Last Sunday turned out to be a real off- day. The weather was not good here neither for soaring or to sit in the sun, as that sun only arrived here after 4. I just expected TOO much, I guess and,… believed the meteo-forecast!!
An unlucky day for one of the Eindhoven gliderpilots as well ,as he damaged his glider [ASG 29, pretty badly] and his leg, [minor injury] with a not too good landing. He returned to the field to land, as he did n’t feel well.
No great results, no top weather, just another day,….and no… definitely not in paradise!! Though,…..
Still a nice mix of good flights worldwide on the OLC, that Sunday.
First of all another good-one from Jim and Dennis from good old Minden flying direction far south and back;1.367 km. of course in their DG 1001 M.
Another nice one , not that far but pretty fast also from Minden and in a DUO DISCUS ;625 km. with 149.12 km./h.
From France some nice ones as well, with Robert Pratt flying his Arcus M. over 860 km. from St Gaudens in blue wave and in the beginning, with wind 210 and 15 kts.
Courtesy Per Carlin 2006
Prievidza in Slovakia started their Flight Challenge Cup 2013, with 119 participants in 3 classes, mixed club and 15 m..
Unfortunately day 1 , that stupid Sunday, was cancelled but on Monday a 2.45 AAT was set for the mixed class , 2.30 for the club and 15 m.
Quite a bunch of interesting pilots have entered as the current top pilots, Zbigniew Nieradka and Sebastian Kawa, but also so some great Czech, French and German pilots and more.
What happened that Monday in the mixed class with 35 competitors ???
A few penalty points for flying above the absolute altitude limit, 3 outlandings and a German winner in an ASG 29 E [920 points-298 km. in 2.48,48]] before Sebastian also in an ASG 29.[887 points -306.1 km. in 2.57,25]
In the club class 48 participants, one did not fly, 6 had to go “au vache”, and an Hungarian winner in a Standard Jantar flying 234 km. in 2.40, [868] before a Swedish runner up flying the Cirrus 75 over 249 km. in 2.54 [866]
In 15 m. class , 34 participants, 4 outlandings a few penalty points and 2 German pilots on top both flying about the same distance and time;267 km in 2.34.
Yesterday day 2 was a fact with a 3 hour AAT for the “mixed” and 15 m. pilots and 2.35 for the club.
The German ARCUS T was the best in the mixed class, 8 Czech pilots in the top 10 in club class and in 15 m. Radek Krejcirik was the best and could “collect” the 1000 points.
Today tasks have been set for soaring-day 3 ; AAT of 2.30 for the mixed and 2.15 for the 15 m. pilots and 2 hours for the club.
For all results you can go to www.soaringspot.com
One of the pilots flying in Club class in an LS 1f, Per Carlin [Sweden] is not so well known maybe , but he made some great pictures during the Swedish WGC in 2006, that’s why I never forget him.
All today’s 2006-pictures are from Per!
And ,..he was on spot 18 on Monday and 12 yesterday.
To enlarge you can click on the picture.
Courtesy Per Carlin 2006
“Flying with the Champions” is running very well as I heard!
You remember????
Ludwig Starkl and Wolfgang Janowitsch started this new business ,with the glorious text; Do not dream your life, but live your dream!!!
—”from our 14 places we have sold 10 already, there are only two to three in the first (1. – 7. Nov.) and the same in the second block (8. – 14. Nov.) available.
We have five Arcus M, one Arcus E and two ASH 25 as our training gliders, I am sure there is worldwide no other event with such a big Arcus fleet.
Our trainees are coming from the whole world, we have one Pilot from Brasil, three from Holland, three from Germany, two from Switzerland and one from Austria. We have pilots who participated at the last WGC in Uvalde and we have pilots with no competition experience. So a wide range of skill, which makes it very interesting, also for the champions. All of us are looking forward to an outstanding event.—”
This is all going to happen in new season in Kiripotib Namibia.AND,…
Wolfgang and Ludwig will be at the aero in Friedrichshafen, April 24-27, where Tilo Holighaus allows them to present “Flying with the Champions” and their new renting company “rent-a-glider” on his exhibition stand.
—” So there, all interested pilots can meet us personally and can have any information to our event, or renting a glider out of our fleet. All these, who are not able to come, find us on the internet on www.rent-a-glider.com—-”
So if you are interested as well, this is your time as,these are the latest details/updates , I got yesterday!!! So very recent!!!
He said already in his OLC comment that he had not a lot of time to write as he had to prepare for another good [long] day of flying.
So he did; Jim Payne flew after his day with 1.367 km on Sunday another long one in wave on Monday; 1.484 km. this time from Rosamount and again with Dennis in the back. What a stamina those boys must have and they are not 25 anymore. Good on them!
In my last blogs both on soaring.eu as on soaringcafe.com I wrote about the juniors who are going to participate in Leszno. Got some extra info from Frauke Elber who knew more about one of the young men from the French team.
—”One of the first time French pilots will be Antoine Lucas. Antoine is third generation glider pilot in his family. His grandfather, whom I befriended at the Dahlemer Binz in Germany in 1962 was a glider instructor. His mother learned to fly at the Dahlemer Binz and in 1979 spent a year with us here in the US where she flew our Ka8.
She later married a French glider pilot who was an instructor at St. Auban. So young Antoine and his brother Christian are continuing the family tradition.
Susanne -the boys mother- and I will be briefly visit the Women’s World Championship before the family has to get ready for the Poland trip. I wish Antoine the best of luck.—-”
So you have practised with 27.000 other runners, every week to be fit for the Boston Marathon, ready to party afterwards and than… 2 bombs… killing at least 3 and others have to live without feet , an arm or a leg. TOO tragic for words!!!! WHY?
And to finish this blog the last 2 pictures from Per Carlin.
Cheers Ritz
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Eskilstuna 2006
Courtesy Per Carlin.
