15.30 :Here is the nice story from Gary who crews for Bill [ WE], Enjoy! Oh No – Not Now!! The launch has begun, you are roughly 50th to launch. Time to turn on all equipment and get ready to get into the glider. Oh No!! The main variometer just died. Heat stroke, dust, who knows;…
12.18; 10 Tuggies are driving out to the field. So it will be even faster today! Great looking skies, no news about a B task, so pilots will go for the nice long A tasks. AND……Day 3 has started at 12.20 sharp with the first launches!!! The wind sock is hanging down, so nearly no…
CD Ken started the briefing in a cheery mood. NO LAND OUTS GOOD SPEED GREAT DAY……BUT…… They had one complaint and that was that tasks were too short yesterday…. his answer on that ; “We do better today”. Here are the tasks ; 15m. 644.0 km. 18m. 612.6 km. open.714.9 km. There might be a…
9.30 AM :What a splendid day of flying yesterday. Surely you have seen the preliminary results with some interesting scores! Looking at 15 m. we knew already that Mathias Sturm is a great pilot and…with a fantastic team behind him, he even “gets” bigger. Good on him and his mate David who was 2nd! If I…
16.00 update: Pilots are on their way. I love it when start times are given, it is so easy but not on all comps they do it. So there is a difference between the first and last glider in open class of 32 minutes. Tomas Rendla was the first to leave at 13.57 with his Czech mate.…
13.00: Just came back from the field. Great service by the organizers. Andreea [MEDIA] brought me and Richard, in charge of the grounds—as strip [sand] and launch area [runway/taxiway] and tie-down area—took me back to be in time to inform you about the opening of the start in each class. They started maybe one minute later, due to…
Tasks for today; 15 m : 549.0 km 18 m : 579.2 km Open : 626.0 km The briefing started with an introduction of Loek Boermans [top picture]from the Netherlands talking about OSTIV.In 2 minutes he let us know why OSTIV is here and is combined with a WGC already since 1948. All news about…
9.oo: What a day yesterday!!! Straight away on day 1 pilots had to deal with circumstances they had not experienced during the 7 practise days—avoiding showers!!! Some pilots really had to go through them and got wet; others had to fly around them losing time. The result of this weather and the circumstances was quite a few…
Ouch just lost my story, maybe a message to NOT start a social blog-a-day. But I like it, so I start again. Just received a lot of great pictures from Andrea. And put them in a blog. —Several nice new people to introduce. I showed the picture of Gerhard Waibel and his wife already. They…
