Tuesday 5.07.05
    The sky above the village is clear completely after melting a morning fog and its colour is as blue as they promised. The military trucks start their moving from the small square much earlier today and due to yesterday's collapse of one overheat pilot organisers better take down tilts.

    "This travelling up is more exciting than the flying," claims somebody after the third slap by a branch of the thick growth which must the trucks work their way out heavily climbing up to the ridge. This time the driving has its end at the foot of two pylons at a height of 1020 meters, where a spacious room for a take-off of many paragliders together spreads out.

    At a briefing at noon is 89km long task declared. At first it leads 13km to the east side towards the first turning point, then back to the taking off point again and to the north side to a goal at Zajecar village at last. A start window opening is planned to twenty to one at first but no testing pilot rises up by now. That's why organisers shift the opening time ten minutes ahead. A wind direction seems to be practically perfect and a majority of pilots turns a thermal above a slope on the east side of the taking off point half an hour later.

    A reaching the first turning point and a return back prove to be easy under today's conditions and only 8 pilots of 115 are forced to land on the first two legs of the route. Unfortunately, a Czech great guy Radomir Vyhlas belongs to them and he treats his disappointing at a yard of a local winemaker with a potion of salvia together with a small glass of Rakija spirit one hour later. Although he refuses an offer to exchange winemaker's daughter for two cows, he promises to take a taste of four years old wine certainly next evening.

    But at this moment 107 competitors fly on the third leg to the north side and 76 of them succeed in reaching the goal finally. Michael Witschi from Switzerland is the fastest and thus he becomes a winner of today's task. Swiss competitors Christian Maurer and Hans Bollinger reach the goal one second later and Olivier Rossel from Germany arrives two seconds later as the third.

    And while windows of village houses start to shine gradually in the evening, clouds slowly coming from the northwest side begin to cover stars in the sky. Pessimists concordantly contend that it was the best day of the competition today and nothing better won't come.