Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A ridge task for a day that wasn't....

We set a ridge task as the high cloud obscured any chance of a thermal day AND the forecast was for a fairly dependable westerly.
What we got was some thermal activity, especially over the swamp...but the ridge died late in the day.
No-one got around the 5 turn-points...yes you read that correctly..5 turn-points. A total task distance of 300kms with 2 small circles at either end.
A few hardy souls elected to fly to the last TP even thou they had little chance of getting home. Yours truly wimped out and turned 12 kms short of the last TP and only just got back. Imagine turning back and still landing-out!!!



It's now offically a contest as we have had 3 score-able days...with tomorrow looking good, Friday a maybe..and who knows for the weekend.

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