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June 26th The third official competition day
26.06. 08:58 TERVETULOA !!
8.45; Good morning everybody.
Early mornings here .Grid opens at 7.30 and when I arrive for breakfast at
8.15, some gliders are already on it and been at the scale. I checked with
some people about the sudden death of Michael Jackson, but not all of them seem
to have him as his idol! For sure it hits a few! Off to the TC briefing now
and the briefing.
26.06. 09:02 Todays tasks !!!
Tasks for today competition day
3; Club class; polygon with 4 points;-----359.1 km Standard class
;polygon with 5 points-----438,9 km First launch at 11.30 Runway in use 08.
Back later.
26.06. 10:44 Ready to go for competition day 3 !
9.55;
Briefings are over . And…as the first launch is supposed to be at 11.30
there is a lot of time, specially for the teams as they like their discussion
before flight and straight after briefing. Items from the TC meeting came
back in the pilots briefing and the most important was the finishes from
yesterday. 11 Warnings were given for low finishes and dangerous maneuvers
while finishing ….that should NOT happen!!!! I totally agree with that. One
warning for taxiing in the parking area.
I still think finish line 12 is
the most beautiful in the world BUT….as Silva said yesterday morning already in
the briefing, you are not allowed to fly too low over the lake. Some pilots did
“forget “ this yesterday and got a warning today. Quite rightly!!!! It IS
dangerous! It is really spectacular to see 7 gliders arrive over the trees
and see them in some kind of formation over the lake, but it is scaring to see
them arrive too low. I am sure the pilots got the message today if not…they
will be punished on the hand with a stick, like in the past , by Silva himself
!!!!
The King of POP is dead, even Michael made the briefing this
morning as first item.
Sven, flying glider 47, celebrates his 21
birthday today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY SVEN .
Doping control is possible . No
exemption notes have been given to the organizers 21 days before the comps , so
everybody seems to be healthy and we should have no problems.
The
winners of yesterday were honored with a bottle and a cap with winner day 2 on
it. In club class Will Ellis [WE] from the UK and in standard Felix Schneebelie
[KC] from Switserland were the recipients. Well done guys !
The
unofficial scores from day 1 are out ,so 24 hours before they are official.
26.06. 10:47 More.....
I missed the last part of my story ,
so here you are; Meteo; We are still under the influence of the “ high” .
There is an Easterly flow . Temperatures 26 dgr. at 16.00 Wind from the East
with 5 knots on the ground and about 10 at the boundary layer. Visibility 50 km
plus !!! At this stage now clouds visible!!!!
Briefing was finished
with some words for the “boys”, by Silva. The ladies in the office are
“getting crazy”….PLEASE WEAR A T SHIRT when you visit them!!!!!! So with
laughter the briefing was finished.
Back later!
26.06. 13:23 Start gates open, pilots on their way!
13.00;
First glider to go up today was V1 in standard class. Smooth launchings and at
12.02 they were up in the air. Start gate will open for them[ is already open
now,] at 12.32. Not so many clouds today at 11.00 ,but at 12.00 a few more
have popped up. Axel, chief steward and in the safety committee, who was
launched first said over the radio that he was already at 1700 m. so it looks
like another great day.
After a short delay from 8 minutes to let the
colonna cars and bicycles move again behind the safety car, N3 was launched in
Club class. An extra small delay, as a very observant tuggie saw some locals
looking and enjoying our beautiful sport….. in his flight path. He made a go-
around to give the marshals time,[ who were there in a flash shouting out loud
with their low voice as only Finnish people can do, ] to tell them, they were
definitely on the wrong spot. At 13.46 launches were finished and in 30
minutes the gate will open.[13.16] Open now too!!!
Compliments to the
field runners , they run like “mad” and work so hard to get the cable as quick
as possible to the crew to hook it on the glider.2 Of the boys are sons from
Finnish top pilot Antti Lehto and…also here we have girls ,[ I saw 2,] with real
”girl-power”!!! To the 8 tuggies ; WELLDONE!!!!
With relatively
short tasks, there might be a bit more tactical flying today, specially with
their starttime. What weather will give the best speed to fly around? Early or a
bit later ??
Back soon !
26.06. 13:46 I would like you to meet .....Hubi !
13.30;
While waiting for the pilots to come back, I try to introduce you to interesting
people by writing a profile . They do it either by their selves or I interview
them. The first profile is from somebody I really got to admire in a very short
time and….I am not the only one.; Hubi the video man. As he says: “ We both do
some kind of similar work.We want to share with the people the feeling for our
great sport.” Here is what he wrote to me;
------So you already know
my Name Hubertus W. Huvermann. Of course everyone calls me Hubi. I´m 25
years old and I´m from Germany. I´m a gliderpilot since 1997. In my club I work
as a flightinstructor in a honary post. In generell I´m studying fine Arts
at the University in Essen. The whole videothing is just for fun. I started
making gliding videos and I put them on YouTube. Than I got a call by the
organisation of the WGC in Luesse 2008. They asked me, if I would make some
videos of the competition. So I did. In Luesse I met quite a lot people that
liked my videos. I met the finnish team and they asked me to come to Räyskälä to
do it again. They called and I just came. Quite simple. It´s good if people like
what I do. It´s a pleasure for me to be part of an event that makes the people
from all over the world come together. by the way: It´s quite a lot work to
do, to get a video ready to play it. It keeps me up all night just to present it
right before the briefing.... than I go on shooting the new pictures for the
next video... so the things keep going...-----
Thank you Hubi and now I
have read how much time it cost him to do his job so well a bigger THANK YOU!
Time for a break now!
26.06. 15:11 SUPER weather !!!!!!On the first legs both classes
go like a "rocket" !!!
15.00; No analyses from start times yet, as indeed a
tactical game is played up there high in the air! In standard class the first
pilots , the 3 Germans and one Danish pilot, started at 13.33 and one hour later
not all start times are on. In club class the first to leave was Tim from
Holland at 13.39. Nearly one hour later also here not all start times are on
yet. So in both classes at least nearly ONE hour difference.
It
seems SUPER weather, at least the first leg goes with big speed as I hear. In
standard class some pilots have had their 2d TP. I also hear words as “5 m.”
“CLOUDSTREET’ on the whole first leg……But they are out of reach…. now we can’t
hear them anymore….. But you can follow the pilots with the spot-
tracker-system. Maybe a bit late but they are in gliders KC, 149, SI, V1, W8,
and W8, XC, N1 TF. Have a look! You can also tune in on the team pages from
different countries by clicking on their flag under pics & stories.
26.06. 16:31 On their way back from up North !
16.00
update; Pilots must be up N. now, about 172 km out. Here in Finland the airspace
is not the easiest . Every day the pilots find on their task information, which
airspace –zones are open and how high they can fly in them. If you stick to the
rules , it is no problem at all. Today most zones have 2300 m as level and
one 1400 m. They are marked as p.e. K,J,N,or Z1, Z2. It is good to hear that
pilots sometimes warn each other, “Be aware of…” so that no unnecessary and
"very expensive " penalty points have to be given. It is even more difficult
when the nice clouds are in the “forbidden zone” and it is blue in your zone.
In between crews enjoy swimming IN the lake or boating ON the lake,
shopping, biking, sleeping, ....!The weather is not only nice in the air but
also for us on the ground!
The organization has made some safety areas
at finish line 12 [at the lake,] as they expect local guests/visitors for the
weekend!
26.06. 17:27 First standard class gliders back home
!
17.15. The first gliders in standard class have arrived back home ,
much quicker then I expected! The next hour a lot of gliders will come back!!!!
Weather still GOOD!!!!! Anxious to find out who took the right decision, the
early or the late starters.
After his flight I will have a short
interview with Killian from France for tomorrows profile. More news later!
And…look at the result site for times .
26.06. 19:22 Another splendid day has finished !
18.45; Some
pilots did not take any risk of being too low over the lake and they came in
with a nice speed finish. A few times after 18.00 ,we had peak hour, with lot’s
of gliders arriving and crews were running , as they were asked not go in by
car, but push the glider first to the site. The finish line 12 is not wide but
very long. This worked well.
From pilots flying hors concourse I heard
that the weather more and more improved during the day and was at its best
around 16.00. So we can “translate” this in the scores for today and looking at
the early and later starters, the later ones had the bigger advantage of the
weather. Before, the days decreased a bit in the end. In any case it seems
that the Dutch pilots had a good day with 2 day winners at this stage!!! Patrick
in standard class with a nice speed of 123.5 km/h and Rene with 110 km /h. Great
effort!
Two times World champion Markku Kuittinen flew over today on a
500 km task using Rayskala as a TP . He is out of competition- flying since 2
years, but still flies for hobby. Nice to hear his call sign MK again.
I had my interview with Killian, what a great young man. That will
be on tomorrow! A long day , but a super one!!! bye for now!
Cheers
Ritz
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Winners 26th June
Patrick van Breemen-Schneider Netherlands
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------So you already know
my Name Hubertus W. Huvermann. Of course everyone calls me Hubi. I´m 25
years old and I´m from Germany. I´m a gliderpilot since 1997. In my club I work
as a flightinstructor in a honary post. 
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