9 AM;
“With two more competition days to come and good weather, the final results remain up for grabs;“is what Sean wrote in his daily blog on http://www.jwgc2015.com/
SO TRUE!!!!!!
Here is a quote from what he wrote about the Dutch pilots and there is much more on the mentioned site;
—“Robin Smit and Ronald Deerenberg from the Netherlands are the Standard Class joint winners of Day 9 with a lightning speed of 158kph over the point to point task distance of 631.46km. The two team members displayed incredible focus and discipline to muscle leader Matthew Scutter into third place on a classic Narromine day.” —
Ronald was very happy with the speed;”158 km/h over a 630km FAI-triangle”
Several people asked me :” how are those Dutch boys doing that?”
I don’t know , but I know they are both TALENTS!!!!!
They have impressed many yesterday with that glorious flight.
With very blue skies, a nice temperature in the early morning and young pilots ready to go it will be an interesting day again.
Gliders are moved to the grid at this moment and then we will find out during briefing, what’s happening today.
Yesterday evening the last gliders came in before sunset which is at 8.31 PM. 2 Juniors were picked up by a tug and flew in at 8.13 and 8.18 PM .Pepe arrived as well at 8.15 PM. He flew 899 km.
So the best pilots yesterday were;
St .class; Equal Robin and Ronald with 1000 points, Matthew with 999 points .
Club; French pilot Lucas,who had 2 great last days with 1000 points and USA pilot Daniel at 2 with Polish pilot Jan on 3.
More later.
10.30;Briefing is over.
The boys got their prizes. This was , as I heard from Beryl, the fastest- but- one -ever Standard class task in Australian history.Best speed ever was by Michael Sommer during the Gulgong Nationals ;159 km./h.
According to people who studied it ,the Dutch boys made their faster speed maybe better said” THE DIFFERENCE”, on final glide with they seem to have flown with more than 200 km. on the clock.
But according to others they found the best lift , at the best time, as well.What ever,….they did a fabulous job!!!!!!
Matthew, Ronald and Robin, 3 HUGE talents!!!!
The boys waiting for their prizes and CD Adam saying nice things about them.
The best height was mentioned from yesterday; 12.892 ft.by W1
The longest final glide was 125.32 km.
The SAFETY MINUTE was short as Lisa found that pilots were flying safely.She reminded them again on being fatigue so on the end of the comps and on energy management for both the finish and the circuit planning.
The weather; STRONG winds today;270/15 g20 at the surface coming from the W. From the hangar we could see the cold front coming already. There will be a change of wind as well at around 5 PM.Temperature 34 dgr.C.
The official report:
—“After an honest racing day under Cus yesterday we have a complex day today. There is a front approaching with Cirrus, strong winds (20kts at 2000′, 30kts at 7000′ and 45kts at 10000′)
An early finish is also predicted. They have set racing tasks for both classes to the North. 391km for Club Class and at the front and 482km for Standard. Temperatures are forecast to drop after 2.30pm. So it will be a difficult day for all.—”
For tomorrow the last day they fore cast blue conditions with a Southerly tendency.
Tasks today;
St. class; set task from 482.44 km
Club class; 390.97 km.
First launch expected at 11.30 !!!
Some apologies as I spelled names wrong and made a few mistakes.
First of all Sean[not Shaun], Young is indeed the editor of the Gliding Australia AND the daily bulletin/news writer. A good one I might say!!!
Another John [Styles] is head of the media team.
Katja , very experienced by now, is in charge of the social media updates on FB and is the web master.
Thanks Katja!!!!
All the news is shared in the very best way and ENOUGH news as well. GREAT!!!!!!!
Some pictures from the room here;
Ole with his Danish team.
Jill from New Zealand, here as mother of pilot Alex and as editor of SOARING NEW ZEALAND.
AND
Angus Stewart technical IT expert with Hans [Raschke from Germany] just behind him
BBQ evening tonight.Bring your own BYO
More in part number 10 later.