After 2 practice rounds yesterday on an airfield, the lake was declared sufficiently frozen to be safe to fly from.  This had apparently taken much effort from the locals, pumping/spraying water onto the ice to thicken it up.  The weather has been a clear sunny sky, with temperatures of around –10 decrees C.  With the added wind-chill, it has felt very cold at times.  Warm tea & coffee helped during the day, and the soup at the end was even better!  After the 08.00 hrs briefing, the bus took the pilots to the lake.  Much to the appreciation of the pilots, the first round was again a practice flight.  The first full round then followed.

The morning started way too early. We had all missed a lot of sleep on Wednesday night, getting to Standsted Airport for 5am. The 7 hours sleep we managed for thursday night was welcome, but was never going to be enough, but friday is registration day and practice day - The competition is starting.

Late Tuesday night I saw something that made me worried. The weather forecast for Thursday Morning. At the time my concern was that if the snow came slightly earlier than forecast it could affect people getting to Stansted Airport. Flying out to the world championships with only half a team is not my idea of fun. No worries, a quick email out to the team asking them to look at the weather forecast and review their travel plans. It even included an afterthought about bringing a book to read incase the flight was delayed...

Green Dragons and the BHPA would like to invite all Paraglider pilots to the national Accuracy Paragliding Competition being held at Green Dragons over the weekend of the 16th and 17th Sepetember, 2006.