Official Training Day 1

Good Morning Canada!
It's another hot day here in Szeged. Thunderstorms are forecast for the afternoon. So far, at 3:30p local, we are seeing some TCUs but no CBs. Hopefully it stays that way. All pilots of the Canadian Team are on task.

The task for all classes is a 3hr area task, 245 km minimum, 354 km nominal and 471 km max. The first turn area is to the north west, the second and third turn areas are in the north east, skirting the Budapest airspace on the second leg. You can follow Dave's SPOT track on: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=01I0trCibC0Wfl2rDl9K8ZLFfb81HHqt9
The crews are resting in what is labeled as the "pub" on the webcam. It is really more like an outdoors restaurant (beer garden) with fairly good food and pretty much the only shade around. We are planning to sneak Canadian flag into the webcam picture, so watch out for it.

Evening update:

It proved to be a pretty good day. Dave and Jerzy went on task, Willem stayed local and to experiment with different speeds at thermaling in order to get get the best climb performance out of his brand new Antares.

Everyone made it back to the field. In 15m Dave achieved a speed of 94.4 kph over 283 km, while in 18m Jerzy raced around a 339 km task with 113 kph.
At the end of the day, we were all majorly exhausted from the heat. We had dinner at the airport and then went back to the hotel to turn in early.