Crewing in Slovakia

What could a crew ask for except good weather and fine dining. Prievidza has supplied all of these requirements.

It is summer in Slovakia and the pre worlds are also the Slovak Nationals and all of the local pilots and crew are making the most of the good weather and reducing their clothing in an effort to keep a tan for 2010, they sure have not any concerns regarding sun cancer :-)

Organisationally what more could you ask for in any large competition than a adequate number of identical tow planes... here they have 10 Dynamic Untralights made here in Priedvidza... see www.aerospool.sk for some info, great for club class and did launch Sebastian Kowa in his ASW22 full of water. These little planes come in a number of configurations, some with winglets, some retractable undercarriage, all very nice and new, turnaround time is good with watercooled cylinder heads and they descend really well.

Aero Priedvidza have a great range of foods and the Czech beer is very tasty, although you need to limit intake as it is served in large sizes :-)

Road navigation is a severe issue for us crew that cannot understand Slovak and we now have binned the maps in favour of modern Tom Tom GPS navigation systems... although these are not infallible and the quickest route did mean we did traverse a mountain in the middle of the night which did concern us when we could not turn around and were reduced to first gear near the top... was that snow we saw!! Certainly we saw reindeer.

Better go now, the guys are calling final glide.

Keith