DSMJ2010, Musbach, Germany

Tuesday 10.8.2010 Official training

10:50 Gliders are ready in the grid and sky looks promising with quite nice cumulus, our weather man Bernd told me that it should be pretty good flying day. Still, from west is coming a bank of high cirrus clouds which will pretty much kill the thermals, and that we are expecting to happen around 17:00 o’clock. This is why we are trying to start the day early.

Let’s hope that our pilots will have a nice flying day.

14:00 Towings lasted for 1h 20minutes, altogether we had 75 tows. You might have seen from photos that today we had 6 Robins and 1 Rallye as our “towing slaves”.

We can see the cirrus clouds already on the western sky, this mean that those are coming faster than we expected. Task time for Standard class is 2h 30 min, this means that first finishes might be already after 16:00 o’clock.

21:30 Some of the pilots arrived from the task much sooner than we expected, I heard that we got only one outlanding. 2A, Morten from Denmark, told me that it was quite nice flight. In the evening we had the opening ceremony at 20:00 with couple of short speeches, and Axel introduced with Christof the organization – and the pilots – one by one. Opening ceremony was followed by the first briefing.

This morning Wednesday’s weather looked liked it will be hotter than today, but now in the evening it looks a bit different as there might be only short weather window for flying. Anyway it seems that the coming front with cirrus will still affect on the thermals, so it might not be as easy flying day as today.

At this point Thursday looks like rainy with thunder but Friday should be again good flying day. But that we can’t say for sure now, so we will follow the situation.