Friday, 13 July 2007

Friday

Today will be day 5 and it looks blue, but going to 3000m and 2,5 - 3,0m/s. I would expect some cloud in the seabreeze and convergences to the west.

Yesterday i had my best day yet (850pts) and i feel quite good about it. It is a tough comp, yesterday Heinz Hammerle - a very experienced Rieti pilot was amongs those to outland - we had quite a lot of spread out in the task area and the second last turnpoint, Castellucio, is in a valley locked in by mountains (and at the foot of mount Vettore - one of the famous ridges here - yesterday, in the northerly it did not work - as did none of the other ridges - but we knew that at take off.

It is a really amazing experience to fly here.

I am sorry i don't post more, but i still have my hands full (despite being assisted by my crew Hussain and the owner of 3G, Ottaviano - who, by the way, is a real count). It is not many persons in gliding who can claim to be assisted by royalty - i think the Brits must be green with envy (and i did manage to beat one of them yesterday).

regards for now

Sven
3G
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Sven,
I see you are using the age-old "lull them into a false sense of security" strategy before making your lunge for the podium?

14 July 2007 at 01:23
Anonymous said...

seriously though, you must be getting tremendous experience in these condiitons! go for it!! Do you think a Discus 2 would make a difference? I recall Laurens wishing he had a 20B instead of a 20 in Hobbs '83

14 July 2007 at 01:25

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