and thus it ends

I think the pictures pretty much say it all.  The contest is over.

Thanks to everyone who supported us and followed the blog over the past days/weeks/months.

signing off...

Dave

Last task at competition

For the last day organizers changed task three times.
From initial 400+ km to final version C that looks like:
15M - racing task 253.8 km
18M - racing task 245.3 km

At the begining we have blue sky and sniffer was trying different places before he was able to climb to 1500m (in the blue). At the same time we can see some CUs popping up in the sky.
good - boys are finally up after delaying launch time until 12:40 (from original 11:15).
bad - CUs are dissipating fast.
It looks like challenging day!

 Results are here (daily & overall)

Jarek

Last day of competition, Saturday Aug 9th

Today is last day and good weather seems to be holding.
Most likely we will have another short task day due to possible rain late afternoon.
Here is the pfd for today

Thermals for 2PM

For 5 PM

And below is a picture of open class glider touching down at the field.

No wonder why grass is greener there!

Tonight we have "good bye" gathering at the filed at 8PM. 

Jarek

HD Racing Day 9

Tomorrow is last day of the contest
Leaders in our class have good position to keep their position .
Polish experience shows that winners are those who can play at the start line, pilots starting  latest most of the time are the winners.
 Gaggles forms and all like minnows are flying task just avoiding hitting each other.
Today I started as one of the first, but others waited extra 20 to 25 minutes and had much better results. In previous Worlds in Germany, Hungary and Uvalde TX individual pilot had chance to fly by himself and had chance for good results, but not in Leszno.

Jerzy

Dave's Lucky Day 13

Today, I came up with yet another way to blow the day.  After passing the first turnpoint and heading 9 km along the second leg, I couldn't understand why my computers were still navigating me to the first turn as they should automatically change to the next point upon entry into the zone.  Since both computers were saying the same thing, I decided this meant I really had missed the turnpoint zone.  I couldn't remember if the penalty for missing a zone was 50 points or a land-out so I turned around and went back another 9 km.

I now know, it is a 50 point penalty for a miss up to 500 m.  Instead, I gave myself about a 300 point penalty by going back. As you can see in the image below, my miss was very small, I measured it to be 50 m in See You.  

So in retrospect, I should have known about the 50 point penalty and just moved on. Besides the loss of time for flying an extra 18 km for no reason, it also broke my concentration and really pissed me off, so that didn't help for the rest of the flight.  So at the end of the day, I ended up in 1 kt thermals struggling to get home and thus ended a horrible day.

But since feedback should always end on a positive note - at least I wasn't last on the day despite all my errors!