Heat 2 2014

2 Juni 2014 heat 2.

Task today. 60km out and return to Videbæk.

Weather briefing

Cumulus clouds at 10:00

At 14:00 all gliders are on their way.

3 pilots made it to goal. Nils Ole, Mikkel and Johnny.

Heat 1 2014

Good morning! The weather is promising. The briefing will start in few minutes.

As usual pilots are very busy on the first day: waypoints has to be downloaded, instruments programmed, gliders assembled etc.

The weather forecast for today looks promising and a triangle of 56 km has been set. Start is at 12.00. It may be a short day as we may have some overdevelopment later on the afternoon.

The results are published. The first place in Rigid wings took Johnny Christiansen, the first place in Flex wings belongs to Mikkel Krogh. Congratulations!
Nils Ole had the best Flex wing performance, but was disqualified from the heat, due to minor violation of restricted airspace.

Training day 2014

• 10:00
• Good morning and welcome to Danish Open Nationals HG 2014!
  Pilots are arriving. The weather is not very good today. The wind is a bit strong. So it's unlikely we have a training task.

11:00

Pilots are slowly beginning to show up. We have strong winds (7 m/s) and overcasts, so there might not be much practice today. We have considered going to the West coast, but the wind seems too high for some relaxing soaring on the beach.
We will use the day to get everything ready for a long day tomorrow - towing equipment, Airtribune tracking, payments etc.
The forecast for tomorrow looks excellent: no wind, strong thermals, and high cloud base.
Stay tuned

14:00

Gliders are measured and adjusted.

Danish open 2014

It seemed that the event was not going on this year.
But 8. Marts it was decided to have the competition.
10 pilots from local club is working together to make it happen.

This year there will be 2 events Danish Open 2014 and talent class
Danish Open will be held like the last years, as a FAI CAT2 event.
In addition there will be a talent class.
The talent class is not the FAI open class, the restriction is not on the glider but on the pilot.
Talent class is for pilots with little competition experience, so task will be much shorter and easier than tasks in Danish open. Depending on the number of participants in both classes they will fly together or have seperate start windows.

Dates are
31. May Training Day.
1. June - 7. June competition dayes
8. June Spare day. Will be used only if the comp at this point is not valid.

Heat 5 last day.

In the morning the forecast and sky did not look good.
Low base, wind and overcast. Finaly we decided to do a task.
And after the window opened conditions had improved. Cloud base got to 800 - 900m and gradualy more sun on the ground.

A short 42km task with goal in Tamdrup.
On route the sky cleared and the day turned out nice.
4 pilots Nils Ole, Rob, Jesper and Flemming made goal. But time was fast 50min, giving low score for the day.

Heat 4 Out and return

And out and return task was set 74km to the east (and back).

4 pilotes flew the last 70% of the task together. Nils Ole, Jesper and Flemming made it Joakim missed the last thermal and landed few km from goal.

Heat 3. Fooled by the weather forecast.

Forecast promised very light winds and good conditions.
The task is a 83,4km ending in Fasterholt.

Start at Fasterholt TP1 Them TP2 Voervadsbro TP 3 back to Them and goal home at Fasterholt.
The day started a little late with blue conditions.
The wind was stronger than predictet, and big areas of shaddow between 1 and 2. turnpoint.
We never got to cloud base but some was in 1500meters 2 to 3m/s thermals.
No one made it to goal, day winners Flemming and Vegar landed at the same spot on the way from TP 2 to TP3.
An interesting day, patience was needed and low safes made a big difference.