Post 1.493 on April 24 2024
When you have 107 guests you want to be , as organizer and host , on your best, BUT unfortunately in our gliding world , we ALL know; the weather cannot be organized.
FCC GLIDING 2024
Prievidza, Slovakia
14 April 2024 – 25 April 2024
Courtesy Kevin from team France Kévin Faur
Task 2 on flying day 1 out of 4;
Club; 2 hour AAT.…CANCELLED
Combi;2 hour AAT….CANCELLED
15 m; 2 hour AAT.… CANCELLED
Task 3 on flying day 1 out of 5 till now . And indeed finally the great weather arrived not only here with blue skies and great Cu’s but also in Priviedza. GOOD!!!
They had a strong wind from the N. for that reason they used runway 040…to be seen on the picture as shared by the organizers
Prievidza is THE PLACE from the Dynamic planes and their new tow planes , the WT9 – dynamics with ROTAX 915 engines ,did a great job.
So bigger tasks were set; 3 hour AAT’s;
Club ; 3 hour AAT….. First to start from the grass and at 12.06 their start line opened.
3 French pilots each in an ASW 20 were the daily best with 303,315 and 317 km ; speed 97.58, 96.50 and 99.97 km./h. AND 1000 points for the winner, 961 and 945 for the other 2.
Alexandre Fierain, Philippe Lata and Nicolas Caudrelier made it a “French day”.
A total of 27 starters and from them 21 finished.
Quite a few penalties for incorrect landings or NO PEV or crossing the boundary. For sure they will be more careful next time !!
Combi; 3 hour AAT..…. they started from the asphalt and their start line opened at 12.43.
A mix of 5 Nationalities in 4 different gliders in the top and NO 1000 points for the daily winner. 4 Of them flew around with 113 km./h over “around” 340 km.
Nuutti Kankare was the daily winner in a Ventus 3FES/18m. Czech pilot David Mach was runner up in JS1C TJ 18 EVO. Hungaryan pilot Janos Sindely also in JS1C TJ 18 EVO was 3d. Lithuanian pilot Vytautas Rasimavicius was 4th in JS1B/18 m and Rumanian team Kessler & Lingureanu in an ASG 32MI/ 800k.
46 pilots started and 39 finished.
15m; 3 hour AAT.. last on the grass with a opening of the startline at 12.57
307 km / 100 km./h was the best result by Polish pilot Wojciech Domanski in Ventus 2A was the daily winner for 740 points.The 3 Czech ladies flying in this class, Dana, Jana and Barbora were on spot 5,6 and 8. All 3 fly an LS8.
33 Started and 23 finished….Sebastian [Diana 2] finished on spot 12.”The day just did n’t go as he wanted.”
Task 4 on flying day 2 from 6 showed smaller tasks,
“Today we set the grid at 22 and considering the fact that we have an occlusion front moving in quite quickly from the west, which will spoil the thermals in our area in the early afternoon, we tried to do everything we could to take advantage of the interval that today’s weather offered us.“
First start at 11AM.
Club; 2 hour AAT....11.46 opening of start line and 200 km was flown by several pilots. Best flight was from Czech pilot Michal Lesinger in an ASW 20; 199.76 km in time 2.05.54 .Start at 11.57.
27 started and 25 finished, nice!!!
Combi ; 2 hour AAT...start line opened at 12.22 and Polish pilot Leszek Staryszak flew in his ASG 29E/18m a distance of 243.69 km in time 2.05.46and was the daily winner. He left at 12.29.
45 started and 42 finished…good.
15 m; 2 hour AAT.…12.29 opening of start line and the biggest distance and best time Sebastiaan Kawa; 239.15 km in time 1. 53.58. That was 12 km further than runner up Czech pilot Pavel Louzecky and 3 minutes.588 and 540 daily points.
3 Polish pilots including Sebastian started early , straight away, at 12.32. There are 12 in total in this class.
ALL 33 pilots started and only 1 was out. GOOD!!!!
French pilot Kevin Faur was 4th and had time to take a picture., the other 2 French pilots on 3 and 5.
Live tracking is on live tracking
NO task on April 20- 21 and 22-23. The weather gods are still not too happy., whilst in Italy and even the UK great long distance have been flown.
“Today we regretfully had to declare a no-fly day. The weather was not the worst. But the runway and all the grassy areas of the airport were so wet that every movement of a plane or a car on the area left deep marks. We considered all the options, but in the end we had to choose the least popular one. Fortunately, our competitors took it really sporty and went on various hiking trips around the area .” on April 21.
On April 23 , very last day!....a bit of a sad message from the organizers, as the last days of the comps had finished with 4 non-flying days…. SUCH A PITY!!!!Really feel sorry for them.
“Dear competitors and attendees of FCC 2024!
We just wanted to say a huge thank you for spending nearly two weeks with us, despite the terrible weather we experienced this year. I hope you had a blast and had some fun in Prievidza anyway! While the weather was the worst we ever had, I hope it didn’t put too much of a damper on your experience. Your understanding and patience are greatly appreciated.
I understand that this was not the outcome that anyone had expected, but I hope that we took all the bad luck for a couple of next years, and we will have a nice and successful competition in the future.”
For sure they will with all their experience.
Overall winners after 2 flying days;
Club;
1. Alexandre Fierain from France in ASW 20 with 1.582 points.
2. Philippe Lata from France in ASW 20C with 1.575 p.
3. Ferenc Tamas from Hungary in LS3 WL with 1.566 p.
combi;
1. David Mach from Czech Rep. in JS1 CTJ/18 m EVO with 1.561 points
2. Kessler & Lingureanu from Romania in ASG32MI/ 800 with 1.552 p
3. Nuutti Kankare from Finland in Ventus 3Fs/18 m with 1.539 p.
15 m;
1. Sebastian Kawa from Poland in Diana 2 with 1.234 points
2. Julien Duboc from France in Ventus 2ax with 1.218 p.
3. Piotr Jarysz from Poland in LS6a with 1.215 p.
Picture from their gallery
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—— SAP 2024….. I wrote about the several 1000 plus flights from Calicinate last week/Tuesday. All those pilots participate in a High Performance Stage organised by Alberto Sironi flying from L’Aero Club Adele Orsi . This is the 16th edition!!50 pilots from different countries were part of this SAP.
All organized by Alberto.
I remember a day in Rieti, when we had drinks with him at this caravan ,that they were talking about a set up for this SAP.
Not the very best weather in the beginning, but there was hope for the REAL weather which was there on April 16! Before 9 AM, 20 gliders were on the grid. The day ended with a lot of succes and a small incident; glider [2 seater] damaged but nobody was hurt.
3x a 750, an Italian record and a few over 1000 km flights; Best flight by my mates Boudewijn and Maurits in a ARCUS T…1.111 km!!!!
Briefing often at 8 to get EVERYTHING out of the day between 8AM and 8.30 PM.
Flights will analyzed by coaches and pilots, so you REALLY learn something. Members from the Italian squad belong to them. Also Eric Borgmann [The Netherlands] and Peter Hartmann [Austria]
The next day, Wednesday April 17, blue skies and less wind for the 4th flying day!!! AND,…..Hope for more good results.
Many pilots flew and most between 500 and 890 km in a Ventus 2 B,by French pilot Stefane Andre.!!!!
20 went up.
They share no news, but flights are on the OLC [ https://www.onlinecontest.org/] and Weglide. [https://weglide.org/ ]
I took this picture from that gorgeous field in the N of Italy taken by Alberto from their site.
The weather was not “flash” on Thursday the 5th day of the “camp” and with the prospect of 2 more good days , Alberto gave the pilots “a day off”, for a nice rest after 2 intensive days.
A 4 minute 16 beautiful video by Andrea Venturini from this 16th SAP High-performance training camp 2024 is to be seen on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFTLxGYfgc0
Friday; a ‘free” day to spend as you like. With thermal activity and wave. Several 5000 m -height-gain-flights were flown.
35 Flights and 1 up to 758 km flown by Dutch pilots Maurits and Aert in the ARCUS T..
Saturday; LAST DAY AND GOOD weather!!!!
That’s what was promised and the picture shows it was!
Great flights one also by Alberto himself flying with Davide Schiavotto in the ARCUS T;1.501 km.
2 Toppers in a top glider!!!!
My Dutch mates Maurits and Boudewijn flew 1.309 k. [ARCUS T]
Stef Andre in the Ventus2B ;1.252 km.
AND,…5 more over 1000 km. flights What a SUCCESFUL High Performance Stage 2024!
Congratulations to all!!!!!
Alberto in his comment:”Beautiful weather and wonderful flying with my friend Davide on the last day of the 16th edition of the High Performance Gliding Training Camp (SAP) which took place in Calcinate del Pesce (Varese). On the last day of the SAP, 8 flights of over 1000 km were made, 6 of which were declared and completed! This is another SAP and ACAO record!
1.412 km declared task (3 TP FAI)
2 Italian Record
Second pilot: Davide Schiavotto.”
10 over 1000 km flights in total from Italy also from Aosta and Trento Mattarello .
To finish this item a very nice picture of Davide and Alberto.
——-AERO Friedrichshafen; last week Schempp- Hirth, this week Jonker Sailplanes in my opinion the 2 biggest manufacturers at this moment.
Jonker Sailplanes had big new as well:
“We are pleased to announce that as of last Friday, DG Aviation and Jonker Sailplanes GmbH (Germany) have obtained approval from LBA for the Production Organization of JSDG Production GmbH.This significant milestone establishes a strategic partnership poised to leverage the combined technical prowess of both entities. Through this strategic collaboration, DG Aviation can build new DG aircraft with the combined expertise of both companies. Moreover, we aim to capitalize on synergies to optimize cost efficiencies and address challenges related to skilled labor shortages within the industry.”
Good idea!!!!
——In my Dutch paper I read that the weather phenomena El Nino has finished . I do believe the people from the Australian weather bureau ,whose message it was, as they are always correct and very much up to date. This El Nino started in the summer from 2023 and created high temperatures in the Pacific around the equator. It disturbed the weather in many countries.
——We had that very cold but nice artic- soaring-weather last week on April 18 with flights again over 700 km from Belgium by Wim Akkermans from Keiheuvel in the Ventus 3T. As you know that field is about half an hour driving from where I live , so I could see again the great skies, blue and huge CU’s.
My UK mates from Lasham , Roy and Andy had a good day too; 618 km in the ARCUS T.
On April 19 Lasham pilot Garry flew 912 km just missed out on a few km’s to finish his set task.
On April 20 Italy and Switzerland had 1000 km flights up to over 1.500 km.
On April 21 a 750 flown from Lasham in an ASH 25WL[25.6 m]by Nik Smirnow and young Toby Freeland.
From Grosses Moor in Germany 2x a 1000 k in an ARCUS M and VENTUS 3 M/18m!!!!
They are all dressed pretty WARM. Also in Slovakia at the FCC.
Such a pity they don’t have that nice soaring weather.
——-Tomorrow is April 25….. ANZAC DAY.…. .In Australia they commemorate all those who have served their Nation. In Tocumwal especially those, who served at RAAF Station Tocumwal between 1942 and 1960.
LEST WE FORGET!!!!!
CU next Wednesday
Cheers Ritz