A great day yesterday with no landouts by competitors..
As was famously quoted during the Falklands war many years ago by Brian Hanrahan. "I counted them out and I counted them back".
A few pilots abandondoned the task but the vast majority completed. The sad thing about the current scoring system is that altho you complete the task, you can miss out on getting any speed points and just get distance points hence a number of the 15mSTD class pilots all getting 708 points.
Ben Flewett had a bad day as water leaked out of his right wing during the first part of the course leaving him to "limp" around wunwing low.
Billy Walker blitzed the field. His SPOT was not working(seems he hasnt paid the renewal fee:-)) and so we had no idea where he was until he called 5 miles out. The old fashioned Ops Normal Calls every hour, even with a leg number dont really give us a clue as to progress. Especially with long task legs. The task was such that a call one hour out could be Leg 3. That leg was 172kms long. The final leg was 125kms which at 144kph wouldnt take long. I will leave you to do the time maths...
Besides look at Billy's trace on the scoring site. Well done billy who trashed the big wing guys who were doing the same task.
Brett Hunter had a great day after talking to Chris Richards before the launch on a strategy. Brett took Chris's advice and beat his advisor by a good 20%. Just goes to show the comraderie amongst some competitors.
Lemmy, yesterday, suggested that today would be loverly but not as strong as yesterday. A non competition pilot reported 70knot winds at altitude.
Keep it up
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