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“Paragliding World Championships Day 4 (Task 3):

The torture/learning-fest continues. So far this week I’ve learned some important lessons about goal lines vs. goal cylinders (i.e. the flymaster can’t tell the difference), navigating big cylinders properly, and (most importantly) how to deal with defeat day after day without completely loosing one’s will to live. I flew 60-odd km yesterday, scraped off the deck with a lower than low save, battled my way through the shade, flew for 3 hours… and earned a measly 197 points for the effort.

It was another unusual day with weak climbs and big shade areas interspersed with strong cloud suck. At one point a massive gaggle all got yanked into the cloud together. Yikes. Most spiraled down after exiting to show no advantage from cloud flying, but a few competitors have been penalized with 0 for the day.

Remember the Sheryl Crow song “No one said it would be eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy, But no one said it’d be this harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd” That’s my Bulgarian soundtrack

Today looks like a great flying day… let’s hope for some smooth sailing. “

Emma Casanova blog (http://emmacasanova.blogspot.com):

“13th World Championships. Fri 19th July. Task 4
What can I say?
This is an enormous learning curve for me.
I never thought that pilots could get any better until I came here. The speed at which they fly, the light of which they make the conditions, able to fly in such weak flatland lift and leeside thermals is incredulous.

Today, without having flown further than some 30km in a task, I question my ability to fly at all!! Frustration is starting to set in and after having just been retrieved and returned to HQ in the minibus to download, my startling 17km flight today was far from fun.

I tried every tactic today to stay with the gaggles. I executed persistence when struggling with shattered leeside lift on the hillside to get altitude, I hummed a tune and told myself to forget the race and just concentrate on make it out of the difficult spot I was in, I repeated my mantras, I searched, I scratched, I fought hard…all the things I had been taught to do, and still could not grasp that golden thermal to get me further down the course line, the others now out of sight aside from a couple of other gliders struggling as much as I was….

What to do? I am bewildered. Each day, I have been trying to understand how to fly here. I have been staying with the gaggles which eventually leave me for dust after flying faster, climbing efficiently, faster, higher….the hills don’t work here, the flats are weak and unforgiving. I am a mountain pilot.

Not my best day. I am at a loss, and my moral is starting to slip into a black hole of oblivion where everything I have learned so far is utterly useless, whatever I try..

I am not enjoying this, I am not having fun.”

Kadangi šiandien rytas buvo išties gražus ir debesys formavosi virš trijų kilometrų aukštyje į kalną kilome su didele viltimi gerai paskristi. Buvo paskelbtas 120 km. pratimas. Tačiau dėl nugarinio vėjo užduotis buvo atšaukta ir prie keltuvo žemyn nusidriekė ilga nuliūdusių pilotų eilė.
Ryt ir poryt nusimato dar stipresnis vėjas, tad šansų pagerinti rezultatus atitinkamai mažėja.
Dėl GPS siųstuvų, tai išties netvarka. Nežinia kodėl, bet apie 20 pilotų (tame tarpe ir aš) vakar išvis buvo nematomi, daugelis siųstuvų striginėjo.

Laukiam skraidomo oro…

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