The great weather in Horsham continued .
“The Horsham Week competition has been operating continuously since 1967 and is an opportunity for friendly competition flying in some of the safest country in Australia (nearly every paddock is a one mile square airfield standard surface). The Horsham Club wanted this competition to be one where pilots who were quite inexperienced at competition flying could be welcome, feel that they were amongst friends and mentors, and where the fear of outlandings would not stop people from having fun.”
Task 6 , last Thursday was good for a 3 hour AAT in CLUB class and Jaroslaw Mosiejewski in his PIK 20 b is “on fire”. Every day in the top 4 , so very consistent and twice daily winner. With 243 km in time 2.59 ,he was now the best on 2 consecutive days.[80.86 km./h]
After 6 flying day’s they had a NO -TASK- day, to continue with the last day
Task 7….194 km; Not only Jarowslaw was good, there was one pilot even better; Steve Jinks in his Mosquito. He also won 3 days in a row plus the last day; speed 113 km./h.
Overall scores in club class;
1. Jaroslaw Mosiejewski in PIK 20b with 5.374 points.
2. Steve Jinks in Mosquito with 4.814 p.
3. David Meredith in St Jantar with 4.660 with a speed of 121 km./h
4. Thomas & Buelter in the Janus with 4.612, so pretty close.
Task 6 in standard/15 m. had a 3 hour AAT as well and it was good to see that Tim Shirley, scorer and CD at many comps , even in my time, won the day in the ASW 28; 259 km. in time 3.14.
8 Started 6 finished and one of the “outlanders” was Jack Hart. He was overall winner every day till now , but had an off day and was out after 161 km.,. Yes it’s sad but it happens ….as scores were close, he dropped from 1 to 4 and that hurts.
Gordon Trollip in his LS 6 was runner up and leads now with 100 points on Tim.
Task 7….195 km.2 pilots from Benalla won the last day. Gordon in his LS 6 was 4th but good enough over the whole period to catch the first spot.
3 Pilots flew their selves in the 5000 scores.
Here are the overall results in standard/15 m;
1. Gordon Trollip in LS 6 with 5.366 points.
2. David Nugent in LS 3 with 5.213 p.
3. Tim Shirley in ASW 28 with 5.185 p.
Task 6 in open/18 m. …2.45 AAT, was for a change not for Ryan in his Nimbus 3T , he was 3d, not for John Orton in the ASG 29,… he was runner up, BUT for Michael Durrant in the 18m. LS 8T ; 270 km in time 2.46.
Task 7….261 km; Ryan and John and Arnold Niewand flew with a speed of 137,135 and 134 km./h. over the track. Terry , was the last pilot to start and was 5th, but remained on spot 3 overall.
Here are their overall results;
1. Ryan Driscoll in Nimbus 3T/25.5 m with 5.992 points.
2. Michael Durrant in LS 8T/18m. with 5.491 p.
3. Terry Cubley in Ventus 2CXT/18m. with 5.285 p.
4. Arnold Niewand in ASG 29/18 m. with 5.253 p.
The final dinner , always nice after a good competition. I was really pleased to see that Lorelle is still doing the catering there. I got to know her in the mid eighties.
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News from :WeGlide on February 10.
“Are you dreaming of going gliding in South Africa? 
To promote gliding worldwide and to support young pilots, Jonker Sailplanes invites the best juniors worldwide to participate in the South African club class nationals. 
There will be two winners each year, the two juniors who win the WeGlide Sprint ranking for Europe and for the rest of the world.
Read more about the JS Challenge here: magazine.weglide.org/jonker-sailplanes-challenge/
Many thanks to the amazing team from Jonker Sailplanes for giving juniors this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
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News about comps;
The New Zealand Northern Regionals between February 5 and 12 flown from Taupo , literally “fell in the rain”.
23 Pilots were ready to go for it!!!
“We have to accept that sometimes we are the pigeon and sometimes we are the statue.
This week Mother Nature has reminded us that she is the one that decides, and right now we are the statue, getting rained on very solidly.
Forecast conditions do not indicate any possibility of task flying for the next week so we have made the hard call to cancel the Northern Regionals for 2021/22.
Bugger.” by Hugh de Lautour .I really like his way of writing!!!!
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Still some great after-summer flights on the OLC, for South Africa and Australia.
Worcester; Swiss pilots Andreas Spielmann and Rudi Hiltbrunner flew in the JS 3 and DG 800B several long flights;786 km, 726 and 684 km.
Temora; Adam Woolley flew 721 in his Ventus 3T.
Narromine; Attila Bertok with 733, 642, 526, 660, 548 , 529 and 617 km. Nice week-out-in-Narromine for Attila. He flies his ASW 20.
Tocumwal; yesterday 572 km. by Grant in his St. Jantar and 524 by Swiss Chris.[ASW27]
AND, yesterday as well, a great long wave flight from Klaus Ohlmann from Serres in France in an Antares flying up to 5597 MSL and crossing borders again.; 1.104 km.
Here is what he said about it;
“45 minutes late, starting under light rain and 8 octas clouds there, where I hope to find wave: Not really promising! But once in the air, look for solutions: Downstream there is usually adiabatic outdrying. So it was.
Crossing the Rhone worked quite well. Now the clouds are welcome to see the rotors: Happy crossing to the Pyrenees and great alignments as well marked with nice rotor puffs in Spain:
I made only half the way to the west in order to be back at home for the Late night Mistral presentation.
Thanks for all the great help of all concerned AIS.”
Today is the 3d day of the Beverley Regatta, hosted by the Beverley Soaring Society. Beverley is located 130 km east of Perth [Western Australia].It’s the base from Norm Bloch who participates and flew 498 km.in his JS3 yesterday. Andrew King flew nearly 400 km [390] in a LAK 12. John Welsh flew in the Hornet 387 km.
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Spring is in the air, I can see it in my garden.
And to finish this post, a great picture from Ian Atherton
Not a lot happening, but the season at this part of the world starts soon.
CU next week
Cheers Ritz