Friday 8.07.05
    At the village square reigns a dead silence even at eight o'clock in the morning after yesterday's grand party with pork and home-made wine at a football stadium where almost a half of village people, apart from the competitors, took part in. Only several lonely pigeons pick crumbs from yesterday and the bright July sun is shining in the clear blue sky again.

    "Take us with you please," another and another local girls are craving and a growing number of them is taken to the top of the ridge by trucks today. The wind at the taking off area blows straight from the south this time and after the usual running after a dust devil 95km long task with three turning points is declared. The first leg leads 14km to the east to a turning point Zeleni vrh (1334m), the second leg runs back to the taking off point, the third leg leads to the east again a eventually to the north to the well known goal in Zajecar village. A starting window is open at twenty to one already and the air start will be open forty minutes later.

    Even if high towery clouds begin to form afar on the east side, it's not easy to keep oneself in the air at all and lots of pilots from a lead group are forced to land after a return from the first turning point.

    Only those who arrive later succeed in raising up above the taking of area and fly further. But the last leg of the route leads against the wind and nobody reaches the goal today.

    Brazilian pilot Luciano Tcacenco Bender flew the furtherest to the 63rd kilometer and became a winner of today's task. The second Damjan Cretnik from Slovenia reached 58th kilometer and left Karin Appenzeller from Switzerland one kilometer behind him. Lucian moved to the top of a total ranking of the competition and Tomas Brauner is the second now. Ewa Wisnierska leads the women category, Petra Krausova fell down to the third position after her landing on 24th kilometer.

    Eight pilots experienced very dramatic moments travelling back to Sicevo village. The driver of the military truck turned his heavy colossus in a sharp curve upside down into a corn field and thus encaged all of them under the deck. Only half an hour later the desperates undermined themselves out of the tight space, came out and also dragged an injured Swiss pilot who ended up in hospital. Nothing serious, fortunately. A transportation of an Italian pilot with her hurt leg by a helicopter from an inaccessible mountain area back to Sicevo looks like an ordinary school trip.