courtesy Swiss Chris.
Highest temperature for the day 35 dgr….lift up to 2.5/3m up to 2000 m. Blue as usual and a forecasted day with lift till relatively late.
Ingredients for a good day.
So tasks were set accordingly. A 5 hour AAT for 15 m. a racing task from 503 km. for 18 and open 526 with an earlier start of the launches at 12.30.
14 Tuggies were ready all strong Pawnees and the nice colorful “ugly ducky” by others called NEMO.
So another day!
15 m. 5 hour AAT; Their 3d flying day, so task 3 and another great one for Sebastian Kawa who managed to fly in his Diana 2 a distance of 530.7 km. in time 4.58.57, so 106.1 km.h on the ” clock.” He flew together with his team mate, same glider , about the same start time but just a fraction slower;Lucasz Grabowsky….984 for 982 points.
The 1000 points however were for good old Mac from Japan who flew 535.8 km. in time 4.58.6. He started 2 minutes later than Sebastian and Lucasz .
Mac and Akemi before the start of an for him great day.
Courtesy Swiss Chris.
as shared by Sebastian.
Bad day for young Matthew Scutter as he out-landed after 66 km. I admire Matthew for his view on soaring ,such a wise young man and full of self-mockery as you can see :“‘fraid I cooked it, 60k short. Was having a great day, but the gaggle got a 7kt climb just ahead that I missed. Was flying pretty well all the way up until I wasn’t.”
As shared by Matthew a huge TALENT in soaring.
On the remark from the CD from the JWGC in Narromine, Adam Webb, who mentioned his nice legs, he straight away answered; ” Probably would have got home if I’d shaved them.”
Bad day as well for the Jonker brothers both landing out.” unfortunately Uys & Attie have outlanded safely. So crew now getting organised to retrieve them.”
Uys ready to go. and…. TC Carol helping out.
As shared by Swiss Chris.
18 m… 503 km;task 4….. Was it a bad day for Aussie team member Matthew , it turned out to be a good day for Peter Temple. He won with a speed of 111 km./h . 1000 points for him and 3 less for German pilot Matthias. First 3 places for ASG 29, as Tom Claffey was on spot 3.
Good day for Belgian pilot Manu Litt who was 5th together with Derren Francis from the UK.
The scores in this class are so close, very exciting.
The first 15 pilots are between 3507 points [15] and 3788 [Matthias on spot 1]
open 526.5 km.; Task 5…..Was it a good day for Aussie Peter in 18 m. it was not a good day for Bruce Taylor who was “out” after 472 km. A few more “out’s” as Italian pilot Ricardo and Dutch pilot Mark just stranded 10 k out!! What a pity, they had to pull the engine!
Winners of the day, yes 2 winners with 1000 points , this time European pilots from Austria Sebastian Eder [EB 29] and from Italy Alberto Sironi in the Quintus. Both flew with 120.4 km./h round the track . German toppers Michael and Tassilo flew with 119 km./h.
Chinese pilot Peng Du did not finish but flew 94.5 km. and all scores are preliminary!
Dutch pilot Jeroen was happy,”finally behind NEMO”, nice and noisy…..
As shared by Jeroen.
That this whole world of soaring is ONE big family I have said many times before. Great to see that Attie from Jonkers helped Swiss Chris ,when his ASW 27 flown by Fridolin was damaged on an aileron.
” A small inattention was enough not to see the wing go down behind the car and the outermost part of the aileron broke. Thanks to the Jonkers team and especially Atti, who assessed the damage and checked it after I fixed it yesterday afternoon and let it cure over night. Thanks heaps for carbon, resin, micro balloon, cotton flakes and double sided adhesive tape.”
As shared by Swiss Chris.
And an ASG 29 was damaged; “The best part is that Tilo and Max from Schempp supervised/helped with this repair on a Schleicher glider.”
For those who are interested here is a link to one of the papers about the news on the incident. As far as I know it is not the ankle but the shinbone which is broken from Michael.
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/4404235/gliders-crash-over-yerong-creek-photos/?cs=147
Another busy day for the tuggies.
Courtesy Swiss Chris.
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55th Nationals in Chile
Briefing on the very last day.
It turned out that January 14 was the last day. So the overall scores are;
CHAMPION Carlos with 6924 after 8 days of soaring and Rene with 6494 points. Congratulations, a nice comp!!
All pilots together.
As shared by Angel Cassado
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Short blog today.
Off to Amsterdam soon.
More tomorrow.
Ritz