Peter and Mandy Temple's blog from the World Gliding Championship
Prievidza, Slovakia - June/July 2010


Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Rain and trailer adapters

The forecast rain and cold has arrived and we are sitting in the Aerorest (the onfield resaurant) enjoying soup and traditional eastern European food. There may be a small window to fly in weak conditions tomorrow, otherwise Sunday looks like the next possibility to fly.

This morning's exercise was to buy an adapter to convert between the 7 pin electrical plug on the trailer and the 12 pin socket on our Mercedes bus (we discovered the problem during the retrieve yesterday). We knew the auto parts store from earlier and had the foresight to take photos of the two connectors, since trying to explain what we needed in Slovak would be a tad difficult. The plan went well and we showed our camera with a photo of the 7 pin plug. The helpful shopkeeper immediately disappeared to fetch a connector. "Nie, nie", we called him back to show him the other connector photo. "Ah, Praha" (Prague) said the helpful shopkeeper with a quizzical look, probably wondering why we were showing him our holiday snaps. After showing the correct photo he disappeared out the back and came back with the right adaptér. So now we should be legal towing the trailer.

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