A storm , with some thunder and lightning arrived just after the landing of most who returned, but not all were in time to put the glider in the trailer……. They were!!!!They were NOT. Between the thunderstorm and light rain there was help enough for George and Diana. The JS 3 was in the trailer first with help of many, and the LS 1 got wet again but was in quickly too. And as you see several “young ones” came to the rescue. 2 From the NIJAC even offered help to their club mates George and Diana, to get the gliders in before the storm but they had to rush to the field to pick up their pilot who had just landed.2 Young NIJAC members,sorry I do not even know their names, really got wet as all others who helped out. Very kind of them to offer help. I promised them to share their picture ,as a thank you , so I do.
Words combined with pictures!!! It’s a real clear way of sharing our sport. You might have seen in my last blog, the picture from the 6 Dutch juniors participating in the JWGC in Ostrow in July 2024. I met a few last Saturday , among them Tim and Jasper. Lars was there as well, he even won the last day. Both Tim and Jasper, were in Australia during the WGC period in Narromine.
This is Tim helping out to put the glider in the trailer. Evelien really helped hard as well and was soaked from the rain.
Jasper had the time of his life, visiting even my family in Tocumwal. He flew a competition as well in Leeton and was runner up. History repeats I can nearly say; His dad Edgar, was a friend of our Dennis. I picked him up at the station of Woerden and he stayed with us at several weekends soaring at Terlet, as did Wouter and Niels . Now my granddaughter Indya travels with him to Ostrow, as his crew. This world is so “small” and recognizable. By the way Edgar’s dad and Jaspers grand dad, Ben was a colleague of George at Transavia. No picture from Jasper, he out landed on the last day.
BUT,…I found one later in the day in the glider with his mates among them the 2 “Vermeertjes”, the boys to the l and r. from Jasper.
Thies ; relatively new for me, was runner up during that WGC, but had an incident with his glider behind the car on his way to the grid, meaning he could not fly the last days and a “may-be” title was gone. BUT a very well deserved Dutch NATIONAL CHAMPION TITLE is pretty good too.
Thies after his last flight for this competition and after putting the glider in the trailer before the storm.
Former Junior Robbie [Seton] , [I was his TC in Husbos, years ago,] won in the combi class. Robbie and his family are real Keiheuvel [ Belgium] members. Robbie is over the last couple of years the CD at the Keiheuvel comps in August. He was a good young pilot , he still is a good pilot.
Robbie with some other pilots around him after the closing briefing at Terlet.
The BB team Hans Biesters and his LONGTIME crew, was ready just before the storm and as you can see they were really pleased to have the glider in the trailer in time. This couple “works” together as long as I know them.
It’s always GOOD to be back at Terlet. I lived with my children many years in the caravan on the camping , best place to be!!!Our caravan was a “home” for several young ones. Great fun. It’s good to see that our granddaughter Indya loves gliding as much as I did . With my daughter Inge she stood in the pouring rain , even with big smiles, to help granddad and Diana with their gliders. Mind you the youngest was 20 during this National Championship the oldest nearly 75 and that was George.
The open class winner was Francois. I have been at several comps were he participated. In August he travels with Frans ..the photographer of the pictures in my last blog from the prize winners, to Uvalde for the WGC over there. THANK YOU FRANS, got them !!!!! He allowed a picture as well, straight after the closing ceremony.
Did I see mates from my age??? Yes several, Harold was there, Hans and not to forget Eagle. I had to have a few words with him, but a NICE picture was allowed.Here you are.
Last but not least a picture of Steven and Marion, specially again for Art in Canada. Steven and Marion both retired from KLM . Steven bought a new glider the AS33es , he told me he is very happy with it, he won the Nationals as well. He is not so much in the mood anymore for big comps, but the nationals remain on his list.
That was the “story” of Terlet NK 2024 for me. 1 Day ,but enough to catch up again with the atmosphere of soaring I inhaled, for so many years.
A BIG THANK YOU to the very experienced,already for a few years, organizing team with Rik as CD.
Picture courtesy Willemijn de Lange as you know by now a top photographer.
Wednesday more about the 2 last BIG days during the Danish Nationals and the start of the FAI SGP in Norway.
Enjoy your 2d Pentecost- day. Cheers Ritz. P/S lot’s of rain creates super mushrooms even on the holy grass of Terlet.
P.S 2. I found a much better picture of the thunderstorm from Robert Jungblut
Club;121.81 km….task to the NE …The LS3 from Jeroen [van Dijk] flew fast!!!! 99.96 km./h Runner up Robin [Smit] in LS 4 neo flew 86.29 km./h. All 9 started for this short task and ALL finished.Some started at 13.40 the winner at 14.07 and the last on 15.08!! Maybe problems??? I don’ t know….Lars is still very young. 18m;158.99 km….There was a difference from 3 points in the scores between winner Hadriaan and runner up Steven [Raimond]; 110.90 and 110.88 km./h. All 14 started between 14.04 and 14.22 and they all finished. open;173.31 km…CANCELLED. combi; 134.31 km….start times between 13.38 and 14.42; Ralph Nijhoff from the Gelderse flew the ARCUS with 94.29 km./h. and he started at 14.25. All 11 started and 2 were out
Thursday May 16; NO TASK.
Friday May 17; small tasks due to uncertain weather, but they fly. Tasks more to the NE where the weather should be best. Flying day 7 out of 9, for Club, open and 2 seaters and 8 for 18 m class. In the evening there is a a special event to raise money for the juniors travelling to the JWGC. Part of the payment for all drinks will be for the young ones. See picture below. Club; 114.95 km…. 18 m; 163.49 km…. open; 173.81 km.. combi;133.18 km…. All flights were cancelled. So no changes in the scores with 1 day to go;
Saturday May 18. Possibility for showers and thunderstorms on the very last day of these interesting NATIONALS. Should I go to Terlet or not? I went, and good I did as they flew on the last day. And as always it was great fun. Club;185.22 km….the last couple of days 3 pilots were in the top 3. Thies, Robin and Jeroen. On the last day , number 4 Lars [van Breemen] in LS4b Neo did well; 80.59 km./h.They were in before the thunderstorm arrived. One was out . After 7 out of 10 days we got a NATIONAL CHAMPION , a runner up and a 3d place in club class; 1. Thies Bruins in ASW 20WL with 4.567 points. 2. Robin Smit in LS 4 neo X with 4,424 points. 3. Jeroen van Dijk in LS3 with 4,321 points. Lars who won the last day missed out on 10 points to be on spot 3 as well.
A happy Thies and Robin and Jeroen with family. Picture Frans Guise.
18 m;233.75 km….We heard at the ground that some pilots had difficulties with the showers but before we knew they were back. Jeroen won the day with a speed of 123.35 km./h in an ultimate attempt to get on spot 2. That worked; 10 km/h faster than the rest. Steven was on spot 1 most of the comps and with a good last flight as number 3 , he was sure of the CUP. By the way Dutch Lasham pilot Mark Weering was runner up. Hadriaan had a bad day. Starting as number 2 overall in the morning, he was only 10th BUT IN. Unfortunately for him he moved from 2 to 3 overall. 4 from 14 were “hit” by showers with bad air behind them, so they used their engine. After 8 out of 10 days we had a Dutch 18 m CHAMPION we had seen before; 1. Steven Raimond in AS33es with 4,106 points. 2. Jeroen Verkuijl in JS 3 with 4,017 points. 3. Hadriaan van Nes in JS1 BTJ with 3,976 points.
These proud Dutch TOPPERS have been often on the highest podium. Good on them!! Courtesy Frans Guise.
Open class;262.78 km….there was no doubt that Francois in the EB was going to be the champion, but also he had to fly the last task first. He did; he was runner up with 122,45 km./h. Rien Bastiaanse & Jeroen Kole [ASH 30 Mi] were the Daily winners and all 9 started and finished on this last day. So the new Dutch CHAMPION was CLEAR; 1. Francois Jeremiasse in EB 29R with 4,465 points. 2. MarcoVermeer & Ronald Termaat in the NIMBUS 4DT with 4,083 points 3. MaxLeenders & Bart Renckens in EB29DR with 3,715 points.
With from l to r. Ronald, Marco, Francois, Max and Bart. Courtesy Frans Guise.
Combi class; 216.34 km ……Sylvain van der Meer won de last day in his LS6.Great effort.102 km./h. All 11started and 2 were out. The had a better window than the rest. The champion is this class; 1. Robbie Seton in LS 8 neo with 4,439 points. 2. Tom Conings in LS8 with 4,082 points. 3. Ralph Nijhoff in ARCUS T with 3,988 points. Eric Borgmann and his mate flew HC , practiced hard for Uvalde and “got” 4,039 points.
Robbie with his daughter on spot 1. Picture Frans Guise.
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The Danish Nationals flown from Arnborg 9 May 2024 – 19 May 2024
They continued on Wednesday with short tasks, but in all classes TASK 5 was cancelled. Till now 3 tasks out of 7 in club, standard and 15 m and 4 out of 7 in 18m and the 2-seaters. So we look at Thursday May 16; But the message was clear no flying BUT,…. HOPE for better weather.
So after 2 non-flying days they continued on Friday with small tasks indeed also here counts; THEY FLY. Friday May 17. Club; 173.34 km…..a difficult day and only 3 pilots from 18 finished. Felipe Cvitanich did well and won the day in his DISCUS CS.57.15 km./h!!!!!!!!Uffe Edslev in LS4 a and Jens Andersen in Mosquito are worth mentioning for their finish. Standard; 170.73 km…Lasse Edslev in LS8 neo won with 67.24 km./h and 5 from 8 finished. 15 m; 170.73 km….Poul Kim Larsen [Ventus 2CT] won the day with 81 km./h that was faster than Rasmus who flew 67.62 km./h. in the JS 3. 18 m; 169.06 km….Arne Boye Møller showed what he can and won the day’ 90.44 km./h 18 started and 13 finished. 2-seaters; 159.84 km….Døssing & Knudsen in the ARCUS t were the only finishers from 13!!What a day for them.80.46 km./h was their speed.
BUT the better weather arrived and on the last 2 days they REALLY had some tasks. Nearly 600 and a 4hour AAT in 18 m. I write more about them on Wednesday as today is not yet scored and they deserve time as well.
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——-The British Junior Flying Team has 2 pilots in 2 classes. They travel to Poland to fly from the well known field of Ostrow for the JWGC between July 13 and 27 2024. Here they are;
—–The DUTCH Junior flying team has 6 pilots and here they are;
Thanks for sending the picture to me , Frank and Robert.
–——Tocumwal Soaring Centre; this is their news for the new season….. LOOKING GOOD!!!! “We will have two new gliders on line for this season ! In addition to our already awesome fleet which includes, 4 X LS4’s Discus B Ventus B Ventus 2CXT 2 X Duo Discus and many more ! We are adding an almost brand new JS3RES and Ventus 3M for our customers These are the latest 18m world class ships from Jonker Sailplanes and Schempp-Hirth, both having self launching capabilities. These will be available from the first of October this year, please check the terms and conditions before booking these awesome gliders. Any questions, drop us an email at info@tocumwalsoaring.com
——- News from WeGlide ” 8000 uploads in 4 days – you guys are amazing .We want to thank you . From the 9th to the 12th of May we had record-breaking uploads stats. The best day was last Thursday with more than 2300 flights worldwide.“
The spectacular finish of the Danish Nationals with big tasks nearly 600 and a 4 hour AAT for 18 m, on the last 2 days you will find on Wednesday.
Cheers Ritz, tomorrow I will share some pictures and stories I made on Saturday.
Dutch Nationals at TERLET 9 May 2024 – 18 May 2024
In one year , May 2025, the FAI SGP will be flown in The Netherlands from Terlet and I hope they have the same good weather as till now. Many pilots are interested. Also from Belgium and Germany. You might have seen, that I published a blog last Sunday. TOO many words..it’s not interesting for you readers ,so a new blog today with the rest of the Dutch Nationals AND the Danish.
The gorgeous VELUWE an area of outstanding beauty with the Terlet airfield, as seen by the tuggy.
Sunday May 12; Task 4 club;318.24 km…it turned out not to be a speed day ,but a distance day. Thies flew most kilometers; 241.18 and that was really good ,when you look at the next best distances; 224 [Robin] and 219 [Alexander] the rest was Under 200 km. BUT,..all 9 tried hard!!! 18m;307.05 km…4 finishers in this class. Steven, Hadriaan, Piet and Jeroen. I don’t know Piet but he did well!!!He flies a DG 808b and was equal runner up with Hadriaan. The others fly ECG’s and WGC’s and you more or less expect good results. Daily points for these 4 pilots; 534, 531×2 and 522, the rest , among them real good pilots had less than 400 points. All 14 started and 10 finished. open;299.38 km….3 finishers in EB 29R [Francois] Nimbus 4DM Marco and Ronald] a JS1C21m. [Jaap Horsten] Speed from Francois; 81.15 km yes in the EB, meaning a real tough and challenging day!!!!! REAL WORK in the office. All 9 started. combi;342.23 km…NO FINISHERS. 295.64 km was the best distance by van Breemen & Danen for 451 p. All 12 started!
Monday May 13. Task 5 ONLY for 18 m and open due to predicted thunderstorms and hail. 18 m;158.86 km….Steven [Raimond] is doing so well in his new glider the AS33es. He won the day 95.08 km./h whilst runner up Steven [Huiskes] in Ventus 2CXT, flew around with 85.99 km./h. Not many points to gain or win; 268 for the winner and 115 for number 13 and 14 [equal] meaning they all started and finished. Open; 174.17 km.…Francois in the EB won with 273 points and the number 9 had 188 points. All in this class flew and finished.
Tuesday May 14;it’s already a valid competition as 4 days have been flown. warm, with up to 28 dgr. C , but with a forecast of local thunderstorms. They arrived later in the day in the East of the Netherlands and here in the SE at 5.30 PM. Result; flooding in little towns, as the storm STAYED ABOVE them. Club;243.14 km….All 9 started and except for 1 , finished.Robin [Smit] won the day; 95.95 km./h. 18 m;272.35 km…with 123.86 km./h. Steven [Huiskes] won the day just ahead of Steven. [Raimond] 123,86 for 123.09. All 14 started, 1 was out and 1 by an airspace problem. open; 309.34 km….The EB from Francois was clearly faster; 126.88 km.h Runner up Hans[Biesters] in a JS1c/21 m flew around with 118.35 and the NIMBUS 4DM with 112.99 km./h. All 9 started and finished. combi;257.05 km….3x an LS8 in the top and Belgian pilot Tom[Conings] flew with 103 km./h. Robbie [Seton] Dutch but flying for years already at the Keiheuvel in Belgium was runner up with 100 km./h. 11 started and 1 did not finish. Task 7 for each class today; club; 121.81 km….18 m; 158.99 km….open; 173.31 km and combi; 134.31 km BUT,..another day with possible thunderstorms and a huge difference in temperature between 27 up N and under the showers here,in the SE 18. Normally it’s the other way around. Already 6/7 out of 7 days ….that is, if they really fly today .WOW….NOT BAD….GOOD!
On my FB site this picture showed up as a memory of 14 years ago. The organizing team in 2010!!! I was the editor that year ,of course with writing stuff and camera in my hands.Nice to share!
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The 2024 Danish Championships 9 May 2024 – 19 May 2024 from Arnborg
These Nationals are flown in 5 classes. They had NO TASK on May 9 , on May 10 task 1 was cancelled May 11 task 3; club; 317.80 km...18 in this class started and 3 were out. Daily winner Jan Walther Andersen in ASW 20 WL and Uffe Edslev in LS 4,got both 1000 points!!! Speed 86.72 and 82.46 km./h. Handicap for ASW 20 is 1.114 and for LS 4 1.059. Standard; 300.56 km..…8 in this class and 2 were out. Kevin Kjær Andersen in LS 8 was the daily best with 96.27 km./h. 15 m;303.56 km…….Rasmus Ørskov in a JS 3 won the 1000 points ; 95.56 km./h. Good to see Henrik is flying too. I follow Jan from club and Henrik as well as Rasmus already for a long time. 10 Started AND finished. 18 m; 313.42 km….20 in this class and also here a few I know from comps. Peter Eriksen [AS 33es] won and Arne Boye Muller [JS3 jet] was runner up. ….The only 2 flying over 100 km./h. Only 1 was out and Good “old” Stig Oye in a Ventus 3m and still going strong was 12th. 2-seaters; 290.13 km…..Hans Christian Hoeck in ARCUS M was the daily winner and the only 1 flying over 100 km./h. All 13 started and finished.
May 12; task 3/4. a bit of a weird day with many “outs”. Club;288.21 km….. Morten Hoeck Petersen in a Glasfluegel 304 won the 1000 points. Uffe was runner up and Jan on spot 3. ONLY 8 from 18 finished!!! standard;372.11 km….NO finishers. Filip Bojanowski had the best distance as it turned out a distance day and not a speed day.; 363 km,…nearly home! All starters flew more than 250 km. 15 m;372.11 km….Finishers!!!! 3 from the 10 FINISHED!!!!Knud Møller Andersen in Ventus 2CT flew around with a speed of 66 km./h. Good on him. Rasmus finished as well as runner up and Morten Nørgaard was the number 3; 64 and 61 km.h. 18m; 371.44 km…. Only 19 started and 12 finished. Jan Hald in a Ventus 3T got the 1000 points. 29 more than Arne. Stig was 4th. 2-seaters; 323.85 km….Thomas Dantoft in a Duo Discus WL was the best; 77 km./h. The Arcus T was a tad faster with 80 km./h. but lost on handicap. 13 started and 8 finished.
May 13; only 2 classes got a task; 18 m and 2-seaters; 18m; 2 hour AAT...Another win for Arne,with 166.60 km. and a speed of 83.30 km./h.for 218 points. Only 3 from the 19 starters finished. Peter and Carsten belonged to the 3 finishers. 2-seaters; 2 hour AAT...NOBODY FINISHED, but the distance was giving up to 144 points.144 km. in a DUO Discus.
May 14; Club; 2:30 AAT…Uffe Edslev …daily winner again, with 177.12 km and a speed of 61.43 km./h. Good, when you see that from 17 starters only 7 finished. Standard; 2 hour AAT…Another Edslev this time LASSE inLS8neo, won with 166. 80 km in time 2.34. So tough for them as well.BUT,…from 8 6 finished. 15 m; 2 hour AAT…Knud Møller Andersen [Ventus 2CT] was daily winner with 199.49 km with 59.40 km./h. 10 started and 2 were out among them a potential winner of the championship Rasmus. 18m ;229.26 km …..20 started and 10 were out. Among them Arne and Peter..ouch! Not too many points lost on a day like that; Arne “:got” 352 and Peter 326. Jan Schmeltz Pedersen , daily winner, won the 533 points for a speed of 75.77 km./h Stig was “in”. 2-seaters; 212.67 km…… Sørensen & Sørensen did their best with a speed of 75 km./h. That means ,..they had to work hard for it. No tasks yet.
Post 1.496 on May 12 2024 EXTRA EDITION!!!!!SOooo many comps…posts are getting TOO long!!!!
HAHNWEIDEEDITION 56. 4 May 2024 – 11 May 2024
Approach of the ETA who was “the sniffer” on the day before , with Uli and Keith. Seventy2one
They were not lucky with the weather. When I left you they had only 1 day out of 4. Wednesday was not better , but they tried hard again to send 18 m with 34 pilots/gliders up in the air.
Here you see why they only send 1 class up. as shared by the organizers.
18m; Task 3;164.85 km…. May 8. They had to wait,……gliders and pilots at the grid, ready and eager to go!!!! For sure the weather looked a tad better, but to send 34 gliders up in the air , this air should be strong enough to give them good height.
As shared by the organizers.
In the end they had to wait too long….. the small window to fly in did not appear. The ETA sniffed again managed to fly the task,[with it’s long wings] but only just, so wise decision to scrub the day. In the evening time to socialise with the “BERGFEST”, a BBQ with so to see nice meat and lots of vegies .
May 9….FINALLY…GREAT WEATHER!!!! HURRAY. After 4 non flying days the weather gods must have thought “This is Hahnweide they MUST fly here ” ! Pilots however knew that this was going to happen as they have a good meteorologist over there. So well- rested ,they start hopefully ,3 good days. In the evening there was fun again with a special dinner for Fathers-day. In 1 hour and 30m minutes they had all 97 gliders airborne. Great job!!!!! Flying-day 2; 15 m;369.81 km….a bit of a French day as 5 ended in the top 10 for the day. Lucas Oyaux in Discus 2 won the day; speed 103.89 km./h AND …a 1000 points day!!! All 22 did start,but 1 had an airspace infringement, so he got DNS in front of his name. 18m;515.77 km….and Mario [Kiessling] won again, after he won task 1 already;119.93 km./h. I remember him as young guy at Terlet for the first JWGC.[1999] UK pilots Pete Harvey and Phil Jones followed with 117 and 116 km,/h. open; 504.55 km...EB/ETA- day. With 121.15 km./h Markus Frank [EB 29R] was the daily best for 1000 points.His mate Holger Karow [EB28 edition] , was just a tad slower; 117.96 km./h whilst the ETA with Uli and Keith flew around with 110.87 km./h. 12 started and 3 were out. 2-seaters; 410.31 km…..All 20 started and 4 were out. TomasRendla & Pavel Jiranek [ARCUS M] were the daily winners with 116.38 km./h. LouisBouderlique & Philippe de Péchy had 20 points less for 114.96 km./h.
The Hahnweide as seen from above by Philippe de Péchy on Mai 5. Philippe flies in the 2-seater class in an ARCUS with Louis Bouderlique.
Flying day 3; May 10 ….. penultimate day. First launch at 11.30. In front of the grid ; 18 m ,then 15 m and the 2 seaters and open. “today they fly in open the biggest distance till now.The competition area is not the easiest to fly.“
15 m;399.05 km …..all 21 still in the race, started and FINISHED!!!Julien Duboc won with 127 km./h quite a bit faster than runner up Sebastian Naegel with 122.56 km./h . Sebastian is in the lead overall with 1 day to go. 18m;592.45 km…..5x a Ventus 3 in the top 5.“Super Mario “won ,127.76 km./h. The manufacturer of his Ventus 3, Tilo was runner up, Sebastian Beule, Thomas Gostner and Wim Akkermans followed with speed between 126 and 123 km./h36 started and 1 was out after 538 km.A pity! open;572.88 km….yesterday it was Markus and Holger, today it is Holger and Markus;130 11 km./h. 10 started ,2 had problems with airspace and 1 was out after 462 km. 2-seaters; 433.45 km….9 ARCUS-types in the top 10. Best speed by team Norbert Sommer; 125.39 km./h. Runners up; French team louis and Philippe. ALL 20 started AND finished!
Great picture from Arnaud de Broqueville flying in the Arcus T .
Flying day 4; In the end they got the real nice soaring weather. Tasks were inherent to that. So pilots could gain or loose, as of course on every day, but on the penultimate day ,it is binding!!! FINAL day; 15 m; 4 hour AAT...435.38 km with a speed of 107.29 km./h was flown in a Discus 2CT by Jannis Däuble. He was the first to go on track at 13.29. Timothy Scot had a great final day and moved up from 4 to 2. Sebastian on 1 overall was 7th, but just held on. All 21 started and 1 was out. FINAL SCORES in 15 m. after 4 out of 8 days; 1. Sebastian Nägel [Germany] in Discus 2A with 3,571 points. 2. Timothy Scott [UK] in ASG 29 with 3,557 points. 3. Howard Jones [UK] in Discus 2A with 3,545 points.
18m; 4 hour AAT….Good “old” Tilo in his own Ventus 3 started early with the 2 Italian pilots Stefano and Thomas. 479.12 km with 116.57 km./h. Mario was on spot 12, but hold on as did Pete, who was on a daily 13th spot after keeping a tactic- eye on Mario , as they were on spot 1 and 2 overall. All 37 started and 1 was out due to airspace . FINAL SCORES in 18 m; 1. Mario Kiessling [Germany] in Ventus 3T with 3,739 points. 2. Peter Harvey [UK] in Ventus 3T with 3,559 points. 3. Sebastian Beule [Germany] in Ventus 3M with 3,539
open; 3.30 AAT...494.41 km with 135.90 km./h was the winning combi for Markus. Nearly 10 k faster and nearly 30 k more, than Jim who was runner up . All 12 flew and finished. FINAL SCORES in open class; 1. Markus Frank [Germany] in EB 29R with 3,600 points. 2. Holger Karow [Germany[ in EB 28 edition with 3,330 points. 3. Jim Acketoft [Sweden] in EB 29DR with 3,269 points.
2-seaters; 3.30 AAT….Louis and Philippe flew 389.90 km in 3.31 so a speed of 110.62 km./h in the Arcus M. When the day started they were overall behind Norbert[Sommer] and his mate Franz. When the day was over they topped the list!1000 points for 945. All 20 started and 1 was out after 284 km. FINAL SCORES in 2-seaters; 1. Bouderlique & de Péchy [France] in ARCUS M with 3,628 points. 2. Sommer & Gall [Germany] in ARCUS M with 3,589 points. 3. Hillebrand & Kopsieker [Germany] in ARCUS M with 3,457 points. That was only 10 points more than team Schramme; 3447 points.
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FAI SGP in SPAIN….Santa Cilia De Jaca 5 May 2024 – 11 May 2024
These races ar flown in 15 m figuration. Race 1; 141.98 km…was won by French pilot Max Seis. Kevin Faur [FR] in Ventus 2a, was runner up. Jon Gatfield [UK] was wing-to-wing with him , both got 8 points. Race 2; 218.26 km…..with a start at 14.20 for the 9 pilots on that day. A race starting with many mistakes by several pilots and I missed Ayala from the UK, who flew in race 1. She then was on spot 10 from 12. Max won again and needed 1.53,50; 115.4 km./h . 20 points in total now for him. Jon in an AS33es was runner up; 113.8 km./h. and 16 points for him. Race 3; 237.74 km....Glider 85, was the best and that’s the JS 3 from Max.; time 2.13.48 meaning 106 km./h . With 104 km./h it was Kevin and Stanislaw Biela in Ventus 3 just behind him.Max leads comfortably after 3 flown races. 30 points. Kevin has 24 and Jon 23 points. 11 started and Ayala was one of them on a daily spot 7 and overal with 3 points. Race 4; 268.39 km...Jon was just a tad faster than Max, so not another daily win but still 38 points overall for Max and leading. Jon has 32 and Kevin 30. Ayala did well with a 4th spot for the day. Race 5; 303.92 km…start at 14.30.…Kevin won! He is still very young, flies a lot as far as I can follow and is getting better and better.BUT NO,…a few minutes later it was Klaus Kalmbach in JS 3 who won the day. With 45 points Max still leads followed by Kevin with 38 and Jon with 36. The final-day games started! Race 6, penultimate day; 208.45 km changed in task B; 199.84 km.. Start at 14.50. Who wins the 2 tickets for the FINAL????? In the end it turned out the 2 French pilots. When you have flown SO well and get an extra point by winning the last day, the 11 points were for daily winner Max. Only just, as his speed was 128.8 km./h for 128.6 for Stanislaw. FINAL SCORES for the first stage of the 12th edition. 1. Maximilian Seis [France] in JS 3 with 56 points. off to the final later. 2. Kévin Faur [France] in Ventus 2a with 45 points. 3. Jon Gatfield [UK] in AS 33 with 42 points.
Thursday May 9 was the beginning of this competition with 44 competitors in 4 classes. They had bad and reasonable practice days , Bad as in NO FLYING , pretty good as in results of 112 km./h over a set task over 323 km.in 18 m. Task 1 straight away had “nice” weather; Club; 288.07 km….9 pilots in this class….Thies Bruins was the daily winner. A bit unlucky with a wind-gust in Narromine at the WGC, damaging his glider behind the car, he shows again what a talented glider pilot he is. He then was runner up with a few days to go. Now he started well in his ASW 20WL. All 9 started and 1 was out after 281 km. Grrrr….. 18 m; 359.86 km...14 pilots….nearly all of the 14 participants in this class have flown WGC ‘s or EGC’s. Only 1 was out. Jeroen Verkuijl [JS3] won the day ;109.22 km./h. open; 369.94 km..…9 pilots or teams…All 9 started AND finished. Daily winner in EB 29R was Francois Jeremiasse;118.78 km./h. Marco Vermeer and Ronald Termaat in Nimbus 4DT were runner up; 108.08 km./h. combi; 315.48 km...12 pilots or teams ….Erik Borgmann and Matthijs van Houweninge in the ARCUS M were the best ; 102.71 km./h . They l;ook READY for Uvalde in August. On spot 3 another pilot with over 100 km./h ; Ralph Nijhof in ARCUS T. In between ” my” former junior Robbie [Seton] in LS8 neo; 95.90 km/h.
Friday May 10, another GOOD DAY! First start at 12 PM. task 2 was changed before start. club;286.27 km ……changed in 219.77 km...same winner and runner up as the day before; Thies and Jeroen and NO they do not start together; 14.03 and 13.54. All 9 started and finished. 18m;377.20 km….310.73 km. Hadriaan van Nes in JS1BTJ won the day with a speed of 117.77 km./h Good to see Belgian guest Rik [van den Boer] was runner up in JS3j. All started and finished. open;410.78 km…359.56 km..Both EB’s did well. Francois won again with 115.71 km./h and runners up Marco[Vermeer] and Max [Leenders] had 108.10 km./h. All 9 started and finished. combi;323.30 km….291.10 km...Good practice again for Erik and Matthijs. If they want to score high in Uvalde they have to fly well, so they do. Mind you Erik was already WGC runner up in Borlange [1993] in Standard Class behind Andy Davis.
Saturday May 11; it started good here, about 100 km more S. with blue skies and clouds popping up , but at 11 it looked more “milky”. They fly direction East into Germany, but not far. Borken and Kleve Task 3; Club; 2.45 AAT...with 230 km and a speed of 83.19 km./h “Thies did it again.” Robin [Smit] runner up at the JWGC in Narromine, was runner up for this day. 9 pilots started AND finished!! 18 m; 2.30 AAT…our Belgian friend Rik won the day. 233 km./ 91.76 km./h.just ahead of well known toppers in the Netherlands Sikko and Steven.[90.37 and 90.14 km./h] 14 started and 2 were out. open; 2.30 AAT…240km/ 93 km./h for Marco and Ronald in the Nimbus 4DT. Good to see Bas [Seijffert] in this class, he just lost his dad. 9 started 1 was out. combi; 2.30 AAT…NO Erik and Mathijs but van Breemen & Danen in ARCUS M, on the daily highest spot; 221 km/82.80 km./h. Runner up in LS 6 Sylvain vd Meer from the DSA, the students from Delft! All 12 started and 11 finished.
Waiting for a new day .Arjan Vrieze Photography Sunday May 11 today. Task 4 ; Club 318,24 km…18 m; 366.76 km….open; 354.29 km…combi; 342.23 km More on next Wednesday.
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—Too many comps at once so a great picture from Aero Club Adele Orsi Acao . The Coppa from the town of Varese was flown between May 4 and 11.
Courtesy; roberta passardi
After 4 out of 8 flown days, the CUP was handed over to Peter Hartmann & Passardi in ARCUS T. The open class was won by Alberto Sironi & Venturini in ARCUS T.
——The Rayskala open 2024 was won in CLUB CLASS [with 12 participants] by Kim Toppari in LS7WL, after 6 out of 8 days. In OPEN ,with 6 participants, Nuutti Kankare in Ventus 3 was the winner after 7 out of 8 days.
—-Europe ,but also THE WORLD, at least parts of it, had amazing colorful skies AURORA, the Northern Light was on its best.The strongest sun/solar storm since 2003 created the best of the best we ever saw. A stunning display of lights /colors.
Lasham airfield 23.30 as shared by Alix
Amazing skies observed in Europe as shared by Mick Swiger
31thiest KLIX competition 26 April 2024 – 4 May 2024
They continued on Wednesday ,after I published my blog.So here we go again…. Only 1 class had the privilege of flying that day; May 1…only 2-seaters. Task 6; 2-Seaters; 2.45 AAT…..My Dutch mates , Van Nes & de Boer, Hadriaan and Ronald, “used” the day well by winning in their DUO DISCUS XLT/FES; 259 km/ 94.33 km./h. ALL 27 pilots STARTED and FINISHED!!!!!
May 2; definitely better weather …. they flew in all 4 classes. But,.. at places,….wind up to 50 k /h. Task 7; 18m; 3.15 AAT……31 started and 27 finished. To win the day with 395 km. with a speed of 121.54 km./h you needed a NIMBUS 4D. Team Wilken / Swagemakers did so for 921 points. 2 ASH 25’s followed and the first 18 m class glider was the ASG 29 from Swedish pilot Peter Johansson. Start times between 13.08 and 13.41. 2-seaters; 2.45 AAT....27 started ,22 finished. ASG 32 MI -day as they were on spot 1 and 2. Scheffe & Losse won the day with 324.44 km with a speed of 114.21 km./h which was about 8 km./h faster than the runners up [299.94 km/2.46.28] The DUO from Hadriaan and Ronald was 8th for the day, but they still lead overall in this class. In the end it turned out that this was their last flying day. standard; 345 AAT.…17 started and 15 finished. An Italian daily winner; Lorenzo Monti in a LAK 19.Good on him. 367 km /96.75 km./h. Chrissie and Sabrina were on spot 4 and 6, starting together but with many more pilots at 13.02. It turned out to be their last flying day. Club; 2 hour AAT..…Top 3, Germany, Italy and Sweden….Julius Lübstorf won in an LS 3A and moved up from spot 7 overall to 2. Food day for him. Alessandro in a Discus was runner up, whilst Samuel in a MOSQUITO B was 3d. After 7 tasks the Italians are on spot 1, 6-7-8- and 10 overall. 26 started and 19 finished.
Lorenzo with his daily first prize as seen by Clara Bartolini
May 3; only 1 class flew….. CLUB. A fday with less wind but with thunderstorms and rain. task 8; 2 hour AAT…..very marginal day with 28 starters and 3 finishers. Marcus Dawert in a DG 300 was the daily winner and moved up from 4 to 2 overall. He was followed by 2 Polish pilots in a Pegase and SZD 55. With 1 more day to go Alessandro leads before Marcus and Julius; 3.070…3.011 and 2.950. Everything is still possible on this last day when the weather co-operates.
Several club class gliders landed in the same paddock. As shared by Clara Bartolini
May 4; very last day!! Only 2 classes fly and YES club is one of them. They tried hard, but….. Task 9 for 18m; 233.65 km….CANCELLED Task 9 for CLUB;141.61 km….CANCELLED
Overall scores ; 18 m after 9 task [5 flying days]; 1. Andreas Kühl from Germany in JS 3 with 3,795 points 2. Dirk Windmueller from Germany in AS33es with 3.780 points. 3. Steven Raimond from The Netherlands in AS33es with 3.742 points.
Overall scores 2 seaters after 7 tasks [5 flying days] ; 1. Van Nes & de Boer from The Netherlands in DUO DISCUS XLT with 3,256 points. 2. Tom Jørgensen from Denmark in ARCUS E/M/T with 2.927 points. 3. Scheffe & Losse from Germany in ASG 32MI with 2.921 points…..6 points ONLY. And as they only missed out on 10 points on number 3; Schmied & Becker in DUO DISCUS.[2.911]
Overall scores STANDARD after 7 tasks [5 flying days] ; 1. Janne Nord from Sweden in Discus 2T with 4,045 points,…. a very clear winner!!! 2. Christian Lampert from Germany in Discus 2A with 3,692 points. 3. Poul Kim Larsen from Denmark in LS 8T with 3,682 points.
Overall scores CLUB after 9 tasks on 5 flying days; 1. Alessandro Bassalti from Italy in Discus a/b/cs with 3.070 points. 2. Marcus Dawert from Germany in DG 300 with 3.011 points. 3. Julius Lübstorf from Germany in LS3a with 2.950 points.
In Germany they continued with another very interesting competition the one close to the Schempp-Hirth business; Kirchheim Teck; THE HAHNWEIDE.
courtesy; Keith Gateley an Australian mate who flies together with Uli Schwenk the ETA. Their business is called Seventy2one; The Ultimate Cross Country Soaring Experience.
56th International Hahnweide competition. Between May 4 and 11 another 93 pilots will participate in 4 classes.
Seventy2one keep a blog and here is their first news; “The first day of Hahnweide 2024 is finally here and the anticipation is building as the grid is set and ready for the initial launch. Team Schwenk, Uli and Joachim will be taking to the skies today ,while Keith takes some time to recover from jet lag. The forecast looks promising after the next couple of days when a few showers are expected to pass through.The last half of the competition is forecast for clearer skies and better flying conditions.“
The “magic” ETA. as shared by Keith.
Saturday May 4; Remembrance day here in The Netherlands. Base ; 1700 m. 15 m; 2.30 AAT.…22 in this class from 4 different countries. 4 Discus gliders in the top 4. Daily winner; Jannis Däuble in Discus 2CT. [237.22 km. / 93.40 km./h] Runner up from the UK; Howard Jones; 251 km/.91.56 km./h. Sebastian Naegel was 3d. I know him from his junior time. All 22 started and 4 were out. The French fly with 9 in this class. 18m; 2.30 AAT….39 pilots and a few former world champions from 10 different countries. Mario Kiessling [Germany] was the daily best with 270.90 km/ 103.84 km./h. Runners up from the UK, Russell Cheetham and Pete Harvey, missing out on 10 and 17 daily points. 36 started and 9 were “out”….. Among them Italian toppers Stefano Ghiorzo and Thomas Gostner. open: 2 hour AAT….12 pilots , a few REALLY good ones!!!! 5 EB’s in different figuration, 4 JS 1 c/21 m, ASH 31Mi/21m, the Eta and an ASH 25Mi. All 12 started and the EB 29DR with Swedish pilot Jim Acketoft was the daily best;237.50 km/ 113.76 km./h. German pilots Markus Frank and Holger Karow both in the EB were on spot 2 and 3. Markus started at 14.31 so rather late and Holger at 13.56. Last departure was at 15.21. 2-seaters; 2 hour AAT….20 pilots and several WGC participants.All 20 started and finished!!!! Except for an HP 304 M, Duo Discus and AS( 32. ALL gliders are and ARCUS M or T. Daily winners Sommer/Gall and with equal points Bouderlique/Depechy . Both 677 points for 239.70 km/ 109.34 km./h and 220.73 km/ 109.31 km./h
They were more blessed with the weather. A long time ago 2 pilots from Martin flew with us in Tocumwal, nice “blokes”. When we spoke about FATRAGLIDE, we found out that there were mountains; the TATRAS. We Dutchies in Australia had no clue. Must have been end nineties. Their slogan ; The mountains are calling! They accepted 60 pilots and ..THEY GOT 60.
Yesterday was their last day, so I look back on what happened on 2 of the 3 class; Club and combi. Club; Task 1; 3 hour AAT…..27 started and 15 finished.Quite a lot forgot their PEV. But they had a winner too; Jozef Kozar in an LS1f; 244 km. speed 79.16 km./h. Tibot was 11th and HE visited us , I even believe twice. Task 2; 2.30 AAT….24 started and only 4 did not finish. Julia won the day, good on her; Julia Walowska in a St Jantar; 239.85 km/ 94.32 km./h. Task 3; 2.15 AAT....26 started and 4 did not finish. All starts around 2PM. Jan Horak in ASW 20 b was the daily winner. Task 4; 2 hour AAT….Martin Sabla [ASW 20] was the lucky daily winner; 210 km with a speed of just over 100 km./h The only pilot with a speed over 100 km./h. Task 5; 2 hour AAT…..a 2d daily win for Jozef Kozar.191.60km/ 89.88 km./h. 23 started and 10 finished After all the “hard work” the pilots did not fly on May3 . NO TASK. Task 6;368.34 km racing task. A 1000 points-day!!!!Best speed 102 km./h for 2 pilots; Simon Siska in ASW 24WL and Milan Surovcík Jr; 20 points difference. Tibor [ASW20c] was 3d! On May 5; NO TASK. Task 7; 2 hour AAT….Simon and Milan-day again. ….won by Simon in his ASW 24 with 210 km. / 103/41 km./h. and Milan missed out on 8 points this day.’ 210 /103. 71 km./h. They are on spot 2 and 3 overall ,as on spot 1 it is Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55, a very constant pilot flying himself except for 1 day [10th] in the top 5.,,,but no daily win. On May 7 NO TASK.
Overall scores after 7 out of 10 days. 1. Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55 with 4,689 points. 2. Milan Surovcik Jr. in ASW 20 with 4,527 points. 3. Simon Siska in ASW 24 WL with 4,486 points.
Combi class; Task 1….3 hour AAT.…28 started and 3 did not finish. Tibor Noga in Ventus 2c won the day; 311 km/ 103.70 km./h. Task 2; 3 hour AAT.…28 started/24 finished. Milos Srank in ASG 29 won; 322.82 km/ 106.42 km./h. Task 3;272.04 km…a racing task …all 28 started again and 22 finished. Marek Straka was the daily winner in Ventus 2CXT; 107.7 km./h. Task 4; 2.15 AAT.…Vaclav Hruza flying a HpH 304MS Shark 18m 600 kg was the daily best and Pavol Cerny, the only name with Tibor, I know from all these pilots , was runner up in the same glider.519 and 511 points. All 28 started and only 2 did not finish. Task 5; 2 hour AAT....won by Pavol Cerny with 191.53 km/95.77 km./h. On May 3 NO TASK. Task 6; 435.27 km….nice racing task for the pilots. Pavol won again and he was quite a bit faster than the runner up Roman Petro in a DG 1000T; 111.13 km./h for 101.81 km./h. Only 4 pilots flew over 100 km./h. 25 started the day and ONLY 7 finished ,some were close. Task 7; 2 hour AAT....Marek Pechanec in JS3 RES won the day; 252 km/ 124.63. Clearly the best as the runner up flew 238,52 km/119.26 km./h in JS1BTJ. On May 7 NO TASK.
Overall scores after 7 out of 10 days; 1. Pavol Cerny in HpH 304MS Shark 18m 600 kg with 4,173 points. 2. Marek Pechanec in JS3 RES 18m with 4,070 points 3. Branislav Jesensky in JS1-C TJ 21 with 3,711 points.
The JUNIOR CLASS had 10 pilots and was won by Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55.
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Last week I showed a picture from a glider hanging “nicely” in a tree, after a misjudged, “just that much” miss, ” a dozen meters away from the border of the field” by hitting with a wing the tree, for a soft arrival in it. Here is how they got it out and it still looks pretty OK.
—–Here in The Netherlands we had some great skies certainly on Friday may 3. Look on these pictures from Arjan at Terlet; CU’s changed in CB’s. All gliders were in time in the hangar or trailer.
–—One of the great glider pilots , an outstanding person in the Dutch gliding world , passed away on April 25 , age 89. Frits Seijffert was also known as TC at several WGC’s. [Marfa, Yugo Slavia] His son Bas is a top glider pilot nowadays. Frits was a very likeable guy, you could only like him. I know him as some kind of soaring-hero, as he was the generation just before us, very involved, specially in competition flying. We looked up at them! I am sure also a lot of my older international readers know him. When Frits was a member of the Delft Student Aeroclub [DSA] , I was a member of the ZES, gliding club from students from Eindhoven. We had some contact, but getting older we met at more comps. R.I.P. dear FRITS.
Last year I was still talking to him during the DUTCH NATIONALS, he was pretty fragile then. These Nationals start tomorrow AND….the weather seems to co-operate! Sunday is also MOTHERDAY and it might be 27 dgr C here.
The first of the 12th FAI SGP events has started in Spain flown from the Santa Cilia Aerodrome. They fly in 15 m configuration. Today is day 2 , they did not fly on day 1 MAY 5. Yesterday , RACE 1, 141.98 km with a regatta start at 14.35 was won by Max Seis from France [JS3 jet ] followed by Kevin Faur also from France in Ventus 2A.. More next week.
The competitions during this early pretty cold spring ,continue and one of them is the busy one flown from Klix in Germany between April 26 and May 4. They have 107 pilots in 4 classes. On April 26 they started straight away with task 1; 18m; 2.30 AAT.…. Pawel Wojciechowski from Poland was the first daily winner in this class. With 338 km. in time 2.48…120,79 km./h….. he deserved 748 points in his ASG 29. Same speed but just 12 points less were for my Dutch mate Steven Raimond in his brand new AS 33 /Es /Me 18m. 3d spot for him, in between as runner up Swedish pilot Markus Ganev in Ventus 3 FMT. In the end 33 started in this class and 26 finished. double seater;2 hour AAT....Wollschläger & Kaufeld in a Duo Discus X-plus, [many times XL,XT,XLT XLFES] 219 km speed 103 km./h. About the same as the Dutch runner up’s, Hadriaan van Nes/Ronald de Boer. 25 started and only 1 was out. standard; 2.30 AAT…327.54 km for daily winner Christian Lampert in a Discus 2a. 18 started in this class and 13 finished. Quite a few TOP-“girls” in this class as Chrissie [Grote] world champion in 2003 and 2013, Sabrina [Vogt] , world champion in 2015 and 2017, Petra [Zimmermann-Lauer] and from Italy the youngest from the Fergnani family ,Michelle. club; 3 hour AAT.…Lukas Brune flew in his ASW 20 290.55 km with a speed of 96.85 km./h. for 1000 points!!! All 31 started and 24 finished among them Elena world champion in 2020, and her brother Andrea Fergnani fom Italy.
April 27 Task 2; 18m;385.53 km….with 120 km./h in a Discus2C/ TFES, the daily winner was Christian Schneiders. 31 Started and 28 finished. double-seaters; 239.08 km….. Hadriaan in his Duo Discus won with a speed of 119.62 km./h Of course the many Arcus types were a bit faster with as best speed 124 km./h flown to spot 3 by Danish pilot Tom Jørgensen. Nice to see that Aldo , who has done lately many comps as CD, is flying now in an Arcus and was runner up with his mate Etalle. 26 started and 24 finished!! Standard;278.69 km….120 km./h was the fastest flight by Janne Nord in a Discus 2T.About 5 k faster than the Danish runner up Poul Kim Larsen. 18 started and 1 was out. Bit of an off-day for Chrissie on spot 15. Club; 262.09 km….Marcus Dawert in a DG 300-plus, flew around with 107 km./h Runner’s up 2 Italian pilots in Discus and ASW 24. All 31 started and 27 finished.
April 28 task 3 ONLY for 18m and standard class; 18m; 261.47 km…. Standard; 203.64 km…. In the end they cancelled for ALL classes.
April 29; Task 4 and better weather…so all classes FLY!!! 18m; 3 hour AAT.. and “our” Sjaak Selen [ASG 29] won the day;310 km with a speed of 99.32 km./h for 668 points. Just a tad less points for “our” Steven in his AS33es; 658. They started and finished about the same time. 31 started and 28 finished. 2-seaters; 2 hour AAT…..27 started and 25 finished.Good to see Aldo won the day in the ARCUS [ 199 km and 98 km./h. my Dutch mates in the Duo Discus keep going well too; runner up with 193 km and a speed of 90 km./h. Standard 3 hour AAT....The Scandinavian pilots are doing well in Klix , specially in this class.Swedish Janne flew 277 km [speed 89.66 km./h] and Danish Poul Kim 271 in time 3.04 ; 88 km./h.Sabrina and Chrissie were on 5 and 6 . 17 started and 15 finished. Club; 2 hour AAT…..30 started and 26 finished .Best for the day Italian pilot Lapo Alessandro Busi in ASW 20. Elena, also from Italy, in her Discus was 3d and started 15 minutes later.
April 30; Task 5..even better weather, they hoped!!!!Flying day 4 out of 5. 18 m; 3.30 AAT….The Swedish pilots did well with a first and 4th spot, this is a bit their weather; Peter Johansson in an ASG29 flew 324 km in time 3.19[speed 97,47 km./h] But for sure the weather was not perfect as only 18 from29 finished. Late start , mostly around 3PM and the last finisher at 6.35 PM. 2-seaters; 2.30 AAT.…Maybe for that reason the day for this class was scrubbed. standard; 3 hour AAT….ONLY 3 from 17 finished. Both flying a DISCUS.Carsten Büddig flew around with 80 km./h over 252 km and that says enough of the struggle the pilots in this class had. He had an early start at 2.09PM. The runner up Janne Nord showed a lot of stamina ,he needed 4 hours and 23 minutes, BUT HE FINISHED. Compliments for Janne from Sweden, who flew 331 km with a “speed” of 75 km./h. club; 2.15 AAT....scrubbed.
NO TASKS YET for today. If they get the heavy thunderstorms we had last night , it might be tricky.
The weather in Germany was yesterday really good for soaring on other places ; 1.037 km in a Ventus 3 from Binningen and from Austria 1.336.76 km was flown in an ASH 31 /21 m. [Trieben] and from Wiener Neustadt in a Ventus B/15 m. with Wing lets 1.209.87 km.
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——–Glider Forever /Jens Trabolt shared news in their very good and informative MAGAZINE NORDIC GLIDING, about the newest on Schempp-Hirth: “Ventus self-launches electrically for the first time! Schempp-Hirth made the maiden flight yesterday [April 25]afternoon with the fully electrified Ventus E at Hahnweide. The basis is the Solo system, which we also know from the JS3 RES, but Schempp-Hirth has upgraded some of the main components, including bigger motor and propeller.” https://nordicgliding-com.translate.goog/ventus-selvstarter-elektrisk-for-foerste-gang/ https://nordicgliding-com.translate.goog/ventus…/…
“Ventus E in first self-start April 25, 2024 in the air over Hahnweide. The new engine system provides freedom and simple operation without noise and smoke. Also note the GoPro camera on the plane. It is installed to ensure documentation of the engine system’s performance and mechanics during flight. (Photo SH)”
———Schempp-Hirth mentioned; “#VentusE Airborne on its own for the first time! Not only did we make the maiden flight yesterday with the Ventus E, we also did the first self launch! Efficient, smooth and beautiful to look at – these are only a few characteristics, which describe our new baby well. We are very proud of our whole team, who worked hard for this success and are looking forward to the next steps with the best support!“ On a short video you can see it goes up smooth and fast.
———Gliding Australia sent a very sad message last Sunday; “We are deeply saddened to report an accident yesterday at Mount Beauty Airport involving a Grob G109B Motor-Glider, which resulted in two fatalities. Our deepest sympathies are with the families of both the pilot and the passenger.[A lady] Gliding Australia is providing full support in the ongoing investigations. For more information, please read our complete statement: https://glidingaustralia.org/glidingaccidentapr24/ “ VERY SAD!!!! Mount Beauty is a pretty active club in one of the most beautiful areas in Victoria. Have been there and enjoyed every minute.So sad that this happened.
——--Young Ben Fuglsang-Petersen flew in the “old” ASW 15 B a distance of 846 km and “used” 9 hours and 36 minutes to do so, on April 23. CHAPEAU for this young man! A nice long jo-jo -flight flight, with an early start, in arctic air with clear visible cu’s so not a lot of thermalling, he could nearly go straight forward . https://www.weglide.org/flight/380531 “It was really nice to see where others flew the energy lines!” said Ben Fuglsang-Petersen after his furthest flight in his ASW 15 B.A remarkable performance in a glider type first flown in 1968!”[weglide]
——The Gelderse ONE- DAY -COMPETITION was supposed to be flown last Saturday but the weather did not co-operate. Also Sunday was not good due to pretty heavy wind. In Switzerland however one of my friends Bert jr flew 1.143.81 km. from Hausen Am Albis in the Ventus 3T on Sunday and on Saturday Carl Audissou flew in France 1.376 km. in an Antares 20. April really does what it will and that’s not for everybody good. I liked the comment from Bert jr; “After being for a couple of months in Asia the temperature shock was pretty big, from 40°C in Hanoi to -25°C in my beloved glider within a timeframe of 24 hours. A late but very easy start into a sky filled with nice energy lines, especially on the West to East legs. In the evening the weather collapsed quite rapidly but thanks to some thermals, ridges and weak rotors I almost made it home. Due to an incoming patch of moisture the entire Swiss Mittelland was covered. The only way to reach Hausen in VFR style was flying underneath.”
Now the season has started in Europe it remains VERY IMPORTANT to fly SAFE!
Aeroklub Ziemi Mazowieckiej shared this picture from a pilot who had to land just over the road at the airfield, but hooked with the wing in a tree. He had NOTHING. Nobody on the ground was hurt either.The club and pilot apologized for the inconvenience. [smile]
——–To finish, MORE GIRLS FLY,....ready for an AIRSHOW!!!
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