Dave's Training Day 2

Today the 15 m class had a 2.5 hr area task that sent us north first.  The weather man predicted that it would be raining at Leszno by 3-4 pm.  As it turned out, the system moved a little faster than expected and the rain started around 2 pm.  The system moved from east to west, which is a little different compared to what we are accustomed with systems moving from the west.  The task sent us into really good air and I averaged 4.9 kt thermals for the day and flew 333 km at 128 km/hr.

The first leg to the north was nice with a sky full of cu as seen in the picture below ( it seems the camera auto focus, focused on the canopy instead of the clouds in the distance so excuse the fuzziness)

The next picture shows a little bit of the countryside.

I had no real problem spots during the flight, but on the way home I had to cross the line of showers about 30 km west of Leszno.  Being a practice day, I stopped and climbed to about 1000 ft over a 5 kt glide, just in case.

In the picture, you can see another glider just ahead and below me as we cross through a gap in the rain on our way back.  The next picture shows the view out the other side at that time as well.

The flight route and barograph are shown below.  Once again the airspace that I flew through was not active today.