33rd FAI World Gliding Championships

22nd June – 5th July 2014, Räyskälä

Soon after JWGC2013 it was time to start the “last phase” of WGC2014, and I had to prepare myself to do all over again the same thing what I had done in Leszno. This time I also helped with other preparations as well, and not only the website, just because of the experience I’ve got from international competitions. And here we are, ready to start the World Gliding Championships in Räyskälä.

So….Here we go again!

Preparations…Sunday

Containers for office and scoring arrived in the end of May and after Finnish Gliding Nationals we were able to start cleaning and furnishing them. My place is in the “quiet container”, where meteorologists, scoring and competition director are as well. Too bad that I can only see the office container from my window, I guess this was Heikki’s plan to make me go outside more. I am going to update the facebook news stream during the competition. So if you see me walking with my iPhone around the airfield, it means that some news is going out, not that I couldn’t live without social media.

Weather has been quite weird during past few weeks; we have had cold, even colder, hot, sunshine, good gliding weather, thunder, bad gliding weather, really hot, rain and continuous rain. I am writing this on Sunday, and June has been quite rainy so far. Heikki said that if this won’t change, he will use North-Korean methods soon (don’t know if I want to know what that would be) and I am glad the weather has been pretty good for flying today.