A Day at the Races

Despite not entering the Regionals I did manage to get over for today. No one had planned to fly GYL...so what was one to do???

I enthused my daughter to be the passenger, navigator, and ballast all rolled into one.

 

It turned out to be a blue thermal and ridge day. It started with some marked thermals and weak ridge. By the time we headed out towards Maramarua it was very blue, hazy and daunting. 3 of us tipee toe-ed out from 3200ft at Thames for the 18 km run to the 20 km circle around the turnpoint.

The solitary thermal we found on the return journey got us back to the hills and heading south.

As we approached the bottom circle my passengers need to pee was greater than her need for speed.

All and all a nice day.

The other issue of note was a landing out incident by a glider with a turbo installed. To early to be really sure yet but it may fit the pattern of late...turbo/self launchers getting into trouble as the pilot gets distracted.

Unfortunately it further proves the point I made a few weeks back about BFRs and whether the focus on spinning might be misdirected.

Pictures to come...