Tuesday…
There is still the feeling that things have not got going. Some more German competitors have rolled up, a few Czechs and the odd other plane. We are still supplying about half of the people on site.
It was hot work trying to organise 20 microlight pilots when putting up the marquee, but it’s worth it - the marquee provides us with a communal area for planning, cooking or just hiding from the relentless heat of the sun.
Team manager Dave Daniel, gathering the blue GPS flight recorders along with pilot licences, insurance certificates, FAI sporting licences and many other bits of paper. Dave is an unsung hero, he might shout at us occasionally, but it’s usually to get the team ready for the competition ahead.
Zdenka Wagenhauser (wife of Brad) takes great photos, she also has a website gallery which should be online soon. She went out this morning to get a few shots of Richard Rawes in his Chaser, she returned with 350 pictures!
Now nearly 3pm German time and we are all still trying to hide from the sun. It’s hot! Rob and Chris flew earlier this morning and took some photos ready for a practice task. The have just given the task sheet out - it’s a fairly simple sequential navigation task. You are given a heading to fly on and an A4 page of photos, some with a new heading attached to them. You fly along the first heading until you see one of the photos on the ground, at which point you turn to the new heading and carry on looking for more photos.
Do I dare say who gets lost??? Wait and see…