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After Briefing

Tasks were set at briefing and before the task was over they had obviously made a mistake with the Open class A, so there was a replacement with task C.  Same task but with a different start point for the task.  It is  longer speed tasks today (Open 481 km, 18m. 491 km, & 15m. 420 km.)  for all the classes and will be taking them into Poland.  Benno says it will be a very pretty flight!  Hope they don’t spend too much time having to look at the scenery from low level.  AAT tasks have been given if they change to the fall-back.

There is a low over the Baltic Sea, which has influence of maritime air again in the contest area.  They are expecting strong winds (20 – 30 kts) throughout the day, there could be some good cloud streets, and thermals 2 – 3 m/s.  The metman expects it to be not dissimilar to yesterday’s weather.  Maximum temperature about 23°C, and cloud base perhaps up to 2000 m. to the SE.

First launch is expected at 11.15 a.m. with the 15m. first, then 18m., and finally Open class.

 

Tuesday 5th August

Greetings to all from a very blustery Lusse this morning.  Cloudy conditions, with low cloud and strong winds.  I would imagine that the bases may rise a bit later and hopefully the clouds will break up – but then it is difficult to understand European weather conditions.  Yesterday did not look so wonderful, but in fact most of the pilots had a good day.  Though for some it was a disaster, with a few outlandings.

If you are keeping track on the official website, you will see that Laurens had another good day and was 2nd for the day.  He is now overall winner in the Open class.  Both Attie and Quintin had interesting flights and Attie was pleased with the performance of the JS1 as he managed to overtake several other pilots on the final leg home.  Attie was 24th yesterday, which puts him now 30th overall, and Quintin 35th for yesterday, 36th overall.

Last night there was a short Team Managers’  meeting.  One of the German pilots outlanded early yesterday and sadly he didn’t see a deer in the field until he was committed to the landing and it was too late.  The deer and the glider collided and this resulted in a damaged glider that could not be repaired overnight.   (Sadly the deer didn’t survive.)  In the interests of  good sportsmanship, the team managers concurred with the decision of the Contest Director and Stewards that the pilot would be allowed to replace his glider as it was not really his fault.  So already I see this morning that he has another glider and that it was being scrutineered.

The Australians hosted a party last evening with sausages, bread rolls, beers and wine, and there was also a magician who kept everyone entertained with his tricks – he was very good.  He also contorted those looooong thin balloons into a variety of different shapes!   Thanks to Australia.

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