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Last task 93 km

On Sunday on the spare day we managed to get the task of 93km and get the official king of Kobala open 2010. The task was set in to the two main valleys with returning back to Tolmin landing field.
Primoz outcome the other competitors again and won the competition also overall. Three Slovenian took first three places this year. First Primoz Gricar, second Franc Peternel and third Petr Kejzar. For women Julia Kucherenko won the competition over Evgenya Lartiskaya and Julia Burlachenko on the third place.

Thanks to all competitors for good flying and we all wish to see you all again next year.

Final day

Last night we had party with free food and drink for pilots. It was a lot of fun with live music and cheese competition. You don't know what is cheese competition? It is easy: loaf of cheese was hanging from the roof of competition office and pilots tried to guess how high it is. Two of them missed the hight for only 9 cm, the cheese was 5,58m high.
Today looks like another day with fair weather, so we expect yet another, rather short, but interesting task.

Task 3

Todays task was 69 km long, and finaly we saw some great race. The winner of todays task is Italian Suan Selenati, followed by Slovenian's Franc Peternel and Primož Gričar. Overall Primož is still in the lead in front of Franc Peternel and Primož Gričar. Tomorow we will have another comp day!

Finnaly the succesful day

We set 70 km long task, which was completed by 3 pilots, Primož Gričar, Peter Kejžar and Franc Peternel. Unfortunatly there was only 504 points for the winner and we will likely had to make another competition day on sunday - the spar day.

Day 5

Ok - we finnaly got some fair weather. We are going up to the launch at 10 and hopefully have a task today. There is still some showers forcasted but north-east winds are finnaly setting in. Fingers crossed.

Day 4

We had to cancel day 4 as well. There was a lot of low clouds in the valley, fog was hanging od low on the ridges. Later a lot of pilots went flying anyway, and for those who wait until almost 4 o'clock, sky just opened in sun was shining and cu's start to pop out. They had some nice fligts.

Competition director made a flight on school glider

Our Ukrainian friend

Clouds under the launch...

Take off

Julia is landing in nice, sunny weather

Day 4 still rain

The weather start to change - we postpond the briefing till noon - we hope for afternoon task.

Day 3 - canceled

Well we just can't go against the weather... We had to cancel the task today. Maybe tomorow...

Rainy morning

Now it is clear that yestardays forcast was complitly wrong. We woke up today in rainy morning. We still have some hope for better weather so we postpond decision to next briefing till 11:00 am

Pictures from second day

Day 2 - Task 1 stopped

Today we had fair forcast for a task. We set 80 km long task up and down the Soča valley with two start gates. However the weather did not cooporate and we had to stop the task due to unsafe weather conditions near the second turnpoint. Actually the task was invalidated due to too short time between first start gate and time of stopping the task. At least we flew today and hope for better conditions tomorow.

First day cancelled

As soon as pilot leaved for Kobala take off, clouds came in with lightening and rain. The day has been cancelled. The weather for the next days looks good, so no worries about good flying in Soča valley.

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Here are some pictures from registration yesterday:

Day 1

We are going to the take off Kobala today, hopeing that forcast for afternoon showers is wrong. Anyway weather looks better for next days...

The registration is on

e are enjoying the late sun here at Kobala office and excepting the competitors where they can download the points they will need to look trough this comp and of course have a nice chat in front of the Kobala office.
There where pilots already in the air today flying, checking the air above Soča valley. Seems like the EOL God will be with us for the next days. The first briefing is set to be tomorrow morning at 9:00., before we get up to the take off of Kobala. Keep in touch with us for all the latest news about the comp.

Testing the air

We are already counting down the days to the beginning of Slovenian open here in Tolmin at Kobala starting place.

We have part of the Dutch team here already and yesterday the sky was already tested for you all with thermals up to 2500 m. It is all prepared to begin with another great competition.

Weather

Looking at the forcast for next week I see that we might have some realy good weather. We can just hope that this will come true.
We will be using XCskies for weather forcasting and of course, years of expirience of our meet director Ivan Brovč.

Send data by email!

In order to minimize stress on pilots (and scorer) we decided, that we will accept flight data by email, or on USB key if applicable. Files will have to be in IGC format with valid G record, file name will start with pilots name.
So pilots will find WiFi spot (or other internet access), download flight data and send it to scorer, while they eat pizza and drink some nice gold colored liquid with white foam on top!

Kobala open 2010

Soooo - here we go again!
This year we will have Slovenian open national championship on Kobala starting august 15th, with registration at competition office at Kobala center. On monday, august 16th the competition days begin so we hope for good weather!