In my hotel room on Mai 20 2010 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
Sorry it seems I am running out of time every day. Early wake up calls at 7 and just one glass of rose-wine in the bar before sleeping at 10 PM and that fills the day with hard work in between.
Sorry you had to miss out on soaringspot as well due to a problem with their server, but I heard from Andrej that this is solved.
Yesterday we had an interesting day! We had between 10 and 15 knots gusting to 30 knots [cross]wind which was , certainly for the Pipers the limit for take off with gliders. After the club class was launched the open class had a go but in the middle even the Morane had problems. This plane could tow open class gliders , but they had to drop water, as 750 was acceptable for the tuggie and 800 not .Of course the glider pilot had the right to refuse. That happened so they cancelled the open class and who was in the air had to land , straight after the combi class was launched. In the end they could not go either as 2 two-seaters were too heavy as well for the Pipers and Cessna and the Morane could not tow them all. For safety reasons both classes were cancelled
The club class pilots 8 of them , had a difficult but interesting day and though 2 had to make an outlanding [one 10 km in front of the field] they were satisfied as day 4 meant that it was a valid National competition in club class.
Today was a great day with big tasks, no outlandings and good speed. Also tactical flying by 2 of the open class pilots, who went on track one hour after the first pilot starting in open class. There are only 3 open class gliders and all 3 are handicapped .The rest is 18 m. Look for results , tasks and weather to www.soaringspot.com or to www.nkzweefvliegen.nlwith also pictures under “multi-media”. The comps close on Sunday and we expect 3 more days to fly, so hopefully we end up with 8 days in club and 7 in both combi and open.
Have to go to bed now
Try to make time again tomorrow. Sorry that I have no time to analyze other comps and OLC flights.
Cheers Ritz