instructor for gliding.

Dynamic soaring

Renner is reported to have utilized the

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technique with a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle at Tocumwal in 1974 and later flights in an

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(1978): Cross-Country Soaring,

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Records and FAI Badges

In addition to several Australian records,Australian soaring: Australian records
– Retrieved 2008-01-21 Renner established two world records. In 1975, he and Hilmer Geissler flew a two-seat glider ( Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21) a straight distance of 970.4 km from

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to Langley, a location approximately 120 kilometres west of

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. In 1982, he flew a

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around a 100 km triangular course from

airfield,

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at an average speed of 195.30 km/hr.FAI: world records of Ingo Renner
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 In addition to his FAI gliding Gold badge with three diamonds, he earned the 27th FAI 1000 kilometre badge by a 1,015.50 km flight in a

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from Tocumwal airfield, New South Wales in 1980.FAI badges of Ingo Renner
– Retrieved 2008-01-11

Achievements in competitions

In 1976 Renner won the

in the Standard Class. In 1983, 1985 and 1987 he was World Champion in the Open Class.SSA: World Soaring Champions
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 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,Dr. Mervyn Hall Trophy by the GFA
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 and the GFA Shield (Team Trophy) in the seasons 1971/72, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91 and 1998/99.GFA Shield Trophy
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 To date he has been Australian National Champion nineteen times. He was still taking part in the decentralized soaring competition OLC.OLC: Flights of Ingo Renner 2008
– Retrieved 2008-01-11

Other awards and honours

Renner was inducted into the

Sport Australia Hall of Fame The Sport Australia Hall of Fame was established on 10 December 1985 to recognise the achievements of Australian sportsmen and sportswomen. The inaugural induction included 120 members with Sir Don Bradman as the first inductee and Dawn Fraser th ...

in 1987. In 1988, he was awarded the FAI

Lilienthal Gliding Medal Lilienthal Gliding Medal – the highest soaring award in the world, established by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) in 1938 in honour of Otto Lilienthal, a German pioneer of human aviation. It aims "to reward a particularly remark ...

FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal
– Retrieved 2008-01-11 and the Medal of the

Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

. In 2000 he was awarded the

Australian Sports Medal The Australian Sports Medal is an award given to recognise achievements in Australian sport to commemorate Australian participation in major sporting events. Original recipients of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, offi ...

.Australian Honours received by Ingo Renner
– Retrieved 2008-01-22

Family

Renner's wife Judy is also a talented glider pilot.
– Retrieved 2008-01-21 She has four daughters and eight grandchildren.Greens candidate of the 2007 New South Wales for Murray-Darling
– Retrieved 2008-01-23

References

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