8 August, from the crew dude, and I think this'll be my only entry today...

Wow, what a day.

You might've gathered from Eric's entry that today wasn't exactly conducive to 500 k's.

Weather to start with...  highish cloud, lots of Ac.  And some wind as well.  The wind kept things cool.

Briefing.  Something happened, not sure what, I was too far from the action.  Actually it was only the usual briefing stuff.

Tasks appeared eventually.  Don't know what they were, doesn't matter.

Launch time 1230.  This came and went.

"Launch time delayed until 1250."  Wait in hotel lobby which is air-conditioned.

"Launch time 1310."  and also apparently a task C had been set - which made the existing task sheets useless as they had only A and B.  No idea what C was, and irrelevant anyway as it turned out.

"Launch time 1330."

"Club class cancelled."  Could've told 'em that - the wind was 25 kts.  "Launch time for Standard 1400."

Went out to the grid, got talking with the Hungarians.  Then: "Standard class task cancelled.".  Funny about that - it'd just got a bit cooler, and it had felt rotten to start with.  No thermals at all.

That was it.  Boxed the glider in anticipation of tomorrow's expected lousy weather.  No idea what will come but better to be safe than sorry.

The wind's dropped a bit but there's stacks of thermal-killing cirrus around.

At least Eric and I got goodish shots of the flags streaming out in the wind!

Oh - Polish Night tonight.  Presumably Polish food if we wish to partake of it.  Better to keep off the booze though if we want to remain intact tomorrow...