Hello dear friends this is me Ritz and it is an honnor and a pleasure to write about gliding and all other things belonging to it, specially when you know that people are interested in reading it.
The many , many reactions from people from all over the world have inspired me to do so and on top of that I love writing and sharing my thoughts about gliding with you.
Old news is no news , so we try to be up to date or to reflect on news in our own way!
Where can you better start with the first article, then in the MEKKA of gliding at this moment; Sweden,of course in Eskilstuna on Ekeby Airport, where tomorrow on June 16 2006 the last day of the 29th FAI Multi Class Gliding Championships will be flown.These are the very last Comps with 4 classes involved.So a very special day! With 116 pilots flying, also one of the bigger gliding events in history.26 Different nations are here and with 12 tow planes all pilots are launched in a very short time.
And …they are great comps! The weather was not all that flash , for that reason the tasks were not too big, but it was till now a real competition with ups and downs and weather circumstances with a variety I have never seen before in my life. The weather can change here very quickly and we have had, snow, hail, rain, sun, temperatures around 0 and temperatures around 30, lenties, clouds, blue days, tough wind and weak wind and a sunset at 22.15.Yes it seems it is never dark here and you go to bed too late for that reason.
We had 10 soaring days and you can read all the stories from these comps till now on www.wgc2006.se Enjoy them!
The nicest part of gliding is the fact that through the years we all became a big family.We share our love for gliding and for competition flying, but we also share a warm friendship for each other. Young and old, the oldest pilot here competing is Tony Tabart from Australia who is 70 years young and the youngest is Piotr Jarysz 23 years old from Poland , we all get together love the flying and fly to be the best. Crews help to make it easier for the pilot , organizers try to do their best to make it the best competition ever and if we go home with a good feeling, even after having lost, it was a good competition!
But it will be not only World Comps ,we write about.There are so many nice events worthwhile talking about. We saw here a good video from flying in Argentina, also one from the desert in Israel. We want to hgear about new gliders , new designs , new trailers, new instruments ,like the one we saw here in the back of the ETA.
SOARING.EU here we go ! Join in with us, share your thoughts, send info if you have it about interesting events and we will write about it.From Sweden a warm welcome and for now a nice good night. It was a long day and all what has happened is written in 3 stories today.As said if you not have read them yet, ENJOY THEM! Ritz