Bruno Ramseyer, the Team Manager has arrived and is busy whipping us into shape, a strenuous exercise routine for the crews in the mornig and ligth admin duties for the pilots. We both flew yesterday on an AAt task - not as fast as the winners but not too shabby. Stephen's turbo would not come out of the box which caused a bit more grumpiness. He will probably elect not to fly with the turbo as it is more stressful having an unreliable engine than no engine at all !

The Team Captains meeting takes place at 6pm tonight and is likely to be lively as there are a few contentious issues and a very intransigent director - it would seem it is not possible that there is a better way other than the german way :)

The Boss is currently trundling across europe aiming to arrive tommorrow, The monster is installed in the back seat, he should provide plenty of entertainment for us all.

Tommorrow is the grand opening ceremony in Belzig followed by the first day of competition on sunday. The forecast for next week cool, a little breezy and showery at times... sounds familiar.