THURSDAY AUGUST 11;

A good beginning of today with Matej:
“Another day in the gliding paradise. The amazing results, weather and the smooth course of the competition so far were rightfully celebrated yesterday at the international evening. Huge thanks belong to everyone, who wholeheartedly shared their culture and created an amazing atmosphere at the party. Despite everyone really enjoying the evening, it needed to be stopped a bit earlier, because today we have another day with ideal gliding weather very similar to yesterday. The last few days are the most crucial for the competition and there is no time to rest. Hopefully, pilots and their crews managed to get some sleep in the night and they will be flying like the professionals they are once again. Today both classes have AAT tasks for 3 hours to the east of Tábor.“

Teams had more than enough fun at the INTERNATIONAL evening.

Time to focus on the last 2 days of this JWGC.
here is the task from STANDARD CLASS. 3 hour AAT

During briefing, Finn got his prizes , very well deserved ones.
Team UK had less good news as well;
“Tom has made the tough decision to retire from the race, the airfield surface caused a tyre blowout on take-off and led to other damage.”
Not only Tom [Thomas Pavis, was on 18 overall] is out in standard class ,…feel VERY sorry for you Tom….but also Ryan [Australia] and Jan [Czech Rep. was on overall spot 22] .
So 26 [from 29] will start today in this class, 44 from 45 now in in club.

At 11.30 they were ready to go, TOPDOG and TOP TC, Ellen, are putting in some last positive vibes in Simon. AND,…the vibes were really good HE WON THE DAY!!!

Team Denmark is really doing well. Yesterday they had a daily winner in St. class Jacob and they have Miles on spot 3 in club class. What do you want more. A good day today and tomorrow I guess.

Team Germany is doing well, here a picture from Eric [LS 4 b] with his mates.

Thursday August 11….day 12…task 11.
First launch at 11.30. During the day, you could see they were RACING, with capital letters. When the first scores appear, the flights are flown with over 100 km./h.

Club; 3 hour AAT...Gate opened at 12.36….A great day for TEAM HOLLAND, spot 1,2 and 3 was theirs.
They have a great system. Lars prefers to fly by himself, Simon and Jelmer prefer to fly together.
Lars starts early ,…today at 12.56,…. the others later at 13.29!!!!!
In between Lars has raced already over the track and gives good advise !!
Finn lost 100 points as he was on a shared 11th place. But he has points enough ,no worries he still leads overall; 7.180 points.
Simon flew 345 km. in time 3 hours at the dot!!!!!1000 points!!!! Speed 114.93 km./h.
Jelmer had about the same time; 998 points [ speed 115.13 km./h] and Lars 966 points. [113.75 km./h] His LS 4 b NEO [1.029] has a higher handicap as the LS 4 [1.022] and the LS 4 a [ 1.025]
Danish Miles was on spot 4 with 116 km./h but the handicap of his ASW 20 is 1.052].
The German mates fished on spot 5.7 and 8. In between was a great flying Finish pilot Kim.
Lets see what tomorrow brings, EVERYTHING can happen though Finn as a comfortable lead.

Standard; 3 hour AAT...Gate opened at 13.02…..A Dutch day in CLUB, a GERMAN day in standard.1.2 and 3. Good speed as well; 133, 132 and 131 km./h! over 403, 408 and 405 km. They had a rather early start at 13.27.
The French were on 6 and 8; 2x 928 points and 927!!!! They had a later start at 13.40!!!
Viktoria was the slowest / less fastest,….but with a LOT of respect ……today but still with 109 km./h over 327 km. TOP JOB!!!!
The top 3 overall is still Simon 7.227 p, Lukas 6.915 and Engeurrand with 6.829.
Tomorrow the decisions to start and other “games” , will be interesting

All scores are preliminary.

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the 11th FAI WWGC in HUSBOS
13 August 2022 – 27 August 2022

Most elementary things have been done by now. An important one is scruteneering.
A few of the pilots moved straight from Szeged to Husbos.
I noticed Eric Napoleon ,who will be TC for France again and also Petr Krejcirik is there. He was also TC in Australia for the Czech team.

It’s getting more serious now with an official practice day for all 3 classes. The long tasks from yesterday were flown by none of the pilots. Good practice though….. to not forget PEV and USE IT CORRECT.
That happened a few times 9x, to be precise , in Club, and better now than on day 1.
Where did the great weather go over there [ here we are in the middle of a heat wave!!!!] .. so short tasks on the official practice day.

CLUB ;148 km... with 84 km./h Elena the current world champion won the day. Not all are scored yet and 2 were out.

Standard ;198 km…not all are scored yet, 5 are scored at 7.10 PM and one was out. Better now than in 2 days. UK pilot Sally and the 3 French girls are at this stage on top.

18 m; 210 km….not all are scored yet….The French did well flying good together. At this stage Diana from Luxembourg is 4th. She started with some problems on the instrument panel, but luckily it had no influence on her flying.
Full scores tomorrow!!!

Whilst waiting I found some nice pictures for you.

and the Ukraine pilots, Olena and Sofia, who got sponsored and supported by the soaring world and now can fly this WWGC. They both fly an ASW 20.

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And to finish a colorful picture from ….BALLOONS. One of our gliding mates in the USA , Tony who also flew in the past the 13.5 m WGC, is not only a glider pilot or light aircraft pilot he learned to fly a balloon as well.
During the USA Nationals he helps out as crew, but one day he will participate. Today was cancelled!

Well, a long day today…… and tomorrow again, trying to pick up ALL news from the last day in Tabor.
So CU tomorrow!!
Cheers Ritz