Thursday 12/8 2004
    "Jutro bude razmere za jadranje ugodne," the weather forecast was promising, but the morning sky looks different. Low in the sky there is a continual cloudiness and it's unusually dark even at six o'clock in the morning. Later on is the fog slowly getting up and it starts to look as a fifth flying day.

    "I must say I don't feel well" admits undisclosed pale person, who didn't cope with the amount of yesterday's wine on the party and with the following bathing in the fountain on the village square in Dreznica. Or maybe it was because of the goulash with mush? In any case all the camp is today wakening up very slowly and somewhat unwillingly. The weather forecast is weather forecast. The entire competitive field is shortly before noon up on the Kobala and the announced task is 52 kilometers long. The starting point will be, as usually, Kozlov Rob (for Michal Sopko), from there will racers fly through the valley of Soc to the west to Kobarid, after that back to the once Johnson camp, back to the Volce village and finally short glide to the goal on the stadium in Tolmin. The launching window will be opened from 1.30 p.m. to 3.15 p.m. and the type of the discipline is the same as yesterday - "Race to goal". The time is measuring for all the pilots the same way, and that means from the start of the starting point.

    "We will finally have a nice fly!" are Karel and Honza looking forward to nice flying, and they start right after the opening of the window, although the almost 4 kilometer long starting point opens up just in 70 minutes.

    The bases of the relatively rich cloudiness are forming hardly 300 meters above the launch and most of the racers are understandably hesitating before the launch. Only at 2 p.m. is on the west launch starting the right turmoil; at 2.45 p.m. is the crowd of 50 canopies getting up to the first branch of today's route. Yet the conditions are weak and there is also too little sunshine. Already on the first way to Kobarid are 34 pilots landing and other 21 are ending up in their close distance. Only 24 pilots are successful in turning Kobarid, which is today second and also fourth turning point.

    "We know very well their talk, it's all the time the same," some of the pilot's girlfriends are justifying their absence on a yesterday's party in Dreznica as they are having hen party with some of the types of alcohol and they also look that way at five o'clock in the afternoon. But in that time is above their heads screaming with joy the winner of today's task (after almost two hours of flight) Slovenian Dejan Adamovic, 18 seconds after him lands David Ohlidal and 49 seconds later Radek Vecera. On the whole there arrive to the goal twelve pilots - four Slovenians, five Czechs, two Poles and one Russian.

    There isn't any change in the first three total placing of the race, only the small difference between the points has after today got even smaller. The meteorologists predict for tomorrow relatively fast movement of the front with some rainfalls and the evening sky really looks like it. So maybe Friday the thirteenth will be a non flying day?