We have a valid competition, new German Junior Champions are Sebastian Nägel and Patrick Puskeiler. Congratulations!
Thank you all, now it is time to say good bye and go home.
See you in Musbach next year!
Pictures for download etc. coming on Monday the latest.
20.08. 19:19
Everyone has landed, competition is now a valid championships.
Now, let's party!
IGC files coming soon.
20.08. 16:14 Outlandings
BW2 and 8T
20.08. 15:30 Start lines are open
For the Club class 14:35 and for the Standard class 15:29
20.08. 14:23 Weather is getting better
Standard class is now in the air and Club class is taken back to the grid.
20.08. 13:24 New task
New shorter task is given to the Standard class.
20.08. 13:22
The order of the grid is now changing. Club class is taken from the grid, but day isn't cancelled. Standard class will start first and Club class after them.
20.08. 13:15 Tasks..
...links are now correct on Tasks&Results page. Sorry to keep you waiting!
20.08. 13:08 Still waiting
We are still waiting the weather to improve.
20.08. 12:29 Break in towings!
We have a break in towings, as it looks like all of the first 10 planes are landing back to Musbach.
20.08. 12:08 Warm air mass and cirrus clouds
Today we have Assigned Aera Tasks for both classes. Tasks can be flown very flexible today. Even though the weather we have warm air and cirrus, we hope to have many landings in Musbach today.
20.08. 11:01
Launches starting at 12:00
19.08. 23:02 Tomorrow is the last competition day
We now have a valid competition day on both classes, and at the same time it is valid championships in the Club class.
Hopefully we are having flying day on Friday, which then would be making the championships valid on the Standard class as well.
Last official competition day starts with the briefing at 10:00
19.08. 17:04 first landings!
We are happy to see the first succesful landings!
19.08. 17:01 outlandings today
YX, 79, VK, FH, TE, S3, JZ, GR, S1, TX, ER
19.08. 13:18
Start line for the Standard Class opens 13:21
19.08. 13:00
Start line for the Club class is open 12:48
19.08. 11:46 Launches are starting...
...at 12:00
Finally we are flying!
19.08. 09:31
Briefing at 10:00
Towings at 12:00
18.08. 12:22
The situation is the same as on previous days:
Next briefing at 14:30
Club class - day cancelled
18.08. 09:03 Briefing postponed
Briefing at 12:00
17.08. 12:32 No task today - at all
Weather is really bad, and windy, no task today.
Next briefing tomorrow at 10:00, and the we will see how the weather is.
Shopping? Party? Sightseeing? Anybody??
17.08. 10:27 No task - yet
Next briefing at 12:30
16.08. 10:38 No task today
Because of the low pressure with heavy rain and strong winds there isn't task today. Bar will be closed during the day, but will open its doors at 19:00.
Next briefing Tuesday 17.8. at 10:00
15.08. 13:40 The day has been cancelled
The day has been cancelled on both classes.
Party this evening in the briefing hangar at 19:00. Be there!
15.08. 12:50
Day for the Club class is cancelled.
Next briefing for the Standard class at 13:00
15.08. 12:06 Charity
Hot coffee and home made cakes are sold in the briefing hangar all day. Served by the members of the project called Luftikus. Also if weather improves, we will have aerobatic and sightseeing flights, and the money is going to be donated to this project.
YP, 8T, RM, JO, 2A, MO, 3RD, RX, WL, JZ, IYB, MG, and YB
14.08. 13:39 Start lines are open
For Club class 13:05
For Standard class 13:40
14.08. 12:12 Launches at 12:15
14.08. 11:42 Launches postponed
Launcehs are postponed till 12:00 and new shorter tasks are coming for both classes.
14.08. 09:37 Launches at 11:00
We are hoping that we can start the launches at 11:00.
We want the pilots back to the airfield early, since there might be coming really bad weather in the afternoon. But before that: we will fly!
14.08. 01:00 Briefing normally
Briefing is at 10:00.
There should be a good possibility to fly on Saturday, but the evening and Sunday might be more challenging weather. Meaning that don't hang your clothes out to dry.
13.08. 18:12 Visitors!
We were suddenly visited by a JU-52, which was coming from Zürich and going
to the Bensheim airshow
Also we have Extra 300 here which is glad to do aerobatics/sightseeing flights.
13.08. 17:10 More outlandings...
II, YX, NRW, 96, ER, M1, ITI, 3RD, RM, 8T, CW, SK, NF, 41, 202, JO
13.08. 16:00 Outlandings!
S1, S3, FF and PX, they all are landed around 30-40 km from the airfield
13.08. 15:56 We have first finishes
We have first three finishes, as 47, 57 and XN arrived with estimated average speed of 85km/h
13.08. 12:35
Start line for Standard class is open (12:35)
13.08. 11:59
Start line for Club class is open (11:58)
13.08. 11:45 Launches started
Launches started at 11:00 and Club class is in the air.
13.08. 10:50 First launch at 11:00
Grid is closing soon and we are hoping that launches will start at 11.00
There might be a possibility that cumulus clouds will spread out today, as there is coming moist airmass on our task area.
13.08. 01:21 Briefing at 10.00
Briefing in the morning at 10:00, as normal. We expect it to be competition day with fairly good weather.
13.08. 01:06 Still awake and now clouds on the sky?
Go outside and see if you catch some of the meteors, as today should be the maximum of Perseid meteor shower.
12.08. 12:51 Day has been cancelled on Club class
For Standard class we will have more news at 14.00 o'clock.
12.08. 09:52 Panorama webcam is going to be moved
Panorama webcamera is now turned off. We are going to move it on other location, as the container is now blocking the view to the airfield.
12.08. 09:26 Briefing at 12:00
We will have a briefing at 12:00.
It is already raining. We don't know if we will have a chance to fly today, radar pictures are not that promising.
12.08. 07:17 Good morning
As you might see from the webcams, this morning starts really grey.
It also looks like the Panorama-picture hasn't been updated since yesterday, this might be due to the breaking ftp-connection. If weather continues like this, we will have plenty of time to fix this...
11.08. 19:15 Briefing at 10:00
On Thursday 12.8.2010
Briefing at 10:00, no grid before the briefing.
03.08. 18:33 Competition Frequency
is 130.00 MHz
Black Forest Glide, German Junior Nationals 09th -21st
August 2010 with international guests
From Monday 09th August until Saturday 21st August 2010, Musbach
will host the German Junior Gliding Nationals.
Competition period is from Wednesday 11th August until Friday 20th August
2010.