ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 2013
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13-03-13
ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com
This ,by the Australian Soaring Center from Corowa sponsored container for the Dutch team flying in Argentina, arrived last weekend back from Chaves. All gliders in good order, meaning this WGC is finished now !! Evaluation and a reunion normally follow later and than,……… it’s looking ahead at the next WGC. No containers needed then as both will be in Europe.
Crews and pilots eager to see how it looks inside,…..and …..this time IN THE DUTCH RAIN , so the Argentinian mud will disappear in a flash.
It all looked good! courtesy Frans Guise.
Just in time the “Wings over Sweden ” team received the 34.000 -plus pounds to go ahead with this project by UK initiator Anthony Mc Quiggan. Between 10 and 5000 pound could be pledged with a thank you in different ways. Soaringcafe was one of the pledgers.
The goal ;— “More than 250km/h over Sweden, purely on renewable energies: a pilot prepares for new form of aerial racing.—” With that they will promote gliding in a great way.
Have a look;
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vingaroversverige/wings-over-sweden-0
The start is there now the rest has to follow. Here is how they describe stage 1 the rest you can read on their site with nice pictures as well;
—”TV shows need a pilot episode to convince the world that their concept works.
But since this project is full of glider pilots, we’re calling this The Promo.
It will introduce our “stars” and give a taste of what’s to come in the documentary, which will be called “Wings over Sweden”.
The Promo won’t be shown on TV, but will be used to woo broadcasters, advertisers,film funds, tourist boards and the like. And, of course, we will share it withall our pledgers, starting with YOU.—”
“MAD MARCH ” , is what Matthew Scutter called this month. I can only agree. We had a new record at the Bilt, never before we had there 24 hours of steady rain last Saturday and after a ‘small taste’ of spring with temperatures up to 19 dgr. , we are back in winter with minus 8/13 and snow at several places and unfortunately new accidents on the slippery roads.
Not as bad here as in Germany [ Frankfurt Airport was closed on Tuesday and 100 cars/trucks involved in ONE collision] and France,[ one person frozen dead stuck in his car and trucks waiting without any movement for over 24 hours] even Belgium [ No Thalys train and 1600 km. of slow driving cars including 500 km. of real traffic- jam] had awful cold and white weather. Also the SSW of the UK did not escape from white “stuff”.
In Australia however, from Gawler Matthew flew 742 k in his LS 4 , that’s better.
Also a great autumn flight by kilometer-eater Terry Bellair from Raywood in his DG 400/17m. showing even in the end of the season that he loves his long-distance-flying; 706 km [652 FAI triangle]
Terry is the best Aussie at the moment on the OLC list for 2013.
More Terries; An “almost” perfect flight in the ASH 26 by Terry Ryan from Tocumwal last Tuesday; 696 km. [667 FAI triangle]
And from Benalla , the place-to-be in 2016 for the WGC , and having the “best club on the OLC” [Gliding Club of Victoria] at the moment, a nice flight up North by Benalla -icon Graham Garlick in the KA 4 [Kookaburra 11.7 wing span] ; 180 km.!!
Matthew and his sister surround our new [one of the 5 ] vice president Terry Cubley.
I guess it will never be so cold in the area of Gawler as he felt here during the IGC meeting last week.
Picture shared from FB
At Seminole Lake in Florida , about 20 minutes South of Orlando [Clermont] , the SENIORS started their comps and Frank Paynter keeps a blog on SOARINGCAFE. Here is what he said about day 1.
—” We found a good thermal to anchor the turn, and as we were just getting it cored up, in comes Karl Striedieck (KS) [ born on April 7 1937!!! Ritz] with his Duo. After climbing to the top of this thermal, KS also left going north, so BZ and I, no fools we, went with him. For the next 80-100 miles, BZ, A1, and myself were treated to a master class on energy line flying by the man himself, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. I don’t know who was flying with Karl today, but I hope whoever it was appreciates the extraordinary talent on display today – I know I did! —”
A good story also with his opinion about FLARM.
https://soaringcafe.com/2013/03/2013-seniors-day-1/?fb_source=pubv1 Enjoy!
Soaring for the SENIORS from Seminole continued and day 2 was a day “with lions and tigers” as Frank Paynter mentioned it so nicely in his blog on www.soaringcafe.com , on the left of the home page.
Day 3 was a rest day and the full story is on as well!
More senior soaring, this time called “OLD MATES WEEK” and this time in Australia; Benalla.
Loved Graham’s comment:
“This flight claimed as K4. Flight with David Goldsmith, Old mate’s week.
Dave and I flew Ansett-ANA DC9′s together.
Today Dave in the LHS! A lovely flight in the old girl.
The smell of wood, the sweet sound, the rush of air, upward movement, confirmed by the cosim green ball.Thanks Dave”.
Nearly poetry!!!!
Ingo and Judy Renner at Tocumwal do have a Kookaburra as well, lovely glider ,where you sit more or less beside each other.
Ingo even flew with Judy in it after the wedding in their garden a long time ago. From Toc airport they had a nice flight together.
Yesterday he took his Discus out of the hangar for a nice 634 [570 FAI triangle] flying to the N. and West [Swan Hill] with lift up to 2643 m. AGL.
Ingo here a few weeks ago with Hardy.
courtesy Dundee.
So not much more happened over the last couple of days, at least not to my knowledge, so I go for a nice cold walk in the snow but ALSO in the SUN.
By the way my friends from NZ are happy with their long summer but now problems start, par example Wellington has not enough water anymore , it looks different.
“Only 20 days of water left”
Here is the story I found on FB by Dinant, who is Dutch , but lives and studies in Wellington now. He is a member of the ZES , the gliding club celebrating it’s 50thiest anniversary on the 27th of March.He can’t be part of it, I will, so he can read it all in my blog.
Here is the link to the NZ-news, about a lot of areas I visited when I was on the Nord Island in 2010.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8417298/Wellingtons-water-supply-now-at-crisis-level
Cheers Ritz
