The second half of the 8th stage

Today Matevž and the GLWF team have been surprised by the weather. Conditions have been extremely difficult, yet with a bit of luck (and experienced pilot and team) everything ended well, so premature landing caused just bad temperedness.

The cold front has passed over flying route, so Matevž will continue the flight today at 02:00 UTC (04:00 am slovene time) over the mountains, approximately an hour and half to the destination. In case he would manage to take off before 02:00 UTC and refuel the aircraft in Hohhot in a short period, Matevž is going to pass Mongolia and land in the town of Ulan-Ude, Russia. Flying over Mongolia is planned to take additionally seven hours and a half, what means that with the ideal schedule tomorrow he would fly nine hours and landed in Russia at sunset.

Letenje po Kitajski poleg vojske otežuje tudi vreme

Danes je vreme presenetilo Matevža in ekipo GLWF. Razmere so bile izjemno zahtevne in na srečo se je vse končalo v redu, predčasni zaključek leta pa je povzročil le slabo voljo.

Hladna fronta je že prešla območje, kjer bi moral leteti, zato bo Matevž danes ponoči ob 04:00 po slovenskem času (02:00 UTC) nadaljeval let čez hribe še približno uro in pol do cilja. V kolikor bi uspel vzleteti pred 04:00 po slovenskem času in v Hohhot-u natočiti gorivo v kratkem času, bo jutri prečkal še Mongolijo in pristal v Rusiji v mestu Ulan-Ude. Prečkanje Mongolije bi po načrtih trajalo dodatnih sedem ur in pol, kar pomeni, da bi jutri pri idealni časovnici letel dobrih devet ur in v Rusiji pristal ob sončnem zahodu.