After the
first day launching too late and making many mistakes on the course, trying to
catch up,thus arriving to goal over 20 min after the winners I knew there are
basically two options, if I want to improve: Wait for mistakes of others or try
to risk a lot. After the first 2 legs I saw, that with concentrated flying it
was possible to pull away from others a bit, but not from Christian. He didn’t
make any mistakes. So only one option was left – risk.
The
opportity was soon there, after making the Nanos Antena turnpoint and returning
to the west edge of the Ridge Christian and myself were able to climb to 2300m,
followed tightly by Edoardo and the others.We started to glide in freezing air,
with wind chill Faktor arround –45 deg (at 85 kph), going for some clouds on
the course. At that point I decided to go for a risky option, try to approach a
lee trap Cavn directly across the Vipava valley. Christian followed and so did
most of the others.Through observation of my gliders performance on the last 2
days I knew that in a long glide against the wind my odds are high.
Since Iztok
did great on the previous day ( he came in 3rd) the two of us had
decided to share the radio frequency with, Oleg as a ground crew, giving
valuable tips in order to increase our chances. Iztok had just flown in his
brand new GT, and got a fresh fine tuning from Oleg on this day. After the
Nanos Antenna he missed a thermal and fell a bit behind, so he took the
standard route to Cavn, a detour across the ridge, the safe option.
Christian
and myself were getting closer to Cavn, the air kept getting worse and
Christian hit strong sink, I started to thermal just next to it. He couldn find
my lift, so he glided on,sinking strongly. My climb was quite weak with a lot
of drift, over me Franc left it and glided to the ridge, 2 km away. Christian
being very low in front had to escape into the valley and I made the best
decision of all - glided on against the
wind in the middle of flat part of the moutain below the ridge – with too litle
height and on my own. I was on the
ground in no time. L.
Meanwhile
Iztok made a succsessful transition with a comfortable height over Cavn. He
came in first on this day, second overall behind Christian, who by a miracle
got up again in terrible lee air.. Well done! J Third was Franc.
My senceire
congratulation to the winners!
This way an
official oppening of the european competition season 2013 took place. It was
very educational for me, lets see if I had learned anything. J
Best
regards,
Primoz
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