Coupe icare 2011
The 38th COUPE ICARE will welcome you happily in St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin from September 22-25, 2011.
The programme of this great annual international free flying event is, as always, packed with creative, audacious, inspiring, daring, fantastic, thrilling events… loads of colour and laughter… not to even mention pure pleasure of flying!
ICARE EXPO : the air sports trade fair
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
A Trade Fair uniting over 200 worldwide manufacturers and other enterprises specialized in ultra light air sports des sports: paragliding, paramotor, hang gliding, ULM, sky diving….
Over 5000 m² of trade fair grounds are covered
Thursday : 2:00 – 7:30 p.m. / Friday : 10:00 – 7:30 p.m / Saturday : 10:00 – 21:00 p.m / Sunday : 10:00 – 18:30 p.m
10,000m² outdoor area reserved for second hand equipment: hang gliders, ULM, paramotors…
Second hand Paragliding Stand
Les ICARES du CINEMA : 29th International Free Flight Film Festival
Starting Thursday at the south launch.
Air sports on the big screen !
Documentaries, clips, fiction, adventure and exploration films .... long and short features .... pertaining to the themes of air, wind, flight or any of the air sports!
New ! a prize for the best short film awarded by Cross Country and Paramotor magazines.
ICARE SHOW : aerial demos with top specialists
Saturday and Sunday
Aerobatic shows by hang glider and paraglider pilots
Acrobatic sailplane
Parachuting and wingsuit
ULM and gyro demos
Pulma and paramotors
Kites and sports kiting
Boomerang
Air Force acrobatic team demo
Paraglider manufacturers demosDemos by high-flying predatory birds
Demos by the French military parachuting team
Thursday and Friday free days for pilots
Novelty !
« Icarobatix » : a paramotor challenge among the world’s top pilots
Flight of the Parateam
Commentated presentation of a condor in flight
ICARNAVAL : the famous Masquerade Flights
Saturday and Sunday
A contest of costumed hang glider and paraglider pilots: exciting, hilarious, original, fantastically creative and daring…
ICARE MOMES : a special area for youngsters
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- In St Hilaire : paper plane contest, gyroscope, workshops for Brazilian balloon fabrication, workshops for kite making sailplanes, wind farms, discovery programmes on renewable energies, weather, aerology, falconry demonstrations
- In Lumbin : kite making and piloting workshops, model aircraft workshop
New ! Icare Mômes (Kids area) moves to the South launch for workshops under a circus tent.
ICARE BALLONS
Saturday and Sunday
International meet of dozens of hot air balloons
“Dynabubbles”, dirigibles…
News : The Iris Challenger, Aérial Concept’ latest innovation, manufactured by Airstar
ICARE FOLIES
From Thursday
Paper hot air balloons by Brazilian artist Tura : workshops and launch
Music, street shows and animation
But also : Glide ratio contest, Free flight museum, Inflation race for duelling paragliders, Vol 1807, etc ...
Discover : the Coupe Icare space (Icare laboratory) located at the upper cable car station: films, photos…
Novelties :
• The Prevol Challenge: race and flight
• Exhibition on the theme « The children of Icare », presented by the ACDA sculpture workshop at the church of St Hilaire
ICARE ATTERRO
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
ULM area and demo flights
Kites: exhibition and demonstration area
Model aircraft: demonstrations, exhibitions and trade fair
Expo of outdoor sports and leisure
Initiation flights by ultralight (ULM) and helicopter,
Good health and well-being celebration
etc ....
News : The model aircraft fair is bigger and better this year.
ICARE ECO
Icarenbus : Icarenbus shuttles are free to help cut down on traffic !
Starting Thursday, 4 buses will be reserved for pilots as the liaison between the landing and launch areas throughout the 4 days.
For the general public: 8 additional buses on Saturday and Sunday will navigate between the landing and launch areas. (Free parking lot at La Terrasse, Lumbin and St Hilaire. Shuttles between La Terrasse, Lumbin and St Hilaire).
-The Coupe Icare event is clean-minded, largely thanks to selective trash cans placed around the entire site by the Aremacs association, and also to the cups on deposit (available at most eating places).
- Reinforced eco-grocery bags (sacs cabas), branded with the Coupe Icare logo
- Stop all the noise at 1 am !
900 VOLUNTEERS FOR THE COUPE ICARE !
900 volunteers for the Coupe Icare !
Assisting the Coupe Icare.org association, there are 30 partnering associations making for over 900 volunteers who participate in the elaboration of this event! A thousand thanks to all of them for their generous time, energy, enthusiasm and smiles.