Monday 19.7.04
    'Facking competition, the starts are too late,' Tomas Svoboda loudly complains this morning. Except of one turning point missing he flew too soon above starting point yesterday and 107 marks only were given to him. In view of 450 marks for the winner of yesterday's task it's not so bad but his girlfriend Monika rather looks for a bus back to Ostrava town already.

    The meteorologists seem to be not lying. Early morning is very cloudy and weather is not changing even after a substantial breakfast in Penzion Kukacka. The message comes from Prague that it rains in the capital already. Despite of this organizers take a decision to depart to a car park below Cerna hora hill and wait for next today's verdict.

    'Just after our meeting up the hill we'll walk into a competition immediately,' Ota Cerny, the competition director, commands and all competitors go up by a cableway to Cerna hora hill at 11 p.m., exactly at the same time as yesterday. Light southwestern wind blows at taking off area but forming clouds flies very fast only 200 meters overhead from west to east.

    The task window is very short today, from 0.15 p.m. to 1.30 p.m., and the goal is located 40.6km afar at Velke Porici airport. Today's task spans two turning points - Cerny Dul village and Trutnov town.

    Renata Kuhnova begins as the first at 0.40 p.m. A stronger west wind is blowing now and a keeping up above a south-oriented slope isn't easy. Coloured canopies begin to cumulate quickly at landing zone below Cerna hora hill.

    Cloud bases are forming even lower than yesterday and seven pilots only fly over the second turning point today. Finally one and only Frantisek Pavlousek has reached the goal in time of one hour and fifty minutes and he has become a winner of today's task as well as yesterday. The second Matej Cerny wanted three kilometers to reach the goal and Richard Bojda landed next 14km back. A leader of the competition, David Ohlidal, landed with Radomir Vyhlas together on 21^th kilometer. It means the fourth and the fifth position of today's ranking.

    'Half an our flying and no profit from that,' Hanka Matyaskova together with eight similar others complains at car park below Cerna hora hill and the sky becomes bright at the same time and very nice clouds begin forming above the hills. At the same moment Martin Sliva has finished an audience at Vaclav Havel, former chairman of Czech Republic. Martin landed on 11^th kilometer just beside a chairman's cottage named Na Hradecku and because Vaclav wasn't at home at that moment, a bodyguard showed him the door. Armed bouncer with a revolver under his arm loaded Martin into a special blue car and carried him away to the second turning point near Trutnov town. Simply said, something like VIP picking-up from the route.

    There are no changes in the first two positions of the total ranking after today's discipline but Matej Cerny moved up to the third position from the seventh one. And some competitors say that Frantisek Pavlousek, who has no marks from the first day of competition at all, dramatically begins to press his way to the first five leading pilots.