Post 1.418 on Mai 7 2023.

KLIX
28 April 2023 – 6 May 2023

The weather in Europe is pretty unreliable at the moment, so organizers suffer a bit with their comps.
Also Klix . And,…their pilots; one day they win the other they are out, but THAT ‘S SOARING too.
That happened as well to Jacek [Flis] from Poland in Club class. He won task 3 on flying-day 1 , was out on task 4 and on task 6, after a cancelled day, [only their class] he won again ; a set 364.18 km. task , speed 107.35 km./h.
Then another cancelled day and on Mai 5 they had a small task 8, flying day 4 from 171 km.
Another Polish pilot did well; Tomasz[ Krok] in a St Jantar; speed 105.23 km./h. He was just ahead of 2 Italian pilots.
They did not know that this was their last flying day. So after 9 days they had 4 competition days.
Result from only 4 days; meaning some scores are pretty close.
S0 the final overall scores for CLUB CLASS.
1. Rawecki Szymon from Poland in SZD 55 with 2.829 points.
2. Tomasz Krok from Poland in St Jantar with 2.778 p
3. Nicola Fergnani from Italy in a DISCUS with 2.671 p.
Followed by 3 other Italian pilots ;Alessandro Bassalti ,2.667….Elena Fergnani, 2.660 both in a Discus and Giacomo Dallolio,2.652points in ASW 20.

In Standard Class they have one more day as they flew their task 7 on Mai 4 ; 178.90 km.
Pawel Wojciechowski from Poland won the day in his LS8 with 105.77 km./h . 2 Dutch pilots followed. Jeroen [Verkuijl] is his JS 3/15 m. with 110.49 km./h and Sjaak [Selen] in his Discus 2a; 98.19 km./h
Just a tad faster than Sabrina [Vogt] ;98.10 km./h also in Discus 2a.
18 Started and 1 was out
On Mai 5 racing task 8, from 202.06 was set. AND,…pretty weird the same top 3!!! Pawel, [90.46 km./h ]Jeroen [91.46 km./h] and Sjaak [83.85 km./h]
They had 5 days out of 9;
1. Pawel Wojciechowski from Poland in LS8T with 3.403 points. He won 2 days.
2. Sjaak Selen from The Netherlands with 3.267 p. and won 1 day.
3. Jeroen Verkuijl from The Netherlands in JS 3 /15m with 3.245 p. won 1 day.

2-seaters; On Mai 4 they started their task 7 [flying day 4] with 199.35 km and the Back family in the DG 1000/20m.were the best; speed 99.10 km./h for 498 points.
24 started and only 1 was out.
On Mai 5 a 2.15 AAT was set and flown by 22 of the 23 starters. The Duo Discus XLT from Dutch team Van Nes & De Boer won the day; 116.25 km./h.
Also 5 days from 9 in this class;
Final results very close again;
1. Huttel & Franke from Germany in ARCUS T with 2.652 points.
2. Dinger & Zoller from Germany in DG 1000 with 2.646 p.
3. Gliese & Chlan from Germany in DUO DISCUS T with 2.600 p.

open/18m. class; Their Mai 4 showed a small task [7] as well; 189 25 km. and Christoph [Matkowski] was the fastest in his AS 33es, with 90.38 km./h the only one OVER 90 km./h. Steven [Raimond] was runner up
29 Started and only 2 were out.
Mai 5 showed a 2.45 AAT; The ASH 25 from Helge Liebertz was the fastest with 113.39 km./h. over 327 km .Not fast enough as on handicap the Discus 2C from Steven Staudte was faster over 297 km.
Steven on spot 1 overall was “only” 14th and JUST lost his 2d spot; 3 points.
1. Andreas Kuhl from Germany in JS 3/18m with 3.210 points.
2. Steven Raimond from The Netherlands in ASG 29E with 3.207 p.
3. Helge Liebertz from Germany in ASH 25/25m. from Germany with 3.184 p.

As said Mai 5 was the last day as the forecast for Mai 6 was not good. They straight away held a prize giving party that day after flying at 8 PM and they look forward to the next KLIX 2024 ; edition 30!!!

Compilated pictures by Frouwke who had a good time ; she mentioned as well that it was cozy, with cold nights with frost but also 20 dgr. C plus, Hexenbrennen ,challenging weather,a big bunch of nice Dutch pilots [indeed atmosphere helps] and she has 5 more flights in her logbook.
The Dutch did well with 2x silver and 1x bronze!!!

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GAUTENG REGIONALS from ORIENT
29 April 2023 – 6 May 2023

On Mai 3 and 4 they did not fly. Small tasks were set but not flown.
So on Mai 5 the penultimate day a 2.30 AAT was set in both classes.
Task 5 on flying day 3 UNFORTUNATELY was NOT FLOWN.
In open it was all about Laurence [Hardman] and Oscar [Goudriaans] the JS 1 against the JS 3 TJ.
In sports class they start task 5 with a total of ONLY 948 points for John [Coutts] in the Libelle 301, 863 for Mark [Holliday] in the ASW 27 and 814 points for Dicky [Daly jr] in the Cirrus.
But, with no flying, no changed results.
So after 2 out of 8 days the winner in sports class was John , before Mark and Dicky.
In open Laurence , 1.612 points , before Oscar with 1.576 p.

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CCV City of Varese Cup from Calcinate Del Pesce
30 April 2023 – 6 May 2023

https://youtu.be/dgiRYo3tLRk

Their weather improved after 2 non flying days. I concentrate on the COPPA flights as the open class flies for that as well and fill you in on the open class final scores on the last day.
Mai 3 was [after the 3 hour AAT the day before], a day with a 366 km. racing task. Alberto[ Sironi] won in the ARCUS T with vlogger Andrea [Venturini ] in the back. Speed 109.38 km./h.
A bad day for Stefano [Ghiorzo], who was out due to an airspace violation. ZERO points.
Mai 4 a 2.20 AAT [task3] was won by Peter Hartmann in the JS 1c/18m….;101 km./h.
Stefano in VENTUS 3T/18m ;243.km with 97.28 km./h. was runner up. Jon [Garfield] was out.
Mai 5; 260.53 km…..with a speed of 98 km./h Peter won again, just ahead of fellow Austrian Christian Hynek in the EB 29 DR. Alberto was 3d.
Mai 6; 2.20 AAT. Peter won and was the only one over 100 km./h. over 233 km. This time fellow Austrian Jan Jagiello was runner up.
In the end they had 5 days in a row out of 7.
The best 3 for the COPPA were;
1. Mauro Brunazzo in AS 33es with 3.869 points.
2.  Sironi & Venturini in ARCUS T with 3.661 p.
3. Christian Hynek in EB 29 DR with 3.618 p.

Best 3 for the OPEN CLASS NATIONALS;
1. Mauro Brunazzo with 3.388 points.
2. Sironi & Venturini with 3.156 p
3. Ugo Pavesi in ASG 29E with 2.864 p.
Congratulations!!!
The video from the Varese City Cup is from Well known Andrea Venturini[ Gliding].

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In the Netherlands 51 pilots flew the Gelderse One Day Competition. The weather in the morning was pretty good in the afternoon they had showers some really heavy.

The task for the 4 classes and the results;
Club 138 km. ….won by Robin Smit in LS 4Neo. 12 From 13 Finished.
Combi class; 161.57 km…..As said showers were expected and for some it was at the last TP. From 8 pilots in this class ONLY ONE finished!
2-Seaters; 163.25 km...NOBODY could return home. but the most kilometers ,81.85, were flown by van Doorn & Kamphuis from the Gelderse in a DUO DISCUS XLT. So all 11 teams were caught by the showers between 50 and 80 km.
18 m/open; 193.14 km….the “long wings” from the Nimbus 4D and 2 top pilots Marco [Vermeer] and Bas [Seijffert] were the only fishers. They managed to fly around the shower on the last TP and were IN. Speed 71.42 km./h. Even with a Nimbus you need to fight for the points.

In Belgium they had a competition at Weelde. Also a 1-day-competition. 10 Pilots tried to fly the set 63.50 km task and 2 succeeded. Starts around 4PM; With 43.14 km./h team Kortleven & Vierstraete in a DG 500/20 m. won . Runner up Raeymaekers & Lauwers sharing an ASW 19. [39.57 km./h]
This is one of a row of comps at different Belgian airfields. Next one at Keiheuvel in August.

—–AND,….when you want to learn more about that impressive flight, from the Alps to Corsica and Sardinia, a declared triangle over more than 1400 km over the Ligurian Sea by Baptiste and Thomas you can read an interview by Joshua Rieger with Baptiste on ;
https://magazine.weglide.org/soaring-ligurian-sea-baptiste-innocent/?fbclid=IwAR2cvCyTDVCGjT3lLBCTTkS1A34Nf5gJmm29RXkMp1OknO6pXqtRZyclauk
https://magazine.weglide.org/soaring-ligurian-sea…/

I spend ALL Saturday looking at the coronation. What a lot of history, great music , colorful military parade and many happy guests.
I found this picture from the The Gliding Bible

CU again on Wednesday.
Cheers Ritz