Post 1.416 on SATURDAY April 29 2023.

FCC GLIDING 2023

Only 2 days to go, when I left you and these prizes above, were for the winners.
Here you are with the last 2 days.
April 26, a very cold, challenging and technical day.
Club; 271.68 km....with a very late start [ 13.49], in his SZD 55, Polish pilot Wojciech Kubiak won the day. A difficult day as the speed even for club was [s]low;79.65 km./h.
2 Romanian pilots even started later at 14.11. One of them Tudor was 3d , his mate Alin, 12th.
Ferenc in his LS 4 was runner up and with 1 day to go ,he is in the running for the highest spot.
18 started and 13 finished!
15 m; 315.04 km.…All” the fiddling around”by Adam to get his new shared toy in the best condition, bear fruit. HE WON THE DAY!!!!! Only 2 pilots flew over 100 km. /h and that was Adam and Sebastian. Sebastian moved through the week, slowly up to the best overall spot.
After task 5 he was on spot 1 overall and on the penultimate day again. Effective flying.
Adam; “Never have I been so cold in all my life, -2 to -5°c for 5hrs today – this was my motivation to get home fast I think: Day Winner ” full story on Adam Woolley’s Gliding Adventures
For the last day he got ski-leggings from his Polish mate, Lucasz .
28 Started and 16 finished!!! The Czech girls did well; spot 4 [Barbora] and 6[ Jana and Dana].
combi; 334.46 km....The first 6 daily places were for Poland and the Czech Rep. Marek Sawczuk in his ASG 29 won ; 118.43 km./h!!
34 started and 29 finished. Radek and Petr were on 3 and 4.

April 27; VERY LAST DAY!!!! 3 hour AAT’s for all 3 classes.
“temperature around 6° this morning was frozen water in the hoses to fill the water ballast! ???? Sailing is, in short, a typical summer sport! “the organizers.
A 1000 points-day!
Club; 318.70 km and a speed of 106.23 km./h was the best result and that was for FERENC! He was sure now of winning this FCC 2023! Good on him.
Alin was runner up; 312 km speed 103.36 km./h.
18 started and 1 was out.
15 m; French pilot Aurelien won the first day and the last day!!!!! He flew 351 km ; speed 116 km./h.
The French did well on this last day with a 4th and 5th spot by Max and Julien.
All 31 started and only 1 was out; Romanian pilot Norbert, who flew so well in this FCC.
He won task 4, 5 and 6. He topped the overall, scores on 3 days after task 6,7 and 8.
In the end he finished on spot 20. Such a pity!!!!!
Combi; Karol Staryszak won the day; 395 km with 131 km./h!!!Czech pilot David was runner up and sure after this flight of a top spot.
33 started and 1 was out!!.

So the final scores of this FCC 2023, after 7 out of 12 days.
Club class;
1. Ferenc Tamás From Hungary, in LS 3 WL with 5.876 points. Congratulations Ferenc.
2. Stanislaw Wujczak from Poland in Mini Nimbus B with 5.706 p.
3. Alin Simion from Romania in LS 4 WL with 5.680 p.

15 m class;
1. Sebastian Kawa from Poland in DIANA 2 with 5.749 points. Congrats Sebastian.
2. Maximilian SEIS from France in DISCUS 2A with 5.662 p.
3. Barbora Moravcova from Czech Rep in LS 8 with 5.602 p.
Great practice from the Czech-Ladies- team for the Spanish WWGC in 60 days.
Barbora won, Jana was 6th and Dana 9th.
In Club Petra was 8th.
They seem READY!!!!!.

Combi class;
1. David Mach from Czech Rep in JS 1 with 5.781 points. Congratulations David.
2. Karol Staryszak from Poland in ASG 29 with 5.736 p.
3. Andre Weidlich from Germany in Ventus 3M with 5.708 p.

Unfortunately NO PICTURES were shared from the prize giving, at least I could not find them. In the end I found 1 from the 15m class!!!

And later one from Club class

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KLIX …Germany
28 April 2023 – 6 May 2023

The 29th edition has , as always, lot’s of international guests again and is flown in 4 classes, with in total 107 pilots. A very well loved -early-in-the-season-competition like in Nitra and Prievidza.
Till now they had 2 practice days, 1 with no results and 1 with with up to 366 km in 18 m. won by Helge Liebertz this year flying a 26 m. ASH 25 .
Yesterday was the first TASK. NO TASK!

21 st Fatraglide from Martin in Slovakia starts today.
And in ORIENT in South Africa the 2023 Gauteng Regionals start today as well.
More on Wednesday!

Cheers Ritz