Its Friday morning at Touzim and the 0800 briefing is complete. The judging positions are now being set-up ready for the warm-up pilot to fly at 1000 if the weather is good enough - at the moment we have low scuddy cloud forming, probably due to the moisture in the ground all around the airfield. Touzim is a really nice airfield, all grass on a plateau which is about 2100 feet high. So its likely that we may have to wait a while for the sun to burn off the cloud. Current wind is around 6m/s from the North and the judges will sit at the Eastern judging position this morning. We have three possible judging positions - W, E and S. The runway runs east to west, so with the judges in the East pilots will be flying across the runway when they are on the main contest axis.
The warm-up pilot will go up at 1000 to assess the cloudbase and once its above the minimum we will start the Q flights.
The aeroclub at Touzim is a very welcoming, friendly place. The club house has been rebuilt over the last 15 years or so and it is warm and cosy, with a bar, sofas and internet. Everyone at the club is working hard to put the facilities in place that we need for the contest and its a very nice place to be.
So all we need now is some good weather and we can start flying.
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