Friday 27.5.2011 – Another rainy day
Even we had two tasks yesterday, we had dinner quite early and I was able to go to bed early as well (after watching Dr House from TV :-).
In the morning Visa-Matti was laughing that there will be some thermals today, 0,1 m/s up till 300 meters. So there will be thermals, but not too good. We had briefing at 10:00 and our met-man Tapio told us that today isn’t a flying day as there is a front over us and even there are holes in it, those won’t come over Nummela. Also there is coming a complex (other) front from South-West direction. If we have any luck, we will have a task tomorrow. After the briefing the pilots, Visa-Matti and Roland had a brainstorm session (how to improve Grand Prix).
There has also been some confusion of the height limits on start and finish lines, I don’t know are QNH and QFE causing the confusion or the air pressure and other settings…it’s sad to anyway see when there are pilots coming fast and first over the finish line but dropping down on results after having harsh penalty points for flying too low – not by altitude meter but altitude measured by GPS.
This day has been dedicated for sleeping and eating.