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July 4th 2009
04.07. 08:56 Everybody is ready for competition day 9
!!!
8.30;Everybody is ready for the last competition day, but ….. I don’t
know, about this weather for today and that’s why we have Janne, so with extra
interest we are going to listen to him in the TC briefing and later in the
pilots briefing. It is “ cold “ and cloudy….. But…Janne might have “found “
something to fly in, as since yesterday evening, he was already “working” on
today’s weather.
Crews and pilots have rigged the gliders and are
bringing them to the grid and everybody is ready for day 9, out of the possible
11 days …not bad!! Very good!
04.07. 09:18 An AAT is set ........ 2.30 !!!
9.10; 4th of
July….. happy birthday USA!!! Janne “might “ have found the gap. He thinks
we can fly….so an AAT from 2.30 has been set, but Silva will follow the weather,
to also make this last day a good and safe one. Runway 30 is in use and the
first possible launch will be at 11.30 for the club class then standard class.
The glider which had some damage was repaired overnight. A special thank
you to the French team for their help!!!!Great spirit!!!
Good part of
the cold weather is , that there will be less mosquito’s tonight visiting the
final party. Kari , one of the tuggies , is always walking around barefoot.
Today as well; “Are you not cold Kari????” No there is no snow outside” !!!!!!
Back to the pilots briefing now!
04.07. 10:24 Janne thinks.....the pilots can go for their AAT
!
9.45; The last briefing is over . Tasks have been set ; Club class;
AAT with 3 areas ---time 2.30---distance;152.6 km/ 423.7 km [281] Standard
class; AAT with 3 areas---time 12.30---distance; 157.1 km/421.9 km[281.7 km]
While waiting, Harry Sundstrom, the man behind the PR and marketing
here, played “live” receiving a big applause. The briefing started with a very
nice presentation of the WGC in 2010 in Priviedza [Slovak Republic] . On the
music “ Blackmore’s night” , we received a fantastic invitation to fly or visit
over there, with even a view on the Bojnice castle. Thank you to the Slovak
team. A nice folder and booklet from Aerospool and the aeroklub Priviedza, "
when flying, then flying with us", with all you have to know about Priviedza,
was on our tables.
The weather; So important today! There is a frontal
system SW of Finland. Janne thinks the showers predicted for later in the day [
around 18.00 here !] will not effect the weather in the task area during the
task time. There is still some uncertainty with the evolution of the higher
clouds. So as said before ,Silva will check the weather and if possible the
pilots fly!!!
The interest in flying in the next JWGC in Musbach was
checked and Axel said “it looks we will be very full”.Great!!!!
Teemu
and his wife from the Café said thank you to everybody and offered a HAPPY HOUR
tonight between 7 and 8.
Ready to go for day 9. In the PROFILE today,
the Office Babes and young Finnish pilot Altti Korva.
04.07. 12:54 Club class in the air, not yet very high
!
12.45; No stress on the faces of the pilots but…on the face of the CD.
First launch after some delay at 12.00 for club class glider KS. Pilots were
not too high and searching for lift everywhere , ending up in one big gaggle and
...going up! Start line for club class will open at 13.11. Standard class
launches in progress now!
04.07. 13:53 Day 9 is a fact !! What will this last day bring
?????
13.45; Standard class has been launched and the start line will be
open at 13.50. What do we see looking up in the air; some nice cumulus
clouds, some blue air, some overcast and some lenties or lentie- look-alikes .
For sure not an easy day for the pilots …this last competition day of the
6th JWGC. After the launches the tuggies gave a nice flight- pass in
formation and after that a good looking low pass each. They lined up just
over the trees, flying low but not too low, which made the Aussie TC say ; “
They have to stay below the gaggles !” That says more or less how the
situation was at noon. But...this is a world championship!!!! Marina and
I , both having visited so many comps in our lives had a tear in our eyes. It
remains a special moment, such a flight pass from the tuggies!!! THANK YOU
to all the several tow pilots flying the 8 tugs, for their great job!!! Also
THANK YOU to the field runners and “their boss” Wille; what a huge job they
did!!! Compliments for all of them !
04.07. 14:30 I would like you to meet ....the ladies from the
office ; the " office-babes "!
As I said before already, everybody here is
so friendly.The office babes always have a smile on their face, help where they
can help and support where they can support. So THANK YOU to the office babes.
Great job done during this competition and before!!!!Here is their story;
----Heey, so cool to get own place in Ritz’s corner! We’re the office
“babes”, the pink team trying to serve team captains, pilots and crew as well as
we can. We are Maria (21), Krista (20) and Elina (19). I’m sure I can say this
behalf of all of us that we really have enjoyed this competition with so many
interesting and nice people around. Early mornings and late evenings feel
lighter with smiling faces! We have all spent pretty much every summer in
Räyskälä ever since we were kids, Krista with the longest “career” as
EFRY-local. She first came here at the age of 6 months. Me and Elina have both
GPL but we are still in the beginning of learning this best aviation sport in
the world. In real life we are all studying, and at the moment we are having a
summer vacation. Two of us, Krista and Elina are about to start university in
the autumn and I’m going to continue my business studies (next autumn in
Germany!). We are happy to see this event going so well and all people from
around the world getting along with each other. We hope the contacts we made
here will last and that we will see all of you in later competitions! Thank you
for these unforgettable weeks and hopefully see you somewhere!----
04.07. 15:08 Most pilots left quickly after the line opened
!
14.30 update; Several gliders in standard class dropped their water while
being launched! But…it seems not too bad on the way up to the first cylinder SW
from Rayskala . While listening to the pilots they are chirpy , have good lift
.The cloud base allowed for today in the sectors is 1834 m[6014 QNH] .But…they
have to come back too and it is overcast here at the moment. The first to
leave in club class was Australian pilot, Nathan Johnson at 13.18.The last ones
the Swedish pilots at 14.04. Both classes have the same task, so they might
be able to help each other today. First in Standard class left at 13.50, the
Dutch and the Germans, no tactics …just go!! The French started last at 14.01.
They [ st. ] fly now one hour and have reached the 2d cylinder.
You
can look at the pictures from the launches and fly-pass on this last flying day
on the site already NOW!
04.07. 15:14 I would like you to meet ......Altti Korva as well
today !
Flying in Finland means that atleast one Finnish pilot should be
able to present himself in the PROFILE. Here he is young and friendly Altti,
flying in standard class .
----Greetings all, I´m a 21 year old student
from Espoo, just east from Helsinki. I don´t have any aviation background in my
family, so my interest into soaring and aviation in general comes from somewhere
deeper inside... Anyway, thanks to the generous sponsorship of my godfather, I
had a chance to fly my lisence. I started gliding "career" in 2004 at Nummela
airfield, 40 km south of Räyskälä. Because the airspace at Nummela is quite
narrow due to the Helsinki TMA, one has to push further from the airfield to fly
longer days. Partly this encouraged me to start cross country flights fairly
early.
My interest to competition flying grew year after year, so after
working in the competition organisation of the Finnish nationals in 2006 and
2007, I participated in the nationals of 2008 held here at Räyskälä. Although we
had only two competition days, the Finnish Junior Team´s captain seemed to be
somewhat satisfied, so he asked if I would be interested in flying in the
Finnish team in the JWGC 2009. Naturally I was eager to take part in the action,
so after the nationals I´ve been flying together with the team preparing for
this event.
From my part I would like to thank everyone for contributing
to the great feeling at this competiton and all the best for the last day!
Regards, Altti Korva (N3)----
04.07. 15:41 First arrivals soon expected ! Tension is growing
!!
15.30; Not long anymore before the first club class pilots come back. And
then ....we still do not know anything!! How far did the pilots go in the
cylinders… with what speed do they fly…is there delay by rain… or by mistakes…
We have to wait and the flight recorders will tell us, what has happened
today!!! They fly back in the direction of Rayskala where the cylinder is
just N. from us. Over here it looks grey, 8/8 of cu’s!!! We just wait and see,
tension is rising now! Will go to the finish line now!
04.07. 16:19 Lot's of gliders have arrived home and are still
arriving! Great last day !
15.15; And then we saw them…… some finishing as
TK and KS, both at 15.44/ 47 ,some flying high over in 8-formation and 4-
formation to make some more kilometers in the cylinder. Then we had to look well
as from 2 sites gliders arrived with big speed. Here they are; between time
15.57 and 16.08 and they are still coming in. YX, HS, CI, 74, IS, AY, BF,
149, IY, NX, 28, PM, FL, Y4, Y1, 4J, TW, GR, TB, IV, 2A, 2C, CG, TW, GX, 57, GX,
SM, H2, C1, IC, FU, AX, IV, V20.
04.07. 17:10 Everybody back or accounted for !
17.00; Well
dear friends it is over. Everybody is back and we had 2 out landings for S and
SF. More gliders arrived home as 21, AA, ET, V1, RD, ER, . Before
already more landings from the next gliders, as I saw them drive to the trailer
and I still did not see them all; BR, C41, EA, XL, 99, Y, WE and BW 3 who drove
with the German flag on the tail of the glider to the trailer. It looks we will
have a German winner in each class!!! But…I will wait till I have the
official results.
It is terribly cold outside less then 16 dgr. and we
could feel one drop of rain, but it is still dry. I just congratulated Silva
on this big success. What a great director he was!!! With Mari as his deputy we
had a “dream team”. It looked always as if everything was easy ,but over the
last 2 years they prepared their selves so well, that they were NOW ready for
everything.
04.07. 17:55 Congratulations to all pilots for their safe and
skilled flying ! And thank you !!!
17.15; The scores will be the last part
of this competition and for sure Ville will have them as soon as he can together
with his team. They did a great job. Thanks Ville! The safety and rescue
team with Nalle was mostly busy to keep the safety at the airfield ,stopping
people to do the wrong things! They had to put some plasters on as well but that
part was luckily not busy. Thank you to them! A big thank you to the chef of
the technical department Wellu [ scrutineer] and his team and a special THANK
YOU to the TUG MASTER Tikli Makelainen.
The meteorologists, were spot
on, so the task- setting -team could every day rely on them. Heikki and Janne THANK YOU! I guess we will have rain around
18.00 as Janne said so!
And
last but not least …where would I have been without this great webmaster,
building up this easy- to –use- site which looks, as I heard from so many
people, just great. KATJA did a MARVELLOUS job!!! THANKS KATJA!!!![ also for the
nice red bike]
And now I am busy to say thank you, I will add
straightaway the jury members and stewards. I was sitting with them in the same
yellow –box and I saw how hard they work. But we all had fun-time too. The jury
[ 3] checked the results every day by hand, but had no official complaints or
so, which made their life easy, but the 2 stewards are helping/ supporting the
organization and had to be up every day early to advise with task setting and
other things and with problems as warnings and penalty points in the evening.
What a great competition this was! The weather was more then friendly.
May be a THANK YOU to the weather-gods is appropriate as well. For sure the
“young ones” go home with fantastic memories on a “cool “ time, to speak their
language. Some flew their first 500 km., some the longest flight ever in their
life. Longtime friendships have been established going world wide. Finland
was great to all of us!!!! Thank you FINLAND!!! Thank you RAYSKALA!!!
Off to the motel for winter clothes and tomorrow I will be back with the
Ritz Corner from Holland, as I leave straight after the prize giving , to catch
my flight. So all about the official closure and about the dinner tonight
will be only on tomorrow evening , sorry …but….I know that there will be lots of
pictures to look at.
Please look for the results to that site. They are
preliminary now, then unofficial and then later in the night official and then
we know for sure if we can congratulate the 2 German pilots with their title,
the runners up with their great achievement and the 3d prize winners with
theirs. Congratulations to all pilots for their skilled and safe flying.
This was Ritz from Rayskala. CU tomorrow for one more Corner !
04.07. 18:11 Some info about the Challenger Trophies... by Marina
!
Before receiving the prizes tomorrow it is nice to know a little bit
more about the 2 Challenger Trophies which will be presented to the winners
tomorrow from the 6th JWGC .
Here is the story from Marina.Thank you!
---The Giulia Incisa della Rocchetta Challenge Cup
History The
Giulia Incisa della Rocchetta Challenge Cup was donated by the Italian Air Force
(Aeronautica Militare) in 2007 on the occasion of the Junior World Gliding
Championships in Rieti, Italy, in memory of Giulia, a member of the Italian Air
Force sport squadron, who was killed in an outlanding in Romorantin, France,
during a local gliding contest, just before she was to compete in the Junior
World Gliding Championships in 2005. It was awarded retroactively to the winners
of the Standard Class in the Junior World Gliding Championships in 1999,
2001, 2003 and 2005.
List of FAI Junior Standard Class Champions from
1999
History The Rieti Challenge Cup was donated by Associazione Rieti FAI
World Gliding 2007/2008 on the occasion of the Junior World Gliding
Championships in Rieti, Italy, in 2007. It was awarded retroactively to the
winners of the Club Class in the Junior World Gliding Championships in 1999,
2001, 2003 and 2005.
List of FAI Junior Club Class Champions from 1999
· 1999 Robert Scheiffart, Germany. Terlet (Netherlands)
· 2001
Peter Toft, Denmark. Issoudun (France)
· 2003 Michael Streit, Germany.
Nitra (Slovak Rep.)
· 2005 Christoph Nacke, Germany. Husbands Bosworth
(UK)
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