Cross Country magazine, issue 129, May / June 2010
Kurt Eder flies where he was born and lives to fly. It’s no wonder he’s so good. By Ed Ewing
Kurt Eder. The very name sounds out there, like Hans Solo, or Skywalker. Like those movie-world warriors Kurt Eder seems to move in another dimension to the rest.
He is a pilot’s pilot, a lone eagle, a competitive spirit teamed with an independent mind. He doesn’t fly competitions – doesn’t like them – but his cross country record is something else. Starting in 2004 he placed fifth in the OLC (the online contest – where thousands of pilots worldwide log their cross country flying), then came second the next year and third in 2006.
In 2007 he switched to logging his flights at XContest and came first that year. He placed fifth again in the XContest in 2008 before winning it for a second time in 2009.
This consistently high level of achievement cannot be overstated. A look at his 2009 flight record reveals he flew 48 cross country flights, with his six top flights all massive 200+km triangles. Every day it is flyable, he is flying.
His home site is Speikboden, an Italian ski resort close to the Austrian border in South Tyrol. The name Speikboden sounds like it could be a dangerous race of droids. I wonder, is Kurt Eder in fact Darth Vader?
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