Wednesday 09.08.06
    Peter Vrabec, our Slovak brother, made yesterday's evening pleasant. He tried to translate running Czech movie to English language. Adie and Swiss organiser didn't understand at all but everybody had great fun. Peter also tried to sell one of his guns before dinner to make money for PWC La Reunion. "It's just my home gun," answered when somebody questioned him.

    Low clouds begin to rise up in the morning and all pilots rush to the take off area hopefully. The weather forecast doesn't look very optimistic. A probability of flights decreases day by day.

    The briefing is shifted from 11.15 a.m. to twelve o'clock. The "Race" task is declared after noon. It spans six turning points and its length is 82.5 km. Pilots enter three new waypoints and the next landing point into their GPS units.

    Finally, the task is cancelled because of the strong wind above the second turning point. The speed of wind reaches 50km/h and so most of pilots recede about 25km/h while landing.

    Just Christian Maurer and Czech greenhorn Michal Sneiberg from all of 130 pilots liked today's task! Every pilot had to utilize his acrobatic skills over 150%. Some of them reviewed shortly after the take-off that it would be much safer to land as soon as possible.

    Karel Vrbensky judges after landing: "I've been frightened like this never before!" David Ohlidal was so spoiled that he threw his stomach out after landing. An unnamed pilot said: "I didn't understand the thermal lift above the glacier at all." Frantisek Pavlousek closed the discussion: "Golden flatlands, golden flatlands!" Everybody just lived through his own story today.

    Eventually, most of Czech pilots settled, that if Swiss pilots usually flew in these conditions, they would be absolutely crazy! Several auxiliary parachute were thrown because of a fusion of three directions of wind and what is more, Ewa Wisnierska had to be trasfered from high mountains right to hospital by helicopter. As we know, however some of her bones are broken her backbone is all right, fortunately.