Team Gibbs woke to another beautiful morning in rural Austria.
A light rain the previous evening had brought the frogs out which caused Deano no end of stress dodging them on the road down to the launch site.
Them and the chickens at our farmstay.
With great winds this am Paul & Mark went for a 2 hr jolly at around 5,000ft - with 3 test targets enroute. Taking the opportunity to checkout winds in another 4-5 valleys to the NE of the launch area, as well as call in the ground crew along some new roads, launch pieballs and a few other 'special' training exercises.
This arvo we were joined by a local pilot in another hare and hound. Werner is a great guy and gave us some fabulous local knowledge so that the chase crew could really stalk the hare up close. We may have spooked him however as we peaked out from a 4WD track in the forest behind the hare pilot's house which looked very much like the proposed target site before we spooked him.
With bad weather predicted from Sat for 3 days we're hoping to get 2 more training flights in tomorrow. If the big cold front arrives as expected we might have time off to visit the aviation airshow this Saturday.
Registration for the Worlds has begun and more balloons are turning up everyday. Team USA arrived today enmass and Sean Kavanagh's group are still trickling in.
So, here's hoping for great winds tomorrow.
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Is that Werner from Aunty Monkey? How many balloons are they expecting at the worlds? - it must be getting very exciting with everyone arriving..... maybe you should try kissing one of the frogs - you never know what it may turn in to! - Barb Smith
Ribbit !
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