Post 1.519 on July 26 2024

With 3 hour AAT’s the “young ones” finish this very interesting JWGC. They can take their own decisions, set their best departure time and fly for 3 hours to get the best daily result.
Believe me there will be “games” played.
Estimated first launch at 11.45….2.5 m…..1500….
Depending on the departure they will be back in 3 hours.
AND…they are eager to go for this last day!!!

First the briefing with prize giving. In Standard Niels and Jasper [in orange…of course] at the podium together with Henry from the UK. I believe this is Henry’s last JWGC. Jasper is only 21 so he can fly one, maybe 2 again .

Club class task;

Standard class task;

Friday July 26; day 13..flying day 10.
Club; Task 11….3 hour AAT…..For a few minutes he was the daily winner, but was passed by UK pilot George with a good win; 299.36 km.97.63 km./h. Martijn instead became runner up BUT WON THE TITLE. My goodness me CONGRATULATIONS MARTIJN.
100 points more than Kim from Finland, who did a great job too and stayed ahead of the 2 French pilots Alexandre and Nicolas.
So an LS 3 and LS 7 and ASW 20 in the top3.
Still all preliminary.

Standard ; Task 11….3 hour AAT....2 Polish pilots were the daily best, but it is difficult to follow as soaring spot is overloaded.
But what I can preliminary see is that Max won the JWGC title , Thomas from the USA is runner up and Nils is 3d. Great to see a young USA pilot as runner up.
From the German pilots I more or less expect that they win. That happens often, with a well oiled mostly very experienced team and enough good pilots. Not saying that they don’t deserve it…they do. They ARE GOOD. But nice to see a Champion from Belgium and a runner up from THE USA.

More tomorrow as internet is busy and THE OLYMPICS start, and I never missed an opening.

CU tomorrow with the final official scores and more about the pilots

Cheers Ritz