23.6.2014 – Fire truck drive, spaghetti etc.

Competition office sends every morning an SMS message, the message tells if grid is open and what runway is in use and when the briefing will be. This morning we got first “briefing postponed” message, saying that there isn’t grid yet, and briefing will be at 11.

Safety team demonstration

Jarkko told that weather front is over Räyskälä and is moving very slowly away and that it is too moist for competition flying. Safety team is here with fire truck and ambulance, and they had “open doors” after briefing. All children and childlike were welcome to get to know the cars from inside and also have a drive with the fire truck. Of course I went as well! We even used the siren for a while, hopefully the neighbours don’t think that something bad has happened as the sound of the sirens at the airfield usually isn’t very good news.

After the drive we went shopping with my friend Kimmo. I wanted a new support leg for my bike, usb port extension and some specific deodorant. That meant that we had to go to Riihimäki where all the necessary shops are close together. We even saw one pink/white Tunturi-bike behind of one superstore. You see, I’m not only one who lost a bike on Midsummer Eve. Also Howard Jones from Great Britain lost his bike, there was nothing else left than a basket which was back of the bike. So this bike at Riihimäki looked like Howards’ but then we realized with Kimmo that the colours are correct, but painted opposite. So this wasn’t Howard’s lost bike. The shopping tour took longer than we thought, and we had a small snack at Citymarket café.

On our drive back to Räyskälä, we were looking the sky and said almost at the same time: if Heikki sees this sky, he might be quite upset. Weather looked perfectly flyable, with big cumulus clouds and some sunshine. But perhaps flying would have not still been possible, as all good weather seemed to be on Helsinki TMA area, south of Räyskälä. And north of Räyskälä wasn’t looking good.

I met Norwegian pilot Kato Kvitne in the small class room when I was doing the dishes and borrowing one pot for my cooking. Kato told me that they had been flying with his wife and that it had been pretty good. Weather had been good and they don’t have that many chances to fly together. I can’t anymore remember did he comment if there would have been a possibility for cross country flying, anyway they had flown 2 hours or so with ASK-21. So not bad for “no task”-day.

In the evening I made spaghetti Bolognese and Kimmo repaired my bike. This is good “symbiosis”, Kimmo fixes things which I can’t do myself and I prepare a dinner in return for him.