Second Unofficial Practice Day (Steve)

Towed into the air by the equivalent of a small truck

Briefings are interesting with a translator describing what the polish task setter is saying. You then have to translate the translated English into usable English. For example, yesterdays task was described as "exercising your cheeses" which meant it was an AAT task using wedges instead of circles.

Slowly getting the glider sorted, having translated all the German labels into English. Flying with height in meters and speed in km/h takes a bit of getting used to. Thanks to Brett yesterday for helping me sort the non-existant total energy compensation on the LX V5. Was just a case of swapping a few tubes around but makes a big difference to being able to pull up into a thermal. A well deserved Tyskie for Brett. On the yet to sort list is making the bug wipers work and fine tuning the tail ballast.

Nice weather and nice task today. An ATT with two circles and one cheese. Minimum distance 300km, max 683km, time 4hrs 30mins. I flew 530km at 103kph with lots of room to go faster when a few more items that require sorting are ticked off the list. Brett had a great day flying with Tom Claffey from Australia.

Tyskie 'o' clock