Wrap-up day 4 - a kiss for Dave

Good Morning Canada! Apologies for keeping you in suspense. Just after I had posted the last update yesterday, I got word that Dave and Jerzy had landed out. Jerzy was further away than Dave, so I went with Maria to find him (GPS is a wonderful invention!). Dimitri, a young Canadian from the Serbian team offered to come along. It was already dark when we arrived in the little town were Jerzy had landed. The GPS coordinates were dead-on and we had no trouble locating the plane, just figuring out the access to the field was a little tricky.

Everyone in 15m Class landed out. In 18m Class two pilots made it back out of 50. In the Open Class which was launched early, 20 out of 36 made it back.

The problem was a combination of late starting, particularly in 15m and the fact that the conditions didn't develop as expected.

As the results started ot come in we were overjoyed to learn that Dave (P8) had come second for the day with 999 points. In fact he had landed in the same field as the winner K1.

Dave Springford (P8) is up on stage to receive his day prize along with a kiss from Silke for coming second for the day.

In the overall 15m score Dave moved up to 33rd, ahead of Gary Ittner, US, Karl Striedieck, US and Katrin Senne, Germany.

Jerzy had landed on the third leg and had to give up 365 points against the winner in the 18m Class. Fortunately, it only dropped him from 6th to 7th place in the overall score, so he is still in good shape.