Last practice day - day 7; 3 August

First, thanks to the Austrian and German teams for the party last night in the big tent!  I survived the 92 gallons of beer all right, but the pancakes seem to have given me a bit of a headache!

On Practice Day 5, Jerzy came 4th, 460.4 km at 139.9 km/hr, and on Day 6, he came 2nd on a very blue day (two Cu all day); he flew 339.6 km, electing not to go over the hills on a blue practice day.

We've had some data logger challenges, but I think we have the pieces in place to sort that out today (just in time).  Electronics in a black cockpit in the sun at over 100F/38C are proving not to be very happy.  We're shading the pilots in the cockpits with umbrellas, and keeping canopy covers on until the last moment...

Weather - hot - abundant sunshine.

You can tell someone's serious when they carpet their tiedown spaces!  Note the abundant dust and the sparse vegetation in the tiedown area.

Two landouts yesterday, not our team.

More after briefing.  I believe Nick's flying and Dave isn't; I haven't seen Jerzy. 

Dan