Petr Polách writes:

The task worth the world championship!

With comparison of yesterdays task, the previous ones looked like a demo
version! Pilots finally got what they came for. We used beautiful start Val Seca,
started 13:15 and pushed with maximum altitude under 10,000ft limit north to
Emberger Alm area.

The gaggle was tight, a combination of aggressive flying and turbulent thermals
(5ms north wind) forced me to leave cores soon and push for the distance. I was
using ridge lines a lot, not wasting time to reach cloudbase.

Before Lienz, in well known super turbulent washing machine place I climbed
3000+ meters and jumped to Silian ridge. The champions went for a rocky line,
south from Lienz taking different approach - using main alpine ridge to reach
TP.

The Silian ridge was blown over by valley winds and the north flow. I kept
pushing to the place that allowed me to finally jump to north facing surfaces.
There, just 6 km from TP I finally climbed close to cloudbase and tagged it.

90km was still ahead.

From Dan I quickly found that with my line I am in the lead in front of fastest
gaggle! (While Eduardo was taking his own approach to win. Well done mate.)

I kept pushing alone but the late time and with 3/4 cloud cover the area wasn't
working well!

The champions, like hunting dogs, caught me quickly and 36km before goal, they
showed me how a proper finish is done. I tried to fight to the end, but my line,
even though marked with best clouds around gave me no thermals. Under Weissensee
ridge I was 200m AGL in valley wind, desperate for even zero climb.

It took me 30 minutes to climb up close to the trees and from there I pushed
towards goal, gliding 22km straight.

For the first time during this competition I am satisfied with my performance, I
ended up with 87 leading points.

This kind of task is what a world class comp should be about! (Not short, kind
of random gaggle tasks where one mistake or balls decision puts you all around
the results. This is not paragliding.

Said by Attila Bertok: "NO PUSSY TASKS!"

Manfred missed a turnpoint by 60 meters, due to the wrong Earth model setting in his instrument.