Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday July 20 2011 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
8.30 AM; Day 3 has been called a restday. Rain changed into heavy rain so that’s it for day 3. Time to check on gliders , get the mud out of the undercarriages for those who landed in the wet soil, or to just rest after 2 pretty difficult days and maybe a heavy night from the party.
Pretty heavy weather as well. I heard last evening they even warned everybody at the field via radio for the soon-to-arrive-thunderstorms and what a day. I wrote Ole to congratulate him with his team but as said I was too early,here is what he says about it in yesterday evenings mail ;
—Unfortunately I was aware of the fact,that my pilots had used the engine!This was not caught by the computer,so that is the reason.It has been squared away by now.Together with other computer problems,like thunderstorms forcing the scoring office to shut everything down,this was the reason that no winners were announced at the briefing this morning,in any classes!—
So that was the reason the scores were late yesterday. Ole also told me I made a mistake in one blog [slip of the mind] , by calling Vladimir the CD, Dimitry, sorry Vladimir. Don’t have to tell you all , he is an excellent [competition] pilot himself and very dedicated to soaring as I have seen myself.
” Poor ” French pilot Richard Montigny finished as only pilot in the world class, received for all the work 34 points and then as he is the only one over 100 km competition, day 2 is not valid in this class!!
In club class ,day 2 showed 10 finishers, so lot’s of outlandings. Not a lot of points to loose or gain.[303 at this stage]
In Standard class 606 points for winner Sebastian Kawa. “Only 9 au vache” in this class.
In the 2 seater class the Danish team landed after 54 km. That costs. They received 66 points while the winners got about 400 more.
Surely better days will arrive soon, with real Nitra weather.
9.00 AM; More happens in the world; and as it is Wednesday I continue with my “normal blog. The UK 18 m. Nationals finished after 5 days , also the last day was cancelled. Mike Young won in ASG 29 s. Congratulations!
Derren Frances was runner up in Ventus 2 cxa and 3 JS 1’s were on spot 3-4-5.
Last sunday showed pretty good conditions in the mountains .Wiener Neustadt the place from the WGC in 1989, had a great ridge-soaring-flight of 825 km in a Duo Discus T., while the Terminillo in Rieti helped out, to give up to 728 km in the ASH 25 /26m.
The young German pilots enjoy soaring in Puimoisson with distances of nearly 700 km and yesterday I was impressed with a very nice flight in an LS 3a from Nardt [SE of Lüsse] in Germany;504 km.
Today the weather is pretty normal here though too cold. We are about 4 dgr. under the average for this time of the year which is 22. In the USA they suffer from terrible heatwaves. In the West 13 people have died already.The American National weather buro, claims that over 1000 heat-records have been broken. As the humidity is too high as well it is not pleasant to be there at the moment. Poor oldies!!!
Some of my Aussie friends travel now to Uvalde Texas to be present/ practise at the pre worlds over there. It can be very hot in that desert over there as I felt myself. But you forget that heat when you go home as TC with a WORLD CHAMPION, Baer Selen. Was a great time by the way!!!! The nextWGC in Uvalde will be from July 28 till August 19 2012.
Their site; www.wgc2012uvalde.com
That’s it for now. See you tomorrow. Cheers Ritz