Latest news June 16, 2006 A normal gliding day? More or less! Picture: All tuggies in front of their tugs, with great clouds as back ground! Compliments to their safe, quick and fabulous towing! Take a closer look at our tuggies here. 14.00 PF was launched by areotow at 13.30. So all 114 pilots are now enjoying , as far as it looks, great circumstances!
I will quickly see " what open class is doing in the restaurant."
14.30 Well nothing wrong there. Peter Batenburg [3T] from The Netherlands is in the lead and at 1345 m. He was the first to go on track! Some pilots are still waiting in front of the start line at 1671 m.
In 15 m. class all gliders have started within 10 minutes.
In St. class within 30 minutes;18m. and open are still busy to go!
15.30 Peter is still up front according to v Pos. But not in the rankings. If you can't look at it , here are the pilots involved in the top 10 and changing all the time. They are between 900 and 1500 m. and fly with a speed of 114 km. /h.
DB, RG, AF, 73, X33, HM, N1, DM, GY, 3T.
16.00 Interesting departure times in 18 m. class with more then 1 hour difference!
While waiting I have some time to inform you about our readers and their country of origin.
At this stage Sweden is most interested with 21 %.
Germany, very surprising AND VERY GOOD;13.3%
Argentina with 6.7 %
Poland with 5.9 %
USA with 5.5 %
UK with 5.4 %
Finland with 5.4 %
France with 3.5 %
Switzerland with 3.3 %
Denmark with 2.9 %
The rest of the world with 26.3 %.
According to the server this means that we have 200.000 page vieuws A DAY since June 1!
We have generated in 15 days 90 GB data, which is even better then a famous Swedish pop singer ,presenting his new CD on his site!!!
Millions and millions of friends click on-www.wgc2006 .se
Absolutely FANTASTIC. Thanks to all!!
After writing all of this I better go and look at the fishes! See you in the next article for hopefully great finishes. I heard from Teresa Toivonen who flies from this airfield, that I should not be too worried about the finishes here! Pilots can still land in front of the trees and the tree line is very small. So my heart gets some peace again.
