OVERALL WINNERS 2011
FAI International Pilots Rankings
NEWS
Competition | 8th Apr 30th Jul 29th Jul 28th Jul 27th Jul 26th Jul 25th Jul 24th Jul 23rd Jul 22nd Jul 21st Jul 20th Jul 19th Jul 18th Jul |
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Training week | 17th Jul 16th Jul 15th Jul 14th Jul 13th Jul |
Preparations | 4th Jul 25th May 7th Mar 30th Jan |
Training week - 17th Jul 2011
2011-07-17 17:10:34
Openning Ceremony and Airshow
Pilots had a very fast tasks and already now we have all gliders accounted for. All teams are preparing for Openning Ceremony which will start at 19:00 at the airport. You may watch it online at the South-West webcam. After the ceremony there will be glider only airshow with glider aerobatics, glider formation flying, simultaneous aerotow with 4 Super Blaniks behing famous Turbo Cmelak and finally glie ratio comparison of gliders - 40's Zlin Z23 Honza, 60's Zlin 425 Sohaj and 21st century LS10-st.
2011-07-17 13:21:18
All gliders are in the air now and it took us only 46 minutes to to this job. "Vivat" for tow pilots and grid crew. World and 20m Multi Seat class have their start lines already.open. The Standard and Club class will be able to go on their way very soon.
2011-07-17 12:11:08
The first take offs will be at 12:30. There are few Cu clouds in the sky above us with slight indication of possible wave in the higher altitudes. Everithing is ready for the last practise race.
2011-07-17 11:14:41
Briefing News
We are now after the both briefings. There was an update to Finish Ring procedure in the agenda for Team Captains and a number of other issues for pilots at their briefing. After the official invitation of Jury president Mr Fred Gai (GER), Cheif Steward Mr. Jaroslav Vach (CZE) and Steward Mr. Jiri Cihlar (CZE) we could hear the information related to procedures, scoring, today's openning ceremony and subsequent gliding airshow. Finaly we got weather and task related information as well. Now we know the weather should be fine for a short a tasks we set even with a possibility of the mountain wave above altitudes of 2 000 m therefore we believe all the pilots and the team members will be ready and present at the ceremony in the evenning. You may check the tasks at soaringspot.com as well. More news later ....
2011-07-17 08:31:59
Grid is for runway 15 today.
2011-07-17 07:14:15
Team Captians Meeting
There will be Team Captians meeting before the normal meeting for pilots. The start is at 9:30 in hangar.
2011-07-17 03:00:39
2nd Practice Period - Briefing
The briefing for pilots today will not be held at 9:30 (as annoounce before), but instead of that at 10:00.