Alphen aan den Rijn Thursday July 21 2011 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
8.30 AM; Looking at the weather for Europe this morning I worry about day 4 at Nitra. As you might have seen on the official site briefing is at 10 and no gridding till further notice. Guest speaker during the briefing is Werner Scholz {IGC} who speaks about IGC ideas, how to improve safety at competitions in the future. ALWAYS good and interesting to hear.
Advise; Please look at the pictures on the official site,[ www.pribinacup.sk/egc2011] by clicking on the pictures from Elfo, AMAZING!!!!! 97 and 67 Pictures one better then the other, but ALL terrific!!!! I loved the 4 Blaniks behind the tug and later the dancing Blaniks in the air. Super!!!!
The final scores for day 1 are to be looked at now ; www.soaringspot.com
See you later!
2 PM; The briefing seems to be very interesting and I hope that all pilots listen well, as nothing is so important as SAFETY. On none of the sites is any news, so I decided to find out in between, who are the stewards and jury at the EGC.Could not find it at the official site only “to be decided” in newsletter 1. So I checked with Marina who always knows everything and she was so kind to write me from Wasserkuppe, where they were waiting for good weather as well.
Jury president ;Fred Gai and member Angela Sheard, with remote juror Josef Snirc, who was the competition Director in Prievidza and steward in Rieti during the WGC. He is flying as well in the 2seater class.
Chief steward; Jaroslav Vach and steward Jiri Cihlar.
So you know now as well.
Still no news so I check the Tour De France now! See you later!
8 PM; No soaring at Nitra today, but no snow at the Galibier either. So I enjoyed one of the best days in the Tour De France in ages .
Talking about Wasserkuppe. This year it is 100 years ago that the first flight from Wasserkuppe was flown.; a centenary! Celebrations will be combined with the GRAND Final of the 2011 FAI GRAND PRIX from Wasserkuppe with 20 pilots from all over the world, under them ONE lady! More on Sunday in the regular blog.
On July 11 in 1911 it was also the first time the cyclists had to “fight” that monster- mountain the Galibier, another Centenary!!!
And if you like great wave flights look at the OLC from yesterday. More on Sunday!
Till tomorrow. A more busy day , but I will see what I can do! Cheers Ritz