Wednesday 27.4.2011 – 2 hour AAT

The weather forecast didn’t look that promising for today, and reality looked the same: there was overcast above us in the morning. That was because there was a low pressure at this area (what a surprise :o)

Despite of the sad looking sky we had briefing at 10 in the morning as usual. And like the day before, there were A tasks, a Racing tasks for all classes, and task B which was exactly same but 2 hour AAT version. Launches were postponed only once (till 12:15 – if I remember it right) and start line for multi seat class opened 13:36. Our pilots started almost immediately and so we went to the café as usual. Kari wanted pizza, but as they don’t have pizza oven here, he had to have sausages instead. That story isn’t about local menu, but to remind Kari of his escapade that he had last night ;-) He had quite happy face in the morning even he hadn’t slept too many hours.

GF landed just couple of minutes before the 2 hour task time ended, and DD only 1,5 minutes over the task time. I had a feeling that Antti was a bit disappointed as he could have had some kilometers more and come bit later to the airfield instead of coming too early. DD (Wille and Ilpo) sounded pretty happy, because they came back only minute or so after the task time. Harri and Kari K (on GN) and Ilkka ja Ipe (on 777) said at dinner that their strategy didn’t work, but tactics were fine :-) Or was it other way around…hehe.

Today I made a hard decision, I had to admit that this holiday is coming to its end. I decided to leave on Saturday evening with Mia and Antti to Travemünde and travel by boat to Finland. That is more than 1000 km of driving and then 28 hours on the ship. That also means that there isn’t time for the farewell party.

Thursday’s weather is what it is, there is another low pressure above Mediterranean and its affecting on our weather here as well. But even today morning looked quite bad, still it was “another great gliding day”.