On Saturday it was still unclear how the weather will be on Sunday, but I had the gut feeling that we'll have fun... a lot of cumulus, mild temperatures, sun, some storms late in the afternoon, but the kind of weather which I like. No blue horror, no wind, no 30°C. 

The preparation for this flight was a bit more difficult than usually: Saturday we went out for a sushi & wine evening so on Sunday in the morning I was not as fresh as a rose. I struggled to find someone to rig my glider so I was ready quite late, around 11 am. There was a competition at our airfield (Coppa Cittá di Varese) which means that I could take-off only after the competitors, around 2 pm... but better late than never!

This time I did not start the flight from Campo dei Fiori, but above the city of Varese (and the aerotow was not 1000 m, only 750 m). The first thermal was not bad (around 1-1.5 m/s) so I started immediately the task of our local weekend competition (Coppa Villa Pavesi). The cumulus were around 1600-1800 m, and I found better conditions going in the direction of higher mountains. The max. altitude for the first part of the task was around 1900 m, but I was not worried because I knew that the clouds function very well!

I reached the first waypoint (Mt. Cornizzolo) around 1600 m, I did again the max. height and I went for the 2nd waypoint (Mascioni, 10 km radius circle). When I returned to Mt. Generoso for the second time, the conditions were even better, I reached the super height of 2050 m! It would have been sufficient to touch Mt. Bisbino for the second time, but I went until Mt. Bollettone because the thermals worked really well. I went up a bit to the north here (Mt. Palanzone) but there I found rain. 

I returned above the flatland to home and I thought well to leave margin for the final glide: there was south wind, around 15-20 km/h and it was from the side - against the nose of my glider. I touched again the most western point of Lago di Varese and then I landed at home.

Happiness! I completed the daily task with a quite good speed as well and all the flight was really enjoyable, I had fun! These are the conditions where an ASW15b flies well, without major difficulties. 

If you want to see my flight on OLC/weglide, you can find it here:

186 km · Adrienn Kiss · Calcinate del Pesce 05/11/2025 (weglide.org)

OLC Flight information - Adrienn Kiss (HU) - 11.05.2025 (onlinecontest.org)