Monday 11.7.2011 Historic moment in the briefing
From son to his father
It was historic moment in the briefing when Riku gave a prize to yesterday’s winner, his father Markku Rissanen, who managed to finish the task with speed of 58 km/h. There has been situations when father has been giving a prize to his own son, but not the other way around. Organization decided to give prizes to all pilots who managed to finish the task, as there were only four gliders which did that.
My “significant other”, Markku (Lehti) was towing with Suhinu, as it didn’t have a tow pilot for today. I went flying with him before the launches and got some nice photos of the grid from the air. He also had an opinion of Suhinu’s propeller, as he had some exciting moments starting from RWY 26 and seeing how trees in the other end of the airfield are getting bigger and bigger, and plane just won’t climb up. Also I heard that there had been a slight confusion and because of that the tanks were full, which isn’t good for competition tows.
Today we also had high clouds at south, but it was because of the raining front that was coming towards us from the south. We had AAT task, launches started 11:30, before that Iittala turn area was changed bigger, since it looked that weather is getting bad in north.
Task time was only two hours, so we didn’t have much time to do anything before the pilots were already coming back. And they all came back almost at the same time, as they had left almost at the same time. Only one pilot landed out.
In the evening it was almost clear that we won’t fly tomorrow. And it started to rain heavily during the night.