Team Practice Day 3

Basically a repeat of yesterday.... breakfast, drive, unload, assemble and fly. Our day started out great with the arrival of the Australian team to our humble flying site way south of Zurich. We got reintroduced to the members and spent the next 90 minutes flying through the P-15 schedule. They watched us, we watched them and we had a good visit.

Bill Bloodworth's OS Belt drive.

The Hungarian team also arrived later on but by then the Aussie folks headed off to do some registration business at the competition site and then head back up to the Zurich field by Eglisau.
It was great catching up with them all and I am sure we will see each other on the flightline.

The Hungarian and Canadian team members swapped flights as we endured the 35˚ heat! We had brought out our back up planes to fly today and each of us flew a round to ensure their readiness. All was good in the end. We did some reprogramming of the ESC to match my Acuracy and I was set.

Hartley arrived later in the afternoon having completed his duties re: registration etc. The gals promptly went off on a 30 minute drive to Heidiland for some sightseeing.

We relaxed as the lunch hour flight ban came into effect.

The clubs have noise restrictions placed on them by the local government. We are not permitted to fly between 11:30 and 13:30 so we sat and enjoyed the views and listened to the trains continuously rip past the town. This created far more noise than our electric airplanes. Maybe time to revisit the mayor's office :-)

Sensation of Team Hungary

Team Hungary

Team Hungary

Michi's backup.

Colin packs up Ethan's backup Axiome.

Ethan puts in a round with Dad Colin watching and "advising".

Great views during practice.

We finally packed up around 5 pm and headed home but stopped at the Hinwil to see some other teams fly. Met up with Lassi Nurila and some others. It's a very nice field but lacked some box markings from my observations.

Back at the hotel we showered up and after a small debrief, headed out to a late dinner.

Tomorrow is our first official team function with practice flights at site 2 and then plane processing afterwards. I'll sort this pictures out and get them captioned in the morning....... as we have the morning off! That means sleep in!