Saturday 28.5.2011 – farewell party

Well at least we tried: We had the briefing in the morning and Visa-Matti gave two tasks to the pilots: shorter A task and longer B task. The idea was to follow the weather until one o’clock in the afternoon and not to make final decision before that – if it wasn’t for flying.

Tapio and Visa-Matti followed weather radars and weather websites if there would be any glimpse of a hope. Also webcams are really handy tools, since you can follow how the weather is developing around cities. Last photo I saw was from Salo (front was moving from South-West direction) and it wasn’t any better than in Nummela. Finally at 13:00 – and sadly – Visa-Matti had to make a decision that this wouldn’t be a flying day.

So we had the prize giving ceremony at 16:00, we had time for couple of beers and then we had farewell party and American style barbeque. It was inside and provided by the Air Hotel, lots of hamburgers, ribs, chicken wings etc. Most of the pilots left before that, as some of them had to take the plane back to the aero club so others could fly the plane on Sunday. So there were only 20 people partying. Besides there was football final on TV, perhaps that had some audience from our group as well. I don’t know about others but we ended up in the competition office to drink some (=all) of Melissa’s whiskey, since she couldn’t take that back home with her.

On Sunday we said good bye to those who still were here and we all went home. It was time to get back to normal life and start working.