PRIBINA CUP 2008
INTERNATIONAL GLIDING COMPETITION
March 21-30 2008 NITRA, SLOVAKIA

Competition - 27th Mar 2008

2008-03-27 20:14:00

As it seems early regime does have a good influence on organizers, pilots and especially the weather, we met in hangar at 9:00 also this morning. The meteorological situation was significantly different from yesterday, at least this is how it appeared for laic public – no rain, no snow, warmer, weaker wind. Yes, but the pilots are experienced professional were not such optimists, rather in contrary. We were influenced by large low pressure with the centre over Adriatic region which caused powerful 8/8 cloud layer of Cirrostratus reaching us from the South. We let the launches started at 12:15. Some thermals developed but obviously this was not an ode for soaring. The crucial area was in the south which forced the competitors to turn on 0,3–0,7m for longer time to keep themselves in the game. And not everybody stayed. Especially CLUB class was dropping down there. The best who completed had registered the speed not more than 60km/h. To our surprise, the first arrivals were from this class but as we expected and had it confirmed later on, the tasks were scratched. OPEN and 15M classes had the job a bit easier what we could see on the number of pilots landing back in Nitra and also their average speed. One pilot even achieved 100km/h what made him win the day in his class. What was really impressive was the fight until the last moment as we could see straight away from the tower when some happen to turn within our view. At 17:00, those flying were safely back home, those outlanded have been counted. We managed to have all classes valid today. Bravo. Thank you all!