A warm front passed the area at night. Only four tasks are on the Task sheet because we are expecting some drizzles before noon.
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We had the task briefing. PDG, FIN and HWZ are on the task sheet. The pilots was confused a bit with the PDG limitation and the any order but no was change in the task sheet. You may find the task sheet here.
The Czech National Championship 2012 will start tomorrow in Radesín. We are waiting 14 pilots. The first Spanish pilot Blai Carbonell Rodriguez will participate on the Event too. Ther organisers are did great job and we have target list too already. We have a night the enjoy the excellent Czech beer.
The following documents are available:
Schedule
You may find here few links for photo collections from the 1st FAI Junior Hot Air Balloon Championship.
The Event Debriefing of the 1st FAI Junior Hot Air Balloon Championship will start at 17:00. The last task briefing will start 18:30. The Task sheet is ready: calculated rate of approach task and Minimum distance time. Two take-off is permitted.
Rokas Kostiuskevicius was the best pilot after 10 tasks but three tasks results are not published. The championship is still open.
Good luck!
Latest information:
A cold front approaching the area. Flight will be cancelled on the Task Briefing at 18:30 26/05/2012. No more competiton flight on 1st FAI Junior Hot Air Balloon Championship.
Sunny but little bit cold morning, common launch from the city. We made the early wake-up for the citizens.
Five tasks in the Task Sheet: JDG, HWZ, Pilot Declared Race to an Area, Elbow and Fly on.
The Pilot Declared Race to an Area is a modified Race to an Area where the pilot have declare when he cross a line on the map. The winner is who can declare smallest result from the declared time and actual time of achieving first valid track point after the line.
The results are published here.
We have nice weather. The first target in the city center where we are expect lot of spectators. The hare balloon will start at 20:30 and his intended flight duration is 30 minutes. The competitors shall have to fly an Angle task after the second marker drop. Good luck!
Few balloon still in the air in nice weather after the windy days. The Japanese team share the wind data and communicate on Facebook message board. 🙂
Rokas Kostiuškevičius was the best at first target.
We had to delete three flight already but the wind is calmed. Five tasks on the Task Sheet: PDG, FIN, HWZ, LRN, FON in any order.
Let’s go to fly!
1. Rokas Kostiuskevicius LTU