• 22 June 2001
• 23 June 2001
• 24 June 2001 - First Report of the day
• 24 June 2001- Second Report of the day
• 25 June 2001
• 26 June 2001- First Report of the day
• 26 June 2001- Second Report of the day
• 27 June 2001
• 28 June 2001
• 29 June 2001
• 30 June 2001

22 June 2001

After the end of the familiarisation flights yesterday evening the local opening ceremony took place at 09:30 p.m. on the FAASA airfield in Palma del Rio with the presence of: Director General de la Consejeria de Cultura y Deporte, Presidente de la Diputacion Provincial de Cordoba y Excmo Sr Alcalde y Presidente del Comite local de los juegos en Palma del Rio.

Competition starts with a rest day for the pilots

This morning the official contest should have started with programme #1 (known compulsory programme) but was delayed due to the fact that not all of the necessary equipment was available in time. Therefore at the briefing at 11:00 a.m. it was decided to postpone the start of the first programme to tomorrow morning.

Above: Sr. Sebastian Almagro, the founder of FAASA and host of this championship, Is honored by the Mayor with the Title of Adopted son of Palma del Rio city (Photo by Ludwig Fuss)

Above :local WAG opening ceremony in Palma del Rio
on Thursday 06/21/2001 (Photo by Ludwig Fuss)

Above: the board of judges with chief judge Pavol Kavka (Slovakia), and the judges Manfred Burger (Austria), Stanislav Bajzik (Czech Republic), Roboert Chomono (France), Reiner Scheler (Germany), Pál Kovács (Hungary), Lina Corrias (Italy), Ryszard Kasparek (Poland), Alexei Pimenov (Russian Federation), and Ben Ellis (UK) ready to go out to the judges line well prepaired after two days judges school and judges training (Photo by Ludwig Fuss).

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23 June 2001

Yesterday (Thursday) in Palma del Rio the pilots were given a free day while the organization matters were being resolved. The programme is now able to proceed with programme #1 (known programme)

During the judges' wait for the start of the contest, they enjoy sitting in a field of sun flowers (Photo by Ludwig Fuss).

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24 June 2001 - First Report of the day

After several delays again yesterday at least 36 pilots finished programme #1 (known compulsory). It is expected that the rest of the pilots will complete the programme early afternoon and than the beginning of programme #2 (unknown programme) will take place.

Because of our delay in flying, only a small delegation headed by contest director Jaime Julve, could join the official opening ceremony at Sevilla.

Anni Fuss in the scoring office outside at the judges line. The heat is so intense that it is very uncomfortable to work and to fly. The temperature reached a maximum of 41oC (110o F) (Photo by Ludwig Fuss).

24 June 2001 - Second Report of the day

Flying starts again delayed around noon. After three contest flights flying was stopped again due to much crosswind and for a new wind checking. After it was found out, that the used wind measurements system was not sufficient and exact wind measurement was not available, the continuing of the contest was postponed again for the next day. In the meantime the organizer should solve this problem by hiring a new operator with instruments, which fullfil the requirements.

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25 June 2001

Programme 1 (Known Compulsory Programme) was finished this afternoon at the Glider aerobatics world championships in Palma del Rio. The provisional ranking of the top placed pilots:

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26 June 2001- First Report of the day

At 8:00 a. m. cloud base was 300 m! Therefore: Waiting again . . .

The results of Programme # 1 (the Known Compulsory Programme) which was finished yesterday in the afternoon became official at 10:00 a. m. There was no protest to deal with.

My dream to fly !

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26 June 2001- Second Report of the day

When everyone arrived at the airfield in the morning (26 June), the weather situation was very strange and unusual. It was hazy and the visibility was very poor. This situation lasted until noon and when it finally cleared the first competition flight could start at 1:30 pm.

At 4pm flying has to be stopped again because of strong winds. Due to the fact that strong winds persisted throughout the day, the contest had to be cancelled for the day at 8 pm.

At least fourteen flights could be completed.

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27 June 2001

Today it was a succesfull day for the glider aerobatics contest in Palma del Rio. After starting contest flying in good weather conditions at 11 a.m the 2nd Unknown could be finished at 19 hrs. Half an hour later flying of programme #3 (the free programme) could be started. Finishing flying at 9 pm including a 3 hrs break for the judges and two times changing the judges position 41 pilots have finished the Unknown and 10 pilots has flown the free programme.

Official results will be published tomorrow. Unofficial results : Kaminski, Panfierov and Michalovski in the unknown and Panfierov, Makula and Kaminski in the overall standings.

Good conditions for flying on 27 June

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28 June 2001

Another successful day in Palma del Rio with the free programme of 44 pilots being completed. It was only disturbed by the fact that an incorrect arrow box marking was not removed from the prior contest day which resulted in two protests.

With the completion of this programme, the championship is a valid competition. The results after the 3rd programme will be send by the scoring office.

At the time this report is written, programme #4 the unknown 2 is in progress.

Luca Satori from Italy, the warm up pilot for the judges shortly before his start to the warm up flight for programme #4 the unknown 2 (Photo by Ludwig Fuss).

Gueorgui Kaminski from Russia the winner of programme 2 (Photo by Ludwig Fuss).

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29 June 2001

54 competitors could fly the second unknown, that means, the whole second unknown could be finished in one day, which gives now the possibility to fly one programme more on Saturday, the last contest day.

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30 June 2001

Flying of programm # 5 (the second time the free programme) startet after 10 a. m., and it was decided, that two groups should fly, and flying should be finished at 3 p. m., which was also agreed by the board of judges. But due to the wind direction it was not possible, to use the expected judges position in the south. Judges had to sit in the eastern position and therefore flying had to be finished already shortly before 2 p. m. due to the position of the sun, and group 2 could not be completed. At least group one was counted for the overall final results. For the team results the results after programme 4 (which was the last programme, flown by all pilots) were counted. After several organizational difficulties in the first week of the competition resulting in lot of delays in the last days it could reached a good progress in flying and at least four programmes for all pilots and in addition programme five for one third of the competitors out of seven programmes could be counted. The weather during the competition was fine, but at a temperature of around 40 degrees Celsius in a dusty terrain pilots and all people who had to work for the contest, especially the judges, would have preferred sometimes to sit at the swimming pool instead of flying and working.

At 21:30 p. m. the victory ceremony and local closing ceremony took place at the airfield - the 9th World Glider Aerobatic Championship as well as the 2nd Glider Aerobatics World Air Games Championships were over.

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