Post 1.547 on September 25 2024
Well,….it’s autumn, now also astronomical, but it felt like summer here with 25 dgr. C. over the last couple of days . Yesterday we got autumn,with wind a a lot of rain, but for now this was a present after all the rain we had already this summer. We went from dry and sunny in the weekend to wet, wet, wet and 13 dgr tomorrow .
Not as bad as in Central and East Europe, they had the worst ever weather with flooding’s and landslides and many casualties [ I heard 26 people passed away] and later it was Italy’s turn, the North of it.
Sorry to hear that my friends in Japan suffer a bit as well especially in the West.
——-HpH Sailplanes announced the maiden flight of her HPH304MS 184-MS.
I like the call sign which was in the past from world champion Kees Musters. He is still remembered in the town he lived in, after he passed away 37 years ago. They even have the Kees Musters street and last week I heard they built new houses in the street :One type is called stratus the other one cumulus. You will be able to see cumulus clouds in the windows of the terraces. Great effort from the shire of Alphen aan den Rijn. COMPLIMENTS!!!!!
By the way 6 HpH gliders are in , or might have left already, the harbor of Antwerp for their trip to Namibia.
——Down under they are in full preparation of the 2024/25 season. Last Saturday my friend Gerrit flew from McCaffery field already 500 km in the EB 29R.
From Kingaroy another friend, Butch, flew 380 km in the AS 33es.
On Friday , the distances were just the other way around; Butch 601 km and Gerrit 532 km.
Tocumwal Soaring Centre shared this magnificent picture of their hangar [NO I am not saying anymore our former hangar] but I still find it impressive. They started flying too.
——Looking at the Queensland State Gliding Championships, hosted by Darling Downs Soaring Club
Tim Bromhead mentioned; ” I’ve worked with the livegliding chaps to get the tasks on PureTrack too”The more people can read it and that way follow it, the BETTER!!!!
There are 11 pilots in Club class in gliders as PIK 20, Discus, ASW 20 ,LS 3 , St Jantar and Salto .
9 Pilots in sports class in LS8, Nimbus [3 and 4] Ventus , ASG 29 and ASW 27.
They started on September 21 and continue till September 29.
They run it using the Grand Prix rules.
Day 1 , last Sunday, was won by Michael Strathern in Club and Ray Stewart in sports.
It was a blue day with thermals to 6000ft. Very blue day as you can see.
To cater for different performance gliders the lower performance gliders fly a little shorter distance and it’s the first one home that’s the winner.
That was me today.”
Task 2 had Kevin Roden as winner in his St Jantar and day 3 was for Daryl Speight in a Discus B so was day 4 . After 4 flown days in Club the best score is for Michael with 1 win and 3 runner up spots. [35 points] Daryl is overall runner up now [33] and good to see Grant from Toc is on spot 3. [26]
Still 3 days to go.
In sports also a total of 4 days now. Bit “boring” but very good for him; Ray [JS3/18m] won every day!!! No secret he is overall on top with 3 days to go, with 39 points. Scott Percival is runner up in Ventus 2 [ 22] and Steve McMahon 3d.[19]
——WeGlide had news for and about young pilots;
“Let’s introduce the Juniors of WeCoach 24/25. We start with the lucky guys who will travel to Worcester, South Africa 
mid November.“
This years winners Jonas Zeller and Florian Taigel are looking forward to race the ridges.
Do you want to be the next to explore the beautiful regions of southern France 
or South Africa with experienced pilots and high-performance gliders? Let’s do it! Here you can find all the information you need to make the adventure a reality:
docs.weglide.org/docs/contests/wecoach/
Talking about South Africa; The S.A. NATIONALS will be flown in potchefstroom between September 28 and October 5 2024.So end of this week!!!!!
——-Soaring Society of America; “Attending the 2024 SSA Convention in Knoxville, TN from October 24-26? Here’s a link to the schedule of events to help you plan your days. You can download pdf’s of the speaker plan and a full description of the talks from links at the bottom of the Speakers Page on the Convention web site; https://www.ssa.org/2024-convention-schedule/
——The Brazilian Nationals were flown between September 13 and 21 2024 from Luís Eduardo Magalhães, Bahia, Brazilië.
One of the pilots is Henrique Navarro. He was flying the Ventus 3TS with 15 meters wingtips, in the Open Class (handicapped).
He won after 7 days of flying EVERY DAY, with 4 pilots in this class. Total scores for Henrique; 6.683.
Good tasks around 500 km and a few 3 and 3.30 AAT’s.
in Club 3 pilots and a winner in a PW5 , Julio Cesar de Magalhães Alves with 3,985 points.
In racing Itamar Lessa in ASW 20; 6,229 points. [7 pilots]
You are up to date, so till next Wednesday
cheers Ritz