The dream after Bassano

Already in Bassano I was watching the forecast for my home town Tolmin and it looked great for Tuesday. I had one day off more before returning to work and scholl and the day looked like a day to use. I was trilled to fly again in Tolmin after a long winter where I flew on Lijak in Nova Gorica. Ridge is the ridge, mountains are the mountains. I prepared myself already one day before with my new gadget GoPro camera and my mount to the base bar for it. My goal was to reach the mountains in the back of Kobala. The day was totaly clear with out clouds with a bit of north wind. There were many dust devils on Kobala take off so I was holding the glider quite many times. After the start it didn`t looked good but soon I thermaled high enough to reach for the mountains. Well after that, let the pictures speak for themselves.
The video is coming soon.

My beautiful home valley

In to the wild

Bassano day 5

We woke up this morning to a cloudy day. There is still a slight chance if the sky clears fast as predicted. We will see soon.

OVERALL RESULTS

Bassano day 4

As predicted, the sky is overcasted and it will start to rain soon. No task today but we have RESULTS from yesterday. Our Franc Peternel is now 4th overall, way to go! Primoz slided down to 19th place and I am on 37th. Lets hope for tommorow to fix this result a little bit. Seems like yesterday Thiene area was trap for many many pilots, 18 pilots made it around in the end. Siteseeing today

2nd task 3th day of Bassano 2010

The organisators predicted small task for today but in the end they made it almost
the same as yesterday with first turn point more in the flats, around 100km. There was rain predicted for afternoon so they sent us in the air much earlier. We started at 12:45 with a big gaggle under low cloudbase. I though I started good but then I saw guys starting from the other side of the start pylon with a much bigger height.
We scratched at low heights and in the end I made it to the cloud base again. We flew to Thiene again. Over the huge plateu there was rain waiting for us. I crossed the valley with to less height. Seppi was sctratching low and eventually made it back up. I looked for a better thermal and of course did not find it. It was a slow though race. I think some 10 to 20 made it to the goal. Manfred Rhumer won the day. This was the first group that passed the rain that came after Thiene soon as I landed. Primoz unfortunatly landed some km over me, too bad due to yesterday good win. Peternel was in top 10 again today.
For tommorow they predict rain and no task. We are here in caravan in rain and thank good for this small little thing called heather which is making our lives here a pleasure. At the landing field there is a traditional fair of free flying gear. I had chance to actually see my picture in Cross country magazine in April issue.
It was the photo that won the facebook competition.
Richard Lovelace sent me the link to the RESULTS of the first day. Here there should be also the results from today soon.
So in the end we flew for two days now. I hope that tommorow goes over fast, so on Monday we get some flying.

Here are some pictures from today

1. task second day of Bassano 2010

We had a nice, around 100 km task today. A standard direction to Thiene where we had second turnpoint and then back to Asolo on the flats before reaching the goal. The day was good with strong thermals, and lots of nice clouds which where not always a marker of a good thermal. There is still a lot of moisture so even nicest cumuluses where not always promesing. I did quite good until I pushed to low to the Asolo turnpoint so I landed 200 m short of goal cilinder. The trees where just getting biger and biger so I decided to land before and not look for my luck at passing power lines and tree line.
Our Primoz won the day. I forgot how where next places, it would be nice if organisators would put those results on internet which is realy easy thing to do, but,,,,. Franc Peternel was 9th and I was 27th after a mistake on a final glide.
We hope for a task tommorow aldo weather doesn`t look so good.

Now it is sleeping time after a long italian slow food dinner.

Here is a picture of Primoz coming in to the goal. Picture was tken by Steve Leeman.

Bassano 2010

Bassano is again looking like the real Bassano. Mud everywhere, rain every 5 minutes, and cold, but not that much as in year 2008.
Today they cancelled the first task already at the morning briefing. Pilots went to the top and flew a bit. I was a driver today for Primoz and Franc and I flet like a tourist with camera on the take off. For next days they say that we should definetly fly tommorow and the day after, then for sunday we should see. At the landing I had a chance to picture Manfred smugeling around T2c and a Litespeed with a tail.
So here we are in caravan in mud feeling touristic.... I hope tommorow comes fast.

Manfred looking for "something"

Moyes with a tail

AEROS WINTER RACE 2010 "the video"

As always I put together the video of last week competition to remind you all fellow pilots for great time we had together, and to those who were not here to have a touch of what was going on around here.

Enjoy the vid

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