Day 3 started with the assembly of the helis and a visit to the local Bunnings equivalent for some tools and gear we needed followed by a drive to the event site to have a look around and find out about our batteries which had be retained by Polish Custom which is a whole other drama.

No joy with the batteries which were still in transit, so returned to the hotel to finish off the helis and wait for advice from the freight company that the batteries had been delivered.  They finally arrived and it was a quick run with Paul to the event site to pickup the batteries and then a couple of hours of assembly installing all the connectors and mounting up the pack on the trays.  The weird part was sitting on the floor of the outside area of the hotel bistro soldering up the packs so as not to setoff the smoke alarms in the room

Once we got the packs charged it was off to the nearest practice field to shakedown the helis and the batteries.  The field was not real good with long grass and very rough but did the job.  Then it was a drive through the polish country side to try and find the practice site Brendan flew at in 2006.  Got there no problem but someone had built no one but two huge factories on it so with the guys headed back to the hotel to fix the issues we found with the helis.

Paul and myself went on an exploring mission to find the orher practice fields which we managed to eventually find a good one followed by a shortcut through a polish forest to get back around 9:30 and pick up the requested pizzas on the way.  Polish pizza is served with a tub of tomato sauce which we were not fans of.

Hotel is starting to fillup with the Austrian team here as well now.

Tommorrow will be a full practice day.