Day six was canned due wx. The gliders were on the grid early as usual and briefing was delayed several times. Eventually a launch time was announced, which was progressively delayed until at 2:00 pm the days task cancellion was announced. Nothing new in sitting on the grid for a few hours waiting for the inevitable. It didn't actually look like rain athough we had a complete low altitude cloud cover. At about 4 o'clock the low level cloud cleared and some locals and visitors had some local soaring for an hour or two.
Tobias has been going gang busters and has been leading the standard class. He had won two days out of 4 and blitzed the field on day 5. Unfortunately he missed the start line by more than the distance which would only give him a penalty and consequently scored a zero for the day. It cost him 1,000 points. For those who know Tobie, you would know that he accepted the circumstances with good grace, although disappointed.
Today, day 6, it is totally overcast and steady drizzle. The day has been cancelled and after briefing we will be off to inspect Bojnice Castle.
Mike has been tasked today to come up with a pilot blog.
There are some great videos of each days flying on the competition web site including some airborne video by Seb Kawa (dispite the taking the videos he still has a hbit of winning). The Aussies star somewhere in most videos.
We'll try to keep the videos coming.
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Enjoying your blog, please pass my condolonces to Tobi for missing the start line, at least it was this year and not next year!
Keep letting them know that Aussies are great pilots!
Have great time, keep looking and keep it safe,
John Welsh.
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