Thursday 14.7.2011 Should have been good, but wasn’t

Kristian said in the briefing that the gliding weather looks really good – the best of this summer actually, and that it will be definitely the best weather of this competition period. So the tasks were quite long, 432 km and 528 km. Sniffer went flying before the launches and he told that thermals are already 2 m/s and cloud base is at 1200 m. So towings started at 11:00. One hour later almost everybody had crossed the start line, and crews just had to wait.

I had two planes to take care of, since Eki had to go to work. That meant that Wille, a crew of 2W, went to fly Eki’s plane HE. So I promised to help both Päki on 2W and Wille on HE. Luckily both of them have engines :-) 

During the lunch we saw that clouds started to dry out and disappear, and flying conditions at the task area might get tougher. It did. When we were washing HE after the flight, Tatu the pilot of EZ said that he didn’t see any good weather during the flight, even we heard in the morning that it should be really good.

In the evening we knew that Friday won’t be flying day, so we tried to “make some weather” in case it would help. Well, at least we had some fun ;-)