Dubai .
THE FAI WORLD AIR GAMES 2016.
Desert gliding. 3rd Dec 2015
As shared by Sebastian.
In Dubai the first start of the brand new race between 2 gliders was a fact and Sebastian [Kawa] was so kind to share a picture.
The tow planes were later than expected/hoped for .
He even shared some news about the day and I share it for all no-FB-readers:
—-“ I tell you the story about altitude limit at the finish line. The organising team and Roland are focused on safety and rules. The rules clearly say we should finish at 30m. But… Gliders came with completely new instruments, correctly installed but with no setup, no turnpoint files, nothing. Nobody flew it before. Luckily we had time yesterday to check it. We flew and we found out that in both computers altimeter is somehow connected to speed and total energy probe. That’s something new, new relativity theory. After some investigation today and manipulating in instrument panels the conclusion was that it is the software. Nobody has a replacement, so now we may legally do the low passes in front of the safety officer because pilot does not have altimeter connected to official logger. The altitude limit is gone. That’s cool! And all pilots are happy.
Tomorrow tow planes should be earlier and we have a chance to fly whole round. Yesterday and today they were to busy at Palm Drop Zone with aerobatic gliders. One of the gliders fell off the runway and it stopped them for a while. Our races were very short, only 7 minutes but we couldn’t do more than 4 today.” —-
First launch as shared by Sebastian.
The first 2 pilots in this first parallel race in World Airgames Dubai , were Werner Aman and Giorgio Galetto.
You can follow races at YouTube live stream WAG gliding live _( red)
Latest update; “We are in the Qualifying Round of the Gliding Event at the World Air Games. In this Round, each pilot flies head-to-head against every other pilot to determine the ranking for the Final Round, scheduled to begin on Monday, 07 December. “
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JWGC in Narromine.
They had day 3 yesterday in Narromine and I am looking forward to travel up there this upcoming Wednesday.
Well,….Andy Davis’ son Matt had a fabulous day in standard class.With 358 km in time 3.10 he was the daily winner and deserved the 1000 points. A blue day so not too easy!
Aussie “hope” Matthew Scutter was runner up with 3 km. less.
Matthew shared his experiences in his blog;Matthew Scutters Gliding
—-“Day 1(pt 2) and Day 2 of JWGC – Day 1 was a disaster with a very low point on the first leg which killed our speed, but at least we got around! Poor Nick Oakley [New Zealand]had some terrible luck with a conservative final glide turning to worms 10k short.
Day 2 was very overset, with our class on the back of the grid. We all went around as a big gaggle and I just tried to play the game all day. At one point I missed a climb, the gaggle picked up behind me, so I found myself pushing on alone at 5.30pm with not many thermals around, but I saw a paddock fire starting, which I picked up quite low and got 12kts to above the inversion which put me back on top of the gaggle. Some local knowledge helped me ease into a final glide a little earlier than most for a good finish.—-“
In Club class we “saw” the youngest ever daily winner in a JWGC ; Aussie James Nugent only SEVENTEEN years old flying an LS 3. Good on him.
Runner up was Dutch pilot Nick in the St .Cirrus, followed by Aussie pilot Joe. So a great day for the Aussies!!!!
Not a bad day either for the Dutch with a 2d and 5th place in this class.
17 year old James Nugent.
” James is a natural. He just flies so soft and sweet, in the air his glider just seems to walk away from you.”
According to Butch [John Buchanan] , Head Coach Australian Team.
For today the “young ones ” fly a 3.30 AAT in Club Class and a 3 hour AAT in standard.
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Some pilots stayed up here yesterday till late in the evening. It was a rather nice days with clouds popping up at noon , but still late starts.
Ingo flew his Discus XX and flew 536 km. whilst Hannu did 375 in the LS 6/17.5 m.and John [Dyson] 441 in his JS 1.
Today later starts at 2 PM with a pretty overcast sky but “BLOODY ” hot here. There are some guest pilots here as well ,they stay for a week , have a camp here and enjoy the Tocumwal skies.
More guests will arrive today. Heard that old friends as Tim and Laurel, Nicole and Richard and Wayne arrive today as well. It’s getting busy now both at the commercial center Sportaviation as at the SRGClub.
This morning we visited the monthly market and people as far as Wagga [about 300 km] travel up to Toc. to browse around at this market. GREAT fun!!!!
In Bitterwasser the distances were a “bit” bigger. They are over the 1.300 km. now with 1.320 [1000 km. FAI triangle] in a Ventus 2CM/18 m.by young German pilot Benedikt Schmidt, busy with a 1000 km. camp over there. Speed 150 km./h.He flew himself to a PALM. Well deserved!AND,…already 4 x a 1000 km. plus flight!!
This camp is sponsored by Wilfried Grosskinsky and the first 2 pilots are Benedikt and Fabian [Peitz].
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CU in a hurry!