Last day of July 2006
Latest news by Ritz .
The Netherlands;
First I would like to introduce to you , a new guest-editor who will write on a regular base, articles about “things” belonging to gliding. His first topic will be;
The Case for v Pos!
Enjoy reading, “MM’s Gliding Topics.” You can find it here now on the home site, but it should go under Section, then click TOPICS! We work on that, so you can easily find the topics!! Thanks and enjoy!
Mike Mike, [MM] is an alias and competition number of George Schuit,former National Gliding Team member of the Netherlands and former long- time operator of a very well known gliding centre in Australia. He was the first Dutchman EVER to complete an FAI 1000km. triangle in the mid -eighties and also invented “the Outback Shootout”, a soaring contest aimed at making most of the day in terms of distance flown. Something for the toughies…….
Welcome George!
In between I have contacted a few pilots , and TC’s for their evaluations on several comps, so stay tuned over the next weeks!
Italy;
The Spaghetti glide is over and though the last day was a difficult one for some, young Bert Schmelzer jr. kept his “head and good flying-rhythm” AND first place with another day-win over an AAT task! Well done Bert and congratulations with your overall win in Rieti.
The top changed a bit in both classes, as young Swiss pilot Stefan Leutenegger “dropped” out of the top 3 and Georg Falkensammer from Austria entered it on spot 2! Steady on third position Bert’s brother Tijl!
In Club class Piotr ,also kept his act together and his first place, but one of the 3 Polish top pilots “dropped” out missing 36 points and Rasmus Orskov from Denmark entered the top as third!
Europe;
It has started to rain in Europe now. In Holland we still will have 25 dgr. today, but then it is over, going down to 20/21 with rain and thunderstorms. Feel sorry for the Keiheuvel competition, but hope it will dry up soon again, so they have a few good last days . I remember stories from Klippeneck [starting on the 5th of August] with NO flying day at all, ONLY RAIN! Hope this will NOT happen this year! One of the farmers in the area here, said that August would be warm and nice and…. those farmers know a lot about weather!Good luck and safe flying, where ever you are!
Ritz