You know what? I am bored. I released a post this morning thinking that would reset my mindset. A new email from Alain Zoller arrived in the meantime. Maybe he is right, let’s can the event altogether, no production glider conforms to EN-D criteria or to the sample gliders hold by test-houses. Something is dead.

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Building a shower on take-off might be a good idea. Even more with cold water only. Because after discussions, evening dinner, discussions, breakfast, discussions, shuttle, discussions, de-briefing of yesterday’s task, discussions, briefing of today’s task, discussions and eventually take-off, I could not cool down. So that I decided to fly alone, looking for my own way.

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The bus started to drift, wheels sliding in the muddy slope. We got out, walked a bit, waited for 1h. No bus coming, we walked up, flip-flops on the stony track, 1h to the top. A shift in the opening of the window plus a slightly too high distance to cover made that only Russ went to goal.

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The weather did not look too good, the forecast was nos too optimistic, nevertheless to have a chance to fly a task we had to be on take-off, so there we went this morning. The long parawaiting session allowed many discussions, none of them conclusive on the right way to handle the current issues with the use of supposedly certified equipments, neither on the next steps to follow for improving the situation. The only sure thing is that some people will not be happy with the outcome of the situation, whatever it is. No way to escape by the top, only crawling away from the melee seems an option to avoid being hurt.

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Eventually the rain arrived yesterday evening in Valadares. And the forecast for today was not looking flyable at all, so that a rest day has been set for this Sunday. Maybe I’ll walk or run up the hill later in the afternoon, or go the pool, and relax.

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