All things ballooning
Austria - Day 4 (Wednesday) - Flight 1
As the weather team promised, we finally got a flight in this morning. The winds above 500 feet were up around the 15 knot mark, but there was a small inversion that was expected to stick around until about 9am. David Levin set 2 HWZ tasks with a planned launch period at sunrise (6.30am).
Most teams took off quite quickly after the green flag went up. It was pretty fast flight, with both markers being dropped within 20 minutes of each other.
The first task had 3 goals set, all quite close to each other, so the field pretty much split up evenly between them. There seemed to be some reasonable results, but the targets were not being overly peppered.
The majority of the field homed in on just one of the 3 goals set for the second task. Many people managed to get within the MSA and there looked to be quite a lot of decent results.
As much as I prefer events with Observers, the plus side of the GPS events is that you don’t need to go and hunt for and measure markers. So after we packed up the balloon, we headed back to our favorite café to fill out the flight report sheet and drink coffee. So it is very civilized.
We are now sitting in an almighty refueling queue. Unfortunately we have to take tanks out of the basket to fill, so it slows everything down. Considering today most people would have only flown for about 40 minutes and not used much fuel, it is pretty slow. I dread the day when we fly for a couple of hours.
Most teams took off quite quickly after the green flag went up. It was pretty fast flight, with both markers being dropped within 20 minutes of each other.
The first task had 3 goals set, all quite close to each other, so the field pretty much split up evenly between them. There seemed to be some reasonable results, but the targets were not being overly peppered.
The majority of the field homed in on just one of the 3 goals set for the second task. Many people managed to get within the MSA and there looked to be quite a lot of decent results.
As much as I prefer events with Observers, the plus side of the GPS events is that you don’t need to go and hunt for and measure markers. So after we packed up the balloon, we headed back to our favorite café to fill out the flight report sheet and drink coffee. So it is very civilized.
We are now sitting in an almighty refueling queue. Unfortunately we have to take tanks out of the basket to fill, so it slows everything down. Considering today most people would have only flown for about 40 minutes and not used much fuel, it is pretty slow. I dread the day when we fly for a couple of hours.
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Comment by Barb Smith on September 17, 2008 at 9:35pm -
Looks like the sun is actually shining! Some action at last - Team Kav must be happy!
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Comment by Vesa Lensu on September 17, 2008 at 11:47pm
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Good luck to Aussies and all so to team Finland Jukka and Pertti. Red racer of Philippe de Cock looks very nice in the first picture. Please send more information how everything is running.
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Comment by Deidre on September 18, 2008 at 12:25am -
Andrew, thanks for all the posts on the various blogs. Glad to hear that you are finally flying.
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Comment by Dawn Chase on September 18, 2008 at 10:01am
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That re-fueling line really makes me appreciate manifold systems that allow multiple fills at once!
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Comment by Austin Burrows on September 18, 2008 at 10:04am -
I have to agree with Dawn that re-fueling line is longest ive seen in my life
Austin
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Comment by Barb Smith on September 18, 2008 at 10:18am
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Results have been posted on www.balloon2008.com if anyone is interested.
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Comment by Kevin Kamp on September 19, 2008 at 4:13am -
Taking the tanks out of the bakset to refuel!! Ugh must be the safety laws in Austria
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Comment by Barb Smith on September 19, 2008 at 1:44pm
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Sean - 13th - Go You Aussie Go.......... well done......... keep up the good work...........
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Comment by Pavel Merinsky on September 25, 2008 at 6:48am -
Refueling tanks in Austria was long term job. But we had accomodations nearby refueling so we did our breakfast and than refueling. I found that everything was closed together in Austria and I could focus only on flying. Good job in Austria.
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