IN MEMORIAM LEONARDO BRIGLIADORI Leo in Eskilstuna in 2006 It’s with great sadness, that I have to mention the loss of a good soaring mate; our Leo. Soaring brings people together, it’s one of the goals of our beautiful sport to fraternize with people from all over the world. Sometimes you meet somebody and you feel straight […]
OSTROW Arrivals on one of the 5 first good days with Jeroen Verkuijl. As shared on FB . With Issoudun over and most pilots from Europe back home, we can look again at the EGC where they did not fly over the last couple of days. Yesterday was “practise rigging and de-rigging” ,as I…
ISSOUDUN from above and a last THANK you to MARK PAL for sharing his great pictures with us. Unbelievable those 2 last days of the WWGC. Women “fighting” against the wind and each other. Were the first 8 days in retrospect just easy -going for most, the last 2 days mostly in the blue and…
ISSOUDUN last day!!!! Courtesy Mark Pal It turned out more hectic yesterday than earlier expected and hoped for. Several girls could not come back AT the field due to the 20 kts wind. Some landed within the 4 km. finish ring, but one of the Russian girls “landed “in a tree and was hanging there, till […]
Extra edition on July 11 2013 at 10 PM. ISSOUDUN Pictures courtesy Mark Pal. Of course I checked the preliminary scores from the toppers first thing in the morning. It all looked alright. In 15 m. Susanne will feel the breath of the 2 French girls, Anne and Jutta, “together we are strong” in the […]
DAY 1 at the WWGC as followed at home. Briefing day 1 as shared by team USA. Due to the long winter and the late spring all grass and crops are high in most parts of Europe. Normally it would all have been cut down already, not this year, so there is some concern about going…
Here they are , 50 from the 53 women participating in the WWGC in Issoudun. What a great idea by the organisers, to make a compilation of the pictures. Thanks for sharing it on the competition WWGC site. On the official entries list I counted 15 ladies in 15 m. class, 22 in club and 14 in standard […]
Day 8 winner in open class Erik Borgmann flying the QUINTUS with speed 146.3 km./h. over the 205 km. task. Brilliant! That was the fastest speed in open class.[pic.2] courtesy Dutch team as shared on FB. The in the end nearly nail biting EGC in Vinon is over and I take you through the…
With 7 days of flying in a row, the organisation set a well deserved day-off for the EGC pilots in Vinon on Monday. Not always the easiest circumstances due to the weather and lot’s of high mountains, where you have to be alert ALL the time; a good decision. Certainly when pilots in the evening of…
What a day last Sunday !!! At 10 AM, I could see clouds popping up already and I felt during the day the cold but strong wind from the thermals here in Alphen. Looking in the evening at the OLC , it indeed was a great day! Cloud Streets till late in the evening, […]
