Hello everyone!
Finally regained some brain functions, time to clean up a few photos, remove the ones that no one wants to ever see again, and put what I can remember into a few lines! :lol:
Another year, another huge success! :clap:
The wind Gods were not all in our favours, with a wind a few degrees off the ideal position to use the closest Easterly slope to maximum lift (very narrow band of lift, some huge sinks and turbulences... That's what makes the flying interesting!
), but some less lazy pilots setup a "flying site B" 15 minutes further with better lift on the Sunday, lead by the SFRC lads :clap:
Anyway, everybody flew, and counted up to 8 gliders of all sizes in the air at site A, and 5 at site B at the same time on the Sunday :clap:
Lots of gliders in the sky means a lot of people to fly them!
We had 22 pilots on the Saturday, and 20 on the Sunday! The entire island was represented, with flyers coming from Galway, Cork, Dublin, Northern Ireland with everything in between... And also from Lithuania! (more later on that one! :wink: ) and some almost came on a boat (hi Ralph
)
What else to say? Another epic night at the Moss (still singing Rock n' Roll at 3am...
)some good flying, and most important, a big bunch of like minded people with good craic!
It is actually very good to see that many people, from pretty much all around the country, gathering together like old friends or family! (I will not go emotional and all that, but you know what I mean! I try to get my head straight, so apologies in advance if it's not clear, I'll correct that after a proper night sleep!)
Oh, and special mention to one of the best girl I know in this hobby, Roisin, who is like a mother to all of us! (a young mother!
) :clap: :clap: :clap:
We drink, sing, do silly stuff... while Roisin prepared an absolute feast for all of us, pretty much working all evening feeding us and keeping us "decent! :clap: :clap:
Respect! :clap: :clap:
Ok, so, that's pretty much it for me, I don't know what else to say, and some might pinch in for a better report. Just wow. That's sum it all for me...
By the way, we had a bunch of people coming from the East... Buddy lead and all that, these guys needed to learn a few tricks, so they came and joined us...
Or not!
It's not every day that you fly with a World Champion, and some of the top 3 glider pilots in the World!
We saw some good fight and huge land out (the Carlsberg cup was won by Richardas!) I believe they had great fun, and I can say that, from all of us, Donatas flew the most this week end. That EasyGlider put on at least 10 hours easy! (will check the timer on the radio).
Just a shame the conditions were a tad marginal as we would have seen some proper glider aerobatics, but we had some good laughs! :clap: :clap:
Anyway, at some point, we gave Donatas a plane, with a motor... And Oh My God! That guy can fly! Total respect! I did not knew you could do stuff like that with a plane! (and a Wot4 electric... a trainer! :shock: )
Very down to Earth bunch of guys, and I believe they will come back in force next year!
But Richard will certainly tell us more about them and their Irish slope soaring experience
That's it for me for now! I'm putting a gallery together, I'll post the link later, but once again, many thanks to all of you for coming and making these meeting so specials!
