The 55th international Hahnweide competition is just done and dusted. Dusted is maybe not the correct word as there was a lot of moisture funneled in by low-pressure systems from Italy dominating the European weather conditions. The task setters did an amazing job with the given weather situation and squeezed out the maximum possible tasks and really challenged the pilots every day.
It was the first big competition where the JS3 RES participated and did so with great success. Despite the very, very weak conditions experienced throughout every task it seemed that Peter Millenaar (Netherland) and his JS3 RES had no problems dealing with the problems at hand. Peter flew most of the days with 2 batteries installed (50 kg of batteries on board) but also selected to fly in the sustainer configuration (only 1 battery 25 kg), when the forecast predicted very poor climb rates.
Winning 3 of the 4 days at the end Peter secured the gold medal in front of Jürg Haas (CH) and Andrew Davis (GB). The first 6 places in the 18-meter class were taken by five JS3 and one JS1 glider.
Hope to see as many international pilots at the next Hahnweide competition.
Results can be found here:
https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/55-hww2023/results
The competition site:
