Sunday 13 January 2013

January 12 & 13, 2011 - Rest Days

Saturday, January 12 was declared as the rest day (due to poor weather) at 8 AM, so we left the Kilo-Yankee in the trailer and relaxed. I made a few more Blog entries to make up for the days I landed out and had no time for Blogging. I also added a few photos to a few of the older posts, so now the blog should be all up-to-date.

In the evening I joined the Brazilian and Argentinian teams for a  very nice "assado" (Argentinian barbecue) supper at a local farm, being used as a base of operations for the Argentinian National Team.
lamb and pig being roasted, assado style

Getting ready for supper...

Sunday, January 13 we were awaken around 8 AM by the camp loudspeaker blaring out something in garbled English. It was the announcement of the team captain's briefing at 11 AM, followed by the pilot's briefing at Noon and the grid opening at 9 AM. I woke up Luis and after having my usual early breakfast we went to our tie-down spot to rig the Kilo-Yankee and prepare it for flying. Thanks to a lot of recent practice in de-rigging and rigging, this has become an easy job and the two of us had it all done and ready to go to the grid in a little over half an hour, including giving Sorin (my Romanian neighbour) a hand rigging his LS 4.

At the pilot's briefing, Lucas the weatherman gave us a not-too-encouraging forecast, with a stationary front right over our heads, but the hope was there that the things may improve, so we were given three different task alternatives and a (provisional) take-off time of 13:15.

Eventually, the weather refused to improve. With the low strato-cumulus clouds moving in from the South, the temperature never got close to the required 27 °C, so after a couple of delays the tasks for all three classes were cancelled. Luis and I brought the Kilo-Yankee back to the tie-down. In the afternoon I did a little work, catching up on some work related emails.

The latest weather forecast for tomorrow looks not too bad, so everyone is hopeful that we will be back flying.
The grid under not very promising skies
A good opportunity for taking photos

Driving the Kilo-Yankee back to the tie-down spot


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4 comments:

  1. DS14 January 2013 at 05:53

    The last photo, looks quite nice, a lot of Cu clouds, so my recipe is - start driving back to tie-down spot already at 12:00 and you will have good weather right away :-)

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  2. Zoran Frenc14 January 2013 at 13:26

    I think its a final time for u guys to start flying again! Enough of parties ! U didnt go all the way there to eat and drink( well not Dugi but... :-)))

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  3. Branko Stojkovic14 January 2013 at 18:20

    Someone proposed we all go to the local church and pray for better weather, since we got nothing better to do anyway :-)

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  4. DS16 January 2013 at 00:08

    Obviously your rest day went well. Praying was successful:-) Another great accomplishment. Go "Dugi" go !

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