Friday 12th August 2011 – 6th competition day, AAT tasks
The briefing was postponed to 12:30 and towings were supposed to start at 13:15. Both classes got AAT tasks, task time for Club class was 3:00 h and 2:30 h for Standard class.
Before towings Brian went to fly on Duo Discus with Hannah and he told that thermals are “lousy” up to 1500 m MSL. That is just 800 m above Musbach airfield (we are here on high altitude camp :-)
And again all the times were changed, so towings were postponed to 13:25, and Club class task time changed to 2:30 h. Soon Standard task time changed to 2:00 hours. Perhaps Christof and Axel just wanted to collect team captain signatures…
During the launches clouds looked really good in the south and pretty good in the east. That was a miracle, since both tasks were going on those areas. Usually it is totally opposite…at least in some competitions. We decided not to look anywhere else but where the clouds looked fine – just to stay happy.
Before the launches Bernd said that the sky looked chaotic and the day will be tricky. To give you some more numbers, task distance in Club class was 119.1km/267.1km and for Standard class 111.2km/271.1km. First it seemed that Team Denmark would have daily winners on both classes, Mads Linaa Larsen in Club class with 200,4 km distance and average speed 75,6 km/h. Kristian Larsen was leading the Standard class with 158,7 km distance and average speed 75,7 km/h. By the way, these two Larsens are not brothers even they have same last name. But in the end Kristian got 10 penalty points for being too low on finish ring. That was just enough to change the Standard class results, so again there is a familiar face from JWGC09 on top of the list as Felipe Levin was just 10 points behind Kristian.
Many pilots landed out and some of them had exciting moments (no names!) but after all they all are safe and there aren’t any unfixable damages.
One thing has not been told, and that is the secret of stolen FAI flag. Truth is that Axel lost the FAI flag already during the opening party. He should do what some competition directors do, and that is having the FAI flag always under the pillow :-) This morning Axel got an email from mysterious (Argentinean) address where disguised person held the flag in front of him. Axel asked them how much they would want if they would return the flag…
