Ingo Renner OAM (1 June 1940 – 26 February 2022) was an Australian glider pilot. He won the World Gliding Championships four times.Flugplatz Oerlinghausen / Neue Westfälische (in German) – Retrieved 2008-01-11, 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'sSoaring: 29 November 2006 – Retrieved 2008-01-21 Sportavia Soaring Centre, a commercial gliding operation in Tocumwal (New South Wales), as flight instructor 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 training centre and at its branches in southern Europe, such as at Sondrio. – 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 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,
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 from Bendigo in Victoria to Langley, a location approximately west of Bundaberg in Queensland. In 1982, he flew a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3 around a triangular course from Tocumwal airfield, New South Wales at an average speed of .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 flight in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-2 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 World Gliding Championships 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 He was Australian National Champion a total of nineteen times.
Renner was still taking part in the decentralized soaring competition OLCOLC: Flights of Ingo Renner 2008 – Retrieved 2008-01-11 until 2021.
Other awards and honours
Renner was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1988, he was awarded the FAI Lilienthal Gliding MedalFAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal – Retrieved 2008-01-11 and the Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal.Australian Honours received by Ingo Renner – Retrieved 2008-01-22
Family Renner's wife Judy is also a talented glider pilot.The Sydney Morning Herald: Greens candidate Judy Renner – 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
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