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October 15, 2014, 10:18:54 MDT

Telomoyo Cup Indonesia

Tove helps organize

Grant Heaney

Grant Heaney|Tove Heaney

Tove writes:

We are having a blast here in Indonesia. I was asked to come over to help run the comp and thought this will be a great adventure and signed up to come. Everything is organised for us visitors from Korea and Australia. We are being chauffeured around everywhere. Picked up from the airport, to and from our hotel, up and down the mountain, all retrieves are organised. If you need to go somewhere there is a car available to take you (even shopping).

Driving here is crazy, with cars and mopeds going in every direction, wrong side of the road doesn’t matter, but after some days we are starting to see the system in the chaos. It actually works really well! Whole families on motorbikes, no helmet, I even saw a mother driving with one hand as she was holding her baby with the other!

Lunch is being provided on the mountain for us crew or in the goal tent where most pilots land (or get retrieved to) even if they don’t make the whole task. At goal there is a huge restaurant complex in the middle of the rice field. It has a floating restaurant and the water is full of colourful big fish. There are restaurants everywhere and dinner will cost you $3-5 per person including drinks. Take away food comes to your door on the moped street kitchen. I had a look in the fridge here at HQ were many are staying and it's empty. Either we eat fresh coconuts or fruit from the garden or we just eat out or takeaway/brought to your door.

Grant is starting to get the hang of the flying here. He has flown every day since we arrived.

The ramp is super easy launch, once you get over the first impression, as it looks quite scary, as it is so high (Reminds me of Mt.Buffalo, Australia)! 1400m above landing. I’ve been launching pilots off the ramp for many days now and it’s so safe and reliable.

We got the set up and feed to the ramp (still another ramp 100m up the road we are not even using) working perfect. Field is split in half, set up on the road, either side of the ramp and we simply feed the launch from both sides. Today we launched 30 pilots in 33 min, and that included a little waiting a few times, for the gliders thermaling right in front of the ramp. We could easy handle more pilots, as set up is no issue on the road in both directions, and we still have another ramp we could use.

Mt.Telomoyo is amazing, it always seems to be on. We have had days with a lot of wind on the flats, we get up to launch and its 2kt straight in on the ramp. We can see the wind coming over the back on the ridges surrounding the mountain, but on the launch is 2kt and straight in and still smooth in the air. Today cloudbase was below the top when we got there, but at 12.30 cloudbase lifted and we had 2-5kt straight up the ramp.

The air has been quite hazy here the last two days , but its super smooth and a combination between convergences and thermals. Cloudbase was low above Mt.Telomoyo today but as soon as you got going away from the mountain is got higher.

Yesterday’s winner, Korean Jun Ki Jung, got up from 100m at the second turnpoint and blitzed the field after that.

Landings are big flat rice fields but you need to pick the dry ones. In my opinion not too bad as in worse case you will have a safe landing, but just get wet feet!

Today is Day 3 and we had a 45km task with 5 turnpoints. Just spoke to Grant and he was at 5000ft just needing one more to get to goal he was flying with very experienced Roy Sadewo from Indonesia.

In Goal there is 200 school children, many other spectators, farmers, press and photographers waiting to greet them. All happening here in Java, Indonesia.

Ersy Firman, the main instigator of this competition, has poured an enormous amount of time, effort and resources to make this event happen. We have staff, crew and helpers everywhere plus all the specialist care like specialist medical teams, air traffic controller to communicate with the major airports etc. Ersy is planning to organise more competitions so if anyone is after a well organised flying adventure I would highly recommend to join in. Once you are here everything is taken care of.We feel like privileged guests here and once you get to know the Indonesians you can’t stop laughing all day. They are all half-crazy in a fabulous way!

Just driving around is also entertainment on its own. It actually cools down at night so we don’t even have the air con on for sleeping.

Sorry have to run, GPS’s are arriving!

Tagor Siagian «tagorgantolle» sends:

Telomoyo Cup 2014 International Hang Gliding Championship, Semarang District, Central Java, INDONESIA, October 12-19. 30 pilots from three countries are taking part. Grant Heaney (Australia), Korea (4) and 25 host pilots from Indonesia.

Photo by LASSAK IMAJI/TAGOR SIAGIAN:

Roy Sadewo (Jakarta/Indonesia)

Sy Firman (Jakarta/Indonesia) taking off at Telomoyo Mountain, Semarang district, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday (10/12).

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