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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!
