"Fucking rainy weather, I don't remember such a race!" grumbles in the evening one pilot, who finishes one week long Pre-PWC competition in Tolmin with a poor result just now and adds some more fitting formulations which can't be repeated, unfortunately. A rain fell during most of competition days and no valid task came off. More than one hundred participants are disappointed, understandably.

   I lay myself down to a groundcloth in front of my tent in a darkness and I don't regret definitely that I've missed it. Contours of surrounding mountains rise against the darken sky where the first bright stars start to appear gradually. It seems to me that much better weather is prepared for this year's Czech Republic Championship than it reigned during the last year of this race. And it will start tomorrow.



Monday 29.08.05
    "We haven't seen this yet," seeing a clear blue sky are amazed all pilots who left the rainy week behind and a huge pile of backpacks starts to form in front of a gate of the stadium. Organizers decide to take all 139 pilots up to the top of Kobala hill however a strong northeastern wind blows developing small clouds relatively fast over the valley.

    "I'm here to shuffle the results," one of Czech pilots claims with his congenital modesty and even though he wasn't seen several seasons at any competition, he seems to talk seriously. Sadly, a strong wind blows at the taking off area and even if 161 kilometers long task with a goal at the landing zone in Bassano appears written on the table after one hour of waiting, hardly anybody takes this organizer's joke seriously.

    "I drove over half the Europe and I can't fly though I know great weather reigns in my country," Martin Vavra alias Manci grumbles and because meteorologists can't promise any moderating of the strong wind in the afternoon, this day is declared at two o'clock as a free day. And what is more, the pilots are recommended better not to fly today.

    "The last week we at least knew in the morning we hadn't to go up to the hill," annoyed and tired Jirka Dlask comments this sunny day and it seems to me that after the rainy and unflyable week the new sunny one comes but due to the strong wind unflyable too. On the other hand optimists expect moderating the wind tomorrow and changing its direction more to the east side. And Marcel Konecny sometimes aptly says: "I neither tell one way nor the other but my words will come true!"