Saturday - Opening Ceremony

Part 2 of the general briefing was carried over from Friday night (it was nearing 11pm and Competition Director Jan Hyncica was threatening to go on for another hour) so we had more talking until around 10am. While Team Leader Paul and Rob Keene were listening to yet more procedure, we had to line planes up in start order, ready for task one later in the day. Flying on day one - not the norm...

Then at 12pm, two military training jets woke us up, doing lots of low passes and signalling the start of a 3 hour air show, with all sorts including wooden Czech planes, ultra-quiet Vanessa Air VL3s (just amazed at how quiet they were) and ending with WW1 replicas engaged in dog fighting. Here's the VL3s.



Then the opening ceremony itself. We formed a square and a load of official stuff was said in Czech, followed by Max Bishop, Secretary General of the FAI, who declared the show was open.