Big time PCD

PCD- Post Contest Depression seems to get worse every year. This year it is much worse than last year, but most likely because I had to go home right in the middle of the contest. And I hated it. But I had no choise...

It has been almost a week and still I keep pressing refresh-button from Civa-results and contest website, to see what is going on. Thank God for some facebook friends, who keep updating some info what is going on.
Anyway, here is few photos from Dubnica for you to see...

THIS is what they used for towing. A turbo-cmelak. 6 minutes a round... 

Looking for a shadow...

Swiss/German representatives...

With one of my favourite unlimited Fox-pilots :)

This "Kesämopo" was found one night at the city, when we had dinner there. There was Brittish, Italians, French, Swedish, Finnish and Polish partisipants. Quite international evening! Restaurant RETRO, of course!

Castle of Trencin during the night, much more beautiful in real life than in a crappy phone photo... 

Getting ready for flights... 

And I got myself some ID-cards too, thanks to PIK, I got two of them... :D

2 rows of planes ready for some action!

Socializing and getting ready to fly!

Briefing room

Last night at the airfield... 

... looks just like another night

Saturday morning, after 5 days at airfield we started our journey back home early in the morning. Since none of us had never been to Nitra (very famous for Finnish glider pilots, home of Pribina Cup), it was almost must on the way to Budapest. Nitra airfield was quiet and not many people was there. And the few there was, didn't really speak any English. So, after walking around a while we continued to Budapest airfield, jumped on board and flew home.
I could say the only souveniers I brought back home was a lot of good ideas for next year, a ton of new experiences, definately many good memories and two stones. :D

Here is few more photos from Nitra

So THIS is where they breed... Cmelaks... :D

I must say, it was really nice to go to Dubnica and meet all the people again. I had excellent 6 days in Dubnica and friday evening when I said good bye to these people I realized how much I hate goodbyes.

So, see you all next year I hope!

It's been a hard days night...

This trip is awesome! I mean, there is so many things you see, notice, realize, put on a paper, think, wonder, etc. We are here to observe things to be able to arrange the perfect setting for the world championships. And there is a lot of things to think through.
#1 we need pilots
#2 we need judges (ok, that is not up to us, CIVA will decide and nominate judges and jury for us)
#3 we need enough accommodation
#4 we need a restaurant, showers, towplanes, maps, folders, paper, copymachines, rubberbands, toilets, computers, chairs, umbrellas, fridges, id-cards, volunteers, oil and gas, tents, pens, techinical commission, website, wifi, paper clips, busses, drivers, drinks, food,... Million small things to remember. That was just a small, tiny part of all what we need to remember.

We are lucky to be able to participate the WGAG/WAGAC2012 in Dubnica Slovakia. We have talked with several people, asking questions, writing down expectations, fears, thoughts, what bothers, what problems they see. Ok, you are never able to please everyone. that's for sure. But as many things we can think in advance and even make some back up plans - we'll be fine.

Anyway, tomorrow is my (our) last day here. So need to get some sleep... And in the morning will start the unlimited Known. Advanced finished it today!

Next adventure... Slovakia!

I have now been in Slovakia from Sunday evening. I got a ride to Budapest from Nyiregyhaza from lovely Anico! Thank you sweetie!
I had to wait quite a long time in the ticket office - with no air condition, and I guess after 2 hours (and about 60 people in front of me and still 30 to go according to the number tickets) they took some of us (travelling that same day) to the business lounge to buy our tickets from there.

Eventually I got on the train to Bratislava and this time I even got a seat! Not like last year in Poland... Then a quick change of train in Bratislava and the next train was even better, with AC and everything. Seat numbers and all. I ended up to the railway station of Trencin, just like planned, and took a taxi to hotel. Big spender, it costed like 3 euros...

At the "hotel" there was a young lady in the reception, who wanted me to pay immediately. And of course their machine didn't accept my Visa NOR Master card for some reason, so I had to go find an ATM. And I can tell you, locals don't reallly speak english... Bankomat - that was the macig word... Eventually I found one, and yet there I had some problems with my plastic cards, but finally got the amount out from there and headed back to the hotel...

Next day I got a ride to the airfield with the swedish team, which was great! And then all the familiar faces there. This is like a big family reunion! It is nice to see how everyone helps each other, gives tips, comments on flying (doesn't still reveal all the secrets) but anyway, have fun and enjoy the contest. One evening we had a dinner in the down town of Trencin. There was Italians, Brittish, French, Swedish and then me from Finland. oh, and one Polish. Everyone together like a big happy family.

Last night our 2013 Contest director and marketing manager arrived and today we're just seeing what's going on here in the competition. Already visited morning briefing, startline, talked about HMD's, and several other things. And now... now it is time for PIZZA!!!

We did it!!!

After a very long and hot week, we managed to pull all the flights!
81 flights in Q, which equals 729 figures,
81 flights in Free, which equals 972 figures,
75 flights in Free Unknown 1, which equals 1043 figures,
58 flights in Free Unknown 2, which equals 814 figures...

total that is 295 Flights, 3558 figures... so including positioning marks, that is 3853 marks given...

 Now we have the time for the airshow and closing ceremonies for today!

8 down, 2 to go. Then to Slovakia!

We have had 8 days now for the contest and still have 2 more days left here in Nyiregyhaza (I have finally learned how it is written - and pronounced). Tomorrow we hopefully get the 2nd unknowns ready, which means 38 flights. And there has been a "Local Severe alert for Hungary!
Statement as of 2012-08-02 2:23:00 GMT, valid until 2012-08-02 02:23:00 GMT
Extreme high temperature
Description: Extreme high temperature.


Cities affected: Zahony, Hungary; Szolnok, Hungary; Debrecen, Hungary; Nyiregyhaza, Hungary."

That means, that tomorrow on the judging line will be very hot! We have the parasols and nice chairs, but in the middle of the day it is impossible to stay under the parasol all the time, so even I get really hot.
We have figured out a thing tho, which helps actually quite nicely. We take showers in the judging line. Well, not exactly showers, but half a liter of cold water on your head helps a lot - at least for a while. This week I have poured several of them on me, and when you get your hair and back of your shirt wet, you can actually be there. If there is no wind, it is REALLY hot - and humid.

So, after tomorrow we'll get the flights done, then on Saturday there is an airshow and after that - closing ceremonies. That will be nice.

On Sunday it is time to travel back home - well, for the others. I will continue my trip to Slovakia, where the World Glider Aerobatic Championships will be held. The contest is on the same site than the last years Europeans, so the the place I already know. I will take a train from Budapest and change it in Bratislava. And after about total of 2 hours of travel time I will arrive to Trencin, where our hotel is. I got some help with the trains and timetables from Anico, one of the assistants on the judging line. She is a native Hungarian and is assisting her dad on the line. So big thank to her, for helping me with that =)

On Tuesday our future contest director and our PR/Marketing manager for WAGAC/WGAC 2013 will arrive also to the site, so it will be nice to see what is going on and how it is done this year...

But, now off to bed, tomorrow is going to be... HOT! Again!