14/8 – Competition Day 9

Our Competition Day 9 was full of surprises for the competitors. All the classes flew an AAT task with standard class having 2:30, 15m class 2:45, and club class flying 3 hours. The day started with blue thermals with ceilings at 1000m AGL after release, but during the launches the conditions improved gradually and some of the pilots got so lucky, that they managed to find a wave and climbed over 2700 m AMSL. Fortunately, for the ones who did not find the wave there was a pre-start altitude limit of 1800 m AMSL to decrease the possible effect of this luck.

During the task most of the pilots headed south, and found a convergence line along the Šumava mountains, but getting back was the key to success as many pilots arrived before the minimum time, and had to use very weak climbs to just touch the last areas and arrive home safely.

Congratulations to the daily winners; to Uwe Whaling (GER) for having by far the highest speed in 15m class at 122 kph, and to Julien Duboc (FRA) and Josef Kozar (SVK) for choosing the perfect path and interval!

It was a tough day, so we hope today will be more rewarding for the less unfortunate ones yesterday, and we already look forward to your success on another racing task.