nedelja, 27. februar 2011

Day 5

Weather stayes on the bad side. We had to cancel the day again. This years competition is not valid, however Aeros made a very positive move when they decided to give a half value prizes anyway. Thank you Aeros!

sobota, 26. februar 2011

Day 4

Again we have strong wind up to 144km/h in the valley. So the task is canceled. We have hope for tomorrow but the forcast is not very promising.

petek, 25. februar 2011

Day 3

FINNALY! Todays forcast was realy not optimistic. The wind should be the same as the day before and lift should be less. According to the forcast we set the 38km long task, after a lot of saftey concerns. But the day was epic - some pilots was as high as 2500m and a short task was done in 43 minutes! Primož Gričar, followed by Edoardo Giudiceandrea, Franz Hermann and Manfred Ruhmer. There was around 40 pilots in goal and there was a lot of smiling faces around!

četrtek, 24. februar 2011

Day 2

We were full of hope this morning... We went to launch place and set the task - it was short, 46 km only, but we felt that is fair one. We still had strong NE wind at higher altitudes and it showed it's teeth. After half of pilots took off safety commite reported heavy turbulance just few km towards first turnpoint. We canceled the day for safety reasons... We hope for better weather tomorow...

sreda, 23. februar 2011

Day 1

The forecast for today looked realy bad this morning - and even forse - it come true. NE winds sets in with more than 10 m/s and we canceled the day after little postponding the morning briefing. We went to the launch place later just to check our decision - we found that we did the right thing. We hope for better condidtion tomorow and in next days.

torek, 22. februar 2011

Regsitration day

Today we had the registration day, winds were howling again outside - only 100km/h at 8pm this year (last year it was close to 200). However almost all pilots flew on the western launch today - in the lift somwere around 1,5 m/s and some wind traps around the flyable area. We hope that wind will die down in next few days...

Gliders waitng on launch - with all new pitch or tail settings (how strong the wind was???)


They are all trimming their tails... hhhh


Hah, I'm sleepy ... I know who the winner is ...

petek, 18. februar 2011

THE RACE IS ON!!!

Long term forcast are predicting fair weather for the second set of dates of Aeros Winter Race! So we will start with the pilot registration on Tuesday (Feb. 22nd) as scheduled. We hope to have first competition day on Wednesday. See you all in Vipava valley!

četrtek, 10. februar 2011

The Aeros Winter Race is postponded

Decision has been accepted! We had to postpond the Aeros Winter Race to reserve date due to bad weather forcast. This means that the race starts on Tuesday, February 22nd with registration, on Wednesday 23rd we will hopefully have first competition day!