First flights

The organisation here at Chaves is not quite ready to process entries, so we decided to go flying instead of standing in line at the registration desk. It was another cool sunny day, with no clouds and winds from the north.

The 15 Meter Class Team gridded and launched together at about 1430. Fernando discovered a problem with his ASI and elected to land to sort that out. The other three flew upwind together for a couple of hours before returning to base. They reported broken lift to 1400 meters MSL (our elevation is about 200 meters).

Just as they were landing, the rest of our team showed up. Al and Ryszard assembled their Jantars for the first time and tied them down. They will make their first flights tomorrow.

The ASW-20 pilots seem to be happy with their gliders. As usual, the headaches all seem to be associated with electronics and data communications: batteries, Flarm and Flight Recorder IDs, and tracking messages.

But the biggest problem seems to be getting all of our cell phones working.