Canadian Nationals - Day 3

We had another good flying day today with 3 hr tasks for both classes.  After the cold front passage yesterday the heat and humidity cleared out leaving a cool unstable air mass with moderate NW winds.  The FAI class was assigned an Area Task with the first turn at Melbourne (SW of London) and the second turn at Waterford (S of Brantford).

With the NW winds, Melbourne was completely washed out by lake effect blowing through from Lake Huron.  I think everyone had to go well downwind of course and pass east of London, then over St Thomas to nick the edge of the 25 km circle.  From there is was still a bit of a struggle back to Tillsonburg until finally out of the Lake Huron influence.

As well as the lake effect, there were also large areas of poor to no lift as a result of the thunderstorms that dumped as much as an inch of water yesterday. 

I didn't have any big problems getting around, but with the large deviations and few soft spots I averaged 95 km/hr over 314 km.  The official scores are not posted yet, but it looks like it was either Joerg or me who took the day - we might even have a tie for first.  We'll see tomorrow!  (which looks like another nice day)

Dave