Smoking Hot

To add to my list "first time for everything", we had to stop the contest one of the days because of fire. Some local farmers had been burning their fields (Not leagal, but commonly accepted procedure here to get the soil better), and it got a bit out of hands.
Anyway, few photos from these 2 weeks here...

Morning briefing with Live Demo. CD explaining the ground procedures.

The twelve o'clock sheep that pass the judging line regularily. Exept one day. Then they were there at 1 o'clock.

Judges briefing, as you can see, weather is really hot. And humid...

Another one from the judging line

Opening ceremonies, march throug the city

some of the judges ready for marching

Must say, the local way of electricity is.... not something I am used to

apparently I have changed country. I got the right one too afterwards, saying *CIVA* instead of Sweden. But then again, PIK as President of Jury was Swiss, which in Neutral. That means, I must be Nato. And the  third one is Hungary. Or Hungry.... (Actually, Tamas had a batch with CIVA in the beginning, but it said "Principal Jury" instead of just Jury.... :D )

There are nice plum trees in the back of the judging line. Yummy! :)

One of the days, it was so smoking hot, there was a fire. We had to evacuate the corner judge from his position and stop flying untill the fire brigade got the fire under control.

the ATC tried to draw the box for us in the sky.... :D

Member Abraniy had a birthday, so of course there was a cake. And I think we managed to surprice him with that :D

One of the jury duties was to observe the line judges at work. Must say, that is HOT place to be, in the crop circles. VERY hot...

We also had a Romanian night on wednesday, where some history was present. I thought at first that they released the Game of Thrones....

This pretty much sums up the 2 weeks here ;)

First time for everything. Or at least to many things....

First contest of the season for me outside Finland. This year I will attend all the World and European championships in Aerobatics. First EAAC in Deva, Romania. Then WAGAC/WGAC in Zbraslavice, Czech Republic and finally WAC in Chateauroux, France. CIVA will still organize the World Air Games in Dubai at the end of this year, but participation to this I have no idea...

It is also my first time as a jury memeber. In the last plenary meeting in Wroclaw, Poland I was nominated and then voted to the Jury of EAAC. I must say, that was a big surprise for me. That is why I am in Romania. First time, by the way.

For the WGAC I'll be a scoring judge. First time of that too. I also take my daughter there for the first time, will be her first World Championships too. I'll have an assistant from Czech, and we have been working together also before so that should work fine. At the same time I am extremely anxious to get to glider contest and at the same freaking out. I'm sure I'll do ok, but the thought of judging the worlds best aerobatic pilots the first time... Honestly that is scary.

For the WAC there is no such "first time" actually. I'll be assisting Kimmo again, that's my second Unlimited contest. First in France tho.... :)