Oh the mighty Cobra!

After an anticlimax of a day I had had a shower and was heading off to bed and to post here about my day. I then received a message from the skipper with the storm warnings for the morning. We had plenty of time to make the decision to box up, and we drew to the conclusion that it would be the safest option. 

Out to the glider we went, along with most of the other competitors who's gliders were not already in trailers. Lots of people here rig and de-rig everyday just because and some had heard of bad weather and thrown the gliders in the box. Here in Europe you very really see anything other than a fiberglass clamshell trailer! And from the earlier pictures on this blog you will see that PC had a magnificent Cobra trailer!

So we hooked on the trailer and drove out to the glider, opened up the box and this is when it started. It was crazy! It was coming from every direction, whiping around my legs, flying into our eyes. Both Andy and I had our arms flailing about to try and stop the onslaught! I am of course talking about the mosquitoes! The glider fell to pieces and quick as a flash the two of us had it all in the trailer, lid closed and parked and tied down. Oh the mighty Cobra!  It made all the difference. I was getting bitten by mozzies, throught my t-shirt!! It was next to unbareable. 

I was so itchy and sweaty that I had to have another shower. Ice cold is exactly what was required to and luckily we still had a good supply of that in the shower block.

On the water topic quickly... There mustn't be and issues with extream consumption here. Yesterday after the day for standard class was officially canceled, a torrent of water fell to the ground. Not from the sky, but from each glider carrying around 100 liters of water in each wing. That brings the number to 7000 to 8000 liters of water that was just used to irrigate the airfield. Over the course of the comp with at least 10 days of gridding, that comes up to 70 to 80,000 liters of water used just by the standard class gliders. Now include the usage from showering and filling up those paddle pools (the cheap little swimming pools that almost every country has bought to escape from the heat with a rough calculated volume of 4000 liters!) that adds up to a heck of a lot of water!