In the startgate day 6

Forbes 2016 – Day 6

Day 4 and 5 were cancelled due to bad weather, we had lots of rainfall soaking the ground, and that made conditions a bit slower than previous days.

The task was 250km heading west, with 2 turnpoints to keep us out of the worst bush without roads. Very little winds, and low cloudbase at the start of the task.

In the startgate day 6
In the startgate day 6

I got OK conditions in the startgate, hanging out for one hour under 1700m cloudbase, but after taking the second start we took a few long glides into extremely weak lift where I lost Olav Olsen and the main gaggle after a few thermals. I then flew mostly alone for the rest of the task, catching up with some pilots now and then, but we could not get a good gaggle forming, so it was way to slow.

After 150km it seemed we would run out of daylight before reaching goal, but late in the day the cloudbase started rising up to 2700m and thermals were a bit better formed. The last 80 km I could hop from cloud to cloud and had a slow 12:1 final glide.

I flew for 7 hours, and after a long drive home without any food on the way it was good to lie down in bed.

Olav Olsen did a really good flight and came in 4. place, great effort on such a difficult day.

Results;

2015-01-06 Moyes Delta Gliders

Race to Goal 249.6 km

Provisional

No Dist. Id Radius
(meters)
Coordinates Open Close
1 0.0 km FORBE 400 Lat: -33.3608 Lon: 147.932 12:00:00+11:00 20:00:00+11:00
2 SS 4.6 km FORBE 5000 Lat: -33.3608 Lon: 147.932 12:00:00+11:00 20:00:00+11:00
3 107.4 km TULLIB 5000 Lat: -33.44923 Lon: 146.72102 12:00:00+11:00 20:00:00+11:00
4 164.5 km RANKIN 5000 Lat: -33.84193 Lon: 146.27055 12:00:00+11:00 21:00:00+11:00
5 ES 249.6 km GUNBAR 400 Lat: -34.0414 Lon: 145.41037 12:00:00+11:00 21:00:00+11:00

StartGate(s): 13:45:00+11:00, 14:00:00+11:00, 14:15:00+11:00, 14:30:00+11:00, 14:45:00+11:00

# Name Nat Glider SS ES Time km/h Dist. Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos
Points
Total
1 Zac Majors M USA Wills Wing T2C 144 14:00:00 18:31:03 04:31:03 54.2 249.6 401.0 85.5 419.3 69.2 975
2 Jonas Lobitz M NZL Moyes RS 3.5 13:45:00 18:29:50 04:44:50 51.6 249.6 401.0 104.8 324.2 74.9 905
3 Jonny Durand M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 18:42:26 04:42:26 52.1 249.6 401.0 74.1 335.6 58.9 870
4 Olav Olsen M NOR Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 18:43:15 04:43:15 51.9 249.6 401.0 74.5 331.6 54.4 862
5 Glen Mcfarlane M AUS Wills Wing T2C 13:45:00 18:36:32 04:51:32 50.4 249.6 401.0 98.0 295.4 63.9 858
6 Christian Voiblet M SUI Aeros 14:00:00 18:47:25 04:47:25 51.2 249.6 401.0 69.3 312.6 46.2 829
6 Phil Schroder M AUS Airborne Rev 14:00:00 18:47:25 04:47:25 51.2 249.6 401.0 69.3 312.6 46.2 829
8 Gijs Wanders M NED Icaro 13:45:00 18:46:48 05:01:48 48.7 249.6 401.0 80.6 256.9 50.1 789
8 Gordon Rigg M GBR Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 18:53:33 04:53:33 50.1 249.6 401.0 64.7 287.4 36.1 789
10 Filippo Oppici M ITA Wills Wing T2C 14:00:00 18:54:32 04:54:32 49.9 249.6 401.0 66.4 283.6 33.4 784
11 Gerolf Heinrichs M AUT Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 18:57:39 04:57:39 49.4 249.6 401.0 67.0 271.8 30.9 771
12 Jon snr Durand M AUS Moyes RX 4 13:45:00 18:51:25 05:06:25 48.0 249.6 401.0 80.8 241.0 39.2 762
13 Trent Brown M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:15:00 19:19:22 05:04:22 48.3 249.6 401.0 45.4 248.0 23.1 718
14 Kato Minoru M JPN Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 19:16:41 05:16:41 46.4 249.6 401.0 60.6 208.0 26.5 696
15 Simon Braithwaite M NZL Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 19:19:24 05:19:24 46.0 249.6 401.0 49.3 199.7 21.7 672
16 Jochen Zeischka M BEL Moyes RX 4 14:00:00 19:19:17 05:19:17 46.1 249.6 401.0 39.1 200.0 24.7 665
17 Lukas Bader M GER Moyes RS 4 13:45:00 19:16:14 05:31:14 44.4 249.6 401.0 61.8 165.1 28.6 657
18 Oyvind Ellefsen M NOR Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 19:24:01 05:24:01 45.4 249.6 401.0 47.8 185.9 18.4 653
19 Guy Hubbard M AUS Moyes RS 4 13:45:00 19:20:01 05:35:01 43.9 249.6 401.0 58.1 154.6 20.4 634
19 Grant Heaney M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 19:22:51 05:37:51 43.5 249.6 401.0 66.5 146.8 19.4 634
21 Olav Opsanger M NOR Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 19:32:37 05:32:37 44.2 249.6 401.0 40.7 161.3 17.7 621
22 Yasuhiro Noma M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 19:36:13 05:36:13 43.7 249.6 401.0 39.4 151.3 16.5 608
23 Rohan Taylor M AUS Moyes RS 4 13:45:00 19:34:35 05:49:35 42.1 249.6 401.0 44.5 115.8 17.0 578
24 Sasha Serebrennikova F RUS Moyes RX 3 14:00:00 19:47:49 05:47:49 42.3 249.6 401.0 32.3 120.4 15.7 569
25 Yoko Isomoto F JPN Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 19:47:40 06:02:40 40.5 249.6 401.0 28.9 83.0 16.1 529
26 Federico Martini M SUI Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 20:16:58 06:16:58 39.0 249.6 401.0 26.8 48.8 15.2 492
27 Steve Blenkinsop M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 13:45:00 20:00:35 06:15:35 39.1 249.6 401.0 6.7 52.1 15.4 475
28 Harrison Rowntree M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 246.5 398.4 40.5 439
29 Ryosuke Hattori M JPN Aeros Combat 13:45:00 235.4 385.3 25.5 411
30 Takeshi Yokoyama M JPN Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 236.0 386.4 19.5 406
31 Nils Vesk M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 235.8 386.2 3.7 390
32 Chris Czajkowski M AUS Moyes RX 5 13:45:00 237.3 388.3 388
33 Victor Hare M AUS Wills Wing T2C 13:45:00 226.1 363.9 21.5 385
34 Mark Russell M AUS Moyes RS 4 14:15:00 203.3 306.0 306
35 Sander Van Schaik M NED Icaro Laminar 14:15:00 164.6 253.5 254
36 Attila Bertok M HUN Moyes RX 5 14:00:00 152.5 240.1 240
37 Mikhail Karmazin M RUS Aeros Combat 13:45:00 148.4 234.3 234
38 Thomas Lindal M NOR Moyes RS 4 13:45:00 114.3 180.2 180
39 Enda Murphy M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 14:00:00 104.8 168.7 169
40 Conrad Loten M NZL Moyes RS 3.5 13:45:00 94.1 153.5 154
41 Tullio Gervasoni M ITA Wills Wing T2C 14:00:00 51.9 95.1 95
42 Viv Clements M NZL Moyes LS 5 14:15:00 31.2 72.3 72
43 Phil Seeley M GBR Moyes RX 3 13:45:00 27.3 66.8 67
44 Dale Regehr M CAN Moyes RX 4 14:00:00 25.4 63.6 64
45 Gavin Myers M AUS Moyes LSS 5 13:45:00 25.0 62.8 63
46 Emiel Jansen M NED Icaro 10.0 29.4 29
46 Josh Woods M AUS Moyes RX 3.5 13:39:24 10.0 29.4 29
46 Adam Jones M AUS Moyes LSS 5 13:45:00 10.0 29.4 29