FRIDAY THE 13TH !!!!!!!!! Avoid the black cat!!!!
8.30 AM;
As the Terminus Motel was the sponsor yesterday, we went to them for dinner. From the airfield there were 14 people in total, so we honored their sponsoring and we got a good meal!!!
Also yesterday …..news from JS.
“Today, the 12th of December, we celebrate the birth date of both the JS1 and the JS3!!!
Thirteen years ago, in 2006, the JS1 flew its maiden flight and exactly a decade later the JS3 flew its first flight.
Now in 2019, three years after the maiden flight of the JS3, we have test flown 76 JS3’s, handed over more than 60 of these to customers, and have up until serial number 97 in production.”
As shared by Jonker Sailplanes
Looking at the scores from yesterday,…in open/18m. the bunch coming in started at 2.33 and arrived back here within seconds/ minutes.
Peter Temple won the day in his ASG 29 just a tad before [119,94 km./h. for 119,99] from runner up Ray Stewart ,whilst Lumpy at 4 had 119.34.
So 4 JS 3 gliders on 2-3-4 and 5, for the day.
Don Woodward [ASG 29] started early at 1.52 but was still on spot 7 with Maddock on 6 in his Ventus 3M.
One out in this class after 318 km.[from the set 331]
In st. it was David Collins in an LS 4!!!! A good handicap [970] but still…
He won with 104.60 km./h and the runner up Allan Barnes had 100 km./h,
Lisa was 3d also with 100 km./h [ both fly LS 8] but unfortunately husband Peter was out after 102 km. and in scores that hurts!!![He got 116 from the 730 points]
In 15 m. David won as well but Tobias [Geiger] from Benalla was runner up with 110 km./h. in a Ventus 2A. Young James [Nugent] in an LS 3 was 3d.[106 km./h.]
No tasks yet for today, so CU a bit later.
Just read Adam’s message on FB:
“Day cancelled, shocked. I think it’s so we can fly through to the end without a required rest day? Wednesday is a long way away, but it looks big & fast, hopefully past it is great too!
If the above is correct, I don’t agree with it, there are points to be won & lost for many on a 5000′ windy (20kts) blue day like today. But it’s not my comp & I’m grateful not to be running it, so I still support their decision – have a good day everyone!
Checking it now!
INDEED THE DAY IS CANCELLED.
It feels cold and the wind last night was terrible.
Not so bad at the moment.But cold it is ,…I put my winter pullover from Holland on..
NO BRIEFING…….normally they do prize-giving and reflect on the day before. Well…. now the pilots all have full day to relax.
The reflection on yesterday by Adam.
I was one of the people who asked him why he did not win.
Today he was supposed to win a bottle of wine for me…Friday the 13th????
“Adam, why didn’t you win today? What happened?”, a comment I heard quite a few times this afternoon, strangely. I’m certainly humbled by the comments, thank you to all.
Funny game this one, but after a chat with Agata yesterday, I know I’m determined to be a champion. Today I had my worst placing in 24 months (7 comps) of competing in AUS, 10th & 98points off the leader & somehow feel dissapointed with my day/effort. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still pleased & thankful :)
So what went wrong? Effectively, nothing really, no gross errors were made during the task, some slow to core climbs on the 2nd leg, maybe one unlucky sinky glide on the 3rd, but nothing that others wouldn’t have done either. So ruling that out.
I lost the day at the start line, simple as that, I read the day slightly wrong, yet in a way, correctly – as I banked the points & still have a very strong position with potentially 8 more days to go..
Where I failed today, I dropped the ball with my inflight health (not enough lunch) & secondly, I didn’t talk out loud as I usually would, looking for reasons to stay, for reasons to leave. I basically out thought myself & left with too much confidence, rather than seeing the greater picture today.
Strange feeling to be disappointed with 10th & 98 points off the lead, but I still had fun, learnt more to better myself next flight & time :.
Still smiling, looking forward to the next race!”
Creative pilots here in Tocumwal
as shared by Kerrie
As shared by Kerrie.
12.30 PM;
Just cleaned the area around the grave of Dennis. It was a nice cool day to do so. Unfortunately all pictures failed so I have to go back.
In between Swiss Chris came to say hello and he and George are fiddling around with the instruments in the LS 1.
Taking the rest of the day off ……CU.
By the way; Pilots meeting tonight.
6 PM.
The Latest Gliding Australia is full of news about the WWGC.
I can add my news as we have the details now.
They added me to the media team, so I will co-operate with Sean Young the editor from Gliding Australia and Kimberly Olsen. I believe she is a photographer. I know Sean already from other comps.
Of course the 3 of us have to sit together first ,but I might just keep going with my blog, which pleases me.
More news later.
One point; The flag in the Gliding Australia is from Ukraine and definitely not from Luxembourg.
The Aussie team , those who are here, had a meeting today.
Noticed Ayala has arrived down under as well.
She is still on the list here for the last week.
The decision to NOT fly today was the only correct one!!!
It is clearing now , still very windy but the sun is shining again.