Pleased to see how the main site from the WWGC has been updated[ https://wwgc2022.co.uk/ ]
You can easily find soaringspot now for the scores, the tracking and the news.
There is also news on: https://wwgc2022.co.uk/news/
Here is CD Liz!!
“The weather could not have been better for day one of the Women’s World Gliding Championships, with 10,000 cloud bases and cumulus cloud streets all round, local pilot Claudia Hill said “I’ve had a day like today once in the last 24 years that I’ve lived here in the UK”. The classes were set 3h and 3h30m AATs around the South West of Husbands Bosworth, most of the pilots finished with above average distances and in the 18m class the top pilots flew within 20km of the max distance and still finished just 3 minutes over AAT time. Everyone reported their biggest difficulty was not breaking the FL 100 airspace. The energy on the field was ecstatic when the pilots returned home reporting of 6 knot average climb rates and 130-140kmph cross country speeds.”

Indeed it was a splendid day for the “girls and there were some reactions;
—“Piloterne landede glade og tilfredse med en rigtig god flyve tur og oplevelse” by the Danish team, mentioning the girls were happy with their great flight.
—“Erfolgreicher start fuer in der WM der Frauen in WWGC”….successful start of the German ladies at the WWGC.

And Gliding shared a picture by people who are doing pretty heavy jobs , certainly in the heat but do it a volunteers with big smiles.
To not forget them here they are;

Enough help ..also from the children from the pilots;

Monday August 15…day 2…task 2…
Today is another day with totally different weather and smaller tasks. I heard that it was raining a bit during briefing. So let’s wait and see.
NO PEV today.
The next news; first launch not before 12.30 BUT…then 13.00.
For all classes!!!
Waiting for a “window”!!! BUT,…the window stayed closed, so no flying today.
Club; 188.91 km….scrubbed
Standard; 224.99 km.…cancelled
18 m; 257.48 km....no competition flying today.

Looking back at the scores from Club Class;
Judyta was yesterday on spot 2 ,then on the last spot ,but I guess after looking at the 2d logger, she is back on spot 2 .Good on her.
In standard; 3 were out due to penalties. Among them the 2 Ukraine girls.

The return of the pilots yesterday after a MAGIC flight.

Hopefully the weather improves and it will be back to soaring again tomorrow.

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The UK 18m and 20 m NATIONALS LASHAM 2022.
Lasham, United Kingdom,13 August 2022 – 21 August 2022

It was a truly busy day at Lasham yesterday. Even “they” thought so.
“Busy airfield today with close to 350 movements in just the afternoon. Over 130 launched in two hours.
It can be a bit manic if a gaggle of gliders comes back at once as seen in the photo!
Thankfully plenty of people on hand to help & all overseen by competition officials on the finish tower. Land long is the policy to keep everyone safe and there’s always plenty of space on our 600+ acre airfield.“

The Lasham Gliding Society was as happy!
“Today was exceptional, probably one of the best competition days in UK gliding history with speeds of over 150 kilometres per hour achieved on distances of over 600km. That is nearly 100 miles per hour average speed traveling across England and Wales in something without an engine!
Gliders from Lasham flew as far north west as Denbighshire in North Wales and up to 10,000ft above sea level where airspace allowed. Simply awesome in a soaring year that will be remembered for decades to come.”

I owe you the scores of 18 m, so here they are ;
It’s good that I called Leigh as a potential winner, he was runner up behind the fast Russell who flew with a speed of 157. 80 km./h.
Russell was pleased with his flight, possible the best flight he had flown in the UK. The highest cloud base he had ever seen. He had a particular good line, and was very happy to get back with ease!
There were 3 pilots that fast…flying over 156 km./h!!!!
Leigh had 156.26 km./h in his JS3 and Derren 156.12 km./h in his Ventus 3TS.
Top speed during a National competition.
On the other hand there were 11 violations, and 2 pilots had a day- disqualification. That happens not often either!
A really good day as all 43 pilots flew the task.

All 14 pilots in 20 m. finished yesterday as I told you already, but also here changes in the scores due to penalties.
Garry and Andy were pleased as well, starting off the day looking at a good strategy. Finding the best energy lines was one of them, and sticking with them.
The game changer came after the first turn on the second leg, so they said, after that, it was much easier with lift shy of 10 000 ft. which put us in a nice position!!

Monday ….August 15; day 3…task 3….
Another weather type, less good for gliding, but tasks were set anyhow and gliders gridded.
Tasks A/B/C have been set for both classes and” we are awaiting a decision depending on the weather.“
The tasks had to be changed to smaller B tasks.
18 m; 208,68 km... changed in 157.29 km…then scrubbed/cancelled!

20 m; 213.79 km...changed in 150.82 km…..So they tried hard to get 14 teams in the air and one HC team.
Time to look at the gliders; 7x an ARCUS type M [2x] or T [4x] and “just” an ARCUS.
8x a variation on a Duo Discus,….2x just a Duo Discus, 2x a T, 1 XT and 2x XLT and a W !

They “found” a window and a D task was handed out.
18 m cleared the runway and launching started for 20 m.

Starts after 4 PM and first finishes around 6 PM.
The ARCUS 20 with call sign 66, flew around with Garry and Andy ; speed 90 km./h !!!
Yesterday they won with 135 km./h. BUT..on both days Andy and Garry were the winners.
It all happens at Lasham!!!!!
Most interesting was that all pilots went for it.
Steve Jones and David Masson and Graham McAndrew were sadly enough out.
The max amount of points today was 433.
I saw pilots loose during the WGC a podium on 3 points, yes the Dutch boys lost from team UK then, so EVERY point is important!!!
A valid day….TOP!!! NO …excellent!!!

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No news from the CIM, as the weather in Rieti was not flyable either.

The weather really changed in parts of Europe. From one side I am happy with it, weeks with over 30 dgr. C…..3 heat waves in my area….. is not a real pleasure anymore.
But hopefully for the comps some more flyable days will come. I am pretty sure about that….

Cheers Ritz