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Day Three Worlds


The Paragliding World Championships are underway, but we've yet to fly a task.
People are starting to joke about the "Curse of Pinzgau," a town in Austria that
hosted the Worlds a few years back. They flew two tasks there in dangerous
conditions in two weeks.


There is, despite the lack of flying, an incredible amount of nationalistic
bitching going on at the "team leader" and FAI levels. Various teams are
conniving ways to get more of their pilots higher in the launch line priority,
or whatever they can possibly do to improve potential position in the air.