Day 9 - Contest Day 5 for 18m / Contest Day 6 for Open Class

Good Morning Canada!

It is a nice summer day here in Szeged with a lovely northwesterly breeze. It is a mainly blue day with only a few isolated cu showing. The concern is that things may be fairly stable. Jerzy, our 18m pilot and Willem in Open Class are both on task. After the mass land-out with late (early?) returns, 15m has a rest day.

The organizers faced pretty stiff criticism for their task setting at the Team Captains' meeting this morning. They promised for the rest of the contest to set the tasks in such a way that landing out in Serbia or Romania is unlikely.

Both, Open and 18m classes have a 3 hr area task. We expect Willem back shortly before 5p and Jerzy at 5:30, local time (EDT +6)

Jerzy, being in 6th place was selected to carry one of the Yellow Brick trackers that enables live tracking with a 15 minute delay on the internet.
You can follow his flight through the live tracking section of the contest website.

There was a bit of a panic before the launch of the 18m class this morning because the Cambridge 304 in XG was not working. Fortunately, after having turned everything off for a while, it started working again. We think it was just an overheating issue.