Tasks are set with first launch at 11.30. We have some Cus already. The weatherman said today that the Dew point yesterday was 11 and today it will be 17 which is not good for the human organism.
Yesterday evening Pete was called to testify at a protest.
The Swedish pilot who had a midair on Day 1, and a warning for dangerous flying on Day 7 has accused 8 other pilots of dangerous flying and asked for them to be disqualified. Pete was one of the pilots accused of dangerous flying.
The circumstances were that the Swede was thermaling about 3 km in front of the start line, and as gliders started they flew towards him and pulled up or joined the thermal. Pete joined with good speed and separation and then left without completing a 360 turn.
If that is dangerous flying then we should probably all go home.
The outcome of the protest was announced at briefing today. It was rejected.
The protest is seen as retaliation and/or sour grapes as Thomas from Czech Republic was one of the accused pilots (he was the other pilot involved in the mid air).
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...and great fun was had by all...
ReplyDeleteSounds like an "interesting" competition, almost sorry I'm not there too :-)