Off to Grenfell and back today. Cross wind out and return. High chance of ODing today so hold on to your hats.

Earlier start also launching at 12pm start gate opening at 1:20pm

Sitting here with Davis in a padock near the town of Frogmore. Why did we end up 20km off task? Well after making it to within glide of goal we got scared, then the task was stopped… Then we bacame more scared.

The entire task we were avoiding areas of rain but eventually, after I had glide to goal, we hit a bit that was impossible to go aroud. At this point, the task was stopped. The right move in my eyes.

Another fun Fay out though. Let’s see how the stopped task
rule pans out this go after the controversial implementation in Canungra.

What a day! So much fun it was almost like we were flying at Forbes. The day started off topping out at 5500ft through to the turnpoint at Carabal. After that thing got real fun with base lifting to 9000ft. Fun.

For such a big day, almost 200km, it was a pretty easy day. All our team made it in to goal. Out of us Peter won the day with Dave, Barnsie and I all coming in with similar placings.

Over all it looks like Jonny won the day with Zippy (Zac Majors) in second and Attila third.

All up there would have been about 50 pilots in goal. Awesome for such a long task.

The pic is of Dave landing at goal.

Results for yesterday:
1. Zac Majors.
2. Lucas Bader
3. Attila Bertok

17 in goal

I ended up in 15th and Barnsie in 20th.

Today we’re off to Bookham vai a TP at Caragabal 194km. Northly wind so it should be a fun day heading down wind.

Damn iPhone just killed the writeup I had done for today so here’s the excutive summary…

A tough day out. A real hard first crosswind leg followed by a pretty easy run for 50k past the turnpoint. It then got tough again as we hit the flooded area towards Naromine.

I had three goes at different start gates but never really managed to get a good jump out of the box.

A slow trip around the course but I made it in after flying the final 30k with Kari from Finland. We ended up landing together near rhe town.

As for rhe rest of the Dustys, Andrew ended up 21km short of goal. Dave and Pete landed near the turnpoint near Trundle.

Tomorrow looks like fun and might even be a bit easier.

At briefing, looks like a good day with heating happening early which should set us up for a perfect recovery from the wet conditions we have experencex over the past week.

Entries have been confirmed as 70 pilots this year. Nice.

A task has been set for the day. We”re off to Goolma. 166km

What the &$);? We still can’t work out how to score our sport. OZGAP2005 has been decided on via a vote by competeing pilots. That’s ok for this comp bit it rely should be something that is sorted out on a much broarder scale. Fingers crossed we can sort this out one day.

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Update task has beenchanged due thunderstorms near Wellington. New task is to Narrowmine via a TP at Trundle. Launch opens in 8 mins.

The usual crew have assebled for the 2010 chapter of the Forbes flatlands HG comp. The initial briefing is about to het under way…

Practice day out here at Forbes. Looking like the bad weather has passed and we’re in for a great comp as usual.

About to tow brb…

Well, as expected, a fun day out with many sortes flown and most landing back at the airfield. 2-3 m/s climbs were the call for the day topping out at the clouds at about 6000ft.

Tomorrow looks like a cracker.

… And very rarely at Forbes. Forecast is to clear up of the next couple of days. Bad news for the farmers but good news for us. Fingers crossed.

Heading to Nth launch again today. Goal set for Jugiong 34*49.326
148*20.408
900ft
Jugong 96k

How things panned out…
Nth launch ended up being blown out so we upped stumps and headed down to Geary’s. It was still on the strong side so we ended up sitting around for a while until we an air of optermisim wafted through the crowd. I launched first in a lull and almost bombed. Once I did head north though I was rewarded with 3m/s clb to airspace at 5500ft. The trip past Gundaroo, Murrembateman was fairly straight forward but constantly hitting my head on airspace was frusturating. I got high just before Burinjuck dam which made for ascenic crossing. That was pretty much to end of the flight though and I landed just a couple of km north of Carols range and one of our favorite launches in the area. Barnsie made it over the back and landed near Gundaroo. Ed pulled off a nice one landing at Murrembateman.
Another fun day out!
Heading to Forbes tomorrow and looking forward to running in to all the usual guys out there.