January 14, 2013 - Another Canceled Day

Today was an almost total repeat of yesterday. The weather forecast presented at the pilot's briefing was marginal, calling for a very strong inversion at 600 to 800 meters, which would need 30 °C to be broken, while the forecasted maximum daily temperature was only 26 °C. But, since we were all eager to fly and there was nothing better to do, we took the gliders to the grid and waited.

Once there, the things started to look a bit more promising with low Cu's coming in from the sea. A couple of sniffers reported soarable conditions and the World class, which was the first on the grid, got launched. However, they reported marginal conditions with lift of 0.5 m/s to 800 meters. Soon after  the organizers canceled the task for the Standard class, then  about 20 minutes later canceled the task for the Club class and finally another 20 minutes later canceled the task for the World class as well.

So we were back at the camp again around 3 PM. I did a bit of work and then went with the Brazilians to Chaves for ice cream and some shopping. There we bought a large cast iron pan, which I later used to make crapes (palačinke) for supper.

Everyone's hoping for better weather tomorrow. We will see.

A few pictures from today, as usual:

The grid under promising looking sky

Luis' rope art for today

Gliders being towed back to the tie-down area