During the fifth competition task, on April 14, 2018 aproximately at 15:00 local time, there was an accident of two competing gliders in the area at Lietavská Svinná. The organizer activated search & rescue immediately after the event was announced. Both pilots used a rescue parachute and landed safely. The cause of the accident will be matter of investigation of the Aviation and Maritime Investigation Office.
Even today, you can watch the glider during a flight straight on the drawn track:
Club class
15m class
Kombi class
All gliders has started including 3 repeated starts! We did it in 1h and 32minutes! The start line for the combi class will be open at 12:48
Start line for 15m class will be open at 12:21
Club class has been started! Time of the start: 11:50
Start!
In Prievidza today we have a beautiful sunny morning and, according to our meteorologist, sunny will be all day! We suppose that the weather will be good for gliding as well, expecting good thermals! We will learn more at the briefing
Good morning! Grid on RWY 22.