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Manilla 2010, day 3.
The road up to Borah was fine even after the 30mm rain yesterday, so we drove up and set up on the West facing launch. Some of the paragliders launched early and stayed up, but did not get very high. We got a 94km task with two TP, where the last two legs would be [...]
Manilla 2010, Day 1-2
I drove from Sydney to Manilla on Saturday night, after stopping by the Chinese new years party at Bill and Mollys place in Bronte. It was a long drive as the GPS sent me up the tourist drive road, which is a 100 km of very winding and narrow road. It’s probably very pretty in the daytime and good [...]
Bogong Cup, the rest
Windy, cancelled. We flew the last day though.
I had a very good run in the beginning, we had to cross the Kiewa valley and fly over to behind Bright, then back to Kiewa and to Mt. Beauty goal. I got to 2800 meters before crossing the valley, way above the rest of the pack, and [...]
Forbes 2010, day 9 and 10
We got a 167 km dogleg task to the east and then north to Wellington. The forecast was for similar conditions as day 8, with base at 3000 and good thermal, not much wind. I took the last tow again as it was just too hot to wait in line, Bobby came over and towed [...]
Briefing day 7
140km zig-zag task, crosswind. Base at 3000 meters, 20 km winds. Much the same as yesterday.
Gerolf suggested a rest day, which would have been really good, but the vote failed 26 to 16 where the majority of pilots wanted to fly every day. Easy when you are warm and adjusted, hard for us coming from [...]
Forbes 2010, Day 6, good race day
129 km task today, almost a triangle back to the worlds paddock.
I took the first start with a gaggle of pilots, saw some go back to wait for the next, but I did not want to wait, the early finishers get more points in the OzGAP system. The first themal took is to cloudbase at [...]
Forbes 2010, day 2
A classic good day at Forbes, clouds and about 20 km/h winds. We got a 196km task, dogleg with crosswind the first leg. I had a good flight and got to goal as number 7 across the line, I took the first start so maybe some came in after with a better time.
I’m dead tired [...]
