WC F3B 2007

First day of the WC is over, lots of rain and lots of mud... We almost completed one round. The speed task was devided into 4 groups because of the weather.
The norwegian team was quite beaten in duration. The distance task was better, and the speed task was OK, exept for Knut Vidar, he missed the A-base.
The weather is improving slightly today. No rain at the moment, hopefully the sun will hit us. We need to warm up, and dry up.
The event is quite well organised, some discussion at the team meetings, but things have been handled well, I think.
Friday the 13th og july the WC is almost over. Only two tasks remains for saturday, distance and speed of round 7. The norwegian team has done some nice rounds, and some not so nice rounds... We have got beaten a lot in all speed rounds. The Herrig brothers are in a leage of them selfes... Nobody get any way near those two guys in the speed. They have also flown nice distance and duration tasks.
I could say a lot about the arrangement, but wil not... But this wil probably not go into the history as the best arranged WC. Event if we got some improvement with new CD.
But today the sky is clear, the sun is shining and we are happy!

World Cup Emmen

Ok, this event i over. I flew 2 good tasks (duration and one distance) and 2 bad tasks... (distance and speed). Dont know how long it has been since my last 26 speed, but that what was i managed.
Conditions was no good for speed, fastes time was 17.60.
The 20 best pilots flew a "speed final", almost total german dominance at the top of the list. Those guys do something we dont... Maybe they do a little more training? And of course they have nice planes.
Today its monday, first day of the WC. We have flown duration, in poor conditions. Rainy. We have a delay because of the rain, before we start distance.

Nordic F3J 2007

was a "disaster" for me... My back hurt so much, I decided not to fly. But my team did very vell. Jostein Myre was No. 2 and Erik Morgan No 3. Arnfinn Lie (also norwegian) was at the top of the podium. All norwegian!! The team-contest was won by my team, we found out a couple of days later... First we was anounced 5th. But they had counted all rounds (no discard) and all 4 pilots... Maybe we get our trofee by mail?? Hopefully not email...
Heavy rain and wind up to 20 m/s made it a hard weekend. Lot or broken models... Both in starts and landings.

Jo Grini and my self are now in the "middle of Germany", on our way to Wasserckuppe. Some slope-flying, we hope, before we head for the WC F3B.