POST 1.300!!!!
The 63d BRAZILIAN Gliding Nationals
9 October 2021 – 16 October 2021
Flown from Itápolis. Never heard from this field ,so we get to know a bit more about it now. I checked the internet and found;
“Aeroclube de Itápolis Airport is a small airport in Itápolis, Brazil. The airport has one runway: 1/19 The ICAO designator of this field is SDIO.“
The time zone; America/Sao_Paulo (GMT -3:00)
One of the pilots is Henrique Navarro. Normally he flies open class but instead of his Nimbus 4T , he flies an SZD 55;
” The championship is being held in a airport with runway lights just 28 meters apart, which means I can not operate my Nimbus 4T. So a friend kindly let me fly his SZD55.“
They fly in Club, [6] racing [12] and open class [5] , but on October 9 and 10, they had no flights. And on the picture you see why.
Aeroclube de Itápolis.
On October 11 a task was set , a 1.30 AAT for all classes, but not flown in club and racing. It seems the weather in Brazil is as “bad” as it was in Europe’s summer.
On October 12 they flew!!!!!
Courtesy Henrique Navarro
Racing class; Task 2 and Henrique won the 2.40 AAT with 283 km. in time 2.40 at the dot!! 106 km./h and only 2 other pilots flew over 100 km./h.
12 Started only one was out. Sergio Bassi was runner up in a St Cirrus.
Task 3; 359 km…..128 km./h in a DG 1001 M/20m. was the best speed for a 3d place. Winner; Henrique with 125 km./h. GOOD day!!!
Task 4; 1.30 AAT for all classes BUT CANCELLED for all classes.
Task 5; 1.30 AAT.… was set , BUT Henrique flew 71 km the runner up only 48 ….so a scrubbed day!
Task 6 ;1.30 AAT, LAST DAY, they tried hard but NO day again. Henrique flew 89 km the runner up 10, so no scores.
BUT , yes final scores after 2 valid days.
1. Henrique Navarro in SZD 55 with 1.824 points.
2. Alfredo Jobke in ASW 20 with 1.654 p.
3. Andre Lautert in DG 400/17 m. with 1.646 p.
Open class;
Task 1….. 1.30 AAT which was flown by 2 from the 3 pilots who started.
Gustavo Shigueno won the day in his 18 m. Ventus 2Cm flying 186 km in time 1.51; speed 99.99 km./h.
Claudio Schmidt in the ARCUS was runner up with 172 km. in time 1.53. He flies with another well known pilot Joao Alexandre Widmer.
Task 2; 3 hour AAT.…3 pilots flew today, a pity that Egon Otto Rehn is not flying his ARCUS M. He belongs with Henrique and Claudio to the more well known Brazilian comp-pilots.
Daily winner was Gustavo with 355 km in time 2.59. Claudio was runner up. 938 for 928 points.
Task 3; 416 km….only 3 pilots “left-over” in this class. Gustavo flew around with 135 km./h. for 1000 points. Claudio with 128 and Luis [Valenca] with 103 km./h. [Discus 2 T/18m]
Task 4 ; cancelled.
Task 5 ; 2 hour AAT, flown by 2 with 126 km. and 115 km…no scores.
Task 6; 1.30 AAT….Claudio and Gustavo were the only 2 flying again and with 152 and 154 km. they GOT points; 278 and 204, …they had task 3!!!!
S after 3 valid days , with some real concurrence, the overall scores are;
1. Gustavo Shigueno in Ventus 2CM/18 m. with 2.465 points.
2. Claudio Schmidt in ARCUS M with 2.410 p.
3. Luis Valença in Discus 2T /18m with 1.447 p.
KW1/club ;
Task 2; 3 hour AAT and was flown by 4 of the 5 pilots flying in this class.
Oswaldo Palomba Neto even “received” 1000 well- deserved-points for his 138 km. flight in time 3.03 in a PW5…78 km./h.!!
He mentioned that the day was much better than expected up to 1800m. The last leg was a bit difficult with weaker thermals and some blue holes.
He added that a later start would have been better[between 12.40 and 13.00] He started at 11.51.
Task 3; 3.30 AAT...pretty tough for the “little ones” but Tiago Marchese Raupp bravely flew up to 285 km. in time 3.25 in his PW 5, as last of the 6 starters. Only one out after 160 km. Well done by all., on what they called a “Dia sensacional!” / ” Meteoro espetacular! “Clearly a great day!!!!
Task 4, 5 and 6 were not flown.
Overall scores after 2 days;
1. Oswaldo Palomba Neto in PW 5 with 1.716 points.
2. João Victor Mendes Silva in the kw-1 Quero-Quero with 1.481 p.
3. Lucas Pereira da Silva in KW-1 Quero-Quero with 1.315 p.
A pity from the weather, but I am nearly used to say that by now.
2 Days was not sufficient to make it a valid National Championship for racing and KW1/club class. Which was a pity as Henrique won the 4 days, but 2 of them were invalid.
His next goal is the 4th Pan American Championship in Brazil – Sep2022.
Open had 4 days so their National Championship was valid and, as you can see one good 1000- points- day and one with 938 points and 2 marginal days.
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—–This is the venue for the next WWGC , great picture, by Sydney Gilmore published by Discover Gliding
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On October 17, Ramy Yanetz added a great and special flight to the OLC. He flew his 18m. ASG 29. Here is his story;
“Had an amazing pre frontal wave flight. Another Bay tour but this time flown the whole length of the peninsula on the west side from Loma Prieta to San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge to Mt Tamalpais and San Rafael. Not aware of anyone who done this before as it is normally impossible due to class bravo but this time the wave was consistent and I could easily stay just under 18K way above the class bravo 10K ceiling with easy downwind escape if I lost the wave. It also helps to have ADS-B. It was possible today since the moisture and undercast clouds did not arrive until later afternoon, only few lenticulars marking the wave. Went from Byron south to Lick Observatory to Loma prieta jumping multiple wave bars upwind, then along the peninsula to San Francisco, San Rafael, then NE to Napa and to Bear valley abeam Williams, then back in strong wave to Byron and continued south to near Crows Landing and back to Byron.”
With beautiful pictures!!!!
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=-1855411484&fbclid=IwAR1uJFjxOiJkvpwdHSerWeoW453vt01ckrIQTZAW6X0H-DJMkEGPdRM41cc
Here is one of them
Very special!!!! as shared by Ramy.
And a very special one from 17.999 ft. overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge…..from a GLIDER!!!!!
One day earlier , another long wave flight , now in an ARCUS M, by Chester Fitchett;1.600 km. Starting at Black Diamond in Canada, and returning there with the message ;”Didn’t even use the whole day!”
Speed 179 km./h. !!!!
“Best in the world for the day, best in Canada ever!” SAC – ACVV
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No comps at the moment , but at some places the spring and fall-weather is really nice, so a bit of spring and autumn flying is in progress. I share a few pictures I found to show spring fun and autumn – soaring-happiness.
Kingaroy had super-spring-weather yesterday [read under picture] and today.
Adam Woolley’s Gliding Adventures
Today, Butch [John Buchanan] flew 728 km in his ASG 29E/18m and Woolley[Adam] was pondering about a 1000 or 750, ….” Still deciding on a task, 750-1000km expected.” ….but he is not yet back. Will add that later.
See below in extra news
Swiss Chris 512 km. ;”Was a fun day with an early start, but also early thunderstorms moving in from the east.
Just having fun following rivers of lift
Got the glider boxed just before rain and thunder started “
Yesterday’s rain might have had a bigger impact
First showers at 2pm on track to the 2nd turnpoint and cirrus moving through
Skipped it – outlanding risk too high. He flew nearly 500 km…more and out and return to the S…. in his ASW 27.
Matthew and Butch were flying as well; Full story and why it just did not happen on
Adam Woolley’s Gliding Adventures
Temora [N E of Tocumwal] had a good day on Sunday with flights up to 380 km in an LS 8 and 282 in a Club Libelle by Grant Johnson;
“Cu all afternoon, initially at 5,000′ then a bit over 6,000′ by the end of the afternoon. Dull patch around 3pm then the last hour just built after I ran out of OLC legs. 300km flown.”
shared by Shalbourne Gliding
And the last one is from France
And to finish another 2 great pictures by Arjan during the autumn camp at Terlet from the Gelderse.
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AND, last but not least; good news from AUSTRALIA!!!!!
International flights for Christmas!!
Qantas confirms international flights will take off from December 18.
“The country’s flagship airline has provided the exact date holiday-hungry residents can book flights to popular destinations like the US, UK, Canada and Singapore. ” Daily Mail.
That’s it for now. Our season is nearly over , my friends down under and in Africa start soon. Will try to follow it all for you.
Cheers Ritz
EXTRA NEWS:
It’s always great to fly a 1000 and some of those flights are extra as they are flown under special circumstances.
Adam’s 1000 today in his brand new Ventus 3T, is such a flight ;
Here is his comment, this time in total.
“It’s great to be home! What was effectively an easy day, turned out to be rather demanding & tricky right in the dyeing hours 
2nd ever I believe, declared 1.034 km FAI flight within Queenslands borders, so it’s a great feeling to complete this flight!
As soon as I connected with my first climb at the Bunyas, I knew the day was on. SkySight predicted the day brilliantly, with the highlight of the flight, meeting up with the convergence as advertised to take me to & from the top turn 
All was relatively easy as I said earlier until I left cloud base the last time & went into a near best LD glide. Nothing worked until I diverted for some smoke & a single landable field. There were no more options to climb, so I circled in 1kt to buy me some time. I saw an opportunity present itself, so I continued on. I turned windward to two farmers ploughing within the sunny ground, the Ventus then lead me to 2kts, I thought, this might just be enough! It turned out to be convergence, weak & broken. I kept telling myself to stay relaxed, keep feeling the air, make corrections where appropriate, leave nothing to chance. It was enough to get onto glide, with a small 1.2kt climb on the way. Best LD all the way in, had me crossing the line with just enough for a circuit 
It‘s great to be home, what a day
Adam Woolley’s Gliding Adventures
