9 AM on Saturday; Just received the compact information about yesterdays plenum from Rick. I love the way he can say a lot of things in just a few words. Where I need 10, he just only uses 2!!! So here you go again,…”fresh from the press!”: —”Good morning, Ritz! We counted ourselves and found […]

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Friday 9.15 AM; The Meeting/Plenum started at 9 sharp in a full conference room. The FAI Gliding Commission meets once a year in plenary session to discuss and work on the development of sport gliding, rules changes and sporting events.This year meeting is for reasons not in Lausanne but in the Netherlands. Everybody was eager […]

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 Papendal on Thursday February 28 2013 last day of this pope in function , last day of the month and last day of the metereological winter. Spring is there, finally. First day of a live -blog till Sunday morning. Updated as much as possible! FIRST THINGS FIRST!!!! It’s on line today  ….fresh from the press […]

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 ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN   WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com       www.glidinginternational.com We had snow again in the weekend.” Poor delegates ” from warm countries , who will arrive here this week. They have to adjust to Dutch weather, as it remains like this till next weekend. No snow, I hope, but still only around 5 […]

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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN   SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com     www.glidinginternational.com   Beautiful area close to Taupo Boiling mud He did not fly on day 8 ,[ presume his main wheel was repaired after an outlanding,] but on day 9 and 10 from the Taupo Club Class Nationals, he was back in ” full glory” […]

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 ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN     WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com      www.glidinginternational.com What a great weekend of soaring in South and SW Australia. Benalla, Tocumwal, Gawler , Ararat, Bacchus Mars, Stonefield, all pilots flying there had a great weekend. Guess Terry had the best one flying his LS 3 over nearly 800 km. and topping the […]

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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN     FEBRUARY 17 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com     www.glidinginternational.com Bikes, cars, roads, traffic lights…all were full of frozen rain making life difficult and slippery! As seen by Jeroen Beeke. It has been a long time ago , that I was out side with freezing-rain!!! Last Thursday I had to be in Amsterdam and the […]

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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN  WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13 2013  ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com     www.glidinginternational.com “Heart Lake” as seen by Jorgen and Birgitte between The Rock and Wagga. While waiting for spring ,  lot’s of club’s and private pilots are preparing their gliders for the new season.   Pictures shared by Rens from Soesterberg in Holland and Ilse from Friesland. With […]

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 ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN    SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com     www.soaringcafe.com      www.glidinginternational.com Looking ahead at the new season. As said in my last blog I would spend a bit more time on Fatraglide 2013 from May 4 -May 12. Here is the colourful “inviting” -invitation, as I received it. Worthwhile to double click to see the […]

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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN   WEDNESDAY February 6 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com      www.soaringcafe.com     www.glidinginternational.com Woke up this morning in a white world. SNOW! Straight away 500 km. traffic jam , mainly in the mid and SE from Holland and trains travelling with a winter schedule, meaning less trains, fuller trains and longer periods of waiting. Welcome back snow!? […]

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