Post 1.496 on May 12 2024
EXTRA EDITION!!!!! SOooo many comps…posts are getting TOO long!!!!

HAHNWEIDE EDITION 56.
4 May 2024 – 11 May 2024

They were not lucky with the weather. When I left you they had only 1 day out of 4.
Wednesday was not better , but they tried hard again to send 18 m with 34 pilots/gliders up in the air.

18m;
Task 3; 164.85 km…. May 8. They had to wait,……gliders and pilots at the grid, ready and eager to go!!!! For sure the weather looked a tad better, but to send 34 gliders up in the air , this air should be strong enough to give them good height.

In the end they had to wait too long….. the small window to fly in did not appear. The ETA sniffed again managed to fly the task,[with it’s long wings] but only just, so wise decision to scrub the day.
In the evening time to socialise with the “BERGFEST”, a BBQ with so to see nice meat and lots of vegies .

May 9….FINALLY…GREAT WEATHER!!!! HURRAY. After 4 non flying days the weather gods must have thought “This is Hahnweide they MUST fly here ” !
Pilots however knew that this was going to happen as they have a good meteorologist over there.
So well- rested ,they start hopefully ,3 good days. In the evening there was fun again with a special dinner for Fathers-day.
In 1 hour and 30m minutes they had all 97 gliders airborne. Great job!!!!!
Flying-day 2;
15 m; 369.81 km….a bit of a French day as 5 ended in the top 10 for the day. Lucas Oyaux in Discus 2 won the day; speed 103.89 km./h AND …a 1000 points day!!!
All 22 did start,but 1 had an airspace infringement, so he got DNS in front of his name.
18m; 515.77 km….and Mario [Kiessling] won again, after he won task 1 already;119.93 km./h. I remember him as young guy at Terlet for the first JWGC.[1999] UK pilots Pete Harvey and Phil Jones followed with 117 and 116 km,/h.
open; 504.55 km...EB/ETA- day. With 121.15 km./h Markus Frank [EB 29R] was the daily best for 1000 points.His mate Holger Karow [EB28 edition] , was just a tad slower; 117.96 km./h whilst the ETA with Uli and Keith flew around with 110.87 km./h.
12 started and 3 were out.
2-seaters; 410.31 km…..All 20 started and 4 were out. Tomas Rendla & Pavel Jiranek [ARCUS M] were the daily winners with 116.38 km./h. Louis Bouderlique & Philippe de Péchy had 20 points less for 114.96 km./h.

Flying day 3; May 10 ….. penultimate day.
First launch at 11.30. In front of the grid ; 18 m ,then 15 m and the 2 seaters and open.
“today they fly in open the biggest distance till now.The competition area is not the easiest to fly.“

15 m; 399.05 km …..all 21 still in the race, started and FINISHED!!!Julien Duboc won with 127 km./h quite a bit faster than runner up Sebastian Naegel with 122.56 km./h . Sebastian is in the lead overall with 1 day to go.
18m; 592.45 km…..5x a Ventus 3 in the top 5.“Super Mario “won ,127.76 km./h. The manufacturer of his Ventus 3, Tilo was runner up, Sebastian Beule, Thomas Gostner and Wim Akkermans followed with speed between 126 and 123 km./h36 started and 1 was out after 538 km.A pity!
open; 572.88 km….yesterday it was Markus and Holger, today it is Holger and Markus;130 11 km./h.
10 started ,2 had problems with airspace and 1 was out after 462 km.
2-seaters; 433.45 km….9 ARCUS-types in the top 10. Best speed by team Norbert Sommer; 125.39 km./h. Runners up; French team louis and Philippe.
ALL 20 started AND finished!

Flying day 4; In the end they got the real nice soaring weather. Tasks were inherent to that. So pilots could gain or loose, as of course on every day, but on the penultimate day ,it is binding!!!
FINAL day;
15 m; 4 hour AAT...435.38 km with a speed of 107.29 km./h was flown in a Discus 2CT by Jannis Däuble. He was the first to go on track at 13.29. Timothy Scot had a great final day and moved up from 4 to 2. Sebastian on 1 overall was 7th, but just held on.
All 21 started and 1 was out.
FINAL SCORES in 15 m. after 4 out of 8 days;
1. Sebastian Nägel [Germany] in Discus 2A with 3,571 points.
2. Timothy Scott [UK] in ASG 29 with 3,557 points.
3. Howard Jones [UK] in Discus 2A with 3,545 points.

18m; 4 hour AAT….Good “old” Tilo in his own Ventus 3 started early with the 2 Italian pilots Stefano and Thomas. 479.12 km with 116.57 km./h. Mario was on spot 12, but hold on as did Pete, who was on a daily 13th spot after keeping a tactic- eye on Mario , as they were on spot 1 and 2 overall.
All 37 started and 1 was out due to airspace .
FINAL SCORES in 18 m;
1. Mario Kiessling [Germany] in Ventus 3T with 3,739 points.
2. Peter Harvey [UK] in Ventus 3T with 3,559 points.
3. Sebastian Beule [Germany] in Ventus 3M with 3,539

open; 3.30 AAT...494.41 km with 135.90 km./h was the winning combi for Markus. Nearly 10 k faster and nearly 30 k more, than Jim who was runner up .
All 12 flew and finished.
FINAL SCORES in open class;
1. Markus Frank [Germany] in EB 29R with 3,600 points.
2. Holger Karow [Germany[ in EB 28 edition with 3,330 points.
3. Jim Acketoft [Sweden] in EB 29DR with 3,269 points.

2-seaters; 3.30 AAT….Louis and Philippe flew 389.90 km in 3.31 so a speed of 110.62 km./h in the Arcus M. When the day started they were overall behind Norbert[Sommer] and his mate Franz. When the day was over they topped the list!1000 points for 945.
All 20 started and 1 was out after 284 km.
FINAL SCORES in 2-seaters;
1. Bouderlique & de Péchy [France] in ARCUS M with 3,628 points.
2. Sommer & Gall [Germany] in ARCUS M with 3,589 points.
3. Hillebrand & Kopsieker [Germany] in ARCUS M with 3,457 points.
That was only 10 points more than team Schramme; 3447 points.

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FAI SGP in SPAIN….Santa Cilia De Jaca
5 May 2024 – 11 May 2024

These races ar flown in 15 m figuration.
Race 1; 141.98 km…was won by French pilot Max Seis. Kevin Faur [FR] in Ventus 2a, was runner up. Jon Gatfield [UK] was wing-to-wing with him , both got 8 points.
Race 2; 218.26 km…..with a start at 14.20 for the 9 pilots on that day. A race starting with many mistakes by several pilots and I missed Ayala from the UK, who flew in race 1. She then was on spot 10 from 12. Max won again and needed 1.53,50; 115.4 km./h . 20 points in total now for him.
Jon in an AS33es was runner up; 113.8 km./h. and 16 points for him.
Race 3; 237.74 km....Glider 85, was the best and that’s the JS 3 from Max.; time 2.13.48 meaning 106 km./h . With 104 km./h it was Kevin and Stanislaw Biela in Ventus 3 just behind him.Max leads comfortably after 3 flown races. 30 points. Kevin has 24 and Jon 23 points.
11 started and Ayala was one of them on a daily spot 7 and overal with 3 points.
Race 4; 268.39 km...Jon was just a tad faster than Max, so not another daily win but still 38 points overall for Max and leading. Jon has 32 and Kevin 30. Ayala did well with a 4th spot for the day.
Race 5; 303.92 km…start at 14.30.…Kevin won! He is still very young, flies a lot as far as I can follow and is getting better and better.BUT NO,…a few minutes later it was Klaus Kalmbach in JS 3 who won the day.
With 45 points Max still leads followed by Kevin with 38 and Jon with 36.
The final-day games started!
Race 6, penultimate day; 208.45 km changed in task B; 199.84 km.. Start at 14.50. Who wins the 2 tickets for the FINAL????? In the end it turned out the 2 French pilots.
When you have flown SO well and get an extra point by winning the last day, the 11 points were for daily winner Max. Only just, as his speed was 128.8 km./h for 128.6 for Stanislaw.
FINAL SCORES for the first stage of the 12th edition.
1. Maximilian Seis [France] in JS 3 with 56 points. off to the final later.
2. Kévin Faur [France] in Ventus 2a with 45 points.
3. Jon Gatfield [UK] in AS 33 with 42 points.

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Dutch Nationals 2024 at TERLET
7 May 2024 – 18 May 2024

Thursday May 9 was the beginning of this competition with 44 competitors in 4 classes. They had bad and reasonable practice days , Bad as in NO FLYING , pretty good as in results of 112 km./h over a set task over 323 km.in 18 m.
Task 1 straight away had “nice” weather;
Club; 288.07 km….9 pilots in this class….Thies Bruins was the daily winner. A bit unlucky with a wind-gust in Narromine at the WGC, damaging his glider behind the car, he shows again what a talented glider pilot he is. He then was runner up with a few days to go. Now he started well in his ASW 20WL. All 9 started and 1 was out after 281 km. Grrrr…..
18 m; 359.86 km...14 pilots….nearly all of the 14 participants in this class have flown WGC ‘s or EGC’s. Only 1 was out. Jeroen Verkuijl [JS3] won the day ;109.22 km./h.
open; 369.94 km..…9 pilots or teams…All 9 started AND finished. Daily winner in EB 29R was Francois Jeremiasse;118.78 km./h. Marco Vermeer and Ronald Termaat in Nimbus 4DT were runner up; 108.08 km./h.
combi; 315.48 km...12 pilots or teams ….Erik Borgmann and Matthijs van Houweninge in the ARCUS M were the best ; 102.71 km./h . They l;ook READY for Uvalde in August. On spot 3 another pilot with over 100 km./h ; Ralph Nijhof in ARCUS T. In between ” my” former junior Robbie [Seton] in LS8 neo; 95.90 km/h.

Friday May 10, another GOOD DAY! First start at 12 PM.
task 2 was changed before start.
club; 286.27 km ……changed in 219.77 km...same winner and runner up as the day before; Thies and Jeroen and NO they do not start together; 14.03 and 13.54.
All 9 started and finished.
18m; 377.20 km….310.73 km. Hadriaan van Nes in JS1BTJ won the day with a speed of 117.77 km./h Good to see Belgian guest Rik [van den Boer] was runner up in JS3j.
All started and finished.
open; 410.78 km…359.56 km..Both EB’s did well. Francois won again with 115.71 km./h and runners up Marco[Vermeer] and Max [Leenders] had 108.10 km./h.
All 9 started and finished.
combi;  323.30 km….291.10 km...Good practice again for Erik and Matthijs. If they want to score high in Uvalde they have to fly well, so they do. Mind you Erik was already WGC runner up in Borlange [1993] in Standard Class behind Andy Davis.

Saturday May 11; it started good here, about 100 km more S. with blue skies and clouds popping up , but at 11 it looked more “milky”. They fly direction East into Germany, but not far. Borken and Kleve
Task 3;
Club; 2.45 AAT...with 230 km and a speed of 83.19 km./h “Thies did it again.” Robin [Smit] runner up at the JWGC in Narromine, was runner up for this day.
9 pilots started AND finished!!
18 m; 2.30 AAT…our Belgian friend Rik won the day. 233 km./ 91.76 km./h.just ahead of well known toppers in the Netherlands Sikko and Steven.[90.37 and 90.14 km./h]
14 started and 2 were out.
open; 2.30 AAT…240km/ 93 km./h for Marco and Ronald in the Nimbus 4DT. Good to see Bas [Seijffert] in this class, he just lost his dad.
9 started 1 was out.
combi; 2.30 AAT…NO Erik and Mathijs but van Breemen & Danen in ARCUS M, on the daily highest spot; 221 km/82.80 km./h. Runner up in LS 6 Sylvain vd Meer from the DSA, the students from Delft!
All 12 started and 11 finished.

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—Too many comps at once so a great picture from Aero Club Adele Orsi Acao . The Coppa from the town of Varese was flown between May 4 and 11.

After 4 out of 8 flown days, the CUP was handed over to Peter Hartmann & Passardi in ARCUS T.
The open class was won by Alberto Sironi & Venturini in ARCUS T.

——The Rayskala open 2024 was won in CLUB CLASS [with 12 participants] by Kim Toppari in LS7WL, after 6 out of 8 days.
In OPEN ,with 6 participants, Nuutti Kankare in Ventus 3 was the winner after 7 out of 8 days.

—-Europe ,but also THE WORLD, at least parts of it, had amazing colorful skies AURORA, the Northern Light was on its best.The strongest sun/solar storm since 2003 created the best of the best we ever saw. A stunning display of lights /colors.

EXTRA edition to avoid soar eyes from too long blogs.
Enjoy.
Back on Wednesday with the latest on the DUTCH NATIONALS!
Cheers Ritz