Sunday 18.6.04
    Though this morning is bright and sunny without any clouds overhead again, the air pressure is far lower compared to yesterday and the air humidity is slightly higher on the contrary. The morning decision is to go quickly up Cerna hora hill, which is located more outside the mountains after all.

    Most of pilots go up by a cableway at 11 a.m. already and they walk 700 meters to a taking off point in a height of 1250 meters above the sea level then. Thirty kilometers long task is declared at noon. It spans three turning points - Cerny Dul, Dolni Dvur and Cerny Dul again. A goal is located at the edge of Trutnov town. A task window is rather shorter today and it'll be closed at 2 p.m. already.

    Testing pilots demonstrate an easy-going rise and no competitor is uselessly waiting off after the task window was open. Even Frantisek Pavlousek appears at taking off area slightly late, he couldn't dispose of a bowel disease yesterday and that's why he begins from a total nullity today.

    Jan Kupka and David Ohlidal can't succeed in taking off desperately and they look like hares. Children of standing by tourists don't suspect naturally, that both pilots are leaders of Czech League 2004 competition and they scream with laughter.

    Even if cloud bases are forming in a height of only 1600 meters above the sea level today, sexteen pilots succeded in flying over all three turning points surprisingly enough. But only five competitors flew properly and they have reached the goal finally. Frantisek Pavlousek has reached the goal as the first in time of one hour and ten minutes, David Ohlidal was ten minutes late and Matej Cerny was next twelve minutes late. Jan Kupka and Martin Pacejka arrived together roughly eighteen minutes after.

    Unfortunately after yesterday's carabin incident Mirek "Radar" Stehula made a mistake today by setting up the starting circle more than twice larger for a change. And that's why he started the discipline without the starting point recorded properly. Despite of his successful reaching the goal it means he is placed within to the 20^th position of today's ranking however. Similarly Tomas Svoboda went wrong. Amazingly he realised after a successful reaching the goal, that he had forgotten a crossing the circle around one of turning points completely.

    David Ohlidal and Jan Kupka are at the head of total ranking after today's task, Ludek Prochazka is in the third position and Peter Vrabec is fourth. A briefing will run from 9 p.m. tomorrow, but this time in Penzion Kukacka. Evidently they'll be hurry again because the meteorologists seriously threatens with storms tomorrow afternoon.