AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL

by: Thierry Montigneaux

2nd World Air Games 2001 - Microlight

28 June 2001

28 June 2001

I visited Beas de Segura on Thursday early morning (28 June), at the time of the start of the 6th task. The competition flights are proceeding well and each of the four classical classes had flown 5 validated tasks at that time.

Weightshift trikes under assembly on the airfield.
(photo by Srecko Medven)

A microlight during a training flight.
(photos by Srecko Medven)

A microlight from the "aerodynamically controlled" Class on final approach.
(photo by Thierry Montigneaux)

Microlights getting ready for departure for an early morning competition task.
(photo by Thierry Montigneaux)

A view of a pilot finishing his pre-flight checks.
(photo by Thierry Montigneaux)

A Eduardo Sanchez Martin from Spain, ranked 4th after task 04.
(photo by Thierry Montigneaux)

The provisional overall top three pilot rankings issued on 27 June at 16:31 were:

Weightshift Control Single Seat Class (WL1), after task 04:

1.	Alojzy DERNBACH	POL	2852 points
1.	Manuel REY CORDEIRO	ESP	2852 points
3.	Endre THUROCZY	HUN	2781 points

Weightshift Control Two Seat Class (WL2), after task 05 (task 01 was cancelled):

1.	Simon BAKER / Anita HOLMES	GBR	2911 points
2.	Tomaz GAJSER / Joze GAJSER	SVN	2905 points
3.	Samir ELARI / Cathy AMALRIC	FRA	2851 points

Aerodynamically Controlled Single Seat Class (AL1), after task 04:

1.	Antonion MARCHESI	ESP	3356 points
2.	Francisco DIAZ GARRIDO	ESP	3219 points
3.	Denis CHEVILLET	FRA	2660 points

Aerodynamically Controlled Two Seat Class (AL2), after task 04:

1.	Pavel KAPUSNIK / Petr KAPUSNIK	CZE	3190 points
2.	Philippe ZEN / Thomas KNOWLES	FRA	3150 points
3.	Paul DEWHURST / Dawn DEWHURST	GBR	3124 points

A new set of results incorporating the results of the next task was due to be published on 28 June in the morning. They had not been released fully when I left the site, but it appears that the team of Pierre FAUCHER and Vincent MESTRIE (FRA) would move from the fourth to the first place in Class WL2, and the team of Philippe ZEN and Thomas KNOWLES (FRA) would move from the second to the first place in Class AL2.