27-01-2021……Post 1.249!
With only 4 day’s to go the 67th Argentinian Multi Class Nationals continued from Chavez when I left you, last Wednesday.
NOT the best Argentinian weather till then!
So on the 20thiest of January they started again…AND 3 days in a row. Unfortunately the last day had to be cancelled for open and 15m..
Exciting days they were!!!
Open class last 3 flying days;
Task 9 ..2 hour AAT; Raul Garda flew 152 km in his JS 3 in time 2.04.
Task 10 was 215 km. and flown by all 15 who started.
115 km./h was the best speed in a 22.9 m Nimbus 3 by Juan Vastik. The runner up in an LS 8 flew 107 km./h.
Task 11 with 266 km. was quite a difficult one. Only 2 pilots finished and Damian [Goldenzweig] won the day and gained 800 points, good enough to climb from 5 to 3 overall!!!!The Nimbus 3 just missed out on 6 km , was 3d but did a good job over the last 2 days; being runner up.
6 Out of 12 days and not one day showed 1000 points to win..
So the open class ARGENTINIAN CHAMPION, with pretty close scores is ;
1. Juan P. Verdura in Ventus 2CM with 3.159 points.
2. Juan Vastik in Nimbus 3 /22.9 m. with 3.164 p.
3. Damian Goldenzweig in Ventus 2 CM with 3.067 p.
15 m. class;
Task 9; 2 hour AAT. Best distance combined with time;151 km in 1.59.
Task 10 ;216 km. flown by all 20 who started!!! In this class 14 x an ASW 20 …. 11 were on top before a Duo Discus.
Task 11 with 239 km. had NO FINISHERS!!! But the best distance was 163 km. flown by 2 for 306 points. The LS 6 was 3d for 284 points for 153 km.
So the final scores after 6 out of 12 days and 15m Argentinian National Champion;
1. Martin Darrain in ASW 20 with 3.278 points. He won task 2 and 3.
2. Lucas Goldenzweig in ASW 20 with 3.184 p.
3. Maximilianol Luengo in ASW 20 with 3.163. 5 points more than Mauricio Delfabro.
St. Class;
Task 9 ; 224 km. flown by 21 from the 24 who started.
Task 10; 261 km. …and also in this class only 2 finishers, both got 200 points more than the not-finishers!
12x an LS 4 in this class.
Task 11; 2 hour AAT so extra day for this class. 13 From 23 flew the task, so worthwhile to have the day.
“Terrible ” last day for Gonzalo Riera in his LS 4 .On the last days he was on spot 3 overall but on the very last day he was “out” loosing more than 200 points. So Juan Bonelli in his LS 4, who was 4th for the day, moved up from 5 to 3.
St. Class National National champion after 6 out of 12 days.
1. Nicolas Verdura in St Jantar 2 with 3.843 points.
2. Dino Ghioni in LS4 with 3.790 p.
3. Juan Bonelli in LS 4 with 3.689 p.
As shared by CLUB DE PLANEADORES OTTO BALLOD
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South Africa started with the WESTERN CAPE REGIONALS flown from Worcester, with a practice day on January 23 and continuing till January 30.
3 Classes ; Club, [5 pilots] ,open [16 gliders some with 2 pilots] and 15 m.[4 pilots]
“a Worcester magic day – wave all the way to Renosterhoek“
Shared by Sven Olivier
I will concentrate on the open class.
Task 1 was a set task from 224 km. Due to the HIGH speed he flew around the TP’s ….152 km./h….daily winner Marcus Geisen from Germany won , but only “got” 389 points. Marcus flies the ARCUS M with Dawid Pretorius this day; normally he shares the glider with Karin [Wiesenthal] his wife. The entire family Wiesenthal visited us in Tocumwal, some of them, for many years.
More 2 seaters as Nicolas Bennett [USA] and John Coutts [ N.Z. but living in S.A. already for years] fly an Arcus M and Oscar Goudriaan their ASG 32 MI….2 Duo Discus fly as well.
Laurens and Uys fly the JS 3.
15 Pilots started in the end and the slowest “with respect” flew 119 km./h in the Duo Discus.
As shared by Sven Olivier
Task 2 showed 507 km.…. so the real South African weather! And what speed!!!! The first 12 pilots flew with 150 km./h or more. The best , Andreas Spielmann from Switzerland, with 165 km./h.in the JS 3.
Winner in the ARCUS M was Nicolas and John; 1000 points for their speed of 163 .81 km./h.
Karin back in the front seat and Marcus were 4th and Oscar in the ASG 32MI 3d.
One Duo was out after 300 km. A pity!
Looking at the speed of 15 m. class;138 km./h over 441 km and in club 119 km./h over 156 km. GOOD DAY!!!
Task 3; 314 km. UNBELIEVABLE SPEED!!!!!Certainly during a competition. Uys flew around in his own JS 3 with a speed of 185.72 km./h.….WOW!!! THAT IS FAST!!![478 points] Back after 1 hour and 41 minutes.
I had to look 3 times to see if I had seen it correctly!!
Nick and John in their ARCUS were runner up with 173 km./h.[471 points]
Nick, who gets coaching from John mentioned; “A real drag race“.
Looking at club, great effort as well; Cameron in a St.Cirrus with a speed of 132 km./h. over 179 km…….Colin in ASTIRCS with 126 km./h ….Kevin in DG 400/17 m with 133 km./h …
In 15 m. they flew 256.55 km. and I mention all 4 pilots ;
Findlay Smith with 158.77 km./h in 15 m. Ventus B…..Wilhelm Moosehuus in MOSQUITO with 156 km./h…..Tokkie Carstens in LS4 with 139 km./h and Martin Lessle in 15m. Ventus CM with 130 km./h!
As shared by Rudolph Scharneck
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Tuggie Bruce [Wilson] mentioned last Friday: ” Mid downwind RW 27 R Tocumwal in the mighty ROZ.
Ingo just launched in XX in what promises to be a great gliding day.”
Ingo [Renner] ,…not the youngest anymore but still going strong….indeed took his XX [Discus ] for a ride from Tocumwal. A 700 k triangle was the result!!!Topping that days OLC list.
Bernie Sizer flew in his PIK 20 a distance of 710 km. TOP!!
Lot’s of good flights down under. On Sunday John flew from Tocumwal 850 km [750 FAI triangle] in his JS 1 C/21 m. and he topped the OLC list again.
BUT THE FLIGHT LAST WEEK WAS THE ONE FROM KLAUS OHLMANN.
Not even so much the distance …1,285 km…..as the flight over water from France[Serres La Batie] to Corsica and Sardinia!!! Very high wave [ over 6000 m] BUT with a dip[570 m MSL] in lift . Scary!
But the Stemme is a good plane and Klaus of course one of the best pilots to do such things.
Have a look at his epic flight on the OLC. SPECTECULAR!!!
“Exploring the waves… The airmass was much more humid than in the forecasts. High clouds in my way to go to the lift. Airbrakes out to go under the stratosclouds.
Low ridge soaring with a lot of wind. Had to catch the wave from the bottom. South of Figari towering cumulus with tops higher than 6000 m and rain below.
And Cagliary did not allow to land there at first. Thirty minutes later they allowed me, but it was too late; Anyway, great experience.”
So to see an outlanding.
On January 23,24,25 and 26 AUSTRALIA -day they flew a long-weekend- Grand Prix in Lake Keepit.
On all the 4 days pilots could fly and mostly around 300 km.
A lot of the people I got to know during the WWGC were flying now.
Kerry was so kind to share a picture of the lake, which was nearly dry last year during the WWGC, but pretty “full” now with green grass around it.
As shared by Kerrie Claffey.
And to finish….Bill is not only busy with my blog AND his bees, [http://blossomwoodhoney.com/ ], but he is also bringing the soaringcafe articles about Dick Butler’s CONCORDIA to another site;
“I have also started to migrate Dick Butler’s content off of SoaringCafe.com to, https://concordia-sailplane.com/ which I will make live today. I have a few more things to do but for now it is ready for everyone to enjoy. DB will likely provide some updates to the site which I will help him with. I’ll let you know when he does that.”
I am sure a lot of people will be interested in new news and reading again the stories from a few years ago.
I will let you know when I know!!!!
As shared by Blossomwood Honey
As said AUSTRALIA day on January 26…hope my mates had a good one. Love this wonderful picture. When I stayed in Sydney I was on Lavendel bay, looking to this epic building and the old bridge.
It was the first time the iconic structure has been decorated with an Indigenous artwork on January 26.
About the artwork: http://9Soci.al/vUQe50Di1a3
As shared by 9 News
CU next week.
Cheers Ritz
Just “found” more fabulous colors this time from an impressive sunset in New Zealand as seen by Geoff Soper.
Geoff Soper