Post 1.419 on Wednesday Mai 10-2023

48th Polish Open Class Gliding Championship
11 May 2023 – 21 May 2023

From Leszno 31 pilots start tomorrow the open class championship /LesznoCup 2023.
Polish pilots belong to the top of the world, so it is always interesting to see how they fly.
A mix from “old toppers” with respect and new “guns” are ready to go for it.
Kawa…I did not see him on the list.
One UK pilot in AS 33es;Rory Ellis .
Will keep you informed.

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SLOVENIAN NATIONALS
6 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

From the , what I heard beautiful airfield of Murska Sobota ,[I have never been there, but I do believe that] the Slovenian Nationals have started on Mai 6 in 2 classes; Club [16 pilots] and Open.[17]

They could start straight away with task 1 ;a 2 hour AAT in both classes.
ALL pilots started AND finished,…so a pleasant day.
Task 2 was more difficult with in Club only 6 finishers and in open 9.
Then a NO_ TASK_DAY.
Yesterday 2 more 2 hour AAT’s.
In Club only 1 pilot flew over 100 km./h in a Mini LAK fes.
In open Boris Zorz clearly won in JS 3 with 117.39 km./h. over 245 km. Runner up also in JS 3 226 km with 110.21 km./h.
The only names I know from this competition are Boštjan Pristavec [EB 28] and Boris Žorž [JS3 jet] in open class and nobody from Club.
Today might be difficult; 2x a 1.30 AAT.

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The weather still is pretty unreliable, but at some places they have a great-soaring-day in between !!!!
Fayence in France is such a place. Baptiste Innocent flew a 1000 last Saturday in the ASH 31 and at the same day, Belgium pilot Dennis Huybreckx flew also from Fayence, in the Ventus 3T 935 km. [700 FAI triangle]
Also on Saturday a nearly 900 km in Finland [Selanpaa] in a Ventus B/16.6 m and 726 k. in LS 7 from Rayskala. They were busy at Rayskala with at least 14 flights on the OLC.
One day earlier on Friday , Sweden had top conditions in which Jan-Ola Nordh flew a 1000 from Lidkoping in a DISCUS 2.
At Lasham they had “Some brief spring sunshine yesterday on the golden fields [ full of yellow canola] With a brand new glider on the airfield too! The JS3 Rapture certainly is striking in its design.

On Mai 8 MINDEN was top again ; 2.066 km. by kilometer-eater Gordon Boettger in the ARCUS M.
His comment; “Fun flight with Brad. Conditions were not feeling like a 2000 km flight at all but just kept plugging away.” With great pictures from snowy mountains and Lake Tahoe, towns like Reno, full of light with their arrival in the dark…….to be seen at
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=9374990#map=
Though they flew fast,…175 km./h, they needed 11 hours and 46 minutes.
The wave went up to 7289 m lift MSL [5530 AGL]
YESTERDAY, Moriarty was good for wave flights; Keith Essex had travelled from New Zealand to the USA again and flew already a 1000 from Minden and now from Moriarty. Both in ASG 32MI.
Daniel Mockler was the other pilot with a 1000 but in JS 1.

Looking at pictures from the Lake, straight always memories on our 1990 trip to Minden in Nevada pop up. The Pre Worlds were there, but ended due to circumstances, 1 year later in Uvalde Texas.
With the Albatross, an amphibian, we landed with a few glider -“addicts” at the Lake. UNFORGETTABLE. For nostalgic reasons once more the picture from the picnic at the wings of the Albatross “in” the Lake Tahoe.

NOT too much news after my Sunday blog so,…now I have time and space for a schedule of upcoming BIG FAI events in CAT 1;
June 6-17 2023; Postponed 4th FAI Pan-American Gliding Championship in Hutchinson In Kansas USA
July 1-15 2023 ; 12th WWGC in Garray in Spain
July 29-August 12; 21th FAI EGC in Leszno in Poland
July 30-August 12; 6th FAI JUNIOR EGC in Arnborg in Denmark
August 26-September 2; 11th FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix in Pavullo in Italy
December 2-16; 37th FAI WGC in Narromine Australia

And a few CAT 2 comps;
June 4-13 202; US NATIONALS from Cordele [GA]
June 24-July 4 2023 ; Austrian Multi class Nationals from Mariazell

For more comps you can look at
https://www.fai.org/sport/gliding?upcoming=1&f%5B0%5D=fai_event_year%3A2023&display=list

CU next week with MORE!!!!!
Cheers Ritz