Ingo Renner
{{Short description|German-born Australian glider pilot (1940–2022)}}
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Ingo Renner OAM (1 June 1940 – 26 February 2022) was an Australian glider pilot. He won the World Gliding Championships four times.[http://www.flugplatz-oerlinghausen.de/index.php?id=14&idp=79 Flugplatz Oerlinghausen / Neue Westfälische (in German)] – Retrieved 2008-01-11[https://archive.today/20130422042656/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/1998/06/27/etglid127.xml&page=2 " Gliding basics"], The Telegraph, 27 June 1998. Retrieved 24 January 2008. "Resident coach Ingo Renner was 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 flew over 37,000 hours.
Occupation as a gliding instructor
Renner joined Bill Riley's[http://soaring.eu/?m=200611 Soaring: 29 November 2006] – Retrieved 2008-01-21 Sportavia Soaring Centre, a commercial gliding operation in Tocumwal (NSW), as flight instructor shortly after moving to Australia.[https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/ingo-renner/ SAHOF: Ingo Renner] -Retrieved 2020-09-25 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.[https://archive.today/20130212025452/http://www.sportfliegerclub.de/fluglager/2004/sondrio.html 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.{{cite web | url=http://soaring.eu/?p=12 | publisher=Soaring | title=Black day!! | date=25 July 2006 | accessdate=14 August 2011 }} 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 dynamic soaring technique with a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle at Tocumwal in 1974 and later flights in an Eiri-Avion PIK-20.Helmut Reichmann (1978): Cross-Country Soaring, Soaring Society of America, {{ISBN|1-883813-01-8}}
Records and FAI Badges
In addition to several Australian records,[http://www.aus-soaring.on.net/recoz.htm Australian soaring: Australian records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509123131/http://aus-soaring.on.net/recoz.htm |date=9 May 2008 }} – 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 {{Convert|970.4|km}} from Bendigo in Victoria to Langley, a location approximately {{Convert|120|km}} west of Bundaberg in Queensland. In 1982, he flew a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3 around a {{Convert|100|km}} triangular course from Tocumwal airfield, New South Wales at an average speed of {{Convert|195.30|km/h}}.[http://records.fai.org/pilot.asp?from=gliding&id=71 FAI: world records of Ingo Renner] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124073025/http://records.fai.org/pilot.asp?id=71&from=gliding |date=24 November 2005 }} – 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 {{Convert|1015.50|km}} flight in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-2 from Tocumwal airfield, New South Wales in 1980.[http://www.fai.org/gliding/badges/pilot_details.asp?pilot=71 FAI badges of Ingo Renner] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050819155725/http://www.fai.org/gliding/badges/pilot_details.asp?pilot=71 |date=19 August 2005 }} – Retrieved 2008-01-11
Achievements in competitions
In 1976 Renner won the World Gliding Championships in the Standard Class. In 1983, 1985 and 1987 he was World Champion in the Open Class.[http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/ust_champs.htm SSA: World Soaring Champions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115024303/http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/ust_champs.htm |date=15 January 2008 }} – 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,[http://www.gfa.org.au/trophies/mervyn.php Dr. Mervyn Hall Trophy by the GFA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041021110822/http://www.gfa.org.au/trophies/mervyn.php |date=21 October 2004 }} – 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.[http://www.gfa.org.au/trophies/gfashield.php GFA Shield Trophy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070920041327/http://www.gfa.org.au/trophies/gfashield.php |date=20 September 2007 }} – Retrieved 2008-01-11 He was Australian National Champion a total of nineteen times.
Renner was still taking part in the decentralized soaring competition OLC[http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html;?scoringId=200&pilotId=9661 OLC: Flights of Ingo Renner 2008] – Retrieved 2008-01-11 until 2021.
Other awards and honours
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Renner was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1988, he was awarded the FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal[http://www.fai.org/awards/recipient.asp?id=223 FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015182822/http://www.fai.org/awards/recipient.asp?id=223 |date=15 October 2007 }} – Retrieved 2008-01-11 and the Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal.[http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?brief=false&page=1&search_view=~all~&view=10&search_type=simple Australian Honours received by Ingo Renner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005150949/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?brief=false&page=1&search_view=~all~&view=10&search_type=simple |date=5 October 2012 }} – Retrieved 2008-01-22
Family
Renner's wife Judy is also a talented glider pilot.[http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/skyhigh-hustings/2007/03/09/1173166944024.html The Sydney Morning Herald: Greens candidate Judy Renner] – Retrieved 2008-01-21 She has four daughters and eight grandchildren.[http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/state-election-2007/candidates/electorates/murray-darling Greens candidate of the 2007 New South Wales for Murray-Darling] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724233416/http://nsw.greens.org.au/state-election-2007/candidates/electorates/murray-darling/ |date=24 July 2008 }} – Retrieved 2008-01-23
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