Wednesday 22.03.06
    Even if the high temperatures didn't drop at all in contrast to yesterday, the air humidity seems to be much lower today and the possibility of storms almost equals to zero. Despite this organisers open 45 minutes long starting window at 11.30 already, what means, by the way, to set a taking-off priority for all of 126 pilots. The taking off point Uba proves to be too small for them. The claimed task spans two turning point today and its length 65.2 kilometers represents the longest discipline of this Brazilian competition.

    A thermal activity comes out very weak, the advance is very slow on the route and lifts, if any poor ones appear, arise mostly at unusual and unexpected places. 57 of pilots land before the minimum distance of 30 kilometers, 38 of them land one by one at the next leg of 30 kilometers and 8 of pilots are even forced to land about two kilometers before reaching the goal.

    Just a small group of four pilots rejoices in a successfully reaching the goal after four hours of a fight at last. They land in minutes intervals shortly after 4 p.m.

    Swiss Andy Aebi is the winner of today's task, Helmut Eichholzer from Austria (the big battler of the last Red Bull X-Alps competition) finished the second, Frank Brown from Brazil landed as the third and the fourth was Christian Maurer from Switzerland. Ewa Wisnierska flew the furthest of all women and she landed 4 kilometers before the goal line, leaving the second Petra Krausova 6 kilometers behind and Karin Appenzeller next 4 kilometers back.

    Nothing changed at the first two positions of the total ranking after today's task, just Tomas Brauner droped from the third position to the fourth one and Christian Maurer is the third now, instead of Tomas.