12.15 ; The sniffer , Peter Alexander [below on the picture] is up in the air and with him in the back of the ARCUS, Andreea our young bright MEDIA LADY. Will have later hopefully nice pictures from ” above”.
Nice clouds to the S. the SE and E. Left-over-small high clouds from this morning…over the field.
He mentions , 2 kts. at this stage[12.20] up to 3600 MSL. later 3!!!
First launch at 12.40 now.
12.25 ; they stick to their 12.40 first launch .
12.37 ; Tuggies go the strip. …2 tows ….then one self launcher ……then a lot of tows!!!
12. 40 ; DAY 8, has started an extra Good luck wish today for all pilots! A HUGE dust devil just “ran” over the tie down area. Hope they all have the trailers closed.
By the way the airport is closed every day between 11.30 and 15.30 for other traffic.
start for 15 m. class opens at 14.15
start for 18 m. class opens at 13.43
start for open class opens at 13.44
A line of thunderstorms is already ” cooking off ” in the N. as my Canadian blog- collegue Dan Daly, calls it. “it’s going to be an interesting day!” They “might or might not pass by”.
Gliders are HIGH up even in the blue!
We got some dangerous visitors today on the grid!!!! Look at this!!! 2 of them have been spot!!!!
Pictures courtesy ;Roberto TC of Team Italy. His son points out to “it”.
So what happened on day 8 in 1991;
—pilots in all classes had pilot selected speed tasks with an A and B site
—never knew but do know now….I always thought my ex George and our son Dennis were the first father and son team, flying in a WGC in Benalla in 1987 but now I read that in Paderborn in 1981 father Klaus and son Oscar Goudriaan were flying as a team. So now I have to find out if they flew each in a glider in the same class, as I understood that Benalla was the first place where 2 seaters were flying in open class. In 1991 Oscar flew std. class and Laurens 15 m. here and now they both compete in Js 1’s.
—in 1991 they loved the TP system here;” all TP’s are easy to see and must be photographed from the same angle what ever direction you are coming from or going to “. lol, what a huge difference with now! No camera’s, no Barographs , one little black box as they called the “dream for the future”at that stage. Now we have spot devices , loggers etc.
—they were talking then in OSTIV about the world class with 13.5 span wings
— now we do have an ETA and here in Uvalde the 28 m span CONCORDIA.
