Alphen aan den Rijn    Sunday July 15 2012

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PRE_WWGC briefing in Issoudun.
courtesy Hans Spekkers

It is mid summer and we “enjoy” 16dgr. yes at least PLUS, but this is no weather for summer. Looking at the OLC July shows not a lot of flights, while it should be “booming”. Topper till today is 942 flights on the 7th. BUT…it seems to improve!Let’s hope I count the days to the 28th when I depart very early at 5 AM for my flight at 7  to London to fly from there via Dallas to Uvalde.

The Pre-WWGC continued…..more or less.  So I continue as well .
On Wednesday another 1.30 AAT. Best distance was 146 km. in an ASG29, but handicapped the day-winner was Celine Gantie in Pegase with 388 points. Natasja , in her LS 6, did well with a 12th place and 117.7 km in 1.27.[303 points]

Natasja and Nathalie Hurlin before start.

In 18 m. same marginal conditions but still a window to fly in and the same task .Day-winner here had 160 km in 1.27, flying an ASG 29/18m.
Thursday; the message I received was….rigging….waiting…open class cancelled…waiting…standard class cancelled…waiting…new task for 18 m and the “women” …resetting tasks in logger etc…waiting…cancelled…de-rigging…and waiting for the forecasted “load” of new rain. Instead of news some more pictures……

WAITING.
pictures courtesy Hans Spekkers

While waiting for good weather it is interesting to meet pilots who have been “SOMEBODY” in our sport. So did Natasja. She met Gill Van den Broeck, who is together with Georgette Litt THE lady in aviation from Belgium in the past and still well known now. Gill, born in 1927, is one of the most influential women in European and international soaring and flew lots of records and was involved in many female contests on World and/or European level as TC, director, jury member and president of the jury in Klix [2005] , steward and chief steward.Here she is with Natasja.

 Women in soaring, young and a bit older.

Friday another miserable day and NO flying!

Saturday last day;

Weather on the last day; Pictures says enough.

Briefing at 10.30 but….the weather was still not “” flash” . The last day of the 37th International was cancelled in both classes and pilots had “only” 5 days in standard class and 6 in the mixed- open out of 12!!!
Still hoping for a window, for the 2 other classes, so a 1.30 hour AAT for the women and a 2 hour AAT for the 18 m. class pilots was set.
But…in vain….. The weather refused to co-operate. So next year they start again and then in real. With this typical British weather the girls from the UK , MAYBE had a bit of an advantage if you may call it and advantage ….anyhow Elisabeth Sparrow won  the Pre-WWGC with 1371 points before runner up from France Marilyne Abadie-Berard.[1334 points]Marylyne is the new French female champion.
Natasja was on a good 21st spot.
In 18 m. class the winners prize was for Christophe Couseau with 1417 points while Denis Guerin was runner up with only 3 points less!!!!!!!
Let’s hope for MUCH better weather next year as now they had more cancelled days then flying days. A pity for organizers and even more for the pilots who were surely hoping for the real French weather.

Got, while having contact with Beryl Hartley from Narromine , some news about this wonderful soaring place and I share a BIT WITH YOU :
—” All is well here at Narromine. My son Mark who  is the CEO of the Sport Aircraft Assoc. of Australia has the head office of that group in our old building and with his staff is building up an increase in sport aircraft at Narromine. The gliding club now has two Duos and 3 single seater and is still going strong although not as many members as we would wish. Arnie and I still do a lot of work with the club and probably will do until we are too old to be useful.–”
And I can confirm that both are VERY HARD workers and lovely people to deal with.

Talking about Australia good news from Tocumwal as well as Eddie bought for Sportaviation a new light aircraft for the new season;
—” Jake and Eddie flew over to Horsham to pick up the newest addition to our fleet. A new Eurofox nose wheel Glider Tug 24-7571. This will complement the Eurofox taildragger tug now in use for training and Glider towing.–”
For all those who are not on FB, here is the picture;

 
Picture from Tocumwal airfield a few years ago.
courtesy Ronald Hermans.

Unfortunately the weather in Räyskälä was as terrible as here . Till yesterday  they had NO flying day during their Nationals in standard class, 15 m and 2 seater class!!!!
Finally Silva could fly again after having been competition director for several comps including the ones I visited , the EGC and JWGC  . He was supposed to fly with his son Johannes in the duo discus, but only Saturday they could fly;249 km. tasks were  handed over to the eager pilots in each class!
And….they flew!!!! Juha Sorri was the best in standard class 86 km./h. in Discus 2B.
Harrie Hirvola was the best in 15 m. with 86.8 km./h. in Ventus 2 A.
And in the 2-seater class Tihula Kimmo won in the duo discus.[82.3 km./h.]
Unfortunately Silva and Johannes had to make an outlanding after 207 km.
ONLY ONE DAY TO GO, today! No tasks yet.

3 More blogs and off I am. Cheers Ritz

 Alphen aan den Rijn     Wednesday July 11 2012

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 Lots of rain here over the last days, really “bucketing from the skies”! The one-day-competition, Amstelglide Grand Prix , was so lucky with their good weather on Saturday, as on Sunday it was raining cat’s and dogs here!!! It must have been great fun as well, as all beer was “gone” after the party. In the end 41 gliders were up in the air, with 12 outlandings or “used engines”.I had an invitation to visit but was otherwise occupied!
The same luck had Silverstone; Saturday horrible rain, Sunday sunny conditions with a great winner Mark Webber and Vettel on 3,  not bad for Red Bull.
By the way did you enjoy all sport that Sunday afternoon as well ??? What great , magic tennis between Federer and Murray and the youngest participant of the Tour de France, 22 years old , won the day.

 
2 Impressions from Issoudun by Hans Spekkers , crew from Natasja van der Neut.

The WWGC day 2 got a B task on Sunday; instead of the first set 208 km.,  the girls had to find it out by their selves in  a 1.30 h. AAT. There was about 25 kts wind and the pretty heavy rain had been active all night; so a wet airfield and wet paddocks, for that reason the tough wind was good , not so much however for the 110 gliders ready to be launched by 13 tugs at 2 PM.
Yes 110 as now along the 37th International and the Libelle Cup, the women and 18 m. pilots joined in as well.
From the 37 women, 11 did not finish. Best distance was 149.2 km. in 1.33.50 and French pilot Marylene Abadie-Berard got the 384 points as daily winner. Nathalie Hurlin was runner up. A good pilot,  as I saw myself at JWGC’s. Natasja ended up on a good  22d place after her outlanding the day before.

   
Natasja before and after a flight. courtesy Hans Spekkers.

In 18 m. French pilot Denis Guerin was the best in their 2 hour AAT with 198.2 km. in 1.56.19. He “received” 550 points. From 34 pilots 10 did not finish amongst them toppers as Gilles Navas , Jeremie Badaroux and Peter Eriksen.
By the way, Denis will fly in club class in the Chaves WGC [Argentinia]  in the beginning of January together with Louis Bouderlique who flies in 18 m. this week as well.
The Libelles and rest of the class did NOT start and the open class was won by Antoon Kerkhofs with 147.8 km. in the Duo Discus in time 1.42.11.[AAT time was 1.30]

On Monday new chances for all pilots in France/Issoudun. But still not the TOP weather! Small tasks as 2.00 AAT for the women and 1.30 for the 18 m. pilots.
Pre WWGC; Best distance that day was 193.5 km. in 2.05 by Anne Ducarouge.[582 points] Natasja was on spot 23 [355 points] 
18 m.: he outlanded on Sunday after 61 km. but took revenge on Monday; Peter Eriksen from Denmark won the day with 181.2 km. in 1.48. Gilles , who “went au vache ” on Sunday as well, was 7th .
37th edition;2 hour AAT for the small gliders and I was very pleased to read that Brian Spreckley won in the Libelle [475 points].  In the mixed open class the Issoudun ASH 25 pilots won the 1.30 AAT with 154.2 km. in 1.33.

On Tuesday , after 4 hours of waiting, the day was cancelled. They are not lucky with the weather.

BUT>>>>>WOW , ELY is “Hot”, what great flights and specially from Ramy [Yanetz] , which 2 super flights in a row. After the 1.126 km. flight on Saturday he added on Sunday an FAI triangle from 1000 km. and on top of that he flew some kilometers for the OLC;  a total of 1.228 and that in the ASW 27, good on him. A bit of a difficult beginning of the day , he claims, but strong thermals later gave “epic conditions” [Buzz] to fly big distances. Nice to read the enthusiasm from Buzz Graves flying in the DG 800S/18m.  his first 1000 km. Congratulations!!!
And….what about Uwe Kleintempel; On Monday he flew a 1.131.km FAI triangle his third-in-a-row 1000 and added on the “awesome day”  some more kilometers topping the OLC list with 1.356 km!!!! In a Ventus 2CM/18m. More wows!!!!
And…Ramy was still not tired, he started later that day but still flew 1000 km for the OLC, with a 760 Out and Return and a 489 FAI triangle!!!

Also good weather in Spain in Fuentemilanos  kilometer-eaters Hans [Germany] and Pepe [Spain] and Alfredo [Italy] flew over 700 km in their ASH 31/21m.  and Uwe from Villacastin in the DG 808 C/18m. flew 680 k.
Former junior champion Christophe Nacke flew the LS 1d to a nice flight over 500 km. in Germany. So while it was pretty miserable and unstable here in this part of Europe, other places had good soarable conditions. Some places in the South , as Italy and East as Bulgary suffer from heat-waves up to over 40dgr. while the Mid of Sweden suffers from flooding due to heavy rainfall.
In the USA still lot’s of problems due to the heat as well. The first 6 months of 2012  seem to have been hotter there then ever before.

From Rand I heard that the claims for the new records from Bert and Tijl flown in Morroco have been received by FAI. I copied it for you;

Claim number : 16580
Sub-class :DO (Open Class Gliders)
Category: General
Type of record : Speed over a triangular course of 100 km
Course/location : Ouarzazate (Morroco)
Performance : 179.00 km/h
Pilot : Bert Schmelzer (Belgium)
Crew :  Tiji Schmelzer (Belgium);16200,
Glider : ASH 25 EB28 / Schleicher operated by
Date :03.07.2012
Current record :  no record set yet

AND

Claim number : 16579
Sub-class :DO (Open Class Gliders)
Category: General
Type of record : Free distance using up to 3 turn points
Course/location : Ouarzazate (Morroco)
Performance : 1219.01 km
Pilot : Bert Schmelzer (Belgium)
Crew :  Tiji Schmelzer (Belgium);16200,
Glider : ASH 25 EB28 / Schleicher operated by
Date :04.07.2012
Current record : 1148.1 km (20.12.2011 – Johan Luyckx, Belgium)

All the news from Uvalde you can read on Sunday in Soaringcafe. Cheers Ritz

Alphen aan den Rijn     Sunday July 7 2012

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The  Schmelzer family  added some new high- lights to their Moroccan holiday, loving every minute of their stay, taking the less good weather days for granted. The exclusive interview with Tijl is to be read in soaringcafe main page left today. Some flights I hear,  were pretty exhausting. The weather with  lot’s of showers,  was sometimes pretty difficult, but no worries they set records and flew long distances and discovered a new airfield.
Another high- light of their holiday on July 4 written by Bert jr. on FB:
—“‎1211 km !
Today Tijl and I declared a 1161km declared task, which we had to abandon after a struggle to find good climbs along the Sahara desert.Instead we modified our task, and tried and succeeded in completing a 1211 km free 3TP-distance task and achieved a new African Continental and Belgian record (still to be approved off course). 
Needless to say, WE LIKE MAROC !—“

On their last day yesterday they finished with a 300 km. out and return record with a speed of 173.5 km./h. and another 1000 km. flight by Bert jr. and sr., as…dad wanted to “optimax”  to a 1000 km day again !!!! Good old Bert sr.
We know so much more now about a for most of us pretty unknown area to fly in. I am grateful the family shared their experiences with us. They certainly are great PR for our great sport. Thanks to all of them!!!!!

What a happy family!!! What great results ..And so deserved!

For more pictures about the 100 km. record and the 1211 km. flight go to ;
https://picasaweb.google.com/101367179377196465151/03072012174KphAt100KmFAITriangleContinentalRecord
https://picasaweb.google.com/101367179377196465151/040720121211kmFreeDistanceContinentalRecord

And for the 300 km record and optimaxed 1.100 km. at:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101367179377196465151/06072012173KphAt300KmOutReturnBelgianRecord#

Day 2 at Issoudun was cancelled and looking at the European weather fore-cast I was n’ t amazed . Day 3…same verdict…
Natasja , one of the Dutch soaring- girls, was flying the 37th Competition till now ,  preparing in her own way to get hopefully, a ticket for the WWGC next year. She was a bit unlucky, as she came low “without prospect” as she said herself, before the first TP , ready to land, wheel out , water taps open and a reasonable field [it seems that the harvest is also late in France , meaning not a lot of good paddocks to land in!!!] BUT dug herself out with the help of  “some sweet buzzards” , lost however 340 points on that day 1 , BUT she finished showing caracter!!!  Who reads Dutch can follow her on her blog;  http://www.natasjavanderneut.blogspot.nl/

On Friday I heard she had made the decision to move from the 37th International edition of Issoudun to participate in the Pre Worlds. She got the invitation and was more then happy and proud. I wondered already why she did not go for that in the first time, as her dream and goal is; flying a WWGC and she can do it. Not a winner yet, but gaining experience is so important.
SO…..GOOD ON HER !!! Will follow the girls and the 18 m. pilots as well.
Also on Friday;  a small window with a 1.30 AAT in both classes. Only 2 pilots in open class finished this AAT in 2.37 and 2. 56 and 152 and 147 km. Tough day, but good on the finishers!

 
day 2 and 3 were cancelled. picture courtesy Natasja.

 In Spain at Ocana the Spanish Nationals  in 4 classes are finished now. 43 Pilots  participated, to be honest I only know 1 of them. They flew 7 days,  so a good competition with just under and over 200 km. tasks in club class, between 250 and 350 in standard class, under and above 300km in 15 m. class with 382 on Wednesday and in open class 416 was the longest task. 

 Pilots flying in Uvalde surely have seen on the WGC site already, that on July 1 and 4 new updates have been placed about airspace and control point and log file documents . When you are interested you can have a look as well.
http://wgc2012uvalde.com/
The official control point shows pictures from ALL TP’s. Only 19 days to go!!! Here is the Belgian open class team with Pierre de Broqueville, Arnaud de Brockeville and Patrick Stoufs who flies “EB 28 -edition Uvalde “with a 25 m. wing span!!! As said before Patrick flew in 1991 as well in Uvalde!

Promised you some more news about the “New” Gariep- Dam- Aviation -status.
The new owners finally after 10 years have become OWNERS of the airfield. They are upgrading the facilities and operations will be in their hands. They announce transparent prices, hospitality and comfort for all.
You can read, about the new operations, the new prices , the new upgraded infra structure  and more  on ; http://www.gariepdamaviation.com/images/flyers/flyer_en_2012.pdf

Several competitions started yesterday ;Rayskala with the Nationals in standard, 20 m and 15 m. and the PRE- WWGC and the French 18m. Nationals.
SORRY, in my last blog I quickly added Hyvinkää as the place to be for the 2 seater class [20 m.] but looking later at the FAI site to check it,  I found out it was Räyskälä and they started yesterday, but looking at their site… no task,  so I presume the weather did not allow for day 1 .Though I was a few times in Finland my Finnish is NON existing!
The Pre WWGC  and 18 m French Nationals had pretty miserable weather. Task length for the women; 178 km.
12 from the 38 girls finished!!! German Sabrina Vogt from Germany and UK pilot Elisabeth Sparrow were the best gaining 311 and 310 points for the day.
Best French girl, as it is also the French Nationals for women was Celine Gantie in Pegase.
The 18 m. pilots got a task from 209.6 km. and NOBODY finished! Best distance was 115 km. followed by 76.3.Still a week to go!!!
Task for today in 18 m. class; 224 km. The women got 208.5 km. on ” their plate.”

Also a one-day-competition yesterday in Holland called Amstelglide with a real Regatta start! On Friday organizers were still worried about the weather and asked for alternatives if the day would not be good enough. No worries,  it turned out to be a nice , no a very nice day.[see picture and…a 523 km. flight was even flown in Holland]  About 58 pilots in 4 classes were launched from Soesterberg the “home” from the Amsterdam Soaring Club. The preliminary results in 20 m. say that Steven Huiskes, who flew together with his dad in the Duo Discus XLT,  won with 2.42.49 over 253 km., which means Steven is “good” and ready for Uvalde as youngest participant from the Dutch team. He finished just before Wim Akkermans [ partner from Sofie making the picture below] who flew the ARCUS with 2.42.52. What about that!!!!!????
Another young talented pilot is Jeroen Jennen from Belgium . He flew the 258 km. with a speed of 89.2 km. /ph. winning in the st/15 m. class.

 
Picture from Jeroen Jennen and the LS 8, via FB ; courtesy  Sofie Huybreckx

By the way ELY had fantastic weather yesterday and with a declared 3 TP 1000 km. in an ASW 27 , Ramy Yanetz topped the OLC list.

Last but not least; One of the few hang glider pilots I  personally met  is Jonny Durand.[Australia]  Now I saw that on July 3 he flew together with an American mate , Dustin Martin, a new word record in TEXAS,[ the Zapata -area] : 760 km. in 11 hours-plus. The old record was just over 700 km. and set in 2011 by an Austrian pilot. Amazing to “hang” for so many hours!!! Everybody who wished, could follow the attempt on a tracking system. The dream was to fly 800 km. but that will happen one day as well.
The loggers are going to say within days, who in fact has the real new World record. It’s still NOT confirmed now but it seems Jonny said that Dustin passed over him and landed a few km. further. We will patiently wait.

Enough updates, too much happening, so CU on Wednesday, cheers Ritz

Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday July 4 2012

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Bert jr. and Tijl before the start of the 1000 km and after.
Pictures courtesy Schmelzer brothers.

Back on line after 4 days of more or less desperate trying to find out what was wrong. I “lost ” the “visual”  toolbar, but Bill in the USA “found it back” . What about that for skills and co-operation between Holland [soaring.eu] and the USA. [soaringcafe.com]
With the help of SKYPE, or not as it failed all the time , a mobile phone and chat’s , it is sorted out. Bill knows SO much more about WordPress then I do , but then …I am just a blogger and like to write…. not to know too much about the background of the system.
Looking forward to meet Bill and Rand. We “stepped'”  in our adventure/co-operation a while ago, only knowing we love to share soaringnews.
A bit ashamed I have to mention now too, that I never put a connection between the “Soaring- cafe Bill” and the Bill who won TWICE the 18 m. Nationals in the USA. So in a few weeks I will meet the editor/top pilot in Uvalde where he FLIES in 18m. class and writes about his flights and I do the rest.

What a great moment for all viewers when the  Soyuz capsule arrived safely at earth at 10.15 AM on Sunday. How fantastic that I could see in Alphen live-pictures from Kazachstan , even the capsule hanging on the 1 square km. parachute. Unbelievable !
What heroes those astronauts are and how “terrible “they look after arrival. Unbelievable that we can send people around the earth but have difficulties to get them out of a capsule. It went “like an oiled machine” they said, but it did n’t look too good to me. Lifting them under their arms….
Anyhow they are all sound an safe and Andre , to be honest looked best from the 3 . Felt really sorry for the American who seems to have fainted after pulling 9G and ” falling” still pretty hard on earth. Will be interesting to see how these astronauts will be in 25 years, if this trip has had any influence on them.
For now Andre mentioned he has to learn walking again after half a year without gravity.He also feels miserable and unsteady.But he should be perfect again on the 20thiest when he arrives back home in Holland. End of August he will be honoured by all Dutch people. The way he shared all news , gave us an inside look in the “rooms” of the space station and his many jobs, makes him a ” mate” for all Dutchies.

AND YES,….on the first of July they, the brothers Schmelzer flew their first 1000 km flight from Quarzazate. The weather had improved and both brothers Tijl in the back, had a very rewarding day with a difficult beginning.
Yesterday Bert jr. and sr. were up in the air for another 1000 km flight,  while Tijl took time to write to me and other friends. You can read that in my blog on www.soaringcafe.com A new series of pictures by Bert jr is here;
https://picasaweb.google.com/101367179377196465151/010720121100Km

 
Mum Hilde keeping the long wing, ridge flying and amazing landscape.

The day before on the last day of June, Bill Hill flew in his Discus 2 a 1000 as well from Moriarty with “truly awesome soaring weather”. Speed….163.90 km./h. What do you want more!? More 1000 km. flights??? Possible as they were also flown from Ely.Best picture I have from Ely I received from Daan Pare a few years ago; REAL RAIN!!!

Uvalde is going to live more now. On FB I heard from Kiki, [Jackie Clerbaux] that he will be there as well as coach of the Italian team. Also Terry Cubley from Australia, will be there, it looks like ONE BIG reunion! I wonder how many people would put their hands up when asked if they were there in 1991.
Got some dinner invitations already now, one from a Dutch soaring-friend  [we go 40 years back] living in Canada for years and I have not seen him for those 40 or more years.
Goal from soaring comps; make and keep friendships all over the world. For me this worked more then GOOD!!!!!!!
The South African team is nearly ready to go and on FB I found their itinerary, and…as a lot are not linked to FB , here it is;
—“Since the Worlds are just around the corner, I thought we should give you an idea when our pilots and crews will be leaving SA and heading to the States. The travel plans look more or less like this: AP will be the first to head off on the 12th of July, followed closely by Attie and Uys on the 16th. Then it will be Bossie and Ronald heading off on the 19th and Mark and Gunter are leaving a day later on the 20th. Laurens is leaving SA on the 23rd and Oscar, Carol and Richard on the 24th. So that leaves Stephan who will be on his way on the 27th. Eventually we will all meet up in Uvalde!—“

Issoudun in France is very busy this beginning of July  with several comps in one go!
There is the French Women Nationals, with 20 participants and with 17 international invited guests. Busy ,busy….. but next year the 7^th WWGC will be held in Issoudun, from June 29-July 2013, so practice is important , so you can call  this  a PRE WWGC.[July 7-14]
The 18 m. Nationals ,with 28 French pilots and  also with a max of 8  invited guests and still 2 on a waiting list.
Further on the  yearly International competition  this time the 37^th edition ,[July 3 till 14], will be held and the 6^th Coupe Libelle.
 Even guests as Brian Spreckley [Libelle] , Dick Bradley, [South Africa]  Chief steward in Uvalde  and daughter Jennifer [ sharing a Pegase] , as well as Natasja van der Neut the comps director from the Dutch Nationals are in France to enjoy some good soaring from a well known place with great conditions and infra- structure!
Issoudun is like Bailleau very popular by Dutch pilots who like to fly comps and the practise days had good weather with 500 km. flights!

 Natasja, ready to go for it, with crew Hans[meteo at all Dutch Nationals I was involved in ] and Ronald [ involved in the same comps]

As said the 37th edition of Issoudun started yesterday. In standard class former WGC champion in Benalla, Brian Spreckley won the day over 198 km. Dick {Richard} and Jennifer Bradley, sharing the Pegase were 6th.
In open class the long time experience from Dutch pilots was clear . 2 Dutchies on spot 1 [Ronald Kaay] and 2 [Antoon Poortman] both  flying a duo discus XL. Natasja was 10th.

For ALL the news from the first flight FULL of water from the CONCORDIA, 800 kg. and still not yet the max starting weight, you best read the news in soaring cafe from Bill, who was there that day!

That’s it for today. In soaringcafe on sunday the latest private news from Tijl about Quarzazate. Scores from Issoudun and tasks on www.soaringspot.com.
You are up to date, cheers Ritz

Alphen aan den Rijn     Sunday july 1 2012

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July started today and in 28 days I will be in Uvalde. June by the way was , weatherwise a pretty miserable month in Holland. Also on the OLC not ONE day showed  over 2000 flights , while in May we could see a few. Only 4 days with over 1000 flights meaning world wide the weather was less good for soaring then in May.

It seems according to  weather-online that we had here in Holland, 167 sun hours instead of the average 194 and more rain 100 ml. instead of the average 68.

Time to move soon to hot Texas!

Uvalde line up in 2011! picture from their site!

The last report from the EUROGLIDE organizers on Thursday was: —“19:45 – Resume: M1, JB and ZZ finished by car with enough credits (they think)

<p>18:25 – ZZ landed at Grefrath 14.14Z. Will he be the first in the Gliders-class? He has enough credits. Depends on JB and M1, they landed out about 30km from Malden.em>