So, we are getting close to another episode of Aeros Winter Race. Web page and registration is ready, so it is the facebook event. Registration is open - just to remind everybody - we only have place for 50 pilots - well maybe 60 if the weather will be kind to us, and we will be able to use big take off place at Kovk. Stay tuned.

Aeros Winter Race 2011 photo memories

Author of all photos: Polona Ježek

Day 5

Weather stayes on the bad side. We had to cancel the day again. This years competition is not valid, however Aeros made a very positive move when they decided to give a half value prizes anyway. Thank you Aeros!

Day 4

Again we have strong wind up to 144km/h in the valley. So the task is canceled. We have hope for tomorrow but the forcast is not very promising.

Day 3

FINNALY! Todays forcast was realy not optimistic. The wind should be the same as the day before and lift should be less. According to the forcast we set the 38km long task, after a lot of saftey concerns. But the day was epic - some pilots was as high as 2500m and a short task was done in 43 minutes! Primož Gričar, followed by Edoardo Giudiceandrea, Franz Hermann and Manfred Ruhmer. There was around 40 pilots in goal and there was a lot of smiling faces around!

Day 2

We were full of hope this morning... We went to launch place and set the task - it was short, 46 km only, but we felt that is fair one. We still had strong NE wind at higher altitudes and it showed it's teeth. After half of pilots took off safety commite reported heavy turbulance just few km towards first turnpoint. We canceled the day for safety reasons... We hope for better weather tomorow...

Day 1

The forecast for today looked realy bad this morning - and even forse - it come true. NE winds sets in with more than 10 m/s and we canceled the day after little postponding the morning briefing. We went to the launch place later just to check our decision - we found that we did the right thing. We hope for better condidtion tomorow and in next days.