3rd FAI Women’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015, Drenthe

Day 2 - Flight 1

Mr. METEO Ab Maas: Wind is ok, the other conditions are difficult.

Wind to the North West, decreasing a little bit. The warm front has passed, there will be showers in the evening.

More substantial rain at about 8:00.

6:44 It is raining, a chance to fly, if it is clearing up.

Het weer - The weather was better than predicted ...

There is a flight this morning.

The flags changed from red to yellow, from yellow to green.

Start direct at Orveltermarke Launchfield near the Landal GreenPark.


Task 1: Hesitation Waltz (3 targets)

Task 2: Fly On

Wind to northwest, direction Smilde.

Results [30 pilots: here]

Total of all scored tasks.					Flt 1
Ra.	Nr.	Competitor	NAC	Total	1 HWZ	2 FON
1	16	Agne SIMONAVICIUTE	LTU	1884	924	960
2	23	Beata CHOMA	POL	1776	914	862
3	25	Ewa PRAWICKA-LINKE	POL	1602	873	729
4	24	Daria DUDKIEWICZ	POL	1568	931	637
5	6	Marketa OLSANOVA	CZE	1558	900	658
6	2	Daiva RAKAUSKAITE	LTU	1511	609	902
7	7	Stephanie BAREFORD	GBR	1508	808	700
8	10	Sylvia MEINL	GER	1364	756	608
9	22	Caroline SPLINTERS	NED	1327	500	827
10	28	Ekaterina LARIKOVA	RUS	1312	979	333

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The Dutch Results:

•   9  Caroline Splinters
• 20  Sanne Haarhuis
• 28  Annelotte Tolboom

Leading: Agne SIMONAVICIUTE, LTU 16

Best Task 1 (979 points): Ekaterina LARIKOVA, RUS  28

Got 1000 on Task 1: Marketa OLSANOVA, CZE  6
- but lost 100 (Rule 11.5 Ground Contact 1)

Winner Task 2: Lindsay MUIR, GBR  1

Time to talk after a safe landing.

3rd FAI Women’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015
Drenthe, Netherlands

© Text & photos:  Rudolf H. Boettcher

Day 1, No Morning Flight

The AM briefing had been cancelled at 4:55 - the PM briefing will be held at 16:45.

It is going to be a fantastic day - for tourism ... or sailing.

Sunrise at Landschapspark Orveltermarke 7:18

Weather: Fantastic - Wind: "Terrible"

At 4: 30 this morning the sky is clear and the stars are visible, however a low with high winds is dominating the area. The ground winds are 10 knots (18,5 km/h) gusting up to 16 knots and in 500 ft the wind is 17 knots. 

Forecast is 11 knots on the ground, 16 knots in 250 ft and 21 knots in 500 ft.

Measured (4:33): 34,9 knots in 949 ft / gemessen: 35 Knoten Wind in ca. 320 m Höhe über Grund.


Time to list some

Favorites of this Competition

3rd FAI Women’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015

• Agne Simonaviciute, LTU
• Ann Herdewyn; BEL
• Beata Choma, POL
• Daiva Rakauskaite, LTU
• Dolly Deimling, GER
• Elisabeth Kindermann, AUT
• Elise Kloss, GER
• Kristine Vevere, LAT
• Lindsay Muir, GBR
• Stephany Bareford, GBR

You will find them on the next pages.

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General Briefing & Opening Ceremony

General Briefing

Opening Ceremony of the 
3rd FAI Women’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 
in Orvelte / Drenthe

More Photos to follow.

The Dutch Team

The Balloon Team from Belgium

The German Balloon Team

The British Team

The Polish Balloon Team

The Lithuanian Balloon Team

The Russian Balloon Team

Austria & Switzerland
The minus and the plus teams.

The Czech Pilot Marketa Olsanova

The Hungarian Pilot Rita Becz
She is defintely not singing in the Rain.

The Latvian Pilot Kristine Vevere

The Spanish Pilot Montserrat Llado-Gambin

The Fire Breathing Event

The fire breathers showed that a hot air balloon can be inflated by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

 

Day Zero: Training Flight by Team Ibes

06:45, 14 September 2015

Provisional briefing this morning: Jan Oudenampse: Weather for fishing - not for flying!

The event director suggests places to visit: [Giethoorn, Venice of the North] and the Frisian village [Sleat (Sloten)].

Team Ibes (GER 12) decided: It is weather to fly.

Start: Orveltermarke / Witteveen, Bosweg - Landing1: Orvelterzand - Landing2: South of Grolloo

[Diese Fahrten auf Google-Maps].


[Last update on Twitter]: "Team Ibes is starting approx. 8:00 2 km south of Orveltermarke."

Welcome in Orveltermarke!

Willkommen in Orveltermarke!
Welkom in Orveltermarke!

From 14 to 19 september 2015 the 3rd FAI Woman’s European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2015 will be held in Drenthe, the Netherlands.

The main location of this competition is the GreenPark Landal Orveltermarke.

This is a private blog. It should give you all the informations about and around the 3rd Women's Balloon Championship in Europe. You will find a lot of photos, some clips on YouTube and all interesting links.

You fill find here the hours and locations where the competition is supposed to take place. The last updates and results of the morning and afternoon briefing will be posted [here] and on my Twitter channel. QR-Codes are in preparation and will be posted on this side.

QR-Code for the briefing news

QR-Code for twitter updates

LINKS

• Official Website
• Results
• Event Director's Page

Happy landings!


The Dutch balloon pilot Sanne Haarhuis, competitor of the 1st World Championship and the 3rd European Championship, crew member of the 2nd European Championship. The copilot is Caroline Splinters, who will be pilot like Sanne in 2015.

A nice video clip, but not our actual weather - with Sanne & Caroline.

The blog was posted by Rudolf H. Boettcher, Frankenthal (Pfalz). All photos are under my copyright.

If you are interested in uncropped photos, please feel free to post a link on this blog. Post a comment or send me your link and photo wishes by eMail. Link to follow

Briefing Blog - Aktuelle Information - Het laatste nieuws - Schedule

19:00, There might be a flight at Landal Orveltermarke!  - Task & Targets: [See first blog post]   

18:20, The rain might stop.

16:45, 17 September 2015 - Competition Briefing

16:30, it is raining cats and dogs ...

06:30, 17 September 2015 - Competition Briefing - CANCELLED

AM heavy rain & too windy

16:45, 16 September 2015 - Next Competition Briefing

16:16, heavy rain & too windy

06:30, 16 September 2015 - First Competition Briefing - First Flight (2 tasks)

16:45, 15 September 2015 - Weather Briefing

06:30, 15 September 2015 - First Competition Briefing - CANCELLED


16:00, 14  September 2015 - General Briefing

06:45, 14 September 2015 - Provisional briefing

This morning: Jan Oudenampse: Weather for fishing - not for flying!

The event director suggests places to visit: The Dutch Venice and the Frisian village Sleat.

There might be last updates on my twitter acount: [Link to follow]

Hashtags will be:

#HotAirBalloon
#HotAirDrenthe
#FAIwomen3

QR-code of this page

Qr-code of my tweets

Tuesday 15 september 2015 - 7:00
First Day - First Competition Flight
Tag 1 - Erste Wettbewerbsfahrt

(tentative, depending on weather conditions)

The first flight might be on Wednesday - depending as a result of the current weather.

06:30, 15 September 2015 - First Competition Briefing

• Starting Location / Startort :
• Start approx.: 7:00  
• Target Areas / Ziele:

1. Target 1:
2. Target 2:
3. Target 3:

• Tasks / Aufgaben:

1. Task 1: ..........
2. Task 2:
3. Task 3:
4. Task 4:
5. Task 5:

• Weather / Wetter:
• The morning flight will be finished at ..:... (beginning of thermals) / Fahrtende morgens
• The evening flight will be finished at sunset / Fahrtende abends bei Sonnenuntergang.

The tasks are explained in this blog: [Link to follow] 

Starts are planned for 7:00 (AM) and 17:30 (PM), the exact time is dependend on wheater conditions.

Startzeiten sind gegen 7:00 und 17:30 Uhr, die genaue Uhrzeit ist wetterabhängig.

De ballonnen starten vanaf 07:00 en 17:30 uur. De precieze starttijd is altijd afhankelijk van het weer.

16:45, 15 September 2015 - 2nd Competition Briefing

Schedule / Zeitplan

    (tentative, detailed times to follow later, last update: 14 September)

Saturday 12 September 2015: 

• Training flights AM and PM / Trainingsfahrten morgens und abends

Sunday 13 September 2015:

• Training flights AM and PM / Trainingsfahrten morgens und abends 
• PM Check-In / nachmittags Check-In der Pilotinnen

Monday 14 September 2015:

• 08:00 Training flight / Trainingsfahrten morgens
• AM Check-In /  Check-In der Pilotinnen 
• 16:00 General Briefing / nachmittags: Wettbewerbs-Briefing
• 18:30 The Opening Ceremony will be held in the afternoon on monday the 14th. Orvelte

Die Eröffnungsveranstaltung findet am Montag 18:30 Uhr in Orvelte statt.

De openingsceremonie in Orvelte wordt vanaf 18:30 gehouden op maandag de 14e.