Training Day # 3

It's another great day here in Luesse. The weather is basically a carbon copy of Monday and Tuesday. Blue with a few cu at 6000 ft. Max temperature of over 30 degrees is moderated by a dry easterly breeze.

The task for 15m/18m is a 2.5 hr AAT to the east. With almost everyone here now, the grid was huge and it took over 1:30 to launch what looked like a sea of carbon fiber.


Our pilots have gone on task with the following start times:
Jerzy XG 14:25
Dave P8 14:51

We are expecting them back at 17:00 and 17:30.

Just got word that Virginia has arrived at the hotel - great now the team is complete.

They also finally published the results for Tuesday:
Jerzy came 14th in the 18m class,
Dave 15th in 15m.

Tonight the Italian, British and Dutch teams will jointly host an evening so we can all get to know each other.

The Worlds is a great place to meet the gliding legends you normally only read about. Yesterday I ran into Ingo Renner, the ueber-pilot and four times world champion (I think) of the eighties and nineties. Last time met was at the Worlds in Uvalde 1991. Today Janusz Centka, again four times world champion and current competitor dropped by at the flight line.