Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday july 1 2012
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July started today and in 28 days I will be in Uvalde. June by the way was , weatherwise a pretty miserable month in Holland. Also on the OLC not ONE day showed over 2000 flights , while in May we could see a few. Only 4 days with over 1000 flights meaning world wide the weather was less good for soaring then in May.
It seems according to weather-online that we had here in Holland, 167 sun hours instead of the average 194 and more rain 100 ml. instead of the average 68.
Time to move soon to hot Texas!
Uvalde line up in 2011! picture from their site!
The last report from the EUROGLIDE organizers on Thursday was: —“19:45 – Resume: M1, JB and ZZ finished by car with enough credits (they think)
<p>18:25 – ZZ landed at Grefrath 14.14Z. Will he be the first in the Gliders-class? He has enough credits. Depends on JB and M1, they landed out about 30km from Malden.em>
This means that the first PURE gliders have arrived after 2350 km. as well. Good on them!
In Pocuinai in Lithuania the 15 m. class Nationals are flown between June 23 and today. I was impressed a couple of years ago with Vitautas Racimavisius, who flew as junior in Räyskälä and was TC as well. Now he flies the Nationals and compares his soaring with that of 28 other pilots and is doing well, even winning day 3 in the LAK 19 , a small 1 hour 30 AAT!He flew in 1.42 a distance of 113 km. and gained 153 points.
Day 1 had 169 km. and day 2 268 km. After that, 3 days of “rest” and on Friday soaring again with a good day for “a ” Vitautas but not “mine”; he landed after 343 km. while the winner flew 349 km., exactly the task they got . Makes me think Vitautas was fast but had a problem in the last moment or a too marginal final glide, costing him 559 points that day??
In Italy 8 teams of 2-seaters are ready to start the Nationals from Voghera. Alongside 22 pilots fly to win the Cup of Oltrepo.
Quaurzazate; no soaring picture today but as you can see the solar planes have the full attention from the Schmelzer family.Today a picture from a special solar plane , called Khartan see above, , [according to Tijl,] performing in movies as Kingdom of Heaven and Hildalgo. Most “impressive” is Bert sr. “keeping the camel under control”.
80 Years old; The gliding club at Terlet, called the GeZC,the Gelderse Soaring Club, celebrated their anniversary yesterday with 2 seater flights for young and old guests, aerobatic demonstrations by the FOX team and a hot air-balloon. And… a BBQ with lot’s of beer to finish this remarkable birthay
Only next month the club from Venlo will be 80 years old too and flying 75 years from the airfield of Venlo. Time to celebrate long-time-soaring in Holland. They invited everybody to fly or drive in for a good night out with a concert of the Orchester from the Royal Airforce, on July 14.
To finish just the message that my Aussie friends in the East of Australia enjoy great winter weather with flights up to 400 km. And…that I have severe problems with my blog as it does n’t want to go in “visual-mood”, it stays in HTML and you can’t work well then, all sentences bounce up and down and pictures will not go to the place I want them to be. Sorry,but ….the good news is that I have friends sorting it out. More news today in my soaringcafeblog at www.soaringcafe.com