Now the OLC season has moved into 2022, it is my pleasure to sort out for you ,who was the best in different categories.
Of course you can look for yourself too.
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc
CHAMPION OLC-plus 2021 is Gil Souviron from France with 8.147,27 points.
Runner up is Keith Essex from the USA with 8.029,14 points.
Best 2021 flight ; James Lee who flew 1.949,28 km. from Minden in a JS 1 CTJ. Speed a “whopping” 240.68 km./h. on April 24.
Runner up was Klaus Ohlmann with 1.707,60 km. and a speed of 147.17 km./h.
Distance record;[since 2011] Jim Payne from the USA in an ARCUS M flown from Minden on April 5 in 2015….2.907,47 km. speed an even more “whopping ” 249.83 km./h.
Runner up; Klaus Ohlmann flying a Stemme S10 from Zapala Neuquen in Argentina….2.816,95 km
All Flights; Keith Essex with a total of 56.974,62 km!!!!!!WOW!!!!
Runner up in stats about best flights in 2021….Vincent Hayos from France; 37.518,13 km.
Busiest airport; Puimoisson in France with 443.831,58 km. flown by 157 pilots during 953 flights.
Runner up; Fuentemilanos in Spain with 325.793,96 km. flown by 87 pilots during 669 flights.
Busiest club; The GELDERSE flying from TERLET… N from Arnhem in The Netherlands!! Hurray…again. Club were I spend many hours waiting for my children and now my grand children fly there as well.
264.704,06 flights flown by 91 pilots during 867 flights.
Also in the speed OLC , they were the best.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!!!!

As a tribute to the Gelderse 4 great pictures from ARJAN VRIEZE.
Terlet, at the VELUWE, is an area of outstanding natural beauty. The airfield is in that area. AND,….I love Arjan’s pictures.
Arjan Vrieze Photography

AND …according to the UK ,the biggest/largest airport, as I read, is Lasham;
“Lasham retains the majority of the original 1942 RAF layout. It continues as the home of one of the world’s largest gliding clubs with the Society having owned Lasham Airfield outright for over 20 years, hosting gliding 364 days a year when the weather permits.“

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2021 South African Nationals in 15m, club and 2- seaters.
2 October 2021 – 9 October 2021

We continue with this great Potch-flying on Wednesday the 6th of October, when I left you and there was not yet a task set.
Later there was
15 m; task 4 ….3 hour AAT….after John [Coutts] won already 3 days , he added another one and a good one; The first 1000 points in this competition were for him; 426 km. in time 3 hours at the dot!!!Speed 142 km./h!!
You can fly or you can’t ….TOP job!!!!
Task 5; 2 hour AAT...”a bit of sand in John’s oiled machine”. He was 5th, BUT still with 296 km in time 2.06 and a speed of 141 km./h.
Number 1 for the day, was Mark Holiday in an ASW 27 [handicap 95] with 297 km. in time 2.08 speed…139 km./h.
Best distance was for Attie and Uys [Jonker] flying 316 km in time 2.15 and 13.
Task 6; 389 km….was cancelled for all classes, so ONE day to go…
Task 7; 381.77 km….on flying day 6, the very last one.
Only ONE pilot was extremely good during this competition…John. He won again ….no not 1000 points due to a penalty but a speed much faster than the rest;131 km./h. whilst runner up Anders [Andersen] had 123 km./h.
John started at 12.49,31 and Anders at 13.15,49.
No secret that John won the overall scores, with superior forces!!!!

Club class;
Task 4 was a 3 hour AAT as well. AND,…Dicky Daly jr. won his 3d daily prize for a distance of 312 km. in time 3.01 in his St Cirrus [handicap 99] .Concurrence from Wilhelm Mosehuus was “huge” ,as he flew further 327 km and needed 1 minute less in his Mosquito.[handicap 107]
Task 5; 2 hour AAT and this time Wilhelm won the day; 253 km. in time 2.08…speed 118 km./h.
Task 6; 227.77 km; cancelled.
Task 7; 241.72 km…..88 km./h for Dicky jr was the best result for the day. He won 4 days in total, so a REAL/DESERVED winner.

15 m;. Overall results for 15 m. class after 6 days out of 7
1. John Coutts in JS 3 with 5.151 points.
2. Anders Andersen in JS 3 TJ with 4.708 p.
3. Uys Jonker in JS 3 with 4.556 p.

Club class; Overall results after 6 out of 7 days.
1. Dicky Daly jr in St Cirrus with 4.465 points.
2.David Maver in ASW 20 with 3.194 points.
3. Wilhelm Mosehuus in Mosquito with 2.877. He did NOT fly on the last day. So did Renee Coetsee, both were ahead of David.

To finish,…. the overall points for the 2-seaters and Stemme and 2 impressive pictures one from each class;

Overall scores from the 2-seater class with 6 participants flying a Duo Discus x2, an ASG 32 MI x2 and a Nimbus 4[D and DM] x2 after 6 out of 7 days;
1. Maarten Jonker and Ronald Termaat in Nimbus 4 D with 4.717 points.
2. Martin Scharff / Robert Bristow in Nimbus 4DM with 4.291 p.
3. Riaan Denner / Arjan Schaap in ASG 32MI with 4.252 p.
Maarten and Ronald won 2 days , task 4 and the last one [7] and flew further on very consistent.

Overall scores in STEMME class with 3 participants [in the end 2, as the STEMME S10 who leaded with 3.100 points for 2.681, did not fly anymore] after 6 days;
1. Mark Hardman / Beatrice Schaefer in Stemme S 10 with 3.561 p.
2. Albert Willemse / David Lentle in Stemme S12 with 3.330 p.
3. Peter Bailey in Stemme S12 with 2.681 p,.
Mark and Beatrice won the first 4 tasks , than did not fly on task 5 and outlanded on the last day.

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What do you do when you have a brand new glider and you are a blogger?
Of course you share your experiences.
So does Adam in his Gliding Adventures and it is interesting to see how he tests the new Ventus 3T every day he flies and shares the result of the tests. This one is from October 6;
“Awesome day of practice, achieved a lot today! I tested my cockpit pressure relative to statics, I tested with success my new relief system, I tested my endurance by maxing out the day, I tested a marginal final glide to see what the numbers would do & finally, I landed with the turbo up – all a success I was very pleased with how my water ballast management went, without anyone to compare it with, I felt that I got it right. Just after passing Kingaroy to the 3rd TP, I dumped down to 570kg & there I stayed until the final climb & final glide – great day for practice!Unfortunately I forgot to un-declare my WeGlide declaration online from this morning, so I’ve yet again, missed out on bonus points while I learn the new rules. All good, just another practice day.”
Glad I am not the only one who has start-up-problems with We Glide.

AND,…on October 9 the Kingaroy weather improved even more and Adam flew 800 km !!!!!
Swiss Chris who changes his Toc winter for the sun in Queensland flew in his ASW 27 617 km.

Talking about Australia COVID is still not over there. In 2023 the WGC will be in Narromine,[state NSW] I hope ALL IS WELL THEN.
Not now as you can see on this picture from Matthew [Scutter] with the text; “The last line of defense to the New South Plaguelands, hopefully we can visit Narromine next year.”

Other Aussie mates wrote;”Covid numbers going up in Victoria, but restrictions easing in a few weeks when vaccination numbers are 80% first dose, then 70% two doses.  Too many had illegal anti-vax demonstrations, protests and football final parties a few weeks ago, now worst daily numbers ever in Australia.”
SO ,….still not good in Victoria and NSW, remain careful!!!
By the way,….Melbourne has the longest lock-down in the world.
BUT ,…the latest news was that at least Sydney is OPEN again.!!!!
AND 70% of NSW is now vaccinated!!!! On their way to reach the 90%!!!!
AND,…the latest news related to gliding;

CU next week., with news about the 63d Nationals ….Campeonato Brasileiro de Voo em Planadores …in Brazil.
Cheers Ritz

P/S….The world is bit by bit getting back to normal. Airlines fly a bit more again and even order new planes,…light on the horizon!!!!!

Latest news from FAI Sailplane Grand Prix
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