Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday May 6 2010 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
Summer really started on June 1 and on June 2 clouds popped up with a great blue sky as background, while I was enjoying my lunch in the garden, after been “hurt”by the dentist. It was not only fantastic soaring weather in Holland but also in the Scandinavian countries . Of course I looked straight away on Thursday and yes the weather WAS good with flights in Holland up to 600 km. Cloud streets but also tough wind were the main ingredients. In Belgium up to 695 km and in Finland up to 836 km. With the Europeans and the JWGC in Rayskala in mind, I KNOW how good the weather can be there!!!!!
In Eskilstuna the German guests have had more fun and on Thursday what ever they flew discus, LS3, Kestrel 17, ASW 27, ASH 26, they ALL flew over 700 km.!!!!! Best even 903 km in a discus 2T 18m. What a day that must have been! Can’t remember we had THAT great weather during the WGC.
Last Friday lots of pilots were ready at our National Gliding Center Terlet for a big flight. No rain anywhere to be seen on the radar and as I heard clouds popping up around noon. What do you want more with a temperature of 24 dgr. It was good but not very good with flights up to 300km. Belgium had from St. Hubert, where the Nationals were flown a few weeks ago , a nice a flight of 755 km with an LS10 /18m.
Yesterday and today we enjoy up to 27 dgr. YES …this IS summer.
And…..Eskilstuna goes stronger and stronger; Sweden and more of Scandinavia is “Hot”. Two of the German guests even flew a declared FAI TRIANGLE of 750 km.!!!!!!THAT’s soaring!!!!!!
In Morocco nearly every day one of the big ASH 25 EB gliders flies a 1000 km. even 1.236km this time!!!!! And with nice speed as well; 129 km/h. The day before a 1.311 km. flight was made here with a speed of 136 km/h..And yesterday another 1.253 km.Guy Bechtold stays at home in Luxembourg and flies a 1000 km flight as well!!! His so maniest!
In Plasy in Czech. Rep. they had on the last day of flying last Friday tasks between 311 and 359 for the 3 classes. Jan Louda won in club class and ended 3 overall. In 15 m. Tomas Suchanek won the last day and topped the list overall.
Like in Holland during the Nationals , pair-flying is productive. Also in the Italian Nationals for 15 m class it “helped” Stefano and Thomas to be on top places. Day 3 they won in their Diana’s and again many outlandings. NO day in standard , nobody flew over 100 km. Best was 81 km. All pilots outlanded!
Day 4 was cancelled due to bad visibility and day 5 gave nice tasks again over 300 for Standard and over 400 for 15 m. class. Peter Hartman won in standard class and is back on spot 1 overall. Only 2 arrived back home!!! All pilots in 15m outlanded but Thomas and Stefan flew 209 and 171 of the set 269 km and are still at the top.
Last day was won by Peter Hartmann again and he did win the CUP. ATLEAST that is what the scores say. The news tells us that Corrado Costa is the standard class champion. Some pilots left for every flight from Thiene but never landed back there. Also yesterday lots of outlandings. In 15 m. Thomas is the new Italian champion winning with 19 points over friend and team mate Ghiorzo.
For sure you have heard about Johan van der Sloot. Yes he is born Dutch , but lived at Aruba, where his mum still lives. We are not proud on him. It seems after he was accused of murdering American schoolgirl Natalee Holloway, 5 years ago, he killed a Peruvian young lady [21] now. He was caught in Chile , brought to the border of Peru, where he was given into custody to the police of Peru. WHEN… he did it and in my eyes this is pretty sure….he might be in jail up to 35 years and in Peru that is NO fun!!!!But… when it is proven he killed both girls, I think this is OK!
How sick are you when you ask the mother of Natalee after 5 years, 250.000 dollar in exchange for information about how her daughter was killed and where she is…….That happened in the same time. He is a poker-player and must have lost a lot of money.
Did not even know that Holland has 90 people in a prison in Peru, most of them dealing in drugs, either “used by smarter people then they are ” and caught more or less innocent or because they try to get drugs out or in the country because of greed/ read easy earned money!
Since October 2004 NO Garuda airplane was welcome at Schiphol Airport. Last Wednesday the first Garuda Indonesia flight arrived under a “big spray of water ” by the Dutch fire-brigade. All those years they were, due to mismanagement on a black list and the European Union excommunicated them, but that embargo has been lifted. Garuda wants to be a partner now in the SkyTeam,with Air France_KLM ,Delta and Alitalia.
Received from one of my friends a tip for an interesting animation found on ” you tube “of the crash with the Turkish Airlines TK 737. It is a bit more then 5 minutes , but every minute , even when you do know what happened , keeps you looking. Here is the link;
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid18065281001?bclid=0&bctid=83635223001
That’s it …you are up to date …..see you next time after a few days with rain,
Ritz