What a great day it was. Thermals of 6 m/s, cloudbase of 3600m. But because of hard Eastern winds during the task, the task was stopped. It probably will end up with a high ranking for me, since I was in the lead gaggle on the first start time. I was flying just behind Joost […]

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Yesterday was canceled because of high wind. Some pilots went flying nevertheless, in a period of some less stronger winds. I saw landings of them, that was allmost in every case a landing that was beter to close your eyes. Me and Anne-Marie had a relaxed day at the campsite Sitting under the event shelter. […]

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Op donderdag ochtend gingen we met hevige regen en 11 graden van huis weg. Na 1100km rijden kwamen we om 7 uur ‘s avonds aan in zonnig 27 graden Laragne Monteglin, Zuid Frankrijk. Ik had met heel veel moeite plekje 15 gereserveerd, maar uiteindelijk stonden we op plekkie 30. Achhh, het is Frankrijk, dus waarom […]

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Socks are an important part of the teamclothing. We have got one pair of socks per week. Smell included.

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Gisteren kwam ik thuis en daar lag de lokale krant al open op tafel, ik sta met een artikel in ‘de Bernisser’.

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Harm, the meet director decided not to fly on Saturday. We had price giving ceremony at 11:00. Details of who won can be found at the official website. Things to mention are that Martin van Helden became Dutch Champion overall for the first time in his flying career. It was great to see him so […]

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We had a 63km task with Turnpoints to the west. One of them about 25km away to the west. I did an early start to avoid influence of seeing bad starts like yesterday. It was hard to find the first thermal, but about 200m above ground, I found a thermal. But it was broken about […]

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Joeeehieeee….. 33km task. The day started with strong wind. I was in doubt to start especially because of the bad starts I have seen. When I was in the air it was great. I made goal for the first time. Me happy. More info and pics later. Tracklog on DHV website

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