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13:29
everybody finished distance ok to good.
Speed went very nice with several top times!
now duration andreas and steffen made very good flights. Steffen with exceptional 6:00min and 100 landing. 😉
matthias had difficulties and only 5+minutes flight time.
9:12
we started with distance round 5. Matthias with a good flight, andreas unfortunately lost 1 leg.
Results:
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19:15
we are finished for today. good distance results.
16:55
speed of round 4 went ok, but not entirely to our hopes. Steffen missed one signal.
Duration started very easy in group 1. But continued really difficult in the next group. The thermals remain strong, but the time in between gets bigger, making the planning difficult. This will probably b even more difficult with the upcoming distance task.
13:15
we just finished round 3. Weather is good with low to mid south-eastern winds and strong thermals since a few hours. Distance in the morning was tricky. The decider was mostly the turns and launch altitude.
Speed differentiated a lot due to the thermals going through the flying area. Andreas made a great 13.3s best time. Steffen came close first with a beautiful flight as well, but after landing we got the message that one turn was just minimal too short. The reflight was still good with 15,X seconds.
Jens and Theo with mid 15 second flights as well.
Duration brought big thermals but usually far away from each other.
Jens had to fight a bit but found a good spot after a lot of lost altitude in the beginning.
Theo made it a nail biter. Down at 20m after half the time, finds several thermals and looses them several times just to easily make it in the end. Great job.
Now lunch and we continue with round 4 speed at 13:50.
8:35
we just started duration of round 3.
Results:
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19:30
we are finished for today. Great results in distance. Theo and Andreas had some damage to their models, but both reparable. We had some small problems during the day but we still managed to give our pilots the best conditions. We additionally work on fixing them to avoid these unnecessary mistakes in the first place.
We had a great day and like to thank all our sponsors for their support!
Mandrill, Airclip, Hölleinshop, Hepf. Today was our Mandrill shirt-day. Thank you very much! Picture soon!
17:25
Speed round 2 completed. Matthias with a good 16.6s and Steffen just made a 15.75s flight. 2nd fastest time
16:57
Duration was really difficult. Strong thermals, but big areas of big sinking.
Continue with Speed. Bad conditions at the beginning, but currently improving, including change of wind direction.
Andreas and Theo not happy, but ok. Jens with a great 15s time!
14:07
We have our lunchbreak and some rest. Speed went through without any hickups. The conditions stayed quite bad regarding windstrength and thermals in the flying area. Steffen was able to keep the best time all the way through the task. Theo, Jens and Matthias are not as happy with their speeds, but are still good in comparison to the field.
We finished the first round and will continue after the break with duration.
12:28
Jens with bad air conditions with a 18.72s.
12:14
Continuaton with Speed Round 1. Still very low wind.
Steffen managed 15.84s as first pilot.
11:14
Distance is completed and it went well for us. We continue with duration. The wind is almost nothing. But the Thermals are very strong when you find them.
Organization and performance of all teams is great. no major mistakes. The officials are also doing an amazing job, keeping the competition relaxed. Perfect for the first day.
9:36
We started directly at 8:30 with the first group of duration.
Steffen was in the first group and managed to make the 1000 clearly in extremely calm conditions.
We are flying thin lines, the altitude is low and the usual results are under 20 legs.
As Team Manager i can say that Team Germany is relaxed but exited for the WC. We have everything prepared and we are happy to be here in Nardt at the 2025 World Championship!
Webcam vom Fluggelände in Büllingen
quick summary saturday:
we started in the morning with sunshine and medium winds. Launch altitudes were very good all day, but the wind increased and made the models heavier throughout the day. In the evening we had a small rainshower, but we completed 2 rounds and started Duration #3.
Duration was quite interesting. In the morning, the small hill and little thermals provided usually enough lift for everybody.
In the afternoon for the second round the thermals were much stronger and moved quicker. Suddenly there were very strong thermals in the lee side. But you needed the courage to fly there directly or the rarer opportunity to get it at the luv side and move with the thermal to lee. Since the dondraft became stronger, the hill did not produce reliable lift for the entire time. Numerous pilots lost a lot of points here.
Distance was both times strongly influenced by thermals. Since flying over the hangars is not allowed (good idea!), the usual flight area is very small directly above you . The other side is in lee but not the area with the strong thermals. Depending on the conditions pilots showed solid results with 22-25 flown legs or tortured their models to get the winning 16th leg. Predictability was not available, but conditions also changed very quickly due to the string crosswind component. Definitely an interesting task to watch but sometimes not the most fun to fly the condition you got dealt.
Speed, especially the second round was very subject to the weather with sometimes even longer periods of very good conditions. But not everyone gets lucky. The planes are high, heavy and fast.
What about team foo?
We have some mixed results with good and very good results for Andreas, Matthias and me (Christian). I had the doubtful honor to open the first speed. I really don’t like it too much, but fortunately, this time I managed to not get a missed turn. Steffen had both times bad conditions for the speed flight but made the best with it. Björn had an interesting distance win with 16legs and is only a little behind at the moment. He, Sebastian and Robbi are just a little bit behind with speed, or one unlucky duration for Robbi) making the difference. Markus had one suboptimal distance flight. Thilo is also making quick progress with great duration and dustance results!
All in all good team results. We try to keep it up tomorrow. Different wind and weather will definitely shake it up again!
We hope that the rain will come later in the day and the cloud base is high enough.
Good night!
