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Very good day and an easy task (Nessel - Grimsel - Brig - Fiesch): The average has been very high! Gantenbein and Fukuoka did win this fast race. Smiling faces everywhere. Results are out in a few minutes.

Nice weather with some high clouds. After a bit a slow start, we will have good thermals with a base above 3500m. Wind will be weak to moderate from southerly directions. Conditions should be better as yesterday (see the report from yesterday). Briefing 10:30 at Galvera take off.

I ordered all charts chronologically - I hope you find your infos :-) Thursday Fiesch ******************** We still have a southerly airflow, but hopefully with better thermals ... It is a good day! Briefing 10:30 at Galvera Take Off Friday Disentis ***************** After a bit a slow start, it looks like a very good day! It is a free flying day. We meet at 9:50 at the cable car station (the cable car leaves at 10:05). I hope to find some locals to join you and to bring some waypointmaps. Saturday Disentis ******************** Unfortunately the super-weather is gone, but I'm pretty sure, that we can do some hours of thermal flying, maybe some distance along the thermal-freeway towards east. You can get your waypointmap and cable car ticket at 9:00 at the headquarter. It is too early to make a proper timing, when we go up, but probably all normal at 10. More infos tomorrow at 18h.

We had a task to Riederalp - Grimsel - Nessel - Chäserstatt - Goal, 93km. It has been very rough around Bellwald to Münster, especially up to 2500m because of a pretty strong SW-wind (25km/h). This wind has been more like a valley-wind. The last turnpoint at Chäserstatt has been in the downwash from south of the Binntal (this was the reason, that we cancelled after the first pilots reported that). The reason for these special conditions has been, that at 3000m it has been warmer in the north than at the south of the alps. This produced a situation of Föhn, even if the pressure difference on the ground has been zero. See the charts we have got from MeteoSchweiz. All photos on the link below.

Nice weather, Some cumulus, in the afternoon 3500m or higher Thermals are probably a little bit weekend by advection from warmer air. But in our area it will be good. Wind is our "thing" today (I show 3 models: COSMO2, COSMO7 and WRF). Good flyable in our area, but we are a bit "jammed" to the normal route. Maybe we can go to Furkapass. Briefing 10:30 at Galvera Take Off

Tomorrow we have nice weather with only some flat cumulus (at 3500m or higher). Moderate winds from SW, W, with a bit of a Föen effect at Simplon and to Visp. Briefing 10:30 at Take Off Galvera. We think at a task in moderate length, because of the wind.

After some waiting we started the race (Bettmeralp - Grimsel - NIederwald - Landing at Gluringen) at about 11:30. Only a litte bit of sun made it difficult to climb, about half of the pilots did not get above take off hight and landet soon at Fiesch. The rest could get up and made it in to the Goms, about 20 made goal.

I think, that we will have first possible showers at around 11, 11:30 (probably it will stay dry), then it should be nicer until 15h. But: The wind will strengthen in that period. Probably we should not wait until 12, because we will get in to the wind at 14h.... Difficult... Briefing will be at 10:00 at Take Off.

Mario Pfister did land at Emmanuelle - he will get points accordingly. This is not yet shown in the rankings.

A (weak) cold front will pass at the north side of the alps. The models show very different influence and timing of this. North of the alps, the cols air will be already in the morning. The question is, when does it gets up the Rhone ... Probably it arrives here at Fiesch around 14h (same time it will arrive over the Grimsel and over the Schöllenen to Andermatt - therefor it is not a good idea to fly to Andermatt...) COSMO2: Rain at 12h COSMO7: Rain about at 15h ALARO: Almost no rain until late afternoon WRF: No rain until late afternoon, or non at all... There is a (small) chance for a valid task. Next Info: Tomorrow morning, before 8:00 with SMS and on this website. If we go up: Briefing at take off Galvera at 10:00 !!

The Live Leaderbord (provisional results) from our scorer Toni Crottet can be found here: http://fsdb.tonicrottet.ch Report, Rankings and Photos later.

- weak thermals because of stable airmass - probably we will get up to 3000m Briefing 11:00 at Galvera (Take Off site)

Looks good :-) - thermals will not be very strong - lite westerly winds Briefing 11:00 at Galvera-Take Off (directly at Take Off).

There was a bit more moisture around than we thought, but when the race started at 13:20 (airstart 14:00), it was just beautiful to fly. At least for the eyes - some pilots probably think, that the beginning has been pretty tricky because of the weak thermals. The race went to Münster (Galmihornhütte) and back to the take-off, then to Blitzingen in the middle of the valley, then to Brig and after a small turn to Bellwald, to the landing at Fiesch. 67 km in beautiful conditions! The French and the Swiss did well - we will see in the ranking :-) All pics are at the link below.

Yesterday we where astonished about the weather report. It showed very nice weather, already early in the morning - which is almost impossible after all that rain... Today the wether reports look more like suspected. Some clouds in the morning and clouds again in the afternoon. But it looks still good for a task! - moderate thermals - cloud base rising up to 2800m - winds should be pretty weak from northerly and easterly directions Briefing 11:00 at Restaurant Kühboden

Despite the rain, the cloud base should be above take off already by 11 clock. But as the registration is running, we make our first briefing at the restaurant at Kühboden. Swiss Pilots: You can download the waypoints from our website (see link below) and make your registration with your SMS (para start so). If that works (answer: Registration successful), you can make your proper registration in the evening. Weather report: It looks like the humidity disappear very fast and we will have an average day with moderate thermals. Cloud base should rise up to 2700 (RASP) or 2900m. Wind is weak, with a tendency of Bise/northerly (probably we dont feel it).

Because of the weather, the Swiss Open Fiesch 2015 will start one day delayed: Registration on site Saturday, 1st August, 19h to 21h and Sunday, 2nd August, 8h to 9h, at the main landing area in Fiesch, https://goo.gl/maps/2NrFG Sunday we will have a very good chance for a nice task, and the hole weak looks generally good for competition flying! More information: www.gssm.ch We are looking forward to welcoming you to a high-class sporting competition and to spending some wonderful days in Fiesch! Organisation Team Swiss Open Fiesch ************************************ Weather information Fiesch Saturday will be very cloudy with some rain. Not taskable. Sunday we aspect low clouds in the morning (cloud base below take off), rising up later and forming cumulus at reasonable cloud base (2900?). Wind looks pretty calm - good day for a task! The hole week looks pretty good :-)

Gewitter oder Wind - das war uns gestern Abend eigentlich schon klar. Heute ist strahlend schönes Wetter, die Windstationen und die Wolken bestätigen aber die Prognose: 10-15kn auf 2000m und 25kn auf 3000m. Wir hatten 4 gute Tage und haben keine Lust auf einen schlechten Flug heute - so beschliessen wir gemeinsam, den Newcomer abzubrechen. Gratulation den Gewinnern! Ich möchte aber nochmals betonen, dass auch viele weitere Newcomer sensationell geflogen sind, auch wenn das auf der Rangliste nicht zu sehen ist. 1 Benjamin Seeberger, Ozone Alpina 2 2 Lucien Caviezel, Sigma 9 3 Dominik Welti, Ozone Delta 2 4 Jocelyne Prélaz, Ozone Swift 5 Nicole Leuenberger, Nova Ion 3 Bedanken möchten wir uns bei den Bergbahnen Disentis, die wie immer ausgesprochen zuvorkommend und flexibel auf unsere Wünsche reagierten und bei der Lodge Sax, wo wir zu sehr guten Preisen nächtigen und die bequeme Lounge als Therorieraum nutzen konnten.