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Bulletin 2 19 July 2013

Bulletin 2, 19 July 2013 http:// egc2013.eu

Dates

Flying contest:

July 6th – July 20th, 2013(no reserve day)

Closing ceremony followed by farewell party:

July 20th, 2013, 20:00 (at the airfield)

Contact information E-mail: [email protected]

Phone number / fax: +48 62 73 52 023

Adress: Aeroklub Ostrowski Lotnisko Michałków P. O. BOX 126 63-400 Ostrów Wielkopolski

Airport Organization Map


Stewards and Jury We have asked Stewards and Jury to introduce themselves to us a little bit. You can read through the information they have provided about themselves below.

Stewards:

Jaroslav Vach (CZE) – Chief Steward

My aviation career began 26.10.1958, when I completed my first solo flight. I have a 2500 gliding hours and 1000 power hours. I was a member of Czechoslovak gliding team from 1970 – 1973. I was a coach of Flying Sport Centre and Czechoslovak and later Czech gliding team from 1975 to 1999. I was a delegate of Aero Club Czechoslovakia, later Czech Republic in IGC – FAI from 1975 – 2007. In 2003 and 2004 I was Vice President of IGC- FAI. I have worked as a steward, referee and Jury member to various events of IGC- FAI since 1997. Now I am 70, retired.

Former business: development of automatization of chemical production, than development and application of textile fibers and automatization of textile production.

I am still a representantive of Schempp-Hirth, LX Navigation, LX NAV and Naviter in Czech and Slovak Republic.

Hans Obermayer (GER)

- age 67, retired, former business: university professor in physics, working field: modern optics

- The tightly arranged "curriculum vitae" in gliding: more than 5000 gliding hours Barron Hilton Cup 1988

- Participating in more than 30 German and international (wgc and egc) gliding championship, among which:

- German national Champion 1992, 15 m class - European champion 1998 Leszno, 15 m class

- Competition Director of 2 German national championships (2002 and 2009) in Aalen-Elchingen - Competition Director of 2 World gliding championships (wwgc Klix 2005 and GPf Wasserkuppe

2011) - German IGC delegate 2006 - 2010


International Jury

Bruno Ramseyer (IRL) – Jury president

I am a retired since I sold my Wholesale Computer Supplies Business about 6 years ago. I am living in Ireland and have been the IGC Representative for Ireland since 1997. I started relatively late in my live with Gliding in 1989 and have accumulated about 1800hrs most of them in the French Alps which I visit regularly, as it is difficult to get a lot good flying in Ireland. I have owned a KA6, DiscusCS, Ventus2ct and a DuoDiscus T. Whereas I do most of my gliding for pleasure I also have flown in some Regional, National and International Competitions. I have officiated on behalf of the FAI as Jury President on European and World Gliding Competition.

Waldemar Ratajczak (POL)

Pilot instructor, prof dr hab. Mr Ratajczak is professor at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. He was also the Director of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, former Vice President of the Aero Club of Poland, Vice President of the Europe Air Sports Association.

Waldemar Ratajczak is also a warden of the Academic Aviation Club, that was set up in 2007 at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. He was also in the group of people that in 2011 have initiated the Polish Motogliding Association and is currently a President of this Association.

He is flying for 51 years.

Tadeas Wala – (SLO) remote Jury member

He was born in 1932. He has two children. He worked as a mechanic engineer. Now he is retired. His entire life has been devoted to flying. He participated in many regional, national and international gliding contests which he many times won. He is a multiple record holder in several categories as well. By fulfilling all conditions he gained the diamond badge. He has flown 3500 hours and more than 110 000 km. But not only gliding was his hobby. Another part of his life was the construction of planes. One of his most successful designs was the WT9 Dynamic aircraft. Between 1968 and 1975 he was the IGC delegate of Czechoslovakia and since 1993 he has been the IGC delegate of Slovakia. He has been a ten-time Steward and a three-time member of Jury at World and European Championships.


Sporting Director

Artur Rutkowski

Artur Rutkowski was born in 1977 in Katowice, Poland, where he lives to date. He started gliding at age of 16 and gained over 1200 gliding hours and golden badge with two diamonds so far. For 13 years he is gliding instructor sharing his experience with young pilots. Throughout gliding career he has participated in numerous regionals and nationals where he gained competition experience. His apprenticeship in FAI sanctioned events started in 1998 when he joined EGC organising team in Leszno and continued in 2003 when he was shortly involved in Leszno WGC organisation. Last event he participated in was PreEGC competition held last year in Ostrow where he was Sporting Director. Besides gliding he holds PPL license for aeroplanes.

Being an air traffic controller he is connected with aviation also by profession. He works in Katowice Airport tower since 2001. In 2006 he was nominated Polish delegate to European Gliding Union and a year later to International Gliding Commission. In this last body Artur Rutkowski is one of the Vice Presidents elected this year. Artur is also President of Makula Foundation supporting, inter alia, young glider pilots in their sport oriented training. Privately he is husband of Monika and father of 2 year old Karolina.

Championships Director

Maciej Całka

Maciej is flying since 1992. He has participated in many Championships as a glider pilot as well as he was in teams organizing many of other this kind of events.

Meteo


Pilots


Interim results after day 6 Standard

# CN Pilot Country Glider Total 1. V Sebastian Kawa Poland Discus 2a 5784 2. Y Łukasz Wójcik Poland Discus 2ax 5605 3. LOT Paweł Wojciechowski Poland LS 8 5569 4. 21 Bert Schmelzer Belgium Discus 2ax 5335 5. ALB Tijl Schmelzer Belgium Discus 2ax 4977 6. Y1 Peter Millenaar Netherlands Discus 2a 4975 7. FL Felipe Levin Germany Discus 2a 4929 8. GD Michael Rass Austria Discus 2a 4880 9. Y4 Michael Buchthal Germany Discus 2ax 4856 10. ET Christophe Cousseau France Discuc 2a 4802 11. GX Radek Krejcirik Czech Republic Discus 2ax 4771 12. SI` Maros Divok Slovakia LS 8 4755 13. SE Jan Walther Andersen Denmark LS 8 4727 14. S1 Sarah Kelman United Kingdom ASW 28 4609 15. A1 Matthew Scutter Australia Discus 2a 4537 16. EC Christian Skov Denmark LS 8 4534 17. JS Juha Sorri Finland Discus 2b 4531 18. EL Vladas Motuza Lithuania Discus 2a 4494 19. PI Markku Kuusisto Finland Discus 2b 4487 20. 6 Howard Jones United Kingdom Discus 2ax 4400 21. AU Miloslav Cink Czech Republic LS 8a 4390 22. DI Viliam Kubovcik Slovakia Discus 2b 4215 23. EJ Stefan Telkamp Netherlands LS 8 4091 24. ECC Takeshi Maruyama Japan Discus 2ct 4084 25. G Luca Monti Italy LAK 19 3863 26. EI Baptiste Innocent France Discus 2c 3695 27. 5 Corrado Costa Italy Discus 2 3684 28. KG Reinhard Haggenmüller Austria Discus 2a 3616 29. HAL Gabor Kapuy Hungary Discus 2a 3475 30. 12F René Schönmann Switzerland LS 8 3268 31. TC Iakov Shrage Russia LS 8tc 2996 32. YB Florian Dobrila Romania Discus 2a 2938 33. YA Robin Bogdan Gae Romania Discus 2a 2419


Club

# CN Pilot Country Glider Total 1. IF Roman Mracek Czech Republic STD Cirrus G 5540 2. BL Lukasz Blaszczyk Poland Jantar STD3 5398 3. BZ Jakub Barszcz Poland Brawo 5371 4. AG Gerrit Feige Germany STD Cirrus 5358 5. KR Lars Hagemann Germany STD Cirrus 5352 6. 1F Rasmus Orskov Denmark LS 1f 5255 7. AK Antti Koskiniemi Finland STD Cirrus 5157 8. 3RD Sergey Klyuev Russia Jantar STD3 5053 9. 2B Tim Kuijpers Netherlands STD Cirrus 5006 10. 2C Petr Svoboda Czech Republic STD Cirrus 4959 11. EO Erik Ottosson Sweden LS 4 4946 12. NL1 Jeroen Verkuijl Nederlands Std. Cirrus 4936 13. 873 Elisabeth Sparrow United Kingdom STD Cirrus 4935 14. AM Karol Benedikovic Slovakia STD Cirrus 4923 15. VS Tim Milner United Kingdom STD Cirrus 4909 16. DK Zoltan Hamar Hungary LS 1f 4881 17. IPF Boris Žorž Slovenia STD Cirrus 4779 18. C11 Denis Guerin France STD Cirrus 4776 19. 1A Tamas Ferenc Hungary LS 3 4775 20. SI Martin Ekdahl Sweden LS 4a 4774 21. MF Josef Kozar Slovakia LS 1f 4720 22. YU Javier Jose Gaude Argentina STD Cirrus 4701 23. CX Slavomir Piskaty Czech Republic STD Cirrus 4587 24. ZT Aleksey Shkredov Russia STD Cirrus 4561 25. C41 Eric Soubrier France STD Cirrus 4468 26. T5 Juha Vainikka Finland Jantar STD3 4262 27. R Kestutis Miliunas Lithuania Jantar STD 3 4261 28. MS Mario Schupfer Austria ASW 15b 4219 29. YM Johnny Friis Andressen Denmark STD Cirrus 4190 30. MC Jozef Kell Belgium Discus BT 4149 31. B Joris Vainius Lithuania Jantar STD3 3998 32. YE Ciprian Ioan Lupas Romania Jantar STD 3911 33. R6 Arkady Zapolski United States LS 4a 3599 34. YF Alex Victor Pop Romania Jantar STD2 3541


20m # CN Pilot Country Glider Total

1. TWO Wolfgang Janowitsch Andreas Lutz Austria ARCUS M 5574

2. CS Janusz Centka Łukasz Grabowski Poland ARCUS M 5379

3. POL Adam Czeladzki Krzysztof Trzewik Poland DUO DISCUS

XLT 5283

4. EX Florian Theisinger Thomas Starck Germany DUO DISCUS

XLT 5278

5. MX Tomas Rendla Ludek Kluger Czech Republic DUO DISCUS

XLT 5186

6. 2AS Pierre de Broqueville Arnaud de Broqueville Belgium ARCUS T 5088

7. ZZZ Wim Akkermans Dennis Huybreckx Belgium ARCUS M 4999

8. DX Branislav Jesensky Tibor Fratrik Slovakia DUO DISCUS 4944

9. EF Jeremie Badaroux Marc Seretti France ARCUS S 4927

10. KA Harri Hirvola Visa-Matti Leinikki Finland ARCUS T 4885

11. T Vytautas Sabeckis Viktoras Kukcikaitis Lithiania LAK 12R 4882

12. PP Mauro Brunazzo Claudio Ricci Italy ARCUS T 4869

13. JT Tom Jorgensen Sverre Eplov Denmark ARCUS T 4845

14. YH Robbie Seton Jelmer Wassenaar Netherlands DG 1001 T 4584

15. DUO1 Lubomir Jakubcak Alosz Maros Slovakia DUO DISCUS

XLT 4446

16. ARC Christof Geißler Christoph Wannenmacher Germany ARCUS T 4381

17. DD Michal Lesinger Danes Grula Czech Republic DUO DISCUS XL 4301

18. V8 Peter Batenburg Ard Tielenburg Netherlands ARCUS T 3987

19. NIL Arto Makisalo Kimmo Pulkki Finland DUO DISCUS X 3937

20. DUO Antti Taimioja Kimmo Tihula Finland DUO DISCUS 3828

21. OM Dmitriy Timoshenko Ilya Ershov Russia DUO DISCUS XT 3808

22. DQ Eduard Inäbnit Christian Walther Switzerland DUO DISCUS X 3681

23. SS Sergey Ryabchinsky Sviridova Tamara Russia DUO DISCUS

XLT 2710


Opening ceremony Opening ceremony took place,

Friday, 5 Juli 2013 on the market

square in Ostrow Wielkopolski, at

18:00. It has begun with ceremonial

march of competitors from all

countries run by Ostrowska

Concert Orchestra. After that the

competitors were greeted by the

President of Ostrow Wielkopolski,

Jaroslaw Urbaniak, and

Championships was opened by the President of the Polish Aeroclub, Włodzimierz Skalik. Then, the

competitors took a vow of fair play, after which the performance of Folk Dance Ensemble "Swojacy"

and Ostrowska Concert Orchestra were given.

The text of the oath

We solemnly pledge our talents, skills, strength and quest for adventure to a contest which we will

make fair and exemplary.

We pledge chivalry in the contest, hoping that a true friendship oft comes out of true rivalry.

We vow respect to the judges who guard that this contest be fair and true.

We go to contest to find true measure of ourselves, for joy, for glory.

We know the line between boldness and recklessness, and know that the glory gained, for itself, at a

hazard to life own or others is a vain glory.

We pledge to carry our common ancestors chivalry ideals to where they could only tread in their

dreams, and not to shame their memory. Let it be so!


Sponsors of the prizes for the daily winners Prizes for winner in each class were sponsored by:

the coffee company WOSEBA,

Parachutes company from Legionowo AIRPOL

Cheese making company LAZUR and

The Polish Rock Band Big Cyc


Activities during non-flying days Days 6 – 10 of The Championships (11 – 15 July) have brought some difficult weather conditions and

tasks were cancelled for all classes.

Organisers have prepared some activities in which all Championship’s participants (competitors as well

as their teams) could have participate in.

10 July – international day was organised.

12 July – during the second cancelled day a sightseeing trip to Kalisz was organised.


13 July – a group outing for Carting was organised. (http://www.alkart.pl/) Competition was played as

well there! The champions are: 1. Mario Schupfer (Austria), 2. Denis Huybreck (Belgium), 3. Ard

Tielenburg (the Netherlands).

14 July – in Kalisz “Lato z radiem” (”Summer with the radio”) concerts were organized. The people that

participate – did enjoy it!

It is also always possible to visit the swimming pool in Kalisz: http://park-wodny.kalisz.pl/

15 July – the “Polish

Evening” was organised.


Security and emergencies They are no critical security dangers, a general caution is advised like in many western cities.

Emergency phone is 112, both from mobile phones and landlines. Law enforcement is performed by

Police ("Policja") and in the bigger cities additionally by Municipal Guard ("Straż miejska"). Medical

rescue service is called "Pogotowie ratunkowe". Fire-fighters are called "Straż pożarna". They also deal

with non-fire technical emergencies.

Polish language basics Of course we would love if you learn Polish language! If you decide not to, you can still try to speak

other languages. At least basic level of English can be expected with younger people. Some people

speak German, especially in near-border regions. Other languages like French, Italian, Spanish are of

secondary popularity. Russian was a mandatory foreign language in schools for a long time, so many

older people are still able to speak it.

In order to ease the communication (at least on the airport) between these that do not speak the

common language (except hands and other non-verbal types of passing the information) we have

created this chart with names of the basic parts of the glider:


Team blogs and websites

We're looking for links for your Team's or individual pilots’ blogs, videos, galleries etc. If you have any,

please send links to Organisers. We believe it will be quite entertaining to read about Championships

from as many points of view as possible. Unofficial and non-English sites are well welcome!

Examples are:

Blog written in 8 languages: http://jasiuj.blogspot.com/

Blog of the Finnish team: http://fgt-ostrow2013.blogspot.com/

Blog of the Swiss team:

http://segelflug.ch/?p=8686

The Dutch facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/EKZweefvliegen

The Dutch website: http://www.ekzweefvliegen.nl/

The UK facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/539510819445440/

The UK website: http://www.glidingteam.co.uk/index.php?q=competition/european-championships-poland-2013


We love the smell of AVGAS in the morning!

[The story about volunteers written by volunteers]

For over a week now Ostrów is hosting 17th FAI European Gliding Championships. If you would try to

bring the secrets of the organization of the event, no doubt it would take a good couple of pages.

Using poor weather conditions and spare time, I came across an article made by Tomasz Kawa about

pilots' pre and after flight activities during the competition. This inspired me to brief a statement of our

airport's thick and thin through the eyes of volunteers here at Ostrów airfiled. Our work might not be

very visible, but I'll try to bring it out from the abyss of oblivion :)

Six o'clock on the alarm clock. A quick wipe of the eyes and a quick run to the shower. Having still wet

hair we're finishing breakfast and at seven o'clock and we're in Robur (high-class sports car, designed

for off-road in all weather conditions, in a word – a real tank among pick-ups of DDR's production).

The transporter gets all the necessary things you need to prepare the grid, namely: scales, ropes,

hooks, cones, flags, vests, fire extinguishers, gallons of water needed to survive at thirty degree heat,

and us – the volunteers... It is worth noticing that our car is like headquarters for us.


Okay, scales are in place, cones are marking the grid rows, now all you need is just a team, which will

ensure that all ninety two gliders are perfectly positioned to take off. After the briefing we can see the

convoys of cars towing gliders approaching. It's a great opportunity to look at the sailplanes in their

full glory, and wish all the players good luck in today's task. Now the important thing is the grid order

that determines the set of gliders in the right order: club class, standard class and multi-seat class. That

is a job for people assigned especially for that. In the meantime running nimbly between lying wings

there are our volunteers handing out some trackers to observe their flights during the competition.

When everything is ready, the pilots are getting slowly into their machines, and from the hangar zone

starting engines can be heard. At its disposal the Aeroclub of Ostrów has a Piper, Brygadyr and Zlins

from Chech Republic and French Moranes having "Polish plates". Using flags, helpers indicate to which

glider plane has to taxi to. When this happens, the closest person runs for the towing rope and throws

under the fuselage, strapping it to the hook. Now, it's the release of a glider which is usually performed

by pilot's own helper. After the first wave, that is at a time when all the teams (airplane + glider) rise

into the air, we go back for another line, and so the sequence is repeated. The release of all the players

takes just over an hour, and now all that remains is to wait for the return of the pilots at the end of the

task.


A moment of rest and you can go for

dinner. Great, because meals are

provided by the organizer. Taking this

opportunity, that at this time the

restaurant is almost empty, we can sit

anywhere we want. Peeking into the

eyes of his companions each one is

trying to hide the signs of fatigue and

after the dinner everyone is getting

back to their assigned duties. Maybe

it's not all working like the watches of our colleagues from Switzerland but everyone is trying to

scrupulously fulfill hers or his tasks. Although it could use more ICOMs we have a permanent contact

with our commander – Maciej Całka [on the photo] so in the event of any change in plans, as soon as

we get new instructions we do enforce them.

From the tower, messages about the first arrivals can be heard, so assigned volunteers are using

binoculars or their falcon eyes to write down the competition markings appearing on the gliders' fins

and note the time of landing. Spectacular approach of eight gliders at a time connected with

discharging water brings a smile to the face and at the same time induces a slight jealousy - after all,

who among us would not want to be in the pilot's seat now?! Competitors after landing cope

practically alone albeit we're hanging around the place where the gliders spend the night to listen to

some stories from the flight.

Evening is coming pretty fast, so depending on the willingness each one is devoted to something else.

Some disappear with their noses in the books, some are voracious after observation of the flights sit

for simulators and some go to the closest shop to buy some things for dinner. Most, however, are

ripping pictures from cameras to post a photo story on the Championship's web page and trackers or

radio transciever are being charged. In one word, we're doing stuff for which tomorrow won't be

enough time – we'll be busy all the way. Now anyone with a clear conscience, as long as the

mosquitoes won't bite him to death during the way, can go the place where he sleeps. From the

campsite can be heard the sound of sliding inputs and snoring of neighboring competitors.

The only easy day was yesterday, that's what.


From the left: Agnieszka Lisewska, Piotr Góźdź [Safety Officer], Juliusz Pieniążek, Sylwia Mateja, Pola Konkolewska [Ground Staff Chief]

Authors: Juliusz Pieniążek with indispensable help of Pola Konkolewska


DuoDiscus XLT with controls for the handicapped is ready!

Several months ago at our website we wrote about the "Flying With No Limits - The Handicapped Soar

Into The Air" initiative, supported by Avalon Foundation.

One of our beneficiaries, Adam Czeladzki, at the moment the only handicapped pilot competing in

Poland, committed himself to starting and giving momentum to flight training of the handicapped.

What had been already accomplished then was the establishment of the adapted, staffed training

center in Leszno (SW Poland), the only missing piece was the adapted glider. This last barrier came

down this year. The dual-seat Duo Discuss XLT glider with hands controls is now ready!

Adam, flying the new glider as a senior pilot in a two-man crew with Junior, Krzysztof Trzewik,

competes now with success at the 17th European Gliding Championships (5-20 July, Ostrów

Wielkopolski).


We heartfully thank all the people who had supported the "Flying With No Limits - The Handicapped

Soar Into The Air" initiative! We congratulate Adam his ongoing success and keep our fingers crossed

for the success of the handicapped pilots training.

[http://fundacjaavalon.pl Written:: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 15:09]

We also encourage you to read an article written by Piotr Szafrański at: http://egc2013.eu/news/78/


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INVITATION TO OSTRÓW GLIDE 2014! We would like to invite you to Ostrów Glide, that will take place next year

12 July – 20 July 2014

Aero club of Ostrów organises these championships for 20 years now. The

competitions were always very well taken by the participants. Two years ago we

have also organised the Ostrów Glide championships, which were at the same

time the pre-egc competitions.

CU in Ostrów!

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