——This is the picture, out of 300, who won the Dutch aviation-photo – award 2020!!!!The winner is Raymond Esveldt.
Congratulations!!!!!
As shared by the KNVvL.
—–Unexpected 1000 km.-flights are the best. Here is Lumpies story, with the message “Now that’s a bucket list item done ….”:
1.126 km. with a speed of 126 km./h in his JS 3/18m. from the Airport Cunderdin in Western Australia.
Always nice to hear a story from the “horses mouth.”
“Well that was a hoot ….
All started at 8pm last night when I got to Cunderdin, rigged LP under lights in the awesome Soarabilty Hangar (Thanks again Damien) as I knew it would be an early start in the morning. Skysight was spot on today with the WX so a launch at 10.12 went as planned. The air changed noticeably 4 times during the flight, there was a different air mass south of NGN …. still good though, only 16% circling to the first turn point. The long leg was just that, I had to change gears a few times and picked the eyes out of the sky, still over 135kph at the second turn, but the third leg was all over the show. I couldn’t read the clouds, everywhere I tried….. nothing ! Reboot the brain and started again, things happening better now, although I’m sure the day cycled during that period as well….. turned the last turn point and just milked everything going home….Highest was 9k AGL twice, spent most of the day between 5 and 8k. 1000k in WA was on the bucket list 
Thanks team GCWA …. 1126 kms at 126kph …. great WA day !”
“Made the most of the day”
Another 1000 was flown on December 12 as well, also from Western Australia but now from Southern Cross by Norm Bloch, who got his JS 3 at the same time as Lumpy. I was there , in Tocumwal, when they got their gliders…Butch “go” one too.
Norm flew an FAI triangle from 1.005 km. with a speed of 123 km./h.
Norm mentioned ” Nice day yet not booming, proves what can be done.”
So right!!!
—–Talking about super weather,….. look at “the heart of the continent” ,…..with other words Alice Springs. This picture was shared by Robert with the message “Nice day in Alice. And better it will be in the days to come… .“
—–More words about SUPER WEATHER, but now on the other side of the world. 4x an FAI 1000 km triangle,…not bad!!!
Bernd Dolba flew in the Super Shark 1.181 km in total and a triangle of 1.029 km. from Veronica in Namibia.
Father and son Petr and Radek Krejcirik, [CZ] both well known from WGC comps, enjoyed such a flight as well, same glider same airfield;1.123 km and an FAI triangle of 1.110 km.
“Our” Israelian soaring-mates Rafi and Avron flew and FAI 1000-triangle as well in the ARCUS M.
Already longer there is Dieter Prang and he flew one too.
Several 1000 km flights from Bitterwasser and Worcester as well last Monday.
FULL-TOP-GLIDING has started again!!!!
Yesterday great weather too, but “only” 1 x 1000 km by Rafi and Avron [1.014/962 km] and OUCH,….999 /965 km, by the Krejcireks.
——Benjamin Neglais , from Schempp-Hirth, was the one to test a brand new Discus-2c FES above the Alb Plateau for a full 1h check about glider behavior, sturdiness and all systems inside. Strong West wind was blowing so ridges were usable. Unexpected as there was no wind on ground and we even took off facing East .
After the flight he shared some data:
“Technical data of the flight shows 1.8m/s average with 17kWh output (max 23kWh) and total gain with engine without optimization above 900m with 2 phases @17kWh and one @8kWh plus one extra just for long leveling @5kWh for 10 minutes. So a gain above 1000m was possible. Great glider as always and great FES system.”
CU next week, just before Christmas, by the way today I turn 74!!!
Thank you already for he early-bird-birthday-messages.
Easy- going-covid-19-day! We got a FULL lockdown on our Dutch plates yesterday, so max 2 visitors on one day!!!
We will survive that too,…no worries.
Cheers Ritz
