Day 3 canceled.

The day is canceled.
A cold front is passing Denmark.
No chance of a fair heat.
Tomorow will be good but with some wind.
The rest of the comp looks like flyable days.

Jesper and Kenneth having fun.

Heat 1. Weak day.

The weather forecast looked promising.

Briefing

But to early a cloud cover moved in from south and closed down the day.

Rigging gliders. The incoming clouds on the horizon.

Task Dogleg 73,8km
Only 4 pilots managed to go on course.
With south wind and weak thermals the drift  made the task difficult.
Day winner Joakim Hindemith

Joakim's track

Gliders ready for Heat 2.

Day 1. canceled

The day was canceled due to bad weather.
Rain all afternoon.
Tomorrow will be warmer, flyable but with weak thermals.

Volcanic ash in Denmark, no problem for hanggliders.

Last year hanggliders where grounded during the ashcloud over europe.
This year rules have changed, there are no restrictions for flying hangglider.

So if the ashcloud that today closed northern part of Denmark spreads to our competition area, we will have the airspace for our self together with sailplanes and paragliders.

Danish Open HG 2011

Less than 2 weeks to the start of the competition.
Dispensation to fly up to 7000ft approved for the comp.
20 pilots registered.
The 3 remaining places are now open for Danish pilots as well as guest pilots.

The official team is ready to do the work.

For retrieval there will be our old bus with room for 8 pilots and gliders.
A bus will be rented with room for 8 pilots and gliders in our new glider trailer, which hopefully will be ready in a few days.

Looking forward to a great comp.

Flemming Lauridsen