Barnsie is really in form these days and flew like a daemon last weekend to claim his latest PB!!! It’s just a shame that this one will be broken again this season 
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Friday
After 2 weekend at home with bad flying weather, A 3 day weekend was coming up at Forbes.
Friday it’s Trent Dave Pete D and I. It was going to be windy so we set a bit of a zigzag task down to Woodstock. It was only 98k but knowing that the next 2 days were just going to get better it was a good starter. The air around the thermals was really ruff. I was working on fly these conditions a little safer, trying not to let the glider get pitched up, avoiding not spat out and searching around for the better air etc. I was nerves about the landing with the strong wind and ruff conditions, but in the end everyone landed safely, mine was a vertical decent all the way to the ground.
Saturday
You know your in for a big day at Forbes when you see Guy and Len are there setting up early. They’d set a 312k task NE to Mullaley. Wow I love a task that will bet my PB. Wind was a little less than yesterday, but it was still 30k up at the boundery layer to push us along. I found my self at the back of the que to tow. Steve did a grate job as it was one of the wildest tows. Strait though a booming thermal, we got through it and then climbed in some smother air before going around to drop me back in it and I was on my way. Everyone was already on task and it was a going to be another day of catch up. I tryed to get to Trent and Nath. Nath landed at parkes and trent took a more north track and landed on the other side of range to the NE of Parkes.
Once I got my self over that range, Dave Guy and Len where my next target. The thermals were very rough like the day before, but I was determined that that would not put me off. Dave landed around the 190k to go mark. So I decided to stay high, stopping for more climbs than I probably need too. Most climbs were only 5 – 6500ft. The ’stay high’ trick was working… I was slowly catching Guy and Len. It would be grate to finally have people to fly with after all this time, but it wasn’t not to be.
About 5pm and the day was starting to slow Len had called a town to the north of course line, It was right on 240k mark my PB distance. So I flew on another 8k before turning around and landing at the town.
Thanks to Dave (who was ment to be back in cannberra that night) and Anet (who was only ment to have to do a short retreive) doing the long retrieve to come and get us. We got back to munjal by 2am.
(after 5.5hrs and 248k)
Sunday
After yesterday I would have been happy enough to drive for everyone, but it was a light and variable day. Good for a triangle. Guy and Trent where well underway. We had 3 week-link brakes in the paddock. So by the time Len and I were climbing out we decided to take a short cut and meet up with them half way along the second leg. After a scratchy save at parkes mine we all joined up and went on glide to Trundle. For some reason I was finding some of the best lift lines on the way. Putting me on the top of the stack for quite a few thermal (this just never normaly happens, but improving my gliding is something I’ve been working on for quite some time). Being just weekend flying, I hung back at the top of the climbs for the others to climb up to me. This was probably a bad move coz later on, with only one really bad decision I was left behind. But never the less I still made it home and pulled of a text book landing to finnish off an awesome weekend. 14hrs in the air, a PB that’s taken me 5 years to brake and 440 some-thing ks, I’m a happy man 
