37th FAI WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIP
Szeged, Hungary
24 July 2022 – 5 August 2022
as shared by Dutch Gliding Team
Here is part of John Good’s report on contest day 1 , as he is there and I know him as a good writer,…. the rest you can find on US Soaring Teams
“Today’s conditions produced the first scores at WGC2022 – and a high percentage of task completions (two 18-Meter pilots “ran out of day” and came up just short). The absurdly good weather of the practice period may be a thing of the past: today was merely very good. It was a mostly blue day, but with occasional “haze domes” to indicate thermal locations; lift was typically around 5 kts, occasionally extending as high as 7000 ft.”
AND then to the third day…..
Tuesday July 26; DAY 3, task 2….
a sunny day with 30 dgr. C, blue and 1/8 cu’s and the expectation that around 4 PM, a front , [already over the North of Hungary in the morning] , might/will have influence on the task area. For that reason it was announced that the thermals could get less around that time. Something to keep in mind!!! Also the Westerly wind would increase and ‘kill” the thermals. So the goal is a fast flight and being back in time. EXCITING,….you can follow them every day on link.glideandseek.com/wgc2022
AND,……off they went,……..First launches at 11.30.
South African Gliding Team
18m; 354.30 km….A start at the right time was important today, not too early ,but certainly not too late either ,when the forecast would be correct.
Clearly better circumstances after start for 18 m. ,than yesterday ,when it was a bit of a struggle for them. Though,……”en route” some 18 m. pilots got pretty low ,…..500 m. but …….got out.
Hungarian pilot Péter Szabó started with a few others, early at 12.45 and at around 14.30 they had passed already TP 2. They passed Bekescsaba and who flew the comps there in the past, 1992, might remember the area and take advantage of the memories of that EGC. Then they start a long leg of 107 km.
Around 3 PM, some only had to fly less than 70 km.
And around 15.27 the first pilots were in, nicely in time as cu’s/ac slowly arrived from the West.
With a speed from 146,78 km./h French pilot Christophe Abadie is the daily winner!!!! WOW , what a day!!!! Runner up Zoran Frenc [Serbia] with 146.67 km./h….. pffff……missing out on 2 points. WELL DONE!!!
Uys Jonker and Melanie Gadoulet had a speed from 146. 46 and 146.36!! TOP job!!!
All 42 finished , slowest speed; 120 km./h….best 146.78 km./h.
As shared by TEAM MARU clearly from JAPAN!!! Nice picture!!!!
Takeshi Maruyama was 9th yesterday…. he flies a JS3. Today he was on 38.
20 m; 316.01 km...with a 45 km. long leg to TP 1 and 3 legs from 78, 73 and 81 km and final glide over 34 km. Hungarian pilots Ferenc Tamás / Attila Korom finished at 15.30,44, so a good speed of 131.86 km./h. after an early start at 13.06,56. BUT NO ,.it was not enough to win.
The French must like this weather as Louis Bouderlique / Merlin Ulysse flew around with 134.90 km./h. They started at 13.32, the last start of this class and finished as number 3.
BUT,….EVEN BETTER…..Rainer Cronjäger / Guido Halter, their 2d win!!! Speed 140 km./h!!!! For the day a rather late and daring start at 13.30 and finish at 15.46!!!!!! But my goodness what a performance!!!!
What about my mates Eric and Joost; runner up for the day…speed 135.71 km./h!!!!! Good on them.
Weird to see Pierre and Arnaud on spot 17.
All pilots are counted for.
as shared by Dutch Gliding Team
open; 346.70 km....also for open class not one long leg as in 18 m. but 4 from 67.7 km, 64.5 km, 76 km and 86.5 km. final glide from 48 km.
Alberto Sironi, flying the EB 29R, was faster than fast ; 154 18 km. /h Daily winner!!!!
His mate also an Alberto but now Pozzi was runner up; 151.99 km./h . They started together but the final glide from the EB was faster than the JS 1. Only 19 points difference though.
Oscar Goudriaan was a fast and on spot 3, also over 150 km./h ; 151.51 km./h
Sylvain Gerbaud, Felipe Levin and Michael Sommer also flew over 150 km/h
WGC 2022 – Szeged, Hungary
Everybody is back. ALL ARE COUNTED FOR!!!
WHAT A FAST DAY!!!!!
AND,..…..WHAT QUICK SCORES!!!! Compliments for the organizers!!!!
The last finishers felt the forecasted strong wind, as that wind arrived half an hour faster/earlier than forecasted. It turned out to be 20kt. and it blew straight through. So gliders had to be de-rigged or brought the the tie-down area with speed.
Luckily ALL pilots were IN!!!!
Looking at the overall scores,….. after 2 days AND …..days like this, can have huge impact.
In 18 m. Jeroen moved from 2 to 1 and Davide from 1 to 2. But,…Petri from 3 to 14 and he flew around with a speed of 132 km/h.??!!! Bizarre.
In 20 m. no doubt till now about the Swiss team, Rainer and Guido. Winning 2 days means, being on top of the overall list. The Twin Shark with Jakub and Lucasz is a strong runner up and my Dutch mates went from 5 to 3 .
In Open a bit the same situation; number 1 and 2 Felipe and Michael stayed on their place with 10 points difference , but Daan moved from 3 to 6 after todays 9th spot,…still 149 km/.h!!!???
Oscar is 3d now, coming from 7 and Alberto Sironi moved from 10 to 5.
BUT,…tomorrow ALL MIGHT BE DIFFERENT again.
As shared by the organizers.
—————————————————————–
The JWGC is about to begin too and in Germany there is an FAI SAILPLANE GRAND PRIX in progress [ July 24 July 30] flown from Eisenhuttenstadt.
There are 19 pilots among them 1 from the UK Pete Harvey, 1 from the Netherlands Mark Wering and 5 Polish pilots!!!
They had 3 days till now;
Race 1 was 246 km and won by German pilot Tobias Meiler in Ventus 3
Race 2 was 357 km and won by German pilot Tobias Breithaupt. The other Tobias was now runner up.
Race 3 was 204 km and won by Dutch pilot Mark Wering in JS3 jet.
Race 4 5 6 and 7 to go. I keep you informed.
https://germany22.sgp.aero/news
Giving my neck ,back and fingers a bit of rest now.
CU tomorrow again,
Cheers Ritz