12 AM;
Dundee and I had a good trip back. We left at 9 AM, so I missed the prize giving,but we had to be back before it started to be darker because of Dundee’s eyes.
All went well,….till we were at familiar territory , were we missed the Newel Highway to Finly and ” happily ” drove 70 km.further to Deniliquin.No worries from there , there was a road to Finley and with ONE hour extra we arrived home in Tocumwal.
Indeed it is true you should not get lost on the roads in Australia, turning is quite difficult and without knowing you loose an hour.
It could be worse this should not happen in the heart of the continent, it might be your “end” .
Before we left a lot of people were still in bed, so GOOD BYE to all I missed.
The party was HOT and “WILD”, as I heard . I noticed the aboriginal flag and Australian flag were gone in the morning, the FAI flag was already “stolen” before but brought back and saved on a secure spot.
Beryl preparing and sharing the fabulous HAM at the BBQ-JWGC – final get-to-gether.
Before we left a nice gentleman came in, walked straight to me, kissed me and said Attila,YES I remembered straight away and told him I had written about his ZR , winning one day with Boyd as sole finisher. He was very proud on that.
Awfully kind of him as well,to drive so far to pick up his glider!
Unfortunately my camera was already packed.
Told you yesterday Robert was in Narromine to pick up his LS 4 and today he is already in Broken Hill 750 km. further on his way to Alice. A day later PORT AUGUSTA ….1200 km. done! A 3 day drive!!!!
I shared with you already a few times part’s of Matthew Scutters Gliding blog.
Today he shares his great moment of glory and is grateful to ALL helping him on this road to success. as JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION 2015.
—“Whew! It’s finally over, and after a couple of very nerve-wracking days, team Australia was victorious!!! (in standard class)
How did we do it?
We had a GREAT team, lead by our team captain Mandy Temple who kept us all under control and kept the outside world away from us.
I had Todd Sandercock and my sister Claire as a great crew who could handle anything with or without me and meant I could focus on just the gliding when I really needed to.
Bryan and Buch were our coaches who analysed the competitors flights every day which let us adapt to our weaknesses throughout the competition and avoid repeating mistakes.
Alex Wallis was our wonder-weatherman who kept us up to date with the forecasts throughout our flights – talking with other teams at the afterparty, inaccurate weather forecasts were a big problem for them and we had a real edge with Alex on our team.
Andy Maddocks wasn’t officially part of our team, but he was inadvertently responsible for the maintenance on our fleet and kept quite busy with last minute repairs (Looking at you Joe!)
Mak Ichikawa was invaluable providing the tactics for me to execute my catchup and then retain the lead nearer the end.
Shinzo Takizawa generously loaned us a clubhouse and hangar which kept us out of the sun and well rested for the back to back 7 hour days we’d have to endure.
We also had many, many additional helpers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to keep the pilots focused on the job.
And of course, the pilots themselves – we had a dynamic team of three, Dylan Lampard and I mostly pair flying and collaborating with Ailsa McMillan and our club class boys, James, Joe and Eric who kept us up to date with conditions ahead or behind on task.
I myself couldn’t have done it without the coaching by my many mentors through the years – Peter Temple, Terry Cubley, Mak Ichikawa and Graham Parker. Not to mention the support from Michael in getting me started in gliding.
It was a well executed competition by the organizers, lead by the inimitable Adam Webb and Terry Cubley who kept us honest, and of course Beryl!
We had great financial support from many generous donors as well as the Gliding Federation of Australia.
Lastly I would like to thank our great competitors who made for excellent racing – the Poles, the Germans and the Dutch in particular giving us a real competition. I hope they enjoyed our excellent weather as much as we do and that they’ll come back to visit someday.
So far the words from Matthew.
The prize giving was at 11 AM yesterday and I share some pictures I found.
THE STANDARD CLASS WINNERS
JUNIOR CHAMPION MATTHEW [Australia]
RUNNER UP …SILVER WINNER …ROBIN [THE NETHERLANDS]
BRONZE MEDAL WINNER SEBASTIAN [Germany].
As shared by the DUTCH JUNIORS.
And the full HAPPY Dutch team.
Ronald, who won one day and was JUST 2d on the last day [ 3.28,19 for Joris from Lithuania and 3.28,33 for Ronald] finished on 23 after a bad first day [outlanding and also on day 3] BUT he kept the spirit and then decided to help/support the team specially Robin by flying STRONGLY together,
Robin with SILVER,
Nick who finished on a great 7th spot and
Annemiek a talented young lady on spot 20.
AND
THE CLUB CLASS WINNERS.
JUNIOR CHAMPION TOM [UK]
RUNNER UP ..SILVER WINNER…PHILIPP [Germany]
BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Sam [UK]
The VERY HAPPY UK team
And some words from Matt Davis.
—-“ What an incredible ending to an absolute roller-coaster three weeks flying here in gliding paradise. We’ve come away with another British World Champion so we couldn’t ask for much more than that really. Individually we’ve done about 80 hours and 6500km flying so we’re pretty tired right now!
Yesterday we spent the day in the container, aka ‘the sauna’, and the gliders are now safely tucked away for two months on the sea to arrive back in the UK in February.
We’ll obviously do some proper write ups of the competition and share all of the photos over the coming weeks. We’re all now off to relax for a week or so in and around Sydney before flying back to the UK just in time for Christmas, so please bear with us.
Thanks for sticking with us through the time differences and supporting us along the way. None of this would have been possible without our incredible sponsors – the British Gliding Association, British Airways, Sydney Charles, Lasham Gliding Society, Apogee, Land Rover, Naviter, Navboys – a huge thank you to all of you and we’re delighted to be able to bring some medals home.
Matt ––”
The TEAM CUP was for
Germany [970.80 points]
Poland [902.81 points]
Great Britain [901.points]
They just beat the Aussies on the last day and Holland was 5th.
Compliments to the Polish team. Great pilots , nice guy’s but one bad day, more or less scattered their dreams.
They WON SEVERAL days, 3 to be precisely, had 2d places, have a look at SOARING SPOT for their results.
I wrote you about the CZECH team “doing it tough” with 5 gliders ,6 trailers and 2 crew.
The Polish team had worse conditions .
ONE crew ;female and GOOD LOOKING, 5 gliders/pilots ,ONE trailer and a TC.His logistic job must have been “scary” sometimes, specially on days they a lot out-landed.
The 9th JWGC was officially closed by the President of the jury, Max Stevens. The FAI flag handed over to Karolios Mikalauskas the captain of the Lithuanian team where the 10th JWGC will be held in 2010 in Pocuinai.
And that’s a wrap!!!!!
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NOSTALGIA
From the OLD box!!!!
Great memories from the late eighties.
Thanks for the lovely reactions on my diary-blogs.
Peter During, we know him as Brutus, who worked for us several years here in Tocumwal, has been with us in Narromine at a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in the end 80thies maybe beginning 90thies.Look at the pictures he scanned for me.
With Brutus, me, Nico Koster who is the ENGINE behind the Dutch Junior World team and who I just met in Narromine as well as he spend the last 3 days with the team , Jeroen and George.
Rob, Harold, George, maybe Gerrit and Jeroen the Dutch pilots at the Australian Nationals with a TV hostess from PRIME TV.
So many Dutch at Australian Nationals was unusual/unique.
With Brutus in the middle my daughter Inge in front of him and to the right Tony and Kurd [tuggie in Narromine and later Tocumwal]
With the sun hat; Ann Kathrin Kehn who did the radio at the finish line. According to Brutus this is 1992/93.
It is a good day here in Tocumwal, Mac is ready to fly , I heard and I guess so is Anton from Austria and Hannu from Finland and the other guests.
Ingo has some students. I hear the 2 tow planes going up and down.
Beuatiful HIGH clouds .
The Dutch juniors are flying their gliders “home” from Narromine to Corowa.
Francesco and Grietje , from THE AUSTRALIAN SOARING CENTER in COROWA , have been extremely kind to them by taking the gliders in their containers, giving the young ones the opportunity to fly with them and to acclimatize to the Aussie conditions and make them feel welcome in “their paradise”, as the Juniors call their place.
I am sure they will be welcomed with bubbles!!!!
Not long and I will visit Corowa as well.
We were talking about Anton and Andrea yesterday evening in the car , long time guests in Tocumwal and we met them on their way to dinner. Great to see them after so many years.
AND,……NOT TO FORGET…..
—–the new WORLD record from Belgium pilot Johan Luyckx from Pokweni on December 5 in a 15 m. Ventus 2CM with a speed of 149.06 km./h over a 1000 km. FAI triangle , of course a Belgium record as well
and on
—-the 1.637 km. wave flight in a 15 m. DG 808 from Jean Marc Perrin from Esquel in Argentina on December 12 with 174 km./h..
Look more into detail at some OLC FLIGHTS NEXT TIME!
That’s it for now, busy the next 2 days, so CU later.
Cheers Ritz