Today the first day of the 2016 journey started... I have the feeling that the weather will be more challenging than in the last two years . The plan was to go to Poland, heading for Ostrov or Leszno. Also this year there is a change, we switched from Jantar Turbo to DG808 self launching. Link to Flight

...clouds looked nice, but there was warm air, no good thermals... after 20 min thermaling I noticed that I forgot to switch the vario/sensor back to TE... I was hoping that his was the reason why I could not find good climbs... but it was not. Best climb at German polish boarder ... 3m/s... but I had to fly back to get it.... flying back was a good idea, because of the large forest... cloud base was rising from 1000msl to 1400msl

Approaching Lezno.... I always wanted to see this famous polish glinding center... the weekend was good for passing the militatry airspace which is usually free on weekends.

In Leszno there is a polish national championship ... 15m class... but there was no flying today, because of very late arriving weather. I thought that I would probably meet some pilots which I know from Slowakian competitions... Probably I could get a map for eastern Poland, which could not be delivered by two German online stores in time. .. and yes, a friendly pilot gave one to me for entire Poland.... problem solved.

Gliding hotel.... booked solid due to the competion and a dog show

So back to the roots... camping... I will probably sleep like a baby...