Leszno Lift nr13 10

Daily Bulletin no. 13
10 August 2003
Report of contest day 12, August 9
World Gliding Championships
Leszno Poland
CONTENTS
Around About
2
Met’s Bet
4
Invitation to Sweden
5
From the top
6
Pilot Profile - Wilga pilots
8
Cartoons
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Organisation of the WGC2003
Our hosts in Poland really turned on some wonderful
weather yet again for the pilots. Like clockwork,
beautiful cumulus just in time for launch exactly as
our weather man predicted. It was going to be a strong
race day and all pilots cheered loudly at briefing when
racing tasks were declared.
After launch, the excitement of all the activity was
over-shadowed by the sad fact that the gliders would
have their last race and the crews and spectators
were leaving the grid for the last time.
My friend the hawk, who some of you may have seen
most days, was there to watch over us, as he has
the whole competition. He came close enough for
me to photograph him this morning – so he deserves
a place on this page.
We were all anxious, will the leaders keep their
places, will there be any large changes in the results
today? We would have to wait until the first gliders
started arriving about 4:30.
Tasks for today were Standard 431.6km with
best speed 128.2kph, 15 Metre Class 456.3km
@129.1kph, 18 Metre Class [email protected]
and Open Class [email protected].
At the time I am writing this, the provisional new
world champions are pictured above, (top left)
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John Coutts, New Zealand, 15 Meter Class; (right)
Wolfgang Janowitsch, Austria, 18 Metre Class; (lower
left) Andy Davis, Great Britain, Standard Class and
(lower right) Holger Karow, Germany, Open Class.
Congratulations to you all for such wonderful and
consistent flying every day of the contest.
As for us in the Bulletin office, this is the last edition of
Leszno Lift, at least until Leszno hosts another world
championships. We have been a great team and I am
so grateful to Greg, Nick, Michał and Paweł for their
unending work which went on night and day. I can’t
tell you how many hours they’ve worked! Thanks also
to Alf Ingersson-Tor for his wonderful cartoons and of
course to Jacek and Ania for bringing me to Poland
to have this time with our gliding family.
If you ever have the chance to come to Australia,
please contact me. I now have a beautiful home in
the country near Melbourne that is a dream for any
glider pilot including my own airstrip and I hope to
share it with many of you.
Travel home safely, enjoy your flying, thanks for your
friendship and I hope to see you again soon.
Janet Hider Smith
Ph 0061 (0) 403 243 662 Fax 0061 (0) 3 9593 8687
email: [email protected]
17-323 Beaconsfield Parade St Kilda Vic 3182 Australia
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Heard on the radio
Friday before the start,
“What is this 3.5 metre thermal, what’s
it doing here and what do I do with it?”
What really happened: Irish Team
Captain assaulted by lady with two guns.
This was by consent as it was in fact
two water guns in the swimming pool
at the hotel Akwawit and it did Gerry’s
back a great deal of good.
There were so many people around that
the grid controller almost had no voice left.
Words not required
I had a strange request yesterday, an
Italian crew member was having trouble
in an English conversation and asked
me: “What is another word for hug?”
I had to say, actually, that you didn’t
need a word. If you hugged someone
as a demonstration, it is a universal
language.
(Must admit, I have had a shortage of
hugs this week…)
The pilots were all happy chappies
Saturday when the task setters set all
speed tasks for the last day.
While taxiing at London Gatwick, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft.
Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 767. An
irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming:
“US Air 2771, where the hell are you going? I told you to turn right onto Charlie
taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it’s difficult for you to
tell the difference between Cs and Ds, but get it right!” Continuing her tirade to
the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: “God, you’ve screwed
everything up! It’ll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don’t move
till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour
and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you!
You got that, US Air 2771?”
“Yes ma’am,” the humbled crew responded. Naturally the ground control
frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771.
Nobody wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state. Tension in
every cockpit at LGW was running high.
Then an unknown pilot broke the silence and asked: “Wasn’t I married
to you once?”
Those final words from Jacek at the last
briefing:
“Thank you very much, have a nice
flight, the briefing is over.” …and that
was that.
Leszno LIFT
THANK YOU EVERYONE
Janet Hider Smith
Ph 0061 (0) 403 243 662
Fax 0061 (0) 3 9593 8687
email: [email protected]
17-323 Beaconsfield Parade St Kilda
Vic 3182 Australia
Greg 0048 605 248 072
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Mick 0048 601 788 646
Which team is that?
Left, the last glider to launch
on the last day…
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MET’S
BET
Dear Teams,
I would like to thank you for the great co-operation and
for all the information that you have been bringing to
me after the tasks which allowed me to compare the
morning forecast with the actual daily conditions. Thank
you as well for the suggestions that you addressed during the training days about
the meteo bulletin for being understanding during the unfortunate outlanding task J
Being a gliding pilot it was a pleasure for me to work during WGC 2003 especially
here in Leszno. What will stay in my mind after that comp is the pleasure of work
for so many famous pilots and the experience I wouldn’t be able to get in any other
place. The great event for me was also the OSTIV congress and meeting people
doing the same thing for a living as me and exchanging knowledge with them.
I wish all of you similar or better weather like you experienced here. I hope
we see each other at some other comps again.
4th Junior World Gliding
Championships
August 2005
United Kingdom
All Junior pilots are warmly invited to attend the 4th Junior World
Gliding Championships which will be held in the UK, at The
Soaring Centre, Husbands Bosworth, from 31st July to 20th
August 2005 (includes practice period and prize giving.)
There will also be a Regional Competition held at The
Soaring Centre next year, from 31st July to 8th August, which
all Junior pilots are also welcome to enter.
All future information will be posted on the contest web site
at www.worldgliding2005.com
Come and have a great time – all the team and British Gliding
are waiting to welcome you!
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The organisers of the 28th
World Gliding Championships
wish to thank the following
sponsors for their contribution
to the success of the
championships.
PKO BP
Urz±d Miasta Leszno
Starostwo Powiatowe Leszno
Petrolot
TVP
Aeroklub Polski
Leszno
FAI
LOT
Telekomunikacja Kolejowa
Telekom Sp. z o.o.
Radio Elka
Nashuatec
LX Navigation
Polityka
SeeYou
Crabb Computing
home.pl
RedBull
Bank Handlowy S.A.
Ever
Polska Konfederacja Sportu
SZD
Port Lotniczy im.Fryderyka
Chopina
Optimus
Cisco
Akwawit
Brasco
Invitation to Sweden
The next WGC will be held the 5th – 17th of June
2006 at Ärna Airfield, just a few km north of Uppsala in
Sweden. Uppsala is the fourth largest city in Sweden with
approximately 200, 000 inhabitants. The city is located in the
Mälardal region, which is one of the most densely populated
areas in Sweden. The Swedish capital, Stockholm, is
located about 80 km south of the competition site.
Uppsala is famous for it’s accent history, it’s historical
sites, the University and in recent years the biotech
industry that is located in and around Uppsala.
The competition area will offer a variety of farmland,
forests, lakes and rivers. There are sand ridges and hills
in the area which produce strong thermals during the
summer months, but there are also valleys which consists
of clay that need to be avoided, since the thermals are
usually weaker in these areas.
In the years preceding the WGC 2006, the Swedish
Soaring Federation will open the national championships
to foreign pilots that wish to practice in the competition
area. Some clubs will also offer themselves as host
clubs to the national teams. This means that they will
take one or more national teams under their wings and
let them use the club facilities at reasonable prices
and serve as a link between the national teams and
the organisers. Those national teams that wish to have
an exchange with a host club in Sweden from now
and through the next WGC can contact the Swedish
organisers. Contact information and information about the
next WGC 2006 can be found on the following web site:
www.uppsalafk.com/wgc2006.
The soaring club in Uppsala, that will act as a host club to
the championships, is one of the largest soaring clubs in
Sweden. The club have also produced some of the best
pilots Sweden has to offer. One of them, Börje Eriksson,
is competing here in Leszno.
The preparations to host the WGC 2006 have already
started, and the organisation will be lead by Fredrik
Jaresved, chairman of Uppsala Soaring Club, Robert
Danewid, chairman of the Swedish Soaring Federation
and Alf Ingesson-Thoor, Championships Director last time
Sweden arranged WGC 1993 in Borlänge.
The Swedish Soaring Federation and the organisers of
the next WGC 2006 invite and will welcome glider pilots
of the world, to compete for the world championships in
Uppsala, Sweden 2006!
http://www.uppsalafk.com/wgc2006
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from the top
Dear Friends,
Most of all I would like to thank all people and organisations without
whose support it wouldn’t be possible to arrange our competition on
such a level, in such a limited time, with such esteem.
Dear sponsors, I’d like to say how grateful I am to all of you.
To the authorities of Leszno for arranging the final ceremony and
supporting all the gliding meetings, PKO BP for their financial
support, Petrolot for fuel, LOT for transport to gliding officials,
Optimus for computer hardware, Telekomunikacja Kolejowa
for internet support.
TP SA for phone and fax lines, Panorama Leszczyńska, Radio
Elka, Polityka, TVP for media coverage, Home Pl for web
hosting, Vaisala for weather data, Nashuatec Leszno for daily
bulletin support, Chrysler Poznań and all the others without
whom WGC2003 wouldn’t have happened.
Dear organisation team,
Thanks to all the gliding enthusiasts helping us get this competition
together. Without such reliable and confident people like you, we
would not be able to do so much for gliding. Most of all thanks
to Ania Witek-Crabb for arranging the competition office with her
team of Ewa Hajek, Magda, Ola as well as to Piotr Czyż our web
designer and Wojtek Janisiewicz.
Thanks to:
Polish authorities of Polish Aeroclub with President Jan Tadeusz
Karpiński and General Secretary Jerzy Siatkowski.
All Polish tug pilots with Józef Młocek and Hungarian team with
Ferenc Koncz for best and safest towing I could imagine.
Sławek Kurzawski and his team for arranging to us and running
all the infrastructure of Centralna Szkoła Szybowcowa.
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Grid Masters Andrzej Frąckowiak, Robert Koralewski and
the team for order reliability,
• Safety Officer Bartek Jaskólski for securing flying,
• Our sniffer Mirek Królikowski for detailed and humour
soaring information,
• Janek Młynarczyk for his detailed forecasts,
• Jurek Mierkiewicz for successful task setting,
• Robert Bugalski for marketing,
• Technical section Tomasz Makowski, Zbyszek Szydłowicz,
Marcin Bulanda and the team for weighing and tech
procedures.
• Scoring office Marek Uzarowski, Darek Cisek and the team
for fast and reliable results,
• Daily Bulletin Team with Janet Hider Smith, Greg Micorek,
Mikołaj Całka with the team of Michał and Paweł,
• Police, Leszno State Guards, Temida Security for peace
and order on the airfield area.
• International authorities
Thanks to the Jury and Stewards for their support in some
tough moments, organisational support and feedback as well
some good cartoons.
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Competition pilots
Thank you for the great challenge you have been part of, for
your fair play and safe flying. I was honoured to meet so many
of you here in Leszno from all over the world.
Also thanks to all the important people that I did not manage to
mention and who made so much for WGC 2003 competition. I
do not quite know who to thank for the good weather conditions
although thank you Jasiu for good communication with The
Almighty Heaven. It has really worked out. This WGC2003 in
Leszno differs from other worlds in many ways. There have
been four glider classes attending for the first time and we had
the highest number of competitors: 128 pilots. We have also
shared the fresh news of gliding technology, thanks to OSTIV
and we have managed to renew our facilities here in Leszno
to bring them to international standards.
Next WGC2006
Let me say to the Swedish organiser that I am very happy that
you have three more years to arrange the next Worlds and I
offer my help and advice if it is ever necessary. I wish you good
weather and I am sure that Sweden is a great place for handling
the next world gliding championships. I am sure that you will
do more than well with organisation and pilots will enjoy your
beautiful country.
Gliding Championships are a place for enthusiastic people. The
enthusiasm of participants, people organising and supporting
with a great will to work, have let us show you the best side
of Polish gliding. There are always more people willing to fly
than people willing to work. Thanks to this event, I think that I
have managed to meet the best volunteers ever.
Remember the world is always worth as much as much you
are able give to the others.
Have successful flights in your next competitions.
Jacek Dankowski
Championship Director
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Pilot profile
Our pilot profile today is of some heroes of the
championships. Our Wilga pilots.
“If you are stubborn enough and you enjoy taking
exams often then go for aviation” these words began
Józef Młocek’s career as the chief tug pilot here at
the Leszno Gliding Club. Our towing team here is
made up of pilots from all over Poland. Most of them
are young buddies of around 25 years old. Józef
says that although he was here during the WGC
1958, he feels also “26 years old although it has just
happened to him 3rd time so far.”
There are many tow pilots in Polish gliding but all of
these here underwent careful selection by Józef. Some
of them are flying at the Rzeszów Air School, some
come from Warsaw, some are local pilots. They are:
Pawlak, Kazimierski, Skrzypczak, Królikowski, Rawecki,
Ławryszczuk, Siedlecki, Wiśniewski, Cichoński,
Wojtera, Puzyński, Bukowski, Kamiński and Młocek.
It must be mentioned that not every tow pilots with a
licence could necessarily tow for the WGC. “They must
know towing through their skin and the knowledge of
how to tow cannot easily be taught”. They also do many
things other than towing such as: running the outlanding
office, working in the scoring office and providing much
other help to the organisers. Their working day starts
usually at 9am with short briefings, de-briefing of the
previous day’s work and with a plan for the coming day.
After launch, when all gliders are gaggling in the air
waiting for the start line to open, there are six tugs left
on duty on the grid in case relaunching is required.
The 12 Wilgas are working as a team. To be timely,
fast and safe everybody needs to know their place in a
row. To launch 122 gliders and get the great result of 43
minutes there is no place for any individual flying. All tugs
land timely and continue launching with no delay – oneby-one, as accurate as a Swiss clock. This all depends
not only on pilots but on the grid people and safety
officers. Józef says that “the glider pilots are competition
pilots and they are here to compete. We are to get them
into the air fast. That’s our job. Everyone of us can
depend and believe each other. The tug team must be
open minded, learn its mistakes, correct them fast and
accept feedback from colleagues without taking offence.”
What is interesting is that amongst them, they have
families working here. Marek Królikowski is towing
while his father Mirek Królikowski – with his spectacular
sense of humour – is flying the sniffer flights and
providing details to the competition director.
Thanks guys for the great job! Thanks a lot! It is
really nice to listen to the glider pilots’ impressions
of the towing after a day and they do know what
they are saying. As an observer, you can see that
their strong sense of discipline, is their secret to their
success here. Congratulations.
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Organisation of the 28th World GlidingChampionhships
1.
Agnieszka Laboch
Grid
51.
Łukasz Pawlak
Tow Pilot
2.
Lidia Zamelczyk
Grid
52.
Michał Puzyński
Tow Pilot
3.
Wioletta Janiszewska
Grid
53.
Marcin Siedlecki
Tow Pilot
4.
Małgorzata Menzel
Grid
54.
Piotr Góźdź
Tow Pilot
5.
Agnieszka Baran
Grid
55.
Mirosław Królikowski
Tow Pilot
6.
Anna Zimmer
Grid
56.
Velegi Sandor
Tow Pilot
7.
Piotr Wojtczuk
Grid
57.
Karoly Nagy
Tow Pilot
8.
Łukasz Sobczak
Grid
58.
Ferenc Koncz
Tow Pilot
9.
Paweł Węclewski
Grid
59.
Csaba Ludanyi
Tow Pilot
10.
Łukasz Tylski
Grid
60.
Hullar Gusztav
Tow Pilot
11.
Maria Matuszczak
Grid
61.
Turzo Sandor
Tow Pilot
12.
Michał Nadolny
Grid
62.
Janet Hider Smith
Daily Bulletin
13.
Artur Woźniczak
Grid
63.
Grzegorz Micorek
Daily Bulletin
14.
Michał Krasnodębski
Grid
64.
Mikołaj Całka
Daily Bulletin
15.
Michał Roszczak
Grid
65.
Mieczysław Szyk
Press Office
16.
Radosław Maleszka
Grid
66.
Piotr Szyk
Press Office
17.
Robert Koralewski
Grid
67.
Paweł Wroniewicz
Press Office
18.
Andrzej Frąckowiak
Grid
68.
Michał Wiśnicki
Press Office
19.
Bartosz Jaskólski
Grid Master
69.
Sławomir Kurzawski
Administration Director
20.
Marek Uzarowski
Chief Scorer
70.
Jerzy Siatkowski
Operations Director
21.
Dariusz Cisek
Scoring
71.
Jacek Dankowski
Championship Director
22.
Krzysztof Cisek
Scoring
72.
Jerzy Mierkiewicz
Task Setter
23.
Dominik Głowacki
Scoring
73.
Ania Witek-Crabb
Championship Secretary
24.
Marcin Kubiak
Scoring
74.
Adam Markowski
Office
25.
Tomek Uzarowski
Scoring
75.
Jan Młynarczyk
Meteorologist
26.
Maciej Jędrzejczak
Scoring
76.
Robert Bugalski
Marketing Director
27.
Marek Mrozek
Scoring
77.
Jola Nadolna
Secretary
28.
Janusz Kamiński
Scoring
78.
Janusz Szczupak
Assistant of the Championships
Director
29.
Marcin Bulanda
Technical
Commission
79.
Tapio Savolainen
President of the Jury
30.
Tomasz Makowski
Technical
Commission
80.
Waldemar Ratajczak
Jury Member
31.
Art Grant
Technical
Commission
81.
Ross Macintyre
Jury Member
32.
Ewa Hajek
Office
82.
Jaroslav Vach
Steward
33.
Aleksandra Bednorz
Office
83.
Alf Ingesson-Thoor
Steward
34.
Magdalenia Maćkowiak
Office
84.
Dick Bradley
Chief Steward
35.
Wojtek Janisiewicz
Office
36.
Natalia Ławecka
Office
37.
Artur Rutkowski
Office
38.
Marek Matras
Office
39.
Marysia Klamecka
Office
40.
Artur Poźniak
Office
41.
Józef Młocek
Tug Master
42.
Andrzej Cichoński
Tow Pilot
43.
Zbigniew Bukowski
Tow Pilot
44.
Michał Kaźmierski
Tow Pilot
45.
Eugeniusz Skrzypczak
Tow Pilot
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