Thursday 21st April – Training day

We arrived to Nitra safely and surprisingly fast yesterday, via normal route Vienna-Bratislava-Nitra. I can’t really tell much about the trip, except that I got one of the best meals in the aircraft that I’ve ever had. But there are some reasons for that which I will tell you in person :-)

Today was unofficial training day, meaning that only few of the crews have arrived, I suppose most of them will be here tomorrow. Anyway, there were lots of trailers, so even if crews are here already, they might have done the same what we did today, bought some necessities such as wine, potato chips, summer clothes and of course some water. After Finland’s +5 C, this sunny +24 C weather is quite nice.

Meantime our pilots (in four Duo Discus) had about 4 hours flights. I did some photos today, but since there are only few of them, I will publish those later. Now it is time to go to bed, tomorrow registration and other official things will start, and we want to be early at the airfield. Staying in the Penzion LUX is pretty convenient, as it’s only 10 minutes drive to the airfield.

Daily Schedule

7:30 Breakfast
8:00-9:30 Leaving from LUX to the Airfield (time depends on the weather and team)
10:00 Briefing and glider preparations
11:30 Lunch (soup)
12:00-14:00 Launches and starts
Lunch/snack time for the crew (and time for a beer :-)
16:00-17:00 Finishes, washing and parking the planes
17:00-18:30 Team de-briefing and beers at the bar
19:00 Dinner (if not mentioned, then in U Krba)
and some Metaxa…

Finnish team