The forcasts are saying that bura wind will continue loosing it's power. So we are going to Lijak launch, BUT official transport will start from HQ at Pizzerija Anja, at 10 am.
Finnaly we got some nice weather, not only flyable but taskable. The NE winds died down, but not completly so we had to stick to the east side of Vipava valley. 18 pilots managed to get to goal, many of them ended just short of last turn point. Anyway there were a lot of happy faces at goal. Tomorrow we hope for another nice task to end another Aeros Winter Race.
The weather is improving. Wind died down over the night by half at least. We are going to Lijak again, same schedule as yesterday: 10:30 we meet at Lijak landing place to load the gliders on official transport. Keeping finger cressed that weather forcast will became true.
Our hopes for flying day was canned soon after we arrived on Lijak launch place. The general NE wind (burja) was not slowing down. So we had kind of waiting game, and we were going to loose. Anyway we tried... Tomorrow looks much better wind wise, so hopefully we will finnaly get a chance to fly.
The weather forcast gives us some hope to make the task today. We will go to Lijak launch place.
We will start loading gliders at landing place Lijak at 10:30, and vans will depart as soon as possible. Lunch for pilots will be in the blue van.
As expected the wind today is way to strong for flying, let alone it's (wrong) direction. Therefore pilots will start the competition with free day with some time to prepare for tomorrow, when chances for flying are much higher, due to predicted changes in air pressure over our area.
A nice number showed up today despite not good looking forcast for the first day of competition. The rest of the field will come tomorrow morning. That's not bad, thus we have a easy going registration procedures.
Soo, as always we had some hard time to reach the decision - but here it is - THE RACE IS ON! It seems we will have some burja wind at first - but hey - what else is new? We start on tuesday, March 20th at 17.00 with registration. Don't forget to bring your GPS kabel!
Looking forward to see you all!
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