From the tower!

Today the last day of the Dutch Nationals will be flown. Yesterday was a very difficult day. The cloud base was between 500 and 700 m and all pilots had to depart pretty low with blue skies and high cirrus. Some out landed straight away  and some managed to reach the middle of Holland for lift up to 1100 m. Then it was struggling again , back to 600 m or in a field.  The day before pilots had long distances over 500 km. and that day was difficult as well.

Yesterday the poor pilots had to fly very short distances between 159 km and 220 and in club class only 2 came back , father and son Hiemstra. It took them over 3 and over 4 hours to make it back.

In the combi class pair- flying helped Steven [1R] and Mark [K1] to come back home. 3 Other pilots made it home as well. In open class another team , flying together , Peter [4T] and Mark[V1] flew strong in their open class gliders to beat the 18 m  even with their handicap.A total of 10 came back from this class.

 We are waiting for the tasks for today; day 7 in  open and combi and day 8 for club class . See for scores and totals either live scoring at www.nkzweefvliegen.nl or www.soaringspot.com [NK Dutch Nationals]

From Wednesday onwards we go back to the normal 2 times-a -week-blogs!

Cheers Ritz