Monday, January 7, 2013

Practice Day

Today was the official practice day. It is still very hot. Ziggy did fly the set task and I played around with the engine and Altair navigation in the air. After few additional adjustments that I just performed everything seems to be working just fine and I think that I'm ready for the comp to start.

We're just finishing dinner in the club and will go back to the motel and jump into the pool just like we did yesterday. Because we're staying in the same motel for the third time the owners already know us. They also know Ziggy and his b..... talks. Once we arrived he played very disappointed about the missing welcome champagne. Sure enough the owner brought us two glasses of sparkling wine direct into the pool. How nice is that?




We're very happy to have the pool available in this weather. It's about the only way to bring your body temperature down quickly. I'm still struggeling a bit coping with over 40's every day.

We had the official opening this morning and it all looked and felt very serious:

except for us ;)


I was in the first row on the grid and flew TF first time with water. X-wind take off doesn't affect the glider at all. So different to all the Polish gliders. It wasn't a water day today but it was good to get some feel for the glider.

tugs ready to rock

waiting for launch

Today was probably the only day where I was relaxed enough to think about and take some in-flight pictures. This might not happen again as we're progressing towards the serious stuff tomorrow.

a woman needs a mirror in the cockpit


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