XC Course day 4

Monte Cucco South Launch was THE place to be! We launched from 13.30 hrs but the first part of the flight scared most of us! I even checked if I had forgotten to close some zippers, or to put the nosecap on as my glider had a mind of it’s own. The house thermal was pretty angry and it was even the nastiest thermal Dennis was in for a long long time.

Most of the pilots flew the whole task: Monte Cucco – Scheggia – wind turbines – Monte Cucco – Gubbio – Monte Cucco. Cloudbase moved from 2700 m to 3400 m with some nice clouds. Most pilots had ‘first’ experiences: flying in a team, following other pilots, XC flight, distance, time (up to 5 hours!), VG handling (or not being able to use it: @Elsard ;-), long sink periods, crazy thermals, etc.


There were a lot of gliders in the air, not always thermalling the same turn direction :-(

5 pilots even made it back and landed on the mountain: Dimitry, Andrey, Koos, Harm and myself, altough it took me several times to finally land.