Post 1.497 on May 15 2024
Dutch Nationals at TERLET
9 May 2024 – 18 May 2024
In one year , May 2025, the FAI SGP will be flown in The Netherlands from Terlet and I hope they have the same good weather as till now. Many pilots are interested. Also from Belgium and Germany.
You might have seen, that I published a blog last Sunday. TOO many words..it’s not interesting for you readers ,so a new blog today with the rest of the Dutch Nationals AND the Danish.
Sunday May 12; Task 4
club; 318.24 km…it turned out not to be a speed day ,but a distance day. Thies flew most kilometers; 241.18 and that was really good ,when you look at the next best distances; 224 [Robin] and 219 [Alexander] the rest was Under 200 km. BUT,..all 9 tried hard!!!
18m; 307.05 km…4 finishers in this class. Steven, Hadriaan, Piet and Jeroen. I don’t know Piet but he did well!!!He flies a DG 808b and was equal runner up with Hadriaan.
The others fly ECG’s and WGC’s and you more or less expect good results.
Daily points for these 4 pilots; 534, 531×2 and 522, the rest , among them real good pilots had less than 400 points.
All 14 started and 10 finished.
open; 299.38 km….3 finishers in EB 29R [Francois] Nimbus 4DM Marco and Ronald] a JS1C21m. [Jaap Horsten] Speed from Francois; 81.15 km yes in the EB, meaning a real tough and challenging day!!!!!
REAL WORK in the office.
All 9 started.
combi; 342.23 km…NO FINISHERS. 295.64 km was the best distance by van Breemen & Danen for 451 p.
All 12 started!
Monday May 13. Task 5 ONLY for 18 m and open due to predicted thunderstorms and hail.
18 m; 158.86 km….Steven [Raimond] is doing so well in his new glider the AS33es. He won the day 95.08 km./h whilst runner up Steven [Huiskes] in Ventus 2CXT, flew around with 85.99 km./h. Not many points to gain or win; 268 for the winner and 115 for number 13 and 14 [equal] meaning they all started and finished.
Open; 174.17 km.…Francois in the EB won with 273 points and the number 9 had 188 points. All in this class flew and finished.
Tuesday May 14;it’s already a valid competition as 4 days have been flown.
warm, with up to 28 dgr. C , but with a forecast of local thunderstorms.
They arrived later in the day in the East of the Netherlands and here in the SE at 5.30 PM. Result; flooding in little towns, as the storm STAYED ABOVE them.
Club; 243.14 km….All 9 started and except for 1 , finished.Robin [Smit] won the day; 95.95 km./h.
18 m; 272.35 km…with 123.86 km./h. Steven [Huiskes] won the day just ahead of Steven. [Raimond] 123,86 for 123.09.
All 14 started, 1 was out and 1 by an airspace problem.
open; 309.34 km….The EB from Francois was clearly faster; 126.88 km.h Runner up Hans[Biesters] in a JS1c/21 m flew around with 118.35 and the NIMBUS 4DM with 112.99 km./h.
All 9 started and finished.
combi; 257.05 km….3x an LS8 in the top and Belgian pilot Tom[Conings] flew with 103 km./h. Robbie [Seton] Dutch but flying for years already at the Keiheuvel in Belgium was runner up with 100 km./h.
11 started and 1 did not finish.
Task 7 for each class today; club; 121.81 km….18 m; 158.99 km….open; 173.31 km and combi; 134.31 km
BUT,..another day with possible thunderstorms and a huge difference in temperature between 27 up N and under the showers here,in the SE 18. Normally it’s the other way around.
Already 6/7 out of 7 days ….that is, if they really fly today .WOW….NOT BAD….GOOD!
On my FB site this picture showed up as a memory of 14 years ago. The organizing team in 2010!!! I was the editor that year ,of course with writing stuff and camera in my hands.Nice to share!
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The 2024 Danish Championships
9 May 2024 – 19 May 2024 from Arnborg
These Nationals are flown in 5 classes.
They had NO TASK on May 9 , on May 10 task 1 was cancelled
May 11 task 3;
club; 317.80 km...18 in this class started and 3 were out. Daily winner Jan Walther Andersen in ASW 20 WL and Uffe Edslev in LS 4,got both 1000 points!!! Speed 86.72 and 82.46 km./h.
Handicap for ASW 20 is 1.114 and for LS 4 1.059.
Standard; 300.56 km..…8 in this class and 2 were out. Kevin Kjær Andersen in LS 8 was the daily best with 96.27 km./h.
15 m; 303.56 km…….Rasmus Ørskov in a JS 3 won the 1000 points ; 95.56 km./h. Good to see Henrik is flying too. I follow Jan from club and Henrik as well as Rasmus already for a long time.
10 Started AND finished.
18 m; 313.42 km….20 in this class and also here a few I know from comps. Peter Eriksen [AS 33es] won and Arne Boye Muller [JS3 jet] was runner up. ….The only 2 flying over 100 km./h. Only 1 was out and Good “old” Stig Oye in a Ventus 3m and still going strong was 12th.
2-seaters; 290.13 km…..Hans Christian Hoeck in ARCUS M was the daily winner and the only 1 flying over 100 km./h.
All 13 started and finished.
May 12; task 3/4. a bit of a weird day with many “outs”.
Club; 288.21 km….. Morten Hoeck Petersen in a Glasfluegel 304 won the 1000 points. Uffe was runner up and Jan on spot 3.
ONLY 8 from 18 finished!!!
standard; 372.11 km….NO finishers. Filip Bojanowski had the best distance as it turned out a distance day and not a speed day.; 363 km,…nearly home! All starters flew more than 250 km.
15 m; 372.11 km….Finishers!!!! 3 from the 10 FINISHED!!!!Knud Møller Andersen in Ventus 2CT flew around with a speed of 66 km./h. Good on him. Rasmus finished as well as runner up and Morten Nørgaard was the number 3; 64 and 61 km.h.
18m; 371.44 km…. Only 19 started and 12 finished. Jan Hald in a Ventus 3T got the 1000 points. 29 more than Arne. Stig was 4th.
2-seaters; 323.85 km….Thomas Dantoft in a Duo Discus WL was the best; 77 km./h. The Arcus T was a tad faster with 80 km./h. but lost on handicap.
13 started and 8 finished.
May 13; only 2 classes got a task; 18 m and 2-seaters;
18m; 2 hour AAT...Another win for Arne,with 166.60 km. and a speed of 83.30 km./h.for 218 points. Only 3 from the 19 starters finished. Peter and Carsten belonged to the 3 finishers.
2-seaters; 2 hour AAT...NOBODY FINISHED, but the distance was giving up to 144 points.144 km. in a DUO Discus.
May 14;
Club; 2:30 AAT…Uffe Edslev …daily winner again, with 177.12 km and a speed of 61.43 km./h. Good, when you see that from 17 starters only 7 finished.
Standard; 2 hour AAT…Another Edslev this time LASSE inLS8neo, won with 166. 80 km in time 2.34. So tough for them as well.BUT,…from 8 6 finished.
15 m; 2 hour AAT…Knud Møller Andersen [Ventus 2CT] was daily winner with 199.49 km with 59.40 km./h.
10 started and 2 were out among them a potential winner of the championship Rasmus.
18m ; 229.26 km …..20 started and 10 were out. Among them Arne and Peter..ouch! Not too many points lost on a day like that; Arne “:got” 352 and Peter 326.
Jan Schmeltz Pedersen , daily winner, won the 533 points for a speed of 75.77 km./h Stig was “in”.
2-seaters; 212.67 km…… Sørensen & Sørensen did their best with a speed of 75 km./h. That means ,..they had to work hard for it.
No tasks yet.
Briefings are busy in Arnsborg.
More next Sunday or Monday as it is Pentecost weekend and I might go to Terlet on Saturday.
Cu most probably in the weekend.
Cheers Ritz.