A race day

One said today, whoever turned today made a mistake. Well we had to fly out to the flats for the last turnpoint, so some thermaling was needed, but otherwise it was a ridge run all the way. Christian Chiech made few smart moves and won followed by Christian Zehetmaier and Andre Djamarani. I made it in ninth. Results should be on after 21pm. We have a party for pots today and tonirrow last day of the race, looks like another strong W wind day.

RESULTS

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3rd day second task

Today it all looks much nicer, wind sock pointing at the right direction at Kovk take-off. Looks like quite stable day awaits for us again with thermals punching trough the inversion layer. We will see what organisers will have to say about the task today.

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2nd day Winter race

When we drove with Jochen towards Ajdovscina with calm air in Gorica we where both surprised to see the wave clouds over the hills above the take off. Looks like almighty "burja" came in with strong E wind. No prediction was not showing us it might could happened so the organiser decided to push the nature and sent us to the Kovk take off.

Strong back wind, I thought it is going to be cancelled right away but organiser waited for the wind to drop down and turn.

It did drop down, so the first paragliders came over our heads thermaling, but for taking off it was too much back wind.
The Italians went to Lijak take off in Nova Gorica and flew over us very high yet we where sitting down all day trying to make the biggest joke out of the waiting time.

Task was finally cancelled and 3 pilots made it in to the air in a small period of, hm zero wind, I was prepared as well but had to derrig as the wind started from the back again.

Looks like a good day for tomorrow, at least I hope so :)

1. task Aeros Winter race

First day, forst day of the season actually. No one was not questioning too much as everyone knew we re going up to fly tha task for sure.
Organisers did it it with 100 km task up and down the Vipava valley. Nothing really special, but with a nice crossing over the big gap towards Nova Gorica and my kinder garden flying place Lijak.

I did a bad start, actually I just made a decision on starting with the first start gate, because I saw how mane people went off. I can not stay behind, so I raced and already got with the first on the ridge towards Nanos antenna. Day had a lot of weight on how much you know the area as I had few times pushed on when I knew it could work our better and it did. I flew with Christian Chiech for quite some time, thermaling with him was like flying on powder always having my safe distance from him. I sleep too much in the last thermal where the group from behind catched us out on the flat and they made this 20 m more which was enough to put 4 pilots ahead of me on the last ridge racing part of the race.

Tom made quite a low and push race but in the end made it to the first place with 1000 points just seconds ahead of Christian Chiech and Davide Guiducii in third. I was racing with Christian Zehetmaier who kindly outraced me for some seconds. We where all in in less then a minute.

Nice race, nice task, tomorrow looks quite the same so we will see what organisers will have to tell us at the briefing at 12 on Kovk take off.

However, not a nice day for Monique who had an accident on landing when here rescue chute opened at 20 m so she punched down from there. She said she did not opened it so it looks like it was the very moment of system failure. She is in hospital stable and all of our thoughts are with her, we all know she is strong woman.

RESULTS (Every day on from 21pm, other organisers could learn something from that)

Practice day

I kind of went over a fever that grounded me past week after more than 10 years. I am not used to lay down all day and just sleep it over but somehow it looked like I needed that but just for 2 days after that I was already annoying to everyone in the room.

Polona came back from Australia with my new Matrix. I rushed to repack the chute and drive back to fly on Lijak. As it looked like a N wind this was a place to be. I flew straight to Ajdovscina to make a registration and got a ride back. Wonderful to have a comp in your home area, everything is simpler, yet we will see tomorrow in the air :) The real deal.

Looks like great weather for all days so long 5 days of racing ahead of us. Follow the official blog and my blog for all the details, I will be blogging live from the take off and goal ( I hope :) Still did not figure out how to write in the air :P
Twitter on your right, news in right here. Fingers crossed for a great race.

2011 year in 2.27 minutes

Year 2011 was quite a travel year for me. It al started with Florida and N8 producers trip from where it all started with a big kick :)
Having such a phone with me lead to that, that I have now many many footage from any kind of time in the year. Flying, partying, jokes, relaxing.... You name it.
Why not use them all in one video and make something out of it, anyway one day I will be able to look at that video as we look at the albums and say: "That was one hell of an interesting year"

Come on a trip with me ;)

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