37th FAI WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIP
Szeged, Hungary
24 July 2022 – 5 August 2022

It was a more than challenging day yesterday. Not only for the pilots ,but for the tuggies as well. Compliments!!!
Also the wing runners had it tough, Benjamin Neglais from France mentioned:
“Wing runner must be also wise. Use the wingtip to the wind and lower it to avoid gust raising the wing when released. This is the basic,…. plus good fast legs to give it all.”
Again some damage ! This is a very special picture and shows the love and fraternity of our sport.
Wolfgang [WO] flies a Ventus 3 TS and as you see ,this time not in the little workshop from Attie and Uys from Jonker sailplanes, but in the hangar, the glider is repaired by them and Tilo [Schempp-Hirth] who was only in Szeged for a short visit.
GREAT PICTURE!!!!

John Good who is there has another good story on yesterday also on the damage of Wolfgang’s glider:
“,It seems that Wolfgang, in compliance with instructions here that insist on a long landing (to leave the runway clear for others) rolled long enough to cross the concrete marker that denotes the end of the grass runway. There’s plenty of grass beyond it, but this concrete object is not flush with the ground, and the impact managed to smash WO’s tailwheel up into its fuselage.”

And there was more on yesterday from John ;
“Today marked an end to trouble-free weather and straightforward soaring. Plenty of wind, extensive clouds and even some wave effects produced the first “shake up the score sheet” day at WGC2022. In 20-Meter class, Karl and Sarah managed to take advantage in a big way, taking first place in Arcus N1 by a convincing margin.” US Soaring Teams

Yesterday’s winners in 20 m. class with Sarah and Karl proud on top. Great to see Aku and Juha on 3 and Frenc and Attila on 2.

During briefing today, Wolfgang said a few words on what happened to him.

August 1 ;
day 9…competition day 6…task 7…. and after this,… still 4 days to go.
At 11.30 the first gliders were launched under a blue sky, for a “sit” of 3 hours and 30 minutes in their glider. BUT,…some cu’s popped already up in the West. With the early launches the pilots had a long day to do what they think they should/could do. It seems the first sector was OK, some flew it really to the end, others went to the next sector. So there will be differences in arrival times.
After the 2d sector it became more difficult. Height 1000 and 1500 meter , occasionally 1800 and lift with 1.5 up to 2 m.
What did the pilots do?
18 m; 3.30 AAT….Bad day for 5 pilots who flew out of the competition area. They got points till the violation; 124, 3x 122 and 121 points. They flew into Serbia, which is out of the boundary.
Winners!!!! YES,…. from Italy Ricky and Davide! They flew 453 km in time 3.35, 3.40 for 1000 and 973 points. Christophe missed out on 2 points on Davide. He was 3d and still leads the class, but with only 35 points.
Good to see Wolfgang was flying. He was 4th. He will be for ever grateful. He is such a nice , enthusiastic and kind guy AND still the current world champion!!![Hosin in 2018]

Roman Mracek flew 468 km, but needed 4 hours and 13 minutes. 7 Pilots flew over 4 hours.
32 Pilots finished, 10 were out.

20 m; 3.30 AAT….An INTERNATIONAL TOP 5. 4X an ARCUS and one Shark.
Winners; Louis Bouderlique / Ulysse Merlin with 421 km in time 3.30 at the dot!!!!speed 120 27 km./h . FRANCE.
Runner up; Steve Jones / Garry Coppin with 426 km in time 3. 36. speed 118.28 km./h. UK.
3d; Erik Borgmann / Joost Wolff with 428 km. in time 3.37, speed 118.22 km./h. THE NETHERLANDS
4; Ivan Novak / Petr Krejcirik with 419 km in time 3.34. Czech Rep. 117.28 km./h.
5; Jakub Barszcz / Lukasz Kornacki with 439 km. in time 3.47. speed 116 km./h. Poland.
ALL pilots finished! One team needed 4 hours!
Overall scores are very close so everything can still happen.

open; 3.30 AAT...Very pleased to see that Radek won the day. Good on him. He flew in his JS1 C/21m. 485 km. NOBODY flew that far. And with a speed of 119,83 km./h so in time 4.03. His dad was 4th in 20 m and he number ONE. BUT, Radek won the day together with Felipe ; equal 1000 points. He and Michael keep on flying together and Michael was on spot 3.
4 Pilots were out.
Felipe leads with 13 points overall on Oscar who was 6th today.

All scores still preliminary.

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12th FAI JUNIOR WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Tábor, Czech Republic
30 July 2022 – 13 August 2022

Looking back with USA pilot David is possible. Here is a small part of his long story;
“I was gridded in the second row and my new flying buddy Mark Travner from Slovenia is also in my row so I was thinking that finding each other after launch will be easier. Alas, we had no problem navigating the start game shenanigans. We started about 5 minutes after the main gaggle and then caught up to them on the first leg. From there, for me, it was a matter of not losing the gaggle nor Mark.
Everything seemingly came together today, using what I have been able to learn about team flying, Mark and I flew fast and efficiently.” More on US Soaring Teams
He expected rain for today. But ….as you can see, they try to fly. AND,…they did!

“ It was a really hard day. The standard is really high. Lot’s of pressure, some tactical errors. ” Is what the UK boys said after the flight. In short; Challenging conditions and some technical issues made this first competition day interesting...” Team UK about yesterday.
AND
“The Turbo Čmelák has been woken from its slumber and the pilots have been warned “that everything happens really quickly“. Indeed today the Cmelak was towing and a lot of the juniors looked out to that moment. It is a very strong tug.
Matej Rendla , when I am correct Tomas son, said;
“Even though the weather conditions today do not ease the competition, the pilots fighting for the title of the junior world champion should succeed even in conditions like this. “
The first launch was confirmed for 12 .00.

August 1…Day 2 …competition day 2 …task 2
Club; 2 hour AAT…the line opened at 12.56 . Only in the 3d circle to the S. was a bit of rain , mentioned our Dutch team. The weather is GOOD!!!!
Just after 3 the first pilots finished already with French pilot Alexandre Fierain, flying 257.48 km. in time 2.01, so a nice speed of 126.82 km./h. Would he be the daily best???
yes he was!!
His mates had the same great flight, they flew with 3 together. Starting at 13.19 and the other 2 finished in time 2.05.
Alexandre leads the overall score now too.

After tea and cake, I looked again and they were still on 1,2 and 3, so a great day for the French. One of the members from the Jonker family flies an LS 3 and was 4th. He flew 122.67 km in time 2.01. Those young ones are really good in timing.
The UK boys were on 5 and 6 . My Dutch mates on 7,9 and 10.
The young Danes who flew so well yesterday were on spot 22,23 and 25.
43 from 45 were in, 2 out….GOOD DAY!!!!
19 Pilots have over- 1000- overall -points, all very close!!!
BUT,…there is a very long way o go!!!!

Standard; 2 hour AAT…their start line opened at 13.25, and most went straight on track. 13.43 was the last start time by Dutch pilot Nick. In the end he was 19th.
At 3.30 the first pilot appeared on the score board. Ryan from Australia; 222.27 km in time 2.01. Would that be good enough ?
No it was n’t! In the end he was 18 th.
With 135 km./h Wiktor Lacinski from Poland 285.34 km in time 2.06. He was the daily winner!!!!
Jacob Bøgelund Lassen from Denmark had enough kilometers, 348, but needed too much time ;2.53, but he was 6th for the day.
His mate  Emil Dalboe-Pedersen was runner up with 290 km. in time 2.17. speed 126.87 km./h.
So Wiktor was REALLY FAST!!!!!

The juniors had 2 pretty good days till now. More tomorrow.

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FAI SAILPLANE GRAND PRIX BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 2022
From LIVNO
30 July 2022 – 6 August 2022

“Race day 2 task set, an interesting route across multiple valleys and mountains.”
Follow live tracking on
https://bosniaherzegovina22.sgp.aero/race-coverage

Race for today; 331 km.
With 7 pilots still in the race Matthias [Sturm] had the best race today. The regatta start was at 13.30 and with 133.2 km./h he won the 7 daily points. He has 8 in total now.
Gintas [Zube] was runner up , nearly as fast with 133.1, for 5 points. He has 12 points now.
Christoph [Limpert] was 3d and has a total of 9 points now.
More tomorrow.

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And not long anymore and the next BIG event another [ cat 1 ] the WWGC in the UK flown from Husbos.
Here is already the schedule they shared. Their news will be on WWGC2022.CO.UK
“Saturday 13 August – opening ceremony. All welcome! Free entry!
Sunday 14 to Friday 26 August – contest flying
Saturday 20/Sunday 21 August – public open weekend. All welcome! Free entry!
Friday 26 August – last night party. All welcome! Ticketed event.
Saturday 27 August – closing ceremony“

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You are up to date.
Have a good night…..and enjoy this picture from the German team.
And for all teams…ENJOY THE HUNGARIAN NIGHT later tonight. Goulash????
cheers Ritz