Tuesday 10.05.05
"If we can fly on Friday at least, I'll go to a church on Saturday," swore Martin Vavra alias Manci after the second bottle of nice Frankovka wine from Kyjov the last night and according to the expression of his face he was absolutely serious. But he didn't suppose he'll fly the next day already.
"A cloudbase will form at a height of 1500 meters above sea level," reports Michal Orolin and although it sounds incredibly the sun is shining above Stranik hill and a light wind blows from the south side. Altogether 87 pilots meet at a briefing at the taking off point shortly after noon and 26.9km long discipline is declared. Due to the southwest wind the first turning point is placed in Lutise village and the goal line is prepared in Zazriva.
About twenty pilots take off shortly after the start window opening and rise up a cloudbase in the height 600 meters above the top of Stranik. As they will discover later, this is one of the best period of this day. The others probably wait for better conditions.
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But the first shower starts to form on the west side of Zilina twenty minutes later and this forces the rest of pilots to take off quickly. The whole neighbourhood is shaded half an hour later and a large group of unsuccessful pilots comes to the taking off area shortly before 3 p.m. again.
"I landed back on the hill, I didn't believe the bringing in," Robert Cisar gives a relatively intelligent vindication of his milk-livered return to the taking off point while 26 of pilots are landed in the goal at this time, including Vlastik Hlousek who exchanged his hang-glider for a paraglider this week.
"One hour and half around the hill and forty minutes to the goal afterwards," Karel Vrbensky evaluates his today's flight and willingly exchanges an ordinary beer to nice wine after a short persuading. The winner of today's task is Miroslav Stehula. He reached the goal in 38 minutes. And this evening pilots drink a red Saint Vincence wine by Jozef Madarasz, who poses like a Finn but he is a Magyar definitely.
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