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Open Serbian Championship 2013

The Open Serbian Championship 2013 held in Despotovac and Jagodina at last long weekend. We had pilots from Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia. We enjoyed the warm and very freindly hospitality of local people. The weather was very exciting as you may see on the photos but we had three flights.

The Serbian Champion is Srdjan Srdic and the results of Open Serbian Championship:

Johann Almer (AUT)
Lidija Kosi (SLO)
Silvo Vohar (SLO)

Mammatus clouds in Serbia

Ice in the air

Sunset behind the rain

Rainbow on the Eastern sky

All results are published here. More photos are on the Facebook.

Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013 – finally 3 flights nine tasks

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We finished the Dutch Balloon Trophy. We 3 flights nine tasks in difficult weather situation. All results in final and published on the Electronic Notice Board.

Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013

Steven Vlegels 6832
David Bareford 6695
Johannes Kooistra 6194

Dutch Champion 2013 – Johannes Kooistra

Belgian Champion 2013 – Steven Vlegels

Rookie of the year

Kim Larsen 7194
Rupert Stanley 6860
Erik Pals

Morning flight is cancelled

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Black Flag We had two flights and six tasks already but the morning flight is cancelled due to the wind. The forcast didn’t promise to much for afternoon and the next days too but let’s hope th best.
All task sheets, wheather sheets, measuring report sheets and results are available on the Electronic Notice Board.

First flight of Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013

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The wind measuring at 2300 gave winds of over 20 knts and the forcast was not much better. When a thunderstorm started at 0100 were close to cancelling the first flight but decided to do the windmeasuring at 0300 to see what had happened.

What a surprise, winds below 10 knts in the piball and pretty stable atmosphere in the forecast. We can see a flight in this forecast.

The tasks were set, the wind measured again, the tasks were changed, target teams send away. A cold front is coming our way so the task briefing is short and compact so we can start the launch period as soon as sunrise.

Within 20 minutes 25 balloons have launched for a fast flight with minimal flight conditions, they are of for a Pilot Declared Goal, Judge Declared Goal and Hesitation Waltz.
Now we are waiting for everyone to come back safely and we can start calculating the results.
What a morning…..

Sanne Haarhuis, Deputy Director DBT 2013

The task Sheet of the first flight on the Electronic Notice Board.

Electronic Notice Board – Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013

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DUTCH BALLOON TROPHY 2013 and
35th Dutch Championships and
Belgian Championships 2013 and
Rookie of the year
Wezuperbrug, 8th – 12th May 2013

Final Results

Morning flight is cancelled. – 03:45 12/05/2013

Flight3

Complain of Pilot #10 in Task #5, Answer to Complain, Protest and Jury decesion

Morning flight is cancelled. Next Briefing at 18:30 – 03:45 11/05/2013

Target waypoints with PZ34

II. 3 PZ LIST (7.3)

PZ #	Color	Easting	Northing	Alt ft MSL	Radius m	Descriptions
34	Red	4858	5656	500	250	Horses
35	Yellow	5585	5492	–	300	Angry farmer

Flight3 – cancelled

Complain of Pilot #1 in Task #4, Answer to Complain, Protest is posted as the pilot request, Jury decesion

Morning flight is cancelled. Next Briefing at 18:30 – 03:45 10/05/2013

Flight2

Flight1

Clarification of General Briefing Information – 23:50 08/05/2013
Targets list MS Excel file, PDF file
Targets waypoints file version 1.01 (3 targets removed). – 19:30, 08/05/2013
General Briefing Information (224 kB)
Targets waypoints file. – 12:30, 08/05/2013
Timetable (pdf)

Timetable

Wednesday 8th May 2013

14.30 – 15.30 Check in officials
16.00 – 17.30 Officials briefing / training
16.00 – 18.00 Check-in pilots en officials
20.00 General Briefing at the tent

Thursday May 9th till Saturday May 11th

05.00 Task briefing Officials/Measuring Teams
05.15 Task briefing
09.30 – 11.30 Breakfast (if cancelled at 08:30)
16.00 – 17.45 Diner
17.00 – 18.00 Gas refuelling
18.15 Task briefing Officials/Measuring Teams
18.30 Task briefing
21.00 – 23.00 Gas refuelling

Sunday May 12th

05.00 Task briefing Officials / Measuring Teams
05.15 Task briefing
09.30 – 11.30 Breakfast (if cancelled at 08:30)
12:00 – 13:00 Check-out
13:00 Gala dinner / buffet / Price giving

Competitors list of Rooky of the year – 23:30 08/05/2013

	Name			Country	Registration	Advertisement
9	Guido		Harle	NL	PH-OAG	Weghorst AVIA
11	Frans	van	Hooft	NL	PH-CAS	Phantom of the opera
13	Maikel		Kouwenberg	NL	PH-DOS	Re/Yellow/Bleu
15	Kim		Larsen	DK	OY-WOW	Bleu with yellow/pink/purple spiral
16	Tom de		Leersnyder	B	OO-BEI	White/small coluored blocks
21	Erik		Pals	NL	PH-EPC	Westerwolde Ballooning
23	Rupert		Stanley	GB	G-RUPS	Black and multi coluers
25	Ann		Timmers	B	OO-BXU	Leaseplan/DHL
26	Edcar		Vermeulen	NL	PH-EMR	Bleu with Multicolour sprirals

Rules of Dutch Balloon Trophy 2013 (1,5 MB). – 23/04/2013
Competition map with JPG image file and Oziexplorer map file and CompeGPS imp file (32 MB).
Competition map with BMP image file and Oziexplorer map file (100 MB).
Competition map with OZF3 image file, Oziexplorer map files, OZP file, waypoints and tracks of PZs (46 MB).
Competition map with OZF3 image file, Oziexplorer map file for Androzic (46 MB)
PZs waypoints and tracks (17 kB).

Competitors list of DBT 2013 – 23:30 08/05/2013

	Name			Country	Registration	Advertisement
1	Henk		Broeders	NL	PH-ABR	Ad Ballon/Ultramigic
2	Jan		Timmers	B	OO-BRU	Leaseplan/DHL
3	David		Bareford	GB	EC-LIR	Racer by Ultramagic
4	Nico		Betzen	LX	LX-BNB	Nico Betzen
5	Mathijs	de	Bruijn	NL	D-ORUI	Bleu Bell Red/Schroeder
6	Philippe	de	Cock	B	OO-BFJ	Vultus Lupi
7	Jan		Fokken	NL	PH-TIR	Blauw/rood/wit
8	Tadas		Gegevecius	LT	LY-VNO	Vilnius
9	Guido		Harle	NL	PH-OAG	Weghorst AVIA
10	Luc		Herdewijn	B	OO-BAE	Steragas
11	Frans	van	Hooft	NL	PH-CAS	Phantom of the opera
12	Johannes		Kooistra	NL	PH-LBH	Lindstrand
13	Maikel		Kouwenberg	NL	PH-DOS	Re/Yellow/Bleu
14	Petr		Kubicek	CZ	OK-0900	Kubicek XR Demo
15	Kim		Larsen	DK	OY-WOW	Bleu with yellow/pink/purple spiral
16	Tom de		Leersnyder	B	OO-BEI	White/small coluored blocks
17	David		Linek	CZ	OK-0055	DLNK racer
18	Pavel		Merinsky	CZ	OK-3366	Multicolour checkered
19	Lindsay		Muir	GB	G-LOKI	Red/Bleu/black top
20	Jan		Oudenampsen	NL	PH-OOL	Red/white
21	Erik		Pals	NL	PH-EPC	Westerwolde Ballooning
22	Richard		Parry	GB	G-CDZO	CFS
23	Rupert		Stanley	GB	G-RUPS	Black and multi coluers
24	Bert		Stuiver	NL	PH-TNS	Red/white/bleu spiral
25	Ann		Timmers	B	OO-BXU	Leaseplan/DHL
26	Edcar		Vermeulen	NL	PH-EMR	Bleu with Multicolour sprirals
27	Steven		Vlegels	B	OO-BFN	Cock’s Vleeswaren

Czech National Balloon Championship 2013

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Come to compete, fly, improve your rank list position, raise self-confidence, make new friends and see the beautiful landscape of Czech Highlands from above!
Ultimate Ballooning club organizes the Czech NationalHot-Air Balloon Championship, August 7th – 11th 2013. The championship is held under the auspices of the Czech Balloon Federation.

One of my favorite Event: nice people, nice landscape, competitive pilots and good beers.
The Event will run with FAI loggers without observers. Maximum of twenty competition balloons is allowed but 5-6 place is available for foriegn pilots.
You may find the Invitation and Entry form here and information here.

A Measuring Team of Czech Balloon National Championsip 2012

And Brazil it will be! – Letter of CIA president

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The CIA Plenary Meeting, held in Rio de Janeiro on March 22 and 23, has finally decided. The 21^st FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship will be held in San Carlos/Brazil in 2013. This decision came along after long, difficult and tiresome discussions at the Plenary, but to the satisfaction of a majority of the delegates present. Competitors may now confidently start their preparations.
The Brazilian organisers confirmed the appointment of Event Director Mathijs Debruijn and Deputy Event Director David Levin. They also announced that a non-sanctioned Pre-Worlds event will be held in San Carlos in July 2013.
Detailed information regarding the free transportation of the 70 balloons in 2014 has been promised to become available sometime during the year.
I am glad that the this issue has finally been decided, and I wish all those who plan to participate a lot of fun and perfect competitions.

Buoyant regards,
JC Weber, president
FAI Ballooning Commission

Happy Birthday Balloon.hu

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FAI CIA Plenary Meeting decisions

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World Championship 2014 in Sao Carlos, Brazil
2nd FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship 2014 in Vichy, France
58th Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett 2014 in Vichy, France
19th FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015 in Debrecen, Hungary
Women’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015 in Drenthe, Netherland

Behind the scenes from Rio (FAI CIA Plenary Meeting):
“The Great politics:
Yesterday evening (22nd March), FAI President John Grubbstrom (not CIA President Jean Claude) at the end of the meeting appealed to all delegates and declared that cancellation of sanction for Brazil will be painful for all of us, because Brazilians will go to international court.
This morning the situation got even worse. FAI President said that if the sanction will be given to Lithuania, he will not sign an organiser agreement with with Lithuania. Organiser agreement is signed by FAI.”

Graf Zeppelin returns to New York after world tour 1929 – video

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After an exhausting world tour over Berlin and Japan the airship returns via the west coast to New York where it received a big welcome and ticker parade.

From 1928 to 1932 the airship was used primarily for experimental and demonstration purposes to prepare the way for eventual regular commercial transatlantic passenger service. After making six domestic shake-down flights, the airship made its first long distance journey in mid October 1928 with a crossing of the Atlantic to the United States. Later demonstration flights included its round-the-world tour in 1929, the Europe-Pan American flight in 1930, a polar expedition in 1931, two round trips to the Middle East, and a variety of other flights around Europe. In 1932, however, the Graf began five years of providing regularly scheduled passenger, mail, and freight service between Germany and South America (Brazil). These commercial operations were the airship’s principal function during this period until it was abruptly withdrawn from active service on the day after the loss of theHindenburg in May 1937 after having made a total of 64 trips to Brazil. During its return trip to Germany on its last South American flight for 1933 the Graf also stopped in Miami (NAS Miami at Opa Locka), Akron (Goodyear-Zeppelin Company Airdock), and the “Century of Progress” world’s fair in Chicago.