Same procedure as every year....

Contest is over and we have winners.

There was a day, when we didn't fly one flight- it was raining the whole day. Nothing new there, but we got a bit of a CIVA-job done with LG. Then most of the Friday and half of the Saturday we managed to fly and got all three rounds done. So, prices have been given out. Planes have flown home. I am laying on my hotelroom, waiting for my flight back home tomorrow.

This was yet again one experience more. And not a bad one. Definately not. Got a few new friends and a lot of experience.

Photos will follow, don't have the right cord with me to get them out from my camera.....

I am sinking, I am sinking...

Things tend to happen on my trips and travels and this is not an exception.... I started my trip to Sweden nationals / Glider Nordics again in the middle of the night.  My bus left at midnight from Pori, so about 20 minutes to midnight I walked to my car and started my trip. Only problem was, that some idiot set the neighbors paper trash on fire, so I had to call the fire brigade and wait for them to arrive. No big losses there, and I made it to the bus and to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. From there I had a flight to Göteborg via Arlanda. 

After arriving to the airfield I met many old friends and met few new ones and then we went to the forest to check the judging position with Lars-Åke, the chief judge. The SM-veckan, during which the Svenska mästerskapen i konstflyging is held, is in a different location every year, so you have to build the box every time again... So, this was a bit tricky, but we had a very good car for it... 

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After a while we had the judging position ready and we went back to the airfield and met the third member of our judging team, LG.

Wednesday morning we had the briefing in the morning and after that - it was off to the judging line. With some rain... The weather is giving us some hard time, it rains, and then it stops -we get few flights and then it is a break again - precipitation in the box. The ground got a bit of soft, so we had a good laugh of the classic video clip...  And in the judging line. At some point, it was raining on us, but there was almost cavok in the box :D

The clouds were really nasty and we even got some thunderstorm, but after a lot of driving back and forth, we managed to get the first round - all flights in known- done. That was a good moment to call it a day!

With the voice of David Attenboroug: After the rain, the judges comes out slowly, carefully from their tent, to see if it is safe to come out, if it is ok to be outside.... They glance to the sky, feel the weather, sniff the wind, and if there is even a smallest doubt that their paperwork gets wet, they flee immediately back to the warm shelter of the judging line tent.... 

And just after the flights were done, the sun came out behind the cloud. I think the weather genie is making fun of us....