9 AM:
Compliments to ALL pilots yesterday, they performed well on a tricky day.
In the end even 16 pilots finished in 18m./open.
From the 11 who were “out” , 6 still did very well.
Great job from Ray,…the only one over 100 km./h. That says how difficult the day was.
In st./15 m. , who had a 3.45 AAT, 6 from 16 finished. 3 Of them flew more than 5 hours but finished with the task flown!!! Chapeau!!!Miles even did 5.30 [ speed 66.88 km./h] but was “in” after flying 368 km. .

The last trailer arrived at 8.30 PM at the field.
Most made it to the dinner , sponsored by JONKER SAILPLANES!!
After the dinner there was a ” live hook up with AP and Bossie in the factory at Potchefstroom to discuss the news from Jonkers which included a talk on the JS2, JS4 and the newly announced JS5 “

Talking about S.A., the South African Nationals , have started yesterday with a 369 task in 18 m. class and Oscar won the day with 149 km./h.
15 Pilots in this class …Laurens was 3d and Arne 4th.
Try to keep an eye on this important competition in 18 m. as well.
The sports class is a family affair for the Jonker’s.
Uys & Maarten Jonker fly the Janus C RG .
Attie & Tienie Jonker a NIMBUS 4D.
Phillip & Khristian Jonker the Duo Discus.
7 In this class. Riaan Denner won day 1 in his DG 505.

More about S.A; Quite a few of my friends fly from Worcester and this morning I found a nice picture shared by Sven from the field.

Just to let you know; Today and tomorrow I cannot be all day involved in writing, sorry about that. Birthday things,you know…???!!!
Will attend the briefing. No sun yet and 24 dgr.C going up to 30 today in the afternoon.

11.AM
Here are the proud winners from yesterday as they deserve their picture in the blog after their win on what the CD called a “horror day”.

Only one class flying today [open/18 m. and a short task it is.

12.30 PM;
Time to look at other good flights and then FRIDAY the 13th was such a day.
First in Argentina , where 2 Stemme’s flew over 2.800 km. with a speed of 195.8 km./h!!!!Of course Klaus was one of them and his reaction was “cool”:
” I didn’t expect, that it was so good. But it was a tricky day. A lot of humidity with rain and low clouds, sometimes blocking the waves.
Playing around, that’s gliding .”
The other pilot was Thomas Horz also from Germany ; He was a bit more outgoing:” Absolute impressing flight! “
They started from Zapala Neuquen .
Also from Argentina 1.916 km. in a 15 m. DG 808 by Jean Marc Perrin from Jose De San Mart  .
Another great flight by well known kilometer eater Guy Bechtold flying with Bernd Weber from a field in Namibia I never heard of till now…. Gobabis ; 1.342 km [1.173 FAI triangle] with a speed of 142 km./h.