Ferrara Cup 2017

Ferrara, Italy,   June 23, 2017 – July 2, 2017

Champions

A Group
1 RB Riccardo Brigliadori 2,893
2 C71 Davide Schiavotto 2,880
3 LR Luca Urbani 2,841
Campionato Italiano STANDARD
1 LR Luca Urbani 3,020
2 B9 Lorenzo Monti 2,777
3 GG Guido Dalla Rosa 2,748
B Group
1 HC Peter Hartmann 3,438
2 53 Avanzini & Caraffini 3,300
3 EC Antonio Soffici 3,200
Campionato Italiano UNICA
1 53 Avanzini & Caraffini 3,354
2 EC Antonio Soffici 3,252
3 BX Roberto Pinato 3,202

July the 2nd - day 6

11 am- For today 3 impegnative tasks have been assigned: "Group B" has 9 turning points (!) but not too far from Ferrara. Weather conditions are quite good. We have 26 degrees, QNH is 1014, take off at 12 am.

Written by: clara bartolini on July 2, 2017 at 9:19 AM.
Edited by: clara bartolini on July 3, 2017 at 7:34 AM.

July the 1st - day 5

11 pm - Tonight's dinner was kindly offered by the aeroclub to all the competitors and their families. It was a pleasent evening with laughs, flying memories, future plans ... and a great sunset! (see the photo gallery)  7 pm - A very goor day with thermals values between 2 and 3 m/s and plafond at 1700 m. We had only one outlanding. Unfortunalely meteo conditions were been under stimate, so the contest director could give more kilometers and a speed task instead of an area task, anyway all the...
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Written by: clara bartolini on July 1, 2017 at 9:14 AM.
Edited by: clara bartolini on July 3, 2017 at 7:34 AM.

June 30th - day 4

16 pm - No task for today: a big cover of the sky does not allow the heating of the ground so there is no thermal activity. Three gliders were flying at 1 am, at 2 am, and 2.30 am, but there were no chance for gliding. Ore 16 - Il cielo è totalmente coperto: senza sole manca la temperatura di innesco delle termiche. Sono andati in volo tre alianti "civetta" tra le 13.00 e le 15.00 che hanno testato le condizioni veramente insufficienti per il volo veleggiato. Siamo stati tutti in linea di volo a...
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Written on June 30, 2017 at 9:56 AM.

June 25th, day 3

15 pm No task for today. It's raining and we have 29 degrees now, exactely ten less yesterday! Ha piovuto all'inizio dei decolli, alle 13.30, e il direttore di gara ha dichiararto "No task". Ora ci sono esattamente 10 gradi in meno di ieri, 29. 12 amRain is expected today between 2 and 5 pm, wind is from north/west with variable intensity, so that grid is on runway 27. 32°, QNH is 1010.Per oggi è prevista pioggia tra le 14 e le 17, il vento è a raffiche da nord ovest per questo lo schieramento s...
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Written on June 25, 2017 at 10:24 AM.

June 24th - day 2

8.00 pm Today meteo conditions were better than yesterday, with good thermals although not uniformely diffused. As always in this sport, you had to make a conservative flight to move from weak thermals to stronger ones. Every all gliders flew between 700 and 1200 m. North of the river Po there were cumulus while south only blue thermals. Northwards from Monti Berici there was a cloudy coverage that will probably arrive here tomorrow. Towards East the conditions were good and also between Este an...
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Written by: clara bartolini on June 24, 2017 at 10:38 AM.
Edited by: clara bartolini on July 3, 2017 at 7:35 AM.

June 23th - day 1

19.30 pm. We have 12 gliders out landing today. Weather conditions were quite difficult in the second part of the task, but there were good climbing values, 1 or 2 m/s, in the first part. It was very hot also in flight because the gliders could not be higher than 1200 m. Ore 19.30 Giornata difficile oggi, con 12 fuoricampo, alcune buone termiche da 1 o 2 m/s ma anche tante discendenze. Non sono state fatte quote superiori a 1200 m quindi anche in volo faceva molto caldo, come a terra: 39 gradi!...
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Written by: clara bartolini on June 23, 2017 at 10:14 AM.
Edited by: clara bartolini on July 3, 2017 at 7:36 AM.

June 22nd at 10 pm

Opening briefing for "Ferrara Cup 2017: group A, group B", Italian Championship for standard Class and Italian Championship promozione Class.The contest director, Giampietro Magri, asked to the pilots to vote the rappresentative pilot for each group in the competition.After he expleined take off and landing procedure and announced some info about meteo forecast for next days.Tomorrow briefing will be at 11 am.
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Written on June 22, 2017 at 9:46 PM.

Competition Official Site

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Written by: Luigi Croce on March 11, 2017 at 10:03 AM.

Latest winner

1. Davide Schiavotto 218.90 km
1. Riccardo Brigliadori 218.99 km
3. Nicola Fergnani 189.68 km
4. Elena Fergnani 189.43 km
Updated: 7/5/17, 5:18 PM
1. Davide Schiavotto 218.90 km
1. Riccardo Brigliadori 218.99 km
3. Guido Dalla Rosa 204.88 km
4. Luca Urbani 201.19 km
Updated: 7/5/17, 5:22 PM
1. Peter Hartmann 301.03 km
2. Acquaderni & Acquaderni 278.23 km
3. Roberto Pinato 277.93 km
Updated: 7/17/17, 7:37 PM
1. Acquaderni & Acquaderni 278.23 km
2. Roberto Pinato 277.93 km
3. Avanzini & Caraffini 269.29 km
Updated: 7/17/17, 8:48 PM

Latest task

Task 6, Jul 2, 2017
Task distance: 302.38 km
Updated: 7/2/17, 5:09 PM
Task 6, Jul 2, 2017
Task distance: 302.38 km
Updated: 7/2/17, 5:16 PM
Task 6, Jul 2, 2017
Task distance: 400.79 km
Updated: 7/2/17, 4:22 PM
Task 6, Jul 2, 2017
Task distance: 400.79 km
Updated: 7/2/17, 10:35 AM

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