6th competition day... 6th task in Kayseri. This happens for the second time this year after Italy and did not happen often in the history of the Paragliding World Cup.

The weather has changed today: wind is stronger and the air is dry and hot. As the winddummies are going up, the wind is good to take off, the meet director Bekir Bastug, the TD and the pilots committee decides to go for a 56km race to goal with a 40 km validation distance. The first part is difficult with head wind between the second and third turnpoints. Thanks to the performances of the gliders and the good thermals, 43 pilots managed to reach the third turnpoint. The end is much easier. Christian Maurer is attacking but lands 15 km short of goal. He stays first in the 2007 World Cup ranking but his advance is reducing (but his glider remains the same ;-) Anyway, he is still in a good position to become PWCA World Champion this year. The day winner is the czech pilot Radek Vecera, 3 minutes ahead of Peter Neuenschwander and 5 minutes before others pilots. Anja Kroll is the only female pilot in goal, only 11 mn after Radek. She's also on the good way to become the next PWCA female World Champion ! But the season is not finished !
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Sorry for the delay to have the last tasks results on the web site due to some health problem. Everything is fine now and here they are...

Today's was the longest task in Kayseri with 95.6 km to the east. With light northwest wind, good cumulus and cloudbase over 3000m, the flight is very nice over the flatlands and the hills.The "gaggle effect" makes the flight very fast with many pilots in goal. The landscape look almost the same as thousand years ago. The pilots can feel like flying in an historical movie during Bysantine empire or later, Ottoman empire. The big name of this time was Mehmed II, the conqueror who captured Constantinople (later called Istambul) when he was 21 years old. The conqueror of the day, Valic I, is a little older 26 years old, but also fast, flying the task in 2:38. The frst woman is Ewa Wisnierska, half an hour later, just 8 seconds in front of Anja Kroll.

80 pilots made goal today after flying a 57km task.

Andy Aebi is the winner !

Spaelti is today's best team.

Second task in Kayseri, second race this time is 70km long.

Malecki at the top

The second task from Mont Ali is a 70 km race to the east. After one hour of flying, big clouds are forming creating a big shadow area. About 50 pilots are landing between 33km et 43 km. But a few pilots, after circling in very little varios during more than one hour, manage to keep going along the road to Pinarbasi...

Online results and pilot flights

Today's task:

The task was stopped at 16:00 because of thunderstorms.

Thanks to the new rule introduced in 2007, as more than 1h30 had been flown after the start opening, the task is scored. With the prevous rule, the task would have been cancelled and not scored at all as no pilot reached goal.

Due to some bug in the way stopped task were handled by the GPS and scoring software, the results have been updated. Stefan Wyss is winning the task.

Click on the picture to view the task in Google Earth (kml file)

Online results and pilot flights are available