Latest news by Ritz on December 1 2006

Alphen aan den Rijn , The Netherlands

The metereological winter has started with sun and 10 dgr. here in Holland. My daughter, her husband and kids have arrived home safely from Australia this morning early.

As soon as the weather is superb Daan will give his “glidingjoy” from Corowa in Australia.He has made a few nice flights already up to 640 a few days ago, so has Jari.
Today I received a personal note from Pepe Gresa Valero who flew the Narromine Cup and still will use Narromine a few more weeks , as base to fly from . All results from flying were/are on the OLC .

Looking back , The weather was good to very good during the Narromine Cup flow from November 20 to 25 .
” I was the winner one day with a distance of 811 km. That day Pam Kurstjens Hawkins nearly flew the same distance . Her husband Gerrit topped both flights on Sunday by flying a 750 km with a speed of 152 km/ph.
The days before he flew long distances too another 750 and an 850 on a very windy day.”
The weather was so good , that thermals went up to 4300 m.”

At this stage pilots fly the State comps for NSW , but the weather till now is not that brilliant.

In between I see that lots of friends in Bitterwasser and Gariep Dam , fly long distances even a few over 1000 km again. Quite a lot of European friends are flying in Africa at the moment.Some of my English friends will fly in Bloem fontein. Will see if I can reach them. Hope to receive some news from Africa too.Have asked for more personal experiences.

Michael Sommer is on leave till December 4 , but the intervieuw has reached his computer. We just wait a few days for the answers.

That’s it for now. Enjoy the upcoming winter where you are, here in Europe or far away on your soaring holiday. Keep in touch! Cheers Ritz