Sunday, March 04, 2007

Day 8 - Task 3

Another late day with wind out of N/NE. We waited until 12:30 with gliders launching from the east before a task with a 2:30 RACE from Borah was called. By 1:30 the west launch was working and we all climbed easily under 2 good clouds to wait for the start gate.
From the Borah start over Manilla to the caravan park saw a long glide and not many signs of lift, eventually a slow climb was found a couple of k's NW of Namoi Park. This hauled 2 large gaggles back up to 1900m (1m/s was good) and allowed us to move on along the course line with some more regular climbs to Attunga.
Past Attunga we slowed down again and fought in scrappy lift creeping towards Tamworth. One short TP and then a 3km glide to goal across some suburbia, sports fields with tall trees between them and then the finish line. Andrew fared best for the home team landing 100m short of goal, regretfully no Aussies across the line again. Perhaps 15 pilots in.
A long slow day, 57km in 3.5 hours - but we flew!!

Happy birthday Poppa!!

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