Sun 7:30

we finished with duration yesterday. Roughly every second group had astronomical flight altitudes. The groups in between struggled to reach 7min flight time.

Today we have very low clouds and will have to delay the start of the competition.

16:40

second speed with much more wind is completed. Heavy aircraft and thick lines that still break occasionally.

unfortunately some damaged aircraft in the Gusty ground level.

duration afterwards with similar conditions. It is difficult to decide if you want to fly far away or directly overhead. Since only one side (lee) is allowed to fly, the timing gets even much more important than the side or distance. From the base.

12:20

we started with duration. Very calm weather, so basically just gliding at reduced sink.

Distance had changing conditions. Even within the working time!

now speed. Also thermals coming through every 4-5 minutes making the ballast decision tricky

sun10:20

we had amazing speeds yesterday! Andreas Böhlen killed it with a 12.0x s time.

today we started with a lot of wind again and nice launch altitudes. speeds were not as low fue zo the more straight west wind direction and more turbulence.

now distance started, but unfortunately we have a break due to rain.

sat 15:46

speed round 2 went really well. wind increased alot and the altutudes were great.

a lot of low 13s and 14s.

but also a lot of missed turns. the b base is hard in lünen.

now fistance tound 2.

sat 12:30

now speed. wind turned a bit more to west again, against launch direction. nice!

altitudes are better and speeds quite fast. but the famous hardest B-Base of F3B is in effect and there are some missed turns.

sat 11:15

duration was the first task. conditions were difficult but doable. someone alsways made the full time. but if you went to sinking air a bit too long, you had a problem. we have south wind, and the wind shadow from the trees is naking the starts tricky. no force until 40-50m and then you get sudden force and have to be careful about line breaks.

currently we are glying duration. the sun is shining strong, temperature tose quickly and we are getting a bit more thermals.

sat 6:50

good morning from Lünen. the airfield awakens…

We made first team with Andreas, Jens and Steffen ahead of Austria and Czech Republic. Andreas made individual world champion.

A huge thank you to the Organizers, all Helpers, Sponsors and other teams. We had an amazing event that was perfectly planned and executed.

Thank you to our sponsors Hölleinshop, Hepf, Mandrill and Airclip for their support of our team.

More text and pictures will be uploaded soon.

Results: https://f3xvault.com/?action=event&function=event_view&event_id=3951&tab=

22:00

we had a successful day with the distance flights. most of them were wins and a lot of legs ahead of the competition. Matthias had a great run in round 7 with 32legs. The most in the whole week including Pre-contest.

For the Foo fraction it is definitely nice to not fly against Jens for a change.

Another great flight was group 2 in round 7 with Erick Venegas flying 23 legs against sub 10 legs of the three competitors. He flew as only pilot on the southern side in a good thermal.It was great from a spectator point of view but of course a bitter pill for the other pilots.

Temperatures got quite high already yesterday, but today everybody was feeling the full effects. some things were missed, some of them led to bad results like Steffens speed time. We just did not check and correct the sighting device before the flight which led to the turning error on base A in Speed.

To counter these effects, most of us joined the official helpers and had a relaxing bath in a nearby lake. This makes such a huge difference and is highly recommend!

Tomorrow we will fly the last duration and final Speed in oposite order of the ranking.

18:31

we finished distance of round 8. Very good flights for us! now packing, cooling down at the bathing lake and then an early night…

14:58

The lunch break is over. We continued the duration of round 7 in difficult conditions. A lot of relaunches after several minutes of flight. The results will be interesting. Matthias unfortunately had his second bad duration flight. Steffen Theo and Andreas made it. Jens is currently flying.

10:24

Steffen and Matthias had good flights, but andreas had an amazing distance flight with 24 against 19,17 and 16 legs.

9:00

we just started with the last task of distance round 6.

Jens is starting first …

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.

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.