Post 1.495 on May 8 2024

31thiest KLIX competition
26 April 2024 – 4 May 2024

They continued on Wednesday ,after I published my blog.So here we go again….
Only 1 class had the privilege of flying that day; May 1…only 2-seaters.
Task 6;
2-Seaters; 2.45 AAT…..My Dutch mates , Van Nes & de Boer, Hadriaan and Ronald, “used” the day well by winning in their DUO DISCUS XLT/FES; 259 km/ 94.33 km./h.
ALL 27 pilots STARTED and FINISHED!!!!!

May 2; definitely better weather …. they flew in all 4 classes. But,.. at places,….wind up to 50 k /h.
Task 7;
18m; 3.15 AAT……31 started and 27 finished. To win the day with 395 km. with a speed of 121.54 km./h you needed a NIMBUS 4D. Team Wilken / Swagemakers did so for 921 points.
2 ASH 25’s followed and the first 18 m class glider was the ASG 29 from Swedish pilot Peter Johansson.
Start times between 13.08 and 13.41.
2-seaters; 2.45 AAT....27 started ,22 finished. ASG 32 MI -day as they were on spot 1 and 2. Scheffe & Losse won the day with 324.44 km with a speed of 114.21 km./h which was about 8 km./h faster than the runners up [299.94 km/2.46.28]
The DUO from Hadriaan and Ronald was 8th for the day, but they still lead overall in this class.
In the end it turned out that this was their last flying day.
standard; 345 AAT.…17 started and 15 finished. An Italian daily winner; Lorenzo Monti in a LAK 19.Good on him. 367 km /96.75 km./h.
Chrissie and Sabrina were on spot 4 and 6, starting together but with many more pilots at 13.02.
It turned out to be their last flying day.
Club; 2 hour AAT..…Top 3, Germany, Italy and Sweden….Julius Lübstorf won in an LS 3A and moved up from spot 7 overall to 2. Food day for him. Alessandro in a Discus was runner up, whilst Samuel in a MOSQUITO B was 3d.
After 7 tasks the Italians are on spot 1, 6-7-8- and 10 overall.
26 started and 19 finished.

May 3; only 1 class flew….. CLUB. A fday with less wind but with thunderstorms and rain.
task 8; 2 hour AAT…..very marginal day with 28 starters and 3 finishers. Marcus Dawert in a DG 300 was the daily winner and moved up from 4 to 2 overall.
He was followed by 2 Polish pilots in a Pegase and SZD 55.
With 1 more day to go Alessandro leads before Marcus and Julius; 3.070…3.011 and 2.950.
Everything is still possible on this last day when the weather co-operates.

May 4; very last day!! Only 2 classes fly and YES club is one of them. They tried hard, but…..
Task 9 for 18m; 233.65 km….CANCELLED
Task 9 for CLUB; 141.61 km….CANCELLED

Overall scores ;
18 m after 9 task [5 flying days];
1. Andreas Kühl from Germany in JS 3 with 3,795 points
2. Dirk Windmueller from Germany in AS33es with 3.780 points.
3. Steven Raimond from The Netherlands in AS33es with 3.742 points.

Overall scores 2 seaters after 7 tasks [5 flying days] ;
1. Van Nes & de Boer from The Netherlands in DUO DISCUS XLT with 3,256 points.
2. Tom Jørgensen from Denmark in ARCUS E/M/T with 2.927 points.
3. Scheffe & Losse from Germany in ASG 32MI with 2.921 points…..6 points ONLY.
And as they only missed out on 10 points on number 3; Schmied & Becker in DUO DISCUS.[2.911]

Overall scores STANDARD after 7 tasks [5 flying days] ;
1. Janne Nord from Sweden in Discus 2T with 4,045 points,…. a very clear winner!!!
2. Christian Lampert from Germany in Discus 2A with 3,692 points.
3. Poul Kim Larsen from Denmark in LS 8T with 3,682 points.

Overall scores CLUB after 9 tasks on 5 flying days;
1. Alessandro Bassalti from Italy in Discus a/b/cs with 3.070 points.
2. Marcus Dawert from Germany in DG 300 with 3.011 points.
3.  Julius Lübstorf from Germany in LS3a with 2.950 points.

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In Germany they continued with another very interesting competition the one close to the Schempp-Hirth business; Kirchheim Teck; THE HAHNWEIDE.

56th International Hahnweide competition.
Between May 4 and 11 another 93 pilots will participate in 4 classes.

Seventy2one keep a blog and here is their first news;
“The first day of Hahnweide 2024 is finally here and the anticipation is building as the grid is set and ready for the initial launch. Team Schwenk, Uli and Joachim will be taking to the skies today ,while Keith takes some time to recover from jet lag.
The forecast looks promising after the next couple of days when a few showers are expected to pass through.The last half of the competition is forecast for clearer skies and better flying conditions.“

Saturday May 4; Remembrance day here in The Netherlands.
Base ; 1700 m.
15 m; 2.30 AAT.…22 in this class from 4 different countries. 4 Discus gliders in the top 4. Daily winner; Jannis Däuble in Discus 2CT. [237.22 km. / 93.40 km./h] Runner up from the UK; Howard Jones; 251 km/.91.56 km./h. Sebastian Naegel was 3d. I know him from his junior time.
All 22 started and 4 were out. The French fly with 9 in this class.
18m; 2.30 AAT….39 pilots and a few former world champions from 10 different countries. Mario Kiessling [Germany] was the daily best with 270.90 km/ 103.84 km./h. Runners up from the UK, Russell Cheetham and Pete Harvey, missing out on 10 and 17 daily points.
36 started and 9 were “out”….. Among them Italian toppers Stefano Ghiorzo and Thomas Gostner.
open: 2 hour AAT….12 pilots , a few REALLY good ones!!!! 5 EB’s in different figuration, 4 JS 1 c/21 m, ASH 31Mi/21m, the Eta and an ASH 25Mi.
All 12 started and the EB 29DR with Swedish pilot Jim Acketoft was the daily best;237.50 km/ 113.76 km./h. German pilots Markus Frank and Holger Karow both in the EB were on spot 2 and 3. Markus started at 14.31 so rather late and Holger at 13.56. Last departure was at 15.21.
2-seaters; 2 hour AAT….20 pilots and several WGC participants.All 20 started and finished!!!! Except for an HP 304 M, Duo Discus and AS( 32. ALL gliders are and ARCUS M or T.
Daily winners Sommer/Gall and with equal points Bouderlique/Depechy . Both 677 points for 239.70 km/ 109.34 km./h and 220.73 km/ 109.31 km./h

NO flying on Sunday May 5.

Monday; May 6. NO FLYING!!!

May 7; 18 m class flies!!!! Day 2 from 4,…not the best weather there unfortunately.
18m; 175 km….. but CANCELLED.

The better weather is definitely coming. I hope for a few good last days over there at the Hahnweide.
You can read it next Wednesday.

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FATRAGLIDE
Martin, Slovakia…..28 April 2024 – 7 May 2024

They were more blessed with the weather. A long time ago 2 pilots from Martin flew with us in Tocumwal, nice “blokes”. When we spoke about FATRAGLIDE, we found out that there were mountains; the TATRAS.
We Dutchies in Australia had no clue. Must have been end nineties.
Their slogan ; The mountains are calling!
They accepted 60 pilots and ..THEY GOT 60.

Yesterday was their last day, so I look back on what happened on 2 of the 3 class; Club and combi.
Club;
Task 1; 3 hour AAT…..27 started and 15 finished.Quite a lot forgot their PEV. But they had a winner too; Jozef Kozar in an LS1f; 244 km. speed 79.16 km./h. Tibot was 11th and HE visited us , I even believe twice.
Task 2; 2.30 AAT….24 started and only 4 did not finish. Julia won the day, good on her; Julia Walowska in a St Jantar; 239.85 km/ 94.32 km./h.
Task 3; 2.15 AAT....26 started and 4 did not finish. All starts around 2PM. Jan Horak in ASW 20 b was the daily winner.
Task 4; 2 hour AAT….Martin Sabla [ASW 20] was the lucky daily winner; 210 km with a speed of just over 100 km./h The only pilot with a speed over 100 km./h.
Task 5; 2 hour AAT…..a 2d daily win for Jozef Kozar.191.60km/ 89.88 km./h.
23 started and 10 finished
After all the “hard work” the pilots did not fly on May3 . NO TASK.
Task 6; 368.34 km racing task. A 1000 points-day!!!!Best speed 102 km./h for 2 pilots; Simon Siska in ASW 24WL and Milan Surovcík Jr; 20 points difference. Tibor [ASW20c] was 3d!
On May 5; NO TASK.
Task 7; 2 hour AAT….Simon and Milan-day again. ….won by Simon in his ASW 24 with 210 km. / 103/41 km./h. and Milan missed out on 8 points this day.’ 210 /103. 71 km./h.
They are on spot 2 and 3 overall ,as on spot 1 it is Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55, a very constant pilot flying himself except for 1 day [10th] in the top 5.,,,but no daily win.
On May 7 NO TASK.

Overall scores after 7 out of 10 days.
1. Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55 with 4,689 points.
2. Milan Surovcik Jr. in ASW 20 with 4,527 points.
3. Simon Siska in ASW 24 WL with 4,486 points.

Combi class;
Task 1….3 hour AAT.…28 started and 3 did not finish. Tibor Noga in Ventus 2c won the day; 311 km/ 103.70 km./h.
Task 2; 3 hour AAT.…28 started/24 finished. Milos Srank in ASG 29 won; 322.82 km/ 106.42 km./h.
Task 3; 272.04 km…a racing task …all 28 started again and 22 finished. Marek Straka was the daily winner in Ventus 2CXT; 107.7 km./h.
Task 4; 2.15 AAT.…Vaclav Hruza flying a HpH 304MS Shark 18m 600 kg was the daily best and Pavol Cerny, the only name with Tibor, I know from all these pilots , was runner up in the same glider.519 and 511 points.
All 28 started and only 2 did not finish.
Task 5; 2 hour AAT....won by Pavol Cerny with 191.53 km/95.77 km./h.
On May 3 NO TASK.
Task 6; 435.27 km….nice racing task for the pilots. Pavol won again and he was quite a bit faster than the runner up Roman Petro in a DG 1000T; 111.13 km./h for 101.81 km./h. Only 4 pilots flew over 100 km./h.
25 started the day and ONLY 7 finished ,some were close.
Task 7; 2 hour AAT....Marek Pechanec in JS3 RES won the day; 252 km/ 124.63. Clearly the best as the runner up flew 238,52 km/119.26 km./h in JS1BTJ.
On May 7 NO TASK.

Overall scores after 7 out of 10 days;
1. Pavol Cerny in HpH 304MS Shark 18m 600 kg with 4,173 points.
2. Marek Pechanec in JS3 RES 18m with 4,070 points
3. Branislav Jesensky in JS1-C TJ 21 with 3,711 points.

The JUNIOR CLASS had 10 pilots and was won by Wiktor Czubski in SZD 55.

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Last week I showed a picture from a glider hanging “nicely” in a tree, after a misjudged, “just that much” miss, ” a dozen meters away from the border of the field” by hitting with a wing the tree, for a soft arrival in it.
Here is how they got it out and it still looks pretty OK.

—–Here in The Netherlands we had some great skies certainly on Friday may 3. Look on these pictures from Arjan at Terlet; CU’s changed in CB’s.
All gliders were in time in the hangar or trailer.

–—One of the great glider pilots , an outstanding person in the Dutch gliding world , passed away on April 25 , age 89.
Frits Seijffert was also known as TC at several WGC’s. [Marfa, Yugo Slavia] His son Bas is a top glider pilot nowadays.
Frits was a very likeable guy, you could only like him. I know him as some kind of soaring-hero, as he was the generation just before us, very involved, specially in competition flying. We looked up at them!
I am sure also a lot of my older international readers know him.
When Frits was a member of the Delft Student Aeroclub [DSA] , I was a member of the ZES, gliding club from students from Eindhoven. We had some contact, but getting older we met at more comps.
R.I.P. dear FRITS.

Last year I was still talking to him during the DUTCH NATIONALS, he was pretty fragile then.
These Nationals start tomorrow AND….the weather seems to co-operate! Sunday is also MOTHERDAY and it might be 27 dgr C here.

The first of the 12th FAI SGP events has started in Spain flown from the Santa Cilia Aerodrome. They fly in 15 m configuration.
Today is day 2 , they did not fly on day 1 MAY 5. Yesterday , RACE 1, 141.98 km with a regatta start at 14.35 was won by Max Seis from France [JS3 jet ] followed by Kevin Faur also from France in Ventus 2A..
More next week.

CU next Wednesday
Cheers Ritz