Alphen aan den Rijn    Wedenesday July 28 2011      ritzdeluy@hotmail.com 

Finally better weather!!!!! Yesterday morning the sun was shinning at Wasserkuppe after 2 scrubbed days and in Nitra they looked hopefully at less dark skies then the days before and finally no rain. As they let pilots launch in non-soarable circumstances earlier, they had to launch for sure yesterday.
And yes…they flew, still marginal conditions but flyable as most pilots finished. 3 outlandings in club class and the winner got 346 points.After 3 days a standard Libelle, standard cirrus and standard jantar on top. Best total score 1182 points.
In standard class 8 outlandings and 338 points for the 2 daily winners from Germany. Sebastian lost 39 points.
In the 2 seater class 382 points for the winners from Poland in their ARCUS. But after 3 days the Czech Duo discus is on spot 1 total. 
Difficult circumstances today as well with early fog, and rain predicted for the afternoon.
Some do not real believe in day 4.

Wasserkuppe started with a 124 km race after a regatta start on Monday. David Jansen from Australia had 2 outlandings before , one on the last practise day and one on day 1 when the day was sacrubbed later. This first day HE was the one who got the 10 points!
Didier Hauss from France had 8 points.
Yesterday they flew after the regatta start 123 km. and this time German pilot Uli Schwenk was the best. So after 2 days the most consistent pilot Giorgio Galetto from Italy is on spot 1 with 14 points with David and Didier following him.For today a new 125 km is on the menu for the pilots , but the weather seems not too good, with early rain/drizzle.

In Pociunai they prepare for the 16th EGC for the big ships starting this weekend.And…the weather is glorious if you compare it with Nitra. But they have had their first thunderstorms as well.

More news later as 2 little ones do not really help to concentrate.
Cheers Ritz maybe till Thursday evening or Friday morning.