Sunday 22.5.2011 – first official competition day

Morning was really beautiful, I had almost one hour walk around the airfield and found really nice scenery in the end of runway 27/09. As this airfield is located on top of 100 m “hill”, I could see down on beautiful lake. I have to go there again with my camera.

Briefing was at 11:00, and that mixed heads of the organization… Everybody was ready one hour earlier than they should have been – obviously we are so used to have the briefing at 10:00. In briefing Visa-Matti gave a 191 km task, as with Tapio they assumed that today speeds would be around 90 km/h, so it would take plus 2 hours to fly that long  task.

It’s been hectic day since the briefing: first setting up the tracking screen on the Air Hotel restaurant, doing some photos for that, taking photos on the grid, constantly updating the website, answering phone etc. There weren’t that much time between the starts and finishes, only two hours or so, during that I’ve been checking one text which is about to go to ILMAILU (our aviation magazine) and choosing photos for that. Now everything is ready except the scoring, Roland, Hannu (Niemi) and Visa-Matti are trying to figure out what SeeYou thinks.

I am leaving the airfield, have to go home and take care of some family business (99 year birthday party). I am coming back tomorrow and let’s see if we will fly or not, as it seems that the weather won’t be that good. Hmmh…perhaps it’s time to show some Finland to Roland and Melissa.