Saturday evening 22.30;Lovely evening, very pleasant day! Good food, long waiting in a queue, nice company and people sitting everywhere even in the grass. NO bad weather, not at all, we sat till the sun -set outside and got a nice colour! Even the friends from Germany , who were involved with the Dutch […]
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They are in the air!CAE/NLS, another 3 year the main sponsor!!
by Bill Elliott •
2.30 PM. The pilots are in the air and the skies look pretty good. Short tasks however as showers hang around in the evening. Hope not as over 150 people are part of the BBQ tonight. So 150.9 km. for the club class pilots, 183.3 km. for the combi class and 221 for the open […]
Greetings from Terlet.
by Bill Elliott •
Saturday morning.9.30- Just had our breakfast in the Postillion Hotel and that is just superb. A buffet with something for everybody! Birds were singing as we are in the middle of the Veluwe here one of the most beautiful places in Holland as in nature. A little rabbit looked with interest what we were eating. […]
Vintage happening at Malden!
by Bill Elliott •
Postillion Hotel Arnhem Friday May 18 320122 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Yes a bit earlier then expectedas too much news does n’t invite to read and too late news is no news. Just visited on my way to Terlet the airfield of Malden and had a look at the brand new 2 storey hangar and the […]
Terlet, Dutch Nationals !Hahnweide!
by Bill Elliott •
Friday May 18 2012 TERLET Dutch National Soaring Center/Postillion Hotel Arheim ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com The CAE /NLS Dutch Nationals have started on Thursday with 48 pilots in 3 classes. You can follow them on www.nkzweefvliegen.nl and live.glidertracking.com . and on Facebook Facebook pagina and Twitter [Tweets #nkzweef ] ! Young Frank Hiemstra one of the 3 power-figures behind […]
Hammerwetter 19x 1000Km in Europe!!First 1000 k. FAI TRIANGLE from Holland!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday May 16 2012 ritzdeluy@soaring.eu www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com That great weather we had on Saturday turned out even better on Sunday with less wind and a more enjoyable temperature. 3833 Pilots logged their flight on the OLC!!! Great picture by Stan Heerink. Dutch glider pilots were in great spirit, as I could read on the […]
Club Class Masters!And…an extremely good day in Holland!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn May 13 2012 MOTHERDAY ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com A sunny good morning with very blue skies today at 8.30 but clouds popping up at 9.15. Very weird weather here in Holland. Lot’s of rain…great for the garden…but most of the time too cold for the time of the year and then in […]
Fatraglide….and a continuing story of the comps at the moment!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday May 9 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com In the end , the Belgian Nationals had only in ONE class a National Champion. Tijl Schmelzer won after 3 days the standard class, with brother Bert as runner up. The other classes had winners , no champions. The Schmelzer brothers are ready now […]
More news !
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday May 6 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com The Belgium Nationals, had only 4 flyable days till now as yesterday had to be cancelled as well. A pity! In club class on only 2 of those days points were earned. So still not a valid competition!Hopefully they can fly today! Scores at […]