The sun is back!

Mr. METEO Ab Maas had been sceptical this morning: "A chance to fly - a chance for showers."

Day 4 - Flight 2 - Task 3 - 5

[Task Data Sheet 2b (pdf)]

Task 3: Pilot Declared Goal (The goal had to be declared before taking off)

Task 4: Hesitatition Waltz - The kubicek prize goes to the winner of task 4.

Task 5: 3D Shape Task (The pilots tried to fly a donut) 

Start at the Landal Orveltermarke start field - flight in direction NNW.

Ready for assistance: The Landal Park Manager & a huge tractor

  
Dutch Ditches

Ditches and channels might be nice in the morning, but ...

[Oranjekanaal] in the morning sun (today 7:48)

Several crews got in contact with ditches in the landing phase of their balloons.

It happened to Dolly, Siegrid and worst of all to a Russian crew.

Cleaning & Drying

Lots of thanks to the teams of Daiva Rakauskaite & Astrid Carl for their help.

Results (PROVISIONAL ):

Total of all scored tasks.					Flt 1		Flt 2
Ra.	Nr.	Competitor	NAC	Total	1 HWZ	2 FON	3 PDG	4 HWZ	5 3DT
1	4	Elisabeth KINDERMANN	AUT	4090	300	931	1000	918	941
2	2	Daiva RAKAUSKAITE	LTU	3999	609	902	656	994	838
3	23	Beata CHOMA	POL	3748	914	862	877	267	828
4	25	Ewa PRAWICKA-LINKE	POL	3571	873	729	467	945	557
5	16	Agne SIMONAVICIUTE	LTU	3552	924	960	716	333	619
6	6	Marketa OLSANOVA	CZE	3198	500	658	400	918	722
7	10	Sylvia MEINL	GER	3157	756	608	538	300	955
8	24	Daria DUDKIEWICZ	POL	3091	931	637	300	623	600
9	3	Ann HERDEWYN	BEL	3045	556	619	775	367	728
10	19	Migle VAITULEVICIUTE	LTU	3017	333	500	433	1000	751
11	13	Elise KLOSS	GER	2816	682	100	801	233	1000
12	28	Ekaterina LARIKOVA	RUS	2756	979	333	844	100	500
13	21	Sanne HAARHUIS	NED	2567	800	333	500	601	333
14	14	Rita BECZ	HUN	2542	67	395	705	908	467
15	29	Montserrat LLADO-GAMBIN	ESP	2409	200	400	689	720	400

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.

 

Pilots from Western Europe and the Netherlands

Austria / Österreich

Elisabeth Kindermann
Best Junior: Women's European 2012

Best Woman: Junior's World Championship 2012

Rank ,   Points

Austria   AUT  2
OE-ZOZ  Cameron (ORF OÖ, blue, red & white)

Belgium / België / Belgien

Ann Herdewyn
3rd Women's European 2012
Rank ,   points

Belgien   BEL   3

OK-1097  Kubicek (white & red)

Moniek van de Velde

Jury member 2012, 2014

Rank ,   points

Belgien   BEL   5

OO-BXU  Libert

The German Balloon Team / Die deutschen Pilotinnen

Astrid Carl

Rank   -   points   

Gelnhausen

Deutschland   GER   11

D-OBCK  Schroeder (Kinzig)

Dolly, Dolores Deimling

Rank   -   Points

Frankenthal-Mörsch

Deutschland   GER   11

D-OSMU  Schroeder (Session Music, red & white)

[Dolly on YouTube (2014)]

Siegrid Ibes

Rank   -    points

Neuss

Deutschland   GER   12

D-OOAH   Ultramagic (Warsteiner, yellow)

Elise Kloss

Rank   -    points

Waldbröl

Deutschland   GER   13

D-OWUX  Ultramagic (Warsteiner, yellow)

Sylvia Meinl

Rank   -   points

Sindelfingen

Deutschland   GER   10

D-OHFB  Schroeder (red & rallye)

Great Britain / Groß-Britannien

Stephany Bareford 

Rank ,   points

Groß-Britannien   GBR   7

G-CHSP  Ultramagic (blue & yellow)

Chloe Hallet

Rank ,   points

Groß-Britannien   GBR   8

G-Loki  Ultramagic (blue & red)

Lindsay Muir 

Champion: Women's European 2012

Vice Champion: Women's European 2010

Rank ,   points

Groß-Britannien   GBR   1

G-HSBC  Lindstrand (white & red)

[YouTube: to follow]

The Dutch Balloon Team

Netherlands / Nederland / Niederlande

Annelotte Tolboom

Rank   -   points   

Nederland   NED   20

OK-900  Kubicek

Sanne Haarhuis, participant
of the 1st Wold Championship

Sanne Haarhuis

Rank   -   points   

Nederland   NED   21

PH-OOL  Ultramagic (The Fool, red & white)

[Sanne on YouTube]

Caroline Splinters, co-pilot
of the 1st Wold Championship

Caroline Splinters

Rank   -   points   

Nederland   NED   22

OO-BFJ  Ultramagic

Spain / España / Spanien

Montserrat Llado-Gambin 

Rank ,   points

Spain   ESP   29

EC-KML  Ultramagic (orange)

Switzerland / Schweiz

Janet Haase

Rank ,   points

Schweiz   SUI   30

D-OMSF  Schroeder

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

Drenthe, Netherlands

© Text & Fotos:  Rudolf H. Boettcher