Virtual Balloon Distance Race

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First idea of the rules

Competition aera: Member States of the EASA: EASA Member States.

Flights outside the competition area are permitted, but only measuring points within the competition area will be scored for the end of the flight.

Maximum duration: 80 hours

Trajectories must not start higher than 5500m.

Different part of the flight: 3 (part means a new calculation with a new altitude.

Trajectories must be submitted by the 2nd midnight (UTC) following the start for the first part, by the 3rd midnight (UTC) following the start for the second part, and by the 4th midnight (UTC) following the start for the third part.

End of flight measurement points only count between sunrise and sunset.

Only teams can take part. A team consists of more than one person.

The virtual race is supervised by the members of the Virtual Balloon Distance Race project within the group Ballaeron - Ballooning Youth Exchange International.

The files of the trajectories should be sent to the following e-mail address: TBA

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2021/04/06 Trajectories flown by balloons in real life

Here are a few examples of balloon flights that really took place.

Gordon-Bennett-Race 2006 Waasmunster

Flight of the team Tomas Hora and Volker Löschhorn1) Volker Löschhorn describes the flight in his book BALLONFAHREN in german language. Title: Ballonfahren Author: Volker Löschhorn, Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-613-03427-3 :

Chart of the flight from the book »Ballonfahren« from Volker Löschhorn.

gordon2006hora-loeschhorn.kmz

From Marl to Romania Easter 2007

Three teams flew from Marl in Germany to Romania. The highlight was the crossing of the Carpathian Mountains.

HB-QHJ Kurt Frieden / Stefan Zeberli

D-OWNT Dominik Haggeney / Christoph Almodt

D-OWBA Tomas Hora / Volker Löschhorn

2007_04_06_dowba_downt_hbqhj.kmz

Gordon-Bennett-Race 2008 Albuquerque

Flight of the team Tomas Hora and Volker Löschhorn from Albuquerque to Missouri.

oh-eni2008gordon.kmz

Gordon-Bennett-Race 2009 Geneva

Flight of the Team Tomas Hora and Volker Löschhorn from Geneva to Menorca.

dostz2009gordon.kmz

Stuttgart-Bacau September 2011

Flight of the team Tomas Hora / Volker Löschhorn from Stuttgart (Germany) to Bacău (Romania).

dostz2011stuttgart-bacau.kmz

2021/04/06

Analyse Charts

https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/hobbymet_wk_europa/hobbyeuropakarten.html

Ground

500hPa

2021/04/05 1700 UTC

Bitterfeld

B05

New altitude at 1000 UTC 40.4030 N / 15.6480 E:

hysplittraj_180475.kmz trajplot_180475.pdf tdump.180475.txt

B15

New altitude at 2000 UTC 44.5140 N / 22.6760 E:

hysplittraj_180807.kmz trajplot_180807.pdf tdump.180807.txt

B25

New altitude at 0500 UTC 37.4230 N 15.7530 E:

hysplittraj_181219.kmz trajplot_181219.pdf tdump.181219.txt

Nancy

NO5

New altitude at 2021/04/04 1200 UTC:

hysplittraj_181548.kmz trajplot_181548.pdf tdump.181548.txt

N15

New altitude at 2021/04/04 0900 UTC:

hysplittraj_181653.kmz trajplot_181653.pdf tdump.181653.txt

N25

New altitude at 2021/04/04 0800 UTC:

hysplittraj_182217.kmz trajplot_182217.pdf tdump.182217.txt

Wrocław

W05

New altitude at 0900 UTC:

hysplittraj_182746.kmz trajplot_182746.pdf tdump.182746.txt

W15

New altitude at 1300 UTC 41.3840 N 23.4990 E:

hysplittraj_182822.kmz trajplot_182822.pdf tdump.182822.txt

W25

New altitude at 0800 UTC 44.2540 N / 12.4200 E:

hysplittraj_183172.kmz trajplot_183172.pdf tdump.183172.txt

2021/04/05 1400 UTC

Last Analyse Chart

Ground

2021/04/05 1000 UTC

Last Analyse Chart

Ground

2021/04/05 0200 UTC

Last Analyse Chart

Ground

500hPa

2021/04/04 1200UTC

Bitterfeld

B05

New altitude at 1800 UTC 50.6440 N / 12.4180 E

hysplittraj_140284.kmz trajplot_140284.pdf tdump.140284.txt

B15

New altitude at 2300 UTC 46.6800 N / 17.0210 E

hysplittraj_140491.kmz trajplot_140491.pdf tdump.140491.txt

B25

New altitude at 0300 UTC 47.8750 N / 12.6730 E

hysplittraj_140390.kmz trajplot_140390.pdf tdump.140390.txt

Nancy

N05

New altitude at 2021/03/04 2100 UTC 46.8160 N / 2.7860 E.

hysplittraj_140667.kmz trajplot_140667.pdf tdump.140667.txt

N15

New altitude 0400 UTC 44.7290 N / 1.8110 W

hysplittraj_140809.kmz trajplot_140809.pdf tdump.140809.txt

N25

New altitude at 0700 UTC 42.8870 N / 3.3920 W

hysplittraj_140725.kmz trajplot_140725.pdf tdump.140725.txt

Wrocław

W05

New altitude at 2021/04/03 1700 UTC 50.6500 N / 17.1020 E

hysplittraj_140227.kmz trajplot_140227.pdf tdump.140227.txt

W15

New altitude at 1700UTC 45.4130 N / 16.8160 E

hysplittraj_140120.kmz trajplot_140120.pdf tdump.140120.txt

W25

New altitude at 1200UTC and 45.8590 N / 163670 E

trajplot_140013.pdf hysplittraj_140013.kmz tdump.140013.txt

2021/04/03 0200UTC

Last Analyse Chart

Ground

500hPa

2021/04/03 1500UTC

METAR

EDDP Leipzig/Halle METAR EDDP 031450Z 35018G30KT CAVOK 10/M04 Q1022 TEMPO 35020G30KT=

Nancy/Essey 031400Z AUTO 05013G19KT 19KM FEW052 11/M01 Q1024=

EPWR Wrocław METAR EPWR 031430Z 34010KT 310V020 9999 FEW016CB SCT021 06/01 Q1018 =

Windy situation. For a virtual departure okay, but in reality to much wind for the balloons. Maybe possible in Wrocław.

Last Analyse Chart

Ground

500hPa

2021/04/03 Launch at 1500

The results of the calculation of the trajectories.

hysplittraj_16248.kmz trajplot_16248.pdf tdump.16248.txt

2021/04/02 First step

As a first step, we would now like to do a demonstration flight from three starting locations.

Koordinates of the launch points:

48.69311° N 6.183333° E Place Stanislas2) Place_Stanislas in Nancy (FRANCE)

51.62458° N 12.29456° E Ballonplatz Bitterfeld3)https://www.ballon-bitterfeld.de/bivfl/doku.php/ballonfahren/startplatz (GERMANY)

51.056944 N 17.001389 E Racecourse Wrocław-Partynice4)www.gordonbennett.aero (POLAND)

Tracedump:

newBaseSize: 11pt
newBaseSizeInPt: 11